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October 27, 1956
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Ivan Labels Forbes Kennedy “Dead End Kid On Skates”
CHICAGO, Ill.— Tommy Ivan was in a rather accurate descriptive frame of mind the other night. ‘He’s a real dead end kid of the ice — he doesn’t know or care who they are, he just hits ‘em,” the Black Hawk mentor offered in typing the admirable big time debut of young Forbes Kennedy. “He works and skates hard like Marty Pavelich of Detroit,” the leadership mastermind who led the Red Wings to six straight National Hockey League championships further commented on the subject of the rookie he succeeded in prying loose from the Montreal organization the past summer for $25,000. Kennedy’s thorough and solid Checking and highly aggressive competitive spirit tabbed him as a strong candidate for a Chicago suit right from the start of the club’s recent training camp at St.…
Cuyle Fielder Of Seattle Sets Early WHL Scoring Pace
SEATTLE, Wash.— Ten games are scheduled for this week, eight of them intersectional games. The New Westminster Royals and the Victoria Cougars make their first of three trips to the Prairies. New Westminster will open in Edmonton Tuesday then move on to Calgary Wednesday on to Winnipeg Friday and back to Brandon for Saturday. Victoria will travel to Winnipeg for their opener Tuesday night, back to Brandon Wednesday. Edmonton Friday and will conclude their tour in Calgary Saturday night. The other two games of the week find Vancouver and Seattle playing a home and home series with the Americans in Vancouver Friday night and the Canucks back in Seattle Saturday night. This year’s intersectional games will be less strenuous on the players than in the past in that they will never play…
Pocket Rocket First Casualty Of New Season
MONTREAL, Que. The Montreal Canadiens are beginning to wonder if the first game of the season is a jinx. A year ago in their home opener Bernie Geoffrion suffered a painful complexity of rib, chest and shoulder injuries against the Leafs. This year as the National Hockey League season got underway in Montreal, Henri Richard suffered torn ligaments in his right knee when checked heavily by the Boston Bruins’ impish Leo LaBine. Young Richard, centre for his brother, the famed Maurice Richard, and Dickie Moore, was taken to hospital on a stretcher. He left 48 hours later with the knee in a cast. It will stay on for. perhaps, two weeks and, after removal the youngster will be immobile for at least another ten days. The Pocket Rocket had been dumped similarly by LaBine in…
SIDELIGHTS
Many of the cash customers last week at the Montreal Forum were inclined to give a double-take at the Ottawa players’ bench. It seemed that the artful innovator Sammy Pollock had brought the three platoon system to the Quebec Hockey League. The reserve talent resembled a jury box with twelve spares strewn over the long pew. But Sammy was within his rights. Earlier Elmer Lach. Royals’ coach had taken a gander at the line-up of Pollock’s Canadiens. Noting that 19 men were listed Lach grabbed a Quebec Hockey League rule book and marked the passage where it says. Playing strength for QHL games shall be limited to fourteen men and a goaler”. He sent same around to the Ottawa room on the other side of the rink. Broadcaster Tom Foley was…
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