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April 7, 1956
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Boston B’s To Train At Home Next Season
BOSTON, Mass.— The Boston Bruins will depart from a long-standing custom next fall by doing their training for the 1956-57 season right here at Boston Garden. The entire professional portion of the Bruins’ organization, expected to number upward of 50 players, will start pre-season workouts here on September 16, according to Manager Lynn Patrick. Since World War II most of the Bruins’ training has been done at Hershey, Pa., home of the team’s American League farm club. The Bruins haven’t trained here for 20 years. The installation of the squad at the Garden represents the realization of a long-time desire for a New England training base on the part of Walter A. Brown, Bruins’ president. “I’ve always felt that we would benefit by training nearer home,” said Brown after Patrick made the announcement of the…
Bounce Back In Opener For Big Win
MONTREAL, Que.— Montreal has the power. With that concise summation, oddsmakers established Montreal Canadiens 2½-1 favorites over Detroit Red Wings before the 1956 Stanley Cup finals got underway. Only a few hours later the preseries evaluation stood up as full wisdom. Canadiens stunned Detroit by blasting four straight goals in the last period to overcome a 4-2 disadvantage and grab a 6-4 Victory in the opener of the best-of-seven series at the Montreal Forum. It was Hall power—blasting, sniping and jabbing—that proved too much for Wings with their blessing of hot goaltending. Within 12 hours that same power called for another adjustment in the odds. Montreal became a 6-l favorite to go on to the Stanley Cup. In a way the Motor City crew was a rarity in the role of underdog. Detroit was the champion;…
Outstanding Junior Elmer Vasco Signs Contract With Chi-Hawks
Two-Year Pact For Ex-Teepee CHICAGO, Ill.— Assurances issued six weeks ago by General Manager/Tommy Ivjin came true last week with the announcement by the Black Hawks that they had signed Elmer Vasco, highly rated junior defenseman from St. Catharines, to a two year contract. He has begun his pro career in the American League playoffs with Buffalo. The appearance of the Vasco signature on a Chicago contract was a long awaited moment. Black Hawk fans had been hearing about the promise of the Teepee captain and star for the past six months. Attempts to sign him last fall failed since he still had a year of junior eligibility. General Manager Ivan had promised late in February that “we’ll sign him before the end of the season or just after.” Elmer would probably have joined…
Player-of-the-Week
Jackie Leclair, the smooth-skating centre the Montreal Canadiens picked up from the Toronto Maple Leafs a few years back, last week turned in his finest game since donning the bieu-blanc-rouge regalia of the high-flying Habitants. And it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. The league-champion Canadiens were trailing the runner-up Detroit Red Wings 4-2 going into the third period of the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals. Leclair, who’d been used sparingly in the first two frames, got his chance to shine in the third session. He took full advantage of the opportunity. Checking and skating with all the determination of a man who sees a chance to escape the hangman’s noose, Leclair sparked his line (Provost-Leclair-Curry) in particular and the Habs in general to a resounding 6-4 comeback victory…
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