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March 26, 1955
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Vernon and Yorkton Set For Allan Cup Playoffs; Terriers Are Reinforced
REGINA, Sask.— Yorkton Terriers will send a reinforced club west to British Columbia to battle the Vernon Canadians in the first round of the western Allan Cup playdowns. All games in the best-of-seven series will be played in the west coast province. The Yorkton club will consist of nine of their own players who swept through to the championship of the Northeastern Saskatchewan Intermediate League, winning 22 out of 24 games during the regular schedule. They will be bolstered by three players from the Melville Millionaires, an affiliate club, and four players from the Saskatchewan branch, all of them endorsed by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Playing coach of the club is forward Vern Pachal, who came home to Yorkton this season after previous hockey service in various leagues around the world. In goal…
AHL Rinkside Revealings
Although his career as a hockey player in New York City was for a period of less than one year, Glen Sonmor’s fine character and spirit made a lasting impression there. Sonmor, while playing for the Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League, after leaving New York Rangers, recently lost the sight of his left eye in a game against Pittsburgh. When the sports fraternity and business executives of New York learned that contributions were being accepted for a fund for Glen in connection with a benefit game for him, their response was immediate and generous. Donations were received from the West Side Association of Commerce in New York, the New York Hockey Writers’ Association and the New York Ranger Fan Club, among others. Also, his ex-teammates on the Ranger Hockey…
Alf Pike Returns To ‘Peg To Handle New WHL Entry; Rated Highly By Experts
WINNIPEG, Man.— Alf Pike, a successful NHL hockey star and later a topflight coach in junior ranks, will next season return to the city where he began his puck-chasing career. Pike has been signed as coach of the new Winnipeg entry in the Western Hockey League for 1955-56. Jack Perrin, vice-president and general manager of the team that will make its debut in the WHL next season, announced that he had signed the former New York Ranger star to a two-year contract. Actually the announcement came as no surprise, for ever since it was confirmed that Winnipeg had been admitted to the Western League, Pike had been rumored as having the inside track for the post. It was not before conferring with many prominent NHL figures, however, that Perrin was satisfied that Pike was…
Rambunctious Royals Involved In Season’s Biggest Rhubarbs
MONTREAL, Que.— In retrospect the Quebec Hockey League season for 1954-55 which closed out fairly placidly the past weekend, has been supercharged with vital incident that make it one of the most rousing campaigns the loop has known. And this statement is made despite the fact that at the box office the loop suffered its reverses and most crushing of all, was compelled to shorten its battle lines, after a little more than a month of operation when Ottawa Senators withdrew from competition. Senators tossed in the towel when club owner Tommy Gorman became convinced there was little use of continuing. The Saturday night competition of National Hockey League games televised into Ottawa was too great. Box office receipts were shrinking almost to the vanishing point. Yet the league carried on. The knotty problem of…
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