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March 3, 1956

The Hockey News March 3, 1956

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>St, Catharines Teepees snapped a late-season slump to cop their third straight league championship as the tense OHA junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; race came down to the wire in one of the tightest finishes on record.</p><p>Teepees, who went into the month of February with a nine point hold on first place, could gain only one win and a tie in their first five starts in the abbreviated month and with a week left in the schedule had just a two point edge on the Kitchener-Waterloo Canucks. The Garden City entry pulled up their socks to whip the Canucks, 7-2, in St. Catharines in a game that would have given the Canucks a first place tie had they won it.</p><p>Subsequent losses to Hamilton and Guelph clinched the crown for St. Kitts as the Guelph Biltmores came on to take second place with a convincing 9-4 victory over the Canucks in Kitchener.</p><p>Thus the top three spots were decided with less than a week remaining in the schedule. The fourth, fifth and sixth finishers may not be determined until the final league game of the season that pits St. Mikes against Hamilton.</p><p>At time of writing Marlboros, with consecutive victories over St. Kitts and Barrie, had taken a three point hold on fourth place and had one game remaining. St. Mikes with two left needed victories in beth while Marlies were losing their lone contest to gain fourth place. Barrie Flyers hope for no better than a fifth place tie after their loss to Marlboros.</p><p>The playoffs this year are as unpredictable as the teams have been all season. St. Catharines Teepees started off slowly, started to move in December and took over the league leadership in a January drive that saw them take 25 out of a possible 30 points. They came within one game of blowing their lead in February but finished strong. They whacked the powerful Montreal Canadiens juniors, 6-2; in a Laurier Cup game in the final week of the season and never looked better.</p><h2>One-Two Punch</h2><p>Teepees will be banking heavily on the one-two scoring punch of Ab. McDonald and Art Stratton, All-Star de-fenceman Elmer Vasko and the goaltending magic of Roy Edwards.</p><p>Edwards will be the key man for the Teepees. With Hamilton sidelined and Dennis Riggin not engaging in any extra-curricular activities this year, St. Kitts go into the playoffs with the strongest goaltending in the league and it could make the big difference.</p><p>In pre-playoff discussions the name of the Guelph Biltmores keeps cropping up and the general consensus is that, if they get any kind of a defensive effort, they could take it all. The Hatters, who got off to a miserable start, came with a rush over the last month of the schedule, completing a nine game unbeaten Streak with a 9-4 win over Kitchener that gave them second place. Their goalkeeping and defensive play generally is a question mark. Al Burns replaced Ron Boomer in the last three games and will likely be given the starting assignment in the playoffs.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no question as to their offensive ability. Coach Eddie Bush has put together the best balanced scoring machine we can ever recall performing in the league. No fewer than nine players are in the charmed 20; goal circle. Bob Forhan. a three year veteran, was the pace setter with 36; Brien Webber hit for 30, Bill Sweeney, 29; Jerry Goyer, 27; Bill Graham, 25; Dan Belisle, 25; Ed Shack, 23; Ron Howell, 21 and Alf Cleary, 20. There isn&rsquo;t a club in the league that has their scoring punch so well distributed.</p><h2>Top Rearguard</h2><p>Their kingpin, Ron Howell, again led the leagues defencemen in scoring, clicking for 40 assists along with his 21 goals for a 61-point output. Howell&rsquo;s record was compiled over only 36 games. He didn&rsquo;t join the club until after the football season. At that pace he would have wound up with over 80 points for a full season which is little short of fantastic for a defenceman. Howell incidentally, was the recipient of the. Ron Plumb Memorial Trophy awarded annually to the Bilts&rsquo; Most Valuable player.</p><p>The balance in the Guelph scoring punch was evident in their final league game. They scored nine goals against Kitchener and nine players figured in the goal scoring.</p><p>K-W Canucks, although thwarted in their ambition to finish on top, appeared to be certain of winding up with the league&rsquo;s top point-getter and possibly the league&rsquo;s top goal scorer. Their brilliant centerman, Stan Baluik, was over the century mark in point production with one game remaining while linemate Walt Bradley was duelling with St. Kitts&rsquo; Ab McDonald for sniping honours. The sharpshooting Bradley was over the fifty mark in goal production. These two along with Ken Gribbons, who&rsquo;s over the 30 mark, and Willie O&rsquo;Ree, who&rsquo;s finding the range again, make up the bulk of the Kitchener offensive. The Canucks have possibly the outstanding line in the league in the BaluikO&rsquo;Ree-Bradley combination but their problem is lack of depth.</p><p>The Canucks, who&rsquo;ve been gtring with two lines, will find that that&rsquo;s not enough in the playoffs. They&rsquo;ve got goaltending problems too, but if that big line stays hot they&rsquo;ll make it more than interesting in the blue chips session.</p><p>Toronto Marlboros appear to be coming back to peak form, as usual, in time for the playoffs. Consecutive wins over St. Kitts and Barrie gave them a fairly firm hold on fourth place. If they stay there they&rsquo;ll meet St. Kitts in a best-of-seven first round. Coach Turk Broda isn&rsquo;t worrying too much whether he faces the Teepees or Guelph in the first round.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care who we play but whoever it is they&rsquo;re going to know they&rsquo;ve been in a mighty rough series.&rdquo;</p><p>This of course wasn&rsquo;t exactly a startling piece of information&mdash;Marlboros have a reputation for playing rugged and they have one of the few defences in the league that hits with any degree of authority. Al McNeill is the hardest thumper in the league and Bob Baun and Ron Casey are not. likely to win any awards for gentleness. Len Broderick has finally been brought up from the Weston Dukes to win the regular net-minding job. He&rsquo;s looked very capable in his few appearances.</p><h2>Coming Into Own</h2><p>Billy Kennedy, who was being counted on heavily to take up the slack left by the departure of Billy Harris, is finally coming into his own. Kennedy was a big disappointment to the Marlboro brass in the early stages of the campaign and spent most of the season picking up splinters. An injury to Wally Boyer shoved him into a centre spot between Ken Girard and Bob Pulford and he looks like money in the bank for Marlies in the impending playoffs. With Charley Burns&rsquo; comeback a marked success the Dukes will have three lines to throw at the opposition.</p><p>Guelph, St. Mikes, Barrie and Kitchener have no aversion to Marlboros and St. Kitts clashing in the initial best-of-seven affair. As Turk says, it&rsquo;ll be a rough series and they reason that the victor may be just a little bit weary when the finals roll around.</p><p>Father John Crowley, coach of the St. Michaels College Majors, however, would prefer to meet St. Kitts in the first round.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not too keen on playing Guelph; they&rsquo;re hot right now and they&rsquo;ve got a lot of desire. Besides a longer series would give Frank a better chance to get back in shape.&rdquo;.</p><p>He was referring to Frank Mahovlich, the Collegians&rsquo; ace, who&rsquo;s been out since January after having a knee operation. Mahovlitch, regarder as the outstanding forward in the league, is back on skates and will see action in the playoffs.</p><h2>Will Get Help</h2><p>St. Michaels&rsquo; chances will depend to a large extent on how Mahovlitch goes. If he&rsquo;s &ldquo;right&rdquo; he can virtually beat you single-handed. Mahovlitch, of course, won&rsquo;t have to do it all himself. Pat Hannigan, who could hit the 40-goal-mark, is playing the best hockey of his career. There are few harder working or more capable right wingers in the league.</p><p>A special note of commendation should go to the Collegians&rsquo; Noel Price. With Reg Fleming and Bob Watt both out periodically with injuries,&mdash;the big rearguard carried the St. Michaels defence playing 45 and 50 minutes of every game. With the defence back at full strength the Collegians could be rough if they can avoir the injury jinx.</p><p>Coach Hap Emms was non-commital about his clubs chances.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care who we play; we&rsquo;ll just take them one game at a time. I&rsquo;m just happy to be in the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>Flyers, who couldn&rsquo;t get out of their own way in the early part of the season, have come along ways over the latter half of the schedule. Four losses in a row however in the dying stages of the schedule nullified any hopes of finishing higher than sixth, although there was a remote chance they might gain a fifth place tie.</p><h2>Unbeatable At Home</h2><p>Their big problem will be to pull out a playoff win on the road. They&rsquo;ve been virtually unbeatable at home over. the last half of the schedule.</p><p>It&rsquo;s unfortunate of course for the Hamilton Tiger-Cubs that they failed to make the playoffs inasmuch as they&rsquo;ve shown some belated spark. They held Guelph to a 7-7 tie and whipped Kitchener 10-8 in their last two starts to kill both clubs&rsquo; chances of finishing first and, as it eventually turned out, knocking the Canucks out of second place. Things, however, should be brighter in Hamilton next year. There&rsquo;s no think like a last-place finish to make the powers-that-be sit up and take notice. Detroit Red Wings will now realize the gravity of the situation and, we trust, do something about it.</p><p>This has been the most unpredictable of reasons in a league where the unexpected is the norm. Undoubtedly there&rsquo;ll be more than one surprise in the playoffs.</p><h2>Plenty Of Action</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01233/1478296-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="864" height="1170"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NOEL PRICE</b></figcaption></div><h2>Goal-Getter</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02199/1478289-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="577" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RON HOWELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

OHA Jr. Top Spot To Teeps For Third Straight Season

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>lthough there were other players who scored more points than Chicago&rsquo;s Johnny Wilson during the past week, the editors of The Hockey News felt that the consistently fine play of the starry left winger warranted his selection as Player-of-the-Week.</b></p><p><b>All season long. Wilson has ranked as one of the top port siders in the league and it was felt that it would indeed be an injustice if he were not to be named Player-of-the-Week at least once during the 1955-56 campaign.</b></p><p><b>A strong candidate for All-Star honors, Wilson this week scored one goal and had an assist as the Chi-Hawks pulled an upset by dumping the Boston Bruins, 4-1, on February 26, thus keeping their playoff hopes alive.</b></p><p><b>This brought Wilson&rsquo;s totals for the season to 23 goals, nine assists, 32 points, which is an excellent showing when it is considered that the player is with a last-place club.</b></p><p><b>Hawk President Jim Norris has promised some changes in the Chicago club for 1956-57. One man he wont have to change will be Johnny Wilson. He&rsquo;s set!</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1420/1477441-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="280" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Wilson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>The new escalators are not the only thing that have been travelling up and down all winter long at Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>Leafs themselves have been just as consistent in the ascending and descending. And James Richard Thomson, the</p><p>29-year-oId defenseman, has topped them all in this bracket.</p><p>Reduced to the rank of fifth defenseman for large portions of the season when he could not get himself untracked, the veteran of 11 NHL campaigns reached low ebb less than a month ago when he began considering retirement. But a drastic lineup shakeup soon propelled him back to the top, hailed as the key to Leafs&rsquo; playoff hopes.</p><p>&ldquo;When he wants to play hockey, Thomson can be our leader,&rdquo; General Manager Hap Day says. &ldquo;And he has proved once again that he can do it.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually it was a case with Thomson of wanting to be wanted, an affliction that strikes most hockey players at one time or another. When he first reported to the Toronto training camp at St. Catharines last fall, Jim concluded his contract talks by expressing to Day some doubts that he would be capable of making the team in view of all the fresh young things that Leafs were trying out.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t believe my ears,&rdquo; Day recalls. &ldquo;But I assured him that if he played the hockey he is capable of, there was no doubt about his making the team.&rdquo;</p><h2>A Slow Start</h2><p>After a slow start, Thomson began to play that hockey only to have a groin injury interrupt his season. By the time he returned, seven i games later, his job was filled.</p><p>Rookie Marc Resume, summoned from Pittsburgh as an emergency replacement had stolen the job and Jim was used only periodically from that point, serving as the extra rearguard. He lapsed back into his dilemma and began to play inferior hockey again.</p><p>Then Day reiterated his fall statement to the veteran, and backed i up by returning Thomson to regular play, partnered with Jimmy Morrison And to ensure regular play, Day benched his fifth defenseman, Tim Horton.</p><p>James, who had served while the opposition scored nine goals in his previous three games, responded by playing superlative defense and yielding only one in the next six. And the club followed him onto an unbeaten streak of five games.</p><h2>Made Big Difference</h2><p>&ldquo;What a difference two weeks made,&rdquo; Jim says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve put aside thoughts of making this my last season and I plan again to keep playing as long as I can be of use to the team. I hope that&rsquo;s quite a while because I&rsquo;m enjoying playing again.</p><p>&ldquo;Leg conditioning was the big difference. I don&rsquo;t ever worry about my general condition or weight because I&rsquo;ve been the same 190 pounds for four or five years now and I never go in for fattening foods like pastries and sweets. But when. I was only getting five or six minutes of play a game, my legs weren&rsquo;t in shape. And I was cooling off and losing my edge between shifts.</p><p>&ldquo;Now that I&rsquo;m playing regularly again, my legs have skated-themselves back into condition and I&rsquo;m sharper. I&rsquo;m more confident too, not so afraid that I&rsquo;ll make that one fatal mistake that will put me back on the bench. I&rsquo;m not pressing like I was.&rdquo;</p><p>Although he had the same end object in mind when he pared the defense to four, Day reasons it was achieved in additional ways.</p><h2>Easier On Coach</h2><p>&ldquo;For one thing, it&rsquo;s easier for a coach to handle two teams of defensemen without trying to fit in that extra man,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And, most important of all, it makes each defenseman realize his own responsibility. He knows what he has to do and he can&rsquo;t look to the bench for an easy way out He does his job or he becomes the man who doesn&rsquo;t put on a uniform. That&rsquo;s the way it was when I played, and that&rsquo;s the way it still is.&rdquo;</p><p>Before Thomson&rsquo;s recovery, there was widespread talk that Jeems had become complacent through the affluence he gained from his prosperous coal business and oil stock. He strongly denies this.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s really ridiculous,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Why would I play hockey at all if I felt that way. I play the game because I enjoy it and I enjoy it most when I&rsquo;m being played.&rdquo;</p><h2>No Perfection</h2><p>The fact that Leafs were flattened twice as their five-game unbeaten streak ended, is considered no reflection on the revival of the goalless wonder.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;No one can be singled out for the blame there,&rdquo; Day says. &ldquo;Everyone played poorly through those two games and the trouble with our defensive system originated in the forwards not doing their part. That and our inexperience. We have a lot of youngsters who forget their positions when they&rsquo;ve been scored on and go running off in all directions. You can&rsquo;t Jo that with teams like Montreal and Detroit and expect anything but a landslide of goals against you.&rdquo;</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;We&rsquo;ll pick up again,&rdquo; Thomson says. &lsquo;&lsquo;We&rsquo;ve proved we can play good hockey and we&rsquo;re bound to snap out of it altogether, just like we all had a letdown together.&rdquo;</p><h2>Happy Now</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02209/1476712-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="577" height="1276"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM THOMSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Defenseman Jim Thomson Flashes Old Form Again To Become Leaf Regular

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The Hockey News 1955-56 National League All-Star Team

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01159/1478670-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY of the Toronto Maple Leafs grabs a hot one off the stick of Bob Turner of the Montreal Canadians (24) as defenseman Marc Reaume moves in to check the Hab rearguard. Turner was promoted from the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts earlier this season and has been playing fine hockey for the Canadiens ever since.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(—Photo by Mike Gravel)</span></figcaption></div><h2>A Hot One For Harry<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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ATTENDANCES UP IN NHL!

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When Hap Day cracked his whip in a one-day coaching stint last week, he inadvertently gave the greatest licking to the man he least intended to.</p><p>Tod Sloan, whose 32-goal output was more than double that of the next highest Toronto Maple Leaf, just hadn&rsquo;t been warned to duck.</p><p>Coach King Clancy&rsquo;s appearance at the North Bay Sports Celebrity Dinner had pressed Day back onto the ice for a practise. And the Toronto General Manager seized the opportunity to give Leafs their toughest session of the season, 75 minutes of ruthless stops and starts, shooting and brutal scrimmage.</p><p>Afterward, the 20 athletes virtually crawled to the dressing room and sat gasping and gagging for breath, too weak to rush for a shower and a change. And Slinker Sloan was hit the hardest of them all.</p><h2>Too Late To Change</h2><p>&ldquo;I like to work up a good sweat about once a week,&rdquo; Tod said, while he wrung out a sopping uniform. &ldquo;So I put on my rubber sweat suit. It was too late to change, when I found out that King wouldn&rsquo;t be here and Hap was going to work us. I lost six pounds.&rdquo;</p><p>Through the rugged session, Day called down his players individually, told them to play or get cut, hit even when their scrimmage opponent was down, and pull no punches.</p><p>It was an incredible sight to Boston Bruins&rsquo; Real Chevre-fils, who watched from the sidelines, awaiting his turn to work out and limber up the charley horse that had forced Bruins to leave him behind a week earlier.</p><p>&ldquo;If I ever get word I&rsquo;ve been traded to Toronto, I&rsquo;ll pack up quick,&rdquo; Chevvie said. &ldquo;Ive never seen anything like this.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sloan Loses Six Pounds In Day Workout

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Attendances are up in every one of the six National Hockey League cities.</p><p>Even such centres as Montreal and Toronto, which have played to capacity houses steadily over the last few seasons, show increases over the corresponding period one year ago.</p><p>The biggest increase has been in New York where the resurgent Rangers, the Cinderella team of the 1955-56 season, have played to 38 per cent more people this season than they did last year at this time.</p><p>The Rangers, perennial also-rans in the NHL race, this year have been alternately in second and third positions, waging a tight running battle with the Detroit Red Wings for the runner-up spot to the champion Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Second highest gain attendance wise has been registered in Boston where the Bruins have played to 18 per cent more people this season than last.</p><p>Although not haring a particularly successful season in the team standings, the Chicago Black Hawks are healthier at the gate this season than they were last. The Black Hawks attendance figures are 14 per cent higher this year than for the same period a year ago.</p><h2>Remarkable Feat</h2><p>Detroit Red Wings, like Montreal and Toronto, a team that has played to full houses for years, has an increase of 7 &frac12; per cent this year.</p><p>The improved attendance at Detroit home games is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that this is the first season in a long time that the Red Wings haven&rsquo;t topped the NHL team standings.</p><p>For seven straight years the Wings won the National Hockey League championship by finishing in first place at the end of the regular schedule, and throughout large crowds. But this year is the Red Wings&rsquo; all-time high for attendance.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs show an increase of close to 3% per cent over a year ago while the champion Montreal Canadiens, icing one of the greatest offensive teams in the history of the NHL. have an increase of one half of one per cent over a year ago.</p><p>Canadiens have been the Box Office Champions of the National Hockey League for several seasons and it is almost impossible to improve on the S.R.O. crowds that are on hand for every home game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Each Loop City Shows Increase Over Last Year

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01225/1476657-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>OE BLAKE</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens, a dauntless band of eager puck chasers, don&rsquo;t care who they meet in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs&mdash;the New York Rangers or the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>With the National Hockey League title in the bag, the Habs are watching the progress of their closest pursuers with only detached interest.</p><p>&ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter which club we meet in the semi-finals,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Coach Toe Blake the other day as he puffed contentedly at a fat cigar. &ldquo;We figure we&rsquo;ll have to beat both the Rangers and the Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup. The order is immaterial.&rdquo;</p><p>Kenny Reardon, assistant manager of the Habs, said somewhat the same thing but conceded that the Red Wings probably would provide the tougher battle Generally Canadiens&rsquo; games with the Wings have been closer and more rugged than the encounters with the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;Regardless of the final disposition of the second and third places in the standing, we&rsquo;ll have home ice advantage,&rdquo; said Reardon. &ldquo;And neither the Rangers or the Red Wings have done much against us at Montreal this season. You&rsquo;ll remember, too, that Detroit lost all three playoff games at the Forum last year.&rdquo;</p><h2>Shore Present</h2><p>Eddie Shore, a former great with the Boston Bruins and now president of the Springfield Indians, was in Reardon&rsquo;s office when the conversation took place.</p><p>We asked him about the Habs&rsquo; chances and how this Montreal team of 19 55-5 6 compares with other dominant clubs of the past.</p><p>Shore smiled. &ldquo;Sorry,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I-can&rsquo;t answer that question. I haven&rsquo;t seen the Canadiens play this year. But I&rsquo;d like to. From all I hear and read, they&rsquo;re tremendous. They can put the puck in the other team&rsquo;s net and keep it out of their own.&rdquo;</p><p>Still looking as rugged as he was in his heyday, Shore went on to discuss the playoffs in general terms.</p><h2>A Fair Test</h2><p>&ldquo;I think a seven-game series is a fair test,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The best club should prevail. In the old days those two-goal total-points series were murder. Anything could happen. Now the club that finishes first should be able to assert its superiority.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile the Rangers and the Wings are aiming for the second spot&mdash;a place that can&rsquo;t accommodate both clubs. The Wing&rsquo;s haven&rsquo;t committed themselves, but Coach Phil Watson of the Rangers is on record as fearing the Habs in the first round.</p><p>Montrealers were amused by his remarks as carried by the Canadian Press.</p><p>&ldquo;Look,&rdquo; Watson is reported to have told his players in New York, &ldquo;if we finish second, that&rsquo;s $500 apiece. And we&rsquo;ll stand a good chance to win the semifinals. That&rsquo;s another $1,000.</p><h2>$300 For Losing</h2><p>&ldquo;If we finish third, it&rsquo;s only $3-50 and you&rsquo;ll meet the Canadians in the first round. You&rsquo;ll get only $500 for losing.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson&rsquo;s defeatist attitude puzzled the Canadien brass. &ldquo;Why is he conceding a playoff victory so early?&rdquo; one official remarked. &ldquo;Does he want to make us complacent? That must be the explanation.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, we&rsquo;re not paying any attention to Watson. If we meet the Rangers, it&rsquo;s okay. If we meet the Red Wings, it&rsquo;s okay too. We have only one aim here in Montreal&mdash;the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;</p><h2>&ldquo;Order Immaterial&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Red Hot Habs Hope to Add Stanley Cup To NHL Title

<div class="byline">Marshall DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>Two goals into an empty cage.</p><p>That was the unusual feat of the Detroit Red Wings the last time the Boston Bruins paid a visit.</p><p>Trailing by a 2-1 score, Boston Coach Milt Schmidt called for the normal strategy of yanking Goalie Terry Sawchuk in favor of an extra attacker.</p><p>The gamble backfired when Gordie Howe hit the empty net at 19.23.</p><p>Sawchuk returned briefly, departing again as soon as play went to the other end. Alex Delvecchio duplicated Howe&rsquo;s goal at 19.39 for a faceoff 115 feet away.</p><p>Schmidt sent Sawchuk back for the last 21 seconds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Strategy Backfires!

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Do You remember?…

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01224/1476774-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LIONEL HEINRICH</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The great breeding ground for major league hockey players today is the area embracing two of Canada&rsquo;s eastern provinces, Ontario and Quebec.</p><p>Far less productive, according to statistics, is Western Canada, the vast stretch which once developed a sizeable percentage of major leaguers.</p><p>The East has gained status rapidly as a talent incubator since World War II, to the point where most players moving into the National League now are graduates of its junior competitions. Others, originally from the West, have been given polishing in eastern leagues.</p><p>Nearly 30 per cent of the players who started the present National League season were alumni of one eastern junior league alone, the Ontario Junior Hockey Association.</p><p>The East is becoming more productive, the West less productive, and the statistical Inference is obvious. Western boys as a group do not warrant the consideration as prospective major leaguers that eastern boys do as a group.</p><p>With that inference a rookie defenseman of the Boston Bruins takes exception, as an unofficial Spokesman for his home region.</p><p>Lionel Heinrich, 21 years old, lives in Regina, Sask, and he grew up in nearby Church bridge. His amateur hockey background was acquired in the West his professional background in the East, with Hershey of the American League a year ago. with Hershey and the Bruins this season.</p><h2>Victims of Circumstances</h2><p>In Heinrich&rsquo;s considered opinion western boys are victims of circumstances beyond their control in their bids for major and minor league hockey jobs. Writing them off en masse as prospects, he feels, is not justified.</p><p>&ldquo;If boys in the West were given the same opportunities to prepare tor major league careers that boys in the East have,&rdquo; maintains the articulate young man, &ldquo;there would be many more of them making the grade.</p><p>&ldquo;Fundamentally, there is no difference between the boys from the two sections as hockey prospects, or if there is, western boys have an edge. Those who do play hockey in the West must put Up with more hardships and handicaps than the boys in the East, and they are hardier.</p><p>&ldquo;Where the difference is lies In opportunity, or lack of it, and I feel that there are two big differences. One difference is in playing facilities, the other in opportunities for learning by exam-</p><h2>Easy To See</h2><p>&ldquo;To anyone who has seen facilities for boys in both parts of the country, that difference is easy to see,&rdquo; continued Heinrich. &ldquo;When I was growing up in Church bridge, I never saw an indoor rink. Our town rink was and still is an outdoor affair, and we played on it in sub-zero temperatures plenty of times.</p><p>&ldquo;When we had bad snowstorms three or four families would band together to plow the rink. Sometimes it took a half-day of plowing. The fellows who played in our games had to like hockey an awful lot and had to be willing to take an awful lot to play it.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t help but compare the situation confronting Church bridge boys and other boys all over the West with that which I found one night when the Bruins attended a doubleheader at the Lakeshore Arena in Toronto.</p><h2>A Regulation Rink</h2><p>&ldquo;The first game was between juvenile teams. The boys were playing on a regulation rink in a building which had seats for several thousand people and an electric scoreboard. They had heated dressing rooms, good equipment, snappy uniforms. In other words, those boys had everything which most boys in the West don&rsquo;t have.</p><p>&ldquo;More and better facilities is one reason for the East&rsquo;s edge in player-development, and that edge is widening as the East builds more facilities. I&rsquo;d guess that more rinks have been built in Toronto alone since the war than in any one province in the West.&rdquo;</p><p>Heinrich paused for a moment to reflect on his other points, then went on in his deep debater&rsquo;s voice.</p><p>&ldquo;The difference in opportunity to learn by example is probably something about which most people would never think,&rdquo; he continued &ldquo;but having played on both sides of the fence, so to speak, I can appreciate how much it means.</p><p>&ldquo;A boy learns quickest by copying someone better, as any coach will tell you, and boys in the East have many chances to copy the best, the major leaguers.</p><h2>Play Exhibitions</h2><p>&ldquo;Major league teams play league games in Montreal, Toronto and Detroit, and they play many exhibition games in smaller cities. Television carries games to still other places, and hockey movies are available in the areas around the major league cities. Sometimes major league teams play exhibitions with their eastern junior affiliates like the one we played in Barrie (Ont.) this winter.</p><p>&ldquo;The western boys have no such chances to copy styles and techniques,&rdquo; Heinrich went on. &ldquo;I never saw a major league game until I played in my first one for the Bruins. Neither did Al Nicholson, who was with us a while ago. He comes from the West, too.</p><p>&ldquo;I can remember when I was small that our theatre had a newsreel one day with a Stanley Cup playoff sequence in it. I got such a kick out of seeing Sid Abel of Detroit that I badgered my father that night until he gave me the money to go back and see it again the next day.</p><h2>Gave Them Incentive</h2><p>&ldquo;The night we visited the Lakeshore Arena we went into the dressing room between periods to meet and talk to the Lakeshore Bruins, junior players. The boys seemed to like meeting fellows like Ferny Flaman, Johnny Person and Leo LaBine. It seemed to pep them up, and I could almost read the incentive in their eyes.</p><p>&ldquo;Why, when I was 16 or 17, if a team of major leaguers had ever come into my dressing room, I think I would have fainted. We never met anyone, never had the chance to watch the best to copy their moves, and the kids playing out there today don&rsquo;t have, either.</p><p>&ldquo;Those are the two big difference,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;and they&rsquo;re the reasons why the West isn&rsquo;t producing a greater share of major leaguers. &ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t fair to write off western boys as a group under those conditions.&rdquo;</p><p>Neither a causist nor a crusader, the young Bruin does not consider himself a potential leader of a drive to grow more major leaguers in western environs. He does have definite ideas, however, of ways in which youngsters in his part of the country can be given more encouragement.</p><h2>Nothing Can Be Done</h2><p>&ldquo;Nothing can be done about improving facilities, because that&rsquo;s a sectional economic situation,&rdquo; he theorized, &ldquo;but I think professional hockey can create more influences for encouraging boys.</p><p>&ldquo;An Increased distribution of instructional films would be one step in that direction, and the establishment of a program of clinics would be another. The professional team sending a well-known representative on a tour of western small towns to conduct clinics and show instructional films would win a lot of boosters for itself and perhaps some hockey players as well.</p><h2>Plenty Of Prospects</h2><p>&ldquo;There are potential major leaguers in the West,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;plenty of them. But they are retarded by the lack of opportunities available to boys in the East. Increase their opportunities for advancement and you&rsquo;ll increase the number of westerners in the National League.&rdquo;</p><p>So speaks a sincere young man on a subject important enough to him to receive his serious consideration.</p><h2>Definite Ideas<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Facilities Lacking In West Says Boston Bruins Bookie

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p><b>STATISTICS:</b></p><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>orn in Church bridge, Sask., April 20, 1934. Played junior hockey with Humboldt Indians, turned &lsquo;pro with Hershey Bears of the AHL. Plays defense.</b></p><p><b>SUPERSTITION-IF ANY:</b></p><p><b>Has none at all.</b></p><p><b>HARDEST CHECK IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p><b>Was handed to him last season when he was hit by Pat Egan of the Providence Reds.</b></p><p><b>GREATEST THRILL IN HOCKEY:</b></p><p><b>Being called up to the N.H.L. by the Boston Bruins.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE HOBBY:</b></p><p><b>Water skiing, swimming or anything connected with the beach. Enjoys the outdoors and summer weather.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p><b>Thus far has not had the opportunity to visit many places and considers it a holiday to return to his family after a lengthy schedule.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:</b></p><p><b>Likes living in Regina, where he moved two years ago, but re</b></p><p><b>gards Saskatoon as an ideal place to settle.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE READING MATERIAL:</b></p><p><b>Is not an avid reader, but enjoys short stories and magazines. FAVORITE N.H.L. CITY ON A ROAD GAME:</b></p><p><b>So far he has not visited all the cities in the N.H.L. so actually has no preference.</b></p><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;The Glenn Miller Story.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>BEST ACTRESS:</b></p><p><b>June Allyson.</b></p><p><b>BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p><b>James Stewart and Marlon Brando.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p><b>The original Glenn Miller band.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p><b>Joni James.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p><b>Perry Como.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD BEFORE A GAME:</b></p><p><b>Steak.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE FOOD ANYTIME:</b></p><p><b>Sea food.</b></p><p><b>FAVORITE TV PROGRAM:</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Dragnet.&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

INSIDE STUFF About Lionel Heinrich

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A survey of records of players taking part in National League games this season reveals that 65 per cent advanced into senior and/or professional hockey from the Province of Ontario alone.</p><p>The next-highest producer of 1955-56 National Leaguers is Quebec, where 17 per cent received their final training for adult competition. Thus Canada&rsquo;s two eastern hockey hotbeds have supplied 82 per cent of this year&rsquo;s players.</p><p>Here is a table listing the final juvenile or junior jumping-off spots of mid-season major leaguers by provinces:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02189/1476829-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="996" height="308"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Province By Province Breakdown Of Players

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</p><p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by</p><p>Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West</p><p>Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire:</p><p>$4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</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>VOL. 9 MARCH 3, 1956 No. 23<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01294/1476905-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>&bull; THE RANGERS may switch the starting time of their Wednesday night games from 8:30 to 7:30 next season&hellip;The early Sunday night starting time has proved very popular with the New Yorkers&hellip;Max Bentley has come out of retirement to join brother Doug on Frank Boucher&rsquo;s Brandon team of the WHL. Max&rsquo;s retirement sejourns become shorter each time&hellip;For the first time in 30 years the Providence Reds are broadcasting their away games and it is proving quite popular&hellip;George Patrick Duffy, industrious publicity director of the Reds, is handling the play-by-play and is enjoying this phase of his work immensely. The members of the Providence team are calling him &ldquo;The Foster Hewitt of Providence&rdquo;&hellip;Twenty-five loval Providence fans formed a motorcade of six car&rsquo;s and travelled 1,300 miles on a round trip to Pittsburgh to see their Reds play an important game against the Hornets&hellip;Springfield&rsquo;s Graham Hastings scored two goals in 10 seconds against Hershey the other evening&hellip;The AHL record is two goals in five seconds and is held by Norm Corcoran, who performed the feat while playing for Hershey on December 25, 1951&hellip;Dave Kerr, former great NHL goalkeeper, is preparing to go into the advertising business in Toronto. He had been in the hotel business in several Ontario cities since he retired from hockey. This most recent venue bing Windsor&hellip;Johnny Bower holds the best Ranger record for goalkeepers since Dave Kerr was with the club.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02265/1476898-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="284" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Max Bentley</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; TOE BLAKE will have the last laugh on Dick Irvin, or so it would appear&hellip;When Irvin left Montreal for Chicago and before a game had been played in the 1955-56 season he called the Canadiens to win the NHL title by 20 points. At the time everyone figured it was a wild statement as Irvin was unable to coach Canadiens to the championship by one point the previous year when many of today&rsquo;s Canadiens were a year younger&hellip;Now Canadiens are almost a certainty to. win the league championship by 20 points&hellip;&lsquo;&lsquo;That should teach Irvin, not to make irresponsible statements,&rdquo; Blake added&hellip;Five of the six NHL referees are graduates of the Ontario Hockey Association. They are Jack Mehlenbacker, Frank Udvari, Jerry Olinsky, Gord Favreau and Lou Maschio&hellip;Walter Brown, Boston Bruins&rsquo; president and head of the International Hockey Federation, who witnessed the games at Cortina, Italy, had this to say about the final results: &ldquo;The Russians won on superior condition and something we don&rsquo;t see much of in our amateur hockey, backchecking and two-way play. To beat them, we have to achieve the same determination and condition. We either have to start now or stop whining.&rdquo;&hellip;Four of the five goals scored this season by Andy Branigan, veteran Providence defense star, were winning ones&hellip;Cleveland Barons&rsquo; Freddie Glover has scored 200 AHL goals. He is the second active player to do this. Harry Pidhirny of Springfield tallied his 200th recently. Arnie Kullman of Hershey Bears should join these players shortly. Arnie has almost reached the mark.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03191/1476891-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="304" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL CANADIENS last week played an exhibition game against a team made up of Montreal sportswriters and sportscasters. Proceeds of the tilt went to various charities. Added to the Press team were several &ldquo;mystery players&rdquo; who, after long beards and Russian costumes had been discarded turned out to be Kenny Reardon, Elmer Lach, Pete Morin, Gerry Heffernan and Buddy O&rsquo;Connor&hellip;The Press boys, with their Russian mates, erected an &lsquo;iron curtain in front of their cage to prevent the Habs from scoring but it proved to be no hinderance to Boom Boom Geof-frion who put one shot right through it&hellip;Jim Skinner, coach of the Detroit Red Wings, is one hockey figure who&rsquo;s of the opinion that TV can be a boon to box-offices as well as a menace. &ldquo;We figure TV is making new customers for us right now,&rdquo; says Jim. &ldquo;We know that from the requests we get for tickets from outside points. The names are new to us. Most of them had never seen a hockey game except on their TV screens, but that was enough to make fans of them&rdquo;&hellip;Camille Henry, the former Calder Cup winner in the NHL, recently set an American Hockey League record and tied three others as he scored six goals in the Providence Reds&rsquo; 8-3 victory over Springfield Indians. His six goals gave him 16 against the Indians this season, a new record for goals against one club in a season. He also equalled the record for most goals in two consecutive games (8), most goals in one period (4) and most goals in a single game</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04142/1476884-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="312" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Geoffrion</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Year in and year out the Boston Bruins have reason to find little delight in their National League schedule, but this year may be the exception.</p><p>The Bruins have to play a schedule each year with which only the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers of their major league brethren can sympathize. It is punctuated with long road trips, stretches of three, four and five games in almost as many nights, and other necessary concessions to the presence of other attractions at Boston Garden.</p><p>This season, however, they are willing to forget some of the endurance tests they have undergone to contemplate with enthusiasm the closing hand which the schedule-makers have dealt them.</p><p>The hand: The playing of six of their last eight games at home.</p><h2>A Morale Booster</h2><p>&ldquo;The schedule has given me a boost in morale a few times when things haven&rsquo;t been going too well,&rdquo; observed Coach Milt Schmidt as he scanned the dates.</p><p>&ldquo;Those home games can be our stepping-stone to fourth place and the playoffs if we can use them to good advantage. We&rsquo;re better off as far as the schedule is concerned than either Toronto or Chicago for the rest of the year.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt did a little figuring on the schedule he was looking over.</p><p>&ldquo;We have six of the last eight at home,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and Chicago plays seven of its last eight on the road, one with us.</p><p>&ldquo;Toronto is better off, but it says here that Toronto will play four of its last six on the road, and the first of the four will be with us.</p><h2>Must Do It Alone</h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been saying all along that we can&rsquo;t depend on anyone else to help us beat out Chicago and Toronto,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;that we&rsquo;ll have to beat them out on our own. It looks like that puts it up to us and those six games at home.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins have been casting an occasional eye toward their closing stretch ever since they developed the impetus which has made the fight for fourth place the hectic three-way affair it-has been for the past several weeks.</p><p>The fact that they&rsquo;ve had to preface it with a seven-game road trip, their longest of the year, hasn&rsquo;t made it look any less attractive.</p><h2>13-Year Vet</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05123/1476936-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="584" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL QUACKENBUSH</b></figcaption></div><h2>Lost Only One</h2><p>Since the Bruins started their late-season pickup after acquiring Real Chevrefils and Jerry Toppazzini from Detroit, they&rsquo;ve been a team to reckoned with at home. Of their first 20 games at the Garden, they won only five, but of their next nine they lost only one.</p><p>The combination of that improvement, Toronto&rsquo;s ineptness on the road and the hard row which Chicago has to hoe has convinced them that they&rsquo;ll be candidates for fourth place right to the end.</p><p>Their playoff eggs, it can be said, are in one basket, and that basket is their own rink.</p><p>Meanwhile, Bill Quackenbush, veteran defenseman of the Bruins, has announced that he will retire from professional hockey at the end of this season,</p><p>Quackenbush, playing his 13th year in the National league, made the announcement while speaking at a sports night in Quincy prior to the Bruins&rsquo; departure for a seven-game road trip.</p><p>&ldquo;I debated playing this year,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but this is definitely my last.&rdquo;</p><p>Quackenbush is completing his seventh season with the Bruins, coming here from Detroit. He has been chosen on the league&rsquo;s first All-Star team three times and the second team twice.</p><p>Married and the father of twins, Bill resides in nearby Wellesley. For the past several summers he has been establishing himself as a sales representative, the line he will pursue at season&rsquo;s end.</p><p>Enjoy the host hockey features of the month-every month-in<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruins Get Schedule Break With Home Stand Coming Up

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll consider myself a true major leaguer when I score 20 goals,&rdquo; was the way Andy Hebenton put it at the beginning of the season.</p><p>That&rsquo;s a lot of saying for Andy who specializes in little talk and much action.</p><p>At this writing the blond Scotchman had 21 goals, so it looks like he&rsquo;s arrived as a &ldquo;big leaguer.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy&rsquo;s coach, Phil Watson got a laugh out of Hebenton&rsquo;s conservatism. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a National Leaguer all right,&rdquo; Phil said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got so much confidence in Andy I put him out there when we&rsquo;re two-men short. You don&rsquo;t see many rookies getting that kind of responsibility.&rdquo;</p><p>Hebenton, whose wife Gail recently presented him with a new heir, would like very much to collar the Calder Trophy as Roo-kie-of-the-Year. However his style is not as attractive as the widely acclaimed Pocket Richard and Glenn Hall. Andy placed fifth in the mid-season voting.</p><h2>&ldquo;Better Than Pocket&rdquo;</h2><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s better than the Pocket,&rdquo; claims Watson. &ldquo;Hebenton may not look spectacular when he&rsquo;s on the ice&mdash;in fact, you often don&rsquo;t realize he&rsquo;s in action&mdash;but he&rsquo;s always one of the most valuable. What&rsquo;s more, he could play any position Even defense, if necessary.&rdquo;</p><p>Those who knew Andy before he hit the big time&mdash;Muzz and Lynn Patrick&mdash;predicted his success early in the season but they never expected him to rise so rapidly.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew he&rsquo;d do good in the NHL,&rdquo; said Muzz. &ldquo;I knew he&rsquo;d make it on try alone, not because he scored 46 goals for Victoria. There are guys who can score a hundred in that league and still not hold a stick in the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;What surprises me is the number of goals he&rsquo;s scored. When he goes for that puck, he really goes for it. Andy never varies his stride.&rdquo;</p><p>Twenty-goal scorers usually attract more than the usual attention from opposing defensemen, not to mention the odd low-flying elbow and high sticks from the forwards But Andy passes it off with a &ldquo;no-bother-at-all&rdquo; shrug of the shoulders, says he only minds Hebenton&rsquo;s business.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t gotten into many fights in my entire pro career,&rdquo; he revealed. &ldquo;I just go about my work and let the other guys worry about the rough stuff.&rdquo;</p><h2>Assured a Berth</h2><p>Andy played well enough right from the opening game to assure his berth with the Blues but it wasn&rsquo;t &lsquo;till the night of Jan. 4 at the Garden that he really came into his own as a cool, confident major leaguer.</p><p>It was on that night that the Rangers roared from behind a three-goal deficit and toppled the Wings, 5-4. Hebenton scored two superbly contrived goals which drew ratter-shaking ovations. Naturally, it came as no surprise to the self-effacing Hebenton.</p><p>&ldquo;I always go well after Christmas time&rdquo;, he explained. &ldquo;It happened last year at Victoria and it&rsquo;s happening again. I guess I&rsquo;m lone of those late starters.&rdquo;</p><p>Worry-wart Watson gets anxious whenever he looks at Andy&rsquo;s weight chart because &ldquo;Spud&rdquo;, as Phil calls him, and potatoes get along like Gallagher and Sheen.</p><h2>Mad About Potatoes</h2><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s absolutely mad about potatoes,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll eat them baked, fried and even raw, but he prefers them mashed with plenty of gravy. I let him eat all he wants but work him just that much harder in practise. I can always tell when the potato prices drop. Right away Andy&rsquo;s weight goes up.&rdquo;</p><p>There is really nothing extraordinary about Hebenton&rsquo;s mode of play. At least not from the point of view of style.</p><p>He&rsquo;s an average skater, not a poor one as first reported around the league. His stickhandling ability, again, is average and the same holds true for his shot.</p><p>Where, then, does he shine?</p><p>Andy is a tenacious player, along the lines of Ted Kennedy. He never stops digging, never backs away and backchecks as well as he forechecks, sometimes even better.</p><h2>Great Anticipator</h2><p>He rarely wanders from his lane, has a superior sense of anticipation. He&rsquo;s oblivious to petty annoyances, low sticks, high sticks, elbows and butts. And he never complains. Given a task Hebenton will do it and usually do it well.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s so quiet in the dressing room that you don&rsquo;t know he&rsquo;s there,&rdquo; said Frank Paice, Rangers&rsquo; trainer. He&rsquo;s the same way on the bench and on the ice. Except that when he&rsquo;s on the ice Andy is always there&mdash;on the puck.</p><p>As Muzz Patrick was saying: &ldquo;Buying Andy for $12,000 from Victoria was the first deal I made for the Rangers. I probably will never make a better one!&rdquo;</p><h2>20-Coal Man</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01245/1476967-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="583" height="1158"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDY HEBENTON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rookie Andy Hebenton Figures He’s Arrived As True Big Leaguer

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Hey fans! It&rsquo;s star gazing time again!</p><p>Every year about this time it has become a habit among readers of The Hockey News to sit down, pencil in hand, and choose the players they think are worthy of nomination to the annual Fans&rsquo; All-Star Team.</p><p>This season we are changing our procedure slightly and, instead of single ballots for every position, we are asking you to name your first and second All-Star teams on the same ballot.</p><p>This season too, for the first time, we are asking you to name the player you consider to be the top first year man in the National Hockey League and also the man you judge to be the Most Valuable Player to his team.</p><p>The rules, which appear elsewhere on this page are simple to follow. The main thing is to get those ballots in, and get them in fast. The sooner they arrive here, the sooner we can get them tabulated.</p><h2>Just Vote!</h2><p>It doesn&rsquo;t matter who you vote for&mdash;but vote!</p><p>Remember, if one of your favorites should fail to gain a berth on the Fans&rsquo; All-Star team by the margin of just a few points, it could be because you didn&rsquo;t send that ballot in as you had intended. So right now, while it&rsquo;s still fresh in your mind, fill out the ballot on this page and mail it right away to All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</p><p>In the meantime, to get you started, here&rsquo;s a list of some of the leading candidates in the various positions.</p><p><b>COACH: Toe Blake (Montreal Canadiens); Jimmy Skinner (Detroit Red Wings); Phil Watson (New York Rangers); King Clancy (Toronto Maple Leafs); Milt Schmidt (Boston Bruins); Dick Irvin (Chicago Black Hawks).</b></p><p>GOAL: Jacques Plants (Montreal Canadiens); Glenn Hall (Detroit Red Wings); Lorne Worsley (New York Rangers); Harry Lumley (Toronto Maple Leafs); Terry Sawchuk (Boston Bruins); Al Rollins (Chicago Black Hawks).</p><p><b>DEFENSE: Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson (Montreal Canadiens); Red Kelly and Marcel Pronovost (Detroit Red Wings); Bill Gadsby and Harry Howell (New York Rangers); Jim Morrison and Hugh Bolton (Toronto Maple Leafs); Fernie Flaman and Bob Armstrong (Boston Bruins); Allan Stanley and Lee Fogolin (Chicago Black Hawks).</b></p><p>CENTRE: Jean Beliveau (Montreal Canadiens), Dutch Reibel and Alex Delvecchio (Detroit Red Wings); Dave Creighton and Larry Popein (New York Rangers); Tod Sloan (Toronto Maple Leafs); Don McKenney (Boston Bruins); Red Sullivan (Chicago Black Hawks).</p><p><b>RT. WING&mdash;Maurice Richard (Montrea 1 Canadiens); Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings); Andy Bathgate (New York Rangers); George Armstrong (Toronto Maple Leafs); Leo LaBine (Boston Bruins); Eddie Litzenberger (Chicago Black Howks).</b></p><p>LFT. WING: Bert Olmstead and Dickie Moore (Montreal Canadiens); Ted Lindsay (Detroit Red Wings); Dean Prentice (New York Rangers); Earl Balfour (Toronto Maple Leafs); Vic Stasiuk (Boston Bruins); Nick Mickoski and Johnny Wilson (Chicago Black Hawks),</p><p><b>First year men eligible for the Rookie-of-the-Year Award as this issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press were: Montreal&mdash;Guy Talbot, Bob Turner, Henri Richard and Claude Provost; Detroit&mdash;Glenn Hall, Norm Ullman, Larry Hillman and Johnny Bucyk; New York&mdash;Andy Hebenton, Guy Gendron and Bronco Horvath; Toronto&mdash;Dick Duff, Billy Harris, Gerry James, Marc Resume, Ron Hurst and Earl Balfour; Boston&mdash;Lionel Heinrich; Chicago Hank Ciesla, Hec Lalande and Pierre Pilote.</b></p><h2>Half-Way Choices</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02220/1477033-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="277" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03174/1477026-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="298" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04137/1477019-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="283" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0594/1477012-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="289" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0659/1477005-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="319" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacques Plante</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0732/1476998-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="304" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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All-Star Time Once Again As Fans Become Selectors

<p><b>1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to cast ballots for the National Hockey League AllStar Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming first and second team, as well as coach, MVP and Outstanding Rookie</b></p><p><b>2&mdash;The ballots will run for four weeks. Final ballot will appear in the issue dated March 24, 1956.</b></p><p><b>3&mdash;Use blanks published in The Hockey News, or reasonable facsimile or tracings of same if you do not wish to deface your copy. Be sure to fill in your own name and address.</b></p><p><b>4&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;AllStar Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309. 1434 St. Catherine St. W&bdquo; Montreal, Que.</b></p><p><b>5&mdash;All ballots must be postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1956.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Voting Rules

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01317/1477126-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p>(As Seen in the Toronto Star)</p><h2>Extra Bucks For Extra Pucks</h2><p>THE Slinker is slicker and his reflexes quicker when he&rsquo;s shooting pucks for those bonus bucks. At the extra rate he should fire 38, but without the premium he gets 13. That&rsquo;s the saga of the gold rush, pardners, and old Sourdough Sloan is turning up more nuggets than Goodtime Charlie uncovered in the stampede of 98. He&rsquo;s doing it without the traditional back break and beans. The Slinker tapped the mother lode in the comparative comfort of Hap Day&rsquo;s office&mdash;if you can speak of comfort and the coldly formal atmosphere of Day&rsquo;s office in the same breath. Hockey player&rsquo;s never feel completely relaxed in Day&rsquo;s sanctum, especially when he&rsquo;s pondering their previous season&rsquo;s record, or even the work sheet of a game Just played.</p><p>The Leafs Mr. Aloysius Martin Sloan didn&rsquo;t have to guess which statistics Mr. Day had been reading when the Slinker was summoned into Day&rsquo;s presence, during training camp last fall. Nor did Sloan require Day&rsquo;s reminder that the previous season had been something less than a banner year as they say at the shareholders&rsquo; meetings. The Slinker knew he was about to be cited for a cut in salary. It&rsquo;s pretty much a matter of public knowledge now that he emerged with a raise, as beings have turned out.</p><p>It was Sloan himself who proposed that the wage amputation be put on a sporting basis. He accepted the slice in stipend, but suggested a graduated scale of bonuses which would start at 20 goals. By collecting the 20-gdal bonus, the Slinker could equal his earnings of the previous season. If he went beyond 20, there were 25 and 30-goal extras which would hike his take-home pay. Sloan already has those bonuses in the bank. He&rsquo;s working on his 35-goal quota now. That would mean an additional prize. Whether he wins that one or not, it&rsquo;s obvious the Slinker scored a notable financial decision over Mr. Day. And you can&rsquo;t imagine a more willing victim than Hap. After all, it&rsquo;s Conn Smythe&rsquo;s money, and if Day can use it to buy goals, there&rsquo;s nothing in which he would prefer to invest.</p><p>But the case of the Slinker demands examination on one or two counts: (A) Does it indicate a player who got only 13 goals last season can become a killer for the right kind of money? (B) Does it encourage the cruel masters to put their serfs on a commission basis? Sloan&rsquo;s highest output in three seasons was 15 goals.</p><h2>Tried to Talk Way to Right Wing</h2><p>THE Slinker&rsquo;s own stipulations provide the best answer to any thought that Sloan might have been leaning on his shovel for a couple of seasons in order to bait a trap for his bosses. When Sloan agreed to gamble a pay cut against a 20-goal bonus last fall, he cited the provision that he must play at right wing. If the Leafs insisted he should play centre, then Sloan could ask that all bets be declared off, and the club would forego, the privilege of reducing his pay. That shows how little an athlete knows about how, where or why he&rsquo;s liable to have a good year. Most of the Slinker&rsquo;s goals have been slammed home from the centre slot&mdash;the position which he attempted to escape.</p><p>He started the season at right wing and popped in six or eight quick goals. Then the brass wanted him back at centre. He was assured the club would continue to regard the bonus deal as binding, but if the return to centre stopped his scoring, he still would not be asked to accept the proposed cut in pay. Instead of hampering his scoring, the centre beat has made him the second highest goal-getter in the game.</p><p>So that should answer the question of whether a bloke should be open to suspicion simply because he doubles production when incentive pay appears. The Slinker figured he was jinxed at centre. That&rsquo;s where he&rsquo;s having his greatest year.</p><p>As for the suggestion that cases such as that of the Slinker will tempt the bosses to stress bonuses instead of standard contracts, the answer lies in supply and demand. All the clubs are spending hundreds of thousands in the search for talent. They have to make the conditions attractive in order to get the men they need. When a downy-cheeked lad like Jean Beliveau can manoeuvre Montreal Canadiens into a five-year pact worth $100,000, there&rsquo;s not much danger the serfs will be worked on a piece-work basis. Even the Slinker wouldn&rsquo;t like that. And he&rsquo;s the hottest goals-for-gold man in the game at the moment.</p><p>So why doesn&rsquo;t Day try the same treatment on Sid Smith?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02205/1477119-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="548" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOD SLOAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03125/1477157-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOM LOCKHART</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>There is a strong possibility that the Rangers will hold their 1956 fall training camp in the New York Metropolitan Area if the Long Island Sports Arena is completed by August</p><p>Site of the camp would be the new $700,000 rink in Commack, L.I., an hour&rsquo;s drive from Madison Square Garden. Construction of the arena is now underway. The only hitch in the plans at the moment is the question of whether the building will be completed by September when training sessions start.</p><h2>Sets Target Date</h2><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re definitely interested in holding our fall camp at the Com-mac!: rink&mdash;if it&rsquo;s up by midAugust,&rdquo; said Muzz Patrick, general manager of the National Hockey League club.</p><p>&ldquo;It would be an excellent location for us because it&rsquo;s so near Manhattan and close to the training camps of Boston, Hershey and Providence. We could schedule a number of exhibition games with them and have our players settle in New York at the same time.</p><p>&ldquo;This would not include our junior players who will go to the special headquarters set up for them in Canada.&rdquo;</p><h2>&ldquo;Target Month&rdquo;</h2><p>Tom Lockhart, general man-ager of the 4,200-seat arena and president of the United States Hockey Assn., announced that August would be the &ldquo;target month&rdquo; for completion of the building, located in fast-growing Suffolk County.</p><p>&ldquo;We are anxious to have the Rangers train at Commack,&rdquo; said Lockhart, &ldquo;and also hope they will be able to play exhibition games here, whether they train in Long Island or not.&rdquo;</p><p>The Long Island Arena will be the home site of the Rovers&rsquo;, one of the most popular teams in the Eastern Hockey League and for years a favorite of Metropolitan hockey fans in Madison Square Garden.</p><p>Reaction to the proposed move was favorable. Everyone in the Blues&rsquo; organization seemed to be enthused about it.</p><p>Said Phil Watson: &ldquo;I very much like the idea of training in New York. It&rsquo;s good for the players, it&rsquo;s good for the fans and it&rsquo;s good for me. (Phil lives in the Bronx). But Muzz is the guy who will make the decision.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s too cold in Saskatoon for training. The players hardly work up a sweat. In Commac they have summer weather in September. Brother, those guys will lose weight in a hurry!&rdquo;</p><h2>Second Largest</h2><p>The arena, constructed of wooden laminated arches, will be the second largest of its kind in the country and will have a parking field to accomodate more than 3,000 cars on its 22&frac12; acre site. It will house an &ldquo;activity&rdquo; area of 85 &times; 210 feet.</p><p>Should the Blues decide to use the Commack rink, it will mark the first time that the New York sextet has trained in the Metropolitan area. For the past two seasons they have held camp in Saskatoon and prior to that at Guelph, Lake Placid and Winnipeg.</p><p>Ranger wives were especially pleased.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d love it,&rdquo; said Merle Bathgate. &ldquo;It would give me more time to set up our apartment which is only about a half hour&rsquo;s ride from Commack.&rdquo;</p><p>June Prentice concurred: &ldquo;And I think the families with kids would like it even better. After all, in that way they could start the kids off at school right at the beginning of the semester.&rdquo;</p><h2>Save On Moving</h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll say,&rdquo; interrupted Joyce Popein, whose Larry Jr., aged five, is now enjoying kindergarten. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll save on moving too. Instead of stopping off in Saskatchewan while the boys train&mdash;like we did last year&mdash;we can move right to New York. That would be wonderful.&rdquo; Hubby Larry nodded in agreement.</p><p>Publicity-wise the switch to Commsek would be a healthy move with the Blues workout; eselly accessible to local scribes who never made the long safar to Saskatoon.</p><p>Exhibition games would almost castinly sell out since the Rangs could draw from their Gar-den regulars as well as a population pool of two million in Nassau and Suffolk counties.</p><p>&ldquo;The Long Island Arena will present the finest in hockey competition.&rdquo; said Lockhart. &ldquo;Teams from all points on the Eastern coast will converge here for league and exhibition games.</p><h2>Hockey Clinic</h2><p>&ldquo;In addition we will shortly launch a clinic program in high schools and colleges in the Met Area and Long Island with the hope of encouraging interscholastic and intercollegiate competition for the future.&rdquo;</p><p>The arena&mdash;only one of its kind on Long Island&mdash;will be modern in every sense. Spectators will have a clear view of the rink as the laminated arches will obviate the need for pillars.</p><p>It is expected that the Rangers will hold their camp in Providence or an eastern Canadian city if the Commack rink isn&rsquo;t ready by September.</p><p>Now it&rsquo;s up to the weatherman the cement mixers and the construction workers. With an all-out effort. Long Islanders may have a first-hand look at the Bathgates, Worsleys and Fontinatos by Labor Day.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Blues To Change Training Site If New Arena Ready By Autumn

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2>A Difference in Big Guys</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>immy Skinner, the &ldquo;Little Round Man&rdquo; who coaches the Detroit Red Wings, knows exactly why the Canadiens halted his team&rsquo;s consecutive streak of N.H.L. championships at seven. He talked about it here before last week&rsquo;s game.</p><p>&ldquo;Beliveau and the Rocket have scored over 75 goals between them&mdash;and a lot of them have been the tying or winning goals,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Big goals. My big guys didn&rsquo;t get those big goals.&rdquo;</p><p>When you think of Detroit&rsquo;s &ldquo;big guys&rdquo; you think of Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Red Kelly.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not thinking of Kelly,&rdquo; he elaborated. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s done everything we&rsquo;ve asked of him. When we moved him up to left wing he gave us the lift we needed. But I&rsquo;m certainly thinking of Gordie Howe. He hasn&rsquo;t been driving the way he can. When he&rsquo;s barrelling we&rsquo;re a different team.&rdquo;</p><p>It was pointed out that shifting Kelly to left wing for 26 games may cost Red a place on the All-Star team.</p><p>&ldquo;If that happens he won&rsquo;t suffer,&rdquo; was the reply. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll make UP the difference to him in money.&rdquo;</p><p>Did he think the off-season trades which sent Terry Sawchuk, Vic Stasiuk, Glen Skov, Tony Leswick, Benny Woit and Johnny Wilson to other teams had hurt the Red Wings?</p><p>&ldquo;Not particularly,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;Skov and Leswick had more experience than some of our fellows and maybe knew more about how to check players like the Rocket and Beliveau. But Glen Hall has stood up well in our nets. I guess some of our players aren&rsquo;t as hungry as they should be. Over that stretch of seven straight league championships they won four Stanley Cups. That kind of success may have glutted their appetites.&rdquo;</p><h2>Sawchuk Still Helps Detroit</h2><p>He doesn&rsquo;t think the absence of Terry Sawchuk has hurt the Red Wings on the ice while it has helped them at the gate.</p><p>&ldquo;We never drew very well with Boston at home,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;But Sawchuk has a big following in Detroit and they came to see him play for the Bruins. We estimate he made a difference of $25,000 to us at the box office this season.&rdquo;</p><p>Speaking of box office, the television menace popped up.</p><p>&ldquo;We figure television is making new customers for us now,&rdquo; Jimmy said. &ldquo;We know that from the requests we get for reservations from outside points. The names are new to us. Most of them had never seen a hockey game except on their TV screens, but that was enough to make fans of them.&rdquo;</p><p>The Red Wings played one game at home this season against the Bruins on a Sunday afternoon with eminently satisfactory results.</p><p>&ldquo;That was a lively crowd,&rdquo; Jimmy remarked. &ldquo;There were a lot of youngsters on hand who wouldn&rsquo;t be allowed to attend night games. But they&rsquo;re the fans of tomorrow. We may try to arrange three or four afternoon games next season.&rdquo;</p><p>There are about 600 youngsters playing in organized leagues around Detroit. Did he think there were any future N.H.L. players among them?</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t say that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The trouble with the American-born boys is that their draft boards grab them when they&rsquo;re 18. They are out of hockey for a few years and that interrupts their natural development as players.&rdquo; He smiled again. &ldquo;But it doesn&rsquo;t prevent them from becoming fans.&rdquo;</p><p>This brought up the United States&rsquo; victory over the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen at Cortina, and the ultimate victory of the Russians.</p><p>&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t I-told-you-so stuff,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But when I heard the Russians were fast skaters I knew they&rsquo;d win. The Dutchmen were nearly all too slow to be good hockey players. I knew most of them when I was coaching junior hockey in Hamilton.&rdquo;</p><h2>The Season&rsquo;s Two Mysteries</h2><p>One of the mysteries of the season was the failure of Real Chevrefils to get going with the Red Wings. Would he try to explain it?</p><p>&ldquo;My own idea is that Chevy tried too hard with us,,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He was a good player with the Bruins, but the Bruins didn&rsquo;t have players like Howe and Lindsay and Kelly. Chevy thought he had to be a star right from the start with us. The goals didn&rsquo;t come and I think he got discouraged.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What about that statement that he didn&rsquo;t fit in with the Red Wings style of play?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We stress fundamentals and positional play,&rdquo; Jimmy said. &ldquo;Chevy was often out of position and I asked him about it. He said. In Boston they let me play my own way. Nobody told me what to do. This is new to me.&rsquo; But I&rsquo;m glad to see him doing well again with the Bruins. I laways liked him.&rdquo;</p><p>Another of the season&rsquo;s mysteries has been the inability of Sid Smith to score, though he scored 3 3 goals for the Toronto Leafs last season. Now the Leafs have benched him.</p><p>&lsquo;That&rsquo;s hard to explain, too,&rdquo; Jimmy admitted. &ldquo;But when he isn&rsquo;t out there it takes a load off me. Maybe he isn&rsquo;t scoring this season, but he&rsquo;s scored so often in other seasons that I always think of him as being dangerous. I have to play special attention to him. When he isn&rsquo;t out there I don&rsquo;t have to fear him.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Which is the National Hockey League&rsquo;s top scoring line.</p><p>For the record, as of today, it depends upon whether you&rsquo;re talking about total goals or total points.</p><p>In goals, it is Detroit&rsquo;s Production Line of Dutch Reibel Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay.</p><p>In points, it is Montreal&rsquo;s powerful Beliveau Line with Jean Beliveau, Bernie Geoffrion and Bert Olmstead.</p><p>But, by the time this hits print either answer may be wrong. Those two lines, hottest in the NHL by a wide margin, are waging a close duel that probably will go all the way to the wire.</p><p>At the 58-game mark they were in a near dead heat for goals, Detroit&rsquo;s crew carrying a one-goal edge. In points the Montreal unit was 10 points up. Here were the records at that stage:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01268/1477226-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="594" height="378"></div><h2>Not Near Record</h2><p>Neither unit apparently will endanger the league records for this type of endeavor. Elmer Lach, Rocket Richard and Toe Blake hit such a pace in the 1944-45 season that their totals will stand for at least another year even though the boys now go at it for 70 games compared to 50 when the records were set.</p><p>Lach-Richard-Blake combined for 220 points, 105 of them goals and no line has come really close since.</p><h2>Came Close</h2><p>Howe and Lindsay, with Sid Abel centering, took a few cracks at it. Their best was 215 points one season. 207 and 206 on the other top years. Twice the trio combined for 93 goals and once for 92.</p><p>The 1952-53 season, the year Abel departed for Chicago, Howe and Lindsay took a brave two man run at the record. They had 81 goals and 166 points between them. But they had a flock of different centers that season.</p><h2>Rival Leaders</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02236/1477219-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="535" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03179/1477212-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="592" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Two ‘Big’ Lines Seek Honors For Goal Scoring As A Unit

<div class="byline">Stan FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Shades of Jack Adams!</p><p>General John Reed Kilpatrick, president of the New York Rangers, is finding himself a victim of a rare hockey disease known as &ldquo;Thirdperioditis.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;That game against Detroit (Blues won, 2-1) was so exciting that I just couldn&rsquo;t take it any longer sc I sat in my office for the last period.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What are you going to do in the playoffs?&rdquo; he was asked. &ldquo;It will be even worse.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I know,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;I may even have to miss the second period!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Gen. Kilpatrick Ailing From “Third period it is”

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>It was a long and often discouraging search, but the Black Hawks finally located the valued art of turning defeat into victory and put it to good, timely use February as they hosted Detroit. They spotted the Red Wings a 2-0 first period lead, but then pounced back with five scores of their own.</p><p>These second and third stanza Chicago counters came without reply from the bewildered and apparently tired champions until the closing seconds when their Lorne Ferguson leaked through the Hawk defense to beat Al Rollins and bring the final count to 5-3.</p><p>In the interim, Chicago displayed its first real zest to bounce back from an early deficit this year. The five goals, a genuine team effort, equalled the total from four previous games in the seoring department. Only one of these counters was a tie&mdash;the others were losses.</p><h2>Must Win Seven</h2><p>Amid dressing room faces that were all smiles for once came continued wonderment on the chances for a playoff spot. &ldquo;We will have to win seven of our remaining 11 games to make it,&rdquo; predicted Coach Dick Irvin without offering further as to the chances of such an accomplishment.</p><p>He leaned forward as statistics from the Detroit game landed on his desk. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see, 18-16-16&mdash;we had 50 shots at Hall. They had 33 at us. Any team will win most of the time if it can come up with 50 shots per game.&rdquo; Another 10 Chicago shots or so, it was reminded, had narrowly missed being &ldquo;on goal.&rdquo;</p><h2>Pleasing Sight</h2><p>All three of the Hawk lines for the night contributed to the scoring with Edmonton graduate Norm Corcoran one of the most pleasing sights to the home fans. He failed to score officially although he rapped the puck past Hall in the second stanza. The goal judge said the disc had stopped on the line.</p><p>He was robbed a Second time when he ticked a hard drive toward the Red Wing goal. This time it hit the post with a loud &ldquo;ting.&rdquo; Not to be completely denied, the speedy Norm aided in setting up scores later by linemates Johnny Wilson (his 22nd) and Hank Ciesla.</p><h2>Line Reunited</h2><p>Harry Watson and Red Sullivan tallied as they continued to show impressively as they did together last season as two-thirds of the &ldquo;SOS&rdquo; forward unit which also has Ed it zenberger as a member. This line was recently reunited by Irvin and has continually acted happy about the change.</p><p>Gallopin&rsquo; Nick Mickoski contributed the Black Hawk goal that got the team on its merry way at 10:38 of the second period. Cieslatied the score at 15:45 and Watson put Chicago ahead at 16:53. The third period insurance tallies came at 4:45 and 7:27 from Wilson and Sullivan respectively.</p><p>The triumph left the Hawks three points behind Toronto and Boston in a virtual tie for fourth and fifth places. It was a close enough situation to find several, players thumbing through their schedules to determine just who was left to play and how often.</p><h2>Surprise</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01300/1477295-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="572" height="896"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NORM CORCORAN</b></figcaption></div><h2>Clicking Again</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02242/1477288-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1152" height="1184"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED SULLIVAN</b></figcaption></div><h2>The Fez Is Familiar</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03182/1477281-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1164" height="1180"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NO, ITS&rsquo; NOT the Russian Olympic Hockey team but rather Kenny Reardon, Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Gerry Heffernan, former stars in the National Hockey League, who donned the Red get-up to participate in a charity game at the Montreal Forum. The boys played for the Montreal PressRadio All-Stars against the NHL Canadiens. P.S.&mdash;The game ended in a 3-3 tie.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Black Hawks Retain Slim Hope Of Gaining Berth In Playoffs

<h2>CLINCH TITLE</h2><p><b>Montreal Canadiens clinched the NHL championship when beat De. troit Red Wings 5-1 on Feb. 25,</b></p><h2>TOP GOAL-GETTER</h2><p><b>Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens leads all NHL goal scorers with a total of 42 to date.</b></p><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. FEB. 28</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01285/1477410-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="598" height="183"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES PLAYED WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 26th, 1956</h3><p>Tues. Feb. 21st&mdash;Boston 1 at Detroit 4</p><p>Wed. Feb. 22nd&mdash;Toronto 4 at Rangers 2</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 23rd&mdash;Rangers 2 at Cdns 5</p><p>Fri. Feb. 24th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Chicago 1</p><p>Sat. Feb. 25th&mdash;Detroit 1 at Canadiens 5</p><p>Sat. Feb. 25th&mdash;Boston 3 at Toronto 1</p><p>Sun. Feb. 2Gth&mdash;Detroit 2 at Rangers 3</p><p>Sun. Feb. 26th&mdash;Boston 1 at Chicago 4</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES FOR WEEK ENDING MARCH 4TH, 1956</h3><p>Tues. Feb. 28th&mdash;Rangers at Detroit</p><p>Wed. Feb. 29th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Wed. Feb. 29th&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Mar. 1st&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><p>Fri. Mar. 2nd&mdash;Canadiens at Chicago</p><p>Sat. Mar. 3rd&mdash;Chicago at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Mar. 3rd&mdash;Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Mar. 3rd&mdash;Rangers at Boston</p><p>Sun. Mar. 4th&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Mar. 4th&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Sun. Mar. 4th&mdash;Chicago at Rangers</p><h3>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21 Boston 1 at Detroit 4</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Quackenbush, Flaman, Boivin. Laycoe, Armstrong, Heinrich; forwards: Gardner, Peirson, Stasluk, Mackell, Chevre-ner Labine, McKenney, Bonin, Mohns, Toppazzini.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Hillman, Kelly,, Pronovost, Godfrey, Hollingworth. Goldham; forwards: Reibel Howe. Lindsay, Delvecchio. Ferguson, Costello, Dineen, Bucyk, Ullman, Pavellch.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02264/1477403-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="592" height="435"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22Toronto 4 at New York 2</h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Morrison, Bolton, Horton, Beatone; forwards: Smith, Armstrong, Sloan, Stewart, Migay, Harris, Duff, James, Hurst, Hannigan, Balfour, Cullen.</p><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby, Evans, Fontinato; forwards: Conacher, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy, Creighton, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein. Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03218/1477396-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="598" height="465"></div><h3>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 New York 2 at Montreal 5</h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Howell, Fontinato, Irwin, Gadsby, Evans; forwards; Horvath, Hebenton, Gendron, Conacher, Bathgate, Murphf, Creighton, Prentice. Hergesheimer, Popeln, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Bouchard, Turner; forwards: Beliveau. Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Mosdell, Curry, Provost, Marshall, Leclair.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04181/1477389-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="589" height="540"></div><h3>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1956 Detroit 1 at Canadiens 5</h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Kelly, Hillman, Goldham, Pronovost, Godfrey, Hollingworth; forwards: Reibel. Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Pavellch, Prystai, Ferguson. Ullman. Dineen, Castello, Bu-cyk.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defence. Johnson, Talbot. Harvey, Turner, St. Laurent, Bouchard; forwards: Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore. Leclair, Curry, Provost, Mosdell, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05136/1477382-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="592" height="585"></div><h3>Boston 3 at Toronto 1</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Flaman, Quackenbush, Boivin, Heinrich, IL Armstrong; forwards: McKenney, Chevreflls, Labine, Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk, Mohns, Toppazzini, Mackell, Laycoe, Bonin.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Lumley; defense: Bolton. Reaume, Thomson, Morrison; forwards: Sloan, G. Armstrong, Duff, Migay, Stewart, Smith, Harris, Hurst, James, Cullen, Hannigan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06116/1477375-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="597" height="492"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1956 Boston 1 at Chicago 4</h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Quackenbush, Flaman, Armstrong. Heinrich, Boivin; forwards: Chevreflls, McKenney, Labine, Stasiuk, Mackell, Gardner, Laycoe, Bonin, Mohns, Toppazzini, Peirson.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins; defense. Morison, Woll. Stanley, Martin, Pilote; forwards: Watson. Sullivan, Lltzenber-ger. Leswlck, Mlckoskl, Sandford, Skov, Wilson, Lalande, Corcoran, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07106/1477368-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="591" height="459"></div><h3>Detroit 2 at New York 3</h3><p><b>Detroit&mdash;</b>Goal: Hall: defense: Gold-ham Pronovost, Kelly, Godfrey, Hillman. Hollingworth; forwards: Lindsay, Reibel. Howe, Delvecchio. Pavellch, Prystai. Ferguson, Ullman, Dineen, Costello. Bucyk.</p><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Irwin, Howell, Gadsby. Evans, Fontinato; forwards: Conacher, Bathgate, Gendron, Horvath, Hebenton, Murphy. Creighton. Prentice, Hergesheimer, Popein, Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0897/1477361-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="582" height="483"></div><h2>Running&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1238/1477354-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="560" height="816"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;One-Two</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1329/1477347-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="584" height="1160"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption></div><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><p>(Includes Games of Sunday Feb. 26)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0995/1477340-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="594" height="3677"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1955-1956</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1083/1477333-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="612" height="736"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTE BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1166/1477326-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="592" height="196"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Except for emergency conditions and the tryouts for amateurs, American Hockey League playing rosters were &ldquo;frozen&rdquo; as of midnight, February 19. From that date, for the remainder of the regularly scheduled season and the playoffs. no AHL team may acquire additional professional players, nor release any, unless through injury or illness, emergency conditions should occur.</p><p>It is considered to be an emergency when a team is below the playing strength of five defensemen, ten forwards and a goaltender. Then an AHL team may obtain replacements from either the Western or Quebec Hockey Leagues. Under no situations may players be obtained from the National Hockey League. Actually, trades between the AHL and the NHL were terminated at midnight of February 12, and the AHL teams were permitted an additional week to secure replacements from the other two professional leagues to make up for any last minute recalls by the NHL from the AHL.</p><p>Amateur players may be given three game tryouts at any time during the regular season or playoffs, and if they prove efficient, may be signed to professional contracts and retained, regardless of playing strength. The only stipulation is that the amateurs must be players who have never played professional hockey before. Reinstated &ldquo;pros&rdquo; are not eligible for tryouts.</p><p>Should a National League team with an affiliate in the AHL fall below the strength of five defensemen, ten forwards and a goaltender, it may obtain replacements by recall from the AHL team. As soon as the emergency which necessitated the recall is over, the players recalled must be returned to their AHL teams. By the same token, if an AHL team recalls a player under emergency from the WHL or QHL, he must be returned as soon as the player who created the emergency is again fit to play in the AHL.</p><p>There is no limit to the number of players any team was permitted to name as eligibles on February 19, for the balance of the regularly scheduled season. However, on March 25, date of the final scheduled game, the four playoff teams must reduce their rosters to 17. exclusive of goaltenders, who shall be eligible to compete in the Calder Cup playoffs. Although extra players may be carried, the actual playing rosters for games, both regular season and playoffs, cannot exceed 14 players, exclusive of goaltenders.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

American Hockey League Playing Rosters Frozen For Balance Of Season

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Howie Lee will return to Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen of the Onta-Hockey Association Senior A League for the rest of the season.</p><p>Tommy O&rsquo;Neill of Toronto, Lee&rsquo;s counsel, said Cleveland Barons have agreed to allow Lee to go back to Dutchmen and finish Out the campaign.</p><p>O&rsquo;Neill&rsquo;s announcement was the first official word that Lee would abide by an OHA ruling that he return to Dutchmen or face a long suspension. The 2 4-year-old defenceman jumped to the American League Barons after Dutchmen returned from the Olympic hockey championships at Cortina d&rsquo; Ampezzo, Italy earlier this month.</p><p>O&rsquo;Neill said Lee will go back to Barons if Dutchmen are eliminated from Allan Cup contention.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lee To Return To Dutchmen

<h2>BUFFALO BISONS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01299/1477555-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="608" height="500"></div><h2>CLEVELAND BARONS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02242/1477548-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="616" height="524"></div><h2>HERSHEY BEARS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03207/1477541-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="612" height="548"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH HORNETS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04160/1477534-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="604" height="500"></div><h2>PROVIDENCE REDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05129/1477527-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="608" height="500"></div><h2>SPRINGFIELD INDIANS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06115/1477520-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="616" height="500"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Eligibility Rosters

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0790/1477586-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK SULLIVAN&hellip;&hellip;Earned The Sweat</b></figcaption></div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>With the American League race well into its final third of the schedule, it is time for those who do the voting to start to make notations on the outstanding candidates for such laurels as Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year, and All-Star team.</p><p>Whether these listings are mental or made via the typewriter route the name of Frank Sullivan, defense, Buffalo, it sure to be prominent when the All-Star team choices are made.</p><p>Steady Frank was on the AHL second All-Star sextet last season, finishing behind Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Frank Mathers and Gord Tottle of Springfield.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no debating Mathers&rsquo; play has been equally as effective this season. Nor is there any doubt that Sullivan&rsquo;s play on the Buffalo backline has been such that he rates right alongside the fellow he once teamed with in the Hornets lineup.</p><p>Consistency is Sullivan&rsquo;s greatest forte. The standard of his play seldom dips from its high plane.</p><p>When &ldquo;Sully has a bad game&mdash;as do all hockey players&mdash;there&rsquo;s no need for Coach Frank Eddolls to do any prodding to get him started again. Sullivan is a tireless worker; one who drives himself just that much harder to make amends the next time the Bisons play.</p><h2>Playing Heady Hockey</h2><p>&ldquo;There is no defenseman in the league right now playing more consistently good hockey than Frank,&rdquo; Eddolls praised. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s lugging the puck out of our end well, doing a good job on the point, and playing heady hockey back on defense.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s also getting more than a fair share of work&mdash;which can be wearing on a player over the long haul.&rdquo;</p><p>In three succession games recently, Sullivan played 38:27, 39:03, and 44:44&mdash;and that is a lot of ice time.</p><p>Eddolls, partially because Sullivan speeds comparatively little time in the penalty box himself, makes good use of the Torontoborn Irishman in killing penalties.</p><p>&ldquo;Frank&rsquo;s speed and ability to carry out of our end makes him extra valuable when he&rsquo;s killing penalties,&rdquo; Eddolls explained. &ldquo;Because he can skate, carry and shoot so well, I thought a couple of times this season of putting him up on right wing But, in the final analysis, I decided he was too valuable on defense.&rdquo;</p><p>All the play that has been coming his way leaves Sullivan unconcerned.</p><p>&ldquo;A player can never get too much ice,&rdquo; he insists. &ldquo;Sure, you&rsquo;re tired when the game is over. But, believe me, it&rsquo;s a lot nicer feeling than leaving the rink after a night of picking up splinters on the end of the bench.&rdquo;</p><h2>Second To Mathers</h2><p>Sullivan&rsquo;s value on the power play can be ascertained by looking at the league statistics. Only the aforementioned Mathers is ahead of Sullivan in the point department for defensemen, having accounted for 46 points to Sullivan&rsquo;s 38.</p><p>A player with a rival American League club who requested his name not to be used as he rooms with a &ldquo;favorite son&rdquo; candidate for the All-Star team summed up Sullivan&rsquo;s play very well.</p><h2>Valuable Bison</h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played against Sullivan for three years now and he&rsquo;s the toughest man in the league to get around, in my opinion.</p><p>&ldquo;He does a good job of riding you out of a play or knocking the puck off your stick into the corner. Then, just when you think he&rsquo;ll try poke-checking you, he steps out at the blueline and hands you a dandy bodycheck. His bodychecks are generally twice as effective because they&rsquo;re unexpected.</p><p>&ldquo;Personally, I&rsquo;d like to see that guy in the National League&mdash;so I can score more often against Buffalo.&rdquo;</p><h2>May Join Hawks</h2><p>Sullivan, an unobstrusive gent of 26 years, figures to be in a Chicago uniform next season as the Black Hawks will undergo an overhaulng of their blueline corps.</p><p>Right now though, Sullivan is looking forward to the American League playoffs and the forth coming birth of the first heir of the branch of the Sullivan clan he personally heads.</p><p>Put on the spot to name his personal selection for the best defenseman Sullivan doesn&rsquo;t hesitate a second.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt. I think Frank Mathers is the best all-around defenseman.&rdquo; He wouldn&rsquo;t have been boasting if he had added, &ldquo;along with Frank Sullivan.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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All-Star Recognition Due Buffalo’s Frank Sullivan

<h2>Red Rearguard</h2><p><b>Defenseman Bill Folk has joined the Providence Reds from the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Hockey League. He will wear jersey number two.</b></p><h2>Nears Record</h2><p><b>Nick Damore, formerly with Hershey and Philadelphia, holds the AHL all-time record for shutouts with 36 to his credit. Providence&rsquo;s Johnny Bower now has 33.</b></p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M. FEB. 28</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01298/1477687-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="604" height="184"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1956 Pittsburgh 7 at Cleveland 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02257/1477680-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="612" height="708"></div><h3>Providence 7 at Buffalo 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03200/1477673-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="604" height="604"></div><h3>FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24 Hershey 2 at Cleveland 6</h3><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;Cleveland Barons, paced by Fred Glover and J.im Farelli with a pair of goals each, defeated Hershey Bears, 6-2, in an American Hockey League game here.</p><p>The Barons, with a pair of gaols in each period, held Hershey scoreless until the third period when Ken Smith scored at the 54-second mark. The other goal was scored by Larry Zeidel.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04154/1477666-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="604" height="732"></div><h3>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 Providence 3 at Springfield 2</h3><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;A third-period goal by Camille Henry gave Providence Rods a 3-2 American Hockey League win over Springfield Indians after the teams split a pair of goals in each of the first two periods.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05126/1477659-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="596" height="368"></div><h3>Buffalo 2 at Cleveland 1</h3><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;A goal late in the third period by Eric Pogue, who was traded to Buffalo Bisons from Cleveland Barons three weeks ago, gave the Bisons a 2-1 American Hockey League win over the Barons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06113/1477652-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="608" height="524"></div><h3>Hershey 3 at Pittsburgh 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07100/1477645-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="604" height="957"></div><h3>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26 Cleveland 7 at Buffalo 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0895/1477638-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="596" height="588"></div><h3>Springfield 3 at Providence 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0989/1477631-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="596" height="900"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1076/1477624-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="616" height="596"></div><h2>LEADERS</h2><p><b>Most Goals:</b></p><p>Camille Henry, Providence, 41</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b></p><p>Zellio ToppazzinI, Providence, 58</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b></p><p>G. Mayer, Pittsburgh 45 119 4 2.64</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b></p><p>G. Mayer, Pittsburgh 4</p><p><b>Most Penalized Player:</b></p><p>Fred Glover, Cleveland 158 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalized Team:</b></p><p>Pittsburgh 1,184 mts.</p><h2>Indians&rsquo; Bid Vetoed By Reds</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1159/1477617-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="1724" height="1584"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GOALER JOHNNY BOWER of the Providence Reds (I) slides out of his cage to make a save with the assistance of Captain Andy Branigan. Doug McMurdy of the Springfield Indians is the player draped over Branigan while other Indians rushing in are Doug Powell (22) and Harry Pidhirny (extreme left).</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL HOOPER</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>When Ray Cyr came to Vancouver last year nobody knew he had been one of the hottest shots in the Quebec Junior Hockey League, and Cyr was not one to tell it around.</p><p>His rookie year was as unobtrusive as he was. Ray knew the Western League was a pressurized habitat but that didn&rsquo;t bother him. Last year was not a particularly good one for Vancouver Canucks, nor for Cyr. Canucks riffled through 37 players to reach the playoffs.</p><p>Raymond Gerald Cyr was there from the beginning and through fluctuating fortunes, he survived the end.</p><p>This year was different. He was a sophomore now and was expected to do some things.</p><p>What he did last year was to score 14 goals and 35 points despite an environment that was not conductive to good hockey. Cyr is as sensitive as he is slender. There was something distracting about an arrangement in which his wingmen of one day might be performing with the Podunk Panthers the next.</p><h2>PRESSURE LIMITED</h2><p>This year offered Cyr&rsquo;s kind of situations. Canucks started resolutely and the working staff took on a tinge of permanence. Pressure was limited because Canucks, until Victoria&rsquo;s recent surge, were masters of their own destiny.</p><p>Cyr, a sophomore centre who was left alone, scored 29 goals in his first 52 games.</p><p>Game No. 53 was against Victoria. In the first period Cyr was strategically ground into the boards. He doesn&rsquo;t remember it. He was carried off with concussion.</p><h2>Not Tired</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01296/1477718-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="500" height="840"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY CYR</b></figcaption></div><p>By now Cyr will be back, helping Canucks gird for assault on the Edinburgh Trophy.</p><h2>&ldquo;COMING OF AGE&rdquo;</h2><p>In Vancouver and precincts they talk constantly of &ldquo;the coming of age of Ray Cyr.&rdquo; They speak in appropriate awe, as though they were privileged to witness an authentic miracle for the price of their press seats.</p><p>Cyr himself says little. There were those last year who viewed him for what he was: a popentially fine centre schooled in the fundamentals of skating and shooting and perhaps more important, play-making.</p><p>Some of it he learned in the unlikely milieu of Campbellton, N.B. Most of it developed gracefully in the Quebec Junior League. Professional experience took it from there.</p><h2>GAINED CONFIDENCE</h2><p>If experience gave Cyr any one thing, it was confidence. He is not naturally aggressive, which may be fortunate&mdash;his 160 pounds are all he has for 5-feet-10. But he has the skills and he has the drive, and this year he had the chance to show them.</p><p>At 22 he takes the future with him on each shift. He declines to talk much about it. At 2 2 he lives for the game at hand. He speaks, when he speaks at all, quickly, as though to get it over with.</p><p>&ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;ve improved,&rdquo; he says self-effacingly. &ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s just that last year I got tired. This year I haven&rsquo;t got tired yet.&rdquo;</p><p>If he does get tired yet, it will be hard to know. You won&rsquo;t see it from the stands, and he won&rsquo;t tell it around.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Forward Ray Cyr Producing For WHL Vancouver Canucks

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Calgary Stampeders of the Western Hockey League are the only team in professional hockey who have yet to play a tie game this season.</p><p>To date they have played 58 games.</p><p>The Cowboys have participated in a total of seven overtime games, and, although they lead the WHL&rsquo;s Prairie Division, have won only two of these extra-session encounters.</p><p>During the week just past, the Stamps increased their margin over the second place Winnipeg Warriors to three points. They now have 66 points as compared to the Warriors&rsquo; 63. Edmonton is in third place, one point back of the Warriors.</p><h2>Canucks Lead</h2><p>Vancouver Canucks continue to lead the Coast Division with 65. just a single point more than the second-place Victoria Cougars. Seattle Americans are in third spot with 54 points but the fourth place New Westminster Royals, two points behind, have three games in hand.</p><p>Four overtime games were played last week with the Edmonton Flyers winning coth tilts in which they participated by identical 3-2 scores over Calgary and New Westminster.</p><p>Brandon also took part in two overtime tilts, tying Vancouver, 3-3, and Victoria, 4-4.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Stampeders Yet To Play Tie Contest

<div class="byline">by VINCE LEAH</div><p>(As Seen in the Winnipeg Tribune)</p><p>James Donald Raleigh, who must rate with Johnny McCreedy, Alf Pike and Terry Sawchuk when you talk about East Kildonan lads who made hockey&rsquo;s big time, returned to Winnipeg in a competitive role recently. Don lined up in the livery of Saskatoon Quakers as they battled the high-flying Warriors at the Arena and his presence alone coaxed a few of his old friends who remember his exploits as a kid, into the rink.</p><p>Saskatoon is a far cry from Manhattan and people are asking questions why Donald was sent down. Perhaps the best answer is that he is too frail for the sock-em style now played by New York Rangers who have abandoned the lily-white tactics for an exchange of elbows and solid banging.</p><p>Don is only 29 and should have a few useful years left in pro hockey. He would like to coach if he received the opportunity and it was whispered that he would have that job at Saskatoon. It also was whispered that Phil Watson would order him back to New York for the Stanley Cup playoffs in due time.</p><p>In all of our 28 years mucking around in kid hockey, Donald is our all-time centre ice man We&rsquo;ve told the story before how be almost never made it in the first place. His record speaks for itself. He was one of the youngest players ever to make the NHL in the war years when 4-F&rsquo;s andscamps hardly out of juvenile had to fill the holes. He was doing fine, too, until he ran into a high stick and wound up with a smashed jaw and a spot in the Metropolitan League with Brooklyn Crescents. That season was 1943-44&hellip;he helped us win the provincial midget crown in 1942 and had a very brief stay with Monarchs as a 16-year-old.</p><h2>Opened The Door</h2><p>The late Squib Walker watched him play his first game with Monarchs and rushed to a telephone to congratulate us. Shucks, all we ever did was open the door to the player&rsquo;s bench for him. He returned to Winnipeg the following season and in 1946 almost eliminated Monarchs&rsquo; Memorial Cup club single-handed while performing with Brandon Wheat Kings. He was with the Army Grenades for a spell in the Services league and rejoined Rangers in 19 47. In nine seasons with Rangers he scored 100 goals and had 207 assists for 307 points in 506 appearances. In 1950 he was awarded the Macbeth Trophy and the West Side Trophy in 1951 which are Rangers special awards for outstanding play. He led Rangers in scoring during those seasons. The season 1951-52 was his top season with 19 goals and 42 assists in the full schedule.</p><p>Don, until he was shunted to Saskatoon, was dean of the New York club both in age and point of service. His life-time NHL total is the sixth highest in the club records, trailing behind such luminaries as Frank Boucher, Bill Cook, Bryan Hextail, Phil Watson and Lynn Patrick. In assists he ranks third behind Boucher and Watson. A man of diverse interests with the accent on music and history, he is something of an authority on the American Civil War.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03187/1477773-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="304" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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From the Sidelines

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HOCKEY FANS

<h2>Penalties</h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>Y</span>alere Fonteyne of Seattle and Lucien Dechene of Brandon continue to escape the referee&rsquo;s finger. Neither have a penalty to date. Bud Syverson, Calgary rookie defenceman, leads the panlized players with 144 minutes in the cooler.</b></p><h2>Rookies</h2><p><b>Barry Cullen of Winnipeg moved well out in front in &lsquo;rookie&rsquo; scoring race with 56 points on 30 goals and 26 assists. Dave Duke of Calgary and Billy McNeill of Edmonton follow with 50 points.</b></p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>STANDING ON MONDAY AM. FEB. 20 COAST DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01301/1477968-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="608" height="144"></div><h3>PRAIRIE DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02261/1477961-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="608" height="164"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Monday February 13th</b></p><p>New West. 1 at Brandon 0</p><p><b>Tuesday February 14th</b></p><p>Brandon 3 at Vancouver 3 OT</p><p>Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 5</p><p><b>Wednesday February 15th</b></p><p>Victoria 7 at Seattle 1</p><p>Brandon 3 at New West. 4</p><p>Calgary 2 at Edmonton 3 OT</p><p><b>Friday February 17th</b></p><p>Brandon 4 at Victoria 4 OT</p><p>Seattle 4 at Vancouver 2</p><p>New West. 1 at Calgary 5</p><p>Saskatoon 7 at Winnipeg 5</p><p><b>Saturday February 18th</b></p><p>Brandon 4 at Seattle 3</p><p>Now West. 2 at Edmonton 3 OT</p><p>Winnipeg 1 at Saskatoon 2</p><p>Played in Nanaimo, B. C.</p><h3>MONDAY. FEBRUARY 13 New Westminster 1 at Brandon 0</h3><p><b>New Westminster</b>&mdash;Goal: Bentley; defence: Creighton. Bergeron, Tarala, Matthews, Roggeveen: forwards: McNab, Adam, McLean, Dawes, Love, Goodwin, Schmautz, Fashoway. Boyce.</p><p><b>Brandon</b>&mdash;Goal:Dechene; defences: Allen, Hay, Bucyk, Maxwell; forwards: Senick, Manson, Kyle, Chorley, Johnson, D. Bentley, Cowan, Wilkie, Melanchuk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03233/1477954-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="584" height="254"></div><h3>TUSESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Brandon. 3 at Vaucoiiver 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04206/1477947-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="600" height="620"></div><h3>Calgary 3 al Saskatoon 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05176/1477940-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="600" height="640"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Victoria 7 at Seattle 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06147/1477933-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="594" height="494"></div><h3>Brandon 3 at New Westminster 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07136/1477926-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="589" height="537"></div><h3>Calgary 2 at Edmonton 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08128/1477919-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="594" height="474"></div><h3>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Brandon 4 at Victoria 4</h3><p><b>Brandon</b>&mdash;Goal: Dechene; defences: Allen, Hay, Bucyk, Maxwell; forwards: Senick, Kyle, Manson, Bentley, Cowan, Wilkie, Chorley.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>&mdash;Goal: Pelletier; defences: Whitney, Dobbyn, Bulloch, Davidson; forwards: Olson, Teal, Robertson. Anderson. Carmichael, Brown, Kilburn, Macauley, Wonoski, Chiupka.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09122/1477912-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="596" height="642"></div><h3>Seattle 4 at Vancouver 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10117/1477905-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="598" height="524"></div><h3>New Westminster 1 at Calgary 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11101/1477898-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="600" height="520"></div><h3>Saskatoon 7 at Winnipeg 5</h3><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: Francis; defences: Houghton. Chrystal. Folk. Yanosik; forwards: Kobussen, Raleigh, Gordichuk, Haley. McLeod, Lynn, Colwell, Ingarfield. Lamottrehx. McCreary.</p><p><b>Winnipeg</b>&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defences: Shero, KeatIng. Summers Burega; forwards: Nesterenko, Nykoluk, Mazur, yldcorn. Masnick, Barlow, Burchell, Cullen, Mosienko. Hoekstra.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1288/1477891-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="592" height="780"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Brandon 4 at Seattle 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1369/1477884-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="602" height="492"></div><h3>New Westminster 2 at Edmonton 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1462/1477877-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="602" height="424"></div><h3>Winnipeg 1 at Saskatoon 2</h3><p><b>Winnipeg</b>&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defence, Shepo, Keating, Summers, Burega; forwards: Nykoluk, Aidcorn, Burchell, Mazur, Masnick. Nesterenko, Cullen, Barlow, Mozienko, Hoekstra. &bull;</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b>&mdash;Goal: Francis: defence: Houghton, Chrystal, Lynn, Yanosik; forwards: Raleigh, McLeod. McCreary, Gordichuk, Baley, Kobussen, Ingarfield, La-roureux, Col will.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Blair Peters; linesman: Porky Hulme.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1552/1477870-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="604" height="410"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p>(Includes Gaines of Satuday Feb. 18)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1630/1477863-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="599" height="1881"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1721/1477856-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="606" height="375"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b></p><p>Gordie Fashoway, N.W., 38.</p><p><b>Most Assists.</b></p><p>Bobby Love, N.W., 50.</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals</b></p><p>Sid Finney, Cal., 9.</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game</b></p><p>Colin Kilburn, Vie., 9.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks</b></p><p>Jackie McLeod, Sas., 3.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b></p><p>Marc. Pelletier, Vic. 7.</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored When Opposition Short handed</b></p><p>Brian Cullen, Wpg., 9.</p><p><b>Most Goals Scored Against While Serving Penalties</b></p><p>Rod Hay, Bran., and Bill Burega. Wpg., 8.</p><p><b>Most Minutes in Penalties</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1818/1477849-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="534" height="80"></div><p><b>Fewest Minutes in Penalties NAME</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1916/1477842-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="589" height="106"></div><h2>Ties Record</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-208/1477835-1-eng-US/f0013-202.jpg" title="f0013-20" width="1168" height="1456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRED HUCUL, Calgary defenceman, scored his I9th goal of the season last week to fie the record of most goals scored by a defenceman in one season. Pete Durham, while playing for Victoria last season, set the record.</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 Montreat Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01302/1477999-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="308" height="324"></div><p>QUEBEC&mdash;NEWS WITH ACES&rsquo; general-manager Punch Imlach is good and bad, or maybe we should reverse the English.</p><p>Toughest tidings he felt he had to report was the unexpected departure of Orval Tessier, the top goal-getter in the Quebec League last season who was drafted by the NHL Boston Bruins between hockey seasons.</p><p>Tessier came to the Quebec club on option after Lynn Patrick and Milt Schmidt in Boston decided the former sharp-shooter of the Montreal Royals wasn&rsquo;t quite ready for big time.</p><p>A very despondent Tessier told Imlach he was through for the season, about a week ago. It&rsquo;s a very unusual case. &ldquo;Tess&rdquo; didn&rsquo;t go away in a huff, dissatisfied with salary conditions or any other blame attached to the Quebec club. He said he simply didn&rsquo;t feel up to playing any more.</p><p>His sojourn in Quebec this winter has been very unhappy. In the first place he had a slight waist line bulge and never could get into what he considered good playing condition. With a new automobile he had nothing but bad luck. The car was smashed three times when he wasn&rsquo;t sitting in it. Twice the wagon was biffed while parked in front of his house. The second such smash knocked one side of the vehicle into a crumpet, swung it against the house and considerably mauled the other side. The third mishap to the charabanc occurred when Tessier was in Montreal and it was loaned to a team mate, who was bumped while standing still at a traffic light in Qu&eacute;bec.</p><p>His personal troubles affected Tessier&rsquo;s play and a poor performance drew him much caustic criticism from newspaper scribes and radio spielers. On television he was slammed too, to make it unanimous.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether you would call it a nervous breakdown,&rdquo; Imlach says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s something in that line. I&rsquo;ve explained the case to our club doctor and he suggests that perhaps Tessier needs a long rest.&rdquo;</p><p>Imlach believes the young leftwinger, who came out of Cornwall, Ont., with a cannonball drive, went either to Ste. Adele or Saranac Lake for a rest. The Quebec Aces GM expects to hear from hirn in a day or so, but he is not going to urge Tessier to return to hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll look around for a senior amateur to replace him,&rdquo; says Imlach. &ldquo;Under the league rules I can&rsquo;t bring in a player of equal or higher classification this late in the season.&rdquo;</p><p>While he&rsquo;s in a bad way for forwards, Imlach has been fortunate in bolstering his back division recently. He obtained Eddie Macqueen, a scrappy 21-year-old rearguard from Cleveland.</p><p>Weighing 165 pounds, 5&rsquo;9&rdquo;, this Glace Bay, N.S., athlete played last year with Barry Juniors.</p><p>From Eddie Shore the Aces purchased Brent MacNab, 25-year-old defenseman born in Vermillion, Alta. MacNab was known to Quebec League fans when he played for Chicoutimi Sagueneens last season. Of squat build he tips the scales at 180 pounds. The Trois-Rivieres Lions tried to buy MacNab from Shore and Springfield Indians early this season. Imlach says $6,000 was offered.</p><p>Imlach will deliver to Shore, sprightly young forward, Gilles Thibault, now with Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; Lions, next fall at training camp. Shore also has an option on a young Quebec player not named.<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/f0014-02230/1478030-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERWIN GROSSE</b></figcaption></div><p>SHAWINIGAN FALLS, Que&mdash;</p><p>As the roaring Cataracts were counting the days to the zero hour when they&rsquo;ll clinch their second straight Quebec Hockey League flag, their opponents were gathering resources for a second shot at the champs.</p><p>Wishful thinking in Chicoutimi, Quebec and Montreal develops notions that perhaps these Cataracts can be taken in the playoffs for the Thomas O&rsquo;Connell Memorial Trophy.</p><p>First rounds are slated between the first and third; second and fourth teams respectively, on a four-in-seven basis this time, as previously announced in The Hockey News.</p><p>Royals still had an outside chance&mdash;very outside, that is&mdash;of overhauling the Cats as the schedule whirled into its final three weeks. Elmer Lach&rsquo;s Montreal larrigans were 10 points back of the Cats and each team had eight games left to play.</p><p>Thus it&rsquo;s easily seen that Royals will have to have an outbreak of wins of epidemic proportions, while the Cataracts go into a mass swoon to alter the present alignment of the two teams by closing day, March 18.</p><h2>Faltered Momentarily</h2><p>Nothing seems to stop the roaring Cataracts. When their ice-general and playing-coach Roger Leger was sidelined at the turn of the year for nearly a month the Shawinigan team faltered momentarily. Soon it picked up momentum and went driving pennantward again.</p><p>There was another misadventure last week which some thought might rock them. Their best leftwinger, Ernie Grosse tumbled over Bingo Ernst of Quebec Aces, and came up with torn knee tendons.</p><p>He&rsquo;ll be sidelined a month to six weeks, which means that Grose might get into action in the finals if the Cats come through the first round of the league playoffs; or in the Edinburgh Cup playoffs, this year to be played in Western Canada. This latter supposition of course is contingent on Cats clawing their way through all opposition.</p><p>To a man the Shawinigan players have set their hearts on this trip to the Prairies or the West Coast.</p><p>Cats were nosed out in that joust with Aces the day Grosse became a casualty, but they came right back next outing to nose out the Chicoutimi Sagueneens 3-2, and chase all gloom and foreboding harboured by their faithful supporters.</p><p>Coach Roger Leger moved Dick Wray, the Irish redhead to left wing on the line centered by Gilles Dube, with Johnny Denis at rightwing.</p><h2>Close Race</h2><p>Dube picked up two assists in this game to keep two notches in front of Jimmy Moore, who scored both the Sags&rsquo; tallies, in the league&rsquo;s point race.</p><p>With Denis, Gerry Desauliners and George Faulkner bagging the tallies, the Shawinigan shock troops made it hot for Marcel Faille with 31 shots while their own twine-tender, Bob Perreault, had things very cozy with only 15 drives to handle.</p><p>General-manager Kenny Reardon said he had no idea of seeking a replacement for Grosse.</p><p>&ldquo;If I had such a notion, where do you think I&rsquo;d get a good leftwinger of Grosse&rsquo;s calibre&rdquo; Reardon said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s just none to be had&rdquo;.</p><p>Now 25-years-old Grosse, who hails from Melville, Sask, held fourth place in the 1955-56 scoring list at the time of his mishap. He had scored 21 goals, 41 assists&mdash;62 points and looked to be well on the way to better his previous top season in the Quebec circuit. In the QSHL 1952-53 campaign he collected 24 goals, 38 assists&mdash;52 points in 60 games.</p><h2>Bettered Mark</h2><p>He had already bettered his 1954-55 marks of 21-19-40 in 57 games with Cataracts.</p><p>It is granted by some of the experts in the province that the team which has the best prospect of upsetting Cataracts is the Montreal Royals though this is not made unanimous by votes in Chicoutimi and Quebec City.</p><p>Elmer Lach has the horses if they&rsquo;ll all run Tight and up to their form at the proper time. His line of Andre Corriveau, Kelly Burnett and Baldy MacKay showed just how well it can produce when Royals handed the Aces a 6-1 shellacking last Sunday.</p><p>Corriveau bagged two goals, helped in a couple more. Kelly Burnett scored once, had two assists, MacKay helped in a couple of tallies. The line figured in four of the six goals.</p><h2>Upset By Aces</h2><p>This was a fine return to form. For three days earlier in Quebec Royals were upset by the Aces, 4-2.</p><p>Gerry MacNeil is playing in great style in goals. The line of Barry Thorndycraft, Phil Goyette and Lulu Denis, has become a task force of high repute and Lach is now getting a lot of mileage out of Guy Rousseau, Ray LaPlante and Denis Boucher. He calls this a checking-line, and the boys are obedient to orders when sent out on such an assignment.</p><p>Jacques Deslauriers, Ron Ingram, Wally Clune, Bud Macpherson and Rollie Rousseau are five rearguards who know all the didoes of defensive play. All save Ingram are experienced pros, and Ingram has zoomed as a first year find.</p><p>The big trouble is that this is a hot and cold team. It looks like a world-beater one outing, plays in canal style on the very next date.</p><p>Critics of the Royals belittle the outfit as a team by extravagant praise handed to Gerry McNeil. &ldquo;Without McNeil those Royals would be nowhere&rdquo; is a statement frequently repeated. Which doesn&rsquo;t say very much for the rest of them.</p><p>Still Andre Corriveau is in a fair way to scoring 40 goals this season. He had 35 after last Sunday&rsquo;s game and there were eight games left for him to pick up another five. Burnett, too, won&rsquo;t be far down in the scoring list while Lulu Denis, Ray Laplante and Phil Goyette keep coming up with valuable contributions.</p><h2>Might Make It</h2><p>Royals might make it, but they&rsquo;ll have to topple the Quebec Aces first. The Aces&rsquo; lost a trump card when Joe Crozier fractured his leg early in the moneh. Crozier gets many a call for All Star defense nomination.</p><p>Yours truly asked Elmer Lach to name the two best rearguards in the QHL the other day. Without hesitation Lach said; &ldquo;Crozier and our own boy Deslauriers would be my choices.&rdquo;</p><p>Chicoutimi Sagueneens have shown a lot of hustle for coach Gerry Plamondon. If the Sags wind up third which appears their destiny, they&rsquo;ll be squaring off with the Shawinigan outfit in the first set.</p><p>The good goal-keeping of Marcel Faille might carry them through if Jimmy Moore and ehe Smrke boys, Stan and Lou can bag a few tallies early enough in the games.</p><p>Fern Perreault, Greg Hicks and Del Topoll and Jacques Locas get their names on the score sheets often enough to attract notice and big Gerry Glaude is the high scoring defenseman in the league.</p><p>Many a forward envies this big guy&rsquo;s explosive slapshot. The Sags are likely to cause the Cataracts more than a little trouble.</p><p>DEEP FREEZE&mdash;Larry Regan, who played for Aces for a couple of seasons, called on his old boss, Punch Imlach last Sunday in Montreal. Regan may be signed by the Quebecers for insurance in the event. Orval Tessier doesn&rsquo;t make a satisfactory comeback&hellip;Royals were down rock bottom with five defensemen and nine forwards as the playoffs approached. Eddie Pala-mar, who was slated for the Trois Rivieres Lions some weeks ago, but was help up, reported last week&hellip;Leo Gravelle, old smoothie of the right aisle, who packed in with Royals last month, visited his old mates the other day. he says he has 241 licenses in his Upper Ottawa Valley territory where Le&rsquo;s selling beer&hellip;</p><p>George Gravel, QHL referee-in-chief has revealed a compassion for club trainers. When a 10-minute misconduct penalty was tagged on Quebec Aces&rsquo; bandaid king, Ralph McNaughton, recently, because McNaughton was out of order with sideline comment, Gravel rescinded the penalty after the game&hellip;and a week earlier Gravel erased a similar penalty from the records which had been imposed on Royals Andy Galley&hellip;Jimmy Haggarty, put Galley on the report for running on the ice at Chicoutimi&hellip;It was explained that Galley was only out there to recover Royals&rsquo; sticks and gauntlets which had been thrown on the ice during a brawl&hellip;Galley wanted to retrieve the equipment before a gang of youngsters made off with same.</p><h2>Sidelined<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Cataracts Near Second Straight QHL Flag

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<h2>Top Scorer</h2><p><b>Gilles Dube of Shawinigan Falls Cataracts continues to set the pace in the QHL scoring race.</b></p><h2>Big Lead</h2><p><b>Shawinigan Falls Cataracts lead second-place Montreal Royals by ten points in the QHL race.</b></p><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>STANDING ON TUESDAY A.M., FEB. 28</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01273/1478148-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="612" height="164"></div><h3>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21 Quebec 1 at Three Rivers 4</h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defense. Schneider, McNab, Ernst, MacQueen; forwards: Gamble, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Buchanan, Cossette, Vinet.</p><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Bell: defense: Bedard, Amadio. Bouchard, Tennant, MacNeil; forwards: Blaine, Scherza, Ka-pugta, Groleau, Thibault, Gooden, Gagnon, Bissaillon, Haworth.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02238/1478141-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="596" height="444"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22 Three Rivers 3 at Chicoutimi 4</h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Bell; defense: Bedard, Amadio, Bouchard, Tennant, MacNeil; forwards: Blaine, Scherza, Ka-pusta, Groleau, Thibault, Haworth, Gagnon, Bisaillon, Lalonde.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille; defense: Roy, Taillefer, Labrosse, Hanna; forwards: L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Moore, Loras, Topol1, Maxwell, Hicks, Perreault, Cressman, Campeau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03215/1478134-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="604" height="688"></div><h3>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Montreal 2 at Quebec 4</h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defence: Clune, Ingra-m, MacPherson, Deslauriers, R. Rousseau; forwards: Thorndycraft, Goyette, Denis, Corriveau, Boucher, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Mackay, Laplante.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defence; MacQueen, McNab, Ernst, Schendier, Zenfuk; forwards: Gamble, Tremblay, Buchanan, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Achtymichuk, Cossette.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04168/1478127-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="588" height="528"></div><h3>First Period Chicoutimi 1 at Three Rivers 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05135/1478120-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="577" height="630"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1956 Quebec 1 at Royals G</h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Evans; defence: MacQueen, Ernst, Zeniuk, MacNab; forwards: Gamble, Powell, Ford, Poliziani, Labadie, Tremblay, Achtymichuk, Buchanan, Cossette, Vinet.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defence: R. Rousseau, Ingram, Deslauriers, Clune MacPherson; forwards: Corriveau, Thorndycraft, Goyette, Boucher, G. Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, MacKay, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06117/1478113-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="577" height="670"></div><h3>Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan Falls 3</h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Paille; defence: Taillefer, Roy, Labrosse, Hanna, Pla-ipondon; forwards: S. Cmrke, L. Smrke, Cressman, Locas, Perreault, Maxwell, Topoll, Campeau, Hicks, Moore.</p><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defence: Leger, Hodgson, Lamlrande, Langlois, Roche; forwards: Desaulniers, Wray, Bouchard, Kachur, Thomson, Denis, Broden, Faulkner, Dube.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07108/1478106-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="582" height="492"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><p><b>(Includes Games of Sunday, Feb. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0897/1478099-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="595" height="1017"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0991/1478092-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="604" height="810"></div><h2>A Swing And A Miss</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1078/1478085-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="1704" height="1420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL HARRINGTON of the Quebec Aces takes a swipe at the puck and misses as he attempts to clear a shot by a member of the Montreal Royals. Rushing to the goaler&rsquo;s assistance are Tony Schneider (left) and Bingo Ernst, Aces&rsquo; defensemen. Harrington recently joined the Aces from the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p><b>By picking up four points on Sunday, February 26, against the Quebec Aces, Andre (Whizzer) Corriveau of the Montreal Royals moved to within three points of the lead in the QHL individual scoring derby.</b></p><p><b>Gilles Dube of the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts is currently setting the pace with 75 points, made up of 31 goals and 44 assists.</b></p><p><b>Next in line, two points back, is Jimmy Moore of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, with 28 goals and 45 assists for 73 points.</b></p><p><b>Corriveau has now scored a total of 35 goals, which, coupled with his 37 assists, gives him a mark of 72 points.</b></p><p><b>In addition, The Whizzer&rsquo;s two goals against the Aces moved him to within five of the charmed 300-Goal Chib in the Quebec Hockey League. This total does not include playoff games.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Andre Corriveau Runs Coals Total To 295

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<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>TARS GET IN YOUR EYES</b>&hellip;every season about this time attention focusses on the All-Star teams and individual award winners for Northern Ontario senior hockey&hellip;the fight for the Dream Teams was tougher this year than ever before&hellip;the sportswriters and sportscasters throughout the North settled down to cast ballots for the First and Second All-Star teams, Most Sportsmanlike Player, Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player&hellip;when the smoke of battle had cleared, here&rsquo;s what we came up with: Johnny Albani, former star with the Memorial Cup winners last season, in goal with 28 votes out of a possible 30&hellip;this was the greatest number of points polled by any player&hellip;Johnny also won the Rookie of the Year award with 26 votes to make something of a clean sweep&hellip;on top of that he had the most shutouts with seven to set a new season mark&hellip;on defense, Matt Mesich of the Soo Greyhounds returned to the First All-Star Team with 18 votes, while Fiori Goegan of North Bay Trappers made it with a fine 25-vote effort&hellip;Albani, by the way, performs for the league-champion Sudbury Wolves.</p><p><b>BIG FIGHT FOR CENTRE</b>&hellip;there was quite a fight for the centre position on the Number One Team&hellip;Bert Giesebrecht, who ran away with scoring honors, emerged the winner to give Pembroke Lumber Kings a big plum&hellip;FIORI GOEGAN Bert Polled 17 votes to beat out his brother Bruce, who ended up with 11&hellip;to flank Bert the men who voted gave him Don Hogan of North Bay with 2 4 votes and young Donnie McLean of the Soo Greyhounds with 15&hellip;that&rsquo;s the Dream Team of Northern Ontario senior hockey for 1955-56&hellip;and to complete the picture, Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty goes in as coach&hellip;he was not re-hired by the Soo Greyhounds and Sudbury picked him up&hellip;he went on to lead Sudbury to the league crown and cinched the Coach of the Year award&hellip;Mesich was the only player to repeat on the top team from last season and this makes it four in a row on the Top Team for Matt&hellip;O&rsquo;Flaherty made it as coach for the third straight time because he has won the league crown that many times.</p><p><b>SECOND TEAM ALSO SOLID</b>&hellip;the way the voting went and considering how tough the fight was it is no disgrace to be a member of the Second All-Star Team, that&rsquo;s for sure!!!&hellip;on this team we have Al Millar of the Soo Indians in goal with Lennie Speck of Sudbury and Playing Coach Eddie Reigle of North Bay on defense&hellip;at centre, we find Bruce Giesebrecht of Pembroke and on the wings we have Johnny Bailey of Pembroke and Cleland Mortson of the Soo Greyhounds&hellip;Reigle beat out fellows like Pete Backor of the Indians, Sugar Jim Henry of the Greyhounds and Cully Simon of Pem-broke for Coach of the Second All-Star Team&hellip;the Third All-Star Team looks like this: Goal, Lornie Anderson, North Bay; defense, Carl Smelle of Sudbury, and Dale Anderson of Soo Indians; centre, Eddie Joss of Soo Indians; wings, Armand Lemieux of Sudbury, and Jack Giesebrecht of Pembroke; Coach, Sugar Jim Henry.</p><p><b>GORDIE HEALE A TOP STAR</b>&hellip;one of the finest men in senior hockey today is Gordie Heale&hellip;he has set a wonderful example to the youth with his clean play and inspirational qualities&hellip;he has coached youngsters all season besides playing an Important part in leading the Indians to the playoffs&hellip;for this he was awarded the prize of being the Most Sports man like Player best combining efficient play in the entire circuit&hellip;Gordie polled 17 votes to beat out Rene Pepin of North Bay who received nine&hellip;Johnny Gillis of Sudbury was second to Albani for the Rookie of the Year, getting 13 votes&hellip;Mesich and Albani tangled in a rugged two-way fight for the Most Valuable Player award, Mesich getting 11 and Albani breathing right down his neck with 10&hellip;they are two wonderful performers and Albani deserves a great deal of credit for giving the veteran and popular Matt such a close fight for the major award right in his first year in senior company.</p><p><b>A PRO PROSPECT?</b>&hellip;Young Donnie McLean, former star with St. Catharines Teepees when they won the Memorial Cup two seasons ago, is being touted as a sure-fire AHL prospect&hellip;during the regular season with the Soo Greyhounds he has attracted considerable attention from scouts and most observors now feel he would be a hit in the AHL&hellip;they point to the fact that Eddie Chadwick was an instant hit once he got his chance with Toronto, Maple Leafs and they predict that McLean has all the qualities to do the same within the AHL orbit&hellip;Popular Hub Beaudry is out for the season and his loss will be felt by the Sudbury Wolves in the rugged playoff battle&hellip;an ankle injury proved his downfall&hellip;I have always maintained that Hub is one of the most underrated senior performers in the business&hellip;by the way, here&rsquo;s another of the really sharp dressers in the circuit&hellip;looks like a movie star in street clothes&hellip;tough luck about the injury, Hub!!!&hellip;Talking about scoring stars, how this about Gil St. Pierre of Timmins-Schumacher Flyers who fired 47 goals and received credit for 33 assists to win the crown in the Porcupines Mines Senior Hockey League&hellip;and he did this over a tight 30-game schedule&hellip;Gil formerly played with Dallas of the now defunct USHL and with San Diego of the PCHL&hellip;he was second to Jerry YaBelle in the scoring derby last season&hellip;Doug Towers, former member of the Soo Greyhounds, placed second this season to St. Pierre with a neat total of 78 points&hellip;Doug is captain of the strong Abitibi Eskimos&hellip;so, it&rsquo;s hats off to Gil and Doug for a mighty fine season!</p><p><b>JUNIORS BEAT SENIORS!</b>&hellip;Montreal Canadiens (junior variety) clipped Sudbury Wolves of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop, 4-2, in an exhibition game in Sudbury which was witnessed by a large crowd&hellip;it was the 57th exhibition victory for the red hot Canadiens&hellip;all told, Montreal has played 71 exhibition games, losing seven and tying seven for a remarkable record&hellip;Abitibi Eskimos won the first game of their semi-final against Kapuskasing Beavers, 8-1, with Moe Chevrefils and Syl Ethier each scoring two goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01267/1478227-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="574" height="894"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FIORI GOEGAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;CHICK&#x201D; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Kitchener Dutchmen, who clinched first place in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA standing by blanking Stratford Indians 50, may be without the services of their veteran defenceman, Howie Lee, who signed a pro contract with the Cleveland Barons the day after the Dutchmen returned from their ill-fated trip to the Olympic tournament at Cortina, Italy, and played for the Barons the same night. As insurance, Ernie Goman, Kitchener business manager, has signed the former NHL rearguard, Clare Martin, who will probably rejoin his old Allan Cup teammates when the playoffs start.</p><p>There have been plenty of ructions since Lee played for Cleveland, Feb. 11, and scored two goals, because the Kitchener club contends Jim Hendy, Cleveland general manager, violated an NHL-CAHA agreement by signing Lee after the Nov. 15th deadline. The Dutchmen have requested Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL, to rule Lee ineligible for pro hockey and that he be returned to the Dutchmen. Campbell and George Dudley, secretary manager of the CAHA, are quoted as saying they disagree with Hendy&rsquo;s procedure in signing Lee.</p><h2>Released Player</h2><p>On the other hand, Hendy claims that Lee signed a pro contract calling for a $5,000 season&rsquo;s salary, plus bonuses, way back on Oct. 18th. Hendy is further quoted as explaining that after he signed Lee to a pro contract he was approached by. Goman of Kitchener, who pointed out how important it was that the Dutchmen have Lee&rsquo;s services for the Olympic tourney, and he relented due to his loyalty to his native country, Canada, and released Lee when he signed a &ldquo;C&rdquo; Form for Cleveland. Hendy claims he was perfectly within his rights in calling up Lee to the Barons after the Dutchmen returned to Canada, adding that Lee actually was under suspension for deserting the Cleveland Barons&rsquo; spring training camp at St. Thomas, Ont.</p><h2>A Torrid Battle</h2><p>As the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA standing rests right now, Kitchener Dutchmen and Stratford Indians have first and second playoff spots nailed down, while Owen Sound Mercurys hold down third place, two points up on Windsor Bulldogs and three ahead of Chatham Maroons. That leaves a torrid battle in prospect for the fourth and last berth, with only two games left in the schedule, both of them between Kitchener and Chatham. Chatham can land fourth place by defeating Kitchener in one of their two games, and could wind up one point ahead of Owen Sound if they win both games.</p><p>Chatham Maroons, under the driving force of the veteran Murph Chamberlain, looked like a poor bet to make the playoffs a week ago, but in their only two games since they defeated the Indians at Stratford 7-3 and then walloped Windsor 6-1 at Chatham, which shoved them right back in the hunt, thereby making Chamberlain&rsquo;s earlier prediction look good when he said that the Maroons would boot one of the other four teams out of the playoffs, and it could be Windsor.</p><p>Absent for three weeks at the Olympic winter games, Kitchener Dutchmen have encountered almost as tough a time since returning to the OHA, as they have played five games since, winning two of them while losing three.</p><p>Ken Laufman, who proved no ball of fire in the Olympic tournament, led the league in point scoring last season and again this season until recently, when Billy Flick and &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth of Stratford forged ahead of him. However, the former Guelph Biltmore junior, collected three assists in the Dutchmen&rsquo;s last game with the Indians to annex the scoring honors for the second straight year and can increase his two-point margin, since the Dutchmen have two more games to play and the Indians none.</p><h2>Lack Leader</h2><p>Stratford&rsquo;s captain and ace centre, &lsquo;&lsquo;Mickey&rsquo;&rsquo; Roth is still nursing a cracked bone above his right ankle and his absence left the Indians without their leader. The result has been that Stratford dropped decisions to Owen Sound Mercurys and Chatham Maroons, while picking up one win, a 3-2 verdict over Kitchener.</p><p>Owen Sound Mercurys, who could still be pushed out of third place, depending upon how Chatham fares with Kitchener in their two remaining games, won one and lost one, blanking Kitchener in their two remaining games, won one and lost one, blanking Kitchener 5-0 and then absorbing a 6-1 drubbing at Windsor.</p><p>Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA playoffs start Feb. 24, with first and third and second and fourth teams meeting in best-of-seven series. Finals between the two surviving teams will also be a best-of-seven series, and the majority of the hockey fans around the circuit give Kitchener Dutchmen the edge to take it all. There are those, however who figure that the Dutchmen have been playing too much hockey, and their in-and-out performances of late would suggest that perhaps this may be the deciding factor.</p><h2>Request Refused</h2><p>Apparently Coach Bobbie Bauer thinks his Dutchmen have been playing too much hockey, because he appealed to the Mitchener junior &ldquo;A&rdquo;affiliate, Guelph Biltmores, for the loan of a couple of players, notably Ron Murphy, New York Ranger chattel and husky young rearguard for the Bilts. Roy Mason, business manager of the Guelph team, refused the request, pointing out that he would take no chances of injury because the Biltmores are in the thick of the race. Should Guelph fade from the picture and the Dutchmen still be in the running Mason added that he would have no objections to letting Kitchener have his entire team.</p><p>Kitchener called up &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Martin, Jim Olinski and Beryle Klinck from their senior B&rdquo;B&rdquo; affiliate, Elmira Polar Kings, and kept Klinck but sent Martin back, after he had played his allopted three games in higher ranks. It Clare Martin gets back in shape, and there&rsquo;s no good reason why he can&rsquo;t, then Olinski, younger brother of Jerry Olinski, NHL referee, will not likely be pressed into service again.</p><p>In the meantime the Dutchmen have been carrying or with three defencemen, Joe Schertzl, &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Kemp and Klinck, although big Jack McKenzie has been alternating between the front line and the defence in recent games. Jack missed the game in Stratford because he and his charming wife were infanticipating.</p><h2>Sheds Suet</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02214/1478258-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="568" height="882"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CLARE MARTIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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K-W Dutchies Ink Clare Martin To Contract For OHA Playoffs

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>By mutual agreement teams in the Atlantic Coast Senior Hockey League cut four games off the schedule and prepared to plunge into playoff semi-finals. The playoff setup is an ideal one now and the teams didn&rsquo;t care to disarrange it by a possible change in the standings.</p><p>Drawn against the schedule winning Saint John Beavers in Series &ldquo;A&rsquo;&rsquo; will be Fredericton Capitals. For travelling it&rsquo;s ideal; they&rsquo;re close together.</p><p>In Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; it&rsquo;s the same&mdash;runner-up Amherst Ramblers drawn against Moncton Hawks. They&rsquo;re only a few miles apart, too. so travelling expenses can be cut to a minimum. If Moncton had overhauled Fredericton the Caps would have gone against Amherst, and they&rsquo;re at the extreme ends of the league travel-wise.</p><p>Both series will be best-of-nine. The Coast League draws a bye into the Maritime finals and there is lots of time. But no schedule has been drawn for the final; it depends how much time is left when the semis are concluded.</p><p>In both series the teams play almost every night, with a day off now and then. Since the travelling is light it doesn&rsquo;t impose any great hardship on the teams, they&rsquo;re used to play four and five nights each week-have been doing So since mid-October.</p><h2>A Beef From Clubs</h2><p>In sitting down to arrange their playoffs, the Coast League leaders heard a beef from the clubs. Last year they were drawn against Ottawa RCAF Flyers in the first round of the League would like to draw stronger opponents who would attract larger crowds.</p><p>Moncton and Fredericton played an extra game the night after the playoff schedule had been arranged, leaving the teams in a tie for third place. But Caps had more victories and, anyway, they didn&rsquo;t want to disrupt the playoffs for obvious reasons.</p><p>In looking back over the long season (October 20 to February 2.0) the figure filberts noted that Saint John Beavers wound up 16 points or eight full games ahead of the runner-up Amherst Ramblers. The Ramblers, however, scored the most goals&mdash;293 as against 277 for Fredericton&mdash;but the Beavers had the best defensive record&mdash;204 goals against as compared to 228 for Amherst.</p><h2>Two Referees</h2><p>For the semi-finals playoffs the league have installed two referees&mdash;Paul Moreau of Montreal and Laurie Power of Halifax&mdash;and four linesmen&mdash;Sonny MacDonald, Bill Miles, Eugene LeBlanc and Ernie Adams.</p><p>In the finals Moreau and Power will be in charge on the two-referee system.</p><p>Shermie White, who in the 1952-53 season battled Jean Beliveau to the wire for the Quebec Hockey League&rsquo;s scoring championship, finished far ahead of the pack in the season&rsquo;s run.</p><p>White collected 120 points for a new league record. This was 25 points better than the old mark held by Charlottetown&rsquo;s Roy (Buck) Whitlock but 17 points off the old Big Four record of 137 set two years ago by Billy Ford with Halifax Atlantics. Ford is now with Quebec Aces after playing last season with Cleveland Barons.</p><h2>Top Goal Scorer</h2><p>White scored 42 goals and collected 78 assists. He was the league leader in assists and his linemate, young Pierre Brillant, paced the loop in goals with 57.</p><p>Runner-up to White in total points was the third lineman of the Ramblers&rsquo; top line, balding Jackie Schmidt who is also a former star of the Quebec League?</p><p>Here are the leading scorers:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04116/1478334-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="601" height="375"></div><p>Saint John&rsquo;s Jim Shirley, who posted nine shutouts as against four for runner-up Plumber Craig of Fredericton, had the best defensive record&mdash;2.78. Paul Leclerc was 3.88 on the season, Nick Pidsodny 4.02 and Craig 4.77.</p><p>Saint John winger Wally Kull-man led the penalty parade with 245 minutes.</p><h2>Goals Leader</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03157/1478327-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="559" height="1191"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PIERRE BRILLANT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Atlantic Coast Loop Lops Four Games Off Schedule To Get Playoffs Underway

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The magic number is now three.</p><p>As soon as the New Haven Blades win three more games, it will be mathematically impossible for them to be overtaken in the Eastern Hockey League race. The Elm City sextet opened the lead to 18 points over Washington this week and barring a miracle the end should come within the next few days.</p><p>Clinton and Washington are seperated by only two points in a battle for the runnerup slot, (and the easy semi-final play-off) with the Comets holding the advantage in the lost column even though they are in third place. Johnstown also has to be conceded an outside chance for second as the Jets trail the Lions by only five points.</p><p>Eastern League rosters are now frozen and players must compete in a minimum of five league contests in order to be eligible for the play-offs. There will be no emergency replacements allowed (except for goaltenders) for the balance of the campaign.</p><h2>Want Franchise</h2><p>The 9,433 that turned out for Baltimore&rsquo;s farewell appearance in Charlotte, N.C. on Feb. 16th made an overall total of 39,000 for the five tilts played in Dixieland. The city wants on Eastern League franchise next season, but unless transportation problems can be worked out they may be left &ldquo;out of the cold&rdquo;. If Raleigh, N.C. or Richmond, Va. are able to ice a team this problem could be solved.</p><p>Haddenfield. N.J. (near Camden) has put in a bid for a team and seem likely to be accepted along with the New York Rovers. If the new rink in Newark, N.J. is ready, that city also stands a good chance of entering the circuit when the 1956-5 7 season rolls around.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN: The league leaders played six games in seven nights and now have a five day break in the schedule to allow the &ldquo;cripples&rdquo; to rest up&hellip;Defenseman Ron Kapitan and forwards Bill Macpherson and Ron Rohmer have been on the sidelines for the better part of a week and Nick Donaleshun had toretire after one period (Feb. 17th) when he came up with a charley horse&hellip;Dick Pettit joined the team just before the Feb. 15th deadline. The defenseman, who was a member of last years club, had been attending Brown University&hellip;Claude Boileau tallied twice to pace the Blades to a 5-3 win over the Clippers on Feb. 17th&hellip;The previous night they took the measure of the same club, 2-1, on goals by Petit and Yvan Chasle in Charlotte, N.C&hellip;. Chasle is the first member of the team to hit the 10 goal mark&hellip;John Sher-ban saved the Blades from a whitewashing (Feb. 14th) with a 3rd period goal in Philadelphia&hellip;Joe Bucholtz has been playing regularly again due to the injuries to MacPherson and Rohmer.</b></p><p>PHILADELPHIA: Mert McClenaghan scored 4 goals and assisted on another (his first hat trick) to help the Ramblers to an easy 9-3 win over Johnstown, Feb. 17th&hellip;The Ramblers dropped Ben Jones, leaving only Al Fontana from the opening night blueline corps&hellip;Gil MacNeil, 20-year-old forward from Toronto Marlboros, joined the Ramblers this week and scored a goal in each of his first three games&hellip;Ivan Walmsley held the New Haven Blades scoreless until late in the 3rd period as the cellar dwellars to action after a skate cut (during practice) had him shelved for three games&hellip;Joe Maroney received a misconduct penalty Feb. 15th and became the first player to receive the automatic game suspension under the new EHL ruling&hellip;The Ramblers almost made it two wins in as many nights when the Blades came from behind to win in overtime, 5-4, on Feb. 15th&hellip;Nick Rukavina hit the 20 goal circle.</p><p><b>WASHINGTON: The Lions split a pair of 3-1 decissions with Baltimore in Charlotte this past week. They won on Feb. 13th only to have the transplanted Marylanders come back the following night&hellip;Johnstown will help Stan Warecki&rsquo;s boys make their second &ldquo;debut&rdquo; following the Ice Capades into Uline Arena, Feb. 18th&hellip;Joe Formica, Fern Lapointe and Warecki are the clubs three top scorers&hellip;Dave Lucas and Lapointe are strong contenders for All-Star team berths.</b></p><p>BALTIMORE: Clarance &ldquo;Curley&rdquo; Malenchuck, suspended Clipper forward, got a break when the New York Rangers (who own him) had him reinstated and assigned to Brandon of the Western Hockey League&hellip;Goalie Les Binkley was selected the Clippers MVP in the five games at Charlotte and received a color TV set from station WBTV in honor of this. Captain Al O&rsquo;Hearn finished second and was given a portable radio&hellip;Eddie St. Louis has been moved up front on a line with Ralph DeLeo and newcomer Terry Chattington in an effort to give the Clippers more scoring punch. O&rsquo;Hearn scored the Clippers lone tally in the 2-1 loss to New Haven Feb. 16th&hellip;Herb Schiller, Mike DeSilets and Russ Hann scored in a losing cause the following night.</p><p><b>CLINTON: Jack Timmins picked up Bill Kawulia from Indianapolis of the IHL&hellip;He is the 3rd ex-Chief to join the Comets since the start of the campaign&hellip;Arch Burton scored twice to help the Comets down Johnstown 4-3 on Feb. 14th&hellip;Willie Pawchuk picked up a pair of assists in that tilt&hellip;The following night George Steele and Ken Graham scored in a losing cause&hellip;Joe Nolan&rsquo;s back on the track. The loop&rsquo;s badman was jugged twice on Feb. 14th after a relatively quiet stretch and is in no danger of losing the lead in penalties this year.</b></p><p>JOHNSTOWN: Dick Roberge has moved ahead of teammate Don Hall in the race for EHL scoring honors. Roberge&rsquo;s 6th hat trick (Feb. 15th) also gave him the lead in this department. Roberge&rsquo;s 51 goals are the best in the league and should give him a shot at the league record&hellip;Bill Anderson was in the nets when Philadelphia exploded for 9 goals on Feb. 17th&hellip;Buddy McDonald scored two goals on Feb. 15th to up his total to 32&hellip;Hall has 33 to date&hellip;Bill Gallagher&rsquo;s point total is now 48 and he must average better than one a game to set a new record for defensemen&hellip;Alex Zubatiuk is the current Jet Badman with 6 4 minutes&hellip;Ed Rumi&rsquo;s next will be his 30th goal.</p><h2>Loses Lead</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01240/1478365-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="560" height="1396"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON HALL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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New Haven Needs Three Wins To Clinch Top Spot In EHL

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>TROY, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>The red light blinked on as an angular figure skated away from the cage, his stick raised high in the air, and another goal tallied opposite his name.</p><p>Dennis (Ollie) Olson, 21-year-old centre of the Troy Bruins in the International Hockey League, had found the range again as he continued to harass IHL goal-tenders with his unerring marksmanship.</p><p>Troy won&rsquo;t win the International League pennant, which is all but wrapped up by the Cincinnati Mohawks for the fourth straight year as this edition of The Hockey News goes to press.</p><p>But that&rsquo;s no fault of Olson, one of the tallest players in organized hockey at 6-3. Only Jack Stoddard, 6-4 star of several pro clubs, has a height edge on Ollie, according to records.</p><p>Blond Olson, his hair cropped short with a crew cut, is in his second season with the Bruins, and rates as one of the leaders in the IHL&rsquo;s race for individual honors.</p><p>After 50 contests of the 60-game campaign had been completed, Ollie had accumulated 27 goals and 35 assists for 62 points to rate him seventh in the loop.</p><h2>&ldquo;Wasn&rsquo;t Too Good&rdquo;</h2><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t too good last year,&rdquo; Olson admitted, &ldquo;but things have been going a little better for me this year. I&rsquo;d like to make the big time, but I realize that&rsquo;s a tough job.&rdquo;</p><p>The 190-pound Olson, who hails from Kenora, Ontario, is a member of a big family, and has four brothers and a sister. During the off-season he serves as a guide at a tourist camp near Kenora.</p><p>&ldquo;Troy is better this year than it was a year ago,&rdquo; Ollie said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re scoring more goals and Billy Tibbs is just as tough as ever in those nets.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure, we&rsquo;ve had a lot of bad breaks with injuries, such as Bobby Rawlyk&rsquo;s broken leg and Marty McAlendin&rsquo;s broken wrist, but we&rsquo;ll still be tough in those playoffs. Just you wait and see,&rdquo; Olson warned.</p><p>Injuries have never plagued Olson, who&rsquo;s never missed a game since he&rsquo;s been playing hockey, &ldquo;No, I not afraid I&rsquo;ll jinx myself by telling you that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve mentioned that injury stuff several times and nothing has happened, so nothing is likely to happen this time, either.&rdquo;</p><p>Ollie, who now centres a line with tiny Steve Gaber and McAlendin on the wings, played his junior hockey for Port Arthur in the Ontario Junior circuit. He was with that outfit for three years and admits he did &ldquo;pretty well&rdquo; and once got five goals and an assists in a single contest.</p><p><b>ICING THE PUCK&hellip;</b>Cincinnati took a stronghold on first place by coining from behind to nose out Troy, 4-2, before a crowd of 5 776 at Cincinnati Garden. Coach Roly McLenahan, Bill Sutherland, Max Mekilok and Capt. Billy Goold got the Hawk goals and Olson and McAlendin retaliated for the Bruins, who took a 2-1 lead into the final canto&hellip;Ft. Wayne apparently has third all but clinched, but fourth place and the final playoff berth still is a matter of considerable doubt. Toledo-Marion has moved a point ahead of Grand Rapids and those two clubs still must meet three times. Their late-season battles March 7, in Grand Rapids and March 10, in Toledo, may well decide the issue&hellip;Down-trodden Indianapolis had the best week of the season for itself, going through three tilts without losing. The Chiefs first edged Troy, 3-2, in overtime, and then came back to earn a 2-2 overtime tie with Grand Rapids. Rounding out the week, Indianapolis blanked Ft. Wayne, 5-0&hellip;Playoffs, which will open the week of March 12, will put the regular-season winner against the third-place team and the runner-up vs. the No. 4 outfit in best-of-five series, with the semi-final victors clashing at the best-of-seven for the title. As matters now stand, Cincinnati will oppose Ft. Wayne and Troy will meet either Toledo-Marion or Grand Rapids in the post-season classic. Ft Wayne&rsquo;s Art Stone fired his third hat trick of the campaign for Ft. Wayne, a feat duplicated by two Troy skaters, McAlendin and Reg Belliveau.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Troy Bruins’ Ollie Olson Found Range This Season In International League

<p>Will be held in GRAND FORKS, N.D., of the Winter Sports Arena from August 4th to 18th, 1954.</p><p>INSTRUCTORS: Emile Francis and Metre Prystai.</p><p>ENROLL NOW&mdash;For fell particulars write to Mr. George F. Vegan, Box 457, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

University of North Dakota International Hockey Clinic

<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE (Standing on Feb. 18)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01219/1478556-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="594" height="212"></div><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE (Standing on Feb. 20)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02175/1478549-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="602" height="224"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03134/1478542-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="596" height="396"></div><h2>EASTERN ONTARIO SENIOR (Standing on Feb. 20)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04114/1478535-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="597" height="180"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0597/1478528-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="596" height="260"></div><h2>WESTERN JUNIOR (Standing on Feb. 18)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0681/1478521-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="608" height="205"></div><h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR (Standing on Feb. 22)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0777/1478514-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="597" height="248"></div><h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR (Standing on Feb. 20)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0873/1478507-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="588" height="140"></div><h2>INTERCO LLEGIATE (Standing on Feb. 23)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0963/1478500-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="593" height="168"></div><h2>LAURIER TROPHY (Junior) (Standing on Feb. 23)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1053/1478493-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="587" height="256"></div><h2>MONTREAL METRO JR. (Standing on Feb. 23) Western Section</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1146/1478486-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="590" height="204"></div><h3>Eastern Section</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1242/1478479-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="589" height="180"></div><h2>MANITOBA BIG SIX (Final Standing)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1336/1478472-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="596" height="164"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1436/1478465-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="604" height="332"></div><h2>NOHA SENIOR (Final Standing)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1533/1478458-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="592" height="164"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1630/1478451-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="587" height="316"></div><h3>GOALTENDER&rsquo;S RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1729/1478444-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="597" height="292"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade At A Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-18" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1827/1478587-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg"></div><p>(Solution next week)</p><h2>ACROSS</h2><p>1&mdash;Detroit player shown in centre.</p><p>6&mdash;Nickname of AHL team with whom Lionel Heinrich previously played (sing.)</p><p>8&mdash;N.H.L. player who collected the most assists last season.</p><p>11&mdash;Marc Reaume was born in this month (abbr.)</p><p>12&mdash;Hank Bassen&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)</p><p>13&mdash;A player regards his opponent as one.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Mosienko, ex Black Hawk star.</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of a Chicago defenseman.</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of Walmsley who replaced Mayer for Pittsburgh in Nov.</p><p>19&mdash;Floyd Curry sells this during the summer.</p><p>21&mdash;Cleveland Barens recently had a controversy over this player.</p><p>23&mdash;Born.</p><p>24&mdash;Half an em.</p><p>26&mdash;Synonymous with Scotland.</p><p>27&mdash;Bob Turner&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>30&mdash;Short for given name of Dickens, former N.H.L player.</p><p>33&mdash;Given name of 18 down.</p><h2>DOWN</h2><p>1&mdash;Last seasons N.H.L. scoring champion.</p><p>2&mdash;Lee Fogolin&rsquo;s hobby necessitates the handling of this.</p><p>3&mdash;Former Chicago coach.</p><p>4&mdash;Prystai&rsquo;s nickname.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Rayner, ex New York goalie.</p><p>7&mdash;The oldest manager in the N.H.L.</p><p>9&mdash;Name given Lamoureux, former Hab defenseman.</p><p>10&mdash;Tantalum (Sym.)</p><p>17&mdash;Former Hawk rearguard, called Art.</p><p>18&mdash;Plays goal for New Westminster.</p><p>20&mdash;The (Fr.)</p><p>22&mdash;Snake-like fish.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of Reid who occasionally plays for the Leafs.</p><p>26&mdash;Former New York getminder.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of a Toronto penalt) killer.</p><p>28&mdash;Number of N.H.L. teams 1 down has played with.</p><p>29&mdash;Once played with Detroit, called George.</p><p>31&mdash;League in which Mickey Ion once refereed (abbr.)</p><p>32&mdash;That is.</p><h2>(Last week&rsquo;s solution)</h2><h3>Across</h3><p>1&mdash;Gardner</p><p>6&mdash;Tor.</p><p>8&mdash;August</p><p>10&mdash;W. U.</p><p>11&mdash;Evans</p><p>13&mdash;Ten</p><p>15&mdash;D. A.</p><p>16&mdash;Ere</p><p>17&mdash;P. M.</p><p>18&mdash;Ron</p><p>20&mdash;Les</p><p>22&mdash;Ont.</p><p>23&mdash;IV</p><p>24&mdash;Vt.</p><p>25&mdash;Turner</p><p>28&mdash;O O.</p><p>29&mdash;Snuffy</p><p>31&mdash;R. B.</p><h3>Down</h3><p>1&mdash;Grant</p><p>2&mdash;Regina</p><p>3&mdash;Nose</p><p>4&mdash;Rt.</p><p>5&mdash;Brussels</p><p>7&mdash;Own</p><p>9&mdash;TV.</p><p>12&mdash;Avellin</p><p>14&mdash;Edmonton</p><p>17&mdash;Pronovost</p><p>19&mdash;N. T.</p><p>21&mdash;Eve.</p><p>25&mdash;Tiff</p><p>26&mdash;Ray</p><p>27&mdash;Robt.</p><p>30&mdash;F. E.</p><p>31&mdash;Re.</p><p>32&mdash;Fe.</p><p>33&mdash;Det.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BOLS ANSWER Dit Clapper, 20 season</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0277/1478632-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="241" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0178/1478639-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="232" height="275"></div><h2>The Slinker Shows How It&rsquo;s Done!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0375/1478625-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2856" height="1686"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0462/1478618-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2862" height="1692"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOD SLOAN OF THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS is the second highest goal scorer in the National Hockey League this season (behind Montreal Canadiens Jean Beliveau). In the pictures above, The Slinker shows how it&rsquo;s done as he score goals against both Terry Sawchuk of Boston and Glenn Hall of Detroit. In the top photo, even the combined ability of Sawchuk and Defenseman Bob Armstrong (4) aren&rsquo;t enough to stop Sloan from parking the puck in the rigging while below he (&ldquo;A&rdquo; on sweater) beats Hall from close in as All-Star Rearguard Red Kelly looks on in awe.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(&mdash;Photos by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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