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December 18, 1954

The Hockey News December 18, 1954

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Hat-tricks in the National Hockey League have been few and far between this year.</p><p>Red Kelly, Detroit&rsquo;s rushing defenseman, scored the first &ldquo;triple&rdquo; of his NHL career on October 21 against the Boston Bruins as the Wings won that one, 5-3 at Detroit.</p><p>Then on November 28, Leo LaBine the fiery winger of the Bruins, fired the second &ldquo;triple&rdquo; of the season by scering three goals against the Detroit Red Wings as the Bruins took that one, 6-2. Incidentally, LaBine set a record that night, picking up five points in a single period. He had an assist on Boston&rsquo;s first goal for a six-point night.</p><p>The third hat-trick of the season was scored by Toronto&rsquo;s Ronnie Stewart against the Montreal Canadiens on December 8. Stewart scored all Toronto goals as the Leafs whipped the Habs, 3-1.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

“Triples” Few And Far Between This Year

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02159/1385947-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>Born, Lethbridge, Alta., May 23, 1929.</b></p><p><b>Left wing. Shoots left. 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, 185 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: Wetaskiwin Canadiens (Jr.).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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STASIUK. VICTOR JOHN

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0669/1385878-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he 1950-51 season when the New York Rangers had a lot of trouble making that extra goal. They tied 21 games out of 70 to set a new N.H.L. record for the most tie-games in one season!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>One thing about the Chicago Black Hawks: They can take a hint. After receiving help from everybody in the league, the grateful Hawks have started to help themselves and before the season is much older they&rsquo;re going to make a little more miserable for some of the other clubs in the league.</p><p>This became an evident fact on December 11 when the revamped Chicagoans went into Toronto and cooled out the red-hot Leafs. 2-1 on a goal by guess who? Dave Creighton, a player Mr. Smythe sent to Chicago in the NHL&rsquo;s &ldquo;Help The Hawks&rdquo; campaign.</p><p>The following night the Black Hawks, apparently a little giddy over their Toronto triumph, watched the Detroit Red Wings run up a 3-0 lead before they realized what was happening. It would be nice to say that the Hawks came on to win that one too but it didn&rsquo;t work out that way. Detroit hung on for a 4-3 victory.</p><p>What pleased Frankie Eddolls most about his Hawks in that game against the Wings was the discovery of what looms like a terrific line. He sent Red Sullivan to centre between his latest acquisitions, Eddie Litzenberger and Harry Watson and the pair combined on the last two goals with Litz and Big Harry setting up Gus Mortson on the first goal.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s a line that may blossom out as one of the league&rsquo;s best once they get accustomed to each other&rsquo;s style of play. Both Litz and Watson are big. strong wingers and can score goals while Sullivan is a fine play-maker.</p><p>The National Hockey League owners, who got together and deeided to do something tangible for Chicago have no cause to regret their efforts. The Hawks are quickly becoming a force to contend with in the NHL, the very thing the owners set out to do.</p><p>Nobody in Chicago is predicting that the Hawks, with all their new found wealth, will make the playoffs this year, but nobody is counting them out. They&rsquo;re fervenly hoping that maybe this hodge-podge array of hockey talent will suddenly begin to click under the guidance of Eddolls with enough regularity to make it tough on the teams that helped them out.</p><h2><b>THE NEW HAWKS</b></h2><p><b>Who they had: Al Rollins, Gus Mortson, Lee Fogolin, Bill Mosienko, Larry Wilson, Lou Jankowski, Jack McIntyre, Gerry Toppazzini.</b></p><p><b>Who they got:</b></p><p><b>(From Canadiens) Bucky Hollingworth, Eddie Litzenberger, Johnny McCormack.</b></p><p><b>(From Detroit) Metro Prystai.</b></p><p><b>(From Toronto) Harry Watson, Dave Creighton.</b></p><p><b>(From Boston) Red Sullivan, Frank Martin.</b></p><p><b>(From New York) Allan Stanley, Nick Mickoski.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NHL Aid Players Starting To Help Chicago’s Cause

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><h2><b>Hendy Suggests AHL Roster Cut To Meet Crisis</b></h2><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Jim Hendy, that astute, capacious executive who spends time, energy, and very considerable talent general-managing Cleveland Barons is seldom minus a provocative Idea.</p><p>The current Hendy plan&mdash;reduction of American League rosters from 15 players to something like a dozen&mdash;merits scrutiny and exploration, if not necessarily complete support.</p><p>Jim starts from premise that present AHL payrolls have grown to the point of economic unsoundness, at least for those entries&mdash;Buffalo, Providence, Springfield, and his own Barons,&mdash;which lack the fiscal cushion of farm club status under aegis of a National League angel.</p><p>Since the problem is of money, the solution projects the alternatives:&mdash;make more or spend less. The Hendy proposal, recommending the latter expedient, raises the question of whether it represents a sound, conservative business maneuver or penny wisdom with pound folly.</p><p>That a serious financial situation exists in the American League is fairly evident from comparison of attendance the past couple Of seasons with figures common in the early post-war years. Thus far various resources have been exploited: rosters have been shaved by regulation, dressing squads have been cut from 16 to 15 men, schedule patterns of rather bewildering complexity have been devised, and travel outlay has been shorn cleanly of luxury items, all with aim of curbing the tidal flood of overhead.</p><p>Hendy urges that lopping off another three men from each team would not only bite deeply into several major expense columns but would still leave a brand of hockey entirely savory for fan consumption. He avers that, things being largely relative, competition would be just as engrossing with fewer combatants available as with the number now allowed.</p><p>Action, Jim contends, would be but slightly slower, spectators would get to know the players better, and there would be few, if any, makeshift line combinations. If necessary, the rules could be geared a trifle lower by erasing the red line and confining the forward pass to the zone of origin.</p><p>It is obvious that adoption of the Hendy deflationary program would effect immediate economies welcome to harassed managements. But that it might ultimately run afoul of the insidious law of diminishing returns cannot be fluffed off without acute appraisal.</p><p>In show business it&rsquo;s proverbially dangerous to tamper with the quality of an attraction. Amusements live on audiences and, if a production is already weak at the box office, its anemia certainly won&rsquo;t be cured by offering an inferior performance or one that patrons, even wrongly, might suspect to be inferior.</p><p>It would be pretty risky from the standpoint of receipts to impose a speed limit on drivers in the Memorial Day race at Indianapolis; it might be equally hazardous to attempt to convince American League customers that two forward lines can stage as thrilling a 60-minute battle as three.</p><p>The point is that for decades hockey has been sold as the world&rsquo;s fastest sport. Hockey men themselves believe it and have done everything possible by drill, study and legislation to heighten the game&rsquo;s velocity. Can that dynamic trend be safely reversed?</p><p>One fact cannot be overlooked: the American League is high-priced not only to its club owners, but also to its followers. The cost of tickets is plenty; the Pittsburgh farm scale, for example rates right, up with that of parent Toronto. People won&rsquo;t buy a shoddy product with that kind of tag on it, and it could be extremely difficult to persuade them that two&mdash;or two-and-half&mdash;line hockey wouldn&rsquo;t be a comedown from what their tastes have been cultivated to demand&mdash;especially if the National League should continue to employ three lines and part of a fourth.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01137/1387705-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="286" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Hendy</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>A Pair Of Sad Wings</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0295/1387698-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1752" height="2055"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THAT PAINED</b> Since the problem is of money, the xpression on Benny Woit&rsquo;s face is the result of a goal he has just scored against his own club&mdash;the only goal of the game as Toronto defeated Detroit, 1-0. Woit, in an effort to clear a loose puck, banged it into his own net as Terry Sawchuk attempted to scramble back into position in time. What else can Benny say but that he&rsquo;s sorry? <span class="photo-credit">(Turofsky Photo)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HAWKS STARTING TO MOVE

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01191/1385795-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Rocket&hellip; &hellip; Still Seeks Elusive Goals</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Maurice Richard, hockey&rsquo;s most prolific scorer and probably its most controversial figure, is finding his 400th National Hockey League goal a rather difficult assignment.</p><p>The Rocket, who scored his 398th in Detroit on Dec. 2, has been held scoreless in his last five games. But he has picked up two misconduct penalties, proving that his spirit flares as usual.</p><p>Any other player in the league could go through five games without netting a puck and attract no notice whatsoever. Richard though is no ordinary player and, having left his scoring rivals over the years as far behind as a caboose, he is regarded by his faithful fans as being in a slump.</p><p>Actually the fiery right-winger has been playing as well as ever. He still rushes with the same grim determination, skirts the defence with his old flair and makes the same plays at the goalmouth. But the puck hasn&rsquo;t been bouncing for him. It&rsquo;s been bouncing for the goaltenders.</p><p>Richard isn&rsquo;t worried. &ldquo;The scoring breaks will come my way&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s often how it goes. Sometimes you get goals, sometimes you don&rsquo;t. You just have to keep trying and that&rsquo;s what I intend to do. The 399th and the 400th will come sooner or later. What I want to do is score 30 goals this season&rdquo;.</p><p>Why? Almost dead-pan the Rocket answered:</p><p>&ldquo;Then maybe I&rsquo;ll make the team next year&rdquo;.</p><p>The Rocket had some good chances to produce during his five-game scoreless streak but alert netminding prevented him from capitalizing on his opportunities.</p><p>Twice in the third period of Canadiens&rsquo; 3-3 tie with the Rangers in New York on Dec. 5, Richard nearly won the yame. Once Gump Worsley stuck out a gloved hand in the nick of time to deflect a wicked backhand drive and with eight minutes left he kicked out a hard, corner-bound shot from the Rocket&rsquo;s stick.</p><p>In Toronto on Dec. 8, when the were defeated 3-1, Harry Lumley foiled Richard&rsquo;s bids on two occasions. Once he anticipated a move by the Montreal star and stuck out his foot in time to cover a corner and another time he took a dead-on shot on an out-streched pad.</p><p>Back in Montreal for the second game of a home-and-home series on Dec. 9, Lumley again was the stumbling block in the Rocket&rsquo;s path.</p><p>Richard&rsquo;s best chance to score in that game came at the 10-minute mark of the third period, with the Canadiens leading 2-0. He had two whacks at a loose puck near the crease, while the Habs were playing a man short, but Lumley smothered both of them although sprawled on the ice.</p><p>On Saturday night, Dec. 11, against the Boston Bruins, Richard had few good opportunities. The Habs were closely checked by the Bruins as Sugar Jim Henry blanked them 3-0, registering his second shutout at their expense this season.</p><p>Henry and Long John Henderson combined to stymie Richard in the renewal of rivalry at Boston on Dec. 12, Henry suffered a groin injury and was replaced by his understudy late in the first period.</p><p>The 33-year-old Rocket, now in his 13th season in the NHL. wasn&rsquo;t alone in his slump. When Bernie Geoffrion scored the goal that tied the Bruins 2-2 in Boston, he became the only player among the Montreal &ldquo;big four&rdquo; to score over a. four-game stretch.</p><p>In the two games against the Leafs and the two against Boston, Ken Mosdell and Jean Beliveau were held goallness along with the Rocket.</p><h2><b>Still Two To Co!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Rocket Still Seeks 399th, 400th Goals

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jackie Leclair, a rugged centre and leading point-getter among the National Hockey League&rsquo;s rookies, will be lost to the Habs for about a month. He became the latest victim of the injury jinx which has persistenly dogged the Montreal team when he severed two arteries in his throat in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>Leclair was gashed when he fell on one of Larry Cahan&rsquo;s razor-sharp skates following a collision in what seemed to be an innocuous play. Blood spurted from the ugly wounds and as he skated to his bench for aid, Leclair left a crimson trail on the glistening Forum ice.</p><p>He was rushed to the club&rsquo;s clinic, while teammates held blood-drenched towels to the wounds, and thence to hospital. He will be confined for two weeks and will be lost to the team for an additional two weeks while the gashes heal.</p><p>Dr. Gordon Young, Hab&rsquo;s physician, took instant charge of the case.</p><p>&ldquo;In five minutes more Leclair would have bled to death,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The carotid artery was severed along with a smaller one and he lost a quart and a half of blood. He was badly weakened.&rdquo;</p><p>Leclair was injured quite by accident. He and Cahan collided near the blueline in a scramble for the puck. They shoved each other and the Canadien player fell as one of Cahan&rsquo;s feet left the ice. The skate caught Leclair on the throat as he went down.</p><p>Up to the time of his injury, Leclair had scored three goals and had been credited with 14 assists in 27 games as the playmaker for Rocket Richard and Bert Olmstead.</p><p>When Leclair left the fray, he brought to five the number of Canadien regulars missing from the line-up. Jacques Plante was out of action, recuperating from a fracture of the right cheek bone; Bud MacPherson was nursing a sprained knee; Paul Meger, who suffered a fractured skull in a game in Boston, was back in hospital for an examination; and Calum MacKay was a victim of virus pneumonia, following an operation on his knee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02175/1385847-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="285" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jackie Leclair</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03161/1385840-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="282" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Newest&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04132/1385833-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="606" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE LITZENBERGER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip; Black Hawks</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05103/1385826-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="568" height="1200"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY WATSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Leclair Latest To Join Hab Injury List; Suffers Slashed Throat Against Toronto

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>A prolonged detour from winning ways took a back seat in the Black Hawk bad luck buggy December 5 when valued defender Lee Fogolin was presumed lost for the rest of the season after a collision with Vic Stasiuk in a losing (4-1) effort at the Detroit Olympia.</p><p>The rough belting &ldquo;Fogie&rdquo;, who had been playing some of the best hockey of his career since returning to action last month, broke the same right elbow that was so severely dislocated and fractured in a mishap during training camp drills last September.</p><p>Surgery with the insertion of a binding piece of wire was required to bring about as rapid and sure a healing as possible and the normally frisky Lee didn&rsquo;t hesitate to admit during the course of his side-lining, &ldquo;This is the most pain I have ever had to withstand.&rdquo;</p><p>The joint was still a consider-able bother after he was back in competition, he revealed several times, but Fogolin continued the strong checking type of play that made his presence such a value. Just how much pain there was something he apparently kept to himself.</p><p>Dr. Myron Tremaine, Hawk doctor, hinted at what might happen a number of weeks ago when Lee was still skating himself back into condition. Observing the progress of his recovery, he indicated that the elbow might very likely provide trouble again.</p><p>&ldquo;You realize, of course,&rdquo; he said to this writer, &ldquo;that it&rsquo;s something he will have to use quite a bit and the elbow will have to take a lot of punishment. Idon&rsquo;t know whether he knows it or not, but it wouldn&rsquo;t take too much to get it fractured again.&rdquo;</p><p>The loss of Fogolin comes as a definite blow particularly since he was the only really rough defenseman on the club capable of dishing out bone-rattling checks at a regular rate&mdash;and most of the time without drawing penalties that could turn up as costly.</p><p>His departure from the ranks of the counted on sent Coach Frankie Eddolls and General Manager Tommy Ivan into a careful huddle concerned with the possibility of getting another rear-guard for the sake of insurance if nothing else. Fifth man Frank Martin was called upon to fill the immediate gap.</p><p>About the only direction in which they could turn with the thought of someone presently in the National League would be Boston&mdash;the only team presently carrying more than five defenders. They have six in Bill Quackenbush, Fern Flaman, Leo Boivin, Hal Laycoe, Warren Godfrey and Bob Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03107/1385978-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="306" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lee Fogolin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stasiuk A Hit In More Ways Than Scoring

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>How big is the jump from the minors to the NHL?</p><p>Some youngsters leap up in one graceful stride, find it an easy step and stay around 10 years or so. Other players get their shot at the big-time, discover the gap too much for them, fall back and never are seen again.</p><p>In between are those pluggers who are tested again and again, farmed out repeatedly, keep trying and finally learn the secret of sticking in the National Hockey League&mdash;fellows like Vic Stasiuk.</p><p>About a month ago Stasiuk popped back into the Detroit Red Wing lineup. His presence was viewed with a here-we-go-again attitude. Vic got his first chance at the NHL when he was 20 years old; here he was, five years later, still trying to climb into the league.</p><p>In baseball, it&rsquo;s three strikes and out. Not in hockey, however, as Stasiuk learned. He fanned once, getting his three chances. Three different seasons he was carried with the Detroit club for trials lasting from three to 58 games. And three times he was bounced back to the minors.</p><p>When Vic got his fourth &ldquo;strike&rdquo;, he quickly turned into a hit.</p><p>This was a different Stasiuk. It was easy to see. The sturdy Westerner had a new mental attitude, blessed with a strong degree of confidence. With this confidence came easier skating, shar-per shooting and stronger playing&mdash;exactly the qualities Stasiuk failed to show before.</p><p>From the day he hit the league Stasiuk had been blessed with the talents hockey officials always are looking for in a youngster. He was big (6-1 and 188 pounds), fast, rugged, fearless and his shot had zip.</p><p>But from the time when trade winds first blew him from Chicago to Detroit, Stasiuk had one failure which spoiled every chance. He tightened&hellip; couldn&rsquo;t show his natural ability in a game&hellip; grew nervous over scoring failures. It offset his talents to the point where Detroit always had to ship him back to the minors. And once there, he started star-ring all over again.</p><p>Let Vic take over the story for a while:</p><p>&ldquo;I first came up to the NHL with Chicago from the Kansas City Mohawks. This was in February and I&rsquo;d had my appendix out in January and hadn&rsquo;t been on skates since. So I was no ball of fire with the Hawks, but I felt that I could do them some good when I got into shape. At least the NHL didn&rsquo;t seem like such a tough league to play in.</p><p>&ldquo;The next season I started out with Chicago and things were going fine. Then after a few weeks I was traded to Detroit. What happened or why it happened I&rsquo;ll never know, but I got tense and tightened up completely.</p><p>&ldquo;And the same thing kept happening every time Detroit brought me up after that. I knew I could play better hockey than I was doing but I couldn&rsquo;t snap out of it.</p><p>&ldquo;This fall at training camp I figured it was this year or never. I got into the best possible shape before camp started and really worked when I got there. Jack Adams said he wanted me to start with Edmonton but promised me a chance within a month if I went well there.</p><p>&ldquo;When that chance came, I spent plenty of time trying to talk myself out of being nervous. Mr. Adams and Jimmy Skinner told me when I arrived that I could do the team some good. They encouraged me plenty and they put me on a regular line right from the start.</p><p>&ldquo;All of a sudden it seemed easy to play. I don&rsquo;t know what brought about the change, but I sure hope I never lose it.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams has his ideas, however.</p><p>&ldquo;Vic simply found his confidence&mdash;that&rsquo;s all there is to it,&rdquo; the veteran Detroit general manager points out. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s had the ability all along but wouldn&rsquo;t believe he was good enough for the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s been a lot like him in hockey before. The sad cases are those boys who never do find their self-confidence and force themselves out of the NHL for keeps.&rdquo;</p><p>Factual evidence backs up Adams&rsquo; claim about Stasiuk&rsquo;s ability. Since the day he joined the club, not one of the Detroiters has scored more goals than Vic&mdash;he got four in his first 12 games. Only two of them (Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio) made more points over the same stretch.</p><p>Stasiuk swears that his biggest thrill in hockey&mdash;and this is understandable&mdash;has come from the feeling of playing without stiffness and tightening.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard work&mdash;but a mighty pleasant kind of hard work this time,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>Vic can recall a few other previous high spots.</p><p>&ldquo;When I first came up with Chicago I went 16 games without scoring. Then in the last game of the season I got my first NHL goal, and it was a winning goal against Detroit. I was so excited that I forgot to get the puck as a souvenir.</p><p>&ldquo;Then the next season I was with the Hawks in Toronto for a Saturday night game. Afterwards, when we were climbing on the train, Bill Mosienko said to me, &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll be getting off in Detroit instead of going to Chicago&rsquo;. I didn&rsquo;t figure out what he meant until Doug Bentley and Ebbie Goodfellow (then Chicago&rsquo;s coach) told me I&rsquo;d been traded to Detroit that day.</p><p>&ldquo;I remember the year Detroit won the Stanley Cup in eight straight. I wasn&rsquo;t playing much at all.. In one game in Toronto I jumped the boards as a reliefman. Tommy Ivan hollered for me to come back but I stayed out for one whirl and assisted Ted Lindsay on a goal&mdash;that was a real thrill at the time, especially when Tommy didn&rsquo;t get angry because I&rsquo;d sneaked in that little skate.</p><p>&ldquo;Then there was the day this season at Edmonton when Bud Poile called me in and said I was to leave the next night for Detroit. Somehow I figured the call was coming and I knew I was ready.&rdquo;</p><p>Stasiuk is unique among hockey players in that he is the first native of Lethbridge, Alta., to turn pro and the only native of southern Alberta ever to reach the NHL. He was born there May 23, 1929, and became a &ldquo;rink rat&rdquo; at a tender age since there was an outdoor rink across the street from his home.</p><p>About the time he was 12 Vic started playing for the Native Sons, which had Ed Brutchet as manager-coach. Stasiuk credits Brutchet for all his early development as he played on midget, juvenile and junior championship teams.</p><p>The late Bill Lea was scouting for the Black Hawks in those parts and he asked Vic to come to the Chicago training camp when he was 17. The second year Bill Tobin asked him if he wanted to turn pro and go to Kansas City.</p><p>&ldquo;I said yes before I even asked about money,&rdquo; Vic recalls. &ldquo;Ever since I was a boy I wanted to be a pro hockey player. I neglected school work for hockey and I left school after the 10th grade so I&rsquo;d have more time for hockey. That year I worked at a bunch of odd jobs&mdash;made ice cream in a dairy, was helper on a CPR express truck and sold auto supplies.&rdquo;</p><p>Although brought up in the city, Stasiuk can properly be called a farm boy. He worked summers on his uncle&rsquo;s farm near Lethbridge, volunteering for the work because he believed it the best type of conditioning for hockey. Wasn&rsquo;t all work, though.. After his first pro season at Kansas City, he rigged up a full-sized hockey net and waxed a chunk of plywood so he could practice shooting pucks.</p><p>Despite a good shot, he never was a high scorer as an amateur or as a pro&mdash;for a while. In his initial season at Kansas City, he made only seven goals in 66 games. The next year he made 10 in 39 games before his appendix took him out of hockey. He managed eight in the 70 games with Chicago and Detroit the next year, then got only five in 5 8 games the following season with Detroit.</p><p>Not until two years ago at Edmonton did he blossom out as a goal-getter. Then he had 37 goals and 43 assists in 4 8 games before suffering his only serious hockey injury just one week before the season ended.</p><p>&ldquo;I went sliding into the board with Gus Kyle on top of me. I hit in an awkward position and dislocated my hip,&rdquo; Stasiuk relates.</p><p>He was in a hospital bed for one month and on crutches for three more months. The muscles in one leg shriveled and he was far from right when he reported to training camp the following fall. That was last season, and he showed little in 4 2 games with Detroit and in 21 Edmonton games after being shipped to the minors for the third time. There is no sign of the injury any more, with Vic crediting much of the recovery to a rigorous calisthenics routine.</p><p>Adams credits Mud Bruneteau with bringing Stasiuk into the Detroit system.</p><p>&ldquo;Mud was coaching at Omaha and kept telling me that there was a promising youngster at Kansas City named Stasiuk who was sure to develop,&rdquo; Adams points out. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t get a look at him until Chicago brought him up but I agreed with Mud&rsquo;s prediction. When the chance came, I got Vic&rdquo;.</p><p>The actual deal sent Steve Black and Lee Fogolin to Chicago for Bert Olmstead and Stasiuk. Olmstead didn&rsquo;t spend a minute with Detroit since his trade to Montreal was previously agreed upon. Detroit got Leo Gravelie for Olmstead, one of the few Adams trades which ever became a complete dud.</p><p>The fact that Vic was of Ukranian descent may have helped Adams make up his mind. The Red Wings were collecting a fancy field of Ukranian players, finding them rugged and successful. Others on the big team at the same time were Terry Sawchuk, Tony Leswick, Benny Woit and Metro Prystai, now departed. Incidentally, Vic pronounces his name as STAY shuk.</p><h2><b>Had Faith</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06100/1385916-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="564" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK ADAMS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Becomes &ldquo;Hit&rdquo; On 4th &ldquo;Strike&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01190/1385909-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="1743" height="2064"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>VIC STASIUK&hellip;&hellip;From Edmonton to Detroit&mdash;To Stay!</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stasiuk Determined He’s “Up” For Keeps Now

<div class="byline">By GEORGE P. DUFFY</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>The R.I. Red, sometimes called a Rooster, is a fighting mad bird these days. If you don&rsquo;t think so, then lend an ear to some of the doings of the executives of brass of the R.I. Reds&rsquo; hockey team.</p><p>A year ago, fans in Rhode Island and nearby states stayed away from the Reds&rsquo; games in droves. The Rooster, it was said, had too little fight.</p><p>Before the 1954-55 season started, Lou Pieri, team owner, issued an ultimatum: &ldquo;We shall be a rough and tough hockey team. We shall knock everyone down in sight, including the ushers if they get too close!&rdquo;</p><p>Pieri hired Terry Reardon as general manager. &ldquo;Get a club that will scrap&rdquo;, Terry was told. A battler himself in days gone by, Terrence set about the task of getting a rough and tough team. &ldquo;Knock everything over but the cages&rdquo;, Reardon &ldquo;cabled&rdquo; the squad through Player-Coach Pat Egan.</p><h2><b>Can Be Tough</b></h2><p>That was the feeling in the early days of training. Now, with Thanksgiving Day a memory, the Reds have proven to the front office higher ups that they can be tough and win games. On December 5, the Reds were in fifth place, only six points out of first place in the torrid AHL pennant struggle.</p><p>But what about the front office? And Egan? Is the trio of Pieri-Reardon-Egan proving to their brood that it pays to &ldquo;get in the game 100 per cent?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Heaves His Fedora</b></h2><p>Pieri, a rabid follower of ice hockey since he took over ownership of the Reds in 1938, takes no game lightly. He always wears a felty soft hat in his private booth adjacent to the press box overlooking the rink. When a player makes a goal, Pieri almost every time heaves his fedora to the ice In jubilation.</p><p>But Lou is hardly one to confine himself to the comparative quiet of the private box. When things look like they might be getting out of hand through a referee&rsquo;s decision or some laxity on the part of a player, he occasionally leaves the box, hustles downstairs and parks himself in the vicinity of the penalty box, giving words of encouragement to Egan and the players.</p><h2><b>Beams For Win</b></h2><p>When the team wins, Pieri beams with happiness. He usually slumps into his main office lounging chair at the end of a close game, perspiring freely. &ldquo;Every close game is like the seventh game of the World Series to me&rdquo;, says Lou.</p><p>Reardon? He is the man with the high-pitched voice. At Providence, he roars encouragement to the team. One can hear him from one end of the rink to the other. Occupants of the press coop insist there will be no sleeping scribes while Reardon is about.</p><p>Does Reardon carry his fighting yelps to other rinks? He does and already his lofty larynx has caused him to be fired from one press box. At Pittsburgh while watching the Reds battle the Hornets to a 2-2 deadlock, Reardon roared and roared. He had one thing in mind, calling encouragement to the team.</p><p>But one of the &ldquo;big men&rdquo; in John Harris&rsquo; organization had ideas of his own on the vocal assistance to the R.I. Reds. Reardon was told: &ldquo;Terry, you can stay if you will refrain from your screaming. Otherwise, you will have to leave&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Kept Up Chatter</b></h2><p>Well-spoken and well-taken, for in a shorter space of time than it takes to say ICE, Reardon was on his way out of the press box to a vantage point below. There, he kept up his fight talk. He had been stung by a Hornet but warded off the bite.</p><p>Egan has been battling hard. He has played forward and defense. Has excelled. He has hit the enemy hard and the crowds have roared as the Irishman bounced rivals off the boards.</p><p>Pat&rsquo;s fight has had to be waged on and off the ice, at least so the story goes. A few games ago, it is alleged a tomato was thrown from the stands. It is further alleged that the tomato went back Into the stands and landed on a face, a surprised one at that. Then, so the story goes, the owner of the &ldquo;face&rdquo; suggested that the Providence police remove Egan from the Arena between the second and third period. However, the cops on duty were R.I. Red fans. Egan finished the game.</p><h2><b>Hit With Egg</b></h2><p>The front-office, the team and the crowd now seems to have taken on the &ldquo;bug&rdquo; of getting into the game &ldquo;all the way&rdquo;. Harvey Bennett, playing one of his better games, was hit off the head with an egg. &ldquo;No joke&rdquo;, said Harvey &ldquo;but fans will be fans&rdquo;.</p><p>Eggs being thrown is something new. In the past, there have been roosters, magazines and chairs. But eggs and tomatoes, never. Which all goes to prove that, among other things with this 1954-55 R.I. Red scene, the fans are a little higher class. They would have to be to throw eggs and tomatoes with prices so high.</p><h2><b>Providence Braintrust</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01261/1386023-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="570" height="890"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY REARDON</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02234/1386016-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="596" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT EGAN</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03162/1386009-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="602" height="916"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LOU PIERI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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1954 Rhode Island Reds A Rough, Tough Crew

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Gordon Allan Wilson is well on his way to realizing his fondest ambition, becoming a &ldquo;chip off the old block.&rdquo;</p><p>The sharp-shooting Hershey center ice man, son of the immortal &ldquo;Phat&rdquo; Wilson, of Allan Cup fame, has taken a big step toward emulating his famous father by taking the lead in the lamp lighting department from his fellow Bears.</p><p>The 6.1 rookie play-maker whacked his eleventh goal of the current AHL campaign past Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis In his 22nd fracas, taking the lead away from his line mate, Dune Fisher.</p><p>In addition to his eleven goals, Wilson has assisted Fisher and Lionel Heinrich, his wingers, in setting up six other scores.</p><h2><b>Third Season</b></h2><p>Although Junior Wilson is playing in his third season with the Bears, he is still classified as a rookie. The lanky pivot man joined the Bears late in 1952-53, appearing in the last seven regular AHL clashes and in the three play-off encounters with the Pittsburgh Hornets. He paced Hershey in a losing cause, posting a trio of goals in three games.</p><p>Last year, a knee injury, suffered during pre-season drills, sidelined him most of the season. In fact, after only four games, he hung up his skates and went to Toronto for a corrective operation by Dr. Robert Galloway, noted bone specialist. Galloway corrected the torn ligaments and, after a summer of planned exercises to strengthen the knee, Wilson reported for his third pro campaign in mid-September. &bull;</p><h2><b>Began To Fly</b></h2><p>The knee bothered him at first. It puffed up and the big youngster, naturally concerned over a recurrence of the old trouble, was a bit reticent about mixing it up with the same gusto he displayed when he joined Hershey two seasons ago. Once it was evident, however, that the leg was all right, he really began to fly.</p><p>A picture skater, who roams up and down the ice like a giant octopus, snatching the puck away from the opposition, Wilson appears to be the logical successor to the great Milt Schmidt, when the latter decides to trade his skates for Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s coaching mantle. He&rsquo;s a clever stick handler, which is almost a lost art among today&rsquo;s new crop of hockey players, and enemy cage guardians have found him a dead shot when the play scrambles in front of their nets.</p><p>A native of Port Arthur, Ontario, where he resides during the off-season, the 22-year-old Wilson played with the Port Arthur Bruins before turning pro.</p><p>Discovered by Harold &ldquo;Baldy&rdquo; Cotton, chief scout for the Boston Bruins, Wilson won just about every award handed out by amateur hockey officials before he turned pro. These include: the T. J. McAuliffe trophy, awarded the most valuable juvenile player; the Tomlinson trophy, presented to the most gentlemanly player in juvenile ranks; the Budd trophy, given to the most gentlemanly player In junior hockey, and the J.T. Russel trophy, as the most valuable player in junior hockey.</p><h2><b>Ambitious</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04118/1386054-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="580" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE WILSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gordie Wilson A Chip Off The Old Block

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01211/1386085-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WILLIE MARSHALL&hellip; &hellip;Likes The NHL</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Wee Willie Marshall came out of the salt mines with the pepper the Maple Leafs needed.</p><p>Summoned from Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League, which to an ambitious major league Leaf is the salt mines, Willie was only supposed to fill in while Tod Sloan&rsquo;s injured knee mended. But now he&rsquo;s making Sloan work extra hard to keep his job.</p><p>In this way, the 160-pound feather merchant has created an extremely pleasant quandary for Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s made a very pleasant situation,&rdquo; Assistant General Manager Hap Day smirks. &ldquo;Instead of having to find men to fill the job, we can now let the men find and work for the job to fill.&rdquo;</p><p>A speedy, pestiferous puck-hound and an alert playmaker, the 2 3-year-old centre has already forced Bob Bailey back into the salt mines.</p><p>And another salt-mine refugee, Parker MacDonald, has made a similar situation prevalent on Willie&rsquo;s left wing, where Harry Watson returned from six weeks of idleness to find his spot had not been reserved.</p><p>For the two youngsters, it has been a red-letter year: And for Willie in particular, it has been the end of a long period of disillusionment. Until this year, nothing was breaking favorably for the peppery Marshall.</p><p>An iron-ore claim, which his prospecting father staked, partly in Willie&rsquo;s name, only 3 0 miles from their Kirkland Lake home, had been useless because the ore was too fine and powdery. And in his only previous tryout in the NHL Willie had felt he received the wrong end. of the shaft again.</p><p>That was two years ago when Leafs summoned him to play two games against New York Rangers. In the first game he played six minutes. In the second, he had only time to drop over the boards&mdash;not even get into the play&mdash;when the opposition scored and he was handed a return fare to Pittsburgh.</p><p>&ldquo;He was burning when he came back,&rdquo; recalls Leaf coach King Clancy, who was coaching the farmhand Hornets at the time. &ldquo;But he wasn&rsquo;t the kind of guy who would curl up and die in the minor league. He just made up his mind he&rsquo;d get another chance to show them a thing or two.&rdquo;</p><p>He got his chance when Sloan was injured. Only two months after a newly discovered smelting process turned his pop&rsquo;s stake and his own minor interest out of a white &eacute;lephant and into a Northern Ontario bonanza, Willie was back from the salt mines.</p><p>And he made a prophet of Clancy, who had been pumping for some time for Marshall&rsquo;s promotion on the argument that the wee one was ready for the big top. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got what it takes,&rdquo; Clancy said, &ldquo;Sure he&rsquo;s a little guy, but he won&rsquo;t back down from anyone. He&rsquo;s always digging, checking, making plays. As long as he works, he can&rsquo;t help but stick.&rdquo;</p><p>Willie has &lsquo;worked so well that he has ended George Armstrong&rsquo;s early-season slump. Out in the cold without the puck for several weeks of right winging with Sloan, the Big Chief is suddenly finding himself in the play as Willie works to set him up.</p><p>&ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t expect Army to do much when he didn&rsquo;t have the puck.&rdquo; Day says, referring to Sloan&rsquo;s alarming puck-hogging at the start of the season. &ldquo;But now that he has someone to give it to him, Army&rsquo;s looking more like a hockey player.&rdquo;</p><p>And while Willie sets up Army on one wing, he has helped a Pittsburgh playmate to become Leafs, third-highest scorer on other. Although Parker MacDonald has been in little more than half the Leaf games to date, he rates behind only Sid Smith and Ron Stewart as a triggerman. And he&rsquo;s drawing praise as a checker and prospective penalty killer from both Clancy and Day.</p><p>Like Marshall, MacDonald had his disillusionment before arriving. His previous big league experience also included two games, one in which he played one shift and the other in which he sat on the bench.</p><p>And like Willie, he made up his mind he&rsquo;d be ready for the next round. In preparation he worked all last summer in a Maritime iron mine (Willie should hire him) one and a half miles under the ocean. The object was to build his hungry frame to its current 174 pounds.</p><h2><b>A &ldquo;Spicy Speedster&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Wee Willie Marshall Comes Out Of Salt Mines To Flavor Leafs With Peppery Performance

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02187/1386123-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WALLY HERGESHEIMER</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>After their fine start, the Rangers have suffered a steady retrogression which even the return of Wally Hergesheimer has failed to stem. What&rsquo;s the reason? In a few words, a loose defense. And whose fault is that? The answer is too complex to put the finger on any one player or even on any one department.</p><p>Defensively, Ranger forwards are not the best. As a group they still lack ruggedness more than size and they don&rsquo;t go back too effectively. Naturally, this puts extra pressure on the defense, which is rugged and young and should be full of fire. But here, too, there have been disappointments.</p><p>When coach Muzz Patrick assembled the Rangers in training, he was aware of the basic defensive drawbacks of his forwards. Some are fine, such as Andy Bathgate and Larry Popein and Dean Prentice and Aldo Guidolin, But most are not.</p><p>However, Muzz did expect his defense to cover up for the forwards and, in some instances, to stand up and throw punches for them when some of the bully boys on other clubs started picking on the Rangers&rsquo; little guys.</p><p>This hasn&rsquo;t happened as much as Patrick had hoped, and for this reason he&rsquo;s not too happy with the way the backliners have operated.</p><p>Recently in a game in New York, for example, Boston&rsquo;s Bob Armstrong picked on Bones Raleigh. There is something like a 50-pound discrepancy in weights, and certainly somebody on the Ranger defense should have grabbed young Armstrong by the scruff of his neck and laid him low. But it wasn&rsquo;t done, and while Raleigh laughed it off with a gag&mdash;&ldquo;The bigger they come, the harder I fall&rdquo;,&mdash;it was no laughing matter to Patrick.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t seen any opponents picking on Evans or Irwin or Howell or Gadsby,&rdquo; Patrick said. &ldquo;But our defensemen should be prepared to protect our smaller forwards. Just because nobody picks on them means they gotta mind their own business.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Ivan The Terrible Holding Up</b></h2><p>Of all the defensemen, Ivan Irwin alone seems to be throwing his weight around and making his presence felt; and it reflects in the goals against department because his personal record is far better than others&rsquo; on the Ranger defense.</p><p>Howell and Evans have been the least effective&mdash;statistically as well as in appearance. Maybe it is because they have a reputation for being chronically slow starters. In any event, when Gadsby joined New York, Patrick saw fit to split Howell and Evans as a defense team. Howell now works with Irwin, Evans with Gadsby.</p><p>Of Gadsby, Patrick says: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen enough of him now to say he is living up to expectations. I expect that the longer he&rsquo;s with us, the more confident he&rsquo;ll get. Meanwhile I regard him as a good defenseman and a fine leader, as well.&rdquo;</p><p>Evans, to be sure, was handicapped for a two-week stretch by a painful ankle bruise, which might have kept most hockey players on the sidelines. But the strong, silent man could be a take-charge guy with a little more fire and aggressiveness, and Patrick is anxiously waiting for him to come out of his shell.</p><p>New York&rsquo;s fifth defenseman. Bob Chrystal, has youth and eagerness on his side, but he might be bothered by constant switches that put him on a left wing, at times, and he is not yet a finished product either up front or on a backline.</p><h2><b>Needs a Body-guard!</b></h2><h2><b>Still Starring</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03146/1386116-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="498" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY POPEIN</b></figcaption></div><p>Rangers are pleased with the way Prentice has taken over a wing slot with Raleigh and Le-wicki&hellip; In his first five games with that combo, Dean scored two goals and four assists&hellip; Bathgate keeps popping &lsquo;em in&mdash;four goals in the last six games&hellip; Andy says he&rsquo;s a slow starter, too&hellip; Paul Ronty got his 100th NHL goal in the one town he&rsquo;d like to be remembered for it&mdash;Boston&hellip; Hergesheimer says he feels okay, but that he misses the training phase of a season.</p><p>Ranger management is taking a poll of customers as well as airwave listeners to find out if they like the 8:30 starting time for Sunday games&hellip; They offer two alternatives&mdash;3 P.M. and 7 P.M. But lest any one think the Rangers are unhappy with 8:30, it should be stated attendances are up over 20 per cent from a year ago&hellip; Ned Irish puts it this way; &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve found that in our other Sunday events&mdash;rodeo, circus, ice shows, etc.&mdash;we picked up considerably when we switched to a 7 o&rsquo;clock time. More fans found they could take the kids. If that&rsquo;s so, we might try it for hockey. And a few Sundays, we could go to 3 o&rsquo;clock if there was sufficient demand for it.&rdquo;</p><p>After Johnny Bower allowed six goals in a 6-1 lacing against Detroit, he was benched for the returning Gump Worsley&hellip; Bower, nonetheless, did well in five games&mdash;winning two, losing two, tying one, and allowing a 2.6 goals-against average&hellip; Patrick calls him a big league goalie and would like to see him&mdash;&rdquo;because he deserves the break&mdash;with some other big league club&hellip; Meanwhile, Bower was dispatched to his former Vancouver team&hellip; Worsley&rsquo;s return was marked by a 6-3 drubbing at the hands of Boston&hellip; The last goal was scored in an open net, but Gump blamed himself for the first goal and said he couldn&rsquo;t get up a sweat.</p><p>Patrick has come up with an idea on how to eliminate, or at least decrease, the number of ties&hellip; &ldquo;If two teams are tied with two minutes to go,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d have each team remove its goalie and play the last two minutes&mdash;five on a side.&rdquo;&hellip; Carl Voss, on hearing of this, said: &ldquo;Sacr&eacute; bleu!&rdquo; But he said it in English.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Loose, Meek Defense Reason For Ranger Retrogression

<p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by</p><p>Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West</p><p>Montreal 25, Que.</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1903, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p><b>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation</b></p><p>Printed in Canada<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01283/1386199-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="401" height="420"></div><p>&bull; <b>DON&rsquo;T BE TOO</b> surprised if the New York Rangers trade Goalie Johnny Bower to the Boston Bruins for one of the Bruins&rsquo; younger forwards. It seems apparent right now that Gump Worsley has won the Rangers&rsquo; goaling job and the Blues are anxious to add strength up front. They would be happy to make a deal involving Bower providing they could get something worthwhile in return. Muzz Patrick, coach of the Rangers, has propositioned brother Lynn of the Bruins about a trade, which would send Bower to Boston in exchange for one of the better of the youthful Bruin forwards. Lynn is interested and has asked for more time to think it over&hellip; Bronco Nagurski&rsquo;s son is a football star with the unbeaten International Falls, Minn, high school team. His preference, however, is hockey&hellip; And talking about football: Didn&rsquo;t Baz O&rsquo;Meara, sports editor of the Montreal Star, come up with the football story of the season when he reported on the sale of the Montreal Alouettes to a new syndicate days before the story was to break? A millionaire stockbroker friend of Baz&rsquo;s tipped him off on the deal&hellip; After Benny Woit had scored on his own net the other night in Toronto, someone on the Leafs&rsquo; bench asked King Clancy whether he had seen what happened. &ldquo;All I could see was the glare of the goal-light,&rdquo; Clancy answered. &ldquo;That wasn&rsquo;t the goal-light you saw; that was Woit&rsquo;s face,&rdquo; piped up Larry Cahan, rookie Toronto defenseman.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02173/1386192-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="304" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>MIKE KARAKAS,</b> former National Hockey League goalkeeper with the Chicago Black Hawks, went into the hospital last week to have a cataract removed from his right eye. Karakas was the first of the great United States-born goalies to come out of Eveleth, Minn. He was followed by Frank Brimsek of the Boston Bruins and Sammy Lo Presti of the Chicago Black Hawks. Karakas now lives in Providence where he works as a clubhouse parking attendant at both Narragansett and Lincoln Downs race tracks&hellip; His pal at the parking lots is Art Le-sieur, who used to be a burly defenseman with Montreal Canadiens and Providence Reds. Lesieur is now a roly-poly little fellow&hellip; Frank Boucher figures Montreal has drawn away from Detroit and now rate as the No. 1 club in the NHL. &ldquo;The Canadiens are very sound and very powerful. Boom Boom Geoffrion is having his greatest season and Jean Beliveau is starting to live up to the nice things predicted for him when he first came into the league,&rdquo; Boucher related&hellip; Muzz Patrick agreed with his boss&rsquo;s views. &ldquo;If I had to.pick &lsquo;em now, it would be Montreal and Detroit, one-two,&rdquo; the Ranger coach added&hellip; Alex Kaleta, well-known former National Leaguer who was recently let go by Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Hockey League, has taken over as coach of the Moose Jaw Canucks Juniors&hellip; Alex has a tough chore ahead of him as the Canucks had only won one game in 14 starts when he took over the club&hellip; Larry Popein, Rangers&rsquo; outstanding rookie, hasn&rsquo;t received the publicity in the New York press that has been afforded Ranger players of lesser ability in other years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03102/1386185-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="294" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Brimsek</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>JACK ADAMS SAYS</b> the Red Wings net between $650,-000 and $700,000 a year and that approximately a tenth of this is channeled to finance the Wings&rsquo; scouting and farm system. He also told John Walter of the Detroit News that it was even more remarkable in that Detroit had the smallest seating capacity in the National Hockey League. Consequently all other clubs should be able to spend more money on developing players than the Wings. Here is the Beating capacity for each of the six NHL clubs, with the record season crowds in parentheses: Chicago 16,666 (500,681), New York 15,284 (429,822), Boston 13,909 (392,798), Montreal 13,531 (504,653), Toronto 12,586 (477,223), Detroit 12,500 (357,756)&hellip; Dave Wall, ex-Victoria Cougar now with Kelowna and Gordie Kerr, veteran WHL standout, now with Kamloops&hellip; Western Hockey League followers say Edmonton&rsquo;s Bronco Horvath looks like a natural National Leaguer and they pick Norm Ullman of the same team as the loop&rsquo;s top rookie&hellip; There are fewer &ldquo;old men&rdquo; in the Western Hockey League this season than ever before. The pace is getting too tough for the oldsters.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0473/1386178-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="289" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0567/1386230-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Winning Goals</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Several editions ago you mentioned the fact that Gordon Howe scored more winning goals last year than anyone else in the league. Several of his admirers stressed this point in their letters to your magazine, as a proof of his greatness.</p><p>I would like to point out, if 1 may, that none of those, winning goals was registered against Toronto or Montreal, the third and second place teams, but against Chicago or Rangers, the cellar dwellers of said season. I think this fact speaks for itself. I should also like to point out the fact that Mr. Howe was unable to score any goal, winning or otherwise, in Montreal or Toronto last year. This is hardly the feat of a great hockey player. As I understand the meaning of the word &ldquo;great&rdquo;, it signifies one who competes significantly against both strong and weak clubs.</p><p>An interesting point lies in the fact that, during the game of Wednesday, December 1st, which was won by Detroit 6-1, Howe scored the fourth and sixth Wing goals. These are an example of his typical clutch markers. I am pleased to see that he is now playing the hockey he is capable of&mdash;average.</p><p>Bruce Edwards Toronto, Ont.</p><h2><b>Hockey Mag</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would appreciate very much receiving any information you can give me regarding the new hockey book, the &ldquo;Blueline&rdquo;.</p><p>What is the address where we can send subscriptions?</p><p>Roger Bradley, Sudbury, Ont.</p><p>(Subscriptions to the Blueline may be sent to Blueline Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 560, Montreal, Que. The rate is $2.50 for twelve monthly issues.)</p><h2><b>Credit Due</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Dated Nov. 27, for The Player-of-The-Week you have Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>I think you should have put &ldquo;Long&rdquo; John Henderson, the rookie goalie for Boston. He only gave one goal in three games.</p><p>&ldquo;Long John&rdquo; may be a flash in the pan. But he should get some credit. All your paper gave him was a little corner. Sawshuk should by rights be next week&rsquo;s Player-of-the-Week with three straight shutouts. Anyone can shutout the Hawks. But try shutting out Toronto and the Canucks!</p><p>There is a feat worth reporting.</p><p>To me, a hockey fan, your paper just builds up the great and keeps them up there. Your paper isn&rsquo;t giving credit where credit is due.</p><p>Please in the future take more care.</p><p>Joe Frugoli Chicago, Ill.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>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.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0659/1386261-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="592" height="278"></div><p>December 18 to December 25</p><p>19&mdash;HARVEY, Doug, Montreal defense, 1924.</p><p>20&mdash;DESCHENE, Donat, Chicoutimi forward, 1930; WILLIS, Ralph, Hershey defense, 1932.</p><p>22&mdash;ATANAS, Walter (Ants), Syracuse forward, 1922; MANSON, Bob, Victoria forward, 1927; MILLIGAN, George, Syracuse defense, 1925; ROBERTSON, Bobby, Ottawa defense, 1927.</p><p>23&mdash;LEGER, Germain, Chicoutimi forward, 1928; SOLINGER, Bob, Pittsburgh forward, 1925.</p><p>24&mdash;SASAKAMOOSE, Fred, New Westminster forward, 1934; SULLIVAN, Red, Chicago forward, 1929.</p><p>25&mdash;CAHAN, Larry, Toronto defense, 1933; WOCHY, Steve, Buffalo forward, 1922.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p><b>&ldquo;HOCKEY NEWS&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Heads their Christmas gift lists&hellip;</b></p><p>&ldquo;When if comes to reading about the world&rsquo;s greatest sport, THE HOCKEY NEWS is in a class by itself. A wonderful Xmas gift for young and old.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack Waters, Salesman, Edmonton, Alta.</p><p>&ldquo;Nearly all the players read THE HOCKEY NEWS regularly. You can&rsquo;t beat it for keeping you posted on the different leagues and following your pals on teams in other leagues.&rdquo;</p><p>Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings</p><p>&ldquo;A year&rsquo;s subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS is a Xmas gift that any hockey fan would cherish. There just isn&rsquo;t a better gift for the price that a keen fan could receive. HOCKEY NEWS is tops with me.&rdquo;</p><p>William De Savigny, Engineer, Montreal, Que.</p><p>&ldquo;The easiest way to overcome what to get the man in your life for Xmas is a subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS. He&rsquo;ll think of you every time the postman delivers it&hellip;35 times a year.&rdquo;</p><p>Miss Janice Collins, Secretary, Boston, Mass.</p><p><b>Solve your Christmas shopping Worries the Easy Way&hellip; Send the &ldquo;Hockey News&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>The Hockey News</b></p><p><b>Makes an ideal CHRISTMAS GIFT for everyone in the family</b></p><p>FATHER&hellip; BIG BROTHER&hellip; YOUR FAVORITE COUSIN&hellip; THE BOY FRIEND&hellip; MOTHER&hellip; KID SISTER&hellip; THE GALS AWAY AT SCHOOL&hellip; THE BETTER HALF.</p><p><b>ATTRACTIVE GIFT CARDS ANNOUNCE EACH XMAS SUBSCRIPTION</b></p><p><b>Canadian Remittances</b>&hellip;&hellip;$3.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraphic Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances</b>&hellip;&hellip;$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0810/1386299-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="414" height="684"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-094/1386292-1-eng-US/f0006-092.jpg" title="f0006-09" width="1130" height="410"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IT’S GIFT TIME AGAIN 11

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01234/1386330-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe (left) and Glen Skov (right) &ldquo;Launch&rdquo; Paley and Platter</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT&mdash;</b>The world&rsquo;s champion Detroit Red Wings announced the release of an official record of their standard theme song, &ldquo;Pretty Red Wing.&rdquo;</p><p>Recorded by Detroit orchestra leader Cass Paley and his orchestra under the Drummond label, the record features two sides of the standard American tune which has been accepted as the musical symbol of the Red Wings since they adopted that nickname in 1934.</p><p>However with an eye to modern music, only one side of the record is played in the standard manner of the grand old favorite. The other, recognizing the current dance craze, is &ldquo;The Red Wings Mambo&rdquo;,</p><p>The record was recently presented to the public via radio for the first time, and will be available at Olympia Stadium. Public sale via record shops will not begin for several weeks.</p><p>To better familiarize the members of the Red Wings team with the mambo steps, two instructresses from the Arthur Murray School of Dance, Misses Kay Robson and Irene Viella, visited the team&rsquo;s last practice before they left on the current road trip and demonstrated the dance. Marty Pavelich and Len &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly, generally regarded as the best dancers among the Wings, served as the principal pupils.</p><h2><b>Santa Comes Early</b></h2><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Santa Claus came early for Paul Masnick, the spike-topped youngster who was sent to Chicago in an earlier deal but returned to Canadiens in the deal for Eddie Litzenberger.</p><p>Paul found himself traded back to a first place club. He probably won&rsquo;t remain with Canadiens, who have indicated that he&rsquo;ll play for Royals. But he might be around to pick up a playoff cheque.</p><h2><b>Another Red Wing Record</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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“Pretty Red Wing” Official Detroit Theme Song

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02205/1386361-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="303" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Morrison</b></figcaption></div><p>STATISTICS:</p><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>ames Stewart Hunter Morrison was born in Montreal, P.Q. Oct. 11, 1931, and is 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo;, 175 lbs. Played junior hockey with Barrie Flyers, a club sponsored by the Boston Bruins. Turned pro with Hershey Bears in 1951-52 and later that season was traded to Toronto by Boston for Fleming Mackell. Can play either defense or forward, but is now a regular rearguard with the Leafs.</p><p>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME: Steak.</p><p>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME: Being the hungry type he likes anything&mdash;so long as it is food&mdash;but has a preference for Italian & Chinese dishes.</p><p>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE: Montreal.</p><p>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT: The Laurentians.</p><p>FAVORITE NHL CITY ON A ROAD GAME: He has two, choices. Montreal, because that is where his home is, and Detroit, because he has pretty good luck in the Olympia.</p><p>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL: Books by Thomas Costain, particularly &ldquo;The Silver Chalice&rdquo; & &ldquo;The White and the Gold.&rdquo; In less serious moments reads magazines and &ldquo;The Hockey News.&rdquo;</p><p>FAVORITE RECREATION: Paddling & golf which takes up most of his spare summer moments. He shoots golf in the low 80&rsquo;s and is an expert paddler. In 1952 & 54 Jim and his partner won the Dominion Championship in the International Tandem Paddling contests held at Ottawa.</p><p>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE: Musicals are high on the list, but the &ldquo;Student Prince&rdquo; is tops.</p><p>BEST ACTRESSES: Jeanne Crain and Pier Angeli.</p><p>BEST ACTORS: James Stewart and Robert Mitchum.</p><p>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALISTS: Jo Stafford and Kay Starr.</p><p>FAVORITE MALE VOCALISTS: Tony Martin and Nat &ldquo;King&rdquo; Cole.</p><p>FAVORITE POPULAR SONGS: &ldquo;Smile&rdquo; sung by Nat Cole and &ldquo;You Never Walk Alone.&rdquo; FAVORITE ORCHESTRA: Ray Anthony.</p><p>FAVORITE RADIO PROGRAM: Has no set favorite, but enjoys the &ldquo;Mickey Lester Show&rdquo; on station CKEY.</p><p>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM: Ed Sullivan.</p><p>IN THE SUMMER: Lives in Montreal and works at odd jobs to keep in condition.</p><p>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY: Being a member of the Barrie Flyers, 1949-50 Memorial Cup Champions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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INSIDE STUFF About

<p><b>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>If Boston defenseman Leo Boivin looks upon the Montreal Canadiens as his favorite opponents, it is understandable.</b></p><p><b>In his first 21 games this season, with the Bruins and before that with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the burly Boivin failed to get a single goal.</b></p><p><b>Then, bang, he gets two goals in a single weekend, both against the Canadiens, but in different games.</b></p><p><b>On December 11, Boivin scored the Bruins&rsquo; second goal in a 3-0 victory over the first-place Habs and then, the following night in Boston, he scored again, also the Bruins&rsquo; second goal, in a 2-2 tie.</b></p><p><b>So he can be excused a little if he looks forward to the B&rsquo;s next meeting with the Habs. They&rsquo;re duck soup for Boivin.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03154/1386392-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="288" height="471"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Boivin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Habs Favorite Opponents Of Bruins’ Leo Boivin

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jacques Plante, Canadiens&rsquo; hard luck netminder, believes in the biblical admonition&mdash;turn the other cheek.</p><p>More than a month ago Plante, who has one of the best goals-against averages in the National Hockey League, fractured his right cheek bone in a pre-game warmup.</p><p>Last week he returned for his first practice with the team and was hit on the left cheek by a puck lofted from a scramble in front of his cage.</p><p>Two stitches were required to close the wound but Plante, working himself Into shape, went out the following night with the Montreal Royals, Canadiens&rsquo; Quebec Hockey League farm club, for an exhibition game in Cornwall.</p><p>With Plante out of big league action, Charlie Hodge has been an adequate replacement. He acquired his first NHL shutout at the expense of the Leafs, blanking them 2-0 in Montreal in Nov. 9.</p><p>In his first 11 and 2/3 games with Canadiens&mdash;and eight of them were on the road&mdash;Hodge allowed only 26 goals. The Habs won six, lost three and tied three, against 15 out of a possible 24 points.</p><p>Hodge was pulled out of the stands at the end of the first period on Nov. 18 against the Leafs and has played sensationally ever since. Frank Selke Jr., the Forum&rsquo;s able publicist, calls him the peewee who plays like a giant.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04124/1386423-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="552" height="555"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES LANTE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Plante Turns Other Cheek And Gets Nicked For Two Stitches

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The plot got all mixed up the night Red Kelly scored his 100th goal and Gordie Howe his 250th.</p><p>Such &ldquo;milestone&rdquo; tallies are a big deal in hockey. It&rsquo;s a special occasion whenever a player gets his 100th, 200th, 250th, etc. Handshakes all around, congratulations from friends and family, maybe even a picture with the lucky puck.</p><p>It is traditional that the player receives the puck and cherishes it among his permanent souvenirs.</p><p>Kelly and Howe achieved their milestones in the same game. In fact, each scored twice as Detroit took a 6-1 decision in New York.</p><p>But both were caught offside from an historical point of view. Kelly confused about his scoring total, got the wrong puck as a souvenir. Howe missed the significance entirely and didn&rsquo;t realize he&rsquo;d hit his 250th until newsmen told him afterwards.</p><p>Kelly figured he&rsquo;d already reached 99, so he happily retrieved the puck &ldquo;after his first goal. But he was one off in his calculations and No. 100 actually was his second tally in the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01268/1386461-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="475" height="1069"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Maybe I got the same puck. Those goals were only a few minutes apart,&rdquo; he decided in consolation.</p><p>Howe, of course, didn&rsquo;t get any puck at all. But he also had some consolation.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got two pucks home for my 200th goal. I saved the one in Boston where I scored my 200th except that the official scorer there didn&rsquo;t give it to me. Then I got the puck in Chicago where I got my official 200th goal,&rdquo; Howe related.</p><p>Both milestones were noteworthy.</p><p>The record book doesn&rsquo;t give the full facts but Kelly is believed to be the first defenseman in National Hockey League history to score 100 goals. Red has been considered the top goal man among all the rear guards since he passed Babe Siebert&rsquo;s career total of 89 last season.</p><p>Howe was the seventh NHL performer ever to hit 250 and the third this season. Ted Lindsay and Bill Mosienko beat him into the &ldquo;250 Club&rdquo; by a few games. Leading the parade, of course, is Rocket Richard, who was up to 398 at last count. The three others were Nels Stewart (324), Howie Morenz (270) and Aurel Joliat (270).</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> Those milestone tallies provided the one bright spot in one of the worst Detroit slumps in recent years. They came in the lone victory over a five-game stretch which found the Wings losing the other four contests.</p><p>Included among the four setbacks were a pair of 4-1 games with Montreal that were costly to Detroit&rsquo;s hopes for a seventh straight NHL championship and a 6-2 trouncing in Boston which was the worst beating of the season.</p><p>The fourth defeat was by a 1-0 margin in Toronto, the lone goal going in off Benny Woit&rsquo;s stick. With Terry Sawchuk trapped out of his cage, Woit was hurrying to become a &ldquo;sub goalie&rdquo;. A shot by Ron Stewart deflected off Sawchuk, hit Woit&rsquo;s stick and bounced back into the net.</p><p>A session with the lowly Chicago Black Hawks finally ended the slump, the Wings getting a 4-1 decision in a game much closer than the score Indicated. Detroit held only a 2-1 lead until the last 45 seconds when Tony Leswick and Alex Delvecchio fired two rapid goals. Al Rollins hadn&rsquo;t been pulled from the ice in either case.</p><p>Coach Jimmy Skinner has been shuffling his centers continually in an effort to get more scoring punch. The wingers are remaining fairly constant with Howe-Lindsay, Pavelich-Leswick and Stasiuk-Wilson teaming on the three lines. Bonin and Davis may alternate for any of those. The four centers&mdash;Delvecchio, Reibel, Skov and Dineen&mdash;all have been seen on all three lines in some games.</p><p>When it came time to pare one man off the playing roster on the Dec. 1 deadline, Keith Allen was fingered. There is no indication that he&rsquo;ll be farmed out, however, since the Wings have only four other defensemen. Allen apparently will remain as a standby. <i>J</i></p><h2><b>Crabbed &rsquo;Em Both</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02211/1386454-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="876" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED KELLY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Kelly Got Wrong Puck Howe Didn’t Get Any In Scoring Epic Goals

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>A Letter from Hanover</b></h2><p>We wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago after we&rsquo;d been talking to Lynn Patrick, the Boston Bruins&rsquo; coach, which brought a scream of pain from the hills around Hanover, N.H., where Eddie Jeremiah lives. Eddie had plenty of reason to scream, too, as the following letter makes plain:</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been coaching hockey at Dartmouth since 1937 and brother did your recent column put me in a bad and wrong light with my players, who, believe it or not, read the Montreal Gazette.</p><p>Your article stated, &lsquo;There were a few others (American born hockey players) whom Lynn (Patrick) failed to recall, probably because they were only up for what is known in baseball as a cup of &gt; coffee. One was Eddie Jeremiah, a college player around Boston,. whom the Bruins tried for years to sign. But Eddie wanted to use his hockey ability to see the world and he went to Europe and played 1 for a number of years with a team in Paris. By the time he returned and signed with the Bruins he had become a bon vivant, too fat to get &lsquo;out of his own way.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How cruel can you get? Naturally my players had a good laugh on me, but you are so wrong. I&rsquo;m afraid I&rsquo;ll have to subject you to a lie detector test to vindicate myself, or, better still, I think I&rsquo;ll put you through prep school and have you take a memory course.</p><p>&ldquo;First, I&rsquo;ve never been across the Atlantic, let alone Paris (you must have had a little too much wine if you thought you saw me there).</p><p>&ldquo;Second, the bon vivant label just doesn&rsquo;t fit me.</p><p>&ldquo;Third, I&rsquo;ve never been too fat to get out of my own way. I still play in the annual Hebron Academy and Dartmouth College Alumni hockey game. In addition, I referee college football games every fall.</p><p>&ldquo;Fourth, throughout my college days I weighed 155 pounds and throughout most of my professional hockey years, mostly minor league, I weighed 165 pounds.</p><h2><b>He Loved to Play Hockey</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Regarding my professional hockey career, it&rsquo;s true I was up for &lsquo;only a cup of major league coffee,&rsquo; but my four weeks with the New York Americans and two weeks with the Boston Bruins were golden memories because they gave a chance to play with and against the great names of Canadian hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;I was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1930 and was signed by the New York Americans. Instead of going to Paris and fattening into a bon vivant, I reported to the Americans&rsquo; farm team, New Haven, the next season. My itinerary was as follows:</p><p>&ldquo;1930-31&mdash;New Haven; 1931-32&mdash;New Haven, New York Americans, Boston Bnuins and Boston Cubs; 1932-33&mdash;New Haven; 1933-34&mdash;Philadelphia; 1934-35&mdash;Cleveland; 1935-37&mdash;Coach of Boston Olympics; 1937&mdash;Coach of Dartmouth College.</p><p>&ldquo;I went into professional hockey for three reasons: (1) I loved the game; (2) I was picked on the All American hockey team and I wanted to compare my ability with the Canadians; (3)1 wanted to improve my knowledge of the game for future coaching.</p><p>&ldquo;I have never regretted my decision because I made some wonderful, life-long Canadian friends. I&rsquo;ll never forget the gang I broke in with at New Haven&mdash;Jackie Forbes, Chris Speyer, George Himes, Yip Radley, Ellis Pringle, Vern Ayres, Gene Chouinard, Jack Keating, Doggie Kuhn, Roy Burmeister, Billy Boucher, Eddie Convey, and our fatherly manager, Tom Howard. I learned some great tricks from Billy Boucher, who used to be on Canadiens&rsquo; great line with Howie Morenz and Aurel Joliat.</p><h2><b>Greats of the Past</b></h2><p>&ldquo;With a great deal of pride, I can honestly say I had the privilege of playing against the following great, great lines:</p><p>&ldquo;Joliat-Morenz-Gagnon (Canadiens); Bun Cook-Frank Boucher-Bill Cook (Rangers); Jackson-Primeau-Conacher (Toronto); Nels Stewart-Hooley Smith-Babe Siebert (Maroons).</p><p>&ldquo;Also, I faced some great defensemen: Shore and Hitchman, of the Bruins; Horner and Clancy, of Toronto, and Ching Johnson, of the Rangers, plus the great goalies&mdash;Tiny Thompson, of the Bruins; Chuck Gardner, of the Black Hawks, and George Hainsworth, of Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;How would you like to manage the above greats as a squad? I wonder what the present market value would be if they were in their prime.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, your cruel column forced me to reminisce, but it was very pleasant and I enjoyed it. Please get into the holiday spirit and, for a Christmas present, square me with my Dartmouth Indians.</p><p>&ldquo;Incidentally, Cooney Weiland (Harvard), Murray Murdoch (Yale) and I are still battling each other as coaches in the Pentagonal League (Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and Yale) &ldquo;.</p><p>We are only too happy to get into the spirit of Christmas and correct a stupid mistake. The fellow we were writing about wasn&rsquo;t Eddie Jeremiah and we don&rsquo;t know how we came to make the error. He was Gerry Geran, who must have been quite a character. Sprague Cleghorn was with the Bruins when Geran joined them, and it was Sprague who told us all about him.</p><p>We remember Sprague telling a story about living directly over Geran in an apartment house in Boston one winter. Geran liked wine with his meals (the Paris touch) and he used to open the window and put a bottle outside on the sill to chill. Sprague noticed a bottle one day and he got a fishing line with a noose at the end and lifted the bottle upstairs. According to Sprague, Geran never found out who did it and blamed it on some kids in the neighborhood.</p><p>We are glad of the opportunity to set the record straight and to print Eddie Jeremiah&rsquo;s letter, which mentions names that will ring a bell in the minds of many hockey, fans.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">MOZLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03157/1386516-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="293" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Aware of criticism directed at him and other Rangers because of the deal which sent Camille Henry to the Quebec Aces&mdash;there is a clause which gives the New Yorkers the right to reclaim last season&rsquo;s Rookie of the Year&mdash;general manager Frank Boucher issued the following statement:</p><p>&ldquo;Ever since Phil Watson starred for the Rangers, I&rsquo;ve always had a warm spot in my heart for players out of Quebec.</p><p>&ldquo;That is why, when Camille Henry reported to our training camp in 1953 directly out of junior hockey, he was given every chance to make the grade.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe we rushed him too fast. Other big league clubs would doubtless have kept him in the minors for several years. We wanted him to make good. And he was good enough to become Rookie of the Year.</p><p>&ldquo;We agreed that if it became necessary to send him to the minors, it would be only fair to him and to the fans that he play in his home city for the Quebec Aces, if at all possible.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re sending him there now. At the age of 21, Camille should be playing regularly to hasten his development. This is much wiser than having him sit on the Rangers&rsquo; bench&mdash;and it is his wish as well as ours. Now he should gain the experience necessary for big league stardom. We hope some day in the near future, he&rsquo;ll make his comeback with the Rangers.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boucher Explains Why Henry Farmed

<div class="byline">Eddie Litzenberger</div><p><b>Chicago Black Hawks</b></p><p><b>Eddie Litzenberger, starry rookie with the Chicago Black Hawks, had a rather unique experience this past week.</b></p><p><b>The young right winger picked up four points for the week, but scored them while playing for two different clubs.</b></p><p><b>On December 8, Litz clicked for the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; only goal in a 3-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.</b></p><p><b>On December 10, he was traded by the Habs to the Chicago Black Hawks and he joined them in time for their game against the Maple Leafs in Toronto the following night. Held scoreless in his first outing in a Chi-Hawk uniform, heady Eddie bounced back the following evening in the Windy City to figure in all three Black Hawk goals in a 4-3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings.</b></p><p><b>In the second period, he assisted as Gus Mortson scored Chicago&rsquo;s first goal at 12.46. Then, at 5.24 of the third period, he was helpmate on a goal by Harry Watson, also a newcomer to the Chi-Hawks. At 14.26, he scored himself to pull the last-placers to within a goal of the defending-champion Red Wings.</b></p><p><b>Quite a performance!</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1161/1386676-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="268" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Litzenberger</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-11

Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Only Murphy</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>onnie Murphy was the Rangers&rsquo; only goal-getter in both their weekend games and the one he scored on Sunday night against the Leafs prevented it from being a disastrous week-end as the Rangers salvaged a tie in two starts.</p><h2><b>First 20</b></h2><p>Canadiens&rsquo; Bernie Boom Boom Geoffrion became the first player in the National Hockey League to enter the charmed 20-goal circle this year. The Boomer scored his 20th against the Boston Bruins.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M. DEC. 16</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01252/1386645-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="590" height="154"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 12th, 1954</b></h3><p>Wed. Dec. 8th&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Tor. 8</p><p>Wed. Dec. Sth&mdash;Chicago 2 at Rangers 1</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 9th&mdash;Toronto 0 at Can. 2</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 9th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Detroit 3</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 9th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Boston 2</p><p>Sat. Dec. 11th&mdash;Boston 3 at Canadiens 0</p><p>Sat. Dec. 11th&mdash;Chicago 2 at Toronto 1</p><p>Sat. Dec. 11th&mdash;Rangers 1 at Detroit 4</p><p>Sun. Dec. 12th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Boston 2</p><p>Sun. Dec. 12th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Rangers 1</p><p>Sun. Dec. 12th&mdash;Detroit 4 at Chicago 3</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 19th, 1954</b></h3><p>Wed Dec. 15th&mdash;Toronto at Chicago</p><p>(St. Louis)</p><p>Wed. Dec. 15th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 16th&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 16th&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><p>Sat. Dec. 18th&mdash;Canadiens at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Dec. 18th&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Dec. 18 th&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Dec. 19th&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Dec. 19th&mdash;Toronto at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Dec. 19th&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8</b></h3><p><b>Chicago 2 at New York 1</b></p><p>Referee. Scotty Morrison; linesmen, Dom Partita. Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02232/1386638-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="600" height="404"></div><h3><b>Montreal 1 at Toronto 3</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal. Hodge; defense, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards, Leclair, Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore, Mosdell, Litzenberger, Curry, Tessier, Mazur.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defense, Thomson, Bolton. Morrison, Cahan, Horton; forwards, Migay, Stewart, Klukay, Kennedy, Nesterenko, Smith, Sloan, Armstrong, Macdonald, Marshall, Watson.</p><p><b>Referee,</b> Jerry Olinski; linesmen, Bill Morrison and George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03191/1386631-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="596" height="478"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DEC. 9</b></h3><p><b>New York 2 at Detroit 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04158/1386624-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="598" height="436"></div><h3><b>Toronto 0 at Montreal 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05122/1386617-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="594" height="379"></div><h3><b>Chicago 1 at Boston 2</b></h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Gola: Rollins; defense: Martin, Stanley, Hollingworth, Mortson, Masnick; forwards: Creighton, Sullivan, Prystai, McIntyre, Wilson, Mosienko, Jankowski, Toppazzini, McCormack, Mickoskl.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henry; defense: Flaman, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Boivin, Laycoe, Armstrong; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Mohns, Gardner, Bodnar, Costello, Ferguson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06105/1386610-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="600" height="418"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DEC. 11</b></h3><p><b>Chicago 2 at Toronto 1</b></p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Stanley, Fogolin, Mortson, Hollingsworth, Martin; forwards; Sullivan, Moslenko, Mickoski, L. Wilson, Jankowski, McIntyre, Prystai, Toppazzini, Creighton, McCormack, Masnick.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomhon, Morrison, Horton, Cahan, Bolton; forwards: Smith, Kennedy, Stewart, Migay, Sloan, Nesterenko, Klykay, MacDonald, Marshall, Caffrey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0795/1386603-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="595" height="385"></div><h3><b>New York 1 at Detroit 4</b></h3><p><b>Rangers</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Ronty, Laprade, Gui-dolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Conacher, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b> Goal: Sawchuck; defense: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, J. Wilson, Stasiuk, Dineen,, Bonin, Davis</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0887/1386596-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="596" height="365"></div><h3><b>Boston 3 at Canadiens 0</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henry, Henderson; defense: Godfrey, Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Layeo, Quackenbush; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Gardner, Mohns, Costello, Ferguson, Teale.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent, Harvey; forwards: Beliveau, Moore, Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Mazur, Masniek, Curry, Tessier.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0986/1386589-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="599" height="511"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DEC. 12</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens 2 at Boston 2</b></p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Hodge: defense: Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent, Harvey: forwards: Beliveau, Moore, Mos-dell, Richard, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Mazur. Masnick, Curry, Tessier.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Henry. Henderson; defense: Godfrey, Flaman, Boivin, Armstrong, Layco, Quackenbush; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Gardner, Mohns, Costello, Ferguson, Teale.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01266/1386582-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="604" height="447"></div><h3><b>Toronto 1 at New York 1</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomhon, Morrison, Horton, Cahan, Bolton; forwards: Smith, Kennedy, Stewart, Migay, Sloan, Nesterenko, Klykay, MacDonald, Marshall, Caffrey.</p><p><b>Rangers</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Ronty, Laprade, Gui-dolin, Bathgate, Murphy, Conacher, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02210/1386575-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="609" height="367"></div><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuck: defense: Goldham. Pronovost, Kelly. Woit; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, J. Wilson. Stasiuk, Dineen,, Bonin, Davis</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense: Stanley, Fogolin, Mortson, Hollingsworth, Martin; forwards: Sullivan, Mo-sienko, Mickoski, L. Wilson. Jankowski, McIntyre. Prystai, Toppazzini, Creighton, McCormack, Masnick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03179/1386568-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="619" height="578"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3><b>(Including games of Sun. Dec. 12)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1077/1386561-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="594" height="3011"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1954-1955</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04139/1386554-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="598" height="697"></div><h3><b>Penalties in minutes by Clubs</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05111/1386547-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="601" height="174"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0779/1386707-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>VIC STASIUK</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he only future Stasiuk is thinking about now is that as a D&eacute;troit player. But he does have his eye on the time when his playing days are over. He has spent the last three summers building a house in Lethbridge and will settle there. He hopes to stick in hockey some way, as a scout or coach, and he also has a small business going as owner of some vending machines which dispense soft drinks and coffee in the movie theatres back home.</p><p>Vic has two families at the present time. He is helping support his widowed mother, younger sister and younger brother, Pete, 16, who is playing on the high school hockey team in Lethbridge.</p><p>One summer back home he met pretty, blond Mary Lenning at a dance. She Was only two years away from her native Norway but a romance budded despite language handicaps. After two years they were engaged and they were married in the spring of 1952. Vic, Mary and their seven-month-old-daughter Vanessa Lynn, live in an apartment house favored by several of the Red Wings just a block from Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia Stadium.</p><p>Stasiuk figures whatever success he&rsquo;s had in hockey is due to several men who have guided him along the way. He names Ed Brutchet for &ldquo;getting me started in Lethbridge&rdquo;; Red Hamilton, his Kansas City coach, for &ldquo;teaching me to hustle&rdquo;; Tommy Ivan, for &ldquo;showing me the big-league way of doing things&rdquo;? Jack Adams, for &ldquo;having faith in me and giving me chance after chance to prove myself&rdquo;, and finally Jimmy, Skinner for &ldquo;helping me build up my confidence&rdquo;.</p><p>As for any tips to youngsters who want an NHL career, Vic has one bit of advice&mdash;&rdquo;You&rsquo;ve got to have self-confidence. It means as much, maybe even more than good skating and a hard shot. I know.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>As A Flyer</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0010-07

Stasiuk “Up” With Wings For 4th Time

<h2><b>SCORER</b></h2><p>Eddie Olson of the Cleveland Barons leads AHL goal-scorers with 19 to date in 24 games.</p><h2><b>BADMAN</b></h2><p>Tony Schneider of the Buffalo Bisons, s the current AHL &ldquo;Badman&rdquo; with 73 minutes spent in the penalty box so far this season.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M. DEC. 15</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01265/1386808-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="606" height="186"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY. DEC. 8</b></h3><p><b>Hershey 4 at Buffalo 5</b></p><p>BUFFALO&mdash;The Hershey Bears and the Bisons went on an eight-goal scoring spree in the second period and the Bisons scored all their 5 goals to Hersheys three to go on and win a 5-4 decision.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02224/1386801-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="614" height="752"></div><h3><b>Springfield 4 at Pittsburgh 2</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Rookie Jim Anderson started Springfield off with two goals in the first period and they went ton to knock off the Hornets, 4-2 to take ever first place in the standings.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03177/1386794-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="592" height="490"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, DEC. 10</b></h3><p><b>Hershey 4 at Cleveland 3</b></p><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Norm Corcoran&rsquo;s short shot at 3.21 Of a 10-minute suddendeath overtime period brought Hershey Bears a 4-3 victory over Cleveland Barons.</p><p>The game was tied 1-1 in the first period. Hershey led 3-2 at the second intermission. Jack Gordon, the Cleveland eaptain, tied it at 5.40 of the third period, forcing the overtime.</p><p>Gordon Henry, the Bears&rsquo; goalie, played spectacularly despite a bloody nose and face cuts that forced him out five minutes for repairs in the first period. He made 38 saves. Goalie Emile Francis of Cleveland, 26.</p><p>A fist fight between Gus Karrys of Cleveland and Hershey&rsquo;s Arnott Whitney put them away for five minutes during the third period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04137/1386787-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="604" height="654"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DEC. 11</b></h3><p><b>Springfield 0 at Cleveland 12</b></p><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Joe Lund, normally a defenceman, tried his hand at all three forward positions and wounud up with sevent points, just one shy of the American Hockey League Record, as Cleveland Barons drubbed the leagueleading Spririgfield Indians 12-0.</p><p>While Lund was counting three goals and four assists, teammates Johnny McLellan and Jimmy Farelli also hit for three goals apiece, Farelli connecting for two within 37 seconds. Cal Stearns, Eddie Olson and George Ford were the other Cleveland marksmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05113/1386780-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="630" height="778"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 3 at Providence 5</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Providence Reds climbed out of the American Hockey League cellar by downing Buffalo Bisons 5-3 in a rough game marked by 14 penalties.</p><p>Two new Providence forwards, Gordie Vejprava and Pierre Brillant, were among the winners&rsquo; markmen, the other goals being accounted for by Zellio Toppazzini, Guy Gendron and Pete Kapusta. Chuck Blair, Ken Hayden and Ken Wharram scored for the losers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0791/1386773-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="604" height="626"></div><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Pittsburgh 7</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets pulled away with three-goal rallies in the second and third periods to defeat Hershey Bears 7-2 and moved into a first-place tie with Springfield in the American Hockey League.</p><p>Bill Burega scored twice for the winners, whose other tallies were registered by Ray Timgren, Jack Price, Earl Balfour, Brian Cullen and Gerry Foley. Dune Fisher and Eddie Kullman were Hershey&rsquo;s marskmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1070/1386766-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="591" height="726"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DEC. 12</b></h3><p><b>Springfield 0 at Buffalo 1</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03166/1386759-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="593" height="315"></div><p><b>Pittsburgh 3 at Providence 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04123/1386752-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="589" height="689"></div><h2><b>This Indian A Flier</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06104/1386745-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="1768" height="1786"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>UP AND OVER</b>&mdash;Heading for a fall is Jim Anderson of the Springfield Indians as he is knocked topsy turvy by defenseman Steve Kraftcheck of the Cleveland Barons. Anderson retained possession of the puck, coming down right on top of it. Play was stopped however, with the Springfield player lying on the ice on top of the disc.</figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3><b>(Including games of Sun. Dec. 12)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0980/1386738-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="614" height="616"></div><h3><b>Leaders</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>&mdash;Ed Olson, Cleveland, 19.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Jackie Gordon, Cleveland, 25.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b>&mdash;Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 24, G3, 0, 2.63.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts by a Goalie</b>&mdash;Hank Bassen, Buffalo, 2.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player</b>&mdash;Tony Schneider, Buffalo, 73 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Team</b>&mdash;Buffalo, 390 mts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-01

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>Gordon Vejprava, a very promising 22-year-old center who has been in the Cleveland Baron organization, will join the Rhode Island Reds.</p><p>Lou Pieri, owner of the Reds, announced that he had obtained Vejprava after a series of phone conversations with Jim Hendy, Baron general manager.</p><p>No cash was involved in the deal. In return for Vejprava, the Reds must send the Barons an amateur player sometime in the future. The delivery of the amateur player will be made when the Barons request it.</p><p>Vejprava is another step in the direction of giving Providence a younger and faster club. &ldquo;We will do a complete housecleaning if we have to,&rdquo; Pieri said. &ldquo;We are after speed and youth and will go anywhere to get it.&rdquo;</p><p>The newcomer is 5.9 and weighs 160 pounds. He was born in Blairmore, Alberta. He has a great scoring background in the amateur ranks and is noted for his speed. In the Western Canada Junior Hockey League two years ago, Vejprava completed his second year of leading the league in scoring as a member of the Crow&rsquo;s Nest Pass team.</p><p>Last season, he played for the Marion, Ohio team and led the International Hockey League in scoring with 58 goals, 3 3 assists for 91 points. His coach at Marion was Ott Heller.</p><p>The addition of Vejprava is the second youngster to join the Reds in a few days. Pierre Brilliant reported from Quebec of the QHL. He was involved in a trade that sent Joe Levandoski to the Aces.</p><p>Terry Reardon, team general manager, said that Vic Howe has not reported because of a tonsilectomy and &ldquo;probably will not report now at all&rdquo;. Howe was slated to report to the Reds in Buffalo.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02206/1386846-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="291" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pierre Brilliant</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Anxious Moment For Francis</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01268/1386839-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="1728" height="1672"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EMILE (THE CAT) FRANCIS,</b> classy cage cop for the Cleveland Barons, strikes a pretty pose as he reaches high to grab a loose puck. Francis stopped the original shot, losing his stick in the process, but the rebound went high in the air before The Cat could grab it. Rushing to his aid is defenseman Steve Kraftcheck, also of the Barons.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-02

Reds Acquire Gord Vejprava In Player Deal With Barons

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Andy Branigan, veteran defenseman of the Providence Reds in the American Hockey League, established a new all time league record for durability on December 1st, by playing in his 643rd regular season game. The former record of, 642 games was held by Fred Thurier who has retired as a player, and is now a linesman in Cleveland. Chuck Scherza, a teammate of Branigan with Providence will pass Thurier&rsquo;s record in a few weeks also, as he played in his 636th game the night that Branigan set his new mark. Branigan is in his 12th season in the AHL, while Scherza has had one year less of participation. It took Thurier 14 seasons to compile his game total. In addition to pressing close behind Branigan for the total games record, Scherza holds the league mark for having taken part in the most consecutive games with 309, a streak which was broken a few years ago.</p><p>Always a fine showman and a clutch player, Branigan made his record breaking game an auspicious one by scoring his first goal of the season. The goal, coming at 17:17 of the third period, with time fast running out, tied the score and gave his team a 2-2 deadlock with Buffalo, which prevented the Bisons from tying the Reds in the standings.</p><p>Probably sometime in the near future, Branigan will surpass another long standing league record. On the night that he set the longevity mark, Andy had spent 817 minutes in the league&rsquo;s penalty boxes, leaving him just 21 minutes short of the league record of 838 minutes, held by the retired Pete Bessone. Bessone was in the AHL for 10 seasons, compared to 12 for Branigan.</p><p>Providence is the fourth AHL team for which Branigan has played, having started his league career with Springfield. After a single year which followed in Indianapolis, he went to Hershey where he remained until this season. He also played briefly with the New York Americans in the National League. His hockey career was interrupted during the war years, when he spent three of them in the RCAF as a pilot. Branigan still loves to fly, and whenever his team does so from one game to the next, Andy can always be found, close to the pilot&rsquo;s compartment, learning the intricate methods of flying present day modern planes.</p><p>He will be 33 years old on next April 11, and is a husky 190 pounds on a five foot eleven inch frame. Branigan has always been, a defenseman, right through from his amateur days in his home town of Winnipeg, Canada, where he played with the Winnipeg Monarchs, to his entire professional career.</p><h2><b>Scoring Streak Stopped</b></h2><p>When Freddie Glover, who has been setting the American Hockey League scoring pace all season, was finally stopped after scoring at least one point in nineteen consecutive games, he was five games short of the league record. Tommy Burlington, while also a member of the Cleveland Barons, scored in 24 straight games during the 1945-46 season, to set the league mark. However, Glover, whose near record point streak comprised the first nineteen games of the season, does hold the league record for scoring goals in consecutive games at eleven, which he set while playing with Indiana-poli in 1950-51.</p><h2><b>Three Hundred Points</b></h2><p>Big Jack Stoddard of the Providence Reds in the American Hockey League, scored his 300th point on November 25th, at which time his totals read, 147 goals and 153 assists.</p><h2><b>Colorful Rookie</b></h2><p>One of the most colorful and crowd exciting players to enter the American Hockey League in many years is helmet wearing Bill Burega, the hard hitting defense rookie of the Pittsburgh Hornets. League historians are comparing his spectator reaction effects with the likes of former bad men such as Mike McMahon and Pete Bessone, and the present day playing coach, Pat Egan of Providence. Burega played only five games with Pittsburgh last year, and is considered a rookie.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0590/1386877-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="307" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Branigan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-05

AHL Rinkside Revealings

<h2><b>Intersectional</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>V</span>ancouver lost all three frames played on the Prairies the past week leaving the intersectional games nearly evenly divided. The Coast Clubs hold a slight advantage in winning 15, losing 13 and tieing 5 of the 33 games played.</p><h2><b>Fast Goal</b></h2><p>Steve Witiuk of Calgary scored 2 goal in 8 seconds after the start of the game in Calgary last Wednesday night against Saskatoon to tie the league record for the fastest opening game goal set by Andy Chakowski of Vancouver against Portland in 1949.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON MON. A.M., DEC. 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01275/1387006-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="608" height="186"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Tuesday, November 30th</b></p><p>Victoria 3 at Vancouver 3; Calgary 6 at Saskatoon 3.</p><p><b>Wednesday, December 1st</b></p><p>New West. 2 at Victoria 9; Saskatoon 3 at Calgary 5.</p><p><b>Thursday, December 2nd</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Edmonton 3.</p><p><b>Friday, December 3rd</b></p><p>New West. 3 at Victoria 2; Vancouver 3 at Saskatoon 5.</p><p><b>Saturday, December 4th</b></p><p>Victoria 3 at New Westminster 2; Vancouver 3 at Calgary 6; Saskatoon 2 at Edmonton 0.</p><h3><b>TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30</b></h3><p><b>Victoria 3 at Vancouver 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02236/1386999-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="602" height="442"></div><p><b>Calgary 5 at Saskatoon 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03210/1386992-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="598" height="590"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 2 at Victoria 9</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04184/1386985-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="596" height="644"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 3 at Calgary 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05158/1386978-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="598" height="612"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 2</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 2 at Edmonton 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06131/1386971-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="596" height="474"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 3 at Victoria 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08113/1386964-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="600" height="444"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 3 at Saskatoon 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09107/1386957-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="592" height="574"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4</b></h3><p><b>Victoria 3 at New Westminster 4</b></p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Wally Clune scored a pair of goals to pace the Victoria Cougars to a 3-2 victory over the New Westminster Royals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10104/1386950-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="600" height="448"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 3 at Calgary 6</b></h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;Pat Lundy picked up the &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; as the Calgary Stampeders defeated the Vancouver Canucks 6-3.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1190/1386943-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="594" height="710"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 2 at Edmonton 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1280/1386936-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="592" height="386"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3><b>(Including games of Sat. Dec. 4)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1362/1386929-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="596" height="1374"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1456/1386922-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="600" height="266"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1546/1386915-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="590" height="372"></div><h2><b>Hockey News Award To Al Leader</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07121/1386908-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="1738" height="1314"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PRESENTATION</b> of <b>The Hockey News</b> Award to Al Leader, president of the Western Hockey League, as the Outstanding Hockey Executive of the 1953-54 season took place recently on the popular Bill Goo television program heard every Monday evening over CBU-TV, Vancouver. Making the presentation to Leader is Fred (Cyclone) Taylor while others in the picture are Bill Goo, right, and Ken McConnell, well known west coast hockey writer, left.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BILL WALKER</div><p>VICTORIA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>A recent story in The Hockey News, datelined New York, titled the &ldquo;Great Gabbo&rdquo;, and concerning Eddie Dorohoy of the Victoria Cougars really rang a bell in the Capital City of British Columbia.</p><p>For this, after all, is where heady Eddie has been popping off and putting out for the last five years. It was just fortunate that New York Rangers got a taste of it; it must have put them in a relaxed frame of mind. For as Eddie now says:</p><p>&ldquo;They seem to be doing alright; and why shouldn&rsquo;t they? I told them where they were making their mistakes.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddie had an autumnal fling with the Rangers this year, but was struck off the roll call when the Blues left Victoria for the prairies and the final leg of their preseason exhibition series.</p><p>There were varying reports why the little pepper pot was left at home, &ldquo;so he can be with his family&rdquo;, as one Ranger official said; but it didn&rsquo;t bother Eddie any more than anything else seems to do.</p><h2><b>Play For Pay</b></h2><p>Even when it was rumored he might be traded to Vancouver, he didn&rsquo;t mind. &ldquo;If they pay me what I want and I&rsquo;m worth, I&rsquo;ll play,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>The deal never came off and neither did another that was in the wind. And right now the most thankful of the hockey crowd are the Victoria fans themselves. Most admire the little fellow openly because he has the uncanny habit of making a boast and then making it stick. But there are some who come to the games only to hate him, and hate him they do, though it&rsquo;s an admiring form of hate, because he ever forces them to eat their words and like it. It&rsquo;s safe to assume that if Eddie wasn&rsquo;t a Cougar these fans would lose their violent interest in the club and become ordinary fans.</p><h2><b>High Man</b></h2><p>Such is Eddie Dorohoy, the highest point man in Cougar history and the second highest point man in the current history of the Western Hockey League.</p><p>Only Bobby Love, the veteran centre of the New Westminster Royals has accumulated more points than Dorohoy. Love had 428 points entering the present season and Dorohoy, 360. Rudy Filion of the defunct Seattle Bombers had 374 at the start of the season, but Dorohoy has long since passed that total this year and, as Filion has retired from the game, Love is the only man between Eddie and the top.</p><p>That Dorohoy will eventually pass Love is almost certain if he remains in the league. His average production over the years is unmatched by anyone and at 25 years of age he is four years Love&rsquo;s junior.</p><h2><b>Played For Hawks</b></h2><p>Eddie joined the Victoria Club in the 1949-50 season after starting that campaign with Cincinnati of the American League, and after being shipped to Dallas of the United States League when Montreal coach Dick Irvin decided he didn&rsquo;t Intend to do with the Canadiens what Eddie advised him to.</p><p>He was knocked out of the tall end of his first season by injuries, but in 31 games managed a point a game to set a pattern he was to better in succeeding seasons.</p><p>Returning in 1950-51 and getting Eddie Mazur of the Canadiens as a linemate, Dorohoy came roaring down the stretch to win the scoring championship in the last game of the season, edging New Westminster&rsquo;s Ken Ullyot, 87 points to 86.</p><p>The next year, 1951-52, the best Eddie could do was almost as good as the previous year, 85 points, but it wasn&rsquo;t good enough to beat out George Agar of Calgary who compiled the league high of 93 points.</p><p>With one second and a first to his credit, Eddie hit for 78 points in the 1952-53 season, and took fourth in the league race for individual honors. Earl Reibel, now of the Detroit Red Wings, took the crown with 90 points.</p><p>Last year Eddie was up to his old tricks of battling the leaders down to the wire but the combination of Guyle Fielder and Wayne Brown of Seattle Bombers proved his master and his 79-point total was third high. Fielder got 88 points and Brown, with 49 goals, accumulated 81 points.</p><p>In that span Dorohoy punched home 123 goals and 237 assists. He has hit for 20 goals or more every season but the first when he saw action in only 31 games.</p><p>That&rsquo;s Eddie Dorohoy, the player, who at the time of writing was trailing Bronco Horvath of Edmonton 38 points to 39 after 26 games in the current WHL schedule. (Eddie has played in only 24 games, having missed the first two contests when he was at the discretion of the Ranger board of control).</p><p>But it isn&rsquo;t the real Ed Dorohoy. For the bona fide Ed Dorohoy is the guy who gives all he&rsquo;s got as long as he&rsquo;s got it to give. His record should prove the point, and the galling part of it all is, that Eddie can virtually call the shot, as the man in New York said, and make it stick.</p><p>It has been published before but it bears repeating, because it does tell the story best of Ed Dorohoy as those who know him will undoubtedly agree.</p><p>It was in the 1950-51 season, a championship year for the Cougars.</p><p>Dorohoy was running along In the ruck of the scoring leaders, 16 points behind Joe Bell of Seattle, and with only 13 games left to play in the schedule.</p><p>Buoyed, as if he needed such artificial assistance, by the fact that he scored a goal and assisted on another in a game at Vancouver, Eddie calmly announced on the shipboard trip home:</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, I think I can make it. I said at the start of the year that I would win the scoring championship. Now I should make it.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddie&rsquo;s words were lost for a time, in what followed for the Cougars. For that was the season that the Cougars won 16 straight games at home and climaxed a tremendous late-season spurt by winning the league championship in the last game of the year at Seattle.</p><p>That is&mdash;those words were lost until, entering the final week of the season, Eddie was barely five points away from the leader, Ullyot, who had taken over from Bell.</p><p>It seemed like a good story gone west, and that&rsquo;s about all, when on the final Saturday night of the season, preceding the Cougars&rsquo; final game at Seattle, Sunday, Ullyot was enjoying a three-point bulge over Dorohoy.</p><p>But Eddie still had a parting shot left and what a shot it was. He got the tie-breaking goal that gave the Cougars the league championship and when the final statistics were analyzed in the Cougars&rsquo; 7-4 triumph, he had three assists to go with that goal, and the scoring championship.</p><p>But after all, Eddie said he would. Can anyone ask more of a guy who &ldquo;pops-off&rdquo;, but also &ldquo;puts-out&rdquo;?</p><p>Or as Vancouver Sun columnist Dick Beddoes wrote of Dorohoy&rsquo;s answer to an inquiring reporter who, when seeing Eddie primp after a recent game, commented: &ldquo;You look great, Eddie, positively stunning.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah, I know,&rdquo; (said Eddie) &ldquo;But when a guy&rsquo;s got everything, he likes to be sure&hellip; pluck me a shrinking violet, boy&hellip; &ldquo;</p><h2><b>Ex-Linemate</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02206/1387044-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="598" height="1338"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE MAZUR</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&ldquo;The Great Gabbo&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01275/1387037-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="1050" height="1200"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE DOROHOY&hellip; &hellip; Walkie-Talkie</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Victoria’s Ed Dorohoy - Makes His Boasts Stick

<div class="byline">By PETER TOMLIN</div><p>PENTICTON, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Bill Warwick, starry left winger of the Pentincton V&rsquo;s was to have hung up his skates at the start of the current campaign. Other team in the Okanagan Senior Amateur Hockey League are very sorry that Warwick changed his mind. In 25 games to date, the fabulous &ldquo;Steamboat&rdquo; has flipped the biscuit past opposing net-minders 26 times. If he continues at his present rate, Bill should score better than 60 goals. This is Warwick&rsquo;s 4th season with the V&rsquo;s. In 1951-52 he scored 45 times. Last season he potted an even fifty, in leading the V&rsquo;s to the Allan Cup.</p><p>Last week, Warwick scored three times in the second period as he and his mates handed Alex Shibicky&rsquo;s Kelowna Packers their seventh loss in a row. It was Penticton&rsquo;s eight straight game without a loss. It was Billie&rsquo;s fourth hat trick this season.</p><p>The following night, in the return game at Kelowna, the Packers finally won a game as they edged the V&rsquo;s 4-3. It also marked the first time in recent weeks that Kelowna has played before a crowd of large proportions. Over 2,000 fans turned out to watch the game, a far cry from the 900 who attended the Packer&rsquo;s last home game.</p><p>Up north, the Kamloops Elks and the Vernon Canadians also split their week-end series. On Friday night, the Elks delighted a home-town crowd as Dave Duke slammed in a goal at 2.43 of the first period and the Elks made it stand up for a 1-0 win. Kamloops goalie Boomer Rodzinyak captured the honnor of raiking up the first shutout of the current campaign.</p><p>The following night, in Vernon, Willie Schmidt scored four times and helped on another as the Canucks trounced Phil Hergesheimer&rsquo;s crew 6-2. Joe Connors and Billy Hryciuk scored late in the third period for the Elks after Vernon had run up a six goal lead. Hal Gordon, Canuck net-minder, had held the Elks at bay for 108 minutes in succession before Connors beat him from close in.</p><p>Penticton&rsquo;s Bill Warwick moved farther out in front in the Individual point race with his three goals. He was held scoreless in Kelowna ou Saturday. Line-mate Jack McDonald consolidated his hold on second spot as he picked up five assists in the two games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Warwick Keeps Rolling Along

<h2><b>STILL LEAD</b></h2><p>Shawinigan Falls Cataracts continue to lead the QHL race with 17 wins in 24 outings to date.</p><h2><b>DOUBLE</b></h2><p>Don Marshall scored two goals as Montreal Royals downed Ottawa Senators 4-1 on December 12.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. DEC. 14</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01247/1387183-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="612" height="190"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8</b></h3><p>Shawinigan 6 at Valleyfield 2</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02212/1387176-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="620" height="816"></div><h3><b>Quebec 6 at Chicoutimi 4</b></h3><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal, Marois; defense, Crozier, Tennant, Houle, Hay; forwards, Ehman, Buchanan, Thibeault, Powell, Regan, Uniae, Labadie, Tremblay, Henry, Gro-leau.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal, Hughes; defense, Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, McNab; forwards, Dub&eacute;. Locas, Dussault, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Bartlett, Topoll, Power.</p><p>Referee, Milford; linesmen, L&eacute;vesque and Seullion.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03190/1387169-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="600" height="742"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DEC. 9</b></h3><p>Valleyfield 0 at Shawinigan 9</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: Collins, Deslauriers, Ernst, Needham; forwards: Bougie, Joannette, Bisaillon, Cline, Haworth, Kwong, Dubue, Gagnon.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Leger, Hodgson, Turner, Lamirande, Talbot; forwards: Desaulniers Denis, F. Perreault, Wray, Grosse, Kachur, Broden, Faulkner, Provost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05118/1387162-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="604" height="728"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 3 at Quebec 4</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, McNab; forwards: Locas, Dube, Dussault, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Topoll, Bartlett, Power.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Marois; defense: Hay, Houle, Crozier, Cushenan; forwards: Powell, Uniae, Regan, Tremblay, Labadie, Henry, Buchanan, Groleau, Thibault, Ehman.</p><p><b>Referee</b>&mdash;Eric Milford; linesmen: Rene Simard and Rene Langevin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06101/1387155-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="596" height="744"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11</b></h3><p>Valleyfield 4 at Chicoutimi 4</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0792/1387148-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="600" height="874"></div><h3><b>Shawinigan 3 at Ottawa 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0882/1387141-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="604" height="803"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12</b></h3><p><b>Ottawa 1 at Montreal 4</b></p><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense; Copp, Stahan, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Johnson, Riopel, Rawlyk, Bobenic, Kuntz, Maloney, Ezinicki, Gui-dolin, Barlow.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert, Evans; defense; Rousseau, Bownass, Roche, Harmon, Dewsbury; forwards: Shvetz, Blane, Kowalchuk, Marshall. Burchell, Burnett, Denis. Hildebrand, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1067/1387134-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="602" height="614"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1158/1387127-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="598" height="788"></div><h3><b>Valleyfield 2 at Quebec 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1242/1387120-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="606" height="655"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3><b>(Including games of Sunday Dec. 12)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1336/1387113-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="600" height="1742"></div><h2><b>Top Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04147/1387106-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="516" height="1156"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY POWELL</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Moving Up</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0977/1387099-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="572" height="2032"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KELLY BURNETT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><p>(Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01242/1387214-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="298" height="336"></div><p>&bull; THERE&rsquo;S no hurry about restoring Jacques Plante to regular duty in the nets with NHL Canadiens Frank Selke, generalissimo of hockey operations at the Forum, said recently.</p><p>The tall poker-faced net guardian who suffered a fractued cheek-bone during a pregarne warm-up more than a month ago is to be given ample time to recuperate from his injury and at the same time gain full mental poise so that he&rsquo;ll approach the nerve-wracking goaltending chores refreshed both physically and in spirit.</p><p>Selke also negated the popular idea that Plante might be rehabiliated by a tour with the Royals.</p><p>&ldquo;Plante has proven himself a big leaguer, and when he starts back to work it will be with the big league club&rdquo;, Selke said.</p><p>&ldquo;There are two reasons why I want it no other way:</p><p>&ldquo;First: I believe it&rsquo;s the only fair treatment for Plante.</p><p>&ldquo;Second: It&rsquo;s not my notion of ethics to fortify the Royals with players of regular NHL rating&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;You may challenge me on this by bringing up the names of players like Paul Meger, Paul Masnick and Lorne Davis who played with the Royals last season, and you could also cite Donnie Marshall who was placed with our Quebec Leaguers recently. Well these players at the time of their sojourn with the Royals were borderline cases. I mean to say that I&rsquo;d never place a player like Rocket Richard, Ken Mosdell, Butch Bouchard, men of that stamp with Pete Morin&rsquo;s team on a temporary basis. It would be quite different if they were approaching the twilight of their careers, you understand. Like Glen Harmon and Roger Leger, for example&rdquo;.</p><p>So this seems to settle Plante&rsquo;s activities for some time. Of course some who saw the sparkling performance put on Charlie Hodge last week could harly be blamed for harboring notions that Plante might have to hustle for his job. Hodge, the halpint from Lachine who made such an intense study of the goal-keeping trade that for years he has practiced through the summers in an improvised net made of chickenwire in his backyard, turned in his first shutout in th&egrave; big league amid huzzas from his teammates and roars of acclaim from the capacity Forum crowd.</p><p>While Hodge&rsquo;s work titillated the customers it must have been eyed with keen delight by Selke. For before the game when he was outlining his views as above, the headman of local hockey affairs put in a boost for Hodge. &ldquo;This youngster has done a terrific job for us. He has turned in no bad games, even though the club was playing mainly on the road for the past two weeks&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02190/1387252-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>BOB TURNER</b></p><p><b>JEAN-PAUL LAMIRANDE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>SHAWINIGAN FALLS, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Conservative hockey men will have my hide for bringing in a baseball comparison, but it&rsquo;s the Honest Injun truth; in Shawinigan Falls a development has been wrought that is the shinny game&rsquo;s counterpart to the Miracle of Milwaukee.</p><p>For a full year the town folk here had no hockey of consequence. They didn&rsquo;t like the situation. So last autumn when Sherbrooke St. Francis packed it in for a season, a hurried campaign, fostered by Mayor Gaston Hardy, aroused hockey fever overnight, a Falls delegation waited upon the Quebec Hockey League brass in Montreal, told a convincing story and were granted a franchise.</p><p>To begin with the Power City had no team, no coach, no manager so the franchise was practically a vacuum, until someone had a brain wave and asked Kenny Reardon to take over as general-manager, assemble a team, then run it.</p><h2><b>Corny, but Thrilling</b></h2><p>From that point it&rsquo;s been a Cinderella story, and excuse it please if it sounds corny. The team which was generally viewed as very makeshift, since the players recruited were leftovers and castoffs from the other five clubs in the loop, infiltrated by a few veterans and some raw amateurs breaking into professional hockey for the first time.</p><p>The citizens were needled into enthusiasm by the town&rsquo;s most lusty drumbeaters and a handful of loyal followers showed tangible interest by forking out their shekels as season subscribers.</p><p>What&rsquo;s more, almost from the drop of the first rubber biscuit, the team known again as the Cataracts (the traditional monni-ker) started to win games.</p><p>It was Milwaukee in tabloid. The Shawinigan Arena which can accomodate a little more than 4,000 fans&mdash;and that&rsquo;s sitting, standing crouching, and hanging to rafters&mdash;began to bulge as the cash customers stormed the portals.</p><p>Reardon was prepared to employ promotion stunts, but there&rsquo;s no greater gimmick than a team which wins steadily, its line-up studded by players of eye-catching appeal.</p><p>The Cataracts have them.</p><p>They have Bob Perreault, always a pretty fair journeyman at guarding a net&mdash;but this season hitting the zenith of his career. He&rsquo;s the outstanding goalie in the loop and is piling up such an amazing record that none of the other net janitors appears within hailing distance.</p><h2><b>Seven Collar Jobs</b></h2><p>After 22 games Perreault had been scored on only 42 times which is 1.90 goals per game. He had racked up seven shutouts. As a basis of comparison, Ottawa&rsquo;s Ray Frederick had been scored on 66 times. Valleyfield Braves&rsquo; Andy Payette had fished the puck out of his cage 82 times in 23 contests, and Chicoutimi Sagueneens&rsquo; Phil Hughes had felt the burn of the red rays on the back of his neck on 82 occasions in 21 official outings.</p><p>The other two teams, Quebec Aces and Montreal Royals had both played two more games than the Cats at the time of this math-enjatical gymnastics, but the goals against indicated that their goalers were hardly voting in the same country.</p><p>You can&rsquo;t prove it by figures in the other departments for the Cataracts led by playing coach Roger Leger, the veteran rearguard, play a tight-to-the-vest style of hockey, though they have some speedy boys on the forward lines, who can carry the mail.</p><p>Jean Guy Talbot, 22, from nearby Cap de la Madeleine, is paired with Jean Paul Lamirande, 33, on one rearguard partnership. Lamirande, a former New York Ranger and NHL Canadien, played last season at Chicoutimi, but has personal appeal at the box office because he&rsquo;s a native son. And the same goes for tall Ted Hodgson, 26, who for novelty, is partnered with a youngster from Regina, 21-year-old Bob Turner, a broad-shouldered character who is reckoned one of the best young defense prospects to come out of the west since Tom Johnson and Bud MacPherson were elevated to major rank with the Montreal Habitants.</p><h2><b>More Local Appeal</b></h2><p>The local boy motif extends to the forwards with Gerry Desaulniers a smooth striding, nimble stick-handling centreman, but the reminder of the patrolmen are from such far flung places as Rashee, Ireland (Dick Wray), Bishop&rsquo;s Falls, Newfoundland (George Faulkner) and Melville, Sask., (Erwin Grosse).</p><p>They come in all ages and sizes and they&rsquo;re winning hockey games at a rate that makes the adherents of the other clubs in the loop, more highly favored back in October, gasp and moan in acute anguish.</p><p>The Cataracts were scrambling up and down the top rungs with Quebec Aces and Montreal Royals for quite a spell, but such astute leaders as Frank Carlin of the Royals and Punch Imlach of the Aces, were not lulled to any feeling of false security.</p><h2><b>Carlin Sounds Alarm</b></h2><p>The Montrealers and the Aces were much busier, and Carlin put his finger on a pertinent fact when he noted that at one time the Royals had played four more games than the Shawinigan entry, who also held a couple of contests &ldquo;in hand&rdquo; on the Quebecers.</p><p>&ldquo;When the schedule swings around so that these Cataracts pick up those games while we have a few days off, we&rsquo;re in for a peck of trouble, that&rsquo;s if the Cats keep on winning&rdquo; said Carlin.</p><p>That&rsquo;s exactly what happened.</p><p>The Cats couldn&rsquo;t lose for winning and they bulged their margin to five fat points, over the second place Aces, a corpulent seven points over the third place Royals&mdash;and still the Shawinigan team held two games in hand.</p><p>It&rsquo;s going to a grim, stern chase for the rest of the pack from here to the Ides of March.</p><h2><b>Deep Freeze</b></h2><p>Orval Tessier played in two games for the NHL Habs, against Toronto Maple Leafs, and missed a trip to Cornwall with Royals, where Tessier, Cornwall bred, was the major attraction. The Royals were held to a 5-5 draw by the Factory Town&rsquo;s Eastern Canada Hockey League team, Frank Carlin, the club&rsquo;s g.m. was in charge on the bench in this joust as coach Pete Morin was bedded down with flu at his home in Lachine, Que&hellip;. Jacques Plante played goals for Royals, his first chore in the nets since he suffered a fractured cheek-bone more than a month ago in pre-game warm-up at the Forum&hellip; During a week&rsquo;s winter vacation league prexy George M. Slater visited Quebec and Chicoutimi&hellip; Camile Henry saw action with Aces for the first time since his sale to the Quebecers by New York Rangers, in a home and home series with Sagueneens, Henry picked up a goal and three assists&hellip; Andre Corriveau, perennial high scorer for Valleyfield Braves is still missing from the line-up, a severe cold was followed by an astmatic condition which is causing Braves&rsquo; executive deep concern.</p><h2><b>Defense Stalwarts</b></h2><h2><b>High Scoring Royals</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03155/1387245-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="1754" height="1182"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>LULU DENIS</b></p><p><b>KELLY BURNETT</b></p><p><b>ORVAL TESSIER</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shawinigan Falls, The Milwaukee Of Hockey

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>STEVE WOCHY and HARRY TAYLOR!&hellip;Here are the latest big-time players to arrive in Northeim Ontario senior hockey&hellip;in what most fans consider the biggest deal of the season, Soo (Ont.) Greyhounds purchased out-right the contracts of Wochy and Taylor from Buffalo Bisons of the AHL&hellip;a considerable amount of greenbacks was Involved as you can imagine&hellip;both players preferred the NOHA instead of the WHL&hellip;Wochy, who actually spells his name, Wojcieshowski, (Wow!) broke into professional hockey with Detroit Red Wings in 1944, scoring 19 goals in his first season and rated a terrific prospect&hellip;Steve shuffled back and forth between Detroit and Indianapolis Capitals of the AHL, later playing in Philadelphia, he enjoyed his greatest success with Cleveland Barons of the AHL where he played for five seasons&hellip;for two of those five campaigns he scored 37 goals each season and never has scored less than 21 goals in nine years of pro competition&hellip;last year with Buffalo, Wochy fired 26 goals and 32 assists for a 58-point total and proved a big cog in Buffalo&rsquo;s inarch to the league crown and in their dramatic playoff series against Cleveland, his former team&hellip;Wochy is 31 and weighs around 180&hellip;he&rsquo;s noted as a clever stickhandler and a hustling competitor&hellip;he&rsquo;s a right-winger.</p><p>Taylor is 28 years of age and weighs the same as Wochy&hellip;Harry broke into the big-time with Pittsburgh Hornets of the AHL in 1946, playing nine games with Toronto Maple Leafs that season&hellip;earlier he had won quite a reputation as a centre with Winnipeg Monarchs in 1945-46 when that great team won the Memorial Cup&hellip;after breaking into pro hockey with Pittsburgh, Taylor alternated between Toronto and Pittsburgh the next two seasons playing 42 games in one season with the NHL squad&hellip;he was then sold to Cleveland in that big trade which saw Al Rollins move to Toronto&hellip;he stayed with Cleveland two years, played. 15 games with Chicago Black Hawks in 1952 then went over to St. Louis Flyers of the AHL&hellip;Harry was a big gun in Buffalo&rsquo;s drive to the league title last season when he piled up 41 points on 31 assists and 10 goals&hellip;he&rsquo;s noted as a terrific, relentless checker both ways&hellip;in their Initial workouts with the Greyhounds, both Wochy and Taylor were impressive&hellip;&ldquo;In getting Wochy and Taylor we feel the Greyhounds have made a big step in strengthening a great deal before the deadline of December 15,&rdquo; Russ Ramsay, secretary of the team, told THE HOCKEY NEWS&hellip;the entrance of such players as Wochy and Taylor is just another indication that Northern Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey is rapidly becoming the outstanding senior circuit in the entire country and by the way, just before preparing this column we had a spectacular weekend of senior hockey&hellip;4,864 in Soo, Ontario for the Grey-hound-Indian battle; 2,760 in Pembroke for the North Bay encounter; a jammed house of 2,500 at Pullar Stadium in Soo, Michigan, for the return Greyhound-Indian contest&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01207/1387283-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="576" height="897"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY TAYLOR</b></figcaption></div><p>Just before sitting down to get this column ready, Pete Wyrot informed THE HOCKEY NEWS he was being released by the Soo Greyhounds&hellip;at the moment, Pete is dickering with the Soo Indians and was hopeful he could catch a spot with the Braves&hellip;Pete won a wide following during his stay with the Greyhounds and proved very popular&hellip;</p><p>What makes Canadians such great hockey fans???&hellip;in the mail I received a heart-warming letter from young Guy Bennett, 14 years of age who lives in Cobden, Ontario&hellip;Guy is quite a staunch supporter of Pembroke Lumber Kings in NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey having attended every single game in Pembroke the past three years&hellip;writes Guy: &ldquo;The Lumber Kings are having it tough right now but they will snap out of it. They have almost a full lineup and it will take a while to get used to one another, as you know it takes team-work to win games. My team will be tough to beat once they get going.&rdquo;&hellip;well, fans, there&rsquo;s a story right in itself in this letter&hellip;here&rsquo;s a 14-year-old fan really concerned about his team who sticks, up for his team all the way&hellip;maybe that answers the question: &ldquo;What makes Canadians such great hockey fans?&rdquo; Nice going, Guy!!!&hellip;keep up the good work!!!&hellip;</p><p>Another very nice letter came in from Clarence Jonke from Walsh, Alberta&hellip;Clarence says he appreciates following the latest news of NOHA hockey via THE HOCKEY NEWS&hellip;his hobby is collecting team programs and photographs of players&hellip;he&rsquo;s anxious to trade programs with anyone or buy photos or programs&hellip;you would be helping Clarence by getting in touch with him&hellip;his address is Box 71, Walsh, Alberta&hellip;many thanks for the letter, Clarence&hellip;Charles Breckon, 554 Athabaska Street West Moose Jaw, Sask., is also on the lookout for programs and photos of players in Northern Ontario hockey&hellip;how about helping out Charlie???&hellip; .</p><p>Howard Radford has arrived in North Bay to take over as manager of Memorial Gardens&hellip;if the money by-law goes through in that community, Howard will run a $635,(100 arena&hellip;the old rink at North Bay, constructed in 1936, is proving totally inadequate for the 20,000 residents of the Gateway City&hellip;ratepayers already have approved around $400,000 but they need over $200,000 more to do the job&hellip;Al Millar and Marcel Paille are winning great reputations as netminders in the Northland&hellip;Millar moved to the Soo Indians from Sudbury Wolves, while Paille moved to North Bay from Matan, Quebec&hellip;Cliff Hicks is fast proving himself in goal for Pembroke Lumber Kings, while Eddie Chadwick is doing well with the Soo Greyhounds&hellip;Lornie Anderson is having a little trouble with Sudbury Wolves but most of his followers expect him to recapture his top form shortly&hellip;when Lornie&rsquo;s &ldquo;on&rdquo; he&rsquo;s pretty tough.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>TROY. Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Remember this name&mdash;Max Szturm!</p><p>That&rsquo;s the name of the latest star of the Troy Bruins in the International Hockey League, a lad who at the age of 18 probably is the youngest player in the IHL this season.</p><p>Son of Polish immigrants, Szturm still has two years of junior eligibility left, but was moved up to the senior ranks by the Detroit Red Wings, who own his contract, because of his great promise.</p><p>He&rsquo;s doing quite well with the Bruins, current runners-up to Cincinnati in the Internationl League, with 13 points in his first 19 contests on five goals and eight assists.</p><p>Szturm, who has been working at center on a line with the veteran Cleland Mortson and another youthful prospect, Marty McAlendin, was with the Brandon (Manitoba) Wheat King juniors for the past two years. He had 20 goals and 16 assists for 3 6 points in 36 games in 1953-54.</p><p>Standing only 5-8 and scaling 150 pounds, Szturm has the okay of his coach, Nellie Podolski, who feels that he has a fine future ahead of him.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been playing hockey ever since I was four years old,&rdquo; Szturm said in a recent interview. &ldquo;I like competing in this league (the IHL) because I&rsquo;m gaining experience all the time. Stick-handling is less important in the International League. I&rsquo;m learning to keep my head up all the time, not to carry the puck as much as we did in junior, to do more passing&mdash;just like the pros do&rdquo;.</p><p>Szturm, who hopes some time to crash the select circle of the National Hockey League, is a boy who is always eager to learn. He has plenty of time to acquire knowledge, too, since he will not be 19 until Jan. 20, 1955.</p><p>His biggest thrill came as a juvenile All-Star in Brandon, when he tallied the most goals and was named to the All-Star team,</p><p>A versatile athlete, he has been golfing for eight years and now shoots in the low 70s. He once was runner-up in the Manitoba junior links tourney. In addition to hockey, his first love, and golf, Max boxed for a couple of years and also played some base-ball and basketball.</p><p>Cincinnati ran into some difficulties in IHL action, while Troy and Johnstown continued to climb and Ft. Wayne failed to snap out of its losing ways.</p><p>The Hawks, seeking their third successive International League crown, ran afoul of Troy after making Grand Rapids their fif-teenth victim in 17 starts. With Bill Tibbs putting on a spectacular show in the Bruin nets, Troy broke a 5-5 third period deadlock with goals by Mortson and Podolski to prevail, 7-5.</p><p>Johnstown, in the meanwhile, captured three out of four to move ahead of Ft. Wayne into fifth place in the six-team loop, within easy striking distance of second. The Jets beat Grand Rapids and Ft. Wayne and broke even in two meetings with Toledo.</p><p>Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s fortunes continued on the decline, as the Komets dropped four successive verdicts, to Toledo, Johnstown, Troy and Grand Rapids to run its streak of losses to 10 in a row. Then, in an exhibition tilt at Marion, O., the Hoosiers, led by Eddie Long&rsquo;s four-goal outburst, trimmed none other than Cincinnati, 8-5.</p><p>That left Cincinnati in first by four games over Troy, with Grand Rapids a game back in third. Toledo was two points behind Grand Rapids, with Johnstown trailing the Mercurys by a single point and Ft. Wayne last by two and a half lengths.</p><p>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;There have been only two overtime ties thus far in the IHL and Troy has been in both of them&hellip;New rules are to go in effect shortly in the league, one of which will call for sudden death overtime of 10 minutes.</p><h2><b>Praises Star</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02173/1387314-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="564" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NELS PODOLSKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Max Szturm Rates Top Prospect Tag Off Play With Troy Bruins

<div class="byline">By JOE HOLMAN</div><p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;</p><p>The pleasantest surprise Washingtonians have had in winter sport for many years is now being provided by Player-Coach Stan Weracki&rsquo;s Washington Lions, a hustling, young combination that is hitting a hot early season pace in reorganized Eastern Hockey League competition.</p><p>Ice hockey in more expensive, and pretentious, iorn has been featured intermittently at Uline Arena since 1941-42.</p><p>There have been expensive payrolls and big name players. Yet this year&rsquo;s scrappy collection of players averaging 23 years to the man has found more actual favor among the hockey fans here than have any of the preceding clubs.</p><p>Attendance thus far has averaged better than 1,500 spectators per match, and is constantly improving. The fans of yesteryear are becoming fanatical in their endorsement of the home team and everyone seems well pleased with the job President Tom Lockhart has done in reorganizing his Eastern Hockey League.</p><p>At this writing the Lions have won six games, lost four and tied one. They have won five matches on home ice and tied one, and also have beaten the Clippers in Baltimore once.</p><p>Jack Riley, one of the Eastern League&rsquo;s all-time great forwards who also has played and coached American League and fast Canadian hockey is due much credit for the rise of the Lions.</p><p>Not until late summer was Riley able to complete plans of organization. His choice of Weracki as a player-coach was a wise one. Handsome Stan had been one of the old Eastern League&rsquo;s point scoring leaders and one of its best forwards for several years.</p><p>The first thing a winning team needs, of course, is a good goal tender. Riley and Warecki signed a fine one in 20-year-old Jack Spencer, 5-8, 175-pound youth from Hamilton, Ont.</p><p>Spencer lets an occasional soft one get by, but he blocks the hot shots with alertness, agility and courage that have combined to win him hosts of admirers.</p><p>They needed a speedy, scoring forward. So they worked out a deal whereby Art Dorrington, 24, 5-8, 165-pound Negro now residing in Atlantic City, could commute here and make road trips and return to his employment in the resort city immediately afterward.</p><p>They signed a former Johnstown, Pa., International League center in Fern LaPointe, 22, a 5-7, 156-pound fellow who stickhandles and carries the puck well and who also has a steadying influence on his mates.</p><p>Doug &ldquo;Slug&rdquo; Orvis, just 21, a 6-1, 185-pounder from Seikirk, Manitoba, and Dave Lucas, 22, a six-foot, 175-pound native of Downeyville, Ont., have teamed together to form one of the League&rsquo;s finest defense combinations.</p><p>Other Lions who are helping bring hockey back here in a big way are: John Denofrio and Rick Albert, defensemen; and Tom Butler, Bob Lunny, Dan Morgan, Joe Formica, Reg Meserve, Marlowe McDonald and Scotty McLennen, forwards.</p><p>Wareeki not only was his team&rsquo;s, but was the League&rsquo;s leading scorer until he suffered a gashed eye recently that has sidelined him for the past two weeks. Dorrington rates high among the pointmakers, while several other Washingtonians are cashing their shots when they mean most.</p><p>These new Lions at Uline Arena currently are third in the Eastern League standing, but are only one full game behind the New Haven Blades and Clinton Comets, who are tied for first place.</p><p>They maintain they are just starting to roll, and, given a fair share of the breaks, could go far in the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s 1954-55 race.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Young, Scrappy Lions Find Favor With Washington Fans

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Cut adrift by the Saskatoon Quakers early in the current campaign, veteran Alex (Seabiscuit) Kaleta didn&rsquo;t waste much time getting back into the hockey picture.</p><p>The former NHL star with the Chicago Black Hawks and the New York Rangers jumped in with both feet when he signed as coach of the slumping Moose Jaw Canucks of the Western Junior Hockey League. The Canucks had dropped 11 straight games when Kaleta took over the reins and they could show only one victory in 15 starts, which left them 13 big points behind the fourth-place Medicine Hat Tigers.</p><p>As is often the case when a team fails to hit a winning stride, the guilty finger is pointed at the coach. Reports out of Moose Jaw stated that coach Ab McDougall resigned the position. At any rate he was unable to snap his club out of their slump and apparently was happy to turn them over to someone else.</p><h2><b>Missed Sasakamoose</b></h2><p>McDougall, the former western senior league star with Regina Caps who also played pro hockey with both Vancouver and Saskatoon, was starting his second year at the helm of the Moose Jaw club. However, this season he lost such outstanding puck-chasers as Freddie Sasakamoose through graduation from junior ranks and his Canucks were no match for the rest of the circuit in the early going.</p><p>Ironically enough, their lone win came at the expense of the powerful Edmonton Oil Kings, last year&rsquo;s western junior champions.</p><p>Kaleta has been interested in getting into the coaching box for some time. Last winter when Muzz Patrick was called up from the Seattle Bombers to take over as coach of the New York Rangers, the vacant Seattle job was reported to be offered to Kaleta.</p><p>The veteran player turned it down, however, electing to remain as a player with the Saskatoon club. For some time his name has been mentioned In western newspapers as a possible coach of the new Regina franchise in the Western Pro circuit. Regina has already been voted a franchise which they plan to operate for the 1955-56 season.</p><p>Kaleta enjoyed three banner seasons with the Saskatoon Quakers after coming down from the NHL. In the 1951-52 campaign, the first year in which prairie teams joined the coast in the enlarged western circuit, Kaleta helped the Quakers win the league title.</p><p>The following year they were runners-up to the champion Edmonton Flyers, and last winter they bowed to the same Flyers in the first &lsquo;round of the playoffs. Kaleta, working out of the centre spot, was always one of the league&rsquo;s top scorers and last season he led the pack for much of the season.</p><p>He was cut from the squad earlier this season when coach Doug Bentley decided to string along with some of his younger talent. Kaleta enjoyed his best days in the early post-war years while a member of the then high-flying Chicago Black Hawks. Later he was traded to the New York Rangers.</p><p>Kaleta&rsquo;s first effort with his new Moose Jaw squad was to whip them through several tough workouts. He felt many of the players were not in shape yet and he drilled them hard in practice.</p><p>He expressed himself as fairly satisfied with his first-string line of Dave Gordichuk, a 40-goal man last season; Barry Ross and Ron Menard. But he felt that the other lines would have to find some goal-scoring punch.</p><p>Meanwhile, the rest of the Western Junior loop was shaping up as a well-balanced four-team league. One of the surprises was the fine play of the Medicine Hat Tigers. Fiery Bill Hunter, one of the west&rsquo;s favorite hockey characters, has taken over the dual reins of manager and coach this season and he has his club playing hustling, scrappy hockey. They had won seven, lost four, and tied one of their first 12 games.</p><p>Only three points separated the leading Lethbridge Native Sons from the fourth-place Tigers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01215/1387369-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="303" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Kaleta</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Alex Kaleta Successor To McDougall As Boss Of Moose Jaw Canucks

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>A Montreal native who has been all over the Maritime hockey scene the past few years is to make his debut as playing coach. Johnny Morrow, who started the 19 54-55 season with Charlottetown Islanders of the Atlantic Coast League and then shifted to New Glasgow Rangers of the APC League, is now head man with Kentville Wildcats of the Valley League.</p><p>For Johnny it&rsquo;s the biggest challenge of his hockey career. He has been one of the most penalized players since World War Two, has been in and out of the managerial doghouse, has been fought over and snarled at almost every season.</p><p>He first came to the Maritimes with the Moncton Hawks. Then he drifted to Charlottetown. Next year he played with Halifax, then back to the Island. One year he was with Sydney Millionaires, then back once again with Halifax. He has been fined for indifferent play, suspended for rough play.</p><p>This season he started with Charlottetown but failed to hang on. At New Glasgow he played for only a week. Then, just when it looked as if he would have to return home, along came the Kentville offer.</p><p>The team most people expected to walk off with honors in the Coast League is now in the cellar. The Moncton Hawks have been dropping steadily and the other night the Amherst Ramblers, sparked by native son Shermie White, back from the hockey wars in New York, New Haven and the Quebec League, dropped them to the bottom of the Coast League ladder.</p><p>Failure of the Hawks to live up to expectations is the major puzzle of the season. They are loaded with talent&mdash;playing coach Dugger McNeill, Bert Hirschfeld, Bob Bowness, Dewar Thomson, Jean LeClerc and Joe Lepine, among others&mdash;but can&rsquo;t seem to get untracked.</p><p>McNeill led Halifax Atlantics to the Alexander Cup in the spring of 1953 and &lsquo;54, with Bowness, LeClerc and Lepine supplying much of the pench. Hirschfeld is back in the Maritimes after a brief run with Montreal Canadiens and a long run in the American League.</p><h2><b>Now A Coach</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02141/1387400-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="574" height="866"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY MORROW</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Started Well</b></h3><p>In goal is the experienced Nick Pidsodny, who started the season with a brisk display and now resembles the well-known sieve.</p><p>For several weeks the Hawks played neck and neck with Fredericton Capitals for the league lead. Now Charlottetown Islanders have taken over a commanding margin, the Caps hang on grimly in second place, Amherst Ramblers are moving up steadily and the Hawks are dropping back&mdash;steadily.</p><p>White continues his inspired play. Back in his home town for the first time since his junior days, the one-time most valuable player in the Quebec League has given the Ramblers a new lease on life. Ramblers were in danger of folding when Amherst sports-men banded together to purchase his contract from Chicoutimi.</p><h3><b>Best Deal</b></h3><p>It has turned out to be the best hockey deal ever made in the border town. White was just the man the Ramblers needed to put some spark into the play. His return coincided with the return of the team from Springhill, where they had been forced to play their home games while awaiting ice at the Bailey Arena. With White back, the team playing winning hockey and the games within reach of the local fans, the crowds began to pick up.</p><p>Wimpy Jones has been a big producer for Charlottetown Islanders, although the ageless Roy (Buck) Whitlock is still ahead in the scoring parade. In a recent victory over Fredericton, Jones potted four goals, the difference between the two clubs.</p><p>On the APC League front Halifax Wolves continue to set the pace, having won six of their first seven games. Only loss was sustained at Antigonish when the Wolves dropped a close decision to the St. Francis Xavier University Xaverians. If they wanted to, the Wolves could alibi that loss to a fare-thee-well. Three of their players were stranded on the icy roads, including goalie Bob Cashen. Wolves were forced to pick a goalie out of the stands and although he did well he wasn&rsquo;t a Cashen.</p><p>Man they missea most, how-ever, was Jackie (Muckle) Hollett, a sprightly mite who has been a Halifax standby for some years. After helping Halifax Atlantics to two Alexander Cup triumphs, native-son Hollett was &lsquo;sold&rsquo; to Sudbury Wolves but re-fused to report.</p><p>He is probably the fastest skater in the APC League and when he&rsquo;s on the target is one of the best scorers. His goals usually come in clusters, like the night he fired three and assisted on a pair as Wolves defeated New Glasgow 5-3</p><p>New Glasgow and Pictou Royals are coming along nicely and will be title contenders. The Xaverians are off to a slow start but show promise. Truro Bearcats, who still claim four players slated to wear Halifax uniforms this year, are having player troubles and one night th&egrave; club executive quit. However, new men are taking over and the Bearcats have hopes of getting their ship righted.</p><p>The four disputed players&mdash;Frank Grabowski, Puddy Rear-don, Sander McDonald and Erbie Yeadon&mdash;are on the suspended list awaiting official word from the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association following their personal appeals after the MAHA executive had ruled against them when the Wolves posted their claims.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Poor Showing By Moncton Hawks Atlantic Coast League Puzzler

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>As has been forecast, Chatham Maroons and Niagara Falls Cataracts, bolstered by new talent, are beginning to show life in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group, with the Maroons spurting into third place ahead of the Stratford Indians, on three straight wins over Windsor Bulldogs, Niagara Falls and Stratford, after dropping one to Windsor earlier in the week. Niagara Falls&rsquo; record is not as good as that of Chatham, because they lost two of three games, but in defeating Owen Sound Mercurys on the latter&rsquo;s home ice, the Cataracts have given due notice that they may not be the doormats of the league much longer.</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen equalled Chatham&rsquo;s mark for the week by taking three of four games, their lone loss being a 4-3 setback on Windsor ice. At week&rsquo;s end Kitchener Dutch-men were perched safely in first place, six points up on Owen Sound. Chatham is third, seven points to the rear of Owen Sound. Stratford dropped from third to fourth place, two points behind Chatham, and but one point ahead of. Windsor. Niagara Falls trails the field in sixth place, three full games behind Windsor.</p><p>The upsurge of Chatham Maroons has the fans talking, and their three victories in four starts is reflected in the attendance figures for the Chatham arena, which has drawn the second largest paid attendance in the group this season. Kitchener Dutchmen, with their fine new auditorium, boast of the best patronage so far, and there is every reason to believe that the league-leaders will continue to set the pace in both wins and support.</p><p>Actually Stratford had the most disastrous week, losing both of their games, the first to Chatham on Stratford ice and the second in Windsor, on Sunday. Owen Sound managed to salvage one game by a 6-5 margin over Chat-ham, but after that they were beaten in Kitchener, 5-1, and dropped a 4-2 verdict to Niagara Falls right on Owen Sound ice, which is no easy task.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Trade Talks Loom As Deadline Nears In OHA Senior Circuit

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01194/1387455-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Ted Kennedy has one of these for show purposes.</p><p>3&mdash;NHL club with whom Alex Kaleta first played (abbr).</p><p>6&mdash;The only non-playing mentor in the AHL.</p><p>7&mdash;Syracuse Stars used to be the farm club of this NHL team.</p><p>11&mdash;Zellio Toppazzini&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>12&mdash;First name of last season&rsquo;s Hart Trophy winner.</p><p>14&mdash;Name given Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s son.</p><p>16&mdash;Another name for Clarence Day.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of Desaulniers who played briefly with Habs last season.</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of a member of the Leafs.</p><p>20&mdash;How Cleveland fared in 1953-54 Calder Cup finals.</p><p>23&mdash;Number of goals Goldham scored last season.</p><p>24&mdash;Exist.</p><p>25&mdash;Denotes number worn by Armstrong of Boston.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of Nova, former boxer.</p><p>29&mdash;John Henderson eould be described as this.</p><p>30&mdash;Land measure.</p><p>31&mdash;Pictured star is called this.</p><p>33&mdash;First name of 3 down.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Chicago defenseman</p><p>2&mdash;One of the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>3&mdash;Player who netted first goal ever scored in Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Buddy&rdquo; O&rsquo;Connor, ex-NHL star.</p><p>5&mdash;First name of Hildebrand of Montreal Royals.</p><p>S&mdash;Initials of Olson of the Barons.</p><p>9&mdash;Fieri (abbr).</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of forward who wears No. 8 for Toronto.</p><p>13&mdash;Chicago sent Timgren to Pittsburgh on this basis.</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of Edmonton Flyers&rsquo; coach.</p><p>18&mdash;One of the Bruins answers to this.</p><p>21&mdash;Strain&rsquo;s first name.</p><p>22&mdash;Harry Howell&rsquo;s given name.</p><p>24&mdash;NHL scoring champion of 1938-39.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of Lynn, ex-NHL player.</p><p>27&mdash;A penalty is given if one is committed.</p><p>31&mdash;These could he initials of Victoria Cougars&rsquo; coach.</p><p>32&mdash;Channel Islands (abbr).</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;MacDonald</p><p>7&mdash;OA.</p><p>8&mdash;O.L.</p><p>9&mdash;Neudorf.</p><p>11&mdash;Smith</p><p>14&mdash;cut</p><p>15&mdash;Era,</p><p>16&mdash;Ar.</p><p>17&mdash;Jim</p><p>18&mdash;M.C.</p><p>20&mdash;No.</p><p>21&mdash;Eva</p><p>24&mdash;Parker</p><p>28&mdash;Or</p><p>27&mdash;R.K.</p><p>29&mdash;Seike</p><p>31&mdash;Shin</p><p>33&mdash;R.L.</p><p>34&mdash;Calgary</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Mont Carmel</p><p>2&mdash;Coulter</p><p>3&mdash;Dad</p><p>4&mdash;Norm</p><p>5&mdash;Alfie</p><p>6&mdash;D.C.</p><p>10&mdash;Os</p><p>12&mdash;Train</p><p>13&mdash;Harmon</p><p>19&mdash;C.V.</p><p>22&mdash;April</p><p>23&mdash;Kelly.</p><p>25&mdash;R.S.</p><p>26&mdash;Kerr</p><p>28&mdash;O.H.A.</p><p>30&mdash;Ed.</p><p>31&mdash;S.C.</p><p>32&mdash;N.G.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<h2><b>EASTERN AMATEUR</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02154/1387584-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="597" height="159"></div><h2><b>OKANAGA SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On November 22</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03114/1387577-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="599" height="141"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADER</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0496/1387570-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="591" height="545"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0579/1387563-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="589" height="148"></div><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On November 29</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0664/1387556-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="593" height="186"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0761/1387549-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="587" height="297"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Points&mdash;</b>Phil Goyette, Cincinnati.. 30.</p><p><b>Goals&mdash;</b>Phil Goyette, Cincinnati.. 13.</p><p><b>Assists&mdash;</b>Phil Goyette, Cincinnati.. 17.</p><p><b>Winnig Goals&mdash;</b>Dave McCready, Cin. 4.</p><p><b>Hat Tricks&mdash;</b>Moose Lallo, Gr. Rapids, Denis Boucher and Dave McCready, Cin.</p><p><b>Goalkeeper&rsquo;s Average&mdash;</b>Gaetan Dessu-reault, Cincinnati, 2.20.</p><p><b>Shutouts&mdash;</b>Roy McMeekin, Toledo, 4. Penalty Minutes&mdash;Nellie Podolski, Troy, 71.</p><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0857/1387542-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="582" height="166"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0948/1387535-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="586" height="363"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1040/1387528-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="584" height="202"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR A</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1136/1387521-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="596" height="179"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR A</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1234/1387514-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="597" height="234"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1328/1387507-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="600" height="157"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1428/1387500-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="595" height="133"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1525/1387493-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="592" height="112"></div><h2><b>INTERCOLLEGIATE</b></h2><h3><b>Standing On December 13</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1622/1387486-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="588" height="143"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade…At A Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-17" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1721/1387615-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg"></div><p><b>FOOTBALL NEWS</b></p><p>FEATURES&mdash;PICTURES&mdash;STATISTICS&mdash;INTERVIEWS</p><p>CARTOONS&mdash;COMPLETE REPORTS ON ALL TEAMS</p><p><b>Only S2.50 for 26 consecutive issues.</b></p><p>Published weekly for 20 straight weeks during football season and once a month during off season months. January to June inclusive.</p><p><b>It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 26 issues.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Canadian

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0161/1387667-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00c4-01" width="243" height="294"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0260/1387660-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00c4-02" width="254" height="303"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0357/1387653-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00c4-03" width="2877" height="1647"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0449/1387646-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00c4-04" width="2871" height="1897"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LONG JOHN HENDERSON,</b> the Boston Bruins&rsquo; rookie twine-tender has his hands full in the top photo making a save off the stick of Toronto&rsquo;s George Armstrong. He&rsquo;s getting some help from Bill Quackenbush (kneeling) while Real Chevrefils comes around the nets just in time to get a close look at the action. In the lower picture, Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Lumley executes a slide to deprive Detroit&rsquo;s Lorne Davis of a goal. Meanwhile Davis gets the full treatment from defenseman Jim Thomson of the Leafs. <span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Turefsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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December 18, 1954

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STASIUK. VICTOR JOHN

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