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April 14, 1956
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HOME ICE “JINX” SNAPPED
Loose Puck–No Luck!…
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Big Night Zellio Toppazzini of Providence scored two goals and three assists in the opening game of the AHL Finals. Bower Hot Providence’s Johnny Bower has only allowed three goals in two finals games against Cleveland. HOW THE RAGE GOES (FINALS) TUESDAY, MARCH 27 Buffalo 1 at Providence 5 (Providence leads best-of-five semifinal 1-0). PROVIDENCE, R.T.—The Providence Reds scored in every period to defeat the Buffalo Bisons 5-1 in the first game of their best-of-five semi-final series of their best-of-five semi-final series of the American Hockey League Calder Cup competition tonight. Defenseman George McAvoy’s 55-foot blast in the final second of the first period gave the Reds a 2-1 edge and they compltely dominated play thereafter. Jim Bartlett scored for the Reds and Sam Bettio for the Bisons earlier in the period. Aldo Guidolin deflected Ken Davies’ long shot to give the…
Montreal Ends 12-Game Skein In Motor City
DETROIT, Mich.— Who says 13 isn’t lucky? Not the Detroit Red Wings and that’s for sure! Maybe the Montreal Canadiens! Because of that pesky number, or at least partially because of it, the Wings find themselves on the short end of the 3-1 count in games in the Stanley Cup final series against the mighty Canadiens. Where does the 13 center the picture? In twelve playoff meetings between the Habs and Wings prior to the fourth game of this year’s final, the home team had always triumphed. This long series of “home ice wins” goes all the way back to April 9, 1954, the last time a visiting team managed to come up with a victory in a Detroit-Montreal series. On that occasion Ken Mosdell scored in overtime to give the Habs a 1-0 victory over the…
Hockey X-Word Puzzle
ACROSS 1—Canadien rookie shown in centre. 7—Carl Boone’s nickname. 9—Glen Skov’s nickname. 11—Paid notice. 12—Ron Howell’s birthplace. 14—Number of seasons Tom Johnson has played with Canadiens. 15—Pictured star did not play this type of hockey (abbr.) 17—Initials of Starr, ex member of the Rangers. 18—Initials of Chicago’s captain. 20—Bucky Hollingworth has never played in this league (abbr.) 21—Number of games Gordie Fashoway missed in 1955-56. 22—Initials of Tottle of Springfield. 24—Hirst name of a member of the Winnipeg Warriors. 27—Pronoun. 28—Alta, birthplace of Norm Ullman.. 30—Initials of a Black Hawk defenseman. 31—Anno Ordinis (abbr.) 32—Requisite for rowing. 34—The 14th and 11th letters of the alphabet. 35—Manson of Brandon answers to this. DOWN 1—Marcel Pvonovost is noted for these. 2—Name given Burton, Detroit rookie. 3—Hart Trophy winner of 1948-49. 4—Ruthenium (Sym) 5—Initials of a Toronto rookie. 6—Short for first name of Howe former Red Wing player. 8—Glen Skos is of’this descent. 10—Initials of Arbour of Edmonton Flyers. 13—Floyd Curry played junior…
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