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December 10, 1955

The Hockey News December 10, 1955

<p>800 Outside Rooms With bath and free radio Many with T.V.</p><p>Single $4.50 up</p><p>Double $7.00 up</p><p>No charge for children 14 or under</p><p><b>Fine food served in GRENADIER DINING ROOM and LOUNGE also COFFEE SHOP</b></p><p><b>DETROIT-LELAND HOTEL</b></p><p>Cass and Bagley Ave. Ample Parking</p><p>Wm. H. Chalmers, General Manager</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2018/1471762-1-eng-US/f0014-202.jpg" title="f0014-20" width="375" height="497"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS IN DETROIT

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen continue to lead the pack in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA series by a comfortable margin of seven points after the past week&rsquo;s firing, while Windsor Bulldogs took over second place from the Stratford Indians by one point, and Owen Sound Mercurys are another single point in fourth place. On the strength of two victories at home, while losing one away, Chatham Maroons give every indication of improving under their new coach, Murph Chamberlain.</p><p>Windsor and Chatham made the best gains, winning a pair while losing but one, the Bulldogs doing it the hard way by defeating Mercurys at Owen Sound, 6-4, the first time Windsor has chalked up a victory at Owen Sound since the Bulldogs entered the league. Bulldogs also scored their second win of the week at home at the expense of the Mercurys.</p><p>Outside of that 6-4 reverse at home the Mercurys shape up like a home club, as they whipped Kitchener Dutchmen 8-3 there and followed that up with a 9-1 trouncing of Stratford Indians.</p><p>Kitchener and Stratford fared the worst during the week, both dropping two decisions away from home while winning one on home ice. Chatham and Windsor benefitted the most as they both picked up two wins in three starts; while Owen Sound broke even on two wins and two losses.</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen&rsquo;s loss at Windsor may be a costly one, because their ace leftwinger, Gerry Theberge, suffered several cracked ribs when racked up by John Sleaver, a junior graduate from Galt who joined the Bulldogs this season. From Kitchener comes the report that the Dutchmen intend to lodge a protest with the OHA over Sleaver&rsquo;s actions. Theberge should be okay for the Dutchmen when they depart in the middle of January for the world championship tournament at Cortina, Italy, but he will be handicapped for the next two weeks during OHA games, which could affect the Dutchmen&rsquo;s play considerably, as he teams up with Ken Laufman, leading scorer of the league, and George Scholes to form the Dutchmen&rsquo;s top attacking unit.</p><h2><b>Cracked Ribs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01238/1472101-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="563" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY THEBERGE</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Goaling A Factor</b></h3><p>Secured from Stratford Indians in a swap for rightwinger Chuck Henderson, Windsor&rsquo;s goalie, Bruce Dale, is proving the biggest factor in the Bulldogs&rsquo; advance into second place. According to the latest statistics released by Bill Hanley, business manager of the OHA, Dale sports the best goalkeeping record of the group.</p><p>And with Gord Henry securing his release from the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, Owen Sound Mercurys have been fortified in the net. The Mercurys now possess the strongest bulwark in goal, with Bobby Gillson being the other custodian. Kitchener Dutchmen called upon their veteran goalie, Keith Woodall, to replace Denis Brodeur, when the latter was injured twice, while Chatham Maroons are still experimenting with three goalies, Mary Edwards, graduate from the St. Catharines Teepee juniors; Al Bennett and Dick Piatowski, with the former apparently having the inside track, since he has been guarding the twine for the last four games.</p><h3><b>Poor Protection</b></h3><p>Prior to this week Don Head, in the Stratford Indians&rsquo; cage, enjoyed the top puck-fending record, but when Owen Sound Mercurys poured nine goals behind him Saturday night, his average took a real beating, thanks to some poor protection from his defence and forwards.</p><p>Rumor has it that Bill Butcher of Windsor was endeavoring to sign the veteran NHL&rsquo;er, Gus Bodnar, who was handed his voluntary retirement, but it is doubtful if the Bulldogs will land him, because he had previously turned down a satisfactory offer from the Stratford Indians to act as their playing-coach.</p><p>All clubs are still on the prowl for reinforcements and hope to land some before the Dec. 15 dealline, although the salaries demanded by the prospective players are proving an obstacle to the clubs&rsquo; plans. Stratford Indians&rsquo; greatest want is a rightwinger, although Pete Kowalchuk of Kitchener Dutchmen was released to them for the balance of the season.</p><p>They landed Chuck Henderson from Windsor in the lead for goalie Bruce Dale and also secured Lome Pirie in the draft of the defunct Niagara Falls Cataracts. Both of them are rightwingers, but so far neither has deigned to report to the Stratford club, and salary differences are said to be the reason. Henderson wants the same salary as he received while with the Windsor Bulldogs, and Pirie, now located somewhere in the Maritimes, has applied for his transfer but the OHA has refused it.</p><p>The real problem with the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA, with the possible exception of Kitchener, Windsor and Chatham, is devreased patronage, which does not permit of more expenditures, if they are to break even on the season&rsquo;s operations. The attendance at the Dutchmen, Bulldog and Maroon home games is holding up well, which is somewhat surprising in Chatham, since the Maroons occupy the cellar and have done so almost since the start of the season. This does not mean that they will remain there, and on their record of two wins against one loss this week&rsquo;it may not be long before the race for second berth in the standing will be a four-way contention.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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OHA ‘Dogs Hope To Sign NHL Veteran Gus Bodnar Before Dec. 15 Deadline

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>FT. WAYNE, Indiana.&mdash;</p><p>Who is Jimmy Mattson, you ask?</p><p>That&rsquo;s easy. He&rsquo;s the unheralded but slightly remarkable goal-tender of the Ft. Wayne Komets in the International Hockey League.</p><p>He&rsquo;s the fellow who arrived in Ft. Wayne without fanfare and perhaps without too much confidence in staying around very long.</p><p>But, the way it looks right now, young Mattson is very apt to be around these parts for quite some time, unless his goal-tending feats earn him a professional contract.</p><p>Amsrican-born hockey players are few and far between, but that&rsquo;s exactly what Mattson is. Moreover, Jimmy came to Ft. Wayne directly from the University of Minnesota, where he had been a member of the Gopher hockey team as a student at that school. The 24-year-old Mattson is a native of Minneapolis, Minn.,</p><p>The Komets were in dire need of a steady twineminder to fill the shoes worn, last sebson by Ivan Walmsley, now with Philadelphia in the Eastern Amateur League.</p><h2><b>Replaced</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03103/1472163-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="567" height="890"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG McCAIG</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Didn&rsquo;t Fare Too Well</b></h3><p>First call went to Les Binkley, who had been with Walkerton, Ontario, in the senior &lsquo;B&rsquo; ranks in 1954-55. Binkley didn&rsquo;t fare any too well, and that was how Mattson got his chance in the nets for Coach Doug McCaig&rsquo;s Hoosier leers.</p><p>It was with Mattson between the pipes that the Komets climbed from an early-season position in teh IHL&rsquo;s cellar up to a tie for second with the Cincinnati Mohawks. The 5-10, 170-pounder aided Ft. Wayne to seven victories in his first nine starts, allowing but 22 goals.</p><p>It was Mattson who helped tighten up a somewhat leaky Ft. Wayne defense as the Komets developed into the title threat they had been expected to be in pre-season tabulations.</p><p>McCaig himself was uncertain how bis new goalie would work out. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll just have to wait and see what he does,&rdquo; Doug asserted after Mattson&rsquo;s first few games in the nets. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll get a good tryout and it&rsquo;s going to be up to him from now on in.&rdquo;</p><p>Off his early performances, Mattson appears to have won a regular position in the Ft. Wayne nets. If he keeps it up, there&rsquo;s no telling where the Komets will finish in the International League.</p><p>McCaig, who had been hampered by a bad leg, took himself off the active roster recently in an effort to bolster bis defense corps. His place was filled by Orrin Gould, a former Komet and Cincinnati Mohawk rear guard.</p><p>Four experienced defensemen, Gould, Dean McBride, George Stanutz and Bill Short, another former Mohawk, now are helping protect Mattson. So it looks as though it&rsquo;s going to be tough to light that red light behind Mattson from now on in, as the Komets move into the rarified atmostenders.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Former Minnesota Copher Jim Mattson Makes Grade As Komets Coal Guardian

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04155/1470436-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Montreal Canadiens allowed only 43 goals scored against them in one season. That was in 1928-29 in a 44-game schedule, and the Canadiens iced the strongest defensive club in the circuit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Do you remember?…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01157/1472284-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02109/1472277-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2329" height="1421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALEX DELVECCHIO of Detroit Red Wings is shown in the photo at top as he eludes two would-be New York Rangers defenders and skates right in on goaler Lome Worsley. The Gump managed to deflect the shot, however. In the bottom photo, Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard of the Montreal Canadians looks over his shoulder at Glen Hall of the Red Wings, who&rsquo;s just made a save off the Habitant centre. Also getting a close-up view of the action are Bob Goldham (2) and Bill Dineen.</b><span class="photo-credit">(Top Photo By Bob Popper Bottom Photo By Mike Gravel)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gump And Glen Fast-Moving Men

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, said here this week that he is currently investigating reports that two coaches in the league have attacked the integrity and competence of referees.</p><p>The reports were attributed to Phil Watson, the coach of the New York Rangers and Jim Skinner, mentor of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Following a recent contest in Toronto, Skinner was quoted as saying that referee Red Storey, the NHL&rsquo;s senior arbiter, was prejudiced and had &ldquo;no guts&rdquo;. Skinner allegedly made the statement after Storey had disallowed a goal by the Red Wings.</p><p>Watson is reportedly on the carpet for having told a luncheon meeting of sports writers that all NHL officials are &ldquo;homers&rdquo; when they referee in the Montroal Forum.</p><p>There is a rule in the National League which provides for a fine of up to one thousand dollars for unjustified criticism of officials.</p><p>In Detroit, a spokesman for the Red Wings has denied the charges against the usually affable Skinner.</p><h2>&ldquo;Lacked Courage&rdquo;</h2><p>According to the spokesman, Skinner said &ldquo;that he lacked courage.&rdquo;</p><p>He added: &ldquo;Skinner believes that Red Storey did not have the courage of his convictions in ruling a disputed goal good, and then disallowing the goal.</p><p>&ldquo;The Detroit club previously had sent a letter of protest to Campbell&rsquo;s office about Storey&rsquo;s officiating in that game.</p><p>&ldquo;The situation is this: this goal judge at the time was a John Finn, who is not registered as such an official with the NHL.</p><h2>Not Informed</h2><p>The Detroit team was not informed before the game that an unregistered official was acting in such capacity. We asked that an investigation be made by Campbell of Finn&rsquo;s presence.</p><p>&ldquo;We also asked that Storey be reprimanded since he told one of our players that he could not overrule a goal judge. Rules give him full powers in ruling on any goal.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0349/1472315-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="298" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Clarence Campbell</b></figcaption></div><p>President Campbell has not indicated what punitive action he would take against the pair of coaches should his investigation show that they were guilty of breaking the rule against criticism of the officials, but in all probability, the punishment would take the form of fines.</p><p>He did not reveal when he plans to make an announcement on the subject but in all probability it will be in the very near future.</p><p>Neither Skinner nor Watson has made comment on the reports since the time that they were allegedly made.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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CAMPBELL TO CURB CAUSTIC COACHES

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Now hear this! Now hear this! Ranger fans and Ranger players.</p><p>The NHL season doesn&rsquo;t start until tonight Wednesday Dec. 7. And after tonight it does not start until Saturday night and the same holds for Sunday.</p><h2><b>Light&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01223/1470350-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="547" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WALLY HERGESHEIMER</b></figcaption></div><p>These are the sentiments of Watson, Muzz Patrick and the majority of New York hockey writers who believe that the Blues must take each game as it comes and do less dreaming about the playoff money, for the time being at least.</p><p>They may look like playoff material today, yet two weeks might find Rangers looking up at the rest of the loop, or vice versa.</p><p>Point is there are too many question marks on this New York club to give anyone but the most dauntless optimist a complete sense of playoff security.</p><p>And if the Watsonmen keep up their unpredictable pace of recent weeks they will send more fans running to the nearest hospital ward seeking a cure for extreme cases of ecstacy or despair.</p><p>When the Rangers are good they are very very good and when they are bad, well, they either blow three-goal leads or commit like hockey sins well calculated to &lsquo;drive the New York fandom berserk.</p><p>There are many reasons why Rangers cannot fall secure in their position now. For one thing they lack big aggressive forwards who can return the pounding being given the Wally Hergesheimers and Don Raleighs.</p><p>The large forwards like Dave Creighton, Andy Hebenton and Ron Murphy, to name a few, are not the overly rough types although they carry the poundage to be so.</p><p>That being the case the Ranger machine, in order to remain in high-scoring order, has to rely on the speed and finesse of the forwards with the hope that the burly defenders will supply the protective hockey flak, so to speak.</p><p>How long the &ldquo;light brigade&rdquo; can hold up is anybody&rsquo;s guess. Plenty depends on the defensemen who have to keep thumping to maintain &ldquo;honesty&rdquo; among the opposition. Too often in the past Blueshirt defenders failed to come to the aid of their embattled freres.</p><p>If that happens this year the boys can kiss the playoff hopes goodbye.</p><p>Although he has been a literal bulwark so far, many pessimists are wondering how long Gump Worsley can maintain his high-calibre goaltending&mdash;in the face of an overwhelming number of shats-on-goal.</p><p>The Gump has been getting superior defense work for the most part but, again, will it last? One only has to think of the game of Nov. 27 when the Blues blew a 3-0 lead to Montreal with less than 24 minutes left in the game, to put the ulcer machine in high gear.</p><p>Another mystic problem that professor Watson is trying to overcome is the ephemeral &ldquo;Ranger complex.&rdquo; Translated into the layman&rsquo;s lingo it refers to an inferiority attitude prevalent on New York ice teams during the past decade</p><p>So far it hasn&rsquo;t affected this year&rsquo;s crew&mdash;yet!</p><p>One of the great failings of the Ranger team this year is that the forwards are missing more scoring opportunities than they can afford to.</p><p>Time and again they will territorially outplay the opposition only to find that when it comes to putting the puck into the net the disk either lands safely in the goalie&rsquo;s pads or along the back boards.</p><p>The Bathgate-Prentice-Popein trio has been either especially unlucky or just inept at shooting. On every other count&mdash;skating, backchecking, hustle, etc.&mdash;they can&rsquo;t very well be faulted but when it comes to banging the rubber home they are notoriously deficient. And it hurts.</p><p>There have been other failings on the club up until now. The power-play, for one, hasn&rsquo;t been clicking with desired frequency. Ditto one or two forwards who have the ability but, for one reason or another, have lagged behind.</p><p>It is generally agreed that basically the Gothamites have what it takes to make the gravy-train. Which means that there is an abundance of talented forwards to make three well-balanced scoring lines; a rugged and cohesive defense: and a goaltender who is the equal of any in the loop.</p><h2><b>&hellip;Brigade</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03190/1470343-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="548" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON RALEIGH</b></figcaption></div><p>So why worry? Start from the beginning of the story and you have the answer.</p><p>To keep ahead, the Rangers must exert all. cylinders. Once they stop, the Detroit, Chicago, Toronto or Boston Express will pass them by.</p><p>And don&rsquo;t think chief engineer Watson doesn&rsquo;t know it!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rangers Better Play Them One At A Time, Question Marks Cloud Playoff Picture

<div class="byline">HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Gerry James had time for just two brief skates between the moment he left the turf of Winnipeg Blue Bombers&rsquo; football team and got onto the ice in his first game with the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t planned that way, but Leafs&rsquo; heavy casualty list forced the Western Canada all-star offensive halfback to make his professional hockey debut three weeks ahead of schedule&mdash;and with a minimum of rehearsing.</p><p>When Gerry forewent football and joined Leafs to begin a two-year hockey contract, he figured it would take at least four weeks to tune up his hockey muscles.</p><p>&ldquo;It always takes a month or a month and a half to get into condition for hockey after I&rsquo;ve finished playing football,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;My wind, my leg muscles and my timing all have to be changed.&rdquo;</p><p>Leaf General Manager Hap Day agreed, pointing out: &ldquo;The muscles used in hockey are completely different from those used in football and even though Gerry&rsquo;s in top football condition, he&rsquo;s starting from scratch in hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Yet only three days after these words were spoken, right winger Eric Nesterenko suffered a mild concussion when he was crashed into boards at Maple Leaf Gardens by Chicago&rsquo;s Frank Martin. To fill the empty sweater, Day enlisted the 190-pound, six-foot James to make his pro debut in Detroit the following night.</p><p>James hit the ice like a football player all right. Starting with Wings&rsquo; Real Chevrefils and winding up with the Detroit net, he was rocking everything in reach with his driving half-back style.</p><p>He showed Detroit fans how he became runner-up to Edmonton&rsquo;s Norm Kwong as a yardgainer in the Western League when he completed a rinklength rush by bulldozing the Detroit goal right off its moorings and into the end boards.</p><p>In choosing hockey, a sport in which he is yet to establish himself, over football, a game in which he was elected all-star offensive half. the 21-year-old muscleman named cash, present and future as his reasons.</p><p>&ldquo;There is considerable difference in the cash terms of my hockey and football contracts,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Hockey will pay me more. Then, I figure I can last 10 years in hockey if I make the grade, where, I couldn&rsquo;t expect to keep in football that long. And on top of all that I think hockey will leave me better off when I&rsquo;m finished playing. I mean for hockey will leave me better off when I&rsquo;m finished playing. I mean for business, coaching or managing. Right now I think a hockey reputation is more valuable in business than a football reputation would be.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Quits Football</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02207/1470381-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="544" height="1172"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY JAMES</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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‘Quick-Change’ James Quits Grid, Joins Leafs

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>There&rsquo;s good and bad news for New York hockey fans concerning the scheduling of playoff games on Madison Square Garden ice.</p><p>With the announcement that the circus will open in New York on April 1st it was revealed that almost two full weeks spans the end of the NHL season March 18th and the circus inaugural.</p><p>Naturally the local ice addicts are still moaning over the circus&rsquo; return which will probably prevent any Stanley Cup final games from being played in New York.</p><p>However, on the lighter side, the maximum number of semi-final contests can be played on the local rink.</p><p>That means that if the Blues finish among the top two, a &ldquo;big&rdquo; four playoff games may be played in New York.</p><p>It would be nice to say that even the finals could be played in New York but the Ranger famine having been what it has over the past decade, Gothamites will be more than happy to see a full sked of semis.</p><p>Last time the locals hit pay-dirt was in 1950. Although Rangers went to the finals that year, New York fans were only able to witness two home playoff games.</p><p>In 1948 Detroit and Rangers staged a six-game semi-final with half of the games in New York.</p><p>Ah yes, four playoff bouts in New York would be just dandy. But what are we saying! Here it is only December and the battle has just begun.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Blues Could Sneak In Semis Before Circus Takes Over

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01222/1470467-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SID SMITH</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Solved: The mystery of Sid Smith&rsquo;s disappearing goals.</p><p>While the Toronto Maple Leaf captain, a perennial 20-to-30 goal scorer, was alarming many by failing to score at all in the games before a groin injury sidelined him, the goals weren&rsquo;t altogether getting away from Leafs as a team. Another left winger was stowing them away.</p><p>That would be Earl Balfour, the 190-pound rookie, who in his first 22 games fired seven goals that definitely bore the Smith trade mark. They resulted not from hard shots or picture plays, but instead from Smitty&rsquo;s hitherto patended process of darting into position with quick reflexes and flicking a shot before a goaltender could get set.</p><p>Such goals earned Smith a league-wide reputation for wizardry. Some thought at first that they were flukes, but Sidney did it so often for so many seasons in the past that almost all skeptics finally became convinced that lightening reflexes and not luck were responsible.</p><p>With Balfour, too, it is by design and not by accident that the six-foot-one forward should be on his way to a 20-goal season as a major-league rookie after failing to approach 20 goals as either a minor leaguer at Pittsburgh or amateur with Marlboros.</p><p>&ldquo;The way hockey is played nowadays, most goals come from scrambles in front of the net,&rdquo; Earl has reasoned. &ldquo;Richard and Howe can score from anywhere because they have great shots, but the bulk of players pick up goals at the goalmouth and I&rsquo;ve tried to equip myself this year to take advantage of such situation.&rdquo;</p><p>The chief part of the equipment is a higher lie stick than Balfour has used before.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t shoot as hard with a seven lie, like I use now,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;But there are a lot of other advantages that offset this. For one thing, you seem to feel the puck more. Then, in a scramble, it seems easier to get at the puck, and for a tip-in, you can stand up straighter and see more, yet still keep your Stick flat on the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;Ted Kennedy and Nels Stewart used to get lots of goals and they used sticks of even higher lies than mine.&rdquo;</p><p>Another phase of Balfour&rsquo;s new format has been enlarging his target area.</p><p>&ldquo;I just try to shoot the puck on the net rather than pick corners,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And I can see why King Clancy and Hap Day keep preaching this. If you hesitate to pick a corner, the goalie knows you&rsquo;re going to shoot and he can get set. If you just let go at the net, you put the law of average on your side. The shot&rsquo;s likely to hit the goalie, but if you do shoot often enough on the net, sooner or later, some of them have to go in.&rdquo;</p><p>As if he weren&rsquo;t defying normal procedure enough by becoming a more prolific major leaguer than minor leaguer, Earl is creating another anamoly by doing it with two other rookies for linemates. Yet, while it is a common practise to break in freshmen with veterans to lean upon, Balfour reasons it can be an advantage for a rookie to have rookie linemates like centre Billy Harris and left right winger Ron Hurst.</p><p>&ldquo;Since we&rsquo;re all rookies on the line and there are so many more on the team, there&rsquo;s less pressure on us individually,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Instead of having to try and keep up with veterans, we&rsquo;re all in the same boat and with pretty much the same experience.</p><p>&ldquo;Best of all, we just seem to work together naturally. Billy and I are geared much the same, and he&rsquo;s a beautiful skater and a wonderful playmaker. Hursty is always digging in the corners and fighting for possession of the puck and that makes a lot more plays.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the big thing in scoring, I think. You&rsquo;re not going to get goals unless the guys with you are playing well. And if you go out with the idea of just trying to get goals and nothing else, I don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;ll get anywhere either. But I&rsquo;m lucky enough to have two hard workers with me who always stick to their positions. The chances just naturally fall into place. And with Billy and Hursty I&rsquo;ve been getting as many chances up here as I did in my best streaks at Pittsburgh, where you&rsquo;re supposed to get more.&rdquo;</p><p>In his three seasons at Pittsburgh, Balfour had three previous tryouts with Leafs. He was impressive in none of them, but he doesn&rsquo;t regret the lengthy seasoning in the minors.</p><p>&ldquo;Pittsburgh&rsquo;s a wonderful place to learn,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;You get the same style of coaching as with Leafs and you always have a good coach. I had King Clancy, Baz Bastien and Howie Meeker and you can&rsquo;t beat them. They were all great, too, at building up your confidence.&rdquo;</p><p>And confidence is something in which Earl is saturated. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no top to what this team can do,&rdquo; he predicts. &ldquo;Now that we&rsquo;re underway, I think we can go all the way up. Like in Pittsburgh last year&mdash;every game&rsquo;s a four-pointer and you can go from top to botom overnight. But Pittsburgh was on top when it counted&mdash;at the finish.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Patent Violated</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Rookie Balfour Picks Up Where Smith Left Off

<div class="byline">FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Take it from Muzz Patrick, Glen Hall is here to stay as a big-league goalkeeper.</p><p>Not only that but the general manager of the New York Rangers says &ldquo;Hall might become a greater goaltender than Terry Sawchuk.&rdquo;</p><p>What prompted these and other comments about the rookie Red Wing netminder was an apparent misunderstanding of an earlier Patrick quote on Hall which had the youngster cast in a far from favorable light.</p><p>&ldquo;Harry Lumley and Terry Sawchuk have been the class of the league over the past few years,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Muzz. &ldquo;But Hall is definitely a good National Leaguer although he doesn&rsquo;t quite measure up to their calibre&mdash;yet!</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen Hall play for three years and watched him closely. He&rsquo;s good. Darn Good.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hall A Big-Leaguer--Muzz

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The rags-to-riches saga of young Ed Panagabko with the Bruins came to an end the other day when he was optioned to the Hershey Bears of the American league.</p><p>In a five-player transaction the Bruins sent forwards Lome Davis, Orval Tessier and Panagabko to Hershey and called up forward Al Nicholson and defenseman Lionel Heinrich for service here.</p><p>During his stay of nearly two months with the Bruins, Panagabko provided one of the leading human interest stories of the. National league season.</p><p>The youngster who used to shovel snow from the municipal rink in Norquay, Sask, in return for skating privileges went to the Bruins&rsquo; pre-season training camp at Hershey this fall determined to win a professional contract.</p><p>Through his industry he made a job for himself with the Bruins as a way of launching his professional career.</p><p>During his 23-game stay here Panagabko conducted himself well, but he labored under one insurmountable handicap&mdash;his lack of experience. His hustle and determination made up for a portion of the lack, especially in his defensive play, but it was reflected in the absence of offensive polish.</p><p>There is no doubt but that Panagabko would have been assigned to Hershey earlier, even before the season started, had the Bruins not been short of manpower, and once their complement was filled. Manager Lynn Patrick wasted no time in sending him out.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very pleased with the job he did for us and I told him so,&rdquo; declared Patrick, &ldquo;but if we had kept him here, it would have been unfair to him.</p><p>&ldquo;Regular play with Hershey will enable him to learn the tricks he needs to go with his fine attitude. I don&rsquo;t believe I&rsquo;ve ever known a boy more determined to play in this league, and if he can add offensive polish to that determination, he&rsquo;ll be back,&rdquo;</p><p>Panagabko was a busy young fellow during his stay here. He didn&rsquo;t score any goals, but he played three different scoring positions and he was a valuable asset as a penalty-killer Unafraid of anyone and a strong skater, he delighted both coach Milt Schmidt and Patrick by his defensive hustle, a department in which young players are frequently lax.</p><p>Tessier compiled a peculiar scoring record here. A contrast to Panagabko in that he is a scoring smoothie but a less able skater, Tessier scored two goals. One provided a tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the other a win over the New York Rangers, so his contribution was three points.</p><p>Oddly enough, three of the five players involved in the Bruins-Hershey swap are alumni of the same junior team, the Humboldt (Sask.) Indians. Panagabko played there, and so did Heinrich and Nicholson, the latter only a year ago.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Panagabko Cut; Lacks Experience

<p>(AS seen in the Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01292/1470546-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="293" height="336"></div><p>&bull; TORONTO&mdash;CARL VOSS, head of the refereeing department of the National Hockey League, feels that he and the organization he leads have some reason to be proud, they have shortened the average playing time of big league games this season by pretty nearly half an hour each.</p><p>For instance, the Black Hawk-Ranger game in New York one night was well over in less than two hours, though seven goals were scored. And the great goal-tending duel between Canadiens and Bruins in Boston Tuesday night finished in five minutes less than two hours, Carl Voss attributes this to the fact that the long episodes of wrangling between players and referees has been pretty well done away, and as a result, th games move along more swiftly.</p><h2><b>Getting Faster</b></h2><p>&ldquo;There have been a lot of complaints about long games in baseball,&rdquo; said Voss. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not undertaking to criticize any sport outside our own but the demand in baseball seems to be for more speed and in hockey we&rsquo;re moving in that direction without waiting to be urged and prodded. Of course there will be exceptions, caused by audience reactions and debris being thrown on the ice, but in the normal run of things, you&rsquo;ll find the hockey games will not drag and will be played faster than ever,&rdquo;.</p><p>Voss goes west at the beginning of the week to hold refereeing clinics, at the invitation of the Manitoba and Saskatchewan amateur bodies. Four such gathering will be held in the four major cities of the west, Winnipeg, Calgary, Regina and Edmonton. After that Voss moves far east to Charlottetown PE Island, on a similar chore. As usual the minor and amateur leagues are looking to the National League for leadership.</p><h2><b>Johnson Stands Out</b></h2><p>&bull; ONE OF THE UNSUNG heroes of the Canadiens team this season has been fast-skating Tommy Johnson, the Winnipeg boy who is now in his sixth season as a Canadien regular. When Bruins were pressing with a six-man attack in the final minutes of the Tuesday night game, in a desperate effort to tie the score, it was Johnson who was thrown into the breach, because he has a great deal of mobility. Moving rapidly Johnson intercepted Bruin passes and frustrated their massed attack by tossing the puck clear. It was a fine performance.</p><p>&ldquo;Johnson hasn&rsquo;t played a bad game this season,&rdquo; said coach Toe Blake to general manager Frank Selke, who new to Boston and watched the game from the press-box.</p><p>&ldquo;He is reliable to a degree, moves very fast to intercept attacks, and keeps out of trouble. He is a very strong factor in our defense.&rdquo;</p><p>With all of which general manager Selke agreed completely.</p><p>Johnson came to Canadiens originally. seven years ago, after playing for a time with Montreal Royals. He had two almost complete seasons with Buffalo, but coming back to the major league in 1950, he established himself as a regular. Johnson is one of the fastest skating defense players in the game, a good puck handler and if he possessed a better shot, undoubtedly would be up with the defense players who score a good many goals.</p><h2><b>Rocket Enthusiastic</b></h2><p>The player amazing everybody, however, is the ageless Rocket Richard, who in his fourteenth season is playing with the same enthusiasm he showed years back. Richard was an outstanding figure in the game at Boston, and on his play was value for three more goals. &ldquo;Besides that,&rdquo; said coach Toe Blake, &ldquo;the Rocket is playing the best defensive hockey I&rsquo;ve seen him produce, few goals were scored by his check at any time, but this season, he&rsquo;s better defensively than others, besides being our second-best goal getter.&rdquo;</p><p>Young Jean-Guy Talbot is coming along in a fashion that indicates Canadiens will have another good young regular defense player before long. Since Butch Bouchard has been bothered by a strained groin muscle, Talbot has filled in well, and is gaining poise, he is getting regular work on Canadiens present road trip.</p><p>Bruins remain the mystery team. The club seemed to have been strengthened by the swap which brought it Sawchuk, Stasiuk, Bonin and Davis and in fact their lowly position is definitely not due to any letdown by Sawchuk. Failure to produce a scoring punch is Bruin&rsquo;s principal weakness.</p><p>&ldquo;We played better when we were crippled by the absence of Mackell, Ferguson and McKenney strange as that may seem,&rdquo; said coach Milt Schmidt. &ldquo;When these players were absent, the rest of the boys played great hockey, giving all they had. But when the cripples got back, the others seemed to let down, and haven&rsquo;t recovered form yet.&rdquo;</p><p>Bruins were without their best defense player Fern Flaman in the Thursday night game, he suffered an ankle injury, and when X-rays were taken, it was found a number of bone chips from previous injuries were floating around. May be out for a short time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE CIST AND JEST OF IT

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;.</p><p>The biggest captain&rsquo;s insignia ever seen in the National league may have been that sported by Lee Fogolin during his short term as captain of the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>When Gus Mortson, regular Chicago captain, stepped out of the lineup here after an abdominal operation he was succeeded by Harry Watson, and when Watson was injured he was succeeded in turn by Fogolin.</p><p>The big defenseman&rsquo;s first appearance as captain was against the Bruins here, and when his jersey failed to show the identifying &ldquo;C&rdquo;, Referee Frank Udvari refused to recognize his authority. The drawback was remedied by the fashioning of a suitable letter from adhesive tape.</p><p>Then the next day, before a Chicago practice here, other Black Hawks went to some lengths to make sure that Fogolin&rsquo;s rank was conspicuous.</p><p>On Lee&rsquo;s white practice jersey they printed a black &ldquo;C&rdquo; measuring a full 18 inches from top to bottom. Even referees, quipped one Black Hawk, would have no further difficulty in recognizing the Chicago captain protem.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Chi-Hawks Have King-Size Capt.

<div class="byline">by Bob Hesketh</div><p><b>(As seen in the Toronto Telegram)</b></p><p>WHEN Phil Watson was playing for the New York Rangers, it was not a criminal offense to enter a bar either to make a telephone call or buy a drink. In fact, Mr. Watson was recalling recently, it was a common practice after a hockey match to celebrate in such manner, sometimes for having emerged victorious and sometimes for having emerged unscathed.</p><p>On one occasion, the girl who was to become Mrs. W. commented that perhaps the reason the Rangers were being beaten fairly consistently was that they lacked condition. Mr. Watson, who was in a bar across from Madison Square Garden at the time, which was three o&rsquo;clock in the morning, remarked that it was perfectly ridiculous that he shouldn&rsquo;t be in condition.</p><p>Now he laughs at his frivolous objection. Whether or not they are building humans differently these days, Mr. Watson has thrown in his lot on the side of temperance if not complete abstinence. Lips that touch liquor have no place with Mr. Watson&rsquo;s new Rangers. People who have to make telephone calls should avoid bars and find drug stores. In New York the ratio is heavily with the bars but Watson is ruthless in his insistence.</p><p>At any rate the Fiery One has hit New York with only a little less force and hardly any less wind than a hurricane. Hockey writers, some of whom have bled internally with Ranger mediocrity, are clamoring at his side for material. Even columnists. who seldom give hockey the time of day, have unleashed their fingers in hopeful odes, one of the more outstanding of them recently remarking that Watson even donned the blades and went on the ice when his club practiced, devotion which he thought was seldom duplicated throughout the rest of the league.</p><h2><b>Elephants Have A Priority</b></h2><p>Watson regards such outbursts gleefully. He is in the happy position of either being an inevitable success or at worst a colorful equality. The Rangers have finished out of the playoffs 12 times in 14 years. It would take a great deal of concentration to make the record worse.</p><p>In addition he has, outside the turnstiles, the most loyal fans he could hope to find in view of such sustained lack of a product to sell. This is also in spite of the fact that Madison Square Garden has for years made it obvious that hockey in N.Y. is a second rate feature. Unfailingly at playoff time, the Rangers, if they were still in contention, would have to clean out their lockers and move somewhere else. The circus, one of the gigantic moneymakers in Easter week, moves in.</p><p>This evil situation has existed through the years of triumph and failure and there is no sign of it being eased. It can do nothing else but lead columnists like the widely-read Joe Williams of the World-Telegram and Sun to a conclusion that the management &ldquo;makes it clear in advance that it has no particular interest in putting a championship team on ice, because to do so would mean only confusion and annoyance. The same gentlemen, however, brazenly hustle patronage for regularly scheduled games.&rdquo;</p><p>The only conclusion to he drawn is that hockey sells itself in spite of obstacles. The addition of a lively wire such as Phil Watson can only have a salubrious effect.</p><p>At any rate, so far this season, he has supplied the surprise not only with his loquaciousness but with a hockey club that has attained the heady elevation of second place. If it continues on Watson&rsquo;s meticulously laid out schedule of so many goals a month from such and such a player with an ultimate destination of 20 0, it is highly probable that the club will finish in the playoffs, fulfilling Watson&rsquo;s burning ambition. He confesses he is not looking for a Stanley Cup for a while but would not object to being pleasantly surprised.</p><h2><b>Some Lousy Arithmetic</b></h2><p>Individually the club is remarkably changed. There is a dash and aggressiveness about them which may be due, in part, to the fact that they are all conscious of minor league clauses in their contracts. One half of them, too, took salary cuts which may be regained if the Rangers have a successful year at the box office.</p><p>&ldquo;They were all signed in one day, too,&rdquo; Watson says, a suggestion of incredulity in his voice.</p><p>The wonder may be due to his own professional contract experience.</p><p>In those days it was a law that every French-Canadian within the bounds of Quebec belonged to Montreal. Lester Patrick, the Ranger manager, discovered that Watson, though he talked as French as Chevalier, was nevertheless the son of a Scots sire. Watson signed a paper to that effect and Patrick went about the arduous business of getting him to sign a contract.</p><p>&ldquo;Lester,&rdquo; Watson told him, &ldquo;I am no chicken feed hockey player. I want a three-year contract for $9,000.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick, who had anticipated a greater demand, agreed that it was fine.</p><p>&ldquo;And,&rdquo; continued Watson, &ldquo;I want it like this: $4,000 for the first year, $1,500 for the second and $5,000 for the third.&rdquo;</p><p>Lester&rsquo;s trap-like mind hastily concluded that this amounted to $13,500, a fact which he immediately conveyed to Watson.</p><p>&ldquo;That I can&rsquo;t help,&rdquo; said Phil. &ldquo;I only play hockey. I&rsquo;m not so good at the figures.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NEWS on SPORT

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01243/1470639-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAT,. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Who&rsquo;s the most important man on a hockey team?</p><p>The goaltender, naturally. He can&rsquo;t make a mistake or bingo! the red light glows like his countenance.</p><p>He plays 60 minutes of every game in a torrent of tension and, if he&rsquo;s unfortunate enough to be with a losing club, he is the first to be subjected to the howls of the wolves who lurk in the stands.</p><p>Which brings us to the subject of Jacques Plante, known as the acrobatic custodian in Montreal and as Jake the Snake in other five cities of the National Hockey League.</p><p>Plante, who knits his own under wear, never eats eggs and seldom has much to say, hasn&rsquo;t made many mistakes for the Habs this year although, still inflicted by a strange wanderlust he sometime roams far from the safety of hi crease.</p><p>There is no doubt that he is a vastly improved netminder am gratefully he credits coach &ldquo;Toe&rsquo; Blake for his stability.</p><p>&ldquo;Blake hasn&rsquo;t been on my bad all the time,&rdquo; says Plante. &ldquo;He never refers to my mistakes of other seasons. He reminds me to stay on my feet, to hold my nets as much as possible. But lie has never tried to change my basic style.&rdquo;</p><p>Having Gerry McNeil in the vicinity helps to keep Plante cn his mettle. Once Habs&rsquo; regular netminder, little McNeil emerged from retirement this season to join the Royals, Montreal&rsquo;s No. farm project in the fast Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>Recently when Plante reported that he was suffering from an attack of stomach flu in Toronto McNeil responded to an emergency call from Blake and flew to the Queen City ready to go into the nets against the Maple Leafs.</p><p>One glance at McNeil in the lobby of the Royal York Hotel and Plante made one of the has tiest recoveries known to medical science.</p><p>Observed Ken Reardon, assistant manager of the Habs, &ldquo;As far as Plante is concerned, McNeil is the greatest thing since ACTH.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course every good goaltender must share some of his glory with his defensemen and Plante is no exception. In the first 23 games of the season, he was called upon to handle only 585 shots compared with 792 for Al Rollins the busy gent in the Black Hawks nets. Only Glenn Hall of the Detroit Red Wings has less work than Plante.</p><p>So, obviously, he is getting great protection. Doug Harvey is still All-Star material, Dollard St-Laurent has maintained the sensational rate of play that stamped him as one of the best performers in the playoffs last spring and Tom Johnson probably is the best defensive rearguard in the league right now.</p><p>Butch Bouchard, although yielding slowly to Father Time, acquitted himself well in the early games and, when he went on the injured list, Jean-Guy Talbot, an eager rookie from Shawinigan Falls, stepped into the breach with all the aplomb of a.seasoned veteran.</p><p>With these chaps in front of him to harass rival forwards, the 26-year-old Plante is making a determined bid to become the first Montreal player since Bill Durnan to win the Vezina Trophy. Big Bill got his name on the cup for the sixth time in seven years back in 19 50 and since then it has remained the exclusive property of Terry Sawchuk, now a busy bee with the Boston Bruins, and Harry Lumley, now far from being a threat with the dismal Maple Leafs from Toronto.</p><p>A native of Shawinigan Falls, Plante has registered five shutouts, blanking every team in the league with the exception of the New York Rangers. Twice he wielded the whitewash brush against the Hawks&mdash;6-0 in Montreal on Oct. 22 and 2-0 at Chicago on Nov. 13.</p><p>Plante tripped the Leafs 2-0 in the opening game at Montreal and then repeated in his second appearance of the season as the Habs edged Boston by a similar score. He beat the Red Wings 3-0 in Montreal on Nov. 12.</p><p>Percentagewise Plante has topped his five rivals of the cords all season, ever since he stopped all but two of the first 80 shots fired at him. Out of his 585 shots in his first 2 3 games, he made 548 saves for a fielding mark of. 937 which, in the final analysis, is the real test of a goalkeeper. Not the goals-against average. That&rsquo;s an absurd yardstick because no too goalies handle the same number of shots.</p><p>Plante is almost a clinch to be selected by sports writers to the mid-winter all-star team. Gump Worsley of the Rangers should make the second team although Hall has a better goals against average.</p><p>But, as we pointed out earlier, the Detroit netminder enjoys a sinecure compared with little Gump. The New York netminder, when figures were last compiled, had faced 766 shots, stopping 717 of them for a mark of. 93 6, just a shade below Plante&rsquo;s record.</p><h2><b>Wanderin&rsquo; Wonder</b></h2><h2><b>Rugged Rearguards</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02218/1470632-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="556" height="1141"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG HARVEY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03172/1470625-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="561" height="1116"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOM JOHNSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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McNeil’s With Royals, But He Keeps Plante In Canadiens’ Goals

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Irvin is one of the first who 11 admit that the encouraging improvement of his Black Hawks in the NHL race to date has been based strongly upon an overall team effort rather than any individual performances. &ldquo;We have no super-stars on this club,&rdquo; he has reiterated several times.</p><p>Probably realizing that he may be pinned in a corner to provide a definite reason for the team&rsquo;s position of regular contention this year sooner or later, however, he has introduced an interesting observation concerning the talent of Chicago&rsquo;s four left wingers.</p><p>The quartet includes Johnny Wilson, Nick Mickoski, Harry Watson and Jack McIntyre who possess between them the heavy total of 33 years experience in the National. League. &ldquo;Did you know,&rdquo; quizzes Irvin, &ldquo;that these guys form the highest scoring left wing contingent in the league?&rdquo;</p><p>When the Hawks recently completed the first third of their 1955-56 schedule, NHL statistics showed that Irvin&rsquo;s four left flankers had come through with over half of the entire team&rsquo;s 58 goals&mdash;31 to be exact. No other portside patrollers in a group could come close to this marksmanship pace.</p><p>With 10 markers each, Wilson and Mickoski at this stage seemed definitely headed for their best seasons in the NHL. Nick&rsquo;s high for a full year&mdash;20 goals&mdash;was acheived with the Rangers in 1950-51. It was two seasons later when Wilson hit his peak of 23 with Detroit.</p><p>Harry Watson&rsquo;s contribution of seven to the Chicago left wing output at the one-third stage of the schedule placed him just about on schedule as one of the league&rsquo;s steadiest goalgetters. Now up to a lifetime NHL total of 221, he has averaged very close to 20 goals yearly for a dozen campaigns.</p><p>The remaining four goals were pocketed by McIntyre who filled in occasionally for Mickoski and Watson. Even with just such spasmodic duty big &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; managed to pluck more pucks into enemy cages than such highly rated left side skaters as Sid Smith, Dickie Moore, Lome Ferguson and Danny Lewicki.</p><p>Wilson and Mickoski have been especially prolific in accounting for key goals and have led the entire Black Hawk line-up in this vein with apparent ease. During the club&rsquo;s first 23 games, 22 points were acquired in league standings. Goals by Wilson got seven of these while Mickoski markers produced six.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Prolific Portsiders Heading Chi-Hawks

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Apparently those rumblings caused by the volcanic ice eruptions of the New York Rangers carried 3,000 miles across the continent to Victoria, B.C., where Lester Patrick resides.</p><p>The grand old man of hockey (only you wouldn&rsquo;t call him &ldquo;old&rdquo; by looking-at or talking with him) couldn&rsquo;t resist the urge and journeyed to New York to see what this Ranger noise was all about.</p><p>Undoubtedly Lester liked what he saw.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s been a change,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;A change in tempo. The game is faster than ever. I believe. the coaching has improved too. The players are skilled artists.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick, a coach, manager and vice-president of the Rangers in bygone days, hadn&rsquo;t seen a game in New York in six and a half years. He retired from active duty in the Spring of 1949.</p><p>As far the &ldquo;New&rdquo; New York Rangers were concerned his visit was a welcome one. They whitewashed the Bruins twice, 4-0, 5-0, while Lester was in New York and Boston.</p><p>The 71-year-old hockey pioneer, who spent 55 years as a player and executive, was given a rousing ovation by the capacity New York audience when introduced to them prior to the game.</p><p>In his inimitable style he recounted hockey tales to the writers, from the days of Bad Joe Hall (who really wasn&rsquo;t that bad) to present day players.</p><p>&ldquo;People keep asking me to compare the hockey of today to that of the pre-war days but you can&rsquo;t,&rdquo; the ice game&rsquo;s elder statesman insisted.</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey has changed in almost every decade going back to the pre World War I days. The difference in the way the game was played each time a major rule change was made is so great that it would be senseless to make comparisons.&rdquo;</p><p>Although Lester is more or less a bystander today the Patrick name remains synonomous with hockey. Lester&rsquo;s sons, Lynn and Muzz, remain in charge of two NHL outfits. Lynn is general manager of the Bruins while Muzz occupies the same role with the Blues.</p><p>Lester served as president of the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League until going into retirement last Spring.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Game Faster Than Ever Says Lester Patrick

<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>Yearly Subscription Rates; $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</p><p>Entered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y. under the Act of March 3rd, 1879</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa</p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>VOL 9 DECEMBER 10. 1955 No. 11</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0489/1470794-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"></div><h2><b>Left-Wingers</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been interested and pleased to read all the nice things you have published in the Hockey News relative to Ted Lindsay, the great left-winger of the Detroit Club, because I believe he is a great hockey player.</p><p>However, I am concerned and at a loss to understand just how Lindsay rates mention in a goal scoring way with that other great left-winger, Aurel Joliat.</p><p>It would appear that after twelve (odd months) years, Lindsay has exceeded the goal output of Joliat, although the latter only played (at a guess) two thirds the number of games that Lindsay did, due to the fact that in Joliat&rsquo;s day the playing season was shorter and the number of games from approximately ten to twenty each year, less.</p><p>In my opinion it would seem to be a much fairer comparison if you were to give your readers the actual games played by Joliat during his tenude in the NHL which may or may not have exceeded the length of time Lindsay has been playing in the same league. Furthermore, it should be understood that Stanley Cup or All-Star games do not count in this proposed tabulation, just league games and the number each participant (Joliat and Lindsay) has engaged in.</p><p>I am not trying to distract from the gameness, energy and leadership of Lindsay, but rather to find out the comparative scoring returns of each of the two players under review during the same number of games during league play. I hope I may have the information desired.</p><p>Duncan, B.C. R.H. Moore</p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I thought at last it would come out into the open and at last it has. It took a keen eye and the new Hawk mentor Dick Irvin has just that.</p><p>Last year Mosienko and Jankowski were blamed for being out of position and a lot of praise that was not forthcoming was dished out to the line of Litzen-berger, Watson, and Sullivan. Sullivan in particular was out of position so many times that any new fan just watching a hockey game for the 1st time would have trouble figuring out just what position Sullivan played. True he got a lot of points but he gave away more than he got.</p><p>Now Mr. Irvin spotted this right away and relegated him to a substitute and this is the reason that Boston parted with him. and the reason that Frankie Eddols is back where he belongs at Buffalo.</p><p>Chicago, Ill. Bill Parsons</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>The Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball Club uses and endorses BIKE Trainers. Tape and BIKE Supports.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0582/1470825-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Jean Beliveau</b></p><p><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></p><p><b>Gordie Howe</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best magazine I&rsquo;ve read yet on hockey. It&rsquo;s easy to read and easy to look at. The pictures are very clear and distinct and the stories contain information that doesn&rsquo;t appear in other magazines. I believe you&rsquo;ve really scored with HOCKEY PICTORIAL.&rdquo;</p><p>I think HOCKEY PICTORIAL is tops in every way and I know that the other players in the National Hockey League feel the same way. I would say the same thing even if the first issue didn&rsquo;t contain a story on me. It won&rsquo;t be long before the HOCKEY PICTORIAL is as much a part of a hockey fans reading as The Hockey News. A truly great magazine.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;My wife and I took a subscription to HOCKEY PICTORIAL before the first issue came out and we&rsquo;re mighty happy we did now that we&rsquo;ve seen a couple of issues. It&rsquo;s the best magazine that&rsquo;s ever come out on hockey and I&rsquo;m sure that hockey fans everywhere will go for it in a big way. They should as it has everything that a hockey fan could hope to read.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Stars Pich A Winner!

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01315/1470763-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p>&bull; THREE of the coaches in the American Hockey League were defensemen during their playing days. They are Frankie Eddolls of the Buffalo Bisons, Johnny Crawford of the Providence Reds and Bill (Red) Mitchell of the Springfield Indians. A fourth, Murray Henderson of the Hershey Bears, still takes the occasional turn on the ice for the Boston Bruins&rsquo; farm club&hellip;Wild Bill Ezinicki, the former NHL star, has retired from the game&hellip;Ray Ceresino of the Victoria Cougars is a much-travelled hockeyist. He&rsquo;s played, at one time or another, in Seattle, Cleveland, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Providence and Montreal&hellip;Muzz Patrick of the Rangers figures the Chicago Black Hawks to still be around come playoff time next March. Says Muzz: &ldquo;They shouldn&rsquo;t slip too much. They&rsquo;ve got a rough defense for one thing. But their number one asset has been the fine showing of their rookies, Hank Ciesla and Hec Lalande up front&rdquo;&hellip;Gump Worsley used to use three sticks in his junior days with the Verdun Cyclones. He was gifted with one each from Charlie (Prince) Rayner, Sugar Jim Henry and Hal Gordon, then the. three top men in the Ranger&rsquo;s goaltending department&hellip;Six of the 16 ten-year men in the NHL this season have always played with the same club. They are Maurice Richard and Butch Bouchard (Canadiens); Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe (Red Wings); Jim Thomson (Leafs) and Don Raleigh (Rangers)&hellip;Bouchard, with 15 years service, heads the longevity list&hellip;A group of automobile dealers, advertising in the Boston Bruins&rsquo; programme, use the slogan, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a Rocket for every Pocket&rdquo;&hellip;Les Lilley, now with the Vancouver Canucks, last season played his hockey in England&hellip;Harvey Jackson, the former Toronto Maple Leaf great, bending the ear of anyone who cares to listen with raves about son, Kim. Although the youngster&rsquo;s only five-and-a-half months old, Harv sees future greatness for him. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got the legs of a future NHL star&rdquo;, says Harvey&hellip;Boston&rsquo;s &ldquo;Gallery Gods&rdquo; have been causing a nuisance with their habit of throwing missiles and paper on the ice this season and President Walter Brown now plans to take legal action against anyone caught in the act.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02203/1470756-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="278" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; JACQUES PLANTE, the stellar netminder of the Montreal Canadiens, says that he loses anywhere from four to six pounds during every game he plays. Jacques, never a rotund character at his heaviest, soon won&rsquo;t be seen if he continues to shed the suet at that rate&hellip;Sports Illustrated&rsquo;s latest issue has some fine action shots of a recent New York&mdash;Montreal contest&hellip;Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly and Marty Pavelich have applied to become American citizens. Two teammates, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, have already taken the big step&hellip;A doctor has informed Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Bonin that they may be due for a double visit from Sir Stork. Twins, says the doc&hellip;&ldquo;There must be something wrong with Boston&rdquo;, says the Bruin muscleman, since teammates Hal Laycoe and Bill Quackenbush are already the proud poppas of twins&hellip;Bonin, incidentally, calls linemate Murray Costello, &ldquo;Lou&rdquo;, no doubt after the famous comedian&hellip;St. Lawrence University Hockey Press Book is one of the best put out by a hockey club. Men responsible are Publicity Department head J. Robert Williams and Clifford R. Olsen&hellip;Harry Dick, formerly of the WHL Vancouver Canucks, now connected with a huge construction firm in Kansas City, where, according to the song, everything&rsquo;s up to date&hellip;Another ex-Canuck, Frank Ashworth, has a service station in Calgary.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03124/1470749-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="288" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marcel Bonin</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; IT DIDN&rsquo;T take Jim Bartlett, rookie winger with the Providence Reds, long to show why he carries the nickname, &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo;. R.I. fans love the way he wades right in, no matter who his opponent happens to be. The &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo; tag is a natural too, with the other fellow of the same nickname, Marciano, having started his boxing career in Providence&hellip;Gordie (Red) Henry, for 11 seasons goaler for the Hershey Bears, now twending twine for the OHA Owen Sound Mercurys&hellip;Didja know that Jack McIntyre of the Chicago Black Hawks comes from Brussels? (Ontario not Belgium)&hellip;And that there only three players on the Montreal Canadiens who do not hail from the Province of Quebec? They are Com Johnson (Baldur, Manitoba); Floyd Curry (Chapleau. Ontario); Bert Olmstead (Sceptre, Saskatchewan)&hellip;Eight hail from the City-of Montreal&hellip;Edward T. (Ted) Dooley, who works as a linesman in the American Hockey League, was recently appointed to the post of racing secretary at. Rockingham Park&hellip;George Army, trainer for the Providence Reds, is now in his 27th season with that club, which must rate as some sort of a record&hellip;Toe Blake not at all happy over the lavish praise bestowed on his Habitants by Rangers&rsquo; Muzz Patrick. &ldquo;Wait until we&rsquo;ve won seven NHL titles in a row like the Detroit Red Wings before saying we&rsquo;re the best team in history,&rdquo; the Old Lamplighter warned&hellip;Recently, Leapin&rsquo; Lou Fontinato of the Rangers was penalized three times in the same game by Referee Lou Maschio. &ldquo;How could he do that to me&rdquo; groaned Louis after the game. &ldquo;We grew up together, separated only by a backyard fence. We&rsquo;re both of Italian descent. We eat in each other&rsquo;s homes. But that&rsquo;s all over now. The minute I get home I&rsquo;ll build that fence so high Maschio will need an airplane to get over it.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01297/1470742-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="292" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lou Fontinato</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By Marshall Dann</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01266/1470863-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="275" height="441"></div><p>For an early Hart Trophy nomination, let&rsquo;s take the case of Jean Beliveau.</p><p>With the season one-third gone, Beliveau has been the outstanding player in the league as well as the most valuable. He also is the best player in hockey today.</p><p>A blunt statement, yes. Firm backing for it comes from managers, owners, coaches and players alike. All rivals readily praise the giant, richly talented Montreal centre as one of the all-time stars of the game after only three seasons in the National League.</p><p>That &ldquo;best player&rdquo; label isn&rsquo;t one which is tossed about freely either.</p><p>Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe are about the only other active players ever to carry it. Milt Schmidt, Eddie Shore and Howie Morenz were among the old-timers entitled to it.</p><p>Beliveau came to the Canadiens on a sea of ink and has achieved the difficult feat of living up to advance notices plus.</p><p>It cost the Canadiens the fattest contract ever offered any player to get him. He&rsquo;s been worth every bit of the five-year $100,000 pact or whatever Frank Selke parted with to lure Le Gros Bill from similary profitable ventures in Quebec.</p><p>Injuries slowed him down as a rookie. As a sophomore he made 73 points, just two short of the lead. Included were 37 goals, one short of the pace set by teammates Boom Boom Geoffrion and Rocket Richard.</p><p>This season Beliveau is attempting to make it a solo race in both departments. Possibly he will&mdash;he&rsquo;s fully capable.</p><p>Statistics don&rsquo;t give the full picture, however. Unlike Geoffrion and Richard, Beliveau also is an excellent playmaker.</p><p>In fact, the only argument about him is whether he&rsquo;s better at setting up goals or at making them.</p><p>With his size (6-foot-3, 209 pounds) nobody pushes him around. This season, for the first time, he&rsquo;s also started to push them around. More aggressive, even bellingerent, he&rsquo;s become a policeman and is prospering as a result.</p><p>From various members of the Red Wings family comes some interesting comments on Beliveau.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of the all-time greats,&rdquo; insits Jack Adams. &ldquo;He is the man most responsible for Montreal&rsquo;s success this year. He proved that he is carrying them by the way they keep right on winning after a key player like Geoffrion was injured.&rdquo;</p><p>Bob Goldham, who eyed hundreds of NHL forwards in the last 15 years, calls Beliveau &ldquo;a good big strong player who can do everything&hellip;you rarely see him knocked off his feet or even off balance.&rdquo;</p><p>Marcel Pronovost, also a defenseman, points out that &ldquo;when you take Jean out with a body check he still has the size, strength and reach to get off a shot or a pass.&rdquo;</p><p>While Beliveau does plenty of pressuring on his regular line, he&rsquo;s at his best on the power play. Short-handed teams may escape being scored upon, but they&rsquo;re always scared to death when he leads the Montreal power crew.</p><p>Boston learned that the night Beliveau trigged three goals in 42 seconds during one Bruin penalty.</p><p>Gordie Howe sums up the case for Beliveau when he says &ldquo;he&rsquo;s one man in the league that every hockey player would most want on his own team.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Developing</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02234/1470856-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1160" height="1712"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOLLINGWORTH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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On Thin Ice

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Black Hawk line of Nick Mickoski, Glen Skov and Tony Leswick hasn&rsquo;t reaped too much credit in this NHL campaign so far, but their coach, Dick Irvin, recognizes this as an oversight on the public&rsquo;s part which might be corrected with a little reporting on the trio&rsquo;s accomplishments.</p><p>&ldquo;It would make a good story for THE HOCKEY NEWS why don&rsquo;t you handle it,&rdquo; he urged recently with considerable enthusiasm. &ldquo;Did you know those guys have been on the ice for only three of our 61 goals against in the first 23 games of Chicago&rsquo;s schedule?</p><p>This fact alone seemed to warrant a good story, but further study of this line&rsquo;s work brought about the realization that it is probably the best two-way unit skating in the National Hockey League today. Scoring has been as strong a point as the stellar defensive work.</p><p>Through the last weekend of last month. Mickoski had racked up 10 goals and five assists to earn top spot on the Hawk scoring list. Skov&rsquo;s record included a goal and eight assist while the tough, little Leswick had four goals and a trio of assists to his credit.</p><p>In all, the three bad piled up 15 goals, 16 assists and 31 points not bad for a line tossed into action with the main objective of halting such scoring strong boys as Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Jean Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion who have virtually starved against Chicago as a result.</p><p>Mickoski is having the best season in an NHL career which goes back eight years. His galloping style and constant eagerness to get the puck back when it&rsquo;s going the other way have placed him in a strong position with the generally pretty critical Chicago fans.</p><p>Just as he was in past campaigns with Detroit, the lanky Skov has proved a constant pest to rival forwards attempting to push the rubber out of their own end. He has a good reach which has established him as an ample replacement for &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; McCormack who can score to boot!</p><p>The colorful Leswick could be all washed up if he were just an average veteran player. Many skaters would hang &lsquo;em up if traded from a championship club at his stage, but Tony just loves to play hockey&rsquo; and has shown it in every game with Chicago. He is as honest a performer as may ever be found in the NHL.</p><p>Well, you can see what you&rsquo;ve not in comparing the paragraphs on these three. Aggressive spirit, checking ability, scoring prowess and several other commendable qualities seem to have been mixed in equal batches to give the Black Hawks the best two-way line in hockey.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mickoski-Skov-Leswick Best Two-Way Line?

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Nine years of solid success in Detroit have convinced Red Kelly and Marty Pavelich that they want to make permanent homes here.</p><p>The two Red Wings veterans are applying to become United States citizens.</p><p>Pavelich hails from Sault&mdash;Ste&mdash;Marie, Ont., Kelly from Simcoe, Ont. Both are 28 years old.</p><p>Capt. Ted Kennedy and Gordie Howe beat them on this move, taking the same step some time ago.</p><p>More than a dozen ex-Red Wings already have settled in these parts after becoming U.S. citizens. Among the latter-day players who did so are Sid Abel, George Gee, Jimmy Peters and Johnny Mowers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Red Wings Fly South Across The Border

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;We have strengthened ourselves&hellip;we have strengthened the league.&rdquo;</p><p>Those were among the comments which General Manger Jack Adams made recently in detailing the whys and wherefores of his trading sprees.</p><p>In the face of increasing fan criticism as a result of Detroit&rsquo;s unexpected off-form start this season, has comments are interesting and revealing.</p><p>This is the picture Adams described in a recent interview with John Walter, hockey writer for The Detroit News:</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a realist&hellip;I&rsquo;m not whistling in the dark when I say our trades with Boston and Chicago strengthened the Red Wings. Some people are beginning to doubt it because of our slowness in getting started.</p><p>&ldquo;Jimmy Skinner and I have had faith in our boys all along. Except for the early speed Montreal has been showing, this is one of the tightest NHL races we&rsquo;ve seen in a long time.</p><p>&ldquo;Some say it is wrong to tear down a championship hockey club. But to me, getting new faces&mdash;hungry hockey players&mdash;is the reason we&rsquo;Ve won seven straight NHL championships.</p><p>&ldquo;Look at our situation a year ago. Our fifth defenseman was Keith Allen, 33, and we didn&rsquo;t have a prospect in sight in our farm system. We traded Benny Woit, 28, to Chicago for Bucky &lsquo;Hollingworth, 22. We got Warren Godfrey, 24, from Boston. Godfrey is exceeding our expectations and Hollingworth is developing. Both will improve so we&rsquo;ve helped ourselves for now as well as the future.</p><p>&ldquo;We got Jerry Toppazzini, 24, for Tony Leswick, 32. That&rsquo;s an eight-year difference, a considerable difference.</p><p>&ldquo;In sending Johnny Wilson, 26, and Glen Skov, 24, to Chicago, we made room for Norm Ullman, 19, and John Bucyk, 20. We tell the kids in our farm system that when they&rsquo;re ready for NHL hockey, they&rsquo;ll be playing it. That&rsquo;s why we brought up Ullman and Bucyk.</p><p>&ldquo;Ullman ic developing very fast. We haven&rsquo;t had as much opportunity to play Bucyk, whom we&rsquo;re. bringing along gradually This has been a great year for youngsters. Every club in the league has brought up two or three.</p><p>&ldquo;In trading Terry Sawchuk to Boston, we made room for Glenn Hall. People ask If we&rsquo;re satisfied with Hall. My answer is an emphatic yes. He has justified all our hopes and expectations. And here&rsquo;s an all-important point: he&rsquo;s extremely popular with the rest of the players.</p><p>&ldquo;As far as a goalie is concerned, they&rsquo;re just as good as the protection they get. Harry Lumley, Toronto&rsquo;s goalie, has had more goals scored on him but, to me, that&rsquo;s no criterion of his play. He is one of the all-time greats in my book.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what Hall has to do to prove that he belongs. Our own goal average is down. We&rsquo;ve had a couple of scoreless ties. Whit any luck he could have had three more shutouts.</p><p>&ldquo;Take a look at the scoring records. Gordie Howe is among the leaders yet he went eight straight games without a goal. Four times he had two in one game. Spread those goals out and we could have won four or five more games.</p><p>&ldquo;Real Chevrefils has been a new man in recent days. Last year he collected 40 points, including 18 goals, with a fourth-place team. He wasn&rsquo;t sure in his own mind that the other players wanted him on the club. After that vote of confidence they gave him in a players&rsquo; meeting, he&rsquo;s shown an entirely different spirit. He&rsquo;s only 32 and he&rsquo;s got 10 years of NHL hockey ahead of him if he takes care of himself.</p><p>&ldquo;We got Ed Sandford from Boston and we swapped him for Metro Prystai. We didn&rsquo;t lose on that one either.</p><p>&ldquo;We got Dave Creighton from Chicago, traded him to New York and he was going great guns there until he was hurt. Vic Stasiuk and Marcel Bonin are doing well for Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;So we&rsquo;ve helped Chicago, Boston and New York. It&rsquo;s a calculated risk. Those teams are stronger, harder for us to handle. But don&rsquo;t forget that they&rsquo;re cutting up the other teams in the league, too.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve spent a lot of time and money on the players we traded away. That&rsquo;s helping the league. And it is a left-handed compliment to-us when they come into Olympia and go great guns against us&hellip;</p><p>&ldquo;But here&rsquo;s another point&mdash;we may increase our attendance receipts $25,000 over the season in our games with Boston alone, because of the local fan interest in the former Red Wings on that</p><p>&ldquo;So we help others and we help ourselves too.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fast, Furious Trading Helps League And Wings Says Adams

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>ndy Bathgate, the starry winger of the New York Rangers, went on a scoring spree last week and by the time all the smoke of battle had cleared, the dark-thatched speedster had picked up a total of eight points in three games.</b></p><p><b>Eager Andy act off on the right foot on November 30 when he scored one goal and assisted on three others as the Broadway Blues belted the Chicago Black Hawks 61.</b></p><p><b>On December 2, Bathgate figured in both New York goals as the Rangers again beat the Chi-Hawks, this time by a &#2404; 2-1 count. He scored one goal and assisted on the other.</b></p><p><b>Two nights later, in Madison Square Garden, the Blues kept their red hot streak going as they thumped the defending champion Detroit Red Wings, 7-3. Again Bathgate had one of each, a goal and an assist.</b></p><p><b>The weeks&rsquo; production brought Bathgate&rsquo;s total for the season to seven goals, 18 assists for 25 points.</b></p><p><b>Like the rest of the Rangers, Andy Bathgate is this season hotter than a ten cent pipe and if he and his mates can remain in the same torrid state, it could be that the Broadway Blues will enjoy their highest finish in the standings in a number of years.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-127/1471074-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="285" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Lucky Seven</b></h2><p>Three victories for the Rangers last week extended their unbeaten streak to seven games.</p><h2><b>Gros Bill Tops</b></h2><p>Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Ca nadiens is the NHL&rsquo;s top marks-man with 16 counters to his credit to date.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M. DEC. 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01298/1471043-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="590" height="185"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 4th 1955</h3><p>Wed. Nov. 30th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Toronto 3</p><p>Wed. Nov. 30th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Rangers 6</p><p>Thurs. Dec. lst&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Boston 1</p><p>Fri. Dec. 2nd&mdash;Rangers 2 at Chicago 1</p><p>Sat. Dec. 3rd&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Toronto 1</p><p>Sat. Dec. 3rd&mdash;Detroit 5 at Boston 0</p><p>Sun. Dec. 4th&mdash;Canadiens 5 at Chicago 1</p><p>Sun. Dec. 4th&mdash;Toronto 0 at oBston 5</p><p>Sun. Dec. 4th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Rangers 7</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 4th 1955</h3><p>Wed. Dec 7th&mdash;Toronto at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Det. 8th&mdash;Toronto at Canadiens</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 5th&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Fri. Dec. 9th&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Dec. 10th&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Dec. 10th&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Sun. Dec. 11th&mdash;Canadiens at Boston</p><p>Sun. Dec. 11th&mdash;Toronto at Chicago</p><p>Sun. Dec. 11th&mdash;Rangers at Detroit Individual scoring records are:</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Chicago 1, at New York 6</h3><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; dfense, Fogolin, Stanley. Woit, Martin, Dewsbury; forwards, Sullivan, Keswick, Mickoski, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Skov, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defense, Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato; forwards, Raleigh, Horvath, Popein, Bathgate, Lewicki, Prentice, Gendron, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen, Sam Babcock, Gordon Fevreau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02240/1471036-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="590" height="529"></div><h3>THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1 Montreal 2 at Boston 1</h3><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Plante; defense, Talbot, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent. Bouchard; forwards, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Leclair, Marshall.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defense, Boivin, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Laycoe; forwards, McKenney, Labine, Costello, Gardner, Mohns, Ferguson, Mackell, Tessier, Stasiuk, Bonin, Davis, Panagabko.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehienbacher; linesmen, Bam Babcock and Gordon Fevreau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03180/1471029-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="592" height="498"></div><h3>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 New York 2 at Chicago 1</h3><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defense, Howell, Fontinato, Irwin, Gadsby, Evans; forwards, Lewicki, Raleigh, Hergesheimer, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Popein.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense, Woit, Dewsbury. Fogolin, Stanley, Martin; forwards. McIntyre, Sullivan, Litzenberger, Watson, Leswick. Mickoski, Sandford, Skov, Wilson. Lalande. Ciesla.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen, Scotty Morrison, Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04135/1471022-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="589" height="323"></div><h3>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1955 Canadiens 3 at Toronto 1</h3><p><b>Canadien</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante: defenses: Johnson. Harvel, Talbot, St. Laurent, Bouchard; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, M. Richard. H. Richard, Curry, Leclair, Moore. Mosdell., Marshall. Provost.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defenses: Morrison, Horton, Bolton, Bionda, James: forwards: Sloan, Duff, Armstrong, Smith, Stewart, Migay, Harris, Hurst, Hannigan, Balfour, Rheaume, &bull;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0597/1471015-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="591" height="429"></div><h3>Detroit 5 at Boston 0</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defenses: Armstrong. Boivin: centre: Mackell; forwards: Stasiuk, Bonin; substitutes: Gardner, Labine. Mohns, Ferguson, Quackenbush. Costello, Laycoe, McKenney, Flaman, Nicholson, Heinrich.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defenses: Godfrey, Kelly; centre: Reibel; forwards: Howe, Lindsay; substitutes: Delvecchio, Dineen. Chevrefils, Ullman, Toppazzini, Pavelich, Prystai, Bueyk, Goldham, Hollingworth, Pronovost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0674/1471008-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="590" height="477"></div><h3>SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1955 Canadiens 5 at Chicago 1</h3><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defence: Woit, Dewsbury. Fogolin. Stanley, Martin; forwards: Lewick, Skov, Mickoski, Watson, Sandford, McIntyre, Litzenberger, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante: defence: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Bouchard, St-Laurent; forwards: Beliveau. Georfrion. Olmstead, Harvey, Curry, Leclair M. Richard, Moore, H. Richard, Mosdell. Marshall, Provost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0757/1471001-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="595" height="551"></div><h3>New York 7 at Detroit 3</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Howell, Fontinato, Irwin, Gadsby, Evans; forwards: Bathgate, Prentice, Popein, Raleigh, Gendron. Horvath, Hebehton, Murphy, Greighton, Hergesheirner, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Hollingworth, Godfrey; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Dineen, Chevrefils, Uuuman, Pavelich, Bucyk, Toppazzini, Prystai.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0846/1470994-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="593" height="801"></div><h3>Toronto 0 at Boston 5</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: R. Armstrong. Boivin; centre: Mackell; forwards: Labine, McKenney; substitutes: Stasiuk, Gardner, Quackenbush, Ferguson, Flaman, Mohns, Costello, Bonin, Heinrich, Nicholson.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley: defenses Bolton, Reaume; centre: wards: Stewart, Hannigan; substitutes: Thomson, Morrison, Horton, Smith, G. Armstrong, Sloan, Harris. Nesterenko, James, Balfour.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04159/1470987-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="597" height="518"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Includes games of Sunday, Dec. 4)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0934/1470980-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="613" height="3051"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-1956</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1024/1470973-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="591" height="185"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1118/1470966-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="587" height="156"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>These Red Wings of 1955 are a team of strange contrasts.</p><p>Most unpredicatable team in the league, the Wings sparkle like the champs of old one night, then follow up with a completely lackluster performance.</p><p>On home ice, where Detroit team always have been tough, they&rsquo;ve provided easy pickings for surprise rivals by giving indifferent showings.</p><p>At times they show tremendous power.&hellip;the next instant they&rsquo;re woefully weak.,</p><p>Scoring balance on the squad is completely lopsided.</p><p>There is no middle ground for this team. Either it is wildly &ldquo;up&rdquo; or miserably &ldquo;down.&rdquo;</p><p>Is this the way&mdash;strong on paper but flat on ice&mdash;that a championship reign ends?</p><p>That&rsquo;s what Motor City fans are wondering.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s look at some of the details, such as the business of a sharp, snappy effort always being followed by a sloppy one.</p><p>The Wings have played four outstanding games this season, the first of which didn&rsquo;t return a bit of profit.</p><p>On Oct. 2, Detroit defeated the All Stars with an impressive demonstration which sent representatives of the five other NHL teams back home convinced that the Wings were made of title stuff once again.</p><p>In the next start&mdash;after four days at home&mdash;Detroit lost its opener to Chicago, 3-2.</p><p>On Oct. 16, there was a high-powered 6-0 romp over Toronto in the top offensive showing to date.</p><p>In the next start&mdash;after four days at home&mdash;Detroit struggled for a 2-2 tie with Chicago.</p><p>No more victories came until Nov. 6 when the Wings struck fast for a 4-1 conquest of Toronto.</p><p>In the next start&mdash;after four days at home&mdash;Detroit squandered a lead and was tied by Chicago again, 2-2.</p><p>Finally came the peak effort to date, a 3-2 triumph over Montreal in the finest local game of the year.</p><p>In the next start&mdash;after three days at home&mdash;Detroit was humbled 2 to 1, by a Toronto team that was missing four regulars and had seven rookies in the lineup.</p><p>How can you explain that? Each time, when it looks like the team has finally become untracked, it stalls even worse despite plenty of rest and favorable home-ice conditions.</p><p>No wonder Jack Adams wants to adopt for permanent use the monastic procedure followed during the playoffs when the players are spirited to isolation in a Toledo hotel between all games.</p><p>Then there&rsquo;s the goal-scoring split.</p><p>This seems neatly balanced when records show, hat the right wings have made 14, the centers 14, the left Wings 13 and the defensemen five.</p><p>But look at the individual split:</p><p>Right wings&mdash;Gordie Howe (10), Bill Dineen (4), Jerry Toppazzini (0).</p><p>Centers&mdash;Alex DeIVecchio (8), Dutch Reibel (4), Norm Ullman (1), Metro Prystai (1).</p><p>Left wings&mdash;Ted Lindsay (12), Real Chevrefils (1), Marty Pavelich (0), Johnny Bucyk (0).</p><p>Defense&mdash;Red Kelly (2), Warren Godfrey (2), Marcel Pronovost (1), Bucky Hollingworth (0), Bob Goldham (0).</p><p>The Production Line of Howe, Lindsay and Reibel has totaled 26 of the team&rsquo;s 46 goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Championship Reign Ending With Hot-Cold Red Wings?

<div class="byline">FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Now they&rsquo;re claiming Phil Watson is a &ldquo;master psychologist&rdquo; though it&rsquo;s a good bet he&rsquo;s never seen a doctor&rsquo;s couch in his life.</p><p>When the Blues licked Toronto, 4-1, recently Phil blunted his needle and went off on a new tack to get results. He went into verbal action at the end of the first period.</p><p>Leafs had jumped into a 1-0 lead and made the New Yorkers look slightly silly in front of a huge home crowd. Phil outdid the great Dr. Freud this time.</p><p>&ldquo;We all expected the coach to screech and roar as he sometimes does,&rdquo; said Don Raleigh, &ldquo;but he fooled us. He just quietly said we had been having a lot of hard luck which couldn&rsquo;t last. We knew it &lsquo;was lousy playing, not luck, but he made us feel better.&rdquo;</p><p>Who cares what it was! The New Yorkers turned chameleon for the next two stanzas and raked the dazed Torontonians, 4-1.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t yell at them and threaten to send anybody to Providence,&rdquo; Watson later admitted. &ldquo;Providence took an 8-0 shellacking the night before so there was nobody on that club that I wanted. The boys knew it so I had to change my strategy.&rdquo;</p><p>At other times the coach explodes with words that would make a Marine blush.</p><p>As one writer put it: &ldquo;He shouts in English, then in French, then in a language said to have been picked up hunting the wild Gingus in Bolivia, haranguing the athletes throughout the rest period.</p><p>&ldquo;Steam and occasional sparks escape under the door but not a Ranger is freed until the last second at which time they get out, hair standing on end.&rsquo;</p><p>Geez, is it really that bad Gump?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04179/1471205-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="304" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Watson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Meet Prof. Watson: Master Psychologist

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mas.&mdash;</p><p>When Bob Armstrong became a professional hockey player several years ago his talent as a cook was restricted to the ability to boil water without burning it.</p><p>But today the broad-shouldered defenseman of the Boston Bruins can find his way around a kitchen as well as any graduate of a home economics course.</p><p>As the number one cook he&rsquo;s a man of distinction in the home which he occupies during the hockey season with two other bachelor members of the Bruins, forwards Leo LaBine and Murray Costello.</p><p>This is the second year that Armstrong, LaBine and Costello have maintained their own wintertime residence, in the manner of resourceful young athletes living away from their permanent homes.</p><p>Their home here is a four-room apartment in Newton Highlands, some eights miles from Boston Garden where the Bruins play their home games.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very nice place,&rdquo; related Costello. &ldquo;We had it last year and we were lucky enough to. get it again this year.</p><p>&ldquo;We have two bedrooms&mdash;Leo and Satch (Armstrong) share one and I have the other&mdash;a kitchen, living room and bath. The living room has a television set.</p><p>&ldquo;Three of the rooms are really big and the kitchen has been big enough, except for last season when Long John Henderson was our goal-tender and living with us. Long John took up so much room it was kind of crowded for meals.&rdquo;</p><p>The three Bruins, according to LaBine, maintain the apartment on a cooperative basis, but his companions seem inclined to minimize his contributions&mdash;physical, not financial.</p><p>&ldquo;Everybody does something&rdquo;, declared LaBine. &ldquo;Satch does most of the cooking and Murray does some, too. We all pitch in for meals and to keep the place picked up.&rdquo;</p><p>Armstrong and Costello looked at each other and Murray mimicked LaBine, saying, &ldquo;Yeh, we all pitch in.&rdquo;</p><p>LaBine chuckled and added, &ldquo;Well, I take good care of the television set.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Actually, we do things,&rdquo; explained Costello, &ldquo;and I can say thruthfully that we eat very well.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course it&rsquo;s a little hard for anyone to mess up a breakfast&mdash;I haven&rsquo;t spoiled a dish of cornflakes yet&mdash;but we have some good meals. Satch is really a darned good cook.</p><p>&ldquo;He can do a great job with steak or chops and sometimes we have things which are on the trickly side, like special salads or meatballs and spaghetti with sauce. None of the canned stuff, but home-made.&rdquo;.</p><p>Then Costello laughed adding, &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll make someone a fine wife someday, that boy.&rdquo;</p><p>Armstrong took his chum&rsquo;s praise lightly, grinning as he observed, &ldquo;Guess I have come a long way from the day I prepared my first bowl of cereal. We talk things over in advance and decide what we&rsquo;ll have for meals Then Murray and I (with a look at LaBine) get them.&rdquo;</p><p>Like most budding artists&mdash;in this case the culinary art&mdash;Armstrong has had a leading sponsor and his was probably Sugar Jim Henry, a housemate of several winters back. The veteran goalie, a lodge operator in Kenora, Ont., is an excellent cook and he passed on many tips to Bob.</p><p>The three Bruins handle their own household chores except when the team is on the road. Then the neighbors downstairs, hockey fans, keep the place picked up for them.</p><p>Their transportation between Newton and their Garden place of business is usually supplied by LaBine, a fastidious observer of driving and parking regulations since an early-season event in Providence.</p><p>On that occasion Doug Mohns chauffered a group on the 40mile trip to watch a game between Hershey and Providence, and on LaBine&rsquo;s insistance he parked in a restricted area near the Rhode Island auditorium, Leo&rsquo;s &ldquo;They won&rsquo;t bother it&rdquo; overriding his own judgment.</p><p>When they came out after the game the car was gone. It had been towed away by Providence police, and the boys had to pay a $7 fine to reclaim it.</p><h2><b>Three&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01283/1471119-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="576" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB ARMSTRONG</b></figcaption></div><h2>Is No&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02262/1471112-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="577" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO LABINE</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;Crowd</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03216/1471105-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="568" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURRAY COSTELLO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Armstrong No. 1 Cook For 3 B’s In A Hive

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05134/1471150-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg"></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A whole squad of husky, healthy hockey players and not a catchy nickname in the lot!</p><p>That&rsquo;s the plight of Boston Bruins this season.</p><p>Oh, the Bruins boast some highly respectable given names in their hockey cast, names synonymous with honor and distinction.</p><p>Likke Calvin, Douglas, Fleming and Hubert.</p><p>They have a winner in Victor and Terrance gives them the appropriate Irish touch.</p><p>They can two-platoon the opposition with both Leo and Lome.</p><p>They have a Beacon Hill air to their training department with Hamilton and Winslow.</p><p>But in the whole kit and kaboodle of Marcels, Murrays, Roberts, Harolds and Orvals, there isn&rsquo;t one lone, single, solitary Butch, Buster, Crusher or Tex.</p><p>Gone is the Kraut Line, gone the Muscles Line. Gone is Sugar Jim, gone is Long John. No more Tinys, no more Mr. Zeroes.</p><p>Douglas, whose last name is Mohns, arrived here carrying Diesel as an added tag. The Diesel eventually became Tractor, and even that has long since been derailed.</p><p>The Leo whose last name is LaBine was christened the Haileybury Hurricane, but like all hurricanes, it petered out eventually. The name, not Leo.</p><p>&ldquo;Tsk, tsk,&rdquo; observed Manager Lynn Patrick when the absence of catch-names was called to his attention. &ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t thought about it.</p><p>It does seem strange, come to think of it, that we don&rsquo;t have a player with some sort of tag. I mean something snappy.</p><p>&ldquo;Guess there Isn&rsquo;t much we can do about it, though,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Guess we&rsquo;ll just have to continue to be a colorful team on the ice and leave the catchy names for some of the other teams.&rdquo;</p><p>At various times here this fall there have been desultary attempts to work up something in the catch-name department, but Boston phrase-coiners have been batting for nothing.</p><p>Perhaps it&rsquo;s just as well, judging by past attempts at such creations, including the one underway in New York to color up the cognomen of Leapin&rsquo; Louie Rock &lsquo;n Roll Clutch &lsquo;n Grab Fontinato, and what&rsquo;s the matter with Lou?</p><p>Yep, it looks as though the Bruins have run plumb out of color in the nickname department, but they&rsquo;re managing to make ends meet just the same.</p><p>Without a Soo Ghost, a Flash or even a Red, the public still seems to like them.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruin Guys ‘Just Plain Bill’

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>We shared a ring-side press seat with Milt Schmidt, coach of the Boston Bruins, at the DeMarco-Basilio brawl last week, and in between rounds of the furious battle, the talk naturally switched to hockey. And Schmidt told us an old story, odd, that is, if you know Dick Irvin, who hates all opposing teams in the league, some worse than others.</p><p>&ldquo;I was telling my problems to Irvin,&rdquo; said Schmidt, and believe me, I have plenty of problems. I don&rsquo;t pretend to know everything about coaching, and I was willing to listen to anything constructive Irvin might tell me. And he told me this: &ldquo;When your team isn&rsquo;t scoring it&rsquo;s partly because the players have lost confidence in their own shooting. The thing to do then, is this: get some small team, any kind of a team, a school club or something like that and tell your players to go out and score all the goals they can. Let them show no mercy to their opposition. They&rsquo;ll get a lot of goals and that will bring back their confidence.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not so sure about it, though,&rdquo; said Schmidt. &ldquo;We played a couple of minor league teams and couldn&rsquo;t score even one goal on them. It&rsquo;s very frustrating.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt chuckled as he told of a switch in the Irvin system, perpetrated by Dick himself in Chicago. &ldquo;The Hawks weren&rsquo;t scoring, and when they came into their dressing-room, they were surprised to find one of the goal nets right in the centre of their dressing-room floor, and a puck lying in front of it. No one said a word until they were all dressed. Then Irvin stood up, pointed to the net and said: &lsquo;That&rsquo;s the place you&rsquo;re supposed to put the puck, in ease you didn&rsquo;t know, and this thing here is the puck.&rsquo; With this, Irvin walked out of the room, and Hawks beat us fl-1.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin should have tried it last week before his team was smothered by the rampaging Rangers, who now threaten the lead Canadiens have held in the race since the start of the season.</p><p>There was a story around Boston that Schmidt might return to action. But Milt told us definitely not.</p><p>&ldquo;I said that when I see the Bruins making mistakes and not taking advantage of situations, I feel like going out there. But it&rsquo;s all in my head. Not a chance that 1&rsquo;11 play. Do you notice I&rsquo;m smoking cigarettes, I never did that when I was playing.&rdquo;</p><p>Herb Ralby, the Bruins public relations man, declares the fan booing reached a new peak, or depth, in the Sunday night game when Hawks plastered the Bruins by a 6-0 count.</p><p>&ldquo;The crowd not only booed the players, but they booed the press-box gang,&rdquo; said Herb, sadly. &ldquo;They were screaming at us to put the Bruins on the pan, or run them out of town.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Can This Be ‘Dour Dick’ Helping Hated Foe?

<div class="byline">LUNNY.</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It took Floyd Curry of the Canadiens a long, long time to score a goal as a professional hockey player in Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>Curry, who turned pro with the Habs in 1947, got his first goal on Toronto ice on Dec. 3 at the Habs defeated the Leafs 3-1.</p><p>His goal was the first of the game. He rifled a sharply angled shot from the left side of the Toronto net that just whizzled over goalie Harry Lumley&rsquo;s stick.</p><p>As a junior with the Oshawa Generals in the OHA, Curry had been a prolific scorer in Toronto. But, after turning pro, he became subject to a jinx that took eight years to crack.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Curry Bags First Goal In Toronto

<p><b>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</b></p><p>All-star defenceman Doug Harvey of the Canadiens was honored here on Monday, Dec. 5, as Montreal&rsquo;s outstanding professional athlete of 1955.</p><p>The award was made at the annual banquet of the Sportsmen&rsquo;s Association of Montreal, which was held in the Sheraton-Mount Royal Hotel and attended by some 500 figures from Montreal&rsquo;s business and sports world.</p><p>Harvey, an all-star last year and winner of the Jim Norris Trophy as the top defenceman in the loop, was picked by sportswriters and radio and television sportscasters over a long list of athletes including footballers and other members of the Habs.</p><p>Honored along with Harvey at the dinner were fencer Ed Brooke, as Montreal&rsquo;s top amateur athlete of the year and Jack Davies as the outstanding executive.</p><p>Guest speaker at the banquet, which also lauded the Montreal Alouettes of the Big Four, was former footballer-wrestler Herman Hickman.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Harvey Named Montreal ‘s Outstanding Pro Athlete

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01296/1471308-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WILLIE MARSHALL</b></figcaption></div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s a baseball axiom that a good team must be strong down the middle: Catcher, pitcher, shortstop and center field.</p><p>The same adage holds for hockey&mdash;a sound squad has to have it around center ice. That&rsquo;s the post of the playmaker, the key to the outer defense, and, more often than not, the seat of inspiration for the club.</p><p>Such being the case, consider the happy status of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s champion and Calder Cup-clutching Hornets with such pivot re-doubtables as Bobby Hassard, Willie (The Whip) Marshall, and Jack Caffery to lug the torch for three effective lines.</p><p>Hassard has been a valued Toronto contractee since Marlboro days in the post-war &lsquo;40s. Today, at 26, he is in his seventh professional season, although his first two with the Maple Leafs were pretty much conjoined with the Marlies so that his National League appearances totaled just one game his first time up and an even dozen contests the second.</p><p>He came to King Clancy at Pittsburgh for the 1951-52 race, played 67 games, and racked up 18 goals and 4 6 assists for a point total of 64. The next winter he moved up to Toronto for 70 games that netted eight goals and 2 3 assists for 31 points. Since then, aside from a brief and unhappy stretch with the hapless Chicago Black Hawks at the start of last season, he has divided time and talents between Toronto and Pittsburgh.</p><h2><b>Willie The Whip</b></h2><h3><b>Sparks Starting Line</b></h3><p>Assigned to Hornet duty for 1955-56, slim, six-foot Bobby registered six goals and 11 assists in his first 15 games. Currently skating between two solid wings, Parker MacDonald and Gerry Foley, he sparks the starting line and contributes regularly to the penalty killing chore. Bob has also developed a sharp, accurate shot&mdash;demonstrated vividly when he whizzed in the winner from 25 feet out against Cleveland here on November 18.</p><p>Marshall, in his fourth year with the Yellow Jackets, is cutting a terrific pace as marksman, digger and playmaker. Despite interpection of a stint with Toronto, the Whip was dogging the American League scoring leaders when the top men had played half-a-dozen more games than he. In his first 11 times out, Willie amassed 10 tallies and 15 assists for a point cluster of 25&mdash;well ahead of even his fast prior performances that gained him 27 goals and 3 9 assists for 66 points in 62 games in 1952-53, 28 and 45 for 73 points in 61 games in 1953-54, and 23 and 25 for 48 points in 46 games in 1954-55, not to mention his spectacular nine goals and seven assists in the Calder Cup playoffs.</p><p>The supreme ice mystery in Pittsburgh is why Willie the Whip doesn&rsquo;t make the riffle with the Maple Leafs!</p><h3><b>Southpaw Pitcher</b></h3><p>Caffery, just out of junior ranks at St. Michael&rsquo;s College when he came to the Hornets in the autumn of 1954, copped 15 goals and 11 assists as a freshman. He played professional baseball as a southpaw pitcher with Evanston, Indiana, of the Three-I League last summer and was rolling handsomely in the Jacket training camp until a knee injury flagged him down and kept him out of two engagements at the beginning of the regular race. Since reaching form he has resumed where he left off in the preliminary drills and figures to be of tremendous help to Howie Meeker&rsquo;s crew as the chase progresses.</p><p>If the Steel City defense, which has slipped rather signally in comparison with its traditionally airtight standard, can rally to offer a product comparable to the. attack output of the center trio, the crown and cup retention problems of the Pittsburghers will be notably simplified.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Caffrey, Marshall And Hassard Prolific Pivots For Pittsburgh

<p>(As Seen in the Cleveland Press)</p><p>Only a handful of the people in the Cleveland Arena i any Saturday night would have known Harry Holmes. He was a wonderfully naive man who counted his treasures in friendships and ethereal hopes rather than in dollars and cents. Consequently, he died on the short side of the books, but judgment is not for me to render. If I were so inclined, I would guess that the person known as &ldquo;Happy&rdquo; Holmes had collected his share of the loot of life.</p><p>Holmes was recalled recently to Cleveland&rsquo;s hockey children because a trophy in his honor was presented to the goalminder of the Pittsburgh Hornets, Gil Mayer, before the Hornets played the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Holmes was a goalie himself. In fact such judges as Lester Patrick and Jack Adams rate him among the best of all time. &lsquo;Hap&rdquo; is the only goaltender in the history of pro hockey who was in the nets for three different cities that won the Stanley Cup, and who. served with championship teams in the National as well as the old Pacific Coast. Hockey League when that circuit competed annually for the old cup. &lsquo;Hap&rdquo; was the goaltender for Toronto in 1914 and again in 1918 when they won the Stanley Cup. He was between the. pipes for the old Seattle Metropolitans when they brought the Cup to the United States for the first time in 1917; and in 1925 he was goaltender for the Victoria Cougars when the old trophy went west for the last time.</p><p>Holmes was a year out of the pads when he showed up in Cleveland and established the professional hockey dynasty that is very much alive to this day. The Harry Holmes Trophy goes to the American League&rsquo;s top net guardian and it was presented by its originator and donor, Al Sutphin.</p><p>It is now just about 26 years since Hap Holmes appeared in Cleveland newspaper offices and announced that he was instituting professional hockey in the Elysium, now only a ghost that hovers above the grass at Euclid and E. 107th. That&rsquo;s precisely the, way: Holmes brought his product to his buyers. He walked into the editorial rooms unannounced and unknown. He grinned and said he&rsquo;d sure appreciate a little help.</p><p>Even it you squirmed in disbelief that professional hockey was precisely the tonic the great city of Cleveland needed and simply could not get along without (Holmes thought), you had to put the arm of aid around this newcomer. He was so plain and forthright, so filled with enthusiasm and affection for his sport, the only cash-in-hand business he had ever known.</p><p>The Elysium was mostly ice and not seats when Holmes arrived. He cut down the ice surface, put in seats and with assistance of a man named Teddy Oke, who owned gold mines in Canada, players were imported to form a team. Holmes had obtained a franchise in the International League and though his team never had played together until it was assembled in Cleveland it won the championship in that first season.</p><p>It was a very good hockey team, for the times and for the class of competition. It had slow-skating, smart Alex Gray, wiry Mike Brophy and tiny goal-happy Ken Doraty on the first line, a hucky and fiery challenger of anybody in the joint, Irv Frew; a cagey, angular man, Gordon MacFarlane, who had a withered arm much like Ed Furgol&rsquo;s, and a good-looking young fellow named Doug Young were the defensemen. Young skated as if someone with a metronome was counting each sweep of his blades, so adroitly rhythmic was his stride. The spares were handsome Stu Dunning, veteran King Williams, poke-checking Mickey McGuire, skitterish Artie Clark and Charley Laroche. The goalie was Alfie Moore, a jumping jack.</p><p>Moore, ironically, wasn&rsquo;t Holmes&rsquo; idea of the best goalie in the world. Alfie was what the trade calls a hand goalminder. At the slightest emergency, he would drop his stick and bat at flying pucks with his tremendous gloves. Holmes had been a stick goalie, who glided across the goal mouth. Incidentally, Holmes&rsquo; next goalie here was his own type, Moe Roberts, who stayed on forever, so it seemed.</p><p>It was routine to accept Holmes&rsquo; endless love for hockey and hockey players in those halcyon days, but later even his choicest friends wondered at his loyalty. For the depression hit, and in the immediate confusion, Oke went broke. Some banks closed and in one was the Cleveland hockey Indians&rsquo; money. People quit going to the Elysium because they didn&rsquo;t have the price and the hoekey players wanted to quit because they weren&rsquo;t getting paid.</p><p>Somehow, Holmes &ldquo;conned&rdquo; them along, until he reached the end of the checking account, the very last copper in it. He could have junked the entire mess, as most men would have done. But he hit the bricks himself to find saviors, buyers, loaners, anyone who would help. He found Sutphin eventually, and I won&rsquo;t re tell that story because it is quite familiar to anyone who ever guarded his Saturday hockey dates zealously.</p><p>It is a factual that men who dug the first scoops in many sports foundations came to be forgotten in the shuffle for new heroes, and in financial rejiggering of franchises. A man Charles Somers was responsible for the American League because he loaned money to many operators, including Connie Mack. A man named Sammy Deutsch, a jeweler, lost his shirt, replete with diamond cufflinks, establishing professional football in Cleveland long before anyone else would risk a dollar.</p><p>In later years, men such as Sutphin, who conceived and built the Arena, and Mickey McBride, who conceived and bankrolled the Cleveland Browns, are remembered, though it is strange how frequently their old associations with their sports have to be mentioned. The mortality rate among promoters is as big as among athletes.</p><p>On Nov. 16, 1929, the first professional hockey game was played in Cleveland, by Holmes&rsquo; Indians. Cleveland played at Hershey the night of Nov. 16, 1955.</p><p>I think it would have been nice for those of us at home to have said, that evening, thanks to Hap Holmes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Franklin Lewis About Hap Holmes, Hockey’s Angel In Cleveland

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y&mdash;</p><p>The status of Buffalo&rsquo;s &ldquo;B Boys&rdquo;&mdash;Chuck Blair, Sam Bettio, and Pete Babando&mdash;was clouded by a combination of circumstances during the early days of the current American League season but now coach Frank Eddoll is placing a lot of confidence in the trio.</p><p>All three got off on the wrong foot at training camp. Blair was hampered by groin and Charley horse troubles. The weight Bettio and Babando carried when they arrived at camp displeased Eddolls, who lost no time in handing out a &ldquo;lose quick or else&rdquo; edict.</p><p>To add to the uncertainty surrounding each of the trio, Eddolls found little in last year&rsquo;s scoring records of Bettio and Blair upon which to pin hopes of a return to form and Babando, while he hit for 20 goals, seldom scored in close games.</p><p>Bettio&rsquo;s goal output was 13, one more than Blair netted while dividing the season between Cleveland and Buffalo.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m now sure that all three are going to be of real value to the Bisons as the American League race progress,&rdquo; Eddolls commented recently.</p><p>&ldquo;All three are ahead of their goal production of last season, which is one good indication. Babando, in particular, has been skating with a lot of drive. I&rsquo;d say that Pete&rsquo;s skating is even stronger than it was two years ago when Buffalo won the regular season championship.</p><p>&ldquo;The three can play a very bigrole in our quest of regaining the championship if they keep up the good work.&rdquo;</p><p>Bettio and Blair both have played in unaccustomed position during period when the Bisons were handicapped by injuries, and acquitted themselves well.</p><p>Bettio, a left winger by choice, has played all three forward positions and is now considered the swing man on the club.</p><p>Blair, who fires from right side, tried his hand at centre for a couple of games when Eddollsmen were down to two able bodied playmakers.</p><p>Presently Eddolls has the curly headed older brother of the pro playing Blairs working with left winger Pete Conacher and centre Ken Wharram.</p><p>&ldquo;I realize that in Conacher and Wharram, Chuck is paired with two fellows who figure to do a majority of the scoring. But he&rsquo;ll get his share of goals and assists as the trailer on their plans.&rdquo;</p><p>Babando, who has been strong late in the season in the two previous year he played here, began to hit his stride earlier this year.</p><p>In his first 20 games (he missed two games with an eye injury), Pete clicked for seven goals and six assists&mdash;a pace which will sarry him past last year&rsquo;s total with ease.</p><p>Blair and Bettio each potted six goals by the end of November and Eddolls was confident that they would reach the 20 mark by the season&rsquo;s finale.</p><h2><b>Shed Suet</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02255/1471339-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="559" height="851"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE BABANDO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Buffalo Bisons’ “B” Boys Are Counted On By Eddolls For Second Half Of Season

<h2><b>First For Ed</b></h2><p>Ed Panagabko scored his first goal for Hershey Bears on December 4 since joining the club from Boston Bruins.</p><h2><b>Still Lead</b></h2><p>Providence Reds continue to lead the American Hockey League, two points up on Pittsburgh and Buffalo</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>(Standing on Tuesday A.M., Dec. 6)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01294/1471457-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="591" height="194"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Hershey 0 at Pittsburgh 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02227/1471450-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="594" height="582"></div><h3><b>Providence 3 at Buffalo 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03185/1471443-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="594" height="767"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 Providence 3 at Pittsburgh 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04141/1471436-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="600" height="763"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 0 at Cleveland 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05105/1471429-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="601" height="752"></div><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Springfield 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0685/1471422-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="593" height="419"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 Springfield 3 at Buffalo 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0774/1471415-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="589" height="500"></div><h3><b>Hershey 4 at Providence 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0863/1471408-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="601" height="707"></div><h2><b>A Goal For Graham</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1044/1471401-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="1745" height="1623"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GRAHAM HASTINGS of the Springfield Indians got right in on top of Johnny Bower of the Providence Reds in the action above and he made no mistake, flipping the puck over the former New York Ranger netminders&rsquo; outstretched pad for the score.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday Dec. 4)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0950/1471394-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="602" height="549"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Camille Henry, Providence, 19 goals.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Ken Wharram, Buffalo, 27.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player</b></p><p>Fred Glover, Cleveland, 72mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Team</b></p><p>Cleveland, 403 mts.</p><p>Best Goalie</p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 20, 56, 3. 2.80.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 3.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>George Stockwell, Trainer of the Toronto Argonaut Football Club, uses and endorses Bike supports and Bike Trainers Tape.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

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The Canadian

<p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Hershey Bears and Boston Bruins, figuring a change of faces might help both shake off the disastrous slumps which carried them to the cellars of their respective leagues, affected a four-player exchange in an effort to change their luck.</p><p>The Bears gave up Lionel Heinrich, a rugged rearguard, and Al Nicholson, promising rookie left winger, and received in exchange veteran Lorna Davis, a right winger, and Ed. Panagabko, rookie center man..</p><p>The Bruins, needing help in the defense department, selected Heinrich to spell captain Ferny Flaman, who had been on the injured list. Nicholson, a graduate of the Humboldt Indians, was just beginning to find himself with the Bears when the switch was effected.</p><h2><b>Late Starter</b></h2><p>Nicholson had been promoted to left wing on Hershey&rsquo;s No. 1 line alongside Dunc Fisher and Gordie Wilson and, bearing out Scotty Munro&rsquo;s prediction that he would be a late starter, looked impressive in his last three starts with the Bears. Munro was Nicholson&rsquo;s coach at Humboldt last season.</p><p>Panagabko, who had been ticketed to start the campaign with Hershey, only to accompany the Bruins when Fleming Mackell came up with an injured knee, will be installed as center for Stan Parker and Floyd Smith. Parker, who has been playing at center, will be moved over to left wing.</p><p>Davis will probably join Arnie Kullman&rsquo;s line, teaming with Kullman and captainObie O&rsquo;Brien.</p><p>Both O&rsquo;Brien and Floyd Smith have been on the injured list, but are expected to be ready for action when the Bears return from their current road trip.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Boston Bruins HersheyBears In Big Swap

<div class="byline">HOOPER</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>When Aggie Kukulowicz was 15 he had professional hockey scouts on his Winnipeg doorstep all night.</p><p>It was because Aggie would be 16 in a few days and at that time, seven years ago, professional scouts were allowed to coerce a C-form signature on a boy&rsquo;s 16th birthday.</p><p>Aggie&rsquo;s bewildered parents would shut the door at night, saying: &ldquo;No, no, no.&rdquo; When Aggie opened it in the morning to go to school the scouts would still be there.</p><p>They figured it was worth it. There was no doubt about Adolph Frank Kukulowicz. He was going to the National League even if your couldn&rsquo;t get his whole name on one C-form.</p><p>New York Rangers finally got him. They were so sure they sent him to Quebec Citadels for his junior apprenticeship.</p><p>In his second year there they brought him up for three games, partly to show him how it was. Aggie scored a goal and didn&rsquo;t think it was so tough.</p><p>That was three years ago. Today Aggie is at a crossroads. When he was 20 he had it made and now, at 23, he must make it himself. No one will be showing the way for the kid with the name that stutters.</p><p>The first year out of junior it, was all right. Rangers sent him to Doug Bentley at Saskatoon for professional seasoning.</p><p>As a rookie the dedicated young centre scored 14 goals and 41 points. He was 6-feet-2, so had the range of his name itself. He had the attitude, because hockey wasn&rsquo;t just a way. to make a living; It was the only way.</p><p>Last year was his time to show.</p><h2><b>Deceptive</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03231/1471543-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="575" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AGGIE KUKULOWICZ</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Not The Same</b></h3><p>After a dozen games he lost an argument with a goal-post and went to hospital with a ruptured kidney. He lay there for a month. When he came back, it was never quite the same.</p><p>During the summer the Rangers dealt him off in a package exchange with Detroit. Aggie started this season with Edmonton in the Western League.</p><p>Last month, he got the word. He had helped Edmonton play a 5-5 tie with Regina Regals. Then they told him he was being sent on loan to Regina.</p><p>He was still in the Western League&mdash;&ldquo;but just,&rdquo; people said. He was still owned by a National League team, but was nobody&rsquo;s glamour boy.</p><p>Some things haven&rsquo;t changed. When Aggie is on the ice it will always mean a total effort. When he has the puck he will always be looking to make a play with a deceptive shift, a loose-jointed stride and a sure, confident pass.</p><p>How much confidence is up to Kukulowicz.</p><p>It has become a year of decision for Aggie.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Regals’ Aggie Kukulowicz Facing Year Of Decision; Can Either Go Up or Down

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You’ll Skate Better on C.C.Ms

<h2><b>Hard-pressed</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>linky Boyce of New Westminster is still leading the individual scorers bur is being hard pressed by teammate Bobby Love, Phil. Malo, ney of Vancouver and Ollie Dorohoy of Seattle. Boyce has 11 goals and 23 assists for 34 points. Both Boyce and Love have 23 assists</p><h2><b>Setting Pace</b></h2><p>Ray Fredericks of Calgary continues to set the pace for goalkeepers with a goals against aver, age of 2.47 per game. He also had his second &lsquo;double shutout&rsquo; this season when he blanked Regina Tuesday night in Calgary and</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>STANDING ON MONDAY A.M., NOV. 28</p><h3><b>PRAIRIE DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01300/1471731-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="595" height="157"></div><h3><b>COAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02228/1471724-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="594" height="110"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Tuesday November 22</b></p><p>Victoria 2 at Vancouver 4</p><p>Regina 0 at Calgary 5</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Winnipeg 1</p><p><b>Wednesday November 23</b></p><p>New West. 8 at Seattle 5</p><p>Regina 5 at Edmonton 5</p><p><b>Thursday November 24</b></p><p>Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 0</p><p><b>Friday November 25</b></p><p>New West 3 at Victoria 2 OT</p><p>Regina 2 at Vancouver 5</p><p>Calgary 3 at Winnipeg 5</p><p><b>Saturday November 26</b></p><p>Regina 3 at Seattle 6</p><p>Victoria 3 at New West 3</p><p>Calgary 7 at Edmonton 6 OT</p><p>Winnipeg 3 at Saskatoon 3</p><h3><b>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Victoria 2 at Vancouver 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03168/1471717-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="596" height="480"></div><h3><b>Regina 0 at Calgary 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04141/1471710-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="595" height="477"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 3 at Winnipeg 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05119/1471703-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="589" height="390"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 New Westminster 8 at Seattle 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06101/1471696-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="590" height="803"></div><h3><b>Regina 5 at Edmonton 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0781/1471689-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="599" height="700"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0868/1471682-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="589" height="314"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 New Westminster 3 at Victoria 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0961/1471675-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="590" height="425"></div><h3><b>Regina 2 at Vancouver 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1055/1471668-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="591" height="444"></div><h3><b>Calbary 3 at Winnipeg 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1148/1471661-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="594" height="649"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26 Seattle 6 Regina 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1242/1471654-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="594" height="668"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 3 Saskatoon 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1336/1471647-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="599" height="790"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 3 Victoria 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1427/1471640-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="588" height="605"></div><h3><b>Calgary 7 Edmonton 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1525/1471633-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="602" height="848"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sat. Nov. 26)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1621/1471626-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="603" height="1710"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1721/1471619-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="594" height="399"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Gordie Fashoway, NW, 18</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Blinky Boyce, NW, 23</p><p>Bobby Love, NW, 23</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals</b></p><p>(5 players tied)</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game</b></p><p>Carl Kaiser, Van, 4</p><p>Sid Finney, Cal, 4</p><p>Colin Kilburn, Vic, 4.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Ray Fredericks, Cal, 5</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks</b></p><p>Jackkie McLeod, Sas, 2</p><p>Brian Cullen, Wpg, 2</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored When Opp. Penalized</b></p><p>Bobby Love, NW, 5</p><p><b>Most Goals Against When Serving</b></p><p><b>Penalties</b></p><p>Bernie Grebinsky, Van, 4</p><p>Bill Burage, Wpg 4</p><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1821/1471612-1-eng-US/f0014-182.jpg" title="f0014-18" width="585" height="190"></div><h2><b>Still Top Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1918/1471605-1-eng-US/f0014-192.jpg" title="f0014-19" width="1088" height="1179"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BLINKY BOYCE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01271/1471793-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="296" height="323"></div><p>(As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</p><p>&bull; JEAN-PAUL DENIS, who&rsquo;ll be 32, which is a ripe hockey age, come Feb. 28, fired two of the tallies as Shawinigan Cataracts p1astered a 4-0 whitewash on our Royals the other night.</p><p>Denis&rsquo; night of glory substantially supports the claims that the old pros live and reign as a dominant force in so many hockey campaigns, despite the perennial challenge of an insurgent force of rookies of exceptional skill and brilliance to nudge these experienced artisans away from the spotlight.</p><p><b>It&rsquo;s frequently said of older ball players that the last department of play in which they slip is their hitting; so it must be true that good hockey players go on for years before they lose their scoring touch. The legs may creak; the breath may run short in a hurry, the reflexes lose their split-second timing, but they still retain that instinct to put the puck&mdash;in the net.</b></p><p>It must be so when ageless gaffers like Ki-Toute Joannette can still ply the trade and draw a paycheck at Trois Rivieres, and come up with a goal or two every now and then. A glamourous lightweight like Andre Corriveau (135 pounds) year after year either wins the scoring championship or is only pushed of the perch by another veteran star. Only now and then is he bested by a phenomenal rookie, as Corriveau was when Jean Beliveau was rising to the zenith of his power with the Aces of Quebec.</p><p>With Royals there&rsquo;s Kelly Burnett and Lulu Denis and Corriveau, a trio of forwards, always high contributors to production. And down in Quebec there&rsquo;s Ray Powell and Ludger Tremblay who were joined only recently by Dick Gamble, who was cut loose by the NHL Canadiens. They are seasoned performers all of them but when you look at the summaries, game after game it&rsquo;s their names you see. As sure as the puck is round and black, these are the fellows who are delivering the merchandise.</p><p><b>Yet so many minor pro league stars fall short of major league quality when put to the test. They get short shrift or they are back in the lower league after a year or so. This is an equation which has baffled many and puzzled ail hockey fans. Some of the cash customers are outspoken in disbelief when special favorites are given what they consider too brief opportunities to display their wares before NHL coaches and advisory brass. We asked Elmer Lach, Royals coach, and 14 years a pro in big time on his own account, if he knew the answer.</b></p><p>&ldquo;Broadly speaking men in the class you are talking about are called &lsquo;fringe players&rsquo; by big leaguers,&rdquo; Lach said patiently. &ldquo;They get their shots away, or make their final move, shift or deke when close to the net, just a fraction of a second too late. Since they meet speedy opponents, more of them that is, in the big league, and good hard, fast checkers too, these good scorers in the minors, don&rsquo;t have so many opportunities to score. In the lower league they have to play against good men too, but your wily shooter can generally get set and fire accurately when he&rsquo;s shaking off a lagging pursuit. Consequently he&rsquo;s not trapped or checked when he&rsquo;s in range of the goal. He beats that slower man. In the big league he isn&rsquo;t playing against many slow fellows.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;&rsquo;</p><p>A big assist will have to come from Santa Claus if Montreal Royals are to overtake the Shawinigan Cataracts in the Quebec Hockey League by Christmas.</p><p>Coach Elmer Lach had set the Yuletide as the &ldquo;D&rdquo; Date for Royals to make first place, but his ideas on objectives were tossed in the box in which the ice-scrapers shovel up the scrapings when Royals foundered on a road trip in which they lost four straight games, two of them shutouts by the Cataracts and Chicoutimi Sagueneens, the others overtime squeeze-outs from Trois Rivieres Lions and Quebec Aces.</p><p>Man and boy Royals&rsquo; supporters can&rsquo;t recall when their favorite hockey team has encountered such rough going. In this streak of reverses there was one skein of three contests in which Royals managed to score only one tally.</p><p>Added to that the injury jinx just won&rsquo;t forsake the Montreal Quebec loop entry. At Quebec on Dec. 4, Ron Ingram blond defense rookie star, complained of an aching back, the result of some rough treatment in the game the previous evening in Chicoutimi.</p><h2><b>Achin&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02236/1471831-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="574" height="835"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Sent Home</b></h3><p>Since it wasn&rsquo;t possible for Ingram to give full justice to competition, Elmer Lach advised manager Frank Carlin to get the fair-haired rearguard a ticket back to Montreal where he could without delay begin therapeutic treatments from Bill Head and Bobby Cornforth.</p><p>In the game against Quebec Aces the same Sabbath afternoon Cecil Hoekstra came up with a wrenched back, an almost identical misery to that afflicting Ingram.</p><p>Meantime Gerry McNeil has been complaining of aches and pains at the base of his spine and Ti-Guy Rousseau has come up with a sore ankle.</p><p>While Royals have been suffering so many misfortunes, the first place Cataracts haven&rsquo;t been getting off scotfree. For Connie Broden took a hard rap on the toe in the Shawinigan Falls joust between Royals and Cataracts, and after x-rays revealed the toe to be broken, Broden went to the sidelines for an indefinite period.</p><h3><b>Always Has Answer</b></h3><p>Playing coach Roger Leger always seems to find an answer to all adversity. At any rate the Cataracts keep on winning. It has been outlined before what a whale of a success Eddie Kachur made when moved to right wing to replace Claude Provost who was promoted to the NHL Canadiens. Now Broden&rsquo;s injury left the centre post on the first Cataracts&rsquo; forward line open. So Leger simply moved in Dick Wray from another line and the Cats went out for a rousing 7-3 triumph over Trois Rivieres Lions.</p><p>Quebec Aces have been having a tough time to get on the winning track, but they gave their supporters a terrific thrill when George Ford came through with the winning goal in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Royals.</p><h3><b>A &ldquo;Natural&rdquo;</b></h3><p>In the same tussle Jean-Marie Cossette came through with a natural hattrick meaning he got his three tallies in sequence on his team&rsquo;s side of the scoresheet. The play of Cossette along with that of Claude Vinet has been a happy inspiration to the Quebecers and a source of great satisfaction to coach Punch Imlach.</p><p>Grave fears were held after the season was a few weeks underway that these two grads from the disbanded Quebec Junior League weren&rsquo;t going to stack up to pro hockey demands.</p><p>They&rsquo;ve shown Imlach plenty in drive and class to win their jobs, and before the season stretches to the halfway mark both Cossette and Vinet will have stacked up enough points to hold high rungs on the ladder.</p><p>Chicoutimi Sagueneens have held down third place persistently leaving it to the Aces and Lions to battle for the fourth slot in the five team league.</p><p>Lou Smrke has been the big scorer in most of the Sagueneens&rsquo; conquests with Jimmy Moore making many of the big plays. This pair has been hanging on to the pursuit of Andre Corriveau, Royals slim winger relentlessly.</p><p>Return of Stan Smrke to the line-up a week or so ago has been a big help too. Stan was out for more than a month while a broken cheekbone mended. He fell against the Forum&rsquo;s boards after a hassle with Royals&rsquo; defenseman Wally Clune early in the season.</p><h3><b>Drew High Praise</b></h3><p>Holding the big share of the Chicoutimi spotlight, of course has been the goaling of Marcel Paille. When he blanked Royals at Chicoutimi Dec. 3 Paille&rsquo;s work drew high praise from the Montreal camp.</p><p>Elmer Lach said of this game: We had plenty of chances and out-shot them by a big margin, but we couldn&rsquo;t put the puck in the net. Paille was hotter than a Quebec heater. He beat us.&rdquo;</p><p>It&rsquo;s significant that in Chicoutimi they have a running vote for the player of distinction. Unlike many such polls this is not a popularity contest among the fans, The sports writers and radio spielers vote on the stars after each game.</p><p>In the last recap the totals were: Paille 59, Jimmy Moore 56, Lou Smrke 56, Fern Perreault 54 and Stan Smrke 35.</p><p>DEEP FREEZE&mdash;Johnny Mitchell, chief scout for Detroit Red Wings made a swing around the Quebec loop, making most of the trips with Royals from his base in Montreal&hellip;Visitors to the Quebec Coliseum get a chuckle when they lamp the ice-cleaners between periods of the games. The boys who man the scrapers and sprinklers wear cloth signs on their backs appropriately advertising a cleaning and pressing establishment&hellip;With the Ice Capades in the Forum, Royals had two successive Sunday bookings in Quebec so Molson&rsquo;s sent Gerry Trudel and his crew to the Ancient Capital to send the game to Montreal on television with the Quebec circuits closed&hellip;It actually happened in Quebec, a player thanked a referee for a warning&hellip;with the score tied and Aces Royals battling for the winning goal, Tony Schnieder just missed hooking a Montreal man. Whereupon referee George Gravel said: &ldquo;You wouldn&rsquo;t want to get a cheap penalty in a crisis like this, would you?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Thanks, George said Tony over his shoulder.</p><h2><b>Sidelined</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03213/1471824-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="1165" height="812"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CONNIE BRODEN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Injuries May Delay Lach’s Hoped-For D-Day

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>all that a beak? It&rsquo;s more like a beaker! And oh! for a beakerful of sparkling Pilsener. The lightness of Pilsener&mdash;lighter than ale&mdash;allows you to take deep draughts. And the unique dryness&mdash;drier even than lager&mdash;cures thirst like magic&hellip;the first refreshing trickle quickly turns a thirsty throat into a source of pleasure!</p><p>Try Labatt&rsquo;s Pilsener today&mdash;at home or in your favourite hotel or tavern.</p><p>The only beer in the world endorsed by brewmasters from seven <i>oilin&rsquo;</i> breweries. Made to the original Pilsen formula with yeast special flown from Europe. See the BACK of the label.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04166/1471869-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="560" height="1113"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05133/1471862-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="577" height="768"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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…TRY A PILSENER

<h2><b>First Blanking</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Shawinigan Falls Cataracts blanked Montreal Royals, 4-0, on December 1, it marked the first time the Regals had been shutout in 21 starts to that date.</p><h2><b>Four For Bob</b></h2><p>Bob Perreault, starry Shawinigan cage cop, racked up his fourth goose-egg of the season on December 1 when the Cataracts blanked the Montreal Royals, 4-0.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M. DEC. 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01265/1471977-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="588" height="204"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sunday, Dec. 4)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02212/1471970-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="594" height="831"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03175/1471963-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="598" height="327"></div><h3><b>STANDING</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04145/1471956-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="593" height="200"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Montreal 1 at Three Rivers 2</b></h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers. Clune; forwards: Corriveau, Thordycraft, P. Goyette, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, Gravelle, Laplante, Hoekstra, Mackay.</p><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: M. Goyette, Morgan, Lamirande, McNeil; forwards: Kwong, Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard, Leclerc, Gooden, Gagnon. Bisaillon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05102/1471949-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="586" height="462"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 1 Montreal 0 at Shawinigan 4</b></h3><p><b>ROYALS:</b> Goal: McNeil; defense: Clune, R. Rousseau, Deslauriers, Ingram; forwards: L. Denis, Hoekstra, Gravelle, Laplante, Burnett, Corriveau, Thorndycraft, G. Rousseau, Goyette, MacKay.</p><p><b>SHAWINIGAN BALLS:</b> Goal: Perreault; defense: Hodgson, Leger, Langlois, Turner, G. Bouchard; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Kachur, J. P. Denis, Grosse, Dube, Desaulniers, R. Bouchard, Wray.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0678/1471942-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="595" height="463"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 4 at Quebec 2</b></h3><p><b>CHICOUTIMI:</b> Goal: Paille; defense: Glaude, Roy Labrosse, Hanna, forwards:S. Smrke, Cressmon, Locas, Perreault, Leger, L. Smrke, To poll, Campeau, Hicks, Moore.</p><p><b>QUEBEC:</b> Goal: Evans; defense: Schneider, Crozier. Ernst; Karrys, L. Thibeault; forwards: Gamble, G. Thibeault, Powell, Ford, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Cossette, Vinet</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Milford, linesmen:. Simard, Leclerc.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0768/1471935-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="586" height="769"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1955 Royals 0 at Sagueneens 3</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille: defenses: Roy, Glaude, Hanna, Labrosse; forwards: L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Moore, Locas, F. Perreault, Topoll, Hicks, Lalonde, Crossman, G. Leger.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defenses: R. Rousseau, Clune, Ingram, Deslauriers, Amadio; forwards: Burnett. L. Denis, Corriveau,, Thorndycraft, Hoekstra, Gravelie. Laplante, Marquis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0863/1471928-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="589" height="508"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1955 Royals 3 at Aces 4</b></h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: R. Rousseau, Deslauriers, Amadio, Clune; forwards: Corriveau, Thorndycraft, Goyette, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Demis, Gravelle, Mackay, Laplante, Hoekstra.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal Evans: defense: Schneider, Crozier, Ernst, L. Thibault; forwards: Gamble, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Maxwell, Cossette,/Vinet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0952/1471921-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="594" height="728"></div><h3><b>Cataracts 7 at Lions 3</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Payette; defense: McNeil, Goyette, Morgan, Lamirande; forwards: Kwong, Joannette, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard, Leclerc, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defense: Hodgson, Turner, Leger, G. Bouchard, Langlois; forwards: Thornson, Wray, Desaulniers, Grosse, Dube, Denis, Faulkner, Kachur, D. Bouchard.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1046/1471914-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="592" height="961"></div><h2><b>Perreault Hot On Laplante&rsquo;s Shot</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1138/1471907-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="2240" height="1473"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB PERREAULT, star goalkeeper of the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts, moves quickly to defelect a shot off the stick of the Montreal Royals&rsquo; Ray Laplante in a recent game at the Montreal Forum. The Cats and Royals are currently waging a tight battle for the top spot in the QHL.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Mike Gravel)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Top Man</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1231/1471900-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="548" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDRE CORRIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>OO MANY BROTHERS&hellip;don&rsquo;t mention the Giese-brecht boys to other teams in the Northern Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race&hellip;Bert, Jack and Bruce of Pembroke Lumber Kings have, at this writing, collected a grand total of 76 points on 27 goals and 49 assists&hellip;Bert tops the Big Ten Scoring ^Parade in the NOHA with 33 points, Jack follows with 24 and Bruce has the remainder&hellip;just a few minutes before getting this column off to Montreal, the Giesebrechts personally defeated Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) Indians, 5-2, by figuring in all five goals and getting four themselves&hellip;as popular Coach Pete Backor of the Indians told THE HOCKEY NEWS after the game: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t anyone talk to me about those d&mdash;Giesebrechts! Why don&rsquo;t they split them around the league?&rdquo;</p><p>ALCATRAZ, HERE WE COME!&hellip;no less than 27 minor penalties were imposed in one game between the Sault Indians and Sudbury Wolves&hellip;Dale Anderson of the Indians received nine&hellip;no majors were called&hellip;Referee Al Promaine dished them out with Pat Patterson, OHA referee-in-chief, and Wes Hart, NOHA referee-in-chief, in attendance&hellip;actually it was a fiasco and if anybody was trying to conduct a hockey school at the expense of a regular-league game they should be severely criticized&hellip;it&rsquo;s no place to show other referees the different penalties,. the proper place is a hockey school&hellip;I don&rsquo;t think Al Capone with two machine-guns in his mitts could earn nine minors in one game&hellip;let&rsquo;s have no more of this stuff in Northern Ontario hockey&hellip;there&rsquo;s too many cheap penalties the way it is now&hellip;</p><p>MISSING HOCKEY PLAYER&hellip;it. could only happen up North, I guess&hellip;Rheal Larouche of the Sault Indians was suspended and fined for failing to show up for a game&hellip;he vanished, leaving behind his pay-check and leaving Indian officials in a quandary&hellip;they want to give him his check but they also want him to cash it so he can pay his fine&hellip;Rheal just disappeared into thin air&hellip;COME HOME LITTLE SHEBA!&hellip;Abitibi Eskimos continue to roll in the Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League&hellip;they grabbed sole possession of first place with a crushing attack which netted them a walloping 13-5 triumph over Porcupine Combines Teepees&hellip;the Eskies collected eight goals goals in a furious third-period onslaught&hellip;Brian Johnson was the top star with four goals and Jerry. Labelle had three to fatten their scoring marks in the exciting Porcupine circuit&hellip;Syl Ethied is also continuing his fast pace in the loop&hellip;</p><p>NICE GOING BERT!&hellip;likeable Bert&rsquo; Hicks goes In as President of the huge and rapidly-expanding Ontario Minor Hockey Association which means so much to the development of minor hockey in the Great Northland&hellip;Bert is Chief Magistrate at Lindsay and a wonderful sportsman&hellip;actually, the OMHA is the world&rsquo;s biggest minor hockey group&hellip;Bert got his first taste of OMHA work away back in 19 47 when he was elected to the executive&hellip;since 1950 he has served as vice-president, now he gets the top post&hellip;he succeeds another fine sportsman and hockey leader, Fred Norman of Simcoe&hellip;Jack Christie of Toronto is starting his 13th term as secretary&hellip;THE HOCKEY NEWS today salutes all the fine men who are doing such a remarkable job on the OMHA&hellip;GOOD LUCK, MEN!&hellip;Ron Hurst, the durable forward who starred with the Sault Greyhounds in the NOHA last season, is being watched closely by his many followers up North&hellip;Ron is making a firm bid to keep his spot with Toronto Maple Leafs&hellip;Jack Bionda, another ex-Greyhound, is also going a long way toward staying with the Leafs&hellip;we join with all Northern Ontario fans in hoping Ron and Jack stay up there for a long, long time.. give it to them, Ron and Jack&hellip;</p><p>MERCANTILE BRAND&hellip;all types of hockey make any area good hockey areas&mdash;not just the major brand&hellip;Sudbury has a fine Mercantile league going this season, called The Sudbury and District Mercantile Hockey League&hellip;teams entered include Sacred Heart College, Sudbury Youth Centre, Coniston Aces, MeConnell, Chelmsford, Caswell and Capreol&hellip;Nip Pollesel is the president and he predicts a lot of action for his league this season&hellip;Keep it up, Nip!&hellip;Six teams will fight it out in the Intermediate circuit in the southern part of our district&hellip;Bolton, RCAF Camp Borden, Aurora, Beeton, Elmvale and Thornton make up a splendid six-team circuit&hellip;Camp Borden will play all their games away from home since they have no home rink&hellip;some fine hockey is played in this Intermediate league and THE HOCKEY NEWS would like to publicize this league as much as possible&hellip;how about sending us some redhot news about the players, fellas? Address your letters to me at 164 Gore Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario..</p><p>ART MAKES GOOD&hellip;Art Rose, acquired by Sault Greyhounds from Sudbury Wolves, is making the grade with Coach Sugar Jim Henry&hellip;in his first local appearance against Pembroke Lumber Kings, Art was a going concern&hellip;&ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be a valuable man once he hits his stride,&rdquo; said Sugar Jim&hellip;Johnny Bobenic, Charlie Marshall and Pat Willis are all going great for the Lumber Kings&hellip;Coach Cully Simon is doing a neat job in bring them along, too&hellip;North Bay Trappers are mighty pleased right now since their $700,000 Arena was jumping with 3,663 fans on hand for their game against Sudbury Wolves&hellip;previously the crowds were just about half that number and the Trappers were becoming a little worried&hellip;but I think you can count on the wonderful sport-fans in North Bay to come through for the team&hellip;it&rsquo;s a beautiful rink and the Trappers have a fine team,..</p><p>APPEAL DEPARTMENT&hellip;a fine fellow by the name of Thomas Lee, 172 Crosthwaite Ave. N., Hamilton, Ontario, has a hobby of collecting pictures of all kinds, pennants, record books, all connected with sport&hellip;he suffers from muscular dystrophy and this hobby means a great deal to Thomas&hellip;I sent him a few I had on hand, but I am sure he will be overjoyed to get more from all you fine fans across the country and in the United States&hellip;let&rsquo;s give Tommy a lift!&hellip;another very fine hockey fan, Charlie Breckon, 554 Athabasca St. W., Moose Jaw, Sask., wants hockey pictures of all kinds of players&hellip;Charlie has a marvellous collection and he, too, will be happy if you will send him copies of any pictures you may have.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NOHA Puck Parade

<p><b>HOCKEY NEWS&rdquo;</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02197/1472070-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="412" height="668"></div><p><b>Heads their Christmas gift lists&hellip;</b></p><p>&ldquo;When it 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, Alfa.</p><p>&ldquo;I read THE HOCKEY NEWS faithfully and now have a son old enough to read it too. I&rsquo;m getting him a year&rsquo;s subscription so that I can have my copy to myself.&rdquo;</p><p>Josh H. Jones, Accountant, Simcoe, Ont.</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 post-man delivers it&hellip;35 times a year.&rdquo;</p><p>Miss Janice Collins. Secretary, Boston. Mass.</p><p><b>The Hockey News</b></p><p><b>Makes an ideal CHRISTMAS GIFT for everyone in the family</b></p><p><b>Solve your Christmas shopping Worries the Easy Way&hellip;Send the &ldquo;Hockey News&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>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.</b></p><p><b>ATTRACTIVE GIFT CARDS ANNOUNCE EACH XMAS SUBSCRIPTION</b></p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances&hellip;</b>$3.00 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraphi Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances&hellip;</b>$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03155/1472063-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="1121" height="407"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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ITS GIFT TIME AGAIN!!

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors continue to set the pace in the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race after five weeks of the schedule but the Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks who&rsquo;ve lost only two games were right on their tail only two points off the pace.</p><p>The Canucks who won only, eight games all last season have equalled that output in eleven starts this year and with three games in hand on the Irish are in a strong position to move into the league lead.</p><p>The lofty positions of these two clubs however may be threatened by injuries to key players.</p><p>Canucks&rsquo; starry left winger Willie O&rsquo;Ree has been sidelined indefinitely with an eye injury while Hannigan picked up a bad knee injury when he was body-checked in a Sunday game against Barrie. O&rsquo;Ree was struck in the eye by a slap shot off the stick of K/W defenceman Kent Douglas in a game against Guelph. O&rsquo;Ree&rsquo;s mishap broke up the Canucks high scoring line of Bauik, Bradley and O&rsquo;Ree who appeared on their way to re-writing the record books with an average of better than six points a game in their first teu contests.</p><h2><b>Back To Bilts</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01231/1472032-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="553" height="862"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RON HOWELL</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Leading Goal-Scorer</b></h3><p>It apparently hasn&rsquo;t hampered Bradley any. The diminutive right winger who was a top-flight performer for Phil Watson last year in Quebec scored seven goals in &lsquo;three games after O&rsquo;Ree&rsquo;s injury to bring his total for the season to 15 tieing Hannigan for the lamp lighting lead.</p><p>The Canucks won the game in which O&rsquo;Ree was injured 8 to 7 although the Biltmores scored five goals in the last nine minutes of play to make it close. Making it close has been a habit of the Hatters this season. The cellar-dwellers have scored only four fewer goals than they&rsquo;ve had scored against them but they&rsquo;re lost seven games by one goal. The Bilts pulled out one of their rare wins in Toronto Sunday defeating Marlboros 3 to 1 and it could be an indication of better things to come. The Hatters, from manager Roy Mason and coach Eddie Bush right down to the third assistant stick-boy are confident that it was the turning point.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve started now. We may never look back.&rdquo; says Mason.</p><p>The Bilts have Ron Howell and Billy Graham back from the football wars and the two ex-gridders, both of whom are solid junior hockey performers, are expected to make the difference. Bush says, &ldquo;We almost won without them. We&rsquo;ll win with them&rdquo;.</p><p>The batters despite their heavy early season losses were still only 10 points out of first place as the clubs approached. the one-third mark in the schedule.</p><h3><b>Hot And Cold</b></h3><p>Toronto Marlboros, the reigning Memorial Cup champs are still under the.500 mark although a 3 to 1 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs moved them into fourth place past the Barrie Flyers who continue to run hot and cold. Maple Leaf Gardens is the Flyers nemesis; they&rsquo;ve lost all three starts in Toronto. In all three games they came to life in the third period but were too late with too little.</p><p>The Hamilton Tiger-Cubs continue to stay in the thick of contention. Most of their success has been attributed to the nifty net-minding of Dennis Riggin but a close look at the statistics will show that Riggin hasn&rsquo;t been a one man show. The Cubs have scored an average of four goals a game despite the fact they haven&rsquo;t a 10 goal scorer on the club.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a tribute to the balance of the forward lines and an improved defence. They haven&rsquo;t too much in the way of standout individual performers but there are few weak spots either. General manager Jack Adams and coach Jimmy Skinner who were in Hamilton with the Red Wings for an exhibition game against the Cubs expressed satisfaction with the farm hands although Howe, Lindsay and company belted the youngsters 12 to 2. Gates are up over last year in the Ambitious city and they&rsquo;ll be up even more when Hamilton fans realize the football season is over and they&rsquo;ve got a solid little hockey club at the Forum.</p><p>The St Catharines Teepees who had coach Rudy Pilous chewing on his collection of Fort Erie Mu tuel tickets went off that high caloried diet temporarily at least when the Teepees snapped their losing ways with wins over Kitchener and Marlboros on consecutive nights. He was eyeing the waste basket again when Kitchener stopped the gold and black in St. Kitts 5 to 3. The mortality rate among coaches would be astronomical however if losing to Kitchener was serious cause for alarm.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Surprising St. Mike’s Majors Continue to Lead OHA Juniors

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>A five game winning streak has lifted the Baltimore Clippers from the cellar into a first place tie with the New Haven Blades in the closely bunched Eastern Amateur League.</p><p>The Clinton Comets, last seasons regular season leaders, have hit a slump and dropped into the cellar along with the Philadelphia Ramblers. The Comets have been able to salvage only one game in their last five and are now six points behind the league leaders.</p><p>Johnstown and Philadelphia have turned out to be natural rivals. The Pennsylvania teams have had three games thus far, and each has resembled a pier-six brawl. The fans can expect more of the same when &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Kelly and Dick Piloquin clash next time around.</p><p>EAHL president Tom Lockhart has been trying to arrange a post season playoff with the International League playoff winner.</p><p>The EAHL hasn&rsquo;t had one tie game go into the books so far. Overtime has been necessary on three occasions.and a winner was decided in each case.</p><p>CLINTON: &ldquo;Indian Joe&rdquo; Nolan, who is leading the loop in penalties, may be dropped&hellip;Comets released veteran center Bob Palmer, and coach Jack Timmins is looking for another forward and defenseman to boost the club out of the cellar&hellip;Gerry Frizelle is the clubs leading point getter, while Doug Coxon has registered one of the leagues two shutouts.</p><p>JOHNSTOWN: Orvile &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Kelly, who rejoined the Jets after a 2-year absence, picked up six penalties in his first game&hellip;George &ldquo;Bill&rdquo; Anderson has replaced Claude LaBoisierre in the nets&hellip;Don Hall has 3 hat tricks, a season high for the Jets&hellip;Hall and Dick Roberge are running 1-2 in the league scoring race and pulling away from the rest of the field.</p><p>PHILADELPHIA: Goalie Ivan Walmsley was called up to Pittsburgh of the AHL for one game last week&hellip;The Ramblers have added Terry &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Smith and Reg Meserve from New Haven and Washington respectively. Defenseman Stan Gaulet was released&hellip;Ramblers have been involved in all of the EAHL overtime games (winning 2 and losing 1) and have been blanked twice&hellip;Rollie Savard and Art Dorrington are the top Phila. marksmen and Dick Piloquin is the team&rsquo;s &ldquo;badman&rdquo;.</p><p>WASHINGTON: Veteran defenseman Joe Medynski rejoined the Lions with Rick Albert moving on to New Haven&hellip;Coach Stan Warecki, Marlowe MacDonald and Fern LaPointe have been carrying the brunt of the team&rsquo;s attack&hellip;Bill McWhinney, who joined the team after the season opened, has been doing a great job in the nets.,. Jack Spencer, who guarded the nets last year when the Lions won the playoffs is now with Toledo of the IAHL.</p><p>NEW HAVEN: Murray Dodd leads the EAHL goalies with a 3.50 average&hellip;The Blades have a perfect home record, 7 wins. The (John) Sherban, (Yvan) Chasle, (Claude) Boileau line is the Blades top scoring unit&hellip;Chasle and Sherban have hat tricks&hellip;</p><p>BALTIMORE: Eddie St. Louis joined the Clippers following his release by Indianapolis of the IAHL&hellip;The team had been going along with only 3 defensemen&hellip;Roger Dubuc, formerly with Valleyfield of the Quebec League has joined the Clippers&hellip;Don &ldquo;Nip&rdquo; O&rsquo;Hearn and Les Binkley are dividing the goaltending chores&hellip;The O&rsquo;Hearns, Don and Al, give Baltimore the only brother act in the league.</p><h2><b>Clicking</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02162/1472132-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="589" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CLAUDE BOILEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Clippers Bolt EAHL Cellar; NowLeadLoop

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01217/1472194-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution next week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Canadien defenseman.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of Springfield&rsquo;s net-minder.</p><p>7&mdash;Scottish for John.</p><p>8&mdash;Bill Ezinicki is familiar with this term.</p><p>9&mdash;Once played for Rangers on line with Trudel and Gardner.</p><p>12&mdash;Hec Lalonde&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>13&mdash;Bourassa of Springfield is called this.</p><p>14&mdash;Team to whom Chicago traded Cy Thomas in 1947. (abbr.).</p><p>16&mdash;Ocean (abbr.)</p><p>17&mdash;Elmer Lach once received one from Canadien fans.</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of one of the Red Wings.</p><p>21&mdash;Dick Duff&rsquo;s is 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;. (abbr.)</p><p>23&mdash;Jack McIntyre&rsquo;s son is called this.</p><p>24&mdash;Number of seasons Jimmy Skinner spent with Omaha.</p><p>26&mdash;Name given Harmon, ex Canadien defenseman.</p><p>27&mdash;Doug Mohns is said to have a hard one.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of a Toronto rearguard.</p><p>31&mdash;Camille Henry excells at this summer sport.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Earl Balfour&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>2&mdash;The Patrick brothers&rsquo; father.</p><p>3&mdash;NHL team from whom the Leafs acquired Jim Morrison, (abbr.)</p><p>4&mdash;Number of NHL teams Lynn Patrick played with.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of player who wears No. 10 for Toronto.</p><p>6&mdash;Less Duff is this in relation to Dick.</p><p>8&mdash;Plays right wing for Hershey Bears.</p><p>10&mdash;United Nations, (abbr.)</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of a bashing Bruin.</p><p>15&mdash;Month in which Ray Barry was born (abbr.)</p><p>18&mdash;One of the Providence Reds.</p><p>20&mdash;Jack McIntyre makes his home here.</p><p>22&mdash;Don Raleigh once fractured one.</p><p>24&mdash;Initials of a Hawk player.</p><p>25&mdash;Number of times Bill Cowley won the scoring championship.</p><p>26&mdash;Name given a Hawk defenseman.</p><p>28&mdash;Pronun.</p><p>29 Ton (abbr.)</p><h2><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Solution</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Hall</p><p>4&mdash;Four</p><p>7&mdash;Eagles</p><p>9&mdash;Tessier</p><p>12&mdash;N.E.</p><p>13&mdash;G.F.</p><p>15&mdash;Bob</p><p>16&mdash;Geo.</p><p>17&mdash;E.R.</p><p>18&mdash;W.O.</p><p>19&mdash;At</p><p>20&mdash;Hot</p><p>21&mdash;Chi.</p><p>22&mdash;R.B.</p><p>23&mdash;H.B.</p><p>24&mdash;Stairs</p><p>26&mdash;A.W.</p><p>28&mdash;AHL</p><p>29&mdash;Boyd</p><p>31&mdash;Lee</p><p>34&mdash;K.W.</p><p>35&mdash;White</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Hit</p><p>2&mdash;Les.</p><p>3&mdash;Last</p><p>4&mdash;Flem.</p><p>5&mdash;Oe&rsquo;r</p><p>6&mdash;U.S.</p><p>8&mdash;G.I.</p><p>10&mdash;Edge worth</p><p>11&mdash;Feb.</p><p>12&mdash;North Bay</p><p>14&mdash;Football</p><p>15&mdash;Beach</p><p>24&mdash;Sask.</p><p>25&mdash;S.B.</p><p>27&mdash;W.D.</p><p>30&mdash;Ont.</p><p>32&mdash;E.W.</p><p>33&mdash;E.H.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>Bols Answer</b></p><p><b>Babe Pratt holds the record 57 points in 1943-44</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0275/1472239-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="247" height="291"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0176/1472246-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="237" height="276"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0373/1472232-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2864" height="1603"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0460/1472225-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2853" height="1585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY, star netminder of the Toronto Maple Leafs, is used to the hair-trigger action of the National Hockey League, but in the photos above he seems somewhat perturbed on a couple of near-misses. In the top photo, he looks in horror as a shot by Jackie Leclair of the Montreal Canadians just skims by the goal post. That&rsquo;s Hugh Bolton checking Leclair while Rudy Migay makes sure that Maurice (Rocket) Richard stays far enough away from the play to be out of position for any possible rebound, Lum just catches the disc as it goes to cross the red line in the photo at bottom. Ted Lindsay of the Detroit Red Wings, who fired the shot, looks up to see if the red light is shining, but to no avail. Bolton and Migay are again the Leaf defenders.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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