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December 3, 1955
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Phil’s Formula Pays--Rangers Happy, Healthy
NEW YORK, N.Y.— At this time in any ordinary hockey year during the past decade the Rangers would be licking their wounds, counting their casualties and wondering how they could possibly overtake the scarless titans who loomed so far ahead. But friends, 1955-56 is not an ordinary ice season. The Blues, thus far, have had a minimum of injuries, and lo and behold, they are closer to the top of the NHL than they are from the bottom. And the tightest loop race in years roars on toward its midpoint the injury factor achieves increased importance. It appears that between Rangers, Bruins, Hawks and Red Wings, the club that stays healthiest longest has the best chance of remaining in the gravy. Of their 18 games to date not a single Ranger has missed a game…
Conditioning Pays Off For Mackell
BOSTON, Mass.— The same conditioning principle which has twice helped Ted Williams make comebacks after injuries helped put Fleming Mackell in the Boston Bruins’ lineup for ahead of schedule this fall. The principle is the use of weights under the supervision of Jack Fadden, trainer of Harvard University’s athletic teams and the Boston Red Sox. When Mackell underwent an operation for the removal of cartilage in his knee in Toronto shortly before the Bruins opened their season, he was labeled un vailable until December 1, at the earliest. But almost a month to the day from the time of the operation, the stocky centre was back in the Bruins’ lineup. His recovery, considering the nature of the operation, was remarkable, and it was undoubtedly based on several reasons. One was Mackell’s own determination to play…
Chevvy’s Goal May Be Starter For Stalled Motor City Machine
DETROIT, Mich.— Never did a single goal loom as important this season as one which the Red Wings scored the other night in Chicago. The goal had solid value at the time since it produced a 1-1 final score. The entire Red Wing family also was hoping that it would have carryover value and produce additional profit in the games ahead. Author of the goal was Real Chevrefils. This is significant because it was his first goal of the season. It came in game No. 20. Chevrefils had appeared in only 18, however, having been benched twice as a result of an inability to score. In a way Chevrefils’ troubles typified all the baffling failures by Detroit since the campaign opened. A team which had won seven straight National Hockey League titles and figured…
‘National Sports’ Combine To Aid Leafs
TORONTO, Ont.— When lacrosse and hockey have been mentioned in the same breath in the past, it has generally precipitated a hassle. Exponents of each would debate the rights of their respective game to be recognized as Canada’s national sport. Or detractors of both would insinuate that hockey will go the way of lacrosse if it doesn’t discourage unnecessarily rough play. This is far from the case in the Maple Leaf camp these days. Hockey men here are speaking benignly of lacrosse, even blessing it, for it has given the Maple Leafs some muscle to go with the hustle of their new youth movement. Both of Toronto’s newest rookies, Jack Bionda and Ron Hurst, owe to lacrosse their basic training in the manly art of self defense through offense. Although they joined Leafs primarily…
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