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February 4, 1956

The Hockey News February 4, 1956

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03195/1538036-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY POPElN</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>As long as Ranger front office tiffs remain on the pleasant plane they are now everything will be honky-dory in giddy Gotham.</p><p>At the moment the only evident point GM Muzz Patrick and coach Phil Watson disagree on is the choice of New York&rsquo;s first-round playoff opponent. Local observers should be glad to know that they&rsquo;re beginning to believe Rangers are &ldquo;in&rdquo;. Wonder whether Chi-Bruins-Leafs will consent to the breeze?</p><p>Getting back to the difference of opinion, let Muzz take the floor first.</p><p>&ldquo;If you can call playing Montreal an advantage at any time then I&rsquo;ll say I&rsquo;d rather play them than Detroit in the semi-final round,&rdquo; said Muzz. &ldquo;In that way it would be to our advantage since three of the games would be played at the Garden.</p><p>&ldquo;In the final round we&rsquo;d&rsquo; have no games at the Garden because of the Circus decreasing our chances against them.</p><h2><b>Perennial Jinx</b></h2><p>Muzz knows what he&rsquo;s talking about if you&rsquo;re a believer in what seems to be a perennial Rangers jinx in Montreal. Blues haven&rsquo;t won a game at the Forum since Jan. 19, 1954, have won only one since 1951. Hence he figures the Blues to take three at the Garden and hope for one win in Habtown.</p><p>If Phil had his way he&rsquo;d trim the Canadien home games off the schedule. That being impossible his only alternative is to hope that Habs get knocked off in the semis thus leaving anyone else to battle his Blues in the finals.</p><p>&ldquo;No siree,&rdquo; bellowed Watson, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to run into Canadiens in the first round. I prefer meeting Toronto because we usually do alright against that club.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Remember 1950?</b></h2><p>Perhaps Rangers mortal fear of meeting Montreal in the first round is overly exaggerated. Wasn&rsquo;t it a power laden Canadien club with a younger Maurice Richard, Doug Harvey, Ken Mosdell, Curry, Mackay, etc., that New York set back in a five-game semi-final round in 1950?</p><p>Strange things happen in the post-season play down&rsquo;s not the least of which is the emergence of the underdogs to great heights. The Rangers of today are younger and stronger than the 1949-50 squad which missed winning the Stanley Cup by the width of the goalpost. Barring serious injuries, they should be a formidable foe for either Detroit or Montreal.</p><p>Speaking of injuries&mdash;and Watson winces every time he hears the word&mdash;Larry Popein is the only New Yorker to miss a game because of a hurt so far this season.</p><p>The underrated but very valuable &ldquo;Pope&rdquo; was injured Jan. 4th when bodied against the protective glass surrounding the Garden rink. Larry admits he doesn&rsquo;t remember who did it or how it happened but when his headaches became a daily drag Dr. Nardiello ordered a 10-day rest.</p><h2><b>Took Life Easy</b></h2><p>Larry who lounged around his house for a week taking life easy, was then re-examined by Dr. S.V. Sordillo, a neurologist. The medic advised Pope to become more active, prescribed a diet of calesthenics which would slowly round the fleet center into shape.</p><p>The Rangers in general and Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice in particular sorely missed their dipsy-doodle pivot. As one Blue shirt official put it: &ldquo;Andy and Dean can never let down when Popein is on the ice. He&rsquo;s so fast that they really have to skate to keep up with him.&rdquo;</p><p>Larry has missed six games at this writing but should be in uniform by the time the HN reaches the stands unless, of course, his injury turns out to be worse than at first diagnosed. The latter is a distinct possibility.</p><h2><b>Rangerablia</b></h2><p>Your observer took a gander at the Providence Reds for the third time this year and for the first time young Billy McCreary was the standout performer among a number of bright faces&hellip;He had been hampered by a sore ankle for a few weeks&hellip;Two other hard-working two-way players were Bruce Cline and Red Johansen, The latter is owned by Providence&hellip;Cline is tiny at 5-7, 135 pounds&mdash;but so was Aurel Joliat, nest pes?&hellip;Zellio Toppazzini rumored on the way to the Bruins. Mind you it&rsquo;s rumored&hellip;Journal-American&rsquo;s Dave Anderson calls him the &ldquo;Rocky Nelson of hockey.&rdquo;&hellip;Up until Jan. 26th Dave Creighton was two goals shy of the 100-goal club.</p><p>Pete conacher quietly playing a solid game on left wing. And scoring too&hellip;Bronco Horvath who, in a sense, was &ldquo;on trial&rdquo; while filling in for Larry Popein, should have the verdict on his play handed in shortly&hellip;Bronc can&rsquo;t find himself on the small Garden rink, goes better on the road&hellip;Aldo Guidolin has the blueprints for the new home he&rsquo;s going to build in Guelph this spring with Phyllis&rsquo; help&hellip;Dean and June Prentice expect to move into a neighboring house at the same time&hellip;All but the unreserved balcony seats gobbled up for the Blues&rsquo; Feb. 5th battle with Montreal weeks in advance.</p><h2><b>Underrated But Valuable</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Patrick Hopes To Meet Habs In First Round Of Playoffs

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2><b>The King and His Subjects</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying we&rsquo;re going to make the playoffs, but I sure hope we make &lsquo;em,&rdquo; said King Clancy, coach of the Toronto Leafs, during the course of a bag-punching session in the hotel lobby. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you one thing, though&mdash;if we do make &lsquo;em, those other clubs will find us tough.&rdquo;</p><p>King has a lot of young, eager beavers on his team this season, and he thinks some of them are future stars.</p><p>&ldquo;One guy you&rsquo;ve got to like is Dick Duff,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t trade him for Ted Lindsay or any other left-winger in the league. He&rsquo;s got speed, he can shoot and he isn&rsquo;t afraid of anybody. It wouldn&rsquo;t matter to him if Rocky Marciano was out there tangling with him. He&rsquo;d walk right into him. Another thing, he doesn&rsquo;t have to stop to think. He makes the right moves by instinct.&rdquo;</p><p>Another freshman he singles out is Marc Resume, the youthful defenseman from the Windsor area.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s an All-Star in the making,&rdquo; King declares. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s that? How far away is he? Not far&mdash;two years at the most.&rdquo;</p><p>The Leafs have tried out a lot of players this season, and the shuttle between Toronto and Pittsburgh has been busier than usual.</p><p>&ldquo;Not because we&rsquo;ve been doing a lot of experimenting, but because of injuries,&rdquo; King explained. &ldquo;We thought we were all set when the season started, and then the injury jinx flattened us. We&rsquo;ve had as many injuries as the Bruins or anybody else.</p><p>&ldquo;Take our defense alone, Horton was out for a month and a half, and Thomson was out for three weeks. Bolton missed five games, maybe more, and Morrison is hurt right now. I won&rsquo;t bother to run down the forwards. There&rsquo;s too many of them. But that&rsquo;s the way it&rsquo;s been going with us.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Sid Smith, the $64,000 Question</b></h2><p>Injuries have hurt them, and so has the inability of Sid Smith to put the puck in the net. Sid has never failed to score 20 or more goals in each of the last six seasons, or ever since he nailed down a regular berth with the Leafs. Last year he scored 33 goals and made the First All-Stars, but he has scored only two goals so far this season.</p><p>Over that six-year stretch he was on a line with Teeder Kennedy, a fine play-making pivot, who retired last spring. Could Kennedy&rsquo;s absence make all that difference to Smith?</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the $64,000 questions,&rdquo; King replied. &ldquo;It shouldn&rsquo;t, though. When Smitty got hurt we moved Duff into his spot at left wing on the line with Tod Sloan and George Armstrong. That&rsquo;s as good a line as there is in the league, in my opinion. Duff went so well that when Smitty returned we had to put him on another lino.</p><p>&ldquo;The only place we had for him was on a line with Rudy Migay and Ron Stewart. Migay and Stewart are my penalty killers, which means that the line doesn&rsquo;t play as much as the other lines, so Smitty doesn&rsquo;t get as much chance to score.</p><p>&ldquo;But if he was scoring like he did in other years, I think we&rsquo;d have a better record. Some of those games that we lost by one goal we might have tied or won. And that reminds me of our game with the Rangers recently. We&rsquo;re losing, 6-2, and then late in the final period we score three goals in 52 seconds.</p><p>&ldquo;After the game, Milt Dunnell comes into the dressing room and says, &lsquo;You don&rsquo;t have to worry about that one. It was a great game for the crowd. They nearly tore the roof off the joint.&rsquo; I said, &lsquo;It might have been a good game for the crowd, but it was nothing for me. We didn&rsquo;t even get a point out of it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Big Year for Tod Sloan</b></h2><p>Tod Sloan is having a big year and has become the Leafs&rsquo; payoff man. He is currently leading the loop in goals scored with 29.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a lot of goals, but he still doesn&rsquo;t shoot enough,&rdquo; King said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got a heavy shot that bothers the goalkeepers. Some guys have a light shot and the goalkeepers pick it off easily with their hands. I was like that myself when I was playing. But every shot of Sloan&rsquo;s is a juggler. The goalkeeper is apt to drop it and it might roll over the red line.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see him shoot more, but he&rsquo;s improved over last year. Why, last season he wanted to go right in and shake hands with the goalkeeper instead of firing when he had the chance.&rdquo;</p><p>King thinks the Canadiens should be able to hold their lead until the end of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve a lot of power,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;We played well in Toronto against them, but in the end they overpowered us. It was just our luck to catch them when they&rsquo;d been shut out twice in a row. You&rsquo;re not going to keep those guys from scoring forever; they&rsquo;re bound to break out. I&rsquo;d say Toe Blake is doing a good job with the team. It&rsquo;s hard to get them up for a game when everybody is telling them they&rsquo;re the greatest this and that.</p><p>&ldquo;There aren&rsquo;t any breathers for the Canadiens, either. Every other team knows they have to go full out to beat them.</p><p>&ldquo;To make the playoffs, we will have to beat the teams beneath us (Boston and Chicago) consistently andwin once in a while from the top clubs. The Rangers give us a lot of trouble and that little Worsley has beaten us in more than one game. They&rsquo;ve bot some good hockey players. Everybody recognizes Bathgate&rsquo;s ability, but an underrated player on that club is Prentice.</p><p>&ldquo;Detroit is hot right now. They&rsquo;ve got to have a good club with fellows on it like Howe, Lindsay, Kelly, Reibel, Delvecchio and Pronovost. They&rsquo;re getting good goaling from Hall, too, I like that Delvecchio. He always plays well against us.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s really no form in hockey. If you&rsquo;ve got guys Who can skate and who will dig for 60 minutes, you&rsquo;ll win your share of games. That&rsquo;s the coach&rsquo;s job, to keep them digging. Believe me, it&rsquo;s not as easy as it looks.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>TROY, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Bill Tibbs, Troy&rsquo;s premier goalie, was relaxing. He&rsquo;d played a hockey game that afternoon, but here he was again, this time in the role of spectator, watching another game.</p><p>Tibbs had led Troy to its seventh straight victory hours earlier, 4-2 over Grand Rapids, and he then jumped in his car and motored 70 miles to Cincinnati to watch the Mohawks beat the Toledo-Marion Mercs, 3-1.</p><p>&ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t have anything to do tonight, so I decided to come on down and see Cincinnati play,&rdquo; Tibbs explained.</p><p>The night before, against Indianapolis, Tibbs had turned in his seventh shutout of the season, 2-0, also at Hobart Arena in Troy.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the most shutouts I&rsquo;ve ever had in one season,&rdquo; modest Bill admitted. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what it is this year. I just feel good out there&mdash;and I&rsquo;m working with a fine team, too.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Six-Year Veteran</b></h2><p>Tibbs is to the International Hockey League what Terry Sawchuk and Bill Dur-nan are and have been to the National League.</p><p>Only 24 years old, Tibbs is in his sixth campaign in the IHL. He was on the first All-Star sextet for the first four years, on the second last year and probably will be back on the first team in 1955-56.</p><p>A native of Winnipeg, Tibbs spent two years with the now-defunct Detroit Hettches, two with Toledo and now is in his second with Troy.</p><p>&ldquo;Wait until we finally get a full team on our bench,&rdquo; Tibbs warned. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had an awful lot of bad breaks this year, more than I&rsquo;ve ever seen before on one club. You know, we&rsquo;ve been from one to three men short ever since Marty McAlendin was hurt on Dec. 2.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Still Hustling</b></h2><p>Despite the long run of adverse luck, Nellie Podolski still has his Bruin puck chasers hustling for the top spot in the IHL standings.</p><p>Their seven straight conquests have left the Troy icers just three and a half games behind front running Cincinnati, which has taken 14 of its last 15.</p><p>&ldquo;What we need now is a little help from those other teams in the loop&mdash;Grand Rapids, Ft. Wayne, Toledo and Indianapolis,&rdquo; Tibbs pointed out. &ldquo;After all, Cincinnati has lost only eight games all season, and we&rsquo;ve been responsible for four of those.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Four More Meetings</b></h2><p>The Bruins and Hawks clash four more times this season, incidentally, twice in each city, in games which may go a long way towards determining the eventual outcome of the International League race. The series between the two clubs is all even at 4-4 right now.</p><p>&ldquo;Our guys really want to get in there and play,&rdquo; Tibbs said. &ldquo;Bill Edwards, for instance, has a hairline fracture of the wrist but he&rsquo;s still in action. McAlendin, despite doctor&rsquo;s orders, tried to play one day, but was forced to quit when the doc saw him out there on the ice. He&rsquo;ll be back soon, we hope.&rdquo;</p><p>And with that, Tibbs turned his attention back to the game, where the Mohawks and Mercs were scrapping it out.</p><h2><b>Icing The Puck</b></h2><p>Snow and icy roads caused postponement of the scheduled Ft. Wayne at Cincinnati tilt, which was moved back to Feb. 28&hellip;Tibbs&rsquo; shutout was the lone blanking of the week, as the Bruins won three straight games and Cincinnati two in a row&hellip;When Indianapolis beat Ft. Wayne, 7-4, it ended a sevengame losing streak for the Chiefs, who tallied only seven goals over that stretch&hellip;Cincinnati now has won 13 in a row at home and is unbeaten in its last 18 contests at its own rink. On the year, the Hawks have lost just once in 22 appearances at Cincinnati Garden.&hellip;Grand Rapids sustained its initial Saturday night setback at home at the hands of Cincinnati, 5-2, on Jan. 21&hellip;Billy Goold, Cincinnati captain, has assumed the IHL&rsquo;s scoring leadership over his teammate, Rookie Max Meki-lok, 68 points to 67. Goold has 22 goals and 46 assists, Mekilok 28 goals and 39 assists. Both are centres.</p><h2><b>Glitter Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02209/1539037-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="846" height="1366"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL TIBBS</b></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BOLS ANSWER Detroit, 37 points.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Goaler Bill Tibbs Good Bet For All-Star Honors in IHL

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FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01176/1539390-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>A LOOKED OF PAINED SURPRISE</b> adorns the face of New York Rangers&rsquo; goaler Lome (Gump) Worsley as he realizes that a shot by Claude Provost (not shown) of the Montreal Canadiens has eluded him. Rounding the net with stick up raised in the usual signification of a goal is Jean-Guy Talbot of the Habs while the Ranger rearguard is Jack Evans (5). <span class="photo-credit">(—Photo by Mike Gravel)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Worsley Wonders What Hoppen?</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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PITTSBURGH BUILDING NEW RINK

<div class="byline">By PAUL G. SULLIVAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Pittsburgh Hornets will probably be playing their home games in a spanking new arena come the season of 1958-59.</p><p>Until that time, however, the Hornets will continue to hold forth at the Pittsburgh Gardens, which should put an end to rumors that the Steel City franchise was to be transferred to some other centre.</p><p>There had been some doubt that John H. Harris, owner of the Hornets and the new owners of the venerable Gardens would be able to get together on a new lease for at least the next couple of years. The current lease expires at the end of this season.</p><p>Apparently, however, Harris and the Gardens brass have come to a meeting of the minds and a new rental arrangement will be drawn up in the near future.</p><p>Meanwhile plans for the new Civic Arena in Pittsburgh are beyond the speculative stage.</p><p>The Urban Redevelopment Authority has been pressing the project vigourously for more than a year. There is no question of the commitment to the program or of its ultimate fruition. But the weight of practical problems is tremendous.</p><p>For one thing, the land to be utilized for the structure and its environs is to be acquired by purchase, if possible, and by the exercice of eminent domain in cases where owners prove recalcitrant. The area is covered by scores of small homes and business establishments and even the utmost expedition will not assemble the requisite title overnight.</p><h2><b>Progress Okay</b></h2><p>Financing through the Federal Government sources is likewise&mdash;and necessarily&mdash;a tedious process. It is understood that this phase of the undertaking has progressed satisfactorily, but there are doubtless many time-consuming details to be worked out.</p><p>Finally, of course, the business of construction&mdash;after several months of demolition and clearing operations&mdash;will involve quite a lengthy span. Indeed, it would be a sanguine prophet who would predict hockey in the Arena by the automn of 1955.</p><p>So the Hornets will remain at the Gardens, for at least the next two seasons, anyway.</p><p>Harris, besides being the owner of the Hornets, is also owner of the Ice Capades ice show, one of the biggest annual money-makers on the Gardens program. He is also said to be sitting on a professional basketball franchise against the day when that sport can be reactivated profitably here.</p><p>For these and other reasons it seemed certain that Harris and the Gardens brass would eventually get together to work out the problem of a new rental arrangement for the Hornets. That they have done and now everybody&rsquo;s happy&mdash;especially Pittsburgh&rsquo;s rabid hockey fans who were appaled at even the thought of losing the Hornets.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Modern Arena Seen Ready In Two Years

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jacques Plante, Canadiens&rsquo; acrobatic netminder, doesn&rsquo;t agree with the writers who claim that he is always jittery after an injury. He&rsquo;s used to injuries&hellip;and didn&rsquo;t he gamble on a painful wrist operation to assure his future as a professional?</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re doing hotter now,&rdquo; someone said to Jake the other day.</p><p>&ldquo;Have you forgotten about your broken nose?&rdquo;</p><p>It was an oblique reference to the fact that Plante, after returning to the line-up, showed little of his early season form, yielding 12 goals on 70 shots over one brief stretch of games.</p><p>Plante smiled. &ldquo;Sure, I have forgotten about it. You&rsquo;ve got to forget about those things or hey&rsquo;ll haunt you. Remember has the whole Leam was in a slump. The fellows were not getting any goals. They weren&rsquo;t back-checking with the same zip. Injuries were piling up thick and fast. Doug Harvey and Dollard St. Laurent were lost to the defence.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01247/1537523-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="318" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacques Plante</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a lot different tending the net under those circumstances. The pressure is greater. It is easier when you have a lead to work on. You can take chances. You are more relaxed.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Stax Support Claim</b></h2><p>There seems to be ample statistical evidence to support Plante&rsquo;s claim. When injured men (all but St. Laurent) returned to the line-up, when Maurice Richard and Jean Beliveau started to score again, when the team as a whole resumed back checking and afforded Plante some of the protection he had been used to, his work improved.</p><p>Two years ago Plante was on the verge of quitting hockey. A wrist injury in childhood deprived him. of the full use of his left hand. He couldn&rsquo;t turn palm outward. Somehow or other he got by on sheer determination even with the Montreal Royals.</p><h2><b>Couln&rsquo;t Catch Puck</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I knew I couldn&rsquo;t be a top goalie,&rdquo; he once, confided to Russ Wheatley of The Canadian Press, who was the first to discover his secret.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t catch, the puck with my left hand or knock it down,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I used my thigh but that meant a rebound. Too often the puck would go into the net between my hand and my body.&rdquo;</p><p>Plante injured his wrist when he was five years old in a playground accident at Shawinigan Falls, his home town. He was playing on a park slide when another youngster pushed him, suddenly from the top. Off balance he skidded down, his left hand twisted under his body. He didn&rsquo;t realize it then, but a bone had been shattered.</p><h2><b>Gained Hope</b></h2><p>A few years ago, after finishing a season with the Royals, Plante decided that something would have to be done if he were to compete for a job with the Canadiens. He went to one doctor and was told that an operation probably would not correct the disability. Undaunted he went to an osteopath who gave him some hope.</p><p>&ldquo;Okay,&rdquo; Plante told the bone specialist. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s try it. And give me a local anaesthetic. I want to see what&rsquo;s going on.&rdquo;</p><p>In the midst of the operation he became ill and had to be given a general anaesthetic. Part of the bone in the wrist was removed. Weeks later, when a cast was taken off, Plante found that he could move the wrist freely.</p><p>Halfway through the next season, Plante turned pro with the Buffalo Bisons in the American Hockey League. In 1953-54 he was hoisted to the parent club and allowed only 27 goals, three of them scored in empty nets, in 17 games.</p><h2><b>Lowest Average</b></h2><p>He became Montreal&rsquo;s regular goaltender last season upon the retirement of Gerry McNeil and now sports the lowest lifetime goals against average of any active NHL goalie.</p><p>A glutton for work, Plante started playing senior hockey when he was only 14, as sub goalie for Shawinigan Fall&rsquo;s senior club. A year later he was suspended by the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association for spreading his activity over too wide a range. He was playing midget hockey with Shawinigan, intermediate with Three Rivers and senior with the main Shawinigan club.</p><p>All the time his injured wrist bothered him, but he hid his handicap from coaches and mates until, with the Royals he realized that he had a chance to become a big leaguer.</p><h2><b>Decision Up to Him</b></h2><p>He wrote to the Canadiens and asked if they would agree to an operation. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;I can be as good as any netminder in the National Hockey League, not even barring Terry Sawchuk.&rdquo;</p><p>The Habs left the decision up to him. The rest is history. Today, the wiry young man who had the courage to gamble his future against a surgeon&rsquo;s knife, is well on his way to becoming the All-Star goalie of 1955-56. Selectors favored him in the voting for the first half of the season.</p><h2><b>NHL Prexy Signs Golden Book</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02231/1537516-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1745" height="1419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NHL PRESIDENT CLARENCE CAMPBELL</b> signs Toronto&rsquo;s Golden Book in the office of Mayor Nathan Phillips (centre with glasses) as Frank Selke, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Managing Director, and Maurice (Rocket) Richard, star right wing of the Habitants, look on. Occasion was a presentation by the City of Toronto to the Rocket commemorating his 500th NHL goal.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wrist Operation Changed Plante’s Hockey Outlook

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Montreal poured six goals past Hank Bassen at the Chicago Stadium January 22 while holding the Black Hawks to two as it annexed its eighth win in 10 meetings between the clubs this year. The Irvinmen have won once white the other game was a tie.</p><p>The Canadien splurge forced Bassen&rsquo;s goals against average from an admirable 2.50 to 2.89. However, Irvin saw no reason to blame any of the markers against the youthful goalie who replaced the veteran Al Rollins, just after the first of the year.</p><p>Irvin remarked after the game, a very rough affair, &ldquo;Talbot&rsquo;s goal was deflected off someone and Henri Richard swatted the puck into the net with Hank on the ice while he was skating away from the play&hellip;you can&rsquo;t beat luck like that! If only we could get some goals for Bassen.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03212/1537561-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="277" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Bassen</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Genuine Standout</b></h2><p>Although beaten six times, Bassen was a genuine standout as he blocked 31 other shots. At one point, he was confronted with a breakaway by the four top Canadiens, Jean Beliveau, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Rocket Richard and Bert Olmstead, but thwarted the gang attack.</p><p>Chicago fans enjoyed all portions of the game when the Montrealers weren&rsquo;t scoring for the Hawks clearly gained the edge in aggressive action. Chicago got 10 of the 16 penalties assessed by Referee Frank Udvari with no less than six banishing rearguard Lee Fogolin who was a bull of destruction.</p><h2><b>Won Decisions</b></h2><p>He won fistic decisions from Geoffrion and Canadien rear guard Tom Johnson as other potential punch parteners stayed out of his way. Capt. Gus Mortson also gave Boom Boom the works as the Canadien retaliated with only words. Other Chicagoans penalized were Benny Woit, Red Sullivan and Ed Litzz enberger.</p><p>The game was a marked change from a dreary affair two nights earlier at the Stadium in which Boston came up with a surprise 3-0 shutout. Only excitement came after the final whistle when irrate fans attempted to storm the Bruin team as it departed from the ice. No one was hurt.</p><h2><b>Battler</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04168/1537554-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="575" height="871"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUS MORTSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Irvin Sticks With Bassen As Chi-Hawks’ Goaltender

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Do you remember?…

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01246/1537623-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED KELLY</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p><i>One of the year&rsquo;s most intriguing stories on the technical side of hockey was created when Detroit suddenly shifted Red Kelly from defense to forward in midseason. The conversion is unique in National Hockey League history. Kelly, an All-Star defenseman for the last six seasons, accomplished the switch without advance warning and kept right on starring as a left wing.</i></p><p><i>In a special interview with THE HOCKEY NEWS, Kelly discusses some of the aspects of this switch:</i></p><p>Question: What was your biggest problem in making this Switch?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;I told myself at first to skate up and down that wing, just like I&rsquo;d heard so many forwards told before. I think maybe I was too conscious of it for a while and was watching my man too close instead of going on offense.</p><p>&ldquo;The hardest thing to learn was to take a pass from defensemen in my own end and go out with it. As a defenseman, I could play it safe and go back behind the net when checked. As a forward, my job is to carry it out. It look me some time to learn to pick up the puck while moving out. At first I kept turning and looking back for the puck and that&rsquo;s a way to get racked up good.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: In playing on a line with Gordie Howe and Dutch Reibel, how did you go about fitting into their criss-cross patterns?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;Before I got the hang of it, I kept running into Gordie. Then I began to get the feel of moving over to right wing when he cuts to the left. When he is carrying or Dutch is feeding him, I keep my eye on Gordie. When he moves, I go the other way.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess it&rsquo;s a lot like dancing partners. He leads the criss-cross and I follow. Lately I&rsquo;ve done some of the leading, cuttting to the opposite wing when carrying the puck. Gordie Senses it and swings over to my wing.</p><p>&ldquo;The key thing on the criss-cross is picking up a check when we lose the puck. We always take the man nearest and keep him until we get the puck back. Gordie and Dutch are great at picking off checks that way and I&rsquo;m learning.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: Do you and Howe and Reibel work out those things by talking them over?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;We talk about it some but I&rsquo;d say 90 percent of it comes from working it out in games.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: What adjustments have you made in your play in the attacking zone?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;Not as many as I need. For instance, I&rsquo;ve been trying that tip-in deflection shot that Howe and Lindsay and Delvecchio work so well. I find that I&rsquo;m getting too much of the puck each time. That play is tougher than it looks and I need more practice on it.</p><p>&ldquo;At first I worried about whether I was breaking in fast enough to stay with Howe and Reibel. Then I realized that they could time my moves whether I was ahead of them or behind them so I quit worrying about that.</p><p>&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;m still too quick at times in turning and going back on defense. Maybe it&rsquo;s habit. I was concentrating on not getting trapped. It&rsquo;s taking me time to learn to hang around the net a little longer on those scrambles.</p><p>&ldquo;It was a little strange abjusting myself to the moves of the defensive forward checking me. I did a lot of studying of the movies taken of all our games. I see my mistakes there and I try to correct them.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: Is there less body contact as a forward?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m taking a lot less but I&rsquo;m giving a lot more.</p><p>&ldquo;A defenseman gets a lot of hard checks behind his own net from those forwards who come in and smash you against the boards. I&rsquo;m not getting hit as often or as hard up front. A lot of the checks I do get now, especially around the net, are really interference, not hitting.</p><p>&ldquo;I find that I can give out a lot more body checks as a forward. On defense, I didn&rsquo;t feel that I could ever afford a body check when a miss would leave me behind the play. But it isn&rsquo;t as costly when a forward misses on a check so I try them more.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: Are you getting more penalties?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;I expected I would but I&rsquo;ve had only one minor penalty since becoming a forward. I had 33 minutes this year on defense.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Satisfied With Lot</b></h2><p>Question: Do you think you could return to defense immediately without any re-adjustment?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;I should be able to, and also be a better defenseman because of my experience as a forward. For one thing, I realize the importance of feeding the proper kind of pass to a forward.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe I&rsquo;d have to concentrate a little on not getting trapped! might forget myself and be slow once in a while in wheeling and going back.&rdquo;</p><p>Question: Do you think it would be any benefit for young defensemen, juniors for example, to play forward once in a while?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t thought much about it before but I know now that it would be excellent training. They&rsquo;d appreciate the difficulties of playing forward a lot more.</p><p>&ldquo;The same thing goes for forwards&mdash;they would appreciate a defenseman&rsquo;s problems more if they had to play defense for a while.</p><p>&ldquo;The biggest sin for a defenseman is to give away the puck. It&rsquo;s better to be checked Into a faceoff or even have it taken away from you.</p><p>&ldquo;Defensemen have to learn to feed a pass to a man fast when he&rsquo;s open and before the defense can cover. Yet he has to give that pass so a winger can take it going out. Those &lsquo;suicide pass&rsquo; where the forward has to turn back to take it will get him racked up plenty.</p><p>&ldquo;I think anyone knowing the problems at both ends of those passes can handle one end a lot better.&rdquo;.</p><p>Question: Which position do you like better, defense or forward?</p><p>Kelly: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s a tough question. I like both and I&rsquo;ll play where-ever it will help the team the most.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe a forward has more fun. You get more chances to fight around the net, more chances to try and score. A defenseman gets his one shot and then has to wheel and cover up. A forward can always wait for a second chance.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m enjoying the wing more now than when I first moved up. I&rsquo;ve become used to the style of Howe and Reibel. I&rsquo;ve got the knack of going up and down my wing without being too conscious of my check. I think I&rsquo;m handling the puck better lately, too.</p><p>&ldquo;You know, a forward doesn&rsquo;t carry the puck as much as a defenseman. When I was on defense, I carried it on almost every play from our end. Now I get to see it only when Howe and Reibel don&rsquo;t have it and you know how those two like the rubber.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Red Kelly-All-Star Defenseman Happy As A Forward

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>When Red Kelly was shifted to left wing, he was returning to the position where he broke into hockey.</p><p>Kelly played forward on midget and junior B teams at Toronto St. Michael. When he reported to Jim Primeau, then coaching the junior A team, St. Mike&rsquo;s had several vacancies on defense.</p><p>Primeau shifted both Kelly and Ed Sandford to rear corps. Sandford soon returned to a forward line but Kelly spent the next 10 years on defense until his recent re-conversion.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Started Out As Winger

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Enthusiasm was cool, to put it mildly, when Coach Jimmy Skinner announced some radical player switches among his Red Wings on December 7.</p><p>It was a two-way deal. Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, after forming a brilliant forward combination for seven solid seasons, were being split. Red Kelly, an All Star defenseman for six year&rsquo;s in a row, was going to forward.</p><p>&ldquo;What kind of sense does that make?&rdquo; asked the startled balcony gods.</p><p>Skinner conceded that it was an outright gamble.</p><p>&ldquo;I agree that Howe and Lindsay are our biggest punch, but we have to get better balance to our power,&rdquo; Skinner explained.</p><p>What about the Kelly portion of the switch? After all, there is no recorded instance in the National Hockey League of a defenseman turning forward and becoming a star.</p><p>It was here that Skinner hedged a bit.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m hoping that Red can give us a little more offense. We need more goals and if he can get them then we&rsquo;ve got to use him there even if our defense is weakened,&rdquo; Skinner said.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, we can always switch, him back to defense any time,&rdquo; he added hurriedly.</p><p>That was two months ago.</p><p>What have the results been?</p><h2><b>Produced Rewards</b></h2><p>The first gamble has yet to be fully answered. Lindsay broke his hand in the next start and is just getting back into stride again. But, neither he nor Howe look lost apart, that&rsquo;s certain.</p><p>The second gamble, however, has already produced rewards far exceeding Skinner&rsquo;s hopes. Kelly not only is making himself at home on left wing but he also is starring at the job.</p><p>Facts, not guesses, support the claim that Kelly is the best left wing in hockey at the current time. Since the day he became a forward, he has out goaled and outpointed all other left wingers.</p><p>It must be more than coincidence that the Red Wings also started their mid-season spurt just when those shifts were made and have pulled into second place.</p><p>Kelly&rsquo;s personal scoring contribution to that drive has been 10 goals and 12 assists&mdash;2 2 points in his 20 games as a forward. He jumped from 21st to ninth in NHL scoring.</p><p>Since the day he popped into the Detroit lineup from junior ranks in 1947, no one has questioned Kelly&rsquo;s ability In addition to regular All Star acclaim, he won the Lady Byng Trophy three times as the most sportsmanlike player, was the original winner of the Norris Trophy as best defenseman two years ago, and has been among the leaders regularly in the Hart Trophy voting for most valuable player.</p><p>Now&mdash;in his ninth season as a National Leaguer&mdash;he also is proving that he has versatility to match his ability.</p><p>The switch to left wing was not received with great favor in many parts. Red refused to comment personally beyond &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll do whatever is best for the team&rdquo; but his friends insist he was skeptical.</p><p>Local hockey writers were fully agreed at first that Kelly, as a forward, still was a great defenseman. They considered the switch a tactical mistake but, fortunately, were not able to climb out on the limb in print. The Detroit newspapers were on strike at the time, and Kelly became a proven star by the time publication resumed.</p><p>Kelly&rsquo;s switch is providing some confusion in the All Star balloting this season. Although a forward since Dec. 8, he had enough carryover luster to be voted to the first All Star team on defense in the halfway balloting which closed Dee. 31. He trailed only Montreal&rsquo;s Doug Harvey in the voting.</p><p>Since Kelly is destined to remain a forward the rest of the season, he&rsquo;ll be considered as a left wing when the second-half poll is taken among the panel of 18 selectors.</p><p>Which means, of course, that he will not be able to make the All Star team as either a defenseman or a forward this season.</p><p>Maybe the NHL fathers can return that old time position of &ldquo;rover&rdquo; to the ballot. Kelly would be a cinch there.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Smiling Irishman Standout No Matter Where He Plays

<div class="byline">DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>While Red Kelly has popped up as a forward for a shift or for a game in the past, he always was considered a permanent defenseman.</p><p>Four years ago, at playoff time, Tommy Ivan, then the Red Wings coach, devised the plan of using Kelly as an alternate for Sid Abel at center on the Production Line between Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay.</p><p>In his first appearance in that role, Kelly suffered a broken hand. It ended that experiment as a forward, but he was able to finish out the playoffs on defense despite the injury.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Red Tested At Forward 4 Years Ago

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01316/1537750-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>(As Seen in the Toronto Star)</p><h2><b>Go Early and Get Yourself Squashed</b></h2><p>PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia.&mdash;This is the log of an ordinary deckhand of the newspaper racket covering a hockey game here in Prague. It&rsquo;s a battle to get through the lobby of the Paris hotel. Man on the bottom step says he&rsquo;s been there more than an hour because he didn&rsquo;t get Art Hurst&rsquo;s autograph and that&rsquo;s the only one he missed. Fourteen people wail they didn&rsquo;t get a picture of the Dutchmen. Telephone call for Jimmy Dunn, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey association. Somebody important is cabling to say he didn&rsquo;t get a ticket. He won&rsquo;t get one, either, unless he uses a gun. Crowd in the street yells,. &ldquo;Dotoho, Dotoho,&rdquo; which means &ldquo;Go, Go.&rdquo;</p><p>Stadium is almost filled when Canadians get there, even though it&rsquo;s still an hour before game time. The structure is built of wood. It is rectangular in shape with a double deck on one side. Opposite side has seats half way up. For the balance of the way there&rsquo;s standing-room. On tiers of steps in that area the fans are standing 500 deep. Ones who got there early to grab the front spots are flattened against the wooden barrier like sunfish. Shortly before the teams are ready to take the ice, an overhanging light explodes, showering glass. The stadium is darkened while a workman crawls up a ladder with a new bulb. Some jokesmith in the stands plays the Last Post on an old bugle. It&rsquo;s seldom that you see such hilarity among the Czechs. They are a pretty solemn lot,</p><p>There&rsquo;s a roar which sounds like the reaction of a Montreal crowd when Rocket Richard scores the winning goal. It&rsquo;s caused by the appearance of Denny Brodeur leading the Canadians through the gate. Beryle Klinck endears himself to every Czech by dashing out with the guards on his skates and doing a pratfall across the ice, Now they are sure Canadians are people, too. There&rsquo;s some chatter over the P.A. system and an interpreter explains it&rsquo;s a reminder that Canada is the motherland of hockey. Maybe it&rsquo;s intended to tell the crowd that Canutskies can do no wrong on skates.</p><h2><b>Hot Dogs Are Bologna on Buns&mdash;Not Hot</b></h2><p>WHEN the Czechs play &ldquo;God Save the Queen&rdquo; they don&rsquo;t stop after the first verse. It&rsquo;s a full treatment, followed by their own anthem. Then the players exchange souvenirs. It&rsquo;s an old custom here. Canadians present the Czechs with green and white pennants. They get fluffy toy dogs in exchange. The vendors start patrolling the space along the rail with trays stacked with balogna and bun sandwiches. It&rsquo;s the only place in the whole joint where there&rsquo;s room for a man to walk. The Czechs show a lot of speed and ability as stick handlers, as the game gets under way, and you get to thinking there&rsquo;s not much difference between Canadians and Europeans in skating and passing. The main difference is in know-how. Czechs waste a lot of motion. The Canadians make their moves only when they should pay off. But the commotion must have been heard in Moscow when Miloslav Charouzd whips the first goal of the game past Denny Brodeur. Those Czechs scream and whistle and thump each other on the back. But they don&rsquo;t get long to enjoy their lead. George Scholes raps in a pass from Kenny Laufman while the Czechs are shorthanded. Then Art Hurst travels the distance along the right boards for a tie-breaker shot. By the third period it&rsquo;s a romp. The Canutskies improve as the Czechs fade.</p><p>In the cramped dressing-room of the beaten locals, Dr. Yaroslav Tintera, who coaches the Czechs and patches their wounds, is much more composed than Dick Irvin would be under similar conditions. &ldquo;We can skate and check, but we cannot play strenuous hockey like your Canadians,&rdquo; the doctor sighs. &ldquo;Your Dutchmen have more team play than Penticton. I cannot say they will beat the Czech No. 1 team, because the Czech&rsquo;s No. 1 team is nine or ten goals better than my team. Anyhow, I know the Dutchmen will get even better as they go along.&rdquo; The doctor took his team to Moscow and played a two-all draw with Russia&rsquo;s No. 1 team. Next night he lost, 2-0, to the Russian B team. Next day the Russian A team raided the B team for eight men. The doctor couldn&rsquo;t say whether the Russians would beat Canada, and you can understand it really isn&rsquo;t fair to ask.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01267/1537781-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK DUFF</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>King Clancy won&rsquo;t trade Dick Duff for any other left winger in the National Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;There just isn&rsquo;t another left winger who is playing any better,&rdquo; the Maple Leaf coach says of his 19-year-old rookie. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of those extra-specials who only come once in 10 years&mdash;like Kennedy or Beliveau.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s mighty high praise for a teen-ager who has been under major league fire for little more than half a season. Yet Clancy has the unqualified support of his management and all Leaf fans. And, since The King released the trigger on Duff&rsquo;s guns, he is rapidly enlisting the support of his rivals in the Watch Out For Dick Duff Club.</p><p>The out-of-town support didn&rsquo;t arrive in time to do Duff much good in the mid-season Calder Cup balloting for the league&rsquo;s Rookie-of-the-Year. That&rsquo;s a situation that has made Clancy very indignant because he insists: &ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t another rookie in the league playing as consistently great hockey at home and away.&rdquo; But Dapper Dick himself remains unmoved by the mid-season poll.</p><h2><b>Got His Prize</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I figure I got my prize the first day I came to training camp,&rdquo; the five-foot, eight inch, forward says. &ldquo;When they put me on a line with Slinker (Tod Sloan) and Army (George Armstrong). When I came up to this league, I wasn&rsquo;t thinking about awards, I was just worried about staying up and Slinker and Army have made it easy for me.</p><p>&ldquo;Even before I really got to know them, they were treating me like I&rsquo;d been here all along and we got to Understand one another, which is a big help on the ice. They&rsquo;d been playing together for so long that they just took me in and made me feel at home.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Greatest Seasons</b></h2><p>Clancy and General Manager Hap Day reckon that the union of Duff and the perennial Army-Sloan combine worked at least as much in the veterans&rsquo; favor. The rookie&rsquo;s brilliant positional work and playmaking on left wing has set the vets toward their greatest seasons. The genuinely modest and unassuming Duff, however, refuses any such credit.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been showing me the shortcuts,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re always working and talking to make our line better. And Slinker is such a terrific scorer that he gives Army and me the incentive to work harder. I mean we know that if we dig in and do our jobs right, we got a guy who can pop &lsquo;em in and make it all worthwhile.</p><p>&ldquo;Slinker makes my job easy, because when I run into trouble, I just have to give him the puck and he&rsquo;ll go through the defense better than any man in the league. Believe it or not, I get more satisfaction out of setting up a goal than actually scoring it. And it&rsquo;s not because I don&rsquo;t get a charge out of scoring.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Ordered to Shoot</b></h2><p>Duff was so sincere about this that it ultimately led to Clancy&rsquo;s order to shoot more. In the first 12 games Dick has played since King stressed shooting, the rookie has doubled his goal output, jumping from six to 12 at a half-a-goal-a-game clip that is finally winning him recognition throughout the league. And with Duff&rsquo;s guns now smoking in addition to those of Slinker and Army, the line Clancy calls his Three Aces averaged almost two goals a game through January.</p><p>Duff acknowledges he needed the prodding. &ldquo;Coming up from junior hockey, I thought if I was going to score at all, I&rsquo;d have to get right in on an NHL goalie and blast away for all I was worth,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And I found that half my shots were being stopped by the defense anyway. So I&rsquo;guess I was holding off pretty much until King pointed it out to me.</p><h2><b>Two Differences</b></h2><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s made two big differences. I&rsquo;m getting more goals for one thing, and when I see I can&rsquo;t make it all the way in, shooting from further out keeps me from getting tripped up or banged out of the play and caught out of position if the other team breaks.</p><p>&ldquo;I sure hope it keeps up because I really want to get 20 goals this season. I know I&rsquo;ll have to score once in every three games to do it, but it&rsquo;s an objective and it&rsquo;s giving me that much more incentive.&rdquo;</p><p>Aside from his shooting, playmaking and strong positional work, Duff has still another great asset in his fearless aggressiveness his junior days, that was stretched to the point of belligerence, but Duff has this season curbed his more rowdy tendencies.</p><h2><b>Can&rsquo;t Afford Penalties</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I was wasting a lot of energy and getting a lot of penalties the way I used to play,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;So when I came up to this league I knew I&rsquo;d need the, energy and I couldn&rsquo;t afford the penalties.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I still want to think I&rsquo;m playing hard, but I&rsquo;m not going out of my way to hit people any more. &ldquo;11 check as hard as I can and I except to be checked hard. Even if it hurts, I can&rsquo;t get mad at a guy who hits me when he&rsquo;s only doing his job.</p><p>&ldquo;If it&rsquo;s dirty, though, that&rsquo;s a different story. Ted Lindsay always told me not to let myself get pushed around and I don&rsquo;t intend to. But I won&rsquo;t carry a grudge. That&rsquo;s childish stuff. And most. of the guys in this league are above it. That&rsquo;s one of the things I always admired in Ted. He&rsquo;ll play harder than anybody when he&rsquo;s on the ice, but he&rsquo;s a real gentleman when he&rsquo;s off it.</p><p>&ldquo;I hope I can do the same because it pays off in hockey and in business in the end.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Extra Special&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Toronto Wouldn’t Trade Duff For Any Left Winger In League

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>One of the more tempesterous careers in the annals of hockey probably came to an unofficial end the other day with the appearance of an advertisement on the sports page of a Lynn, Mass., newspaper.</p><p>The ad announced that Bill Ezinicki, golf professional at Colonial Country Club in Lynn-field, had opened a golf school in Lynn for the winter in collaboration with Sam Videtta, another professional. Customers were welcome to use four nets and a putting green.</p><p>Until the announcement of the opening of his school Ezinicki was still a professional hockey player, in theory if not in fact.</p><p>He was a prospective member of the Providence Reds of the American league.</p><p>Ezinicki started his professional hockey career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, later playing for the Pittsburgh Hornets, Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Canucks and&mdash;late last season&mdash;with the New York Rangers.</p><h2><b>Expressed Doubt</b></h2><p>Last summer New York sent Bad Bill and an undisclosed sum of cash to Providence in exchange for Guy Gendron, now with the Rangers. For the&rsquo; remainder of the summer the stubby right wing expressed doubt to friends that he would play hockey again.</p><p>But in the fall, after conferring with the Providence management, Ezinicki underwent a partial change of mind. He might play again, he said, if a thumb injury which he had sustained in Vancouver last summer healed.</p><h2><b>Were Encouraged</b></h2><p>General Manager Terry Reardon and Coach John Crawford of the Reds were encouraged by Ezinicki&rsquo;s attitude. They urged him to undergo the operation, pointing out that he could have it done, then work himself into condition to join their team at mid-season.</p><p>The prospect of having the colorful, hard-hitting veteran in their lineup during their stretch bid for the American league championship seemed to Reardon and Crawford to be worth the periodic sales talks they gave Ezinicki.</p><p>But winter came and so did mid-season, and Bad Bill hadn&rsquo;t done anything about the condition of his thumb. Then came the announcement of his new golf endeavor, and the Reds gave up hope.</p><p>Now, instead of devoting the next two months to driving pucks at American league goal-tenders, Ezinicki will devote his time to instructing ambitious golfers. When spring comes he&rsquo;ll open his shop at luxurious Colonial.</p><h2><b>Retired Before</b></h2><p>Ezinicki has retired before. He was out of hockey during the 1953-54 season, when he made part of the winter golf tour. In the fall of 1950 he failed to report at Toronto&rsquo;s preseason training camp. After being demoted to Pittsburgh he was traded to Boston, and the following season he didn&rsquo;t join the Bruins until late November.</p><p>But this, time his retirement seems permanent, for he is nearly 32 years old, and his career in Organized hockey stretches back a full 17 years. If the enticements of the Providence club, based only 40 miles from his home here, were not sufficiently alluring, it isn&rsquo;t likely that an offer by any other team will break down his resistance.</p><h2><b>Colf Pro</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02241/1537812-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="593" height="1445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL EZINICKI</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Tempestuous Puck Career Of “Wild Bill” Ezinicki Apparently Ends Quietly

<div class="byline">Roger BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Allan Nicholson, 19&#8210;year old left wing of the Boston Bruins, prevented a possible catastrophe at a busy dowtown intersection here recently by stopping a runaway truck.</p><p>Nicholson was riding in the front seat of a car driven by Doug Mohns, Bruins&rsquo; teammate, when the car was caught in a traffic tieup on a downhill street leading to the intersection.</p><p>As the group in the Mohns vehicle waited for line to move, Nicholson glanced idly at a 16-ton trailer truck parked unoccupied in the otherwise empty lane to his right.</p><p>Suddenly before the youngster&rsquo;s incredulous gaze the huge truck started to roll toward the intersection, thronged with cross traffic and pedestrians only 50 yards away.</p><p>Sizing up the danger in a flash, the rookie from Estevan Sask., leaped from the car and raced after the runaway. Gaining the running board he wrenched open the door, flung himself into the cab and sawed on the hand brake, which had slipped from its holding position.</p><p>The monster of potential destruction came to a halt within 30 yards of the intersection.</p><p>Only neighboring motorists and passers by noted Nicholson&rsquo;s fast action, and the deed would have gone unrecorded if it had depended upon Nicholson himself for the telling.</p><p>It was related afterward by Mohns, who said, &ldquo;He moved so quickly we didn&rsquo;t realize what he was doing. If the truck had ever gotten away, the accident would have been a bad one.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bruin Rookie Halts Runaway Trailer Truck

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1st 1947</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West</b></p><p><b>Montreal 25. Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates; $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A. and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Entered as second-class matter. October 3 1953.</p><p>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 FEBRUARY 4. 1956No. 19</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01338/1537912-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p>&bull; <b>CHICAGO&mdash;FOLLOWERS</b> of the Black Hawks are starting to get that pessimistic feeling and are afraid their club won&rsquo;t make the playoffs again. Full of optimism and certain their team would finish no worse than third just a few short weeks ago, the tempo has changed now. The Hawks have lost too many games lately and too many on home ice&hellip;Coach Dick Irvin has his work cut out for him in his efforts to guide the Hawks into a playoff berth&hellip;Nick Garen, Chicago trainer who succeded Eddie Froelich 10 years ago, has worked under six different Black Hawk coaches&hellip;The Hawks have employed even more goalkeepers&hellip;The Windy City crew have used 16 goalies in the last 10 years&hellip;General Manager Tommy Ivan took off on a fast trip to Western Canada last week to look over some Hawk prospects&hellip;Although they were shut&rsquo; out, 7-0, by Detroit, the Hawks outplayed and outshot the Detroit Red Wings by a wide margin in the first period. A fluke goal by Ted Lindsay changed the tide and the team literally fell apart in the late stages&hellip;The Chicago fans made it rough on young Hank Bassen in the Chicago goal&hellip;A group of them had a large banner which read: &ldquo;We want Rollins&rsquo;&rsquo; and every time Detroit scored they would wave it and shout loudly&hellip;This is the first year that banners have made their appearance at the Chicago Stadium .., Another one read:&rdquo;Hank and Heck&rdquo;&hellip;This one was for the Hawks&rsquo; brilliant rookies, Hee Lalande and Hank Ciesla&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02225/1537905-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="270" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>ALLAN STANLEY</b>, best all-around defenseman on the Hawks, is sidelined with a severe charley horse&hellip;Frank Martin has been out with an infected eye&hellip;Gus Mortson has been playing with a broken toe&hellip;same thing that affected Lee Fogolin earlier this season&hellip;Johnny Wilson has been the top Hawk this year. The former Detroit star knows where the goal is and seldom does he waste a shot. What makes Wilson&rsquo;s play so outstanding this season is that he is breaking in two raw rookies fresh from OHA Junior ranks, Ciesla and Lalande&hellip;Wilson has 20 goals and six assists and has been one of the highest scoring left wingers all season&hellip;Dick Irvin was surprised that he never received more votes for the All-Star Team or for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. He&rsquo;s only had 10 minutes in penalties&hellip;Johnny Wilson, incidentally, hasn&rsquo;t missed a game in his entire professional career. That&rsquo;s 423 league games and 56 playoff matches&hellip;Dick Irvin, a master statistician, figures that it won&rsquo;t be long before he will pass the one-and-a-half million mile mark as a travelling coach&hellip;King Clancy must travel almost that far running up and down the corridor back of the Toronto bench&hellip;while in Detroit we presented an award to Jimmy Skinner for his Outstanding Service to Hockey in the Detroit area on behalf of the Sports Guild of Greater Detroit at a big dinner held at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel&hellip;Fred Huber, Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; publicist and well-known Detroit television commentator, accepted the award for Skinner, who was in Grand Rapids with the Red Wings. The Wings were playing an exhibition game for the March of Dimes that evening.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03141/1537898-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="283" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Ciesla</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>RED KELLY</b> is credited with the great revival of the Wings of late. As soon as he started playing left wing regularly on a line with Dutch Reibel and Gordie Howe the team started to click. It is felt that the inspired play of Kelly&rsquo;s spurred the easy-going Howe on and he&rsquo;s been the hottest forward in the loop this past month&hellip;Many, believe he will go on to capture his fifth scoring champion-ship&hellip;The Detroit players feel that they can still pass Montreal and go on to take their eighth straight NHL championship. They are 12 points back of Canadiens but have played two games less. It should make a thrilling finish to the 1955-55 race We spoke to the Red Wing For&rsquo; em Fan</p><p>Club while in the Motor City and were greatly impressed by the fine organization built up by these enthusiastic and loyal Detroit fans in the last few years. Walter Mettler Jr., president of the group, runs the club&rsquo;s monthly meeting in Big League fashion and they are a keen body of fans&hellip;Fan clubs such as the For&rsquo; em Club are great for any hockey club to have behind them&hellip;Warren Godfrey is the only player to stick with Red Wings from the wholesale trade Between Detroit and Boston this summer. The remainder have all been dealt off to other clubs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0499/1537891-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="287" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0590/1537943-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Inside Stuff</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I saw a letter by a Mr. Champ in a recent issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS advocating the omission of the &ldquo;Inside Stuff&rdquo; column. I hope you decide against taking out this fine feature.</p><p>Mr. Champ said girls like this column. He&rsquo;s so right. Hockey players are to Canadian girls what movie stars are to American girls, and we like to know more about them than mere statistics.</p><p>There are already four great big uninteresting pages of standings and goal averages for Mr. Champ. We girls pay to see hockey and read THE HOCKEY NEWS the same as Mr. Champ. We LIKE to know what Terry Sawchuk likes best in the way of movies and whether or not he likes Guy Lombardo.</p><p>Thousands of fans who have never even seen a pond hockey shutout but know that they like Guy Lombardo have something in common with Sawchuk. It&rsquo;s a wonderful feeling.</p><p>So I really hope that &ldquo;Inside Stuff&rdquo; is here to stay. Hockey News just wouldn&rsquo;t be the same without it.</p><p>Frances Wagstaff Vennachar, Ont.</p><p><b>(Have no fears, Frances, Inside Stuff will be back. The letters praising this column far out numbered, those slamming it. And, m&rsquo;am, they weren&rsquo;t all from girls!)</b></p><h2><b>Ted Valuable</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>When Ted Kennedy was playing with the Toronto Maple Leafs, only a handful of the sportswriters gave him the credit due him and he was continually overlooked when it came time to vote for the various trophies.</p><p>Only in his last season did he win the Hart Trophy, but this time it was more out of respect and the prospect of his retirement rather than his actual worth to the Leafs because there were many better seasons for Ted than 1954-55.</p><p>Now maybe his true worth is apparent. Sid Smith, the best left winger in the league last season and a 33-goal man, has, at this writing, scored only one goal so far this season. Has Smitty gone back that far? Is it possible? Or is he just now finding out how it is to play without Ted Kennedy setting them up for him?</p><p>Sid is a good hockey player, always has Been, but he&rsquo;s a triggerman and this type player has to have someone to &ldquo;set &lsquo;em up&rdquo; for him. Kennedy was that type of player and now that he&rsquo;s gone, so is Sid&rsquo;s magic touch around the goalmouth.</p><p>It is lucky indeed for the Leafs that this season Tod Sloan has blossomed forth as a goal scorer. Last season the only player they had who could put the puck in the net was Smitty and now he&rsquo;s lost the knack as well. I can just imagine where the Leafs would be without Sloan&rsquo;s twenty-five or so goals to date.</p><p>Leo Jodoin Windsor, Ont.</p><h2><b>Handy Andy</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a new subscriber to HOCKEY NEWS so this beef will be my first. Your paper is the most informative, and a real pleasure to read, so that is not my peeve.</p><p>Why was Andy Bathgate, of the New York Rangers, left off the first and second All-Star Teams, when he was playing as good as, or better hockey, than Olmstead, Lindsay, Richard, Sloan, etc. Bathgate has been in the top five scorers all season, and leads the league in assists. He is scoring at a rate that will give him 20 or more goals this year, will probably wind up leading the league in assists, is a fine penalty killer, and a great team player. Yet he wasn&rsquo;t even chosen on the second team.</p><p>I think it was a great injustice to a great player. I hope you think as I do.</p><p>Gerald Bedner</p><p>New York, N.Y.</p><p><b>(Your beef regarding Andy and the All-Star teams you&rsquo;ll have to take up with the men who do the selecting, Gerald, but we&rsquo;re happy that you&rsquo;re such a strong Bathgate booster because we&rsquo;ve got a fine feature story coming up on him in a couple of weeks which we&rsquo;re sure will be of great interest to you).</b></p><h2><b>Frank&rsquo;s Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>My thanks to Ken McKenzie for his excellent appraisal of the great defensive work of the Hornets&rsquo; Frank Mathers, who has been the outstanding defenseman in in the AHL for lo these many seasons. I have two points regarding which I should like to take issue with Mr. M., however, to wit:</p><p>(1) He made no mention of Frank&rsquo;s remarkable invulnerability to penalties, which over the years has made Frank&rsquo;s superb ability available to the team when it is needed most. Mather&rsquo;s exceedingly cerebral play has made him one of the least penalized rearguards in the history of the AHL.</p><p>(2) As to Mr. McKenzie&rsquo;s tip to NHL scouts re Mathers, I have only this to say: Please, Fellas, Leave Him Here!!! The Hornets need Mathers about as much as they need skates and sticks!</p><p>Charles C. Sords Pittsburgh, Pa.</p><h2><b>Hab Fan Club</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am writing this letter in an all-out effort to get new members for my Montreal Fan Club. To date I have been very successful but I would like to add members from coast to coast.</p><p>I thought THE HOCKEY NEWS would be the best way to get new members because of the many people who read your fine paper.</p><p>I would appreciate it if I saw this letter printed in the Fan Forum along with my address which is: 115 Prince Arthur Avenue, Chatham, Ontario.</p><p>Terry Chapman Chatham, Ont.</p><p><b>(Happy to oblige, Terry.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The future of Jackie Leclair as a National Hockey League player depends entirely upon how he performs with the Montreal Canadiens between now and February 12.</p><p>A tall, rugged centre, Leclair was given a second chance with the Habs this season when he was recalled from the</p><p>Royals of the Quebec Hockey League to help fill gaps in the ranks occasioned by injuries to key players. He had been sent down earlier when his point production slumped sharply below last season&rsquo;s pace.</p><p>&ldquo;Whether Leclair stays with the club after Feb. 12, depends entirely upon his play during the probation period,&rdquo; said managing director Frank J. Selke.</p><p>&ldquo;If he fails to make the grade, he won&rsquo;t be sent back to the Royals,&rdquo; Selke added. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll he sent somewhere else in the organization.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Won His Spurs</b></h2><p>Meanwhile Selke revealed that Bob Turner has won his spurs in the NHL and will be retained as a regular defenceman.</p><p>Turner, who celebrated his 22nd birthday on Jan. 31, was hoisted from the reservoir of talent at Shawinigan Falls as a replacement when Doug Harvey and Dollard St. Laurent were injured. Harvey, who suffered a broken bone in his right hand, since has returned to the line-up.</p><h2><b>Lost Eight Pounds</b></h2><p>St. Laurent, whose jaw was shattered in a mid-ice collision with Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly, is still out of uniform. He has lost nearly eight pounds while subsisting on a diet of soup and milk, sucked through wired teeth. A fine rusher and a solid blocker, Turner is a native of Regina and a product of the vast farm system operated by the Canadiens to assure a constant supply of reinforcements for the major league club.</p><h2><b>Ex-Regina Pat</b></h2><p>He played his last amateur hockey with the Regina Pats, a sponsored junior club, and turned professional last year with Kenny Reardon&rsquo;s Shawinigan Falls Cataracts, winners of the Duke of Edinburgh Troph, emblematic of the Canadian minor pro championship.</p><p>Two of Turner&rsquo;s teammates on that title-winning club also are with the Habs. They are Guy Tal-bot, another defenceman, and left winger Claude Provost.</p><h2><b>On Trial</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01289/1537981-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="572" height="895"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACKIE LECLAIR</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Up To Stay</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02256/1537974-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="568" height="1005"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB TURNER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Habs’ Jackie Leclair Has Until February 12 To Prove He Belongs In Big League

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Lynn Patrick of the Bruins has never been known as a student of high finance, but he seems to have a working knowledge of schemes for getting rich quickly.</p><p>Few major league managers have been able to show as rapid a return for an investment as the Bruins&rsquo; manager was able to show less than two weeks after making a deal with the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>In mid-January Patrick swung a transaction with Detroit by which the Bruins swapped forwards Murray Costello and Lome Ferguson for forwards Jerry Toppazzini and Real Chevrefils.</p><p>At the time the deal was made the Bruins were wallowing, their defensive play ragged, their offense negligable.</p><p>But here&rsquo;s what transpired in the playing week following the like-warmly received trade:</p><p>The Bruins won three of four games, heating Chicago, New York and Montreal in succession after losing to Detroit in a down-to-the-wire game.</p><p>They totalled 13 goals, a decided increase over their previous season&rsquo;s average.</p><p>Of the 13 goals, Chevrefils and Toppazzini scored three each.</p><p>The installation of Chevrefils on a line with his sidekicks Leo Labine and Don McKenney and the placing of Toppazzini on a line with Hal Laycoe and Marcel Bonin gave them, a two way soundness which they had lacked since the early part of the season.</p><p>If the Bruins had added 16 new players instead of just two, the change in the team couldn&rsquo;t have been greater&mdash;at least for the first week.</p><p>Patrick was on his way West when the Bruins-Detroit trade was announced, and he left wondering what the aftermath would be, for he was bringing back two ex-Bruins in exchange for Ferguson, a 20-goal man a year ago and Costello, a hustling, popular youngster.-</p><p>He returned from his extensive tour in time to see the Bruins maul the Canadiens before a crowd of more than 11,000 four nights after they had beaten the Rangers before a crowd of more than 12,000.</p><p>Toppazzini and Chevrefils, who had featured the win over New York, produced more features for their first game before their new-old boss by featuring the shellacking of Montreal.</p><p>In keeping with his practice, Patrick has refrained from making any best-of-the-bargain claims since the deal&rsquo;s fast payoff, but he did permit himself a laugh or two, at the expense of no one in particular.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll say one thing,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;for one week this looks like a great deal. But I&rsquo;ll wait to see how it stands the test of time.</p><p>&ldquo;I never did go for the business of crowing over making a smart deal, and if this one still looks smart later on, it can speak for itself. I don&rsquo;t believe in crying over a poor deal or bragging about a good one. We&rsquo;ve been lucky so far. Let&rsquo;s hope we continue to be lucky.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins hadn&rsquo;t had many business dealings with Detroit in recent years until last spring, when the two teams engineered a nine-player swap. Then came the four-player exchange of last month.</p><p>A box score of the players involved shows this situation:</p><p>Of players received by Detroit, defenseman Warren Godfrey and Ferguson and Costello were still with Detroit at this writing&hellip;</p><p>Of six players received by Boston, goalie Terry Sawchuk and forwards Vic Stasiuk, Bonin, Chevrefils and Toppazzini were still with the Bruins.</p><p>In return for Godfrey, Ferguson and Costello the Bruins have&lsquo;Sawchuk, Stasiuk, Bonin, Chevrefils and Toppazzini.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Deal With Wings Paying Quick Dividends For Bs

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01322/1538067-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NORM CORCORAN</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Black Hawks recently, figured in the shuffling of three forwards as attempts were made to solve several problems at once. Norm Corcoran came to Chicago, Jack McIntyre was dispatched to Buffalo in the American League and Gordie Pennell was sent to Edmonton in the Western loop.</p><p>Acquisition of the 24&#8210;year old Corcoran, a right winger, was designed with hopes of increasing the club&rsquo;s scoring power on that flank. Records showed that Hawk left wingers had been outscoring the right board skaters by a margin of better than 3 to 1.</p><h2><b>Deceptive</b></h2><p>Corcoran, a two-way performer with elusive speed and deception, was Boston property until the past summer when he was shipped to Detroit in the deal for Terry Saw-chuk. He was a strong contender for a regular Red Wing suit at training camp and later played well in the NHL All-Star game in the Motor City.</p><p>When the time to start cutting the squad came, however, Detroit Coach Jimmy Skinner found he was confronted with five other right wingers, all proven major leaguers. Corcoran, as a result, was shipped west to Edmonton where good forwards were at a premium at the time.</p><h2><b>Played In Playoffs</b></h2><p>Norm counted for 12 goals and 15 assists in 32 games with the Flyers. Although he spent most of the past five years at Hershey in the AHL, he was called up by Boston at the end of the 19 54-55 season for two regular schedule games and the Bruins&rsquo; four Stanley Cup playoff games.</p><p>Chicago acquired Corcoran in exchange for Pennell and thus apparently solved another problem.</p><h2><b>Happier Now</b></h2><p>Gordie, standout center with Buffalo for the past seven seasons, was a holdout with the Bisons for several weeks after requesting a transfer to a western team. He is a native of Winnipeg and is happier now.</p><p>It is hoped that the dropping of McIntyre to Buffalo may snap him out of an alleged slump. He collected 10 goals in 44 Hawk games, but Coach Dick Irvin charged that too many of these games were bad ones for the husky left winger. He was placed on 24-hour recall to Chicago.</p><h2><b>New To Windy City</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Chi-Hawks Ship Jack McIntyre To Bisons Of American League

<p>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;</p><p>Norm Corcoran, new Black Hawk right winger from Edmonton of the Western League, nearly came to Chicago last October in a straight trade, but the winger for whom he was being secured, amateur Wally Blaismdell, refused to make the change and the swap was cancelled.</p><p>The news got so far as to reach some newspapers, but Corcoran, then with Detroit, found himself headed, for Edmonton instead of Chicago as the Red Wings finished chopping of their roster down to the required size. The transaction announced January 21, however, went through as planned.</p><p>Corcoran arrived in Chicago in the midst of the game against the Canadiens at the Stadium January 22, but did not dress for the remainder of the contest. He is slated to play on a line with Nick Mickoski and Glen Skov as replacement for Tony Keswick who will be saved for utility chores.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks Almost Acquired Corcoran Last October

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>After seven years of patient waiting, Gil Mayer finally Received a chance to show the NHL his goaltending prowess when Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; Harry Lumley suffered torn thigh tendons in Detroit Jan. 22.</p><p>Although it was the fourth time the five-foot-six-inch American League All-Star had been summoned by Leafs from Pittsburgh Hornets, it was the first time he had been leased for more than a one-night stand.</p><p>&ldquo;I just hope I can sell myself to someone in the NHL,&rdquo; he admitted as he launched a two-week stay with Leafs while Lum recovered. &ldquo;This will be my chance to find out if I&rsquo;m good enough to play up here and, if I am, maybe interest some team in me. Everybody wants to make the big league and I&rsquo;m no exception.&rdquo;</p><p>In his previous stints with Leafs, the AHL&rsquo;s leading goalie created a goals-against average of two in two games against Detroit and one against Canadiens. His first appearance was six years ago when he subbed for Turk Broda while the Turkey was waging his famous Battle of the Bulge. Two years ago, he returned to stop Detroit 3-1 during Lumley&rsquo;s first absence as a Leaf and last year he yielded two goals to Montreal after Lum injured his tail-bone by inadvertently sitting on his stick.</p><p>In between he has won the Harry Holmes Memorial Trophy, three times and led the American League in shutouts four times and this season held a 15-goal edge on his nearest rival when Leafs borrowed him from the Hornets, who own his contract.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been down at Pittsburgh for a long time, but I haven&rsquo;t given up,&rdquo; the diminutive 25-year-old says. &ldquo;I realize there are only six jobs in the NHL, but I keep hoping someday someone will consider me for. one of them. This is my big chance to prove I can do it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>AHL Vet</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02262/1538122-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="589" height="750"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GIL MAYER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Mayer Gets Big Chance To Show Wares In NHL As Fill-In For Lumley

<h2><b>Shutout Leader</b></h2><p><b>Glen Hall of the Detroit Red Wings leads all NHL goalers in the matter of shoutouts with ten to his credit to date.</b></p><h2><b>Habs Still Lead</b></h2><p><b>Montreal Canadiens lead the second-place Detroit Red Wings by an even dozen points. New York Rangers are third.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON WED. A.M. FEB. 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01307/1538237-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="592" height="195"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING JANUARY 29th, 1956</b></h3><p>Wed. Jan. 25&mdash;Chicago 1 at Toronto 3</p><p>Thurs. Jan. 26&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Boston 5</p><p>Thurs. Jan. 26&mdash;Rangers 2 at Detroit 3</p><p>Fri. Jan. 27&mdash;Detroit 7 at Chicago 0</p><p>Sat. Jan. 28&mdash;Boston 1 at Canadiens 6</p><p>Sat. Jan. 28&mdash;Rangers 3 at Toronto 1</p><p>Sun. Jan. 29&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Detroit 1</p><p>Sun. Jan. 29&mdash;Toronto 1 at Boston 3</p><p>Sun. Jan. 29&mdash;Rangers 6 at Chicago 2</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 5th, 1956</b></h3><p>Wed. Feb. 1&mdash;Toronto at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 2&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 2&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><p>Sat. Feb. 4&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Feb. 4&mdash;Chicago at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Feb. 4&mdash;Rangers at Boston</p><p>Sun. Feb. 5&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Feb. 5&mdash;Toronto at Chicago</p><p>Sun. Feb. 5&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25 Chicago 1 at Toronto 3</b></h3><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Bassen; defense, Woit, Pilote, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Martin; for-wards, Ciesla, Lalande, Wilson, Skov, Leswick, Mickoski, Sullivan, Litzenber-Ler, Watson, Sandford, Corcoran.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense, Thornson, Horton, Reaume, Morrison, Bolton; forwards, Sloan, Armstrong, Duff, Karris, Hurst, Balfour, Migay, Stewart, Smith, Nesterenko, James, Hannigan.</p><p>Referee, Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen, Bill Morrison, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04197/1538230-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="595" height="424"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY JANUARY 26 Montreal 1 at Boston 5</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal: Plante; defense: Harley, Turner, Johnson, Talbot, Bouchard; forwards: H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Mosdell, Provost, Curry, Leclair, Marshall.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Fla-man Quackenbush, Boivin, Armstrong, Heinrich; forwards: Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk, McKenney, Labine. Chevrefils. Laycoe, Toppazzini, Bonin, Mackell Mohns, Nicholson.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Fevreau; linesmen: Edgeworth, Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05149/1538223-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="593" height="590"></div><h3><b>New York 2 at Detroit 3</b></h3><p><b>New York</b> Goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Fontinato, Gadsby, Evans, Gen-ron; forwards: Popein, Bathgate, Prenice, Conacher, Horvath, Hebenton, Mur-hy, Creighton, Hergeshelmer, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal:, Hall; defense: Gold-lam, Godfrey, Pronovost, Hillman, Holingworth; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Kelf, Delvecchio, Lindsay, Dineen, Ullman, Prystai, Payelich. Bucyk, Costello, Fer-luson.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Lou Maschlo; linesmen: Bill Morrison, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06125/1538216-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="594" height="625"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 Detroit 7 at Chicago 0</b></h3><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b>Goal: Hall; defence: Gold-ham, Godfrey, Pronovost, Hillman, Hollingsworth; forwards: Howe, Reibel, Kelly, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Ullman, Dineen, Costello, Bucyk.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Bassen; defence: Mortson, Fogolin, Woit, Dewsbury; forwards: Litzenberger, Sullivan, Watson, Leswick, Mickoski, Sandford, Skov, Wilson, Lalande, Corcoran, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07115/1538209-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="594" height="500"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, JANUARY&rsquo; 28, 1956 Boston 1 at Canadiens 6</b></h3><p><b>Boston&mdash;</b>Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Quackenbush, Armstrong. Heinrich, Boivin; forwards: Gardner, Stasiuk, Peirson, Chevrefils, Labine, McKenney. Bonin, Mohns, Toppazzini, Nicholson, Mackell.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Turner, Bouchard; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Marshall, Leclair&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08106/1538202-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="597" height="520"></div><h3><b>New York 3 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Howell, Fortinato; forwards: Pi entice, Popein, Bathgate, Conacher, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki,</p><p><b>Toronto&mdash;</b>Goal: Mayer; defense: Bolton, Reaume, Thomson, Horton, Hannigan, Gariepy; G. Armstrong, Sloan, Duff, Harris, Hurst, Balfour, Migay, Stewart, Smith, Nesterenko, James.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09103/1538195-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="591" height="529"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1956 Canadiens 1 at Detroit 1</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens&mdash;</b>Goal: Plante; defense: Johenson, Talbot, Harvey, Bouchard, Turner; forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, Curry, Leclair, M. Richard, Moore,. H. Richard, Mosdell, Marshall, Provost.</p><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b>Goal: Hall; defense: Gold-ham, Godfrey, Pronovost, Hillman, Hol-lingworth; forwards, Reibel, Howe, Kelly, Delvecchio, Lindsay, Dineen, Ullman, Prystai, Pavelich, Costello, Ferguson, Bucyk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1090/1538188-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="591" height="434"></div><h3><b>Toronto 1 at Boston 3</b></h3><p><b>Toronto&mdash;</b>Goal: Mayer: defense: Bolton, Reaume. Thomson, Horton, Hannigan, Gariopy; G. Armstrong, Sloan, Duff, Harris, Hurst, Balfour, Migay, Stewart, Smith, Nesterenko, James.</p><p><b>Boston&mdash;</b>Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Quackenbush. Boivin, R. Armstrong, Heinrich; forwards: Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk, Laycoe. Labine, Chevrefils, Mackell, Toppazzini, Bonin, Nicholson, Mohns.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1173/1538181-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="591" height="511"></div><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Gadsby, Evans, Howell, Fortinato; forwards: Prentice, Popein, Bathgate, Conacher, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Hergesheimer, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Chicago&mdash;</b>Goal: Bassen; defense: Mortson, Fogolin, Woit, Martin, Dewsbury; forwards: Mickoski, Skov, Leswick, Watson. Sullivan, Sawford, Litzen-berger, Wilson, Lalande, Corcoran, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1243/1538174-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="589" height="497"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday Jan. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1333/1538167-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="605" height="3439"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-56</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1423/1538160-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="600" height="752"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1611/1538153-1-eng-US/f0009-162.jpg" title="f0009-16" width="590" height="77"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>ndy Hebenton, the rookie rifler with the New York Rangers, went on a goal-scoring spree last week and his four markers for the three games the Blues played helped the third-place Gothamites to two important victories.</b></p><p><b>In all, Hebenton picked up five points to run his season&rsquo;s totals to 18 goals, eight assists and 26 points.</b></p><p><b>On January 26, the Rangers dropped a 3-2 squeaker to the red hot Detroit Red Wings and Hebenton scored one of the two New York goals.</b></p><p><b>He added two more two nights later as he led the Blues to 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs and capped his week&rsquo;s work by notching a goal and an assist as the Rangers dropped the Chicago Black Hawks 6-2 on January 29.</b></p><p><b>The New Yorkers and Detroit are currently staging a nip-and-tuck battle for second place in the National Hockey League and every game thus becomes an important one. If Coach Phil Watson can get a few more of his Rangers fired up to the form currently being displayed by Andy Hebenton, it could be a much closer battle than most experts figure.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1517/1538268-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="267" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Hebenton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Two veteran members of the Spring field Indians of the American Hockey League reached milestones in their careers, the weekend of January 14 and 15. On the former night, Harry Pidhirny scored the 200th goal of his service in the league, the 15th player to reach that mark, and the following night, Walt Atanas tallied his 100th goal. Pidhirny has long been a prolific scorer in the AHL, compiling his goal total in only 472 games played. He is coholder of the league record of six goals in a single game and has scored seven &lsquo;&lsquo;hat tricks&rdquo; of three or more goals in a game, the most for any active player.</p><p>Although a professional for 13 seasons, Atanas has only been in the AHL for six of them, having also seen service in the National, Western, Quebec and even the disbanded United States Leagues. He is one of the very few players to have played in all five of these leagues.</p><h2><b>The Long And Short Of It</b></h2><p>When Al Rollins joined the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League recently, it enabled the circuit to employ both the tallest and shortest goaltenders in either the American or National Hockey Leagues. Rollins stands 6&rsquo;2&rdquo; while the diminutive star of Pittsburgh, Gil Mayer, only reaches to 5&rsquo;6&rdquo;. Johnny Henderson of Hershey and Harry Lumley of Toronto are close to Rollins at 6&rsquo;1&rdquo;, while Lome Worsley of New York at 5&rsquo;7&rdquo; is Mayer&rsquo;s closest competition for the little man title.</p><h2><b>Non Penalized Player</b></h2><p>Eddie Leier, center of the Springfield Indians was the only American Hockey League regular player to be without a single penalty minute after the games of January 18. The league has no trophy award for the least penalided player, having abandoned the Jack Fox Memorial Trophy a few years ago.</p><h2><b>All Goaltenders Penalized</b></h2><p>Every one of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s regular full time goaltenders has been penalized this season. Hank Bassen, formerly with Buffalo had the most minutes, 22, before going to Chicago. Including the games of January 20, Norm Defelice of Hershey had 11 minutes and Gordie Bell of Springfield had 4. Roy Me-Meekin of Cleveland, John Henderson of Hershey, Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh, Johnny Bower of Providence and Don Simmons of Springfield each had 2 minutes. Goaltenders do not serve in the penalty box for minor, major or ten minute misconduct sentences, but remain on the ice while a teammate takes their place. In the case of a misconduct, it must be a player who was on the ice when the infraction occurred. Two majors in the same game results in a game misconduct and for this or a match penalty, the goaltender must leave the game and be replaced by a substitute goaltender.</p><h2><b>High Scoring Games</b></h2><p>When the Providence Reds scored 8 goals in a single period and 12 for the game, against Springfield this season, it was a remarkable feat, but still fell short of American Hockey League records. Buffalo scored 16 goals in a game against Philadelphia in 1948 for that mark, while Pittsburgh in 1947 and Buffalo in 1948 tallied 9 times in one period to set the record for single session goals. In their contest, Providence scored 4 times in 61 seconds, but this also failed to rewrite the record books, as Cincinnati playing against New Haven, two teams not in the league at present, saw Cincinnati scoring 4 times in 50 seconds in 1950.</p><h2><b>Unassisted Goals</b></h2><p>The late Johnny Holota, while playing for Cleveland in 1946-47 scored 8 unassisted goals, the league record, As of January 18, Jackie Gordon of Cleveland and Willie Marshall of Pittsburgh each had 4 such tallies. The American Hockey League has had an unusual amount of solo goals this season with 55 in the first 112 games.</p><h2><b>200 Coals</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01321/1538299-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="571" height="1439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY PIDHIRNY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AHL Rinkside Revealings

<div class="byline">George DUFFY</div><p><b>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>Providence Reds of the American Hockey League have re-acquired forward Jim (Rocky) Bartlett and defenseman Aldo Guidolin from the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.</b></p><p><b>To make room for the returning pair, the Reds have shipped forwards Bill McCreary and Don (Bones) Raleigh to the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Hockey League.</b></p><p><b>Both the Reds and Quakers are farm clubs for the Rangers.</b></p><p><b>Before departing for the Rangers, Bartlett had scored 17 goals and 10 assists in 26 games.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rocky And Aldo Back With Reds

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Any apprehension that may have been harbored by Buffalo management concerning the mental outlook of Al Rollins over his being shuffled off to the Bisons by the parent Chicago Black Hawks was quickly dispelled by the lanky goaltender.</p><p>Rollins was in the Buffalo nets for just two games before General Manager Fred Hunt was thoroughly convinced Rollins meant every word when he said? &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give you everything I have just as I did the Chicago club.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bisons, who were smarting under the sting of a four game losing streak when Rollins appeared on the scene January 21, appeared to take heart with the veteran puck stoper between the posts.</p><p>In Rollins&rsquo; first game, they rallied from a 4-1 deficit to whip Hershey, 7-5, in the Chocolate town rink.</p><h2><b>Blanked Barons</b></h2><p>Next night, in Al&rsquo;s debut before the home fans, he turned back the Cleveland Barons, 3-0. It marked the first lime in 168 regular American League games that the Ohio sextet had been held scoreless.</p><p>Rollins was spectacular against the Bun Cook forces and drew a standing ovation from the 6., 0 3 0 fans who sat in on the festivities as his new mates mobbed him at the final buzzer.</p><p>The shutout was also the first turned in by a Buffalo netminder this season. Hank Bassen, who succeeded Rollins in Chicago, was on the verge of coming up with a blanking at least three times but had them ruined by faulty defense.</p><p>Bassen, while his 3.61 goals-against average this seasen was higher than it was before a similar call up by Chicago, last season, did an outstanding job for the Herd.</p><p>The Bisons, for some inexplicable reason, never seemed to hit their defensive peak while playing in front of the fiery redhead from Calgary.</p><h2><b>Great Competitor</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Hank is a much better goalie than his average with us would indicate,&rdquo; Coach Frank Eddolls commented when questioned. &ldquo;Besides his ability to tend goal, he has a great competitive spirit&mdash;something a coach more than anyone else learns to appreciate.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddolls also enthused over Rollins&rsquo; debut with the hockey Herd.</p><p>&ldquo;Al was great in both games. He was called upon to make several hard plays in the Cleveland game, especially in the early minutes of the second period but came through like you&rsquo;d expect a veteran pro to.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddolls hastened to add that it would be &ldquo;expecting an awful lot of Al or any other goaltender&rdquo; to hold up the Bisons&rsquo; defenses as they are now constituted.</p><p>&ldquo;We need defensive strength badly and if we get it&hellip;watch out Providence and Pittsburgh,&rdquo; he warned.</p><h2><b>Warning</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02263/1538361-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="566" height="855"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK EDDOLLS</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Outlook Okay</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03222/1538354-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1143" height="1186"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL ROLLINS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Buffalo Snaps Losing Streak With Arrival Of Al Rollins

<h2><b>Topper Tops</b></h2><p><b>Zellio Toppozzini continues to lead all AHL point makers with 32 goals and 45 assists for a total of 77 points.</b></p><h2><b>Top Assistant</b></h2><p><b>Ken Wharram of the Buffalo Bi. sons leads all AHL players in the matter of assists, having racked up a total of 47.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. JAN. 31</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01320/1538462-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="602" height="213"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25 Hershey 3, Cleveland 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02279/1538455-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="604" height="450"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 Buffalo 4 at Providence 5</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Andy Branifcan&rsquo;s tie-breaking goal after 18 seconds of the third period gave Providence Reds a 4-3 victory over Buffalo Bisons in the American Hockey League.</p><p>Pete Banando had tied it up late in the third period for the Bisons after Larry Wilson got the first three Buffalo tallies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03219/1538448-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="601" height="797"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 HERSHEY 12 at Buffalo 4</b></h3><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Gordie Wilson scored four goals and assisted on four others as Hershey Bears swamped Buffalo Bisons 12-4 before the largest hometown crowd of the season, 6,762.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04171/1538441-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="601" height="1206"></div><h2><b>Leader</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1084/1538434-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="580" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Zellio Toppazzini</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Cleveland 5 at Springfield 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05139/1538427-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="608" height="1059"></div><h3><b>Providence 1 at Pittsburgh 3</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Willie Marshall and Gerry Foley scored in the third period to give Pittsburgh Hornets their 10th straight win, 3-1, over Providence Reds, leaders in the American Hockey League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06125/1538420-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="586" height="535"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY JANUARY 29 Cleveland 2 at Providence 4 First Period</b></h3><p>Scoring: None.</p><p>Penalties: Branigan, Glover, Farelli, Attwell, Glover.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07109/1538413-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="606" height="833"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 2 at Hershey 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1259/1538406-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="592" height="639"></div><h2><b>Bill Sits As Harry Flits</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0998/1538399-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="1757" height="1470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL HARRINGTON of the Buffalo Bisons sits on the ice, arm resting on the goal post, as he watches Harry Pidhirny of the Springfield Indians dash into the corner to retrieve that puck. Pidhirny had taken a shot on which Harrilndians dash into the corner to retrieve the save.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08104/1538392-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="600" height="593"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Zellio Toppazzini, Providence, 32.</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Ken Wharram, Buffalo, 47.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 37, 95, 4, 2,57.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh, 4.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player</b></p><p>FredGlover, Cleveland, 139.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Club</b></p><p>Pittsburgh, 806 nits.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

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HOCKEY FANS

<div class="byline">by JACK MATHESON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01316/1538531-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div><p>(As seen in the Winnipeg Tribune)</p><p>It&rsquo;s just that there&rsquo;s something about hockey presidents. Like Clarence Campbell, for instance. Offhand, I can&rsquo;t remember seeing any pictures of the National Hockey League president in a hound&rsquo;s tooth or an Irish twist.</p><p>Something, apparently, decrees that the head man in any hockey league shouldn&rsquo;t be caught in a horizontal position in anything out of Esquire. Flamboyancy and color are definitely out. And never, absolutely never, a buttoned-down collar and Windsor knot.</p><p>But it seems that blue serge somehow breeds efficiency. The prime example is Al Leader, the Carman lad who made good.</p><p>Mr. Leader is the president of the Western Hockey League. He came within 50 miles of Carman recently and made the blue serge felt in no uncertain terms. The guy is just that good.</p><p>With all due respects, Clarence Campbell never had it so good. At last count, Mr. Campbell had a publicity staff of four or five. Mr. Leader turns out his own publicity advances, generally working most of the Sabbath to keep the writers happy.</p><p>Mr. Leader&rsquo;s weekly releases will tell you who scored the most goals in the past week, who picked UP the most assists and who used the most crylcream. He also nominates a player of the week, uses top-secret mathematical equations to identify the top goalkeeper and generally keeps the writers, and fans, on top of activities in his league.</p><p>Just recently, President Al released some information that hurt. He told the world that people weren&rsquo;t attending WHL games in the proper quantity. The box office figures were down, and it was probably the most painful outburst Mr. Leader has been called upon to-make.</p><p>Not that President Al is worried. Not much, anyway. He expects the clubs will take up the slack with football and the holiday season out of the way. Of course, it would help if all the towns drew like Calgary and Winnipeg.</p><p>These were Al&rsquo;s nominations as the best cities in the circuit where turnstiles are concerned. Vancouver, of course, should be rated high, but they&rsquo;ll have to do something about a rink. With proper facilities, Leader looks to Vancouver to be the best hockey centre in the country. This includes Toronto and Montreal.</p><p>About Brandon: &ldquo;Brandon is a wonderful addition to our league. Nobody can really explain the Regina failure except that the people didn&rsquo;t get behind the team. I&rsquo;m looking forward to visiting Brandon, and from what I&rsquo;ve heard the support is terrific. Whether or not Brandon will be able to continue after this season depends pretty well on the framework of the league.</p><p>&ldquo;The league will have to look after smaller centres like Brandon, Saskatoon and New Westminster. We have our pool which puts 20 per cent of all gates in a kitty. The little guys must be protected. I hope Brandon can make it.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>About television: &ldquo;Television will never keep people away from hockey. Seattle, I think, is a good example. Crowds are up in Seattle because we televise every home game. You can watch football and basketball on TV, but the camera&rsquo;s don&rsquo;t do hockey justice. It&rsquo;s just too fast and the action is spread too far. Seattle is drawing almost an entirely new crowd, thanks to television.</p><p>About hockey in general: &ldquo;God forbid, but I wonder why hockey can&rsquo;t attract the big businessman with the bankroll who wants to help sport. Football seems to be able to attract angels who&rsquo;re prepared to pay to keep the team in business. Maybe we missed the boat. I&rsquo;d rather see private ownership but maybe the angels are the answer. Remember, though, I&rsquo;m not speaking for the directors.&rdquo;</p><p>This man from Carman, though, can pretty well speak for Western hockey. It&rsquo;s quite a success story he can tell, too. Like birth in Carman, nine years in Regina, few more near Spalding, Sask., then on to Seattle to what looked like fame and fortune.</p><p>President Al was a hockey player of 21 when he went to Seattle. It looked like the place to go. Hockey was flourishing and President Al figured himself a pretty good hockey player. Before he could say Seattle Metropolitans, Al was the managing director of the Western Hockey League. It was only a matter of time before he became the president.</p><p>That was in 1946. As a matter of fact, Al celebrates his 10th anniversary as WHL president next month.</p><p>His hair is thinning, his attire will never win him the title of Best Dressed Man, but there&rsquo;s sound business logic written all over Al Leader. Not to mention his work as publicity chairman. As a matter of fact, nobody in the Western wheel has bothered to give him this title so far.</p><p>But ask the newspapermen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02243/1538524-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="518" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL LEADER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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ANOTHER ANGLE

<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>When Ray Mikulan was young and in his prime he got his big chance. He was promoted for one evening from his customary juvenile status to play for Winnipeg Monarchs of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, which at that time was about as far as you could go.</p><p>It was four years ago and Mikulan was a lanky 17-year-oid with protruding knees and, on this night against the impregnable Brandon Wheat Kings, a severe neurosis.</p><p>He got over it. After two shots it was 2-0, Brandon. Mikulan and the Monarchs went on from there to lose 8-2 with no special trouble. And Raymond, one night older and several shades greener, was restored to his juvenile state.</p><h2><b>No Broad Jumps</b></h2><p>It has been the pattern of progress for Mikulan. There have been no broad jumps to immortality. Seldom has he been mistaken for a child prodigy. When Vancouver Canucks this year gambled on his being ready for the Western League, it was an action taken with unclothed trepidation. They were scared.</p><p>Today they may have forgotten it. &ldquo;The Kid,&rdquo; as they call Mikulan on his good days, has statistics on his side: they say he&rsquo;s the best goalie in the league.</p><h2><b>Native of Winnipeg</b></h2><p>He is one thing more. This 21-year-old native of a place he calls &ldquo;Canada&rdquo; but which is in reality Winnipeg, is frequently referred to as the Rookie-of-the-Year. This year there are 34 rookies in the WHL.</p><p>If Canucks were scared of Mikulan it is only the other side of the story. He was lifted from Nelson seniors to fill the gilded footsteps of men like John Bower, Gump Worsley and Emile Francis.</p><p>Scared?</p><p>&ldquo;No.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Played For Best</b></h2><p>It is an honest answer. He explains: &ldquo;At Nelson I played for the best&mdash;Charlie Rayner. Charlie had been there (several notable years with New York Rangers). And he knew how to teach. I&rsquo;m not saying I&rsquo;ll ever be as good as Charlie. But if I&rsquo;m not it isn&rsquo;t his fault.&rdquo;</p><p>Ray blames Charlie for teaching him all he knows. What he had before was inherent quickness and good hands. What he has now is a sure knowledge of angles and a spongey habit of absorbing pucks like a well-trained blotter.</p><h2><b>Instinct Incidental</b></h2><p>Now he can use his stick, and his feet. Now instinct is incidental, not everything.</p><p>Some things don&rsquo;t change. He is still six feet high and fighting to reach 160 pounds. General manager Art Chapman, who took the chance on Mikulan, doesn&rsquo;t care if he never makes it. &ldquo;Some guys,&rdquo; Chapman says, &ldquo;are big for their weight.&rdquo;</p><p>Mikulan, who never had it easy, can explain away this year&rsquo;s heroics if you care to listen.</p><p>&ldquo;I could be a swinging door,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;and look good behind our defense.&rdquo; With Hugh Currie, Gordon Hudson, Carl Kaiser and coach Pat Egan going for him, he has a point.</p><p>Seattle coach Billy Reay calls it a lie. Exercising his rights as a partial observer, he says flatly: &ldquo;Mikulan is the rookie of the year.&rdquo;</p><p>Reay is in the majority.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;The Kid&rdquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03195/1538562-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="575" height="862"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY MIKULAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Canucks’ Ray Mikulan Good Bet For WHL Rookie-Of-The-Year Award

<h2><b>Rookies</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>illy McNeill of Edmonton Flyers continues to set the scoring pace for the Rookies with 45 points. Dave Duke of Calgary and Barry Cullen of Winnipeg have 42 a-Piece.</b></p><h2><b>200 Goals</b></h2><p><b>Ollie Dorohoy of Seattle scored his 199th goal in WHL pay recently in Seattle. Coach Max McNab of New Westminster has 99 to his credit and Barton Bradiey of Seattle 96.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON MONDAY A.M. JAN. 23 PRAIRIE DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01321/1538719-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="602" height="160"></div><h3><b>COAST DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02279/1538712-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="605" height="136"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday January 16th</b></p><p>Victoria 5 at Edmonton 2</p><p><b>Tuesday January 17th</b></p><p>Victoria 4 at Saskatoon 3</p><p><b>Wednesday January 18th</b></p><p>Vancouver 3 at Seattle 4 OT</p><p>Edmonton 0 at Calgary 2</p><p>Victoria 2 at Winnipeg 3</p><p><b>Friday January 20th</b></p><p>New West. 3 at Vancouver 15</p><p>Victoria 4 at Brandon 1</p><p>Saskatoon 2 at Winnipeg 3</p><p><b>Saturday January 21 at</b></p><p>Seattle 3 at New West. 6</p><p>Victoria 3 at Calgary 9</p><p>Brandon 2 at Edmonton 1</p><p>Winnipeg 5 at Saskatoon 3</p><p><b>Sunday January 22nd</b></p><p>New West. 0 at Seattle 3</p><h3><b>MONDAY JANUARY 16 Victoria 5 at Edmonton 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03250/1538705-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="609" height="592"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY JANUARY 17 Victoria 4 at Saskatoon 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04221/1538698-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="601" height="565"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18 Vancouver 3 at Seattle 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05189/1538691-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="602" height="562"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 0 at Calgary 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06160/1538684-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="601" height="306"></div><h3><b>Victoria 2 at Winnipeg 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07148/1538677-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="598" height="413"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY JANUARY 20 New Westminster 3 at Vancouver 15</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08139/1538670-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="598" height="979"></div><h3><b>Victoria. 4 at Brandon 1</b></h3><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal: Pelletier; defence Whitney, Dobbyn, Bulloch, Dayidson forwards: Olson, Teal, Robertson, Ander son, Brown, Kilburn, Strasser, Macauley Wonoski, Chiupka.</p><p><b>Brandon:</b> Goal: Dechene; defence: Al len, Hay, Strate, Bucyk; forwards: Ku kolowicz, Kyle, Manson, Senick, Chorley Sweaney, Johnson, Cowan, Wilkie, Stratton,</p><p>Referees.; Ed Powers and Andy Gurba</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09132/1538663-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="600" height="420"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 2 at Winnipeg 3</b></h3><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal: Francis; defence: Houghton, Chrystal, Folk, Yanosik, Crew; forwards: Kobussen, McCarthy, Gordichuk, Haley, McLeod, Col will, Ingarfield, Lamoureux, Melanchuk.</p><p><b>Winnipeg:</b> Goal: Chadwick; defence: Shero, Keating, Summers, Price; forwards: Nykoluk, Mazur, Aldcorn, Mas-nick, Barlow, Burchell, Brian Cullen, Barry Cullen, Mosienko, Hoekstra.</p><p>Referee: Dalton McArthur; linesman: Dick Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10126/1538656-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="600" height="569"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY JANUARY 21 Seattle 3 at New Westminster 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11110/1538649-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="600" height="669"></div><h3><b>Victoria 3 at Calgary 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1296/1538642-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="605" height="758"></div><h3><b>Brandon 2 at Edmonton 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1377/1538635-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="596" height="345"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 5 at Saskatoon 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1470/1538628-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="593" height="673"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY JANUARY 22 New Westminster 0 at Seattle 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1560/1538621-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="602" height="438"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sun. Jan. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1637/1538614-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="604" height="1823"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1823/1538607-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="595" height="338"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal. 31</p><p><b>Most Assists</b></p><p>Guyle Fielder, Sea. 41</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal. 8</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game</b></p><p>Colin Kilburn, Vic., Barry Cullen, Wpg. 6</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks</b></p><p>Jackie McLeod, Sask. 3</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Ray Frederick, Cal., Marcel Pelletier, Vic. 6</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored when Opposition Shorthanded</b></p><p>Barton Bradley, Sea. 8</p><p><b>Most Goals Against When Serving Penalties</b></p><p>Bill Burega, Wpg. 7</p><p><b>Most Minutes in Penalties</b></p><p>Bud Syverson, Cal 108 Min.</p><p>Bill Burega, Wpg 104 Min.</p><h3><b>FEWEST MINUTES IN PENALTIES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1921/1538600-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="588" height="163"></div><h2><b>Top Playmaker</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1727/1538593-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="1144" height="1456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUYLE FIELDER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><p>(As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01321/1538750-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="299" height="325"></div><p>&bull; MORE THAN a decade ago league president George Slater urged that long service in the Quebec Hockey League be given tangible recognition. He originated a tiny enamal lapel button on which the crest of the league was emblazoned in gilt and enamel.</p><p>These were distributed to players, club executives, referees, league officers and newspapermen who had been closely allied with league affairs for ten years or more.</p><p>For a while it was quite fashionable to wear these buttons proudly, a custom now long abandoned. Many of the original recipients have passed on to their reward. Other who are still around could qualify for a bar to their crest. Perhaps a new button for a quarter century club should be established.</p><p>The above paragraphs serve point up the notion that Rosaire &ldquo;Ki-Toute&rdquo; Joannette, who this week was given his outright release by the Trois Rivieres Lions rates a long service medal of some sort. He was picked up by the Lions from the disbanded Valleyfield Braves. When the Trois Rivieres club entered the QHL last fall, Francois Hetu purchased the contract of Joannette along with several others.</p><p>Valleyfield came into the Quebec League in the autumn of 1945. With them came Joannette, then a spry forward, who packed a rare turn of speed and a blazing shot. Even then he boasted long service in the old Provincial League.</p><p>For ten full seasons he ranked high, on the scoring totem pole. In several campaigns he scored more than 20 goals. Only last season Ki-Toute managed to get into 53 contests and was credited with 5 0 points, 13 goals, 37&hellip;This rated him 20th position in an alignment of more than 100 players.</p><p>The National Hockey League record book, which lists all professional hockey players, gives his date of birth as July 27, 1919. This makes Joannette 36&frac12; years old, right now, though it is jeeringly said he passed the two score mark some time ago.</p><p>At any rate he has shown amazing durability to give a fully adequate performance year after year. More surprising still is the news that he has been re-instated as an amateur.</p><p>His re-instatement follows the odd procedure which appears to prevail in no other sport but hockey. Once a man is mustered out of a pro circuit and waivers have been passed signifying that no other professional hockey team seeks his services, he can ask and be granted, full rights as an amateur.</p><p>And, particularly, such rights are negotiable. The player can then join an amateur club and receive pay which is only thinly disguised as recompense for loss of time from a regular trade or calling. Said trade or profession is often purely mythical, at least quite vague.</p><p>Ki-Toute plans to play for Cornwall Colts of the Eastern Ontario Hockey League. Joannette plans to maintain his residence in Valleyfield, and commute regularly to Cornwall for practice and scheduled fixtures.</p><p>He&rsquo;s one of the quiet, likable characters of sport, who played the game clean and fair, never at any time maliciously. For him our wish is happy shinny, until the time his ice-legs give out completely. It&rsquo;s a wonder they have carried him so long.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02246/1538781-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE SLATER</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Conforming to the system in general use in all professional hockey groups the Quebec League gave endorsement to the best of seven plan for all its playoffs which are to start shortly after the Ides of March.</p><p>Top four teams in the five club loop qualify. First and third, second and fourth meet in the first bracket, or semi-finals. Survivors will then engage in a similar round for the Thomas O&rsquo;Connell Memorial Trophy.</p><p>The ultimate Quebec League champions are to travel west this season throwing the Edinburgh Trophy on the line. Shawinigan Falls Cataracts won the &ldquo;Edinburgh&rdquo; last season in a stirring series against Edmonton Flyers staged partly at the Shawinigan Falls Arena and the Montreal Forum last April and early May.</p><h2><b>Sensible Playoff</b></h2><p>League president George Slater said in announcing the result of the conflab held at Montreal&rsquo;s Windsor Hotel at which representatives from all five clubs were present: &ldquo;At last we have a sensible set of playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>This could be implied as oblique criticism and dissatisfaction with previous post-schedules schemes. Last year, for instance, the semi-finals were five in nine, while the final lap saw the survivors play in only a best of seven series.</p><p>Back yonder the Quebec loop was handed the razz-ma-tazz and generally lampooned for it&rsquo;s extravagant and unweildy rundowns for the championship.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Freak Series&rdquo;</b></h2><p>There was a freak six-in-eleven series played between the defunct Ottawa Senators and Chicoutimi Sagueneens when the QHL sachems boldly sent six of seven teams into, the post-schedule fandangles Slater wants no more of such frivolities.</p><p>It seems that in lush times the fans in many of the Quebec League&rsquo;s towns couldn&rsquo;t get enough hockey. They were willing to patronize the games so long as there was a remote issue at stake.</p><p>The league solons can not be critized too harshly for giving the public what it apparently demanded.</p><p>The grave fears held in many quarters over the difficulties of Trois-Rivieres with an ominous hint that the Lions might not finish the schedule proved to be groundless.</p><h2><b>Large Stockholders</b></h2><p>Introduced by Lions&rsquo; coach, Maurice Fortin, wealthy department store owner in Trois-Rivieres, club president, and Andre Piche, general manager of the Reynolds Aluminum Company, Ltd., of Cap de la Madeleine, Que., appeared at the meeting. Like Fortin Mr. Piche is one of the largest stock-holders in the Trois-Rivieres Hockey Club.</p><p>These gentlemen gave the QHL officers and the executives of the other clubs full assurance that the Lions would complete their schedule this season, and they looked for a complete team reorganization along with new financing by next autumn so the club could start as a strong contender with assurance of financial stability.</p><h2><b>Asked For Advance</b></h2><p>The Trois-Rivieres delagation asked for a $5,000 advance from the Quebec League treasury. After some palaver they were granted $4,000. This was not a loan. It was simply an advance payment out of an emergency fund built up since the start of the season by a five cent tax on all paid admissions to QHL games in the six rinks of the circuit.</p><p>This &ldquo;kitty&rdquo; is split in inverse ratio to the total attendance shown by each team. In other words the team attracting the poorest crowds received the largest share. The toot is scaled percentage wise.</p><h2><b>Approve Stripes</b></h2><p>The Quebec loop also went on record as approving the new jerseys with vertical stripes some time ago adopted by the National Hockey League for referees and linesmen. A supply of these has been ordered and as soon as they are received QHL officials will wear same, discarding their old jerseys of bright orange.</p><p>The Lions have made some recent changes in player personnel. From Quebec, Aces&rsquo; general manager, Punch Imlach, sent them Gilles Thibeault, a speedy forward, who can score goals. Lions coach, Jacques Toupin, had a deal cooked up for Eddie Palamar 23-year-old left-shooting defenseman. He&rsquo;s Winnipeg born; played the 1953-5 4 season with Sherbrooke Saint Francis in the Quebec League. He was supposed to be on the way from Springfield Indians but the deal misfired.</p><h2><b>Expecting Rearguard</b></h2><p>Toupin is expecting Eddie Shone to come up with another defenseman who can also foot it on the wing lanes.</p><p>Meantime Toupin brought in a boy who caused keen delight among Trois Rivieres hockey bugs. From Saskatoon Quakers he obtained Raymond Crew, a 6&rsquo; 3&frac12;&rdquo;, 210 pound Collingwood, Ont., born lad. Crew who favors an &ldquo;Audry Hepburn&rdquo; hair do is so black visaged he looks perpetually in need of shave though he&rsquo;s only 21-years-old. He played for Guelph Baltimores in the Junior OHA last season.</p><h2><b>Plenty of Desire</b></h2><p>Sammy Pollock, major domo of junior hockey affairs for Montreal Canadiens, says of Crew: He&rsquo;s a big awkward looking fellow. Not much style, may make some think he&rsquo;s clumsy, but he has plenty of desire.</p><p>&ldquo;Give him a little more experience and some patient coaching and I believe Jacques Toupin will have himself quite a hockey player&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Satisfied Now</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Three Rivers Lions Will Continue In QHL League Adopts “Sensible” Playoff System

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FIRST FOR THRILLS

<h2><b>Trail by Eleven</b></h2><p><b>Montreal Royals trail league leading Shawinigan Falls Cataracts by eleven points.</b></p><h2><b>Kitoute Released</b></h2><p><b>Veteran QHL star Kitoute Joan, nette has been released by Three Rivers Lions.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M. JAN. 31</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01293/1538913-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="170"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, JAN. 24 Three Rivers 3 at Chicoutimi 8</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers:</b> Goal, Hughes; defense, Bouchard, Goyette, Crew, MacNeil, Tennant; forwards, Kapusta, Groleau, Thibeault, Leclerc, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon, Michelin.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal, Paille; defense, Roy, Hanna, Labrosse, Plamondon; forwards, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Moore, Topoll, Lo-cas, Maxwell, Campeau, Hicks, Cressman, Perreault.</p><p>Referee, Roy; linesmen, Boileau, O&rsquo;Doherty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02256/1538906-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="598" height="870"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25 Three Rivers 2 at Shawinigan 4</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls:</b> Goal, Perreault; defense, Hodgson, Lamirande, Langlois, Roche; forwards, Desaulniers, Wray, R. Bouchard, Kachur, Thomson, Denis, Brooen, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Three Rivers:</b> Goal, Hughes; defense, Goyette, Crew, G. Bouchard, Tennant, MacNeil; forwards, Lalonde. Kapusta, Groleau, Thibeault, Leclerc, Gooden, Gagnon, Bisaillon, Michelin.</p><p>Referee, Len Corriveau; linesmen, Bob Doods, Roger Landry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03232/1538899-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="601" height="660"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY JANUARY 26 Three Rivers 4 at Montreal 8</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers:</b> Goal: Hughes; defense: Goyette, Bouchard, Tennant, Gagnon; forwards: Lalonde, Michelin, Crew, Kapusta. Groleau, Thibeault, Leclerc, Gooden, MacNeil, Bisaillon.</p><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: McNeil; defense: R. Rousseau, Deslauriers, Clune, MacPherson; forwards: Ingram, Corriveau, Thorndycraft, Goyette. G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, Mackay, Gravelie, LaPlante.</p><p>Referee: Alec Barilko; linesmen: Jim Slater, Glen Harmon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04184/1538892-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="605" height="899"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 2 at Quebec 5</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Faille; defense: Roy, Plamondon, Labrosse, Hanna; forwards: S. Smrke, Cressman, Locas, Perreault, Maxwell, L. Smrke, Topoll, Campeau, Hicks.</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Evans: defense: Crozier, Ernst, Zeniuk, Thibault; Forwards: Gamble, Tessier, Powell, Ford, Labadie, Tremblay Achtymichuk, Buchanan, Cossette, Vinet.</p><p>Referee: Gravel; linesmen: Leclerc, Simard.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05149/1538885-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="598" height="616"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY. JANUARY 29, 1956 Quebec 2 at Royals 3</b></h3><p><b>Quebec&mdash;</b>Goal: Evans; defense: Schneider, Crozier, Ernst, Zeniuk; forwards: Gamble, Tessier, Powell, Ford, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Buchanan, Cossette, Vinet.</p><p><b>Royals&mdash;</b>Goal: McNeil; defense: R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers, Clune, MacPherson; forwards: Corriveau, Thorndycraft, Goyette, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, MacKay, Gravelle, LaPlante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06129/1538878-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="603" height="522"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan 5</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi&mdash;</b>Goal: Paille; defense: Labrosse,. Taillefer, Roy, Hanna; forwards: Locas, S. Smrke, Maxwell, Hicks, L. Smrke, Cressman, Campeau, F. Perreault, Topoll, Plamondon.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Lamirande, Roche, Langlois, Hodgson; forwards: Broden, Faulkner, Kachur, Dube, Denis, Grosse, Desaulniers, Bouchard, Wray, Thomson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07121/1538871-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="585" height="551"></div><h2><b>Big Stop For Aces&rsquo; Cop</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1088/1538864-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="1724" height="1312"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CLAUDE EVANS</b> of the Quebec Aces slides out of his cage to make a save off a shot by Leo Gravelle of the Montreal Royals (18). Larry Thibault of the Aces is the defenseman trying to put a check on the elusive Montreal forward.</figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sunday Jan. 29)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08110/1538857-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="598" height="800"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09102/1538850-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="595" height="342"></div><h2><b>Top Netminder</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1172/1538843-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="1180" height="1142"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</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>D</span>OUBLE THREAT&hellip;Bert Giesebrecht currently leads the Big Ten Scoring Derby in Northern Ontario Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; competition, but that&rsquo;s only one half of his double threat technique&hellip;he married the charming Shirley Hammel in Pembroke after scoring two goals against the Soo Greyhounds&hellip;when Bert of Pembroke Lumber Kings decides to do anything he does it in a big way&hellip;Best of Luck, Bert and Shirl!&hellip;. Birley Dimma, former star with Guelph Biltmores and now with Soo Indians in the NOHA Senior bracket, is out these days with a badly bruised right leg&hellip;he has it in a cast from the knees down&hellip;he suffered torn ligaments and will be out of action for some time&hellip;just at a time when Coach Pete Backor needs every available man&hellip;Pete is trying desperately to nab one of the four playoff positions but time is fast running out&hellip;Sudbury Wolves, at this writing, have regained their five-point spread in first place and with less than 15 games remaining in the 60-game sked appear odds-on favorites to win the league crown under hard-driving Coach Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty&hellip;The Peanut Man dressed for the last two games but made only brief whirls on the ice&hellip;The Wolves are minus clever Joe Zorica and rugged Norm Gustavsen because of injuries.</p><p>Injury Jinx Hurst&hellip;right now, popular Coach Sugar Jim Henry, former NHL great, knows what injuries can do to a team&hellip;he had Captain Matt Mesich of his Soo Greyhounds out. along with Harry Taylor, Johnny Martan and Johnny Offidani simultaneously&hellip;&ldquo;That really hurts a guy with this fight for playoff positions narrowing pretty close to the line,&rdquo; Jim told THE HOCKEY NEWS&hellip;he went on to say just a few minutes before this column was prepared that he hoped to have all four back within the next 10 days. &ldquo;We should be set tor the playoffs, however, if we make the grade,&rdquo; added Jim&hellip;few doubt that the Sugar Man will guide his &lsquo;Hounds into the profitably playoff race against Sudbury Wolves, North Bay Trappers, Pembroke. Lumber Kings and Soo Indians&hellip;NOHA Intermediate hockey continues to see outstanding games and plenty of color&hellip;in fact observers see one of the toughest fights in years for both the &ldquo;A&rdquo; and &ldquo;B&rdquo; crowns&hellip;Coniston Aces pulled out a tight 6-5 triumph over the goal-hungry Espanola Kayvess, who have been coming along like a house afire of late&hellip;Espagnola led 2-0 in the first period but Coniston came on strong in the next two frames&hellip;Delbosco with two goals, including the winner, emerged the top star&hellip;some of the boys to watch in Northern Ontario Intermediate sphere are Tommy Callahan, Stan Bednarski and Paul Leclair of Espanola along with Delbosco, Joe Barbe and Hee Barbe of Coniston&hellip;just to mention a few of the top performers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01279/1538944-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="551" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT GIESBRECHT</b></figcaption></div><p>TIGHT FIT&hellip;looking at the Sudbury District Senior Hockey League, Sudbury High School and Copper Cliff High are waging quite a battle for first place&hellip;right now Sudbury&rsquo;s on top with a slight two-point margin over Copper Cliff&hellip;Bob Simmond, Don Lowney and Tommy Boucher are coming along at a fast clip these days&hellip;Chalk up another hat-trick for Northern boys&hellip;this time Stan Bednarski rapped home three goals as his Kayvees trounced Sudbyry Youth Centre by a lopside 10-0 score&hellip;Ouch!!!&hellip;Don, nie McLean is being groomed for a one-game deal With Buffalo Bisons of the AHL&hellip;the Soo Greyhound flash was slated to have that one game just a day ago, but injuries to the &lsquo;Hounds prevented arrangements being finalized&hellip;Donnie&rsquo;s hoping to get that one game in before the playoffs.</p><p>Big Boost&hellip;A special benefit game was played at Pullar Stadium in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to aid the March of Dimes&hellip;two service teams played and the place was jammed tighter than a can of sardines&hellip;close to $2,000 was raised with 2,600 fans on hand and many others turned away. GREAT GOING GANG!!!&hellip;It&rsquo;s a great see-saw battle for top spot in the Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League&hellip;now South Porcupine Porkies are back in a tie for the number one location following their 10-2 triumph over Combines Teepees&hellip;Billy Adamo and Pat O&rsquo;Leary were up to their old tricks with two goals apiece&hellip;they are a couple of fighting hockey players&hellip;Joe Fraser collected both goals for Teepees&hellip;Young Pat Casey has assumed the scoring leadership in the Kirkland Lake District Minor Hockey League when he ran wild to get no less than seven goals and three assists for Holy Name Irish as they buried New Liskeard Cubs under an avalanche of goals to win 17-4&hellip;Pat turned in one of the most sensational individual performances of the season in the circuit as you can well imagine.</p><p>IN SUNNY ITALY&hellip;several Northern Ontario boys are coming through with razzle-dazzle hockey over in Italy&hellip;Carmen Tuicci and Bernard Tomie are &lsquo;scoring with regularity for the Italian team trying to bring Italy an Olympic hockey crown&hellip;Doug Towers is on the loose!! I&hellip;he fired four goals to lead Abitibi Eskimos to a 6-3 victory over Kapuskasing Beavers in the Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League&hellip;so many fellows are getting the hat-trick, or better, this season that the Hat Trick Club will have to up their dues just a bit&hellip;There&rsquo;s a lot of interest these days in the scoring race of the Lakeshore Hockey League&hellip;Dean West, starry performer for Oronoa Orphans, is resembling an uncontrolled jet with 30 goals and 18 assists already&hellip;however, he&rsquo;s not the only one going great&mdash;Frank Hooper of Bowmanville Barons is close behind with 41 points on 19 goals and 22 assists&hellip;Junior West, a brother of Dean, is tied with Frank up there in second place giving the big fight for the scoring crown plenty of punch and color.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02224/1538975-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>COAST LEAGUE ACTION&mdash;</b> Saint John Beavers&rsquo; Jim Shirley slides along the ice to block a shot from Amherst&rsquo;s Humbug Kennedy in an Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League game played at Halifax. Red Barret is the other Saint John player while the second Amherst man in the picture is Dave Kiley.</figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>After a long stand in the basement the Moncton Hawks have climbed into third place in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. The movement up the league ladder started when Bert Hirschfeld retired as playing coach and manager Jim McDonald took up the bench duties.</p><p>You could call the Hawks the hottest team in the league of late weeks, especially at home. They&rsquo;ve won their last eight games at the Stadium, playing some of the best hockey seen in the circuit this season.</p><p>The surge brought results at the gate. The fans began to come back and not once in the past two weeks has there been a mention of a team or the league folding. That&rsquo;s the first optimistic note in a good many weeks.</p><p>One night the Beavers entertained the Amherst Ramblers at Saint John before 2100 paid customers. Next night the same teams played at Halifax before almost 2500. Not great crowds, mind you, but a definite Improvement.</p><h2><b>Beavers Won Three</b></h2><p>In five nights the Beavers and Ramblers played four times, with the league leading Saint John team winning three. Two were at Saint John and the other at the Halifax tryout game; they were trying out the fans for size.</p><p>The crowd of 2500 was rated as a disappointment by many. On the other hand that&rsquo;s a much larger crowd than the usual turnout at home for an ACSHL game and more game may be swung Halifax way.</p><p>All kinds of rumors have followed the league since it got underway last October. Latest is that the Hawks were pulling stumps, some of the players going to the International League. But the Hawks are still playing hockey around these parts and rumors of quitting are heard no more.</p><h2><b>White Sidelined</b></h2><p>The Ramblers have slumped and high scorer Shermie White has been on the sidelines with an injury. The only Nova Scotian team in the circuit misses the playmaking genius of White. Jackie Schmidt, a bald-headed speedball who has been around the hockey lanes for a long time, and high scorer Pierre Brillant have been keeping the Amherst team in the runner up position although the gap between second and first places gets wider week by week.</p><p>Around the loop now the experts are wondering if the Moncton surge will last through the playoffs. Beavers are favored to take it here and give a good account of themselves in the Allan Cup playoffs but the Hawks whipped the favored Charlottetown Islanders a year ago and may be poised to spring another upset.</p><p>Things are popping in the Nova Scotia Senior League, which has run an on-again, off-again schedule throughout the winter. Kentville presented its withdrawal, then took it back. The Bridgewater Hawks pulled out. Now the Truro Bearcats have switched their franchise to New Glasgow.</p><h2><b>Postponed Operations</b></h2><p>The league has postponed its operations three times while taking stock of the situation.</p><p>The Armed Forces Senior Hockey League is almost down to play down stage and is currently playing its best hockey of the season. There are no financial worries here; the service boys don&rsquo;t get paid, they have the best in equipment and transportation.</p><p>A sudden surge by the Shearwater Flyers has brought new interest to the league. George Pumple came on as playing coach after the New Year and the Flyers promptly romped off with four straight decisions. There wasn&rsquo;t a single close call in the four. Now people hereabouts are wondering if the Shearwater can duplicate its feats in football by whipping the other title contenders.</p><h2><b>Feeling The Pinch</b></h2><p>The Cape Breton Junior Hockey League has been feeling the pinch of finances. Xavier College pulled up stakes some time ago. Then Glace Bay Miners called a halt but townsmen took over the franchise and &ldquo;expect to operate it the rest of the way.</p><p>Jack Fritz, the old Sydney Millionaires player and coach, was called out of retirement to coach the Sydney East mount Millionaires. The team prospered under Fritz but Jack had to call a halt due. to business pressure. Now the club is looking for a new bench manager.</p><p>Through it all the perennial champion North side Franklins keep going. They were tied for the league lead by the Mils, then pulled out in front again.</p><h2><b>Near Miss For Humbug</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Moncton Hawks Continue Surge; Now In Third Place In ACSHL

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>With the league-leading Kitchener Dutchmen in Italy for the Olympic World&rsquo;s hockey championship, as Canada&rsquo;s representatives, and holding an 11-point edge over the rest of the field, the battle in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. group centres around three playoff berths between Stratford Indians Windsor Bulldogs, Owen Sound Mercurys and Chatham Maroons. The teams stand in that order at present but current scores suggest that no team is assured of a playoff spot, and the standing can change on the result of a single game, so far as Stratford and Windsor are concerned.</p><p>Results of games have most of the fans baffled, because while Chatham Maroons are still perched on the cellar rung they have been knocking off the teams ahead of them fairly regularly, although Coach Murph Chamberlain is operating with a depleted 13-player squad. Next to Stratford Indians, the Chatham team sports the best record since the first of the year.</p><p>Chatham and Stratford meet in three consecutive games, with two of them on Chatham ice, and these may see a few changes in the standings, because the Maroons have defeated the Indians twice on Stratford ice, in the seven games played between the two teams to date, and the Indians only hold a 4-3 margin in victories.</p><h2><b>Kemp Reports</b></h2><p>Stratford finally managed to land Bud Kemp as a replacement for their Art Hurst, who accomplished the Kitchener Dutchmen to the Olympic world tournament at Cortina, Italy, and the Hamilton defenceman has bolstered the Indians&rsquo; defence.</p><p>Ever since the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.-A. group was re-organized the Roth-Flick-Flanagan front-line trio of Stratford has been perhaps the tops over the years, but this season another line has stolen the play away from them. It has Tommy Walker, who shaped up like a pro prospect, since he is but 21 years old and has played senior hockey with the Indians for five years; George Aitken, hard-rock-and-sock left winger, and Bobby Mader, former Oshawa General, on right wing.</p><p>Lloyd Ferguson, who has had terms with Brantford Redmen, Hamilton Tigers and Niagara Falls Cataracts, has given Chatham Maroons a lift, and is proving a regular and steady goal scorer from his left-wing position. Owen Sound Mercurys have added the former pro, right winger, Jack Stoddard, to their forward wall, and the lanky right winger has added considerable punch to. Coach Doug Gillespie&rsquo;s attack.</p><h2><b>Should Beat Reds</b></h2><p>It is interesting to note that the estimation of the Kitchener Dutchmen in their attempt to retain the world hockey championship for Canada has become more favorable among European critics following their 9-1 and 10-1 conquests of the Czech &ldquo;B&rdquo; team in two exhibition matches at Prague. This same Czech &ldquo;B&rdquo; team held the highly touted Russian team to a 2-2 tie in another exhibition game. Latest word from Italy says former Canadian players of Italian extraction, now playing for the Italian team in the Olympic tourney, predict that the Kitchener Dutchmen &ldquo;will murder the Russians.&rdquo; The general feeling around the O.H.A. is that the Dutchmen are stronger team than Penticton V&rsquo;s, Canada&rsquo;s representatives, who defeated the Russians 5-0 last year for the world championship.</p><p>In fact the consensus of opinion is that any team in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. could defeat any team in the Olympic tournament this year, and the stronger contenders, besides the Canadians, are rated as Russia, Czechoslovakia, United States and Sweden.</p><h2><b>Nip-And-Tuck Battle</b></h2><p>Getting back to the torrid battle being waged for. playoff berths in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; group, Chatham Maroons, in their final 12 games, hope to overhaul the five-point, fourth place lead held by the Owen Sound Mercurys, while Stratford Indians are locked in a nip-and-tuck battle for second slot with the Windsor Bulldogs, who now trail by one point with 11 games left in the 48-game schedule.</p><p>In Maroons&rsquo; favor for the stretch run are the three games they hold in hand over the Mercurys. But the three-game stint with Stratford, broken only by a Sunday jaunt to Windsor, could conceivably make or break the Chatham club. Incidentally, the Chatham Club, faced by a fairly large deficit on the season&rsquo;s operations, have been granted a reduction of $300 from $600 for arena rental for the balance of their home games.</p><p>To all intents and purposes the scoring race has developed into a three-man sawoff, with two centres and a right winger staging the drive. Kitchener&rsquo;s Ken Laufman leads the parade with 20 goals and 43 assists for 63 points, with Stratford&rsquo;s Billy Flick and &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth, with four games in hand, nine and 11 points back respectively. Flick has 17 goals and 37 assists for 54 points, with Roth third on a 19-33, 52-point total. Another centre, the veteran Tommy Burlington of the Owen Sound Mercurys, has been closing in fast. Tommy is sparking the Mercurys of late and has pulled into seventh spot with a 43-point spread, hut he still remains well of the</p><h2><b>Closing In</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01245/1539006-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="550" height="1212"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY BURLINGTON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Battle To The Wire Likely For Three Remaining Spots In OHA Senior A Playoffs

<p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Talk about lopsided scores in hockey!</p><p>The Cincinnati Mohawks of the International Hockey League racked up what must be described as nothing short of a landslide score when they walloped the Indianapolis Chiefs, 16-0, on January 24.</p><p>Warren Hynes notched four goals in the free-scoring spree while Butch McKay and Bill Sutherland both managed three-goal hat tricks.</p><p>An all-day snowstorm kept the crowd at the game down to a scant 781 fans.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hawks Wallop Chiefs 16-0!

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The proposed National Hockey League draft of junior players and the CAHA method of financing itself from the Memorial Cup playoffs came under heavy fire by the operators-of Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs in the Ontario Hockey Association at the January Council meeting.</p><p>At the present time it is not necessary for juniors to be. on their NHL sponsor&rsquo;s 18 player protected list and the sponsoring clubs have first call on the youngsters&rsquo; services. They are of course open for draft at the conclusion of their junior career if they&rsquo;re not placed on the protected list. The Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; operators were bitter about the whole affair.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;ll ruin junior hockey&rdquo;, said Guelph&rsquo;s Roy Mason, a veteran of forty years in the hockey wars.</p><p>&ldquo;The NHL clubs will stop sponsoring junior teams if the proposal goes through,&rdquo; said Marl-boros&rsquo; Staff Smythe. &ldquo;An NHL club isn&rsquo;t going to spend money developing players so that another team can come in and pick them up.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t get by indefinitely without a sponsor; we found that out,&rdquo; said Barrie&rsquo;s Hap Emms. And so it went.</p><h2><b>Crowd Pleasers</b></h2><p>Players who graduate to the NHL, and the OHA is currently their biggest source of supply, are the ones that make the difference in the teams showing in the standings and at the gate. A case in point is St. Michaels&rsquo; Frank Mahovlich. who has been sidleined with a knee injury. With Mahovlich in the lineup St. Mikes were bidding for first place; without him they are just another club battling for a playoff position. If Guelph&rsquo;s Ron Howell, St. Catherines Elmer Vasko or Barrie&rsquo;s Dick Cherry were drafted by an NHL club it would not jeopardize the club&rsquo;s chances of winning the league championship but would also take away their top drawing cards.</p><p>If a player were drafted from a junior club the sponsoring team would receive the draft price making the junior clubs the big losers.</p><p>It was the general consensus of opinion that the junior clubs could not operate under such circumstances and that the NHL: who depend, primarily on the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop to develop their players would eventually suffer from their own legislation.</p><h2><b>Registration Fee</b></h2><p>In the matter of CAHA financing a reccomendation that the governing body find some other means of financing than the Memorial Cup play downs will be put before them at their annual meeting in Montreal in May. Included in the alternate methods of raising funds was a proposal that the CAHA use the 30,000 dollars they receive from the pro leagues and/or Canada&rsquo;s 65,000 registered hockey players be assessed (through their clubs) a registration fee on a sliding scale.</p><p>With the lack of interest in the Memorial Cup play downs through the decline in hockey-in the west it&rsquo;s an expensive proposition for an OHA club to advance to the Memorial Cup play downs. It&rsquo;s common knowledge that the junior clubs have been victimized on the playoff gate receipts for a number of years.</p><p>Staff Smythe said the Marlboro-Quebec series last year drew 65,000 dollars and the Dukes share was 12,000 dollars. Hap Emms said that the Barrie-Quebec series in 1951 drew more than a 100,000 dollars and Barrie received 4,200 dollars. All of which is just a little bit ridiculous. Under existing regulations for financing the CAHA, the best thing a club can do from the financial point of view is to go to the OHA finals and lose. That is hardly a healthy situation for hockey or any other sport. There isn&rsquo;t a club in the league that doesn&rsquo;t want to win the Memorial Cup but the way things are none of them can afford it.</p><p>A proposal by Marlboros Stafford Smythe that the juniors do away with sponsored clubs and operate a 25 player reserve list similiar to the one used in the NHL and a counter-proposal by Sammy Pollock that the number be upped to 33 was discussed at great length and tabled for further deliberation at the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Councils February meeting.</p><p>On the playing scene a combination of St. Catherines victories and Hamilton losses has finally opened the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race up. Up until a couple of weeks ago the maximum separating top and bottom was 12 points. At the time of writing 22 points separated the front-running Teepees and the tail-end Tiger-Cubs. Ten wins in 11 starts since New Years for the Teepees while the Cubs were winning only 2 in 10 starts over the same stretch has caused the wide rift.</p><p>With Roy Edwards playing brilliantly in goal, Ab. McDonald and Art Statton blistering enemy nets and Elmer Vasko back in peak &lsquo;form the Teepees have been all but unbeatable. Their one loss over that stretch was a 5-2 setback in Barrie at the hands of the upstart Flyers. While St. Kitts have been making a virtual runaway of the league championship and the Tiger-Cubs have been slumping further behind, the other five clubs continue to scrap for positions. At the time of writing only six points separated the second place K/W Canucks and the Flyers and Marlboros who were tied for fifth, with Guelph and St. Michaels in between.</p><p>The Barrie victory over St. Catherines was one of a five game winning streak that the Flyers put together to move out of the cellar and within striking distance of the first division. Hap Emms who must be ranked as the top junior mentor in the country predicted early-in the season that his club would start to come on after the holidays.</p><h2><b>Pro Prospect</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01253/1539123-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="571" height="1170"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ELMER VASCO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Proposed NHL Draft Of Junior Players Under Fire by OHA

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02174/1539154-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CLAUDE BOILEAU</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>New Haven Blades have hit their first losing streak of the 1955-56 season, only it comes a little too late to help the other five clubs.</p><p>The Blades&rsquo; dropped a week-end series to Clinton, 6-3 and 3-0 and than were dumped by Baltimore, 5-1, the latter two loses coming on home ice where the league leaders had been practically invincible.</p><p>With 18 wins in 19 games, the New Haven home record was approaching a new loop seasonal mark when Doug Coxon of the Comets handed them a 3-0 whitewashing. It seemed as though the shutout habit was to continue when Les Binkley of Baltimore held the Elm City boys at bay until the 14 minute mark of the third period of the following tilt. During that two game stretch, the Blades were able to tally only one goal in 100 shots!</p><p>Runnerup Washington Lions, nine points off the pace, hold a three point bulge on Clinton&rsquo;s surging Comets. The Comets in turn have a three point edge on Baltimore, and again, three points back are the Johnstown Jets. The cellar tennants, Philadelphia, are six points behind the Jets, but have a favorable schedule from now until the end of the season and certainly have to be reckoned with.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN: Clear Doyon, who has been out of action for almost two weeks, flew to Chicoutimi, P.Q. and was married there on Jan. 12th. He returned to action for one period on Jan. 15th, but had to retire from the game&hellip;Alf Lewsey, the Blades&rsquo; flashy Negro forward, was on the All-Star team in the British League last fall. Lewsey was a defenseman at the time with Ayr (Scotland)&hellip;Bon Kapitan is pressing coach Don Perry for the team penalty lead.&hellip;John Sherban was tagged with a misconduct penalty in Clinton on Jan. 14th. Prior to that he had spent only two minutes in the penalty box&hellip;Every Blade forward has scored twelve or more goals with Sherban and Chasle tied for team leadership with 28 each.&hellip;Boileau&rsquo;s 51 assists is tops in the loop</b>.</p><p>JOHNSTOWN: Emile Nadeau was re-signed by the Jets&hellip;Paul Olafson was sidelined temporarily with a fractured nose and defenseman &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Kelly took a crack at the forward lines&hellip;The Jets have obtained Jimmy Mattson from Washington and will carry two goalies for the time being&hellip;Buddy McDonald registered his first hat trick when he-netted a trio against the Lions on Jan. 18th&hellip;Kelly leads the Jets in penalties (including 3 majors and 3 misconducts)&hellip;Don Hall is the team&rsquo;s&rsquo; top scorer, but teammates Dick Roberge and Ken Coombes have slumped since Hall was forced to the sidelines with a bad knee.</p><p><b>CLINTON: The Comets have picked up two new players, defenseman Don Kendall from Indianapolis and forward Ken Grabeldinger from Troy of the IHL&hellip;Doug Coxon&rsquo;s shutout in New Haven, Dec. 15th, ties him with Bill McWhinney of the Lions for the most zeros, two each&hellip;The Ken Graham, Jerry Stringle, George Steele line has been redhot the past two weeks. The trio, along with Willie Pawchuk and Gerry Fri-zelle, are among the league&rsquo;s top 15 marksmen.</b></p><p>PHILADELPHIA: The Ramblers returned home Dec. 18 th after an absence of almost a month. (Last home game was Dec. 20th). During that extended road tour, Chirp Brenchley&rsquo;s sextet lost ten and won only two, both the victories coming at Atlantic City in &ldquo;home&rsquo;&rsquo; games&hellip;Terry Smith was released and Ed &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; Bartoli added to the lineup&hellip;Mert McClen-aghan is out of action as a result of stopping a puck with his nose. (The puck is none the worse for the collision, but Mert&rsquo;s nose was broken)&hellip;Ben Jones was assessed with a match misconduct penalty for pushing referee Larry Archambeault on Jan. 14 th.</p><p><b>BALTIMORE: Clarence &ldquo;Curly&rdquo; Melanchuck is under indefinite suspension. His place up front has been taken over by defenseman Eddie St. Louis&hellip;Coach Andy Brown was back in uniform during the past week&hellip;Mike Desilets, who missed a month of the season, is the Clippers bad man&hellip;Lloyd Buchanan and Ken Murphy were the big guns in the Clipper win at New Haven, Jan. 18th&hellip;The victory tied them on the season&rsquo;s play with the league leaders, 3 games apiece&hellip;</b></p><p>WASHINGTON: Captain Fern LaPointe has taken the EHL scoring lead from Don Hall, 72-71. (Hall has been out of his teams last 5 contests, while LaPointe has missed only one game all season in spite of a bad back)&hellip;Steve Smith picked up hat trick No. 2 against Johnstown (Jan. 18th) when he tallied four times&hellip;Joe Formica&rsquo;s 2nd goal of the contest gave the Lions a 4-3 overtime victory against the Jets, Jan. 15th, on the latter&rsquo;s ice.</p><h2><b>Loop&rsquo;s Top Playmaker</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Washington and Clinton Battle For EAHL Runner-Up Position

<h2><b>LAURIER CUP (Standing on Jan. 26)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01231/1539276-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="603" height="210"></div><h2><b>SAGUENAY-QUEBEC JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 26)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02185/1539269-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="605" height="214"></div><h2><b>ONTARIO SENIOR A (Standing on Jan. 26)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03142/1539262-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="608" height="160"></div><h2><b>INTERCOLLEGIATE LEAGUE (Standing on Jan. 26)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04122/1539255-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="608" height="138"></div><h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 25)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05104/1539248-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="610" height="211"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 25)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0687/1539241-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="601" height="141"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 19)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0782/1539234-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="602" height="158"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR (Standing on Jan. 23)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0877/1539227-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="606" height="151"></div><h2><b>EASTERN AMATEUR (Standing on Jan. 20)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0967/1539220-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="602" height="182"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1057/1539213-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="601" height="159"></div><h2><b>MONTREAL METRO JR. (Standing on Jan. 26)</b></h2><h3><b>Eastern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1150/1539206-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="596" height="157"></div><h2><b>Western Division</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1245/1539199-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="597" height="193"></div><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE (Standing on Jan. 23)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1338/1539192-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="599" height="230"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1438/1539185-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="596" height="277"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade At A Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-16" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1632/1539307-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution next week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Canadien player.</p><p>8&mdash;Nickname of Webster, ex Ranger forward.</p><p>9&mdash;First name of a Bruin forward.</p><p>10&mdash;Complete initials of Roche of the Springfield Indians.</p><p>12&mdash;Rudy Mi gay&rsquo;s is 5&rsquo;10&rdquo; (abbr.).</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Main, Canadian tennis star.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Albright, former New York centre.</p><p>15&mdash;Preposition.</p><p>16&mdash;Month in which the Rocket was born (abbr.).</p><p>17&mdash;This city has the youngest rink in the N.H.L. (abbr.)</p><p>18&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Polly&rdquo; Drouin, former Canadien player.</p><p>19&mdash;Comparative ending.</p><p>20&mdash;Number of assists Floyd Curry collected last season.</p><p>21&mdash;Metro Prystai was born in this month (abbr.).</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of Noble, U.S. re. cording artist.</p><p>23&mdash;.Fred Glover ended in this position in 1954-55 A.H.L. scoring race.</p><p>26&mdash;Jerry Toppazzini is of this descent.</p><p>29&mdash;Lorne Worsley&rsquo;s favorite summer sport.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of a new member of the Red Wings.</p><p>31&mdash;Initials of Trottier, former N.H.L. star.</p><p>32&mdash;Conjunction.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;First name of Boisvert, Edmonton&rsquo;s goalie.</p><p>2&mdash;Former Canadien centre star.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of Detroit&rsquo;s publicist.</p><p>4&mdash;Lionel Heinrich likes to do this in the summer.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Conacher who once played for Boston.</p><p>6&mdash;First name of Hildebrande of the Barons.</p><p>7&mdash;One of the Red Wings answers to this.</p><p>11&mdash;Marcel Pronovost&rsquo;s netminding brother.</p><p>14&mdash;Fred Shero is this for Winnipeg Warriors.</p><p>15&mdash;Birthplace of Ron Hurst.</p><p>17&mdash;The Pocket Rocket excells at this during the summer.</p><p>23&mdash;At the end of the 1954-5 5 A.H.L. schedule three teams&mdash;for second place.</p><p>24&mdash;Maurice Richard won this trophy in 194 6-47.</p><p>25&mdash;One of the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>27&mdash;Nickname of club with whom Beliveau played before joining Habs (cing.).</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of Carr, former N.H.L. star.</p><p>30&mdash;Behold!</p><h2><b>(Last week&rsquo;s solution)</b></h2><h3><b>Across</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Morrison</p><p>5&mdash;Feb.</p><p>7&mdash;Nagler</p><p>12&mdash;10.</p><p>13&mdash;Thirty</p><p>14&mdash;L.S.</p><p>15&mdash;Ran.</p><p>17&mdash;Ab.</p><p>19&mdash;Ron.</p><p>20&mdash;Lad</p><p>22&mdash;Re.</p><p>23&mdash;Aug.</p><p>25&mdash;Train</p><p>27&mdash;Hint</p><p>28&mdash;L.D.</p><p>29&mdash;O.E.</p><p>30&mdash;P.E.</p><p>31&mdash;Jr.</p><p>32&mdash;Calgary</p><h3><b>Down</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Montreal</p><p>2&mdash;Regina</p><p>3&mdash;Of</p><p>4&mdash;Neil</p><p>6&mdash;Boston</p><p>8&mdash;A.H.A.</p><p>9&mdash;L.R.</p><p>10&mdash;E.T.</p><p>11&mdash;Ry.</p><p>16&mdash;Forward</p><p>18&mdash;Barrie</p><p>21&mdash;Dean</p><p>24&mdash;Gerry</p><p>25&mdash;Thos.</p><p>26&mdash;It.</p><p>28&mdash;Leg</p><p>30&mdash;P.L.</p><p>31&mdash;J.R.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0283/1539352-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="241" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0184/1539359-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="232" height="275"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0381/1539345-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2829" height="1606"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0468/1539338-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2814" height="1550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK,</b> stellar netminder of the Boston Bruins, had a close call in the action at top as the puck bounced behind him. Sawchuk managed to grab it, however, before Billy Harris, left, of the Toronto Maple Leafs could get to it. In the action at bottom, Harry Lumley of the Leafs kicks aside a shot by Ed Sandford of the Chicago Black Hawks as Marc Rheaume of the Leafs moves in to check the elusive centre. Lumley is currently out of action with an injured leg and is being replaced in the Toronto cage by Gil Mayer, up from the Pittsburgh Hornets of the AHL.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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