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July 1, 1956
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.


THE FAN FORUM
Star Available Dear Sirs, Congratulations on your very fine May statistical issue. This is one edition which I always keep on file for future reference. You’ll be surprised how many arguments I have settled in the past with this handy reference. In other years you have put out a card with all the scoring penalty records. Are you putting this out this year and it so where do I write to obtain a copy of it? I like the “Inside Stuff” column and do not believe, as one Fan Forum writer stated, that it is “for little girls”. I am a grown man and, although I am no hero worshipper, I find it interesting to know the players’ likes and dislikes. Toronto, Ont. — Dave Lucas. (You can obtain a copy of the NHL Statistical card…


Six Players Involved In Hornets-Bears Deal
HERSHEY, Pa — Hershey Bears hockey club announced completion of a deal in which it acquired six more members of the disbanded Pittsburgh team. Pittsburgh will not compete in the American Hockey League next year because Duquesne Gardens, its home rink, is being razed. The transaction brings to Hershey, which finished out of the Calder Cup playoffs last year, these former Pittsburg! standouts: Gil Mayer, 26-year-old goal tender who four times has won the league trophy for the lowest goals allowed average; Jack Price, 25-year-old defenseman: Willie Marshall. 24-year-old centre who was the league’s second best scorer last season: centre Bob Hassard and Bobby Solinger. a forward, who between them chalked up 143 points last season; defenseman Ray Gariepy, a former Hershey player who returns to the Bears after two seasons with Pittsburgh. Earlier the…


THE CIST AND JEST OF IT
(As seen in the Montreal Herald) ODIE CLEGHORN, who died with stunning suddenness recently, a few hours before the funeral of his brother Sprague, could well be rated one of the pioneers of hockey styles. For he Revised, as a matter of necessity, the triple forward line plan which is now standard in the National and other professional hockey leagues. And Odie Cleghorn leaves a mark on the hockey of today that will possibly never be erased. Though some ether pilots have been given the credit for this, it was devised as a definite system first of ah by Cleghorn when he took over the management of the Pittsburgh team, which entered the National League in 1925, and remained in operation untill the transfer to Philadelphia in 1930, one step away from…


NOHA Puck Purude
COURT—HERE WE COME! … there’s a first-class financial war going on right now in the fabulous nickel city of Sudbury… it surrounds the fate of the Sudbury Wolves, NOHA Senior “A” kings and could easily wind up-in court the way the war is progressing… and if you think the weather is hot right now in the middle of summer, boy, it’s nothing compared to the temperatures surrounding the heads of fellows like Maxie “The Silver Fox” Silverman and Shorty Green … here’s the story, briefly: Seven original shareholders (all old-time businessmen and hockey leaders) put up around $18000 when the team was re-organized… the NOHA pushed Maxie Silverman out of the picture in the rawest deal ever perpertrated in Canadian sport… they virtually told the Sudbury Wolves they would get…