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August 19, 1956
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Hawks Right Wing Rich Following Off-Season Deals
CHICAGO, III— Faltering on the brink of utter and complete poverty along the starboard side last year, the Black Hawks are now cultivating new hopes for success in the approaching campaign with a sharp situation reversal that now finds the club virtually right wing rich. As early as late last fall General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Dick Irvin detected the weakness, but other clubs weren’t interested in any deals of note at this stage of play. The Chihawk leaders could do little more than settle back and do the best possible with the available material. A study of statistics at the end of the 1955-56 schedule revealed the sad fact that Black Hawk right flankers had contributed a mere 30 of the team’s total scoring effort of 155 goals. Ivan needed nothing…
Long Island Puck Palace Opening Set
NEW YORK, N.Y.— The $800,000 Long Island Sports Arena in Commack will open “sometime in November” as the new home ice of the New York Rovers, local representative in the Eastern Hockey League. Originally scheduled to open in September, the 4,500 seat building is being rushed to completion by a score of workers. If it is not ready by the beginning of the Eastern League season the Rovers will play “home” games at either the RBI Field House in Troy, N.Y. or the Providence. R.I. Arena. When completed, the building, constructed with wood laminated arches, will be the second largest of its kind in the United States. The interior has no pillars, just a sweeping curved ceiling extending over an 85 × 210 feet activity area. A 3,000 car parking lot is opposite…
“Rock And Roll” New Slogan Of Meeker-Led Leafs
TORONTO, Ont.— Unlike Davey Crockett, Howie Meeker had to wait until he was 31 to bag his first bear. Matter of fact, Howie would gladly have waited a few more years if the pesky bruin hadn’t tried to take Over the Meeker’s summer residence. But when the big fellow insisted on playing games, Meeker attached a flashlight to his gun so he would get a bead on the bear. Mrs. Meeker flashed a larger flashlight on the charging animal, and Howie shot him through the ear with his first shot. The bear weighed 400 pounds and. according to Meeker, was the meanest-looking-animal he’d ever seen. Won’t Have Gan The new Leaf coach wishes the coming NHL campaign could be taken care of as easily as the said bruin. However, he won’t have a…
PASSING THE PUCK
MILT SCHMIDT is counting on Doug Mohns becoming a regular member of the Boston Bruins’ defense corps this coming season. Schmidt plans to start the season with the speedy Mohns on defense and is hoping to make full use of his bullet shot from that position…Apparently Mohns played on defense in the Bruins’ Maritimes tour and looked exceptionally good… Two veteran Boston defenders, Bill Quackenbush and Hal Laycoe, will not be with the team in,’56-57 … Boston’s Fleming Mackell rates as hockey’s champion daddy. Only 27, Mackell is already the father of five kiddies…Ted Kennedy has sold his country squire’s establishment near Agincourt, Ont., and has bought himself a farm near Nobelton, Ont. He has also resigned from his job with the building supplies company. Ted maintains he has no…
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