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January 26, 1957

The Hockey News January 26, 1957

<div class="byline">FISCHLER</div><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK,&mdash;Gump Worsley doesn&rsquo;t mind when action gets hot around his New York Ranger net but when the pucks themselves start warming up&mdash;well, that&rsquo;s against the rules!</p><p>It all started at a recent Ranger-Chicago tilt at Madison Square Garden. As you all know, the pucks used in a hockey game are &ldquo;frozen&rdquo; about four hours before game time to enable them to slide smoothly on ice.</p><p>Apparently someone forgot to &ldquo;ice&rdquo; the pucks in this particular game and one of the hot pucks shipped into action.&mdash;much to Worsley&rsquo;s surprise and dismay.</p><p>Harry Watson shot a blooper at Gump with the hot puck. The Gump caught it. At least he thought he did. But it bounced up out of his mitt&hellip; Then, he grabbed at it again&hellip; This time he got it&mdash;for a second, as it bounced up again. By this time the Gump knew he had a hot one on his hands and just managed to snatch the disk before it slipped over the red goal line.</p><p>&ldquo;Gadzooks.&rdquo; said the Gump after the game. &ldquo;Those hot pucks really jump around. if it had gone in I&rsquo;d have crawled right I into the net!&rdquo;</p><p>Is there a refrigerator in the house?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

When Gump Gets Hot He likes Cold Pucks!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f00C4-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0379/1643419-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg"></div><p><b>VOLUME 10 MONTREAL. JANUARY 26, 1957 NUMBER 17</b></p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0184/1643433-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="131" height="153"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0283/1643426-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="140" height="161"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0470/1643412-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="1558" height="947"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Some Rearguards Stay Up, Others Tumble</b></p><p><b>DETROIT DEFENSEMEN,</b> Red Kelly (next to goalie Glenn Hall) and Al Arbour (with glasses) are solidly on their skates as they attempt to control a rolling puck that is being eagerly pursued by Toronto&rsquo;s Ronnie Stewart in the top photo. But in the bottom picture, Rangers&rsquo; Louie Fontinato has just done a tummy-flop as he attempts to clear the puck off the stick of Chicago&rsquo;s Jack McIntyre (No. II) while his rearguard partner, Harry Howell chases Nick Mickoski off to the side of the boards. Gump makes the save.</p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By Brandon&#x2019;s Frank Boucher</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Bud Poile took time out following his team&rsquo;s thrilling 6-5 overtime victory over the Calgary Stampeders to answer charges that he has instructed his players to deliberately indulge in rough play.</p><p>The charges were made by Frank Boucher, general-manager of the Brandon Regals, currently holding second place behind the leading Flyers in the prairie division of the Western Hockey League standings.</p><p>Here is Poile&rsquo;s statements:</p><p>&ldquo;In regard to Mr. Boucher&rsquo;s ridiculous and totally unwarranted attack upon me personally, and my players&mdash;to say the least I am most surprised and shocked that a man of Mr. Boucher&rsquo;s wide experience would make such remarks.</p><p>&ldquo;I have always admired Mr. Boucher and can hardly bring my self to believe that, in all seriousness, he would actually make such malicious statements.</p><p>&ldquo;As for sending any of my players out to deliberately hurt anyother player, the statement is complete nonsense. It is possible that during Mr. Boucher&rsquo;s career of coaching and managing hockey clubs that at some time or other his teams have not been involved in brawls or other types of mayhem on the ice?</p><p>&ldquo;Regarding the Winnipeg game which he mentions: I would suggest that Mr. Boucher get his facts straight. So far as I am concerned, the Flyers will continue to play their usual forceful, exciting brand of hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher, in placing the blame for Flyers&rsquo; rough play on coach Poile, said he was offering a complaint to Western League president Al Leader.</p><p>A near riot almost developed involving both players and fans as Brandon won the game, 3-1. Flyers took down 57 of 65 minutes in penalties assessed by officials.</p><p>&ldquo;I was amazed by the behavior of some of the Edmonton players,&rdquo; Boucher said. &ldquo;And I can&rsquo;t believe that they would play that way unless they were so directed. I can only conclude that they were working under instructions from Poile.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The same sort of thing, a near-riot, took place in Winnipeg on Christmas Day and the same club, Edmonton Flyers, was involved that time,&rdquo; said Boucher. &ldquo;A coach can prevent that from hapening. Obviously, with the Flyers, there is no control from the bench.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01359/1642844-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="266" height="260"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Steamed Up</b></p><p><b>FRANK BOUCHER</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;It was fortunate that the McCarthy-Milford incident did not have more serious results,&rdquo; he said, referring to Flyer Tom McCarthy&rsquo;s attack on Brandon defenceman Howie Milford. McCarthy was given a &ldquo;major&rdquo; penalty tor &ldquo;attempt to injure&rdquo; when he brought his stick down on Milford&rsquo;s head, opening a two-inch gash which required six stitches to close.</p><h2><b>EVEN McCREARY</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I was appalled by McCarthy&rsquo;s performance and amazed by the entire Edmonton display,&rdquo; said Boucher. &ldquo;Even Bill McCreary turned in a rough game. Both McCreary and McCarthy played with the Rangersponsored Guelph Biltmores juniors when I was with the New York organization. They never played that way before.</p><p>&ldquo;As a matter of fact, when McCarthy was still a junior he used to come in for criticism for not being aggressive enough. A player doesn&rsquo;t change that much. It is my opinion that he was working under instructions from Poile.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher said he bad no complaints over the refereeing of veteran official Vic Lindquist of Winnipeg.</p><p>&ldquo;I am not blaming Lindquist,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He had a tough game to call and I thought he handled it well.</p><p>&ldquo;I do think that McCarthy should have received a stiffer penalty for his attack on Milford, but I am sure that was just an oversight on Lindquist&rsquo;s part. However, the rule book calls for more drastic action.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher said his primary concern was not to bring about measures against any player or referee, but to put an end to the &ldquo;bench-directed rowdiness&rdquo; of the Flyers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Poile Denies Dirty Charges

<h2><b>20-GOAL CLUB</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>etroit and Canadians have a monopoly on 20-goal scorers with two players on each club holding the distinction. Beliveau and Moore are the Canadiens with Howe and Lindsay the Red Wings.</b></p><h2><b>TOPS IN SO&rsquo;s</b></h2><p><b>Canadiens Jacques Plante racked up his seventh shutout of the campaign against the New York Rangers to lead the NHL in that department.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01327/1642526-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="318" height="406"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 Montreal 3 at Toronto 2</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense Talbot, Johnson, Harvey, Turner, St. Laurent: forwards: Geoffriou, Beliveau, Olmstead, Curry, Leolair, M. Richard, Moore. Provost, H. Richard, Marshall, Pionovost.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Chadwick: defense: Thomson. Morrison, MacNeil, Peaume. forwards: Migay, Stewart, Smith. Kennedy, Armstrong, James, Duff, Barry Cullen, Pul ford, Nykoluk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02294/1642519-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="318" height="263"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, JAM ARY 17 Detroit 2 at Boston 2</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Kelly, Godfrey, Pronovost. Hollingwqrth: forwards: Ullman, Howe, Lindsay. Delvecchio, Ferguson, Dineen. Pavolicli, Prystai, Bucyk, McNeil, Roibel. Dea</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goa: Defelice; defense Flaman, Mohns, Boivin, Armstrong. Stanley, Bionda; forwards: McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Gardner, Stasiuk, Peirson, Regan, Mackell, Toppazzini, Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03226/1642512-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="317" height="181"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1957 New York 0 at Montreal 5</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Fontindta, Caban, Gadsby, Evans; forwards: Popein, Gendron, Prentice, Bathgate, Hebenton, Macdonald, Murphy, Creighton, Foley, Henry, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Turner, St. Laurent; forwards: Beliveau, Geoftrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Marshall, Pronovost, Provost, Curry, Leclair.</p><p>Referee: Gaye Stewart; linesmen: George Hayes, Jim Haggerty.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04172/1642505-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="320" height="256"></div><h3><b>Boston 1, at Toronto 4</b></h3><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: DeFelice; defense: R. Armstrong, Flaman, Stanley, Bionda, Mohns, Boivin: forwards: Chevrefils Labine, McKenney, Stasiuk, Mackall, Gardner, Toppazzini, F. Smith, Peirson, Regan.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense: Morrison. Thomson, MacNeil, Reauma: forwards: Kennedy, James. Fulford, S. Smith, G. Armstrong, Stewart, Duff, Barry Cullen, Nykoluk, Migay.</p><p>Referee: Eddie Powers; linesmen: B. Roberts, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05119/1642498-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="316" height="341"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1033/1642491-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="301" height="620"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Still Leads</b></p><p><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></p></figcaption></div><h3><b>Detroit 3. at Chicage 2</b></h3><p><b>Detroit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Kelly, Pronovost, Hoiling worth; forward: Ullmau, Lindsay, Howe, Godfrey, Reibel, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Dea, Dineen, McNeil.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins: defense: Mortsow, Ingram, Pilote, Vasko; forwards: Skov, Mickoski, McIntyre, Martin, Watson, Kachur, Kennedy, Litzeuberger, Nesterenko, Wilson, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0684/1642484-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="308" height="256"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 1957 Toronto 3 at Boston 2</b></h3><p><b>Toronto</b>&mdash;Goal: Chadwick; defense: Thomson, Morrison. Resume, MacNeil; forwards: G. Armstrong, Duff, B. Cullen, James, pulford, S. Smith, Migay, Stewart, Nykoluk.</p><p><b>Boston</b>&mdash;Goal: De Felice: defense: Flaman, Mohns, Boivin, R. Armstrong, Stanley, Bionda; forwards: Gardner, Peirson, Stasiuk, McKenney, Labine, Chevrefils, Toppazzini, Mackell, F. Smith.</p><p>Referee: Powers; linesmen: Davies, Roberts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0758/1642477-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="317" height="271"></div><h3><b>New York 2, at Detroit 5</b></h3><p><b>New York</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley: defense: Howell, Fontinaio, Cahan, Gadsby, Evans; forwards: Popein, Gendron, Prentice, Bathgate, Hebenton, Macdonald, Murphy, Creighton, Foley, Henry, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Dertoit</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense: Arbour, Kelly, Pronovost, Hollingworth; forwards: Ullman, Lindsay, Howe, Godfrey, Reibel, Delvecchio, Pavelich, Prystai, Ferguson, Dea, Dineen, McNeil.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02298/1642470-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="320" height="343"></div><h3><b>Montreal 2, at Chicago 4</b></h3><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Harvey, Turner, St. Laurent: forwards: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Olmstead, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Marshall, Pronovost, Provost, Curry, Leclair.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>&mdash;Goal: Rollins: defence: Mortson, Pilote, Ingram, Martin, Vasko; forwards: Nesterenko, Litzenberger, Wilson, Watson, Kachur, Mickoski, Kennedy, McIntyre, Skov, Lalande, Ciesla.</p><p>Referee: Storey; linesmen: Skov and Matt Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03253/1642463-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="318" height="310"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. Jan, 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0852/1642456-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="319" height="1789"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0943/1642449-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="314" height="370"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01204/1643488-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="638" height="359"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&ldquo;The Clove&rdquo; Checks The Net</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;THE GLOVE&rdquo;</b> in this particular case belongs to Chicago&rsquo;s Al Rollins who has disappeared from view, leaving his padded mitt behind. Toronto&rsquo;s Mike Nykoluk (27) attempts to jam the puck into the cage and is being closely checked by Chicago&rsquo;s Gus Morison while two Black Hawks, Hec Lalande and Ronnie Ingram wait for the puck to make its appearance.</p><p>Turosfsky Photo.</p></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>erry Sawchuk, the only goalkeeper in the history of hockey to win the outstanding rookie award in three different leagues and a three-time winner of the Vezina Trophy, left the door open for a possible return to the Boston Bruins <i>at</i> a recent press-radio and television conference here.</b></p><p><b>The 28-year-old native of Winnipeg, electrified rhe hockey world on January 14 when he announced that he was quitting hockey a few days after he had been named to the first all-star team in the National Hockey League at the halfway mark of the 70-game schedule.</b></p><p><b>Sawchuk, who spent 12 days in hospital suffering from mononucleosis&mdash;a blood disease&mdash;missed seven games earlier this year and was replaced by rookie Norman DeFelice.</b></p><p><b>But Sawchuk&rsquo;s &ldquo;retirement&rdquo; was totally unexpected. Following a Boston-Montreal home-and-home weekend engagement in which the Bruins were beaten by 4-1 and 3-1 scores, Sawchuk drop</b></p><p><b>ped the bombshell of the year when he said that &ldquo;he was quitting and that he was going to stay quit.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>The next day, General manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins</b></p><p><b>announced that Sawchuk was suspended by the club. That suspension is still in effect, which means that Sawchuk doesn&rsquo;t draw any pay until such time as he returns to the club.</b></p><p><b>At the press conference on Monday, January 21st, Sawchuk said: &ldquo;My nerves are shattered. I couldn&rsquo;t sleep and lost my appetite. I took everything into consideration before making my decision&mdash;the Boston organization &hellip; my teammates&hellip; myself and my family&hellip; and I decided that I was not in condition to continue at this time.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Then he added, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m under the care of a physician here in Detroit and &lsquo;III check with the club in about a month&rsquo;s time to decide on my future.&rdquo; Sawchuk added: &ldquo;There was times when I wasn&rsquo;t sure whether I could finish a game or not.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Last December when the disease was first diagnosed, Sawchuk said: &ldquo;A specialist recommended that I take at least a month&rsquo;s rest. This has been the toughest decision I&rsquo;ve had to make.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>But Sawchuk did indicate that a good, long rest might be the best cure and if he recovers completely, he&rsquo;ll be free to return to the Bruins.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Cover-01

Sawchuk Leaves Door Open for Return To Boston Bruins Within One Month

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT.&mdash;The Red Wings of Detroit and the Canadians of Montreal&mdash;hockey&rsquo;s fiercest rivals on the ice&mdash;will sit side-by-side at a banquet table here next month.</b></p><p><b>The entire squads will be honored guests at on annual banquet which raises funds to finance youth hockey in the Detroit area.</b></p><p><b>The extent of peace at this event probably will depend a lot on how things go when they meet at Olympia the night before.</b></p><p><b>Just for the record, the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins went through the same deal in the past two seasons. All was peaceful at the dinner table. In fact, New York&rsquo;s Don Raleigh and Boston&rsquo;s Hal Laycoe were the &ldquo;hits&rdquo; those two evenings.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Habs-Wings To Break Bread!

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><h2><b>Red Kelly Second, Beliveau Nips Howe In Hart Balloting</b></h2><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The voting was extremely close for three of the four individual National Hockey League trophies at the halfway mark of the 1956-57 season. In only one case, thai of the Janies Norris Memorial Trophy, was the voting one-sided.</p><p>Montreal Cariadiens&rsquo; great AllStar defenseman Doug Harvey polled 33 points out of a possible 90 in the James Norris Memorial Trophy balloting. Far behind him came Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly with 20 points and Boston&rsquo;s Doug Mohns with 19. Harey is in a class all by himself in the lusl-ball balloHyg,</p><p>Jean Beliveau. 1955-56 winner of the Hart Trophy as the National Hockey League&rsquo;s most valuable player to his team, headed the poll for the first halt of this season. The tall Montreal center earned 51 points out of a possible 90. Gordie Howe of Detroit. winner of the Hart Tro-pry in 1951-52 and 1952-53. was second to Beliveau. Howe polled 13 points. Terry Sawchuk of Boston finished third with 35 points.</p><p>Another trophy winner in 195556, Earl (Dutch) Reibel of the Detroit Red Wings, leads at the half-way mark this season. Reibel topped the voting for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy with 21 points, bur is onlv four 1 oints ahead of Canadiens&rsquo; Floyd Curry. Red Kelly of Detroit and Andy Hebenton of the New York Rangers were tied for third with 15 points each. The voting was scattered among 21 different players in the Lady Byng balloting.</p><p>Hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters from the six N.H.L. cities who handled the voting ladled out points&rsquo;to nine different rookies in balloting lor the Calder Memorial Trophy. Ed Chadwick of Toronto earned the most points, however. The cool Leaf goalkeeper polled 48 points to top the pack. Larry Regan, Boston Bruins&rsquo; skillful forward, was second with 4 4 points and hard driving Forbes Kennedy of I he Chicago Black Hawks finished third with 3 0 points.</p><p>Another poll will be conducted for the second half of the 195657 N.H.L. season (games after December 31, 1956 and the totals for both halves will be added together. Players polling the most points for the two halves will then be named winners of these various individual trophies. They will also receive a cheque for a $1,0 04) from National Hockey League.</p><p>Doug: Hawey, closest thing there was to being a unanimous choice for the first half, was the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 1955-56. This means that the 1955-56 winners of the Hart, Lady Byng and Norris Memorial Trophies were also the leaders in the first-half voting for 1956-57.</p><p>Following is how the players fared in the first-half voting:</p><h3><b>Hart Trophy</b></h3><p>Awarded each season to &ldquo;the player adjudged to be most valuable to his team&rdquo; and won in 1955-56 by Jean Beliveau, who polled 51 points. He was followed by Gordie Howe, 43 and Terry Sawchuk. 35. Others were Doug Harvey Canadiens, 15; Doug Mohns, Boston 6; Eddie Litzen-berger, Chicago, 3; Al Rollins, Chicago, 3: Ed Chadwick, Toronto, 2; Bill Gadsby, Rangers, 1; Gus Mortson, Chicago, 1; Maurice Richard, Canadiens, 1; Lome Worsley, Rangers, 1.</p><h3><b>James Norries Memorial Trophy</b></h3><p>This trophy is awarded annually to &ldquo;the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability during the season.&rdquo; Others to garner points besides Reibel, Curry, Hebenton and Kelly were Nick Miekoski, Chicago, 14: Don McKenney, Boston, 13; Sid Smith, Toronto, 12; Andy Bathgate, Rangers, 11; Rudy Migay, Toronto, 8; Jerry Toppazzini. Boston G; Allan Stanley, Boston 5; Billy Dea, Detroit, 5; Bernie Geoffrion, Canadiens. 3; Jean Beliveau, Canadiens, 2; Larry Popein, Rangers. 2; Henri Richard, Canadiens, 2; Harry Watson, Chicago, 1; Dave Creighton, Rangers, 1; Real Chevrefils, Boston, 1; Dickie Moore, Canadiens, 1; Ted Lindsay, Detroit, 1.</p><h3><b>Calder Memorial Trophy</b></h3><p>Following Chadwick, Regan and Kennedy in the voting for the award presented annually to &ldquo;the player selected as most proficient in his first year of competition in the National Hockey League&rdquo; were Billy Dea. Detroit, 22; Pierre Pilote, Chicago. 10; Jack Bionda, Boston. 4: Elmer Vasko. Chicago, 2; Billy McNeill, Detroit. 1; Barry Cullen, Toronto, 1.</p><h3><b>James Norris Memorial Trophy</b></h3><p>This trophy is presented annually to &ldquo;the regular defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the great est all-around ability in that position.&rdquo; Following Harvey Kelly and Mohns in the first half balloting were Fern Flam an, Boston, 16; Bill Gadsby Rangers, 14; Gus Mortson, Chi eago, 4; Marcel Pronovost, De troit, 3; Allan Stanley. Boston 2; Pierre Pilote, Chicago, 1: Tom Johnson, Canadiens, 1 Jack Evans, Rangers, 1.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

HARVEY ALMOST SHOO-IN FOR NORRIS

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&ndash;</p><p>The battle for fourth place has moved from the ice to the press rooms where Howie Meeker and Phillipe Watson have launched their first formidable salvos of the season.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01285/1641918-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="138" height="231"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 138px"><b>Phil Watson</b></figcaption></div><p>Speaking from his forttress on the 49th street side of the arena, the defeated Watson proclaimed: &ldquo;Our team WILL make the playoffs. I&rsquo;m not saying that tongue-in-cheek either. I am confident that will be done. Yes. things are dark and gloomy now, we played badly but we will get better. We WON&rsquo;T play as bad as that for the next 32 games.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe the players didn&rsquo;t realize the importance of the games. I could see that the whole club didn&rsquo;t know what it was doing. But I&rsquo;ve seen this club in bad spots before&mdash;and recover.</p><p>&ldquo;I know the team will tighten up defensively. We&rsquo;ll go for a tie on the road and get it. That will be just like a win. Everyone realizes we&rsquo;re on the spot. Maybe that will wake them up.</p><p>&ldquo;Take Prentice (Dean). His shots on the net are the same but he&rsquo;s missing opportunities this year. Maybe he&rsquo;s pressing. It&rsquo;s 50 per cent luck in hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting too many stupid penalties, like getting a penalty in the other team&rsquo;s zone. That&rsquo;s a stupid penalty because some guy has a grudge and gets into trouble.</p><p>&ldquo;The players know it. Believe me, they don&rsquo;t want to go home on March 24th.&rdquo;</p><p>And on the 50th street side of the battlement, former parliamentarian Meeker was comparatively short-winded.</p><p>Happy Howie was asked whether he though Toronto would waltz into fourth now that Teeder Kennedy had returned to bolster his club.</p><p>&ldquo;We won&rsquo;t talk about making any playoffs yet,&rdquo; Howie said. &ldquo;if I go out on a limb, the next thing you know somebody&rsquo;ll kill my goalkeeper.&rdquo;</p><p>Pushed for an unequivocal comment. Meeker demurred quite undiplomatically.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m trying to look after my own guys,&rdquo; he shouted. &ldquo;Experience has cost us so far, may be the kids will improve.&rdquo;</p><p>Quotes from both coaches have been forwarded to the &ldquo;He Who Laughs Last Dep&rsquo;t.&rdquo; for final judgement.</p><p>As for the general managers, we were able to corral Muzz Patrick, New York&rsquo;s major domo.</p><p>&ldquo;I do think we will make the playoffs,&rdquo; said the unflinching Muzz.</p><p>Now we&rsquo;ll let the 32-odd soldiers-or-skate from Toronto and New York battle it out to see who&rsquo;s right.</p><p>RANGERABILIA: Blue management pleased with the new 7:30 p.m. weekday starting time. Games of Feb. 20, 27 and March 13 have been pushed up to the new hour&hellip; Last Saturday afternoon game in New York, Feb. 2, dubbed &ldquo;Family Matinee Day.&rdquo; Kids permitted at half price&hellip; Guy Gignac, former star with Quebec Junior Citadels under Watson, now is a hairdresser in&rdquo; suburban For Rockaway. He is playing with a local amateur team and has his eyes on the Rovers next year&hellip; Muzz opines that the Blues&mdash;&mdash;second highest paid team in the NHL&mdash;ought not finish fifth. We agree.. Gump Worsley has never played better than he is now. Ditto Jaek Evans. Andy Hebenton, Bill Gads-by, and Danny Lewicki.</p></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03243/1641911-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="157" height="248"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Howie Meeker</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-03

Watson Confident, Meeker Hesitant About Playoffs

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Black Hawks have talked Erie Nesterenko, the 23-year old ex-Maple Leaf who last summer announced he had quit, hockey in favor of finishing college, back into the game as a weekend warrior. The lanky winger reached the unusual agreement with General Manager Tommy Ivan January 7.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02269/1641949-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="171" height="238"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption></div><p>Terms of the pact call for him to play in all remaining Chicago games that fall on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays while continuing his education at the University of Toronto during the rest of the time. &ldquo;Only nine of our last 31 games fall on weeknights.&rdquo; Ivan points out.</p><p>Nesterenko, who had been skating with the team at school in recent weeks, began working out in earnest several times daily as soon as he&rsquo;d signed, as a Hawk. He became Chicago property with veteran goalie Harry Lumley last May when Black Hawk leaders came up with $40,000</p><p>Ivan expects &ldquo;Nester&rdquo; to help the squad once he is back in top shape, but it will be a tough job for the Flin flon native whose only, chances to get to know his new teammates will be in regulation play. Eric doesn&rsquo;t mind, however, and will give this extra challenge all he&rsquo;s got.</p><p>He got off out the right foot in his first game against the Rangers by potting a neat goal from 30 feet that completely eluded Gump Worsley who has been nothing, but trouble to the Chihawks this year. Nesterenko managed the score despire an obvious lacking in condition.</p><p>Although kept off the scoreboard, he Showed strong improvement in the next, two Hawk games as he dealt out cheeks with authority and accepted those sent his way with no signs of regret. Ivan&rsquo;s confidence in his value was born out with some forward changes immediately invoked.</p><p>Tommy converted the sharp shooting Ed Litzenberger, a normal right wing, into a center ice man and dropped Nesterenko into the right side slot. Harry Watson continued to patrol his old position on the other side of the ice. While still relatively unacquainted, &ldquo;Nester&rdquo; showed well.</p><p>His definite future in or out of hockey will probably be left strictly up to Nesterenko, but the fact that it was he who decided that he would like to back batting at pucks in the NHL would seem to indicate that he wants to be a Black Hawk as long as he&rsquo;s wanted.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-02

Nesterenko Back As Weekend Player

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>So you don&rsquo;t believe history can repeat, itself, eh?</p><p>Well, neither do we But, fortunately for the Rangers there&rsquo;s one man who does believe it and that&rsquo;s Andy Hebenton, who may have won a playoff berth for the Rangers on Jan, 12.</p><p>The history twist is that amiable Andrew was the bloke who jettisoned the Blues into a playoff berth last year&mdash;and almost at the same time as his recent thrust.</p><p>To be exact, it was Jan. 4. 1956 when the Heb scored two decisive goals in the last period as Rangers came from behind a 3-0 deficit to conquer Detroit and steam into a playoff berth. That, according to many observers was the &ldquo;make&rdquo; game for the New York six last season.</p><p>In almost the same incredible fashion, the Rangers again were three-goals down to Detroit a little more than a year later. Again the Blues prevailed and wound up with a noteworthy, 5-4 win&mdash;the same result as the previous year.</p><p>What is even more significant is the fact that the recent victory was accomplished at Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia, whereas the former took place at Madison Square Garden. Not only that, but after tying the score 3-3, the Wings surged ahead 4-3 before Hebenton and his posse took over.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05144/1642042-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="163" height="239"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Hebenton</b></figcaption></div><p>Dave Creighton tied the count at the 10 minute mark. That angered the Wings who released their emotions by bombarding Gump Worsley from every angle including the back of their hands.</p><p>A compassionate soul, Hebenton felt the Wings were carrying injustice, not to mention in-hospitality, too tar. So, with as much lime as it takes you to finish this sentence (seven seconds) left to play. Handy Andy caged Dean Prentice&rsquo;s rebound and sent everyone I&mdash;with the exception of 15 New Yorkers in Olympia home with a tear in their eye.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0698/1642035-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="157" height="236"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dove Creighton</b></figcaption></div><p>The importance of the win lies in the fact that it gave Rangers a boost before their longest (five game) road trip of the season. Also, it was their first win in Detroit in 11 games and may give the Gotham skaters the practical idea that if they can win in Detroit, perhaps the Montreal Forum jinx also can be licked.</p><p>Speaking of history repealing, it is interesting to note that the time before the last time the Rangers made the playoffs (1950), the finished out of the money, the following season, interestingly, the Blues are on the brink of fading out of the top four this season after their Stanley Cup adventure last semester.</p><p>However, the kind of history. Muzz Patrick&rsquo;s students would rather study is the kind Andy Hebenton writes with his stick.</p><p>Andy&rsquo;s a good student. Can score too!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-05

Is Andy Hebenton Going To Make History Again?

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey people found the decision of Gaye Stewart, former NHL All-Star left winger, to try his hand as a referee this-season noteworthy.</p><p>For Stewart is the first of the several hundred players who toiled in the NHL the past two decades, to stay in the sport as a game official. (King Clancy, his immediate predecessor, ended his playing career in 1936.)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04188/1642004-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="153" height="224"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Goye Stewart</b></figcaption></div><p>While Stewart&rsquo;s action was principally for personal reasons, it may have ramifications in years to come. Indications are that other players may follow suit.</p><p>Montreal&rsquo;s Doug Harvey, who weighs his words with the same sharpness he uses on his &ldquo;hesitation pass.&rdquo; thinks the player-to-referee transition is a fine idea.</p><p>&ldquo;When I&rsquo;m through as a player myself. I want to stay with the game.&rdquo; Harvey explained in an interview here. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve thought about coaching but I think I&rsquo;d enjoy being a referee.</p><p>&ldquo;I think players have a great deal of respect for a fellow like Gaye Stewart. They know lie&rsquo;s been on the other side of the fence, the players&rsquo; side, and knows the pressure of league play.</p><p>&ldquo;Gaye, for example, knows what it is like to be handed a going over by the fans in a visiting city without jetting it affect his play.</p><p>&ldquo;Then, too, I think a man with Stewart&rsquo;s experience is less liable to develop prejudices as some officials seem to. He&rsquo;s been in the position where the fellow who was his enemy one season was his teammate and buddy the next. All these things help, in the making of a stable official, I think,&rdquo; Harvey concluded.</p><p>Stewart actually took a big gamble in taking to the whistle. Failure would remove some of the sheen from an outstanding playing and coaching career. (He led Buffalo to the American League playoff finals in his only season as a coach.)</p><p>Prior to this fall, he had never even served as linesman in a professional game. His schooling had to be absorbed under the gaze&mdash;and abuse&mdash;of the NHL and AHL fans whose only interest is that their team wins and that &ldquo;blind so-and-so&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t make falls detrimental to that cause.</p><p>Such fine points as position for making calls and judgement on how long a player should be allowed to say his piece concerning a particular call had to be developed under fire.</p><p>After hall a season, Stewart, himself, would be the first to admit that each game still presents new problems and situations to cope with.</p><p>But the concensus of a wide range of league officials, general managers, coaches, and players is that his modern pioneering will have a good affect in the future.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-04

Player-to-ref Idea Liked By Harvey

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>LOUISVILLE. Ky.&mdash;</p><p>Detroit Red Wings and Cleveland Barons staged a wide-open scoring bee before Detroit won a 6-5 exhibition victory in inaugurating hockey in a brand-new arena with the largest seating capacity in North America.</p><p>There were only approximately 4.000 fans on hand for the game in Freedom Hall, which will seat 16,901 for the ice sport. That&rsquo;s more than the listed seating capacity of 16.666 for Chicago Stadium, largest of the National Hockey League rinks. There is not a single-post in this building, which opened last summer. The ice sheet Is 200 x 85 feet.</p><p>Hockey, which once thrived here on a minor-league scale, has gone sour since two teams folded in recent years. Louisville thrived in the international Amateur League in 1948-49 by averaging 7,000 fans a game in a plant holding 7,500. But the team dragged in last place when a switch was made to the professional United States League, which disbanded. Four years ago another IHL effort was made but the club folded in mid-season.</p><p>Jim Hendy, manager of the Cleveland Barons, promoted the Detroit-Cleveland exhibition and he has hopes of reviving hockey in these parts. Freedom Hall is big enough for successful, NHL operation if there was fan support to match.</p><p>The inaugural game saw Detroit gain a 3-1 lead in the first period hold a 4-4 tie after the second. The Barons twice took leads in the final stanza on goals by Jimmy Moore and Gordon Vejprava, who scored the hat trick. But each time Gordie Howe tied it up and Dutch Reibel finally supplied Detroit&rsquo;s winner with 1:24 of time remaining.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Louisville Is Equipped For Hockey

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p><i>Al Arbour learned well in his classes</i></p><p><i>That defensemen who have to wear glasses</i></p><p><i>Still have NHL luck</i></p><p><i>If they can keep the puck</i></p><p><i>And never never make any bad passes.</i></p><p>&bull;<b>WHILE</b> the limerick may be had, the message is clear and Al Arbour will be pleased to confirm the point.</p><p>Arbour is the only player in the National Hockey League who goes about his chores wearing spectacles. There is a strong belief that taped to the rims is a brief reminder which reads, &ldquo;never give the puck away&rdquo;.</p><p>Ability at that one particular playing technique has been the key to success for the lanky, rawboned, rear guard ever since his rather unexpected call-up by the Red Wings in December. So say such authorities as Red Kelly, Detroit&rsquo;s premier defenseman, and Jack Adams, who bosses the local crew.</p><p>&ldquo;I believe the best feature of Al&rsquo;s play has been the way-he works with the puck.&rdquo; points out Kelly, who is talented that way to an extreme degree himself.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s good at getting the puck and he never gives it away.&rdquo;</p><p>Red will go far beyond the call of duty as Red Wing captain in commenting about Arbour&rsquo;s ability. He has become somewhat of an Arbour fan for personal reasons ever since landing him as a regular partner on the Detroit defense.</p><p>Let Adams, the club&rsquo;s general manager, explain it:</p><h2><b>The Al Arbour Story</b></h2><p>&ldquo;There has been a world of difference in Kelly&rsquo;s play since Arbour has teamed with him.</p><p>&ldquo;Red is such a sincere conscientious type&mdash;maybe too conscientious&mdash;that he was sacrificing his own scoring ability to help cover up his partner.</p><p>&ldquo;We tried a couple of players there this season and Red insisted on staying back to help them.</p><p>&ldquo;Then we decided to try Arbour. After just a couple of games, Kelly was rushing again just like old times. That was the way he gave a vote of confidence in Arbour and it&rsquo;s good enough for me.&rdquo;</p><p>Thus the Detroit team got a bonus when Arbour, glasses and all, was hauled out of a two-year exile in the minors for an experimental test. Besides landing a full-fledged defenseman in Arbour, the Wings also brought Kelly back to his old form.</p><p>There was no fooling about the test. Al&rsquo;s first game was against Boston, with first place at stake as usual. When Kelly skated out for his first turn, Arbour was alongside him. He&rsquo;s been there ever since as a full-time regular and part of Detroit&rsquo;s starting lineup.</p><p>To one man who hasn&rsquo;t seen Arbour play an NHL game, this isn&rsquo;t a bit surprising. Arbour reported here from the Edmonton Flyers where he was coached by Bud Poile. Earlier this season on his wanderings through the Western Hockey League, Poile kept pouring out an earful about Arbour to anyone who would listen.</p><p>It was last Nov. 30 that the Flyers stopped off for a playing date at Vancouver and Poile was on his favorite topic during a chin fest with newsman Al Hooper.</p><p>&ldquo;Know who&rsquo;s the best player in this league?&rdquo; Poile asked, and then answered the question without waiting, &ldquo;Al Arbour is who, and we&rsquo;ve got him.&rdquo;</p><p>That night after Edmonton grabbed a 3-2 victory. Hooper wrote his own opinion this way:</p><p>&ldquo;Arbour is a defenseman with a pronounced aversion to doing anything wrong. He has an instinctive knowledge for being in the right place first. He may not be the best but there&rsquo;s no one here who can prove otherwise.&rdquo;</p><p>Much as he was delighted in possessing Arbour&rsquo;s services with the Flyers, Poile carried his campaign to the summit.</p><p>&ldquo;Bud kept telling me in his letters and during our telephone talks that Arbour was going great,&rdquo; Adams relates.</p><p>&ldquo;To be honest, I was kind of skeptical. Al had a bad season last year and I doubted if he&rsquo;d ever come along enough to make the Detroit squad.</p><p>&ldquo;But Bud kept insisting that I had the guy wrong, that he was greatly improved. Finally, I remember him almost begging me to bring him up for a trial&mdash;telling me that it was impossible for Al to improve any more in that league.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams chuckles when he tells the story, mostly on himself.</p><p>&ldquo;Here I was looking for a good NHL defenseman, had one in my own system and still had to be sold on him. Well, that&rsquo;s how it goes,&rdquo; he says philosophically.</p><p>Arbour can take up the story from there&hellip;</p><p>&ldquo;We had just come back from that Western trip and I was home helping wash, dishes,&rdquo; he relates. &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t have a telephone, so Hugh Coflin came over to the house and said Poile wanted me to call him. I went next door and called and Bud said I was leaving for Detroit the next day.</p><p>&ldquo;Thrilled? Sure I was&mdash;I had been hoping for a call-up.</p><p>&ldquo;But then I got to wondering if it meant I was going to sit on the bench.&rdquo;</p><p>As it turned out, of course, Arbour did his only bench-sitting between regular turns on the ice. Yet, it was an excusable question. Three seasons ago he had two different stays with Detroit totalling 36 games but spent most of them at the far end of the bench where the coach&rsquo;s voice rarely is heard.</p><p>The life of Detroit&rsquo;s fifth defenseman is far different than that of the first four. Adams&rsquo; system calls for two regular pairs with the extra man on hand only for emergencies.</p><p>Arbour sweated out that job when Kelly, Marcel Pronovost, Bob Goldham and Benny Woit were the regulars. Nowadays Buckv Hollingworth is the fifth man while Kelly-Arbour and Pronovost-Warren Godfrey get all the work&mdash;and fun.</p><p>&ldquo;I agree that it&rsquo;s tough on a player to sit out almost every game but if he&rsquo;s smart he&rsquo;ll put that time to good use,&rdquo; points out Coach Jimmy Skinner.</p><p>&ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t a man in this league who can&rsquo;t learn something new just by observing. I used to tell my juniors that they could learn more by studying the Red Wings during a game than I could teach them. NHL players can profit the same way&mdash;that&rsquo;s one of the benefits of being a bench man if a player is smart.&rdquo;</p><p>Arbour readily concedes the point saying:</p><p>&ldquo;I know I learned plenty when I was up before but when you&rsquo;re young and physically sound and love to play hockey, sitting on the bench is the hardest way to earn a salary I know.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01284/1642073-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="621" height="1281"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Allows Red To Roam</b></p><p><b>AL ARBOUR</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;It must have done me good, though. I know that when I came back this time, it seemed a lot easier. Another thing, I no longer was awed. I could play my regular game without any tension.&rdquo;</p><p>Although he has worn glasses while playing for the past seven years, this was the first time that Detroit fans realized it. The previous trip he was experimenting with contact lenses, which didn&rsquo;t work out.</p><p>&ldquo;They have a new kind out now and I think I&rsquo;ll give them a try,&rdquo; Arbour says. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to change in the middle of a season, so I&rsquo;ll wait until summer and try them out first while playing golf.&rdquo;</p><p>As the only player in the league wearing glasses on the ice, Arbour finds himself something of a special hero to Canadian youngsters who need their glasses when playing. He tells them it&rsquo;s no bother at all. He tapes the glasses to his forehead and the club is devising a special elastic band which will make them even more secure.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been knocked off a few times and once a lens jarred loose and cut my eye,&rdquo; he mentions. &ldquo;I was out for two weeks with that injury&mdash;the longest layoff I&rsquo;ve ever had.&rdquo;</p><p>Arbour adds that Mie glasses haven&rsquo;t kept him out of any fights. His thumping bodychecks along with his penalty record testify that glasses are no handicap in rough-and-tumble hockey.</p><p>Arbour explains this by saying that he&rsquo;s from Sudbury &ldquo;where they grow &lsquo;em rugged and train &lsquo;em rough&rdquo;. He started the day when, at the age of six, he was given a pair of skates by his dad. who promptly took him to a nearby rink for the initial training. There may have been a hockey career in mind at the time since an uncle, Amos Arbour, once played with Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;I was real small as a youth and didn&rsquo;t start growing until I was about 15 years old,&rdquo; Al recalls.</p><p>Size didn&rsquo;t slow down his hockey, however, for he played on a series of championship teams at Sudbury with the Holy Trinity minor bantams, bantams and midgets and Sacred Heart juveniles. His linemates in those days were Bob Sabourin and Mike Rats-ford, who later went into the Toronto system and now are in the minors.</p><p>Arbour could have followed them into the Maple Leaf organization but picked Detroit instead in rather unusual fashion.</p><p>&ldquo;I was asked by Toronto St-Mike&rsquo;s to play junior hockey there, while Morris Kinkley, he&rsquo;s dead now but was Detroit&rsquo;s scout in Sudbury, asked me if I wanted to play with the Windsor Spitfires,&rdquo; Arbour rebates.</p><p>&ldquo;St. Mike&rsquo;s was the glamour team then in junior hockey but for some strange reason I&rsquo;d always been a Spitfire fan while growing up. Kinkley told me that I could go to school at Assumption while playing for the Spits and that&rsquo;s what I decided to do.&rdquo;</p><p>His first year at Windsor he was assigned to the Hettches, a junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; farm in the In ternational League which had the Detroit Olympia as its home rink. There at the age of 16 he got his first taste of the ice where he was to become an NHL regular eight years later.</p><p>The next season he advanced to the Spitfires. Goalie Glenn Hall along with Glen Skov, now with Chicago, are the only other members of that team to reach the NHL. for Arbour, who always had been a forward up to that time, the big deal was his switch to defense.</p><p>Skinner, then coaching the Spits, dropped him back to defense during an emergency that saw all but two rear guards sidelined with injuries. Arbour confesses he didn&rsquo;t like the arrangement at all but he was sold on It before the emergency ended and has been a defenseman ever since.</p><p>He also stuck with his intentions of going to school, graduating from Assumption High and entering college. He played baseball for Assumption with a couple of notable teammatse. Reno Bertoia, a Detroit Tiger infielder, was the shortstop. Arbour was a pitcher and his catcher was Marc Resume, now a rival defenseman for the Maple Leafs.</p><p>In his final junior season, when it, became apparent that the club would miss the playoffs, Adams gave him the call for pro hockey. Arbour signed and was whisked off to Edmonton for his debut.</p><p>The following year his two sessions with the Red Wings, was sandwiched around a spell with Sherbrooke in the Quebec League. The next two seasons were all in the minors, the first split between Edmonton ant-Quebec City and then all last year at Edmonton.</p><p>That was the dreary part, those years in the farm system waiting and aching for another crack at the big time.</p><p>Each summer he returned home, working in the nickel mine at Sudbury and later-is a stockman in a store. The summer of 1955 he married a childhood sweetheart, the former Claire Sabourin.</p><p>Now, suddenly, the future has brightened&mdash;NHL job, an NHL salary, a home in the Detroit suburbs, a baby daughter named Jo-Anne. Al will be perfectly happy to take it just like this for several more years, maybe resuming his studies in the off-season with an eye on being an accountant.</p><p>&ldquo;It all goes back to something Poile kept telling me at Edmonton&mdash;about how I had to do just three things to be playing in the NHL again,&rdquo; Arbour says.</p><p>&ldquo;One was not to carry the puck so much. Two was to stay in my own zone. And three, that was the big point, never give the puck away.&rdquo;</p><p>With or without glasses, Arbour sees the sense to that.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Arbour’s Return A Break For Kelly

<p>Founded October 1st 1947</p><p>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3 00 in Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 in The U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</p><p>Entered as second-class matter, Octouer 3, 1953. at the Post Office at Rouses Point. N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879 Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in Canada.</p><p><b>VOL. 10 MONTREAL. JANUARY 26. 1Y57 No. 17</b></p><h2><b><i>PASSING THE PUCK</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02317/1642132-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="413" height="70"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01352/1642125-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="244" height="236"></div><p>&bull; CAPTAIN ANDY BRANIGAN of the Providence Reds was recently assessed his 1000th penalty minute in the American Hockey League during regular scheduled play&hellip; Although it was the most penalty minutes ever received by an American League player, it by no means indicates that Branigan spends most of his time in the penalty box. The colorful defenseman is, in his 14th season in the AHL and he was playing his 763rd game the night he incurred his 1000th penalty minute&hellip; Andy&rsquo;s average per season is 71-4 minutes&hellip; He also holds the AHL record for most games played&hellip; New York Rangers are in the midst of a road tour that takes them into every National Hockey League away station before they return to Madison Square Garden. &ldquo;If we can come home without losing ally more ground on the road.&rdquo; said Coach Phil Watson, &ldquo;we ought to be in pretty good shape for the stretch drive. At least 1 hope so. A lot of out-of-town critics said we were washed up when we had a recent slump, but I&rsquo;m sure we&rsquo;ve come out of if and we may surprise a lot of experts.&rdquo;&hellip; Terry Sawchuk made a very favorable appearance on Joe McCulley&rsquo;s Graphic TV show last week&hellip; Graphic is a copy of Edward R. Marrow&rsquo;s Person to Person and is carried by the CEC network&hellip; Sawchuk was at ease throughout and appeared very happy to be reunited with his charming wife and two kiddies&hellip; He also encouraged young boys to take up professional hockey as a career and said he would do the same thing all over again &hellip; George (Red I Sullivan is skating again and hopes to rejoin the Rangers sometime in February&hellip; Red has been out of action for six weeks with a spleen injury.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03241/1642118-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="151" height="224"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Branigon</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE</b> players have had to change their eating habits as a result of the Saturday afternoon television games&hellip; Players normally eat a big steak around three in the afternoon but with the two o&rsquo;clock starting time on Saturdays, they now find themselves eating eggs around 11:30 a.m&hellip; Rangers&rsquo; Andy Bathgate eats eggs twice on the days the Rangers play in the afternoon&hellip; He eats them at 9:00 and again at 11:30 in the morning&hellip; Johnny McCormack, the tenacious checker who performed in the NHL with Toronto. Montreal and Chicago is now the purchasing agent for a prominent Edmonton firm and is doing very well in his home town&hellip; The NHL record for playing the most, consecutive games without losing is 23, and is held by the Boston Bruins. It was set during&rsquo; the 1940-41 season &hellip; THE HOCKEY NEWS will once again feature the &ldquo;Amateur Puck Parade at a Quick Glance&rdquo;&hellip; Each week we will endeavor to run the team standings, top ten scorers, goalkeepers&rsquo; record etc. of as many amateur leagues as possible in Canada and the United States&hellip; So if your league isn&rsquo;t represented please get your secretary or publicity man to send these statistics into us each week &hellip; If you send them, we&rsquo;ll run them.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04188/1642111-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="156" height="225"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Botfiqote</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>YOUNG CANADA HOCKEY WEEK,</b> sponsored by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and its branches and affiliates for the purpose of promoting interest in minor hockey across Canada, will be held from February 4 to 11&hellip; This is an all-out effort to have every Canadian in every community support Hockey: The Canadian Game for Canadian Youth&hellip; New Westminster&rsquo;s Bobby Love will soon garner his 600th scoring point in the Western Hockey League&hellip; One of the shortest and stoutest little guys to ever play in pre ranks. Love has been a fixture in the WHL&hellip; Phil Maloney of Vancouver picked up his 200th WHL point the other night&hellip; Lou Fontinato, New York Ranger&rsquo;s highly publicized defenseman and the NHL&rsquo;s &ldquo;Bad Man&rdquo;, tells me that Red Horner was always his boyhood idol&hellip; Horner was Toronto&rsquo;s perennial NHL &ldquo;Bad Man&rdquo; during the thirties&hellip; Fontinato would like to break Horner&rsquo;s record of consecutive years as the National Hockey League&rsquo;s most penalized player&hellip; Lou already holds the mark of most penalized minutes in one season&hellip; 202. which he set last season&hellip; Guelph Biltmores are once again the powerhouse club in the OHA Junior A ranks &hellip; Guelph would like to duplicate the feats accomplished by their great 1951-52 Memorial Cup champions&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05166/1642104-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="166" height="235"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lou Fontinato</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It would be gross misrepresentation to say that Ted Kennedy came back to the Toronto Maple Leafs in a blaze of glory, goals and garlands.</p><p>But Ted Kennedy HAS come back. And he IS leaving evidence everywhere to testify to his presence.</p><p>In his first three games, played on a trial basis, the Old Master Paymaster set up three Leaf goals and proved that he had not lost the faceoff touch that made him so valuable to Toronto teams in the past. It was enough to convince the Leaf front office and Ted himself that he could be of service and the 31-year-old centre ended his 18-month retirement by signing for the balance of the season.</p><p>Also resuming his old responsibilities as team captain, at the insistence of his successor, defenseman Jim Thomson, and the balance of the team. Kennedy made his official comeback before a Toronto audience on Jan. 12.</p><p>At first the Leaf fans withheld their judgment. But halfway through the game they burst into one of the greatest ovations of the season as the returning captain showed another flash of his old briliance by digging the puck from three Black Hawks behind the Chicago net, quickly assessing the situation, and singling out rookie Bob Pukford for a perfect passout that shot Leafs ahead to stay.</p><p>The next night, at Chicago, he maintained his point-per-game average by scoring Leafs&rsquo; sole goal in the 1-1 tie that put Leafs into fourth place. Yet despite such moments of triumph, there has been more grind than glory to Kennedy&rsquo;s comeback. Fifteen pounds overweight when he first decided to leave retirement, he spent six exhausting weeks in training to bring himself back to his 184-pound playing weight.</p><p>Through a punishing grind of skating and scrimmaging, an hour a day of relentless bicycling in a YMCA gym, and a mile per day of running, he shed the excess weight. But even then, he discovered his legs lacked the drive that was always essential to his digging style of play.</p><p>Doubts of his ability to come back increased with both Ted and his bosses daily until a fresh Leaf emergency arose with the New Year. Tod Sloan. Leafs&rsquo; top-scoring centre, suffered a shoulder separation that would sideline him for approximately a month.</p><p>As soon as he learned of the injury. Kennedy volunteered to play, adding &ldquo;if the Leafs are desparate enough to scrape the bottom of the barrell.&rdquo;</p><p>Rather than risk permitting their former star to humiliate or embarrass himself in front of Toronto fans before he had a chance to work himself into playing condition on the road. Leafs held off the comeback for two games&mdash;until the team made a three-game road trip to Detroit, New York and Montreal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06134/1642163-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="550" height="1065"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Back With Knack</b></p><p><b>TED KENNEDY</b></p></figcaption></div><p>The road trip constituted Kennedy&rsquo;s trial-period, from which the Leafs and Teeder judged the centre&rsquo;s ability to make good a return. And it started out dis-asterously.</p><p>Instead of falling back on a silent acknowledgement of the obvious excuses he might have used in the circumstances, Kennedy blamed himself for the losing goal in his Detroit debut. Johnny Bucyk scored it in the dying moments to rob Leafs of a tie and the point that could have put them into undisputed possession of fourth place.</p><p>&ldquo;I saw the play shaping up,&rdquo; Teeder chastised himself afterward. &ldquo;But 1 didn&rsquo;t have the legs to do anything about it.&rdquo;</p><p>The game nevertheless served a purpose.</p><p>&ldquo;It tightened me up a lot, the way nothing else could,&rdquo; the centre noted as he scrimmaged in the next two days. And when he played again in New York, he set up two of the four goals by which Leafs beat their Ranger rivals for fourth place.</p><p>And he gave coach Howie Meeker reason to believe he would fulfill his major role in this comeback&mdash;as a teacher for Leafs abundance of youngsters.</p><p>&ldquo;Gerry James (on Kennedy&rsquo;s right wing) played the best positional hockey I&rsquo;ve-ever seen him play in that game,&rdquo; said Howie. &ldquo;It could very well have been Teeder&rsquo;s influence. No matter how many times Hap (GM Day) or myself tell a kid what to do, we can&rsquo;t get onto the ice and make him do it. Ted&rsquo;s out there and can, just the way he did for myself and others when we were breaking in.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We have a young team and we need the experience and balance Kennedy could provide,&rdquo; Day contours. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s still a few games off his peak, but I don&rsquo;t think anyone expected him to come back and be just as great immediately as he was when he played regularly in the past.&rdquo;</p><p>The team and Thomson nevertheless wanted things for Kennedy &ldquo;Just the way they were when he left,&rdquo; and Thomson accordingly wrote the letter that influenced the reluctant Kennedy into accepting the captaincy. Originally he declined it, unfair of him to take it from the defenseman who had assumed the task just this winter.</p><p>And in Montreal, Kennedy began to feel the old strength returning.</p><p>&ldquo;Twice I had a chance to make a break, and my legs responded to the drive you need to get underway,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Without strength, you feel vulnerable, but with it you feel confident. I&rsquo;m beginning to feel that confidence.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Old Master Paymaster Kennedy Still Has Magic Touch Of Old

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04162/1642215-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="309" height="112"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Most hockey coaches consider themselves extremely lucky if they are able to hurl one good, high-scoring forward line against the opposition.</p><p>Some even have trouble developing one powerful unit without sacrificing scoring strength elsewhere in the line-up. On the other hand the Montreal Canadiens are in a class by themselves. They haven&rsquo;t got one good line. They&rsquo;ve got two and that&rsquo;s why they are leading the league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02276/1642229-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="158" height="250"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>When his club is intact&mdash;no one in sick bay&mdash;Coach Toe Blake doesn&rsquo;t have to worry. He has Jean Beliveau, the leading scorer, on one line with Bernie Geoffrion and Bert Olmstead. He has Maurice Richard, the top goal-getter of all-time, on the other with young Henri Richard and Dickie Moore.</p><p>No other club has such two well balanced combinations, staffed by such versatile performers that they are intermixed on the power play with defenceman Doug Harvey always on the left point.</p><p>At this writing the Habs had scored 137 goals, even more than at the corresponding period of last year, and the two big lines had accounted for 101, indicating that there is scoring punch among the lesser lights, too. Claude Pro-vost, who switches from left wing to right as the occasion demands, has been the big gun on the third line with 11 tallies.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03213/1642222-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="148" height="211"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 148px"><b>Dickie Moore</b></figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><p>Here is how the big lines compare in points:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05110/1642208-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="309" height="110"></div><p>Admittedly, neither of the Montreal lines has compiled as many points at this stage of the race as Detroit&rsquo;s famed Production Line of Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Norm Ullman but there are circumstances to be considered. The Red Wings forwards, free from injuries all season, have played every game for their club.</p><p>The Habs hounded by a persistent injury jinx, have had no such luck. Geoffrion has missed 19 games off his line and Beliveau has missed one. The two Rockets have missed seven games apiece. Only Olmstead and Moore have managed to stick in the line-up.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0671/1642201-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="162" height="247"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Henri Richard</b></figcaption></div><p>Yet, at this writing, the Production Line had bagged only tour more tallies than the Rocket line and only ten more than the Beliveau line.</p><p>For comparative purposes here are the Red Wing totals:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0741/1642194-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="312" height="121"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-04

Canadiens Success Traced To Pair of Big Lines

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The hot-and-cold nature of hockey players (or hockey luck) offers some interesting case histories among the Red Wings this season.</p><p>For example, there&rsquo;s waspish little Ted Lindsay.</p><p>Not too long ago Lindsay made news because he failed to score. He went nine straight games without a goal and the managerial claws of Jack Adams were at his throat.</p><p>Lately Ted has been making news with his scoring. The slump snapped and in the 15 games since he has scored 10 goals plus 10 assists.</p><p>This surge boosted him one point ahead (50 to 49) of Gordie Howe in the team scoring race and also moved Lindsay up as No. 1 challenger to Montreal&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau in the National Hockey League individual derby.</p><p>His latest goal was No. 22 for the season, marking the 10th time in his 13-year career that he has topped the 20-goal level.</p><p>All of which can be taken as evidence that, as the age of 31, Lindsay is enroute to his best season yet. Ted was the NHL scoring champ back in 1949-50, the first of the 70-game campaigns. when he picked up 78 points. He needs only 29 more points in 30 games to beat that, a stern test but still possible at his present, pace.</p><p>Lindsay&rsquo;s biggest season tor goals was nine years ago when scored 33 times in the 60-game card of 1947-48. That&rsquo;s another figure which he can top at his going rate.</p><p>While Lindsay has gone from cold to hot, ltnemate Gordie Howe temporarily has moved in the other direction.</p><p>Only a few weeks back Howe was enjoying the hottest streak of his career&mdash;18 goals and 13 assists over a stretch of 19 games.</p><p>Without warning, he cooled off. There was no apparent change in style but Gordie has been blanked in goals in the five games since and picked up only one assists.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t fight luck and you can&rsquo;t wish goals.&rdquo; Gordie answers wisely. &ldquo;Some times you can score from behind the net while standing on your head. Oilier times, you can&rsquo;t buy goals when you have perfect openings. Don&rsquo;t ask me why-&mdash;tell me why&rdquo;</p><p>Streaks involving Howe and Lindsay deeply affect the Wings&rsquo; success. If both went cold at the same time for any prolonged stretch, look out! Howe has 25 goals. Lindsay 20 and no one else on the team has even 10.</p><p>While the other forwards don&rsquo;t have as impressive total, several of them also have been operating in hot and cold streaks.</p><p>Rugged Johnny Bucyk is another of the happy examples at present. After getting only two goals and one assist in the first 30 games. Bucyk suddenly found himself. In the last 10 starts he scored three times and assisted on five others.</p><p>Easy-going Dutch Reibel is a notable late starter. He lived up to it by making a single goal in the first 14 games. Now he has eight.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01305/1642260-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="307" height="300"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>COLD, NOW HOT</b></p><p><b>TED LINDSAY</b></p></figcaption></div><p>The real puzzlers, of course, are those eases of an opposite nature.</p><p>For instance, in the pre-season figuring lanky Lorne. Ferguson was counted on as a 26-goal man. He started on schedule with six goals and five assists in the first 17 games. Dotroit has played 23 times since but Ferguson hasn&rsquo;t made a single point&mdash;neither goal nor assist.</p><p>Billy McNeil knows how that goes. After a call-up from the Edmonton farm after the seasou was underway, McNeil hit the league hot with five goals in his first 10 games. Then he stopped. Completely. No goals in 25 games since.</p><p>Billy Dea also had a whirlwind start and loomed as a potential Calder Trophy candidate for rookie of the year honors. He was leading all NHL freshmen in both goals and total points at one stage. But he skidded and has had only one goal in the last 15 games.</p><p>And so it goes. Veteran Marty Pavelich, used mostly as a defensive forward, hasn&rsquo;t scored in 29 games. Metro Prystai and Bill Dineen both have been blanked the last, nine games-Prystai in a stall while seeking the 150th of his NHL career. Norm Ullman recently went 19 games with only one goal.</p><p>Whenever a cold streak hits, most players realize that only time can bring a change. But that doesn&rsquo;t stop the worrying and the wondering.</p><p>Coaches wonder it they&rsquo;re missing something wrong that is keeping the player in a cold streak. The player wonders it lie has changed his style without noticing it. The player&rsquo;s wife wonders it something around the house is disturbing him. And the tans wonder what anybody is doing about it all.</p><p>Any one who has a ready-made solution is urged to send it to the player concerned, c/o the Detroit Olympia. It excess solutions are available, there are plenty of players on the other NHL clubs who also can use them.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-01

Even Lindsay, Howe Experience Effects Of Weird Puck Luck

<div class="byline">By Marshall Dann</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01375/1642291-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="153" height="240"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Nation-wide television has come and gone from the Detroit Olympia and you can hear the Red Wings muttering &ldquo;good riddance&rdquo;.</p><p>The script was great and the plot intriguing as the Olympia became the stage for the Red Wings and New York Rangers to present a true &ldquo;spectacular&rdquo; over a 109-station coast-to-coast TV network.</p><p><b>But the curtain act got all mixed up. To those 12,128 spectators in the local studio, the Detroiters were supposed to be the matinee idols of the day while the Rangers were cast as the unwilling victims.</b></p><p>Then the climactic scene became all twisted and the Rangers skated off with the game.</p><p>But the 10-game series was booked to spread the gospel about the sport of hockey being exciting. No game could have packed more sales appeal for the neutral viewers, who probably were siding with the Rangers all along anyway.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the way a fiction writer would have dressed his plot.</p><p>Here were the weary Rangers playing for the second time in exactly 16&frac12; hours, having faced off the night before at 9:30 p.m. local time and then doing it again at 2 o&rsquo;clock in the afternoon.</p><p>Furthermore New York was a lowly fourth-place club while the famed Detroiters were striking for first.</p><p>And then (remember, this is supposed to sound like a real drama) Detroit jumped to a 3-0 lead. After the Rangers roared back to tie the tally at-3-all, Detroit went ahead again. Once more New York got the equalizer.</p><p>Some thrilling last-minute action was required to out-sparkle those early deeds in order to apply a proper finish. Andy (Honalong) Hebenton did just that by scoring the winning goal with seven seconds to go.</p><p>Besides showing the action on the ice the Big Eye also probed into Detroit&rsquo;s lockerless locker-room during one intermission. Millions of viewers could see what the Wings are doing when they are doing nothing.</p><p>The long nose of the TV camera poked around the powder room to show players sipping tea in paper cups and eating quartered&rsquo; oranges. It missed the best scene&mdash;the sight of Billy McNeil, his four front teeth missing. biting an orange.</p><p>Take out your plate, dad, and try it yourself.</p><p>All was peaceful and happy in that studio. The Wings held a 2-0 lead at the time.</p><p>Lucky the Big Eye wasn&rsquo;t present the next intermission when it was 3-3, or at the end when Detroit stomped in a 5-4 loser. The scene then-might have blown the video right out of your tubes.</p><p>There was only one hitch in the dressing room scene. The script called for the players to be shown filing in from the rink. They had Io wait outside the door for more than a minute so the beer could be poured in the commercial.</p><p><b>The venerable rules of hockey made their first concession to the demands of TV at this game. Rule 5(c) in the NHL book was changed. The center red line became a dot-dash affair instead of one solid streak.</b></p><p>Seems that the TV announcer was having trouble calling the red line and the blue lines. Fans in these parts understand, even without color TV, hut not so in those places where hockey was unknown before its TV introduction a week before.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-01

On Thin ice

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>When NHL president Clarence Campbell told a nation-wide television audience that he hoped the new Saturday afternoon CBS telecasts would stimulate hockey interest among non-hockey playing youngsters, he couldn&rsquo;t have anticipated the quick response to his talk.</p><p>Within a week of the first telecast, Jan. 5, the following hockey &ldquo;firsts&rdquo; took place in the New York Metropolitan area.</p><p>(1) The first peewee hockey league in Long Island was formed at Long Beaoh, site of a new municipal outdoor rink.</p><p>(2) For the first time in its history, the New York City Parks Dept, gave hockey teams permission to play at its magnificent indoor rink at Flushing Meadow, site of the Worlds Fair Grounds.</p><p>In addition, plans are underway to form a peewee circuit at Tom Lockhart&rsquo;s Long Island Arena in Commack when it opens next Fall as well as the massive Island Gardens rink in West Hempstead.</p><p>Amateur hockey in New York, which flourished during the years the Rovers inhabited Madison Square Garden, has been dormant since the junior Rangers departed five years ago.</p><p>In the interim there has been a rink building boom in the Met area and consequently play-for-fun hockey is slowly but surely enjoying a rebirth.</p><p>The Long Beach peewee loop&mdash;campaigned for by the writer in his New York Journal American column&mdash;was kicked off with a program featuring Ranger stars, Lome Worsley, Bill Gadsby, Danny Lewicki and Andy Hebenton.</p><p>With a packed gathering looking on, the Blues demonstrated the game&rsquo;s fine points and then staged an &ldquo;exhibition&rdquo; tilt against some of the better amateur hockey players in the area.</p><p>To be sure, the Rangers were the victors but it must be noted that the opposition goaltender&mdash;at least for a few seconds&mdash;was none other than Rocky Graziano, a Long Beach resident.</p><p>A boxer, yes. An actor, yes&hellip; But, a goaltender, the Rock will never be!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Quick Response Follows First Telecast

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It may not be necessary to build a Maple Leaf Wing on Toronto General Hospital after all.</p><p>For the first time in three months, Leafs could look into the infirmary in mid-January and see fewer stars there than on the ice.</p><p>Only Tod Sloan remained disabled, with a shoulder separation. And even the Slinker was expected back by the end of January.</p><p>Rudy Migay, George Armstrong and Barry Cullen were the latest to mend, and with the return to hockey of Ted Kennedy, yielded the team its first forward surplus of the season.</p><p>To make room for the convalescent cases, Ron Hurst, Brian Cullen and Gary Aldcorn were returned to Rochester of the American League.</p><p>The seriousness of the situation when the casualty list was at its peak is best illustrated by the makeup of the team now. Each line is centred by one of the most recent returnees, Migay on one unit with Ron Stewart and Sid Smith; Army on a second with Tim Horton and Dick Duff: and Teeder on the third, with Bob Pulford and Gerry James. And the one remaining absentee is another centre, Sloan.</p><p>Inasmuch as Leaf President Conn Smythe contends &ldquo;Strength Down Centre&rdquo; is the backbone of any team, Leafs missed a bet in not hiring a sawbones for a coach.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sick Bay Uninhabited As Leafs Returning, Slinker Sole Casualty

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Bronco Horvath will be invited to the training camp of the Montreal Canadiens next fall and, according to managing director Frank Selke, will be given every opportunity to join the team as a regular centre.</p><p>&ldquo;Horvath is a fine prospect,&rdquo; said Selke. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to him to make the team. If he shows enough ability in camp, there&rsquo;ll be a place for him.&rdquo;</p><p>A lanky 26-year-old pivot, Horvath played one game in Montreal with the Habs when Jean Beliveau was out of action with a bruised hip. He impressed the hockey writers with his playmaking and shooting ability, functioning on a line with Bernie Geoffrion and Bert Olmstead.</p><p>Horvath was obtained on waivers from the New York Rangers who had sought to make him eligable to play for Providence. However the Habs acquired his contract and sent him Bronco Horvath to the Rochester Americans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02259/1642370-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="162" height="236"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bronco Horvath</b></figcaption></div><p>Bronco served his junior apprenticeship with the Galt Black Hawks in the Ontario Hockey Association and played professionally with Springfield, Syracuse and Edmonton before joining the Rangers for the 19 55-56 season.</p><p>With Edmonton he set a new Western Hockey League scoring record, scoring 50 goals and obtaining 60 assists, good for 110 points in 6 7 games.</p><p>Horvath will join the Habs at Verdun, Que., in mid-September.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Horvath Impresses, Will Be Invited To Habs’ Training

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p><b>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>The Black Hawks lost their littlest man, but one of their biggest hustlers at Toronto January 12 when winger Wally Hergesheimer suffered a a fractured right shoulder in the third period. He will be out for at least six weeks and perhaps the balance of tie 11)56-57 campaign.</b></p><p><b>Secured in the straight trade that sent Red Sullivan to New York last summer, &ldquo;Hergie&rdquo; had not lived up to expectations in the goal-getting department, but earned his pay with very aggressive play undertaken despite his weight of less than 150 pounds.</b></p><p><b>The fracture was just another bad break for the Black Hawks who have seen little good luck come their way this season. Hergesheimer was unable to recall who dealt out the check along the boards that was apparently responsible for the injury.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hergesheimer May Be Lost For Season

<p><b>Edward C. J. Litzenberger of Neudorf, Saskatchewan, is one of the few bright spots on an otherwise bleak Chicago hockey horizon this year.</b></p><p><b>The rangy right winger is the Hawks leading scorer of the moment and their big scoring hope in the Chicago drive to escape occupancy of the National Hockey League cellar for another season.</b></p><p><b>Big Litz, he&rsquo;s six foot, one inch and 194 pounds, is tied for 11th place in the individual scoring tables with 32 points on 16 goals and an equal number of assists.</b></p><p><b>Originally the property of Montreal Canadiens, Ed helped sink his old mates on Jan. 20 with a pair of important assists as Hawks thumped the league champions, 4-2, in the Stadium. He also contributed a goal on Saturday as Hawks staged a game fight before bowing 3-2 to Detroit Red Wings third period drive.</b></p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1129/1642557-1-eng-US/f0007-112.jpg" title="f0007-11" width="105" height="158"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 105px"><b>Eddie Litzenberger</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Now in has third NHL season, Ed is showing the promise he exhibited two years ago when he captured the Calder Memorial Trophy as the loop&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. He had 51 points that year, including 23 goals, but last year suffered the sophomore jinx, picking up 39 points, including only 10 goals.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawk-Buffalo combination, which abounded with proven defensemen at training camp Iasi fall, now finds itself so low on strength there that Buffalo coach Frank Eddolls recently had to move veteran left winger Pete Babando back to help the ailing Herd.</p><p>When the two clubs commenced their conditioning program at St. Catharines, Ont., last fall, the roster included the likes of Allan Stanley, Ben Woit, Gus Mortson, Elmer Vasko, Pierre Pilote, Frank Martin, Ron Ingram, Fred Hucul, Alex Hucul, Al Dewsbury, Rags Raglan. Vic Dzurko, Frank Sullivan, Tony Schneider, and a couple of graduated juniors.</p><p>Indeed, the two clubs should have come away with adequate strength&mdash;and plenty of reserve&mdash;from that group.</p><p>Stanley, who would have been a real help to the Bisons, was the first to go. He was sold to Boston for less than the waiver price, and has become a key man to the Bruins&rsquo; power play.</p><p>Raglan was dispatched to Vancouver as part of the transaction that sent Mid Houghton from the Canucks to Chicago&rsquo;s Calgary farm.</p><p>On the eve of the American League opener, the Bisons&rsquo; rearguard lineup consisted of Al Dewsbury, Fred Hucul, Frank Sullivan, Frank Martin, and Vic Dzurko.</p><p>Martin, in an 11th hour change, switched jobs in Chicago with Ingram. However, Ingram was with the Bisons only seven games before he was called up again by Chicago.</p><p>Woit, incidentally, slipped out of the Bisons&rsquo; grasp into a Rochester uniform when he was placed up on waiver by the Hawks without the right recall. Like Stanley, Woit would have been a fine addition to the ailing Herd backline.</p><p>The situation in Buffalo became extremely acute when Hueul, who impressed in the few games he played, was lost for the season due to a serious groin injury.</p><p>More recently, Eddolls&rsquo; headaches were compounded by the loss of Frank Sullivan, an AHL All-Star the past two campaigns, with knee trouble.</p><p>With Schneider, the only Buffalo-owned chattel already recalled from Quebec to take Hucul&rsquo;s place, Eddolls bad no alternative but to try Babando, who had a brief fling at defense in his early pro days.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01360/1642588-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="302" height="476"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Moved Back</b></p><p><b>PETE BABANDO</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Bison General Manager Fred Hunt, after a look at the talent in the Senior OHA, decided to give full three-game trails to Florent Pilote, 20-year-old brother of ex-Bison favorite Pierre, and Don Ward, a teammate of Florent&rsquo;s with Windsor&rsquo;s Bulldogs.</p><p>At this writing, Pilote has completed his trial period. The Buffalo brass was impressed by his rugged, run-at-them type of play but wanted to weigh it against Ward&rsquo;s ability to carry out of his own end. &lsquo;</p><p>One will be turned pro, and may help strengthen the corps in front of hard-working Harry Lumley.</p><p>But the situation is still a far cry from the way things shaped up in training camp.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Defensive Plight Has Herd Moaning

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The Hershey Bears, sparked by the sensational clutch goal tending of Norm Defel-ice, are once again on the prowl. When this was written, the Bears had climbed out of a third place tie with the Buffalo Bisons to pull within two points of the pace-setting Providence Reds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02297/1642619-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="299" height="315"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Steady Scorer</b></p><p><b>DUNC FISHER</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Pacing the Bears in their drive to overtake the defending Calder Cup champions were Al Nichol-son, Dune Fisher and Willie Marshall, who racked up a total of 19 goals in the seven-game stretch which saw Hershey snap a losing streak in which Frank Mathers&rsquo; crew dropped five out of seven games.</p><p>&ldquo;Nick&rdquo; tops the group with eight scores, which included a six-game scoring streak. Fisher potted seven goals and Marshall, four. Both Marshall and Fisher passed the 20-goaI mark, each posting their 21st scores. Marshall also registered nine assists during the same period.</p><p>Gil Mayer, the Bears regular goalie, is still sidelined with a knee injury and it is doubtful whether he will be able to get back into action for four weeks or more. If an operation is deemed necessary it will be even longer.</p><p>It is interesting to note that the Bears are the only AHL club which hasn&rsquo;t made important personnel changes since the season opened. Coach Mathers is still going with the same squad which started the race. Nicholson and Floyd Smith have gone up and down to help the injury-riddled Boston Bruins, but no new faces have been added to the club since the season got under way back in October.</p><p>Veteran Bobby Solinger, who got off to a slow start, is now finding the range and, if his recent goal production rate continues, he&rsquo;ll soon reach the select 200-goal club. Solly has potted nine goals to date, leaving only five more to get to reach the charmed circle.</p><p>Meanwhile, rugged Larry Zei-del continues to be the loop&rsquo;s &ldquo;bad man&rdquo;, with a total of 134 minutes in the cooler. He&rsquo;s a cinch to top Ray Gariepy&rsquo;s old mark of 147 minutes, set back in 1950-51. Don Cherry, too, might top the mark, the Boston farmhand having a total of 113 minutes it the sin bin.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bears Move Again On Sharp Sniping

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>This writer recently had the opportunity of examining two bruised fists at close range and as a result is willing to serve as a key witness in behalf of those who argue hockey fights are for real.</p><p>The first fist was that of crag-nosed Carmen Basilio, the welterweight champ-on boxer of all the world.</p><p>Carmen claims he hurt his pinkies on the jaw of one Johnny Saxton some weeks ago. As a result be was appearing before he Cleveland Boxing Commission to seek a postponement of his its return match with Saxton.</p><p>The second fist was that of stephen S. Kraftcheck, who everyone must know is the square-shouldered, curly-haired backbone of the Cleveland Barons&rsquo; defense corps.</p><p>Stephen claims he damaged his trusty right hook on the whiskers of one, Bronco Joseph Horvath of the Rochester Americans.</p><p>Now here in the states, south at the Canadian border, there are those who suspect hockey fights are not what they are cracked up to be.</p><p>As one who has been forced to contend with this type of doubter, the writer invites all suspicious parties to step forward and examine the evidence.</p><p>Basilio&rsquo;s hand might be hurting the champ like all get out but it can&rsquo;t come close to comparing with the tender paw of Kraftcheck.</p><p>&ldquo;Mr. Commissioner,&rdquo; said the champ, &ldquo;I got to have a delay because I can&rsquo;t even hit a bag without feeling the pain.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Have you been punching the bag?&rdquo; asked the commissioner.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; declared the champ, but I&rsquo;m not hitting right.&rdquo;</p><p>Not hitting right! Why if Carmen was able to close his fist at all it couldn&rsquo;t have been hurting as much as our man Kraftcheck&rsquo;s.</p><p>For more than a week after he rapped his hook on Horvath&rsquo;s jaw. Kraftcheck couldn&rsquo;t even close his hand on his stick. He gave up his most potent weapon&mdash;the slap shot&mdash;in favor of passing to a teammate.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03229/1642650-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="631" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Paining Paw</b></p><p><b>STEVE KRAFTCHECK</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Besides, tough, beetle-browed Carmen is paid to chop guys up with his hands.</p><p>And kind-hearted affable Stephens is paid to play hockey.</p><p>Stephen&rsquo;s disposition is usually that of a playful Boy Scout&mdash;kind, obedient and cheerful.</p><p>That is unless he is provoked by some rudeness on the part of the enemy.</p><p>The latter was the case when the Barons trounced the Rochester Americans, 3-1, at the Cleveland Arena Friday, Jan. 11.</p><p>The normally considerate Kraftcheck, who stands close to six feet and tips the scales at 190, ripped off his gauntlets and attacked the person of Mr. Horvath.</p><p>Now Bronco is no candidate for the chorus line of the Copa Cabana, either. He reaches to an impressive height of six feet and weighs in at somewhere around 175 pounds.</p><p>His disposition is often that of <i>a</i> sweet and freshly blown Spring breeze.</p><p>Unless, as in the case of Mr. Kraftcheck, he is provoked.</p><p>Under these latter circumstances he has been known to flip his top and utilize his stick it the manner of Willie Hoppe at tempting a three-cushion shot or to drop said club briskly down upon the unprotected skull of an enemy.</p><p>In any event, Stephen suddenly flew at Bronco and the two went at it in pre-historic fashion.</p><p>It was a short but violent encounter in the manner of a ferret assaulting a rabbit.</p><p>&ldquo;He slashed me across the lei with his stick,&rdquo; steamed Kraft check later.</p><p>&ldquo;Is that all?&rdquo; queried this agent.</p><p>&ldquo;He also speared me once and high-sticked me,&rdquo; snarled the pride of Hamilton, Ont.</p><p>Now to cement the case of the defense in the trial of &ldquo;How Legitimate is a Hockey Fight&rdquo; we ask the court to give its at tention to Exhibit &ldquo;A&rdquo;&mdash;tin second, third and fourth knuckies of Stephen&rsquo;s light hand&mdash;and Exhibit &ldquo;B&rdquo;&mdash;Broncos jaw.</p><p>&ldquo;Your honor, sir, have you ever laid eyes on a sorer meat hook? Or on a messier pair of chops?&rdquo;</p><p>The defense rests.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Fights On Level Cleveland Barons Offer Kraftcheck As Evidence

<h2><b>Milestone</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>rnie Kullman of Hershey Beers recently became the third active AHL player with 500 points. Two Cleveland Barons, Jackie Gordon with 575, and Fred Glover with 532 preceeded Kullman into the select group.</b></p><h2><b>Hat-Tricks</b></h2><p><b>No less than 10 AHL players have scored hat-tricks this season but none have accomplished the feat twice. Camille Henry, now with Rangers, scored three goals in one game and then pumped home four more in another.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01345/1642765-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="314" height="114"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 Springfield 0 at Hershey 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02323/1642758-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="313" height="184"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 Providence 1 at Rochester 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03276/1642751-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="311" height="235"></div><h3><b>Springfield 3 at Clexeland 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04235/1642744-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="316" height="265"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 Rochester 1 at Springfield 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05180/1642737-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="313" height="284"></div><h3><b>Providence 0 at Cleveland 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06153/1642730-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="322" height="206"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 4 at Hershey 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07142/1642723-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="311" height="339"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 Hershey 2 at Springfield 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08132/1642716-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="329" height="300"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 3 at Rochester 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09127/1642709-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="311" height="363"></div><h3><b>Providence 4 at Buffalo 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10114/1642702-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="198" height="292"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1192/1642695-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="1242" height="857"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Bower To Red&rsquo;s Rescue</b></p><p><b>JOHNNY BOWER</b> of the Providence Reds, the American League&rsquo;s leading cage custodian again this season, comes to the rescue here in this action against Springfield Indians. He has just foiled the Tribe&rsquo;s Doug McMurdy and here both parties involved follow the flight of the puck as it sails past the net. (Photo by Steve Lemanist</p></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POIHT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 20th)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1261/1642688-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="315" height="285"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1350/1642681-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="310" height="160"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Three players were unanimous for the National Hockey League All-Star Team as picked for the first half of the current season. The three players who received every vote possible for their respective positions were Doug Harvey of Canadiens on defense. Jean Beliveau of Canadiens at center and Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe at right wing.</p><p>Other members of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s super six were Terry Sawchuk of Boston in goal, Red Kelly of Detroit on defense and Ted Lindsay of Detroit at left wing. The first half voting was carried out by a panel of Hockey writers, broadcasters and telecasters from the six NHL cities.</p><p>Points were awarded on the basis of five for a first choice, three for a second and one for a third. The most points a player could poll was 90. That is getting the first place vote of every selector on the panel.</p><p>A similar poll will be carried out for the second half of the 1956-57 season and players will combine their point totals for both halves. Players with, the highest aggregate point totals will win places on the Official First and Second All-Star Teams. Members of the First Team will receive $1,000 each from the NHL. while members of the Second Team will each poll at $500.</p><p>The closest voting took place for one of the defense positions. Red Kelly of Detroit pulled 46 points to Doug Mohns&rsquo; 43, to nose out the Boston Bruins rearguard for the First Team post.</p><p>Following is a list of the players as selected to the First and Second All-Star Teams and the number of points compiled by each player:</p><h2><b>FIRST TEAM</b></h2><p>Goal: Terry Sawchuk, Boston (67)</p><p>Defenses: Doug Harvey, Canadiens (90); Red Kelly, Detroit (46)</p><p>Center: Jean Beliveau, Canadiens (90)</p><p>Right Wing: Gordie Howe, Detroit (90)</p><p>Left Wing: Ted Lindsay. Detroit (73)</p><h2><b>SECOND TEAM</b></h2><p>Goal: Glenn Hall, Detroit (45)</p><p>Defenses: Doug Mohns, Boston (43); Bill Gadsby, Rangers (33)</p><p>Center: Norm Ullman, Detroit (20)</p><p>Right Wing: Maurice Richard, Canadiens (38)</p><p>Left Wing: Dickie Moore, Canadiens (30)</p><p>Following is the complete list of players who received one or more votes in the balloting at the half-way mark of the 195657 season. These were the players who although they polled votes failed to gain berths on either five First or Second Teams.</p><p>Goal: Jacques Plante, Canadiens, 23; Al Rollins, Chicago, 17; Ed Chadwick, Toronto, 9; Lome Worsley, Rangers, 1.</p><p>Defense: Fern Flaman, Boston 25; Marcel Pronovst, Detroit. 21; Tom Johnson, Canadiens, 13; Bob Armstrong, Boston, 11; Gus Mortson, Chicago and Allan Stanley, Boston, 10; Pierre Pilote, Chicago, 4; Jim Thomson. Toronton. 3; Jack Evans. Rangers and Jim Morrison. Toronto, 2; Jim Horton, Toronto, 1.</p><p>Center: Henri Richard, Canadiens, 16; Andy Bathgate, Rangers, 12; Tod Sloan. Toronto, 10; Don McKenney, Boston, 8; Fleming Mackell, Boston, 3; Rudy Migay, Toronto, 2; Glen Skov, Chicago, 1.</p><p>Right Wing: Jerry Toppazzini. Boston, 27; Eddie Litzenberger, Chicago, 3; Bernie Geoffrion. Canadiens, 2; Andy Bathgate, Rangers, and Floyd Curry, Canadiens, 1.</p><p>Left Wing: Bert Olmstead, Canadiens, 24: Real Chevrefils, Boston, 19; Vic Stasiuk, Boston, 7; Dickie Duff, Toronto, 6; Harry Watson, Ohicago, 3.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

3-Players Unanimous All-Star Selections

<div class="byline">LUNNY</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;While at full strength, the Montreal Canadiens rolled to a 10-game winning streak in the National Hockey League. Then&mdash;boom!&mdash;Boom Boom Geoffrion entered hospital with an infection and short-staffed again, the Habs saw their string shattered by the lowly Black Hawks in Chicago.</b></p><p><b>The Hawks won 4-2. Canadiens&rsquo; streak consisted of nine wins and a tie. And what club do you think gained the tie? Yes, the Hawks. It was a 3-3 stalemate in Montreal.</b></p><p><b>Geoffrion, hardshooting right dinger, who underwent an elbow operation earlier this season, is suffering from an infection in the blood stream. He is expected to be out of the line-up for two weeks.</b></p><p><b>He wasn&rsquo;t replaced for the game with Chicago but a substitute likely will be promoted for Habs&rsquo; next engagement in Montreal, against the Hawks on January 26</b></p><p><b>Already this season Geoffrion has missed 18 games.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Is The Boomer Good Luck Charm?

<h2><b>A Tight Fit</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>E</span>dmonton Flyers have participated in the most one-goal games to date and have the best winning percentage in the squeakers. In 18 one-goal verdicts they own 15 victories. Winnipeg&rsquo;s 4-12 mark is the worst in the league.</b></p><h2><b>First Blanking</b></h2><p><b>Seattle Americans suffered their first shutout defeat of the season recently at the hands of Vancouver Canucks and goalie Ray Mikulan. Amerks had gone 36 Western League games without being blanked.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01358/1643001-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="320" height="484"></div><p><b>Games Scheduled Up To January I4th</b></p><p>Monday, January 7th</p><p>Vancouver at Victoria</p><p>Tuesday, January 8th</p><p>Winnipeg at Vancouver</p><p>Calgary at Edmonton</p><p>Wednesday, January 9th</p><p>Winnipeg at New Westminster</p><p>Edmonton at Calgary</p><p>Friday, January 11th</p><p>Seattle at Victoria</p><p>New Westminster at Vancouver</p><p>Winnipeg at Edmonton</p><p>Calgary at Brandon</p><p>Saturday, January 12th</p><p>Vancouver at Seattle Victoria at New Westminster</p><p>Brandon at Calgary</p><p>Edmonton at Winnipeg</p><p>Monday, January 14th</p><p>New Westminster at Victoria</p><h3><b>TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 Victoria 3, at Vancouver 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02317/1642994-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="322" height="315"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 4, at Winnipeg 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03255/1642987-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="318" height="232"></div><h3><b>Calgary 1, at Edmonton 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04204/1642980-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="321" height="190"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 Vancouver 1 at Seattle 7</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver</b>&mdash;Goal: Mikulan; defense: Syverson. Hudson, Currie, Kaiser Forwards: Keller, McLeod, Maloney, Lamoureux, Wylie, McLean, Brown Cadman, Johnson.</p><p><b>Seattle</b>&mdash;Goal: Francis: defense: Allen, Sinclair, Wright, Creighton, Repka; forwards: Fielder. Kinasewich, Fonteyne, Senick, Bradley, Kuzma, Dorohoy, Szturm, Hart.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05170/1642973-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="312" height="243"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-179/1642966-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="298" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Most Points</b></p><p><b>GUYLE FIELDER</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06152/1642959-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="321" height="682"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07135/1642952-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="320" height="574"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08130/1642945-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="323" height="199"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-186/1642938-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="611" height="712"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Having Big Year</b></p><p><b>BILL &ldquo;WIGGIE&rdquo; WYLIE</b></p></figcaption></div><h3><b>New Westminster 6 at Brandon 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09122/1642931-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="318" height="377"></div><h3><b>Winnipeg 4 at Calgary 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10104/1642924-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="330" height="245"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 Winnipeg I at Victoria 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1184/1642917-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="324" height="267"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY. JANUARY 7 New Vestminster 2 at Edmonton 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1274/1642910-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="313" height="323"></div><h3><b>Seattle 0 at Vancouver 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1353/1642903-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="322" height="236"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, JANUARY 5 Edmonton 1 at Brandon 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1432/1642896-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="318" height="251"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 0 at Calgary 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1519/1642889-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="321" height="302"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-196/1642882-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="300" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Tops Flyers</b></p><p><b>TONY LESWICK</b></p></figcaption></div><h3><b>Winnipeg at Seattle 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1612/1642875-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="322" height="400"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01354/1643032-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="167" height="176"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>Al Parsley</i></b></figcaption></div><p>(As seen in the Montreal Herald)</p><p>&bull; TROIS-RIVIERES, QUE.&mdash;&ldquo;If I can pick up a couple of prizes like I did last year this will be a very successful trip.&rdquo;</p><p>The tall citizen doing the talking was Lex Cook. He&rsquo;s out of Cleveland, scouting tor the AHL Barons. The prizes he alludes to were Jimmy Moore, the aggressive and smooth skating centreman, and Marcel Paille, flashy young goaler.</p><p>On his safari into the Quebec Hockey League last season Cook grabbed both these boys. Now Jimmy, brother of the NHL Habs&rsquo; Dickie Moore, is something of a sensation, and high on the totem pole among the scorers in the AHL. Last time we looked he was second or third. He may be doing better by next edition.</p><p><b>&ldquo;We put Moore on a line with Fred Glover and Bo Elik, the 27-year-old rookie we picked up in &ldquo;North Bay,&rdquo; says Cook, &ldquo;and it&rsquo;s just about the niftiest line in the league. Elik is a high scorer, as you&rsquo;ve noticed. So is Glover while Moore is hitting just as good a stride as he did with Chicoutimi last season.&rdquo;</b></p><p>The Cleveland club put some good money into the purchase of the two stars, and Jim Hendy, the Cleveland hockey impresario, is quite satisfied. Not only is Moore well worth every nickel spent but Paille is just about the best of the younger fry among netminders to be found anywhere among the minor pros. He may get a ticket for the NHL in another year or so. It is understood that New York Rangers have some sort of string on Paille, who was developed in the NOHA with North Bay Trappers after having a season with Gerry Plamondon at Metane in the Lower St. Lawrence League.</p><p>Cook showed up at the Forum before Royals took off for their game with the I.ions. He was welcomed on the club bus by Frank Carlin and Elmer Lach. Of course the big guy is an old friend, well known around these parts, naturally, after a couple of hitches some years back as the coach at Cornwall when the Factory Town was in the old QSHL and later at Quebec.</p><p>Born in Edmonton where he organized junior teams when only 16, Cook later found his way to Northern Ontario where he gained great fame as coach of the Kirkland Lake team that won the Allan Cup in the 193940 season. The Allan Cup really meant something in those days because the minor pros and the high priced juniors hadn&rsquo;t crowded the seniors almost off the hockey map.</p><p><b>The greatest star ever turned out of Kirkland Lake, of course, was Bill Durnan, the brilliant goaler for long years with Canadiens, who doesn&rsquo;t need midi introduction so far as Montreal fans are concerned.</b></p><p>&ldquo;And I&rsquo;ll tell you a funny thing about Durnan,&rdquo; said Cook. &ldquo;Your Montreal people were interested in him and promised to find him a job if he would come to Montreal and play hockey the next winter. We waited, and waited most of the summer and beard nothing. It was autumn before the late Gus Ogilvie sent us money and told Durnan to pack up and get to Montreal where he would play for Royals</p><p>&ldquo;Can you imagine allowing a fellow like that to stay loose all summer the way hockey is operated nowadays?&rdquo; &ldquo;Heah! Durnan was the greatest,&rdquo; said Lach. &ldquo;He won the Vezina Trophy six out of seven years, and quit when lie was on top, too.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Though he has been in hockey for nearly a half century in one capacity or another, George M. Slater, president of the Quebec Hockey League is never reluctant to employ a new idea, it he believes it will improve the game or its playing conditions.</p><p>A zealot of keen competition he has always been ready for any suggestion that might help the officiating with the natural result&mdash;a higher quality of fast and clean hockey dedicated to tine sportsmanship</p><p>Thus when their chief, George Gravel, called referees and linesmen to a recent meeting to discuss the playing rules and their interpretation. Mr. Slater hit upon a novelty. He borrowed a tape-recorder.</p><p>As the whistlemen assembled all were warned not to talk all at once. A tiny microphone was set up in the middle of a long, table. The refs and their helpers sat around. It two or three men were to talk at the same time the tape would record a garbled chatter.</p><p>The tape was played back to the writer a day or so later, and it was surprising how clearly each voice was heard. Many were easily recognized. The main purpose was more important. The effort to achieve a common understanding of each knotty point in the code was furthered.</p><p>By those among fans who have studied hockey rules this move will be appreciated. It&rsquo;s been continually contended that few officials have the same interpretation of what constitutes an &ldquo;icing&rdquo; under certain circumstances, what is the proper ruling of an offside when players on both teams are in odd situations, and a dozen more complicated problems which arise in the heat of a stirring hockey game.</p><p>&ldquo;I think this has been one of our more progressive moves in our project for better officiating&rdquo; Slater said. &ldquo;The fact that voices were recorded naturally slowed down the discussion, but this made everyone take time to reflect before advancing an opinion. None was ready to comment on a rule without being sure of what he was about to say. Now all will have the true purpose of each rule firmly implanted hi their minds. They&rsquo;ll also have an immediate re-action for the proper decision.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02280/1643063-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="603" height="783"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Progressive Attitude</b></p><p><b>GEORGE SLATER</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s most important.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And another point to remember&rdquo; Slated continued, &ldquo;When future discussions are held, and a former opinion is challenged, a fellow can&rsquo;t say he didn&rsquo;t say it this way, but that way, we can always threaten him by playing back the tape.&rdquo;</p><p>It&rsquo;s trite to say again that a glib knowledge of the hockey rules never makes a top notch referee. The individual factor is always paramount. Still it&rsquo;s reassuring to find that the Quebec League is applying modern methods in an unwavering campaign for better understanding of the code and improvement in its interpretation on a common ground.</p><p>Mr. Slater would be and always has been the last one to capitalize on another&rsquo;s misfortunes. but he can hardly resist pointing out that the recent injury to Stan Smrke, is an oustanding case supporting the Slater campaign to rate scorers on a percentage basis of points per game rather than on total points as has been standard operational procedure in most hockey leagues for years.</p><p>At the time ot his injury Stan Smrke, the smart and sharp left winger of the Sagueneens, then leading the league, had scored 20 goals, helped in another 18 for 3 8 points.</p><p>Marcel Bonin, and his linemate, Orval Tessier, with Quebec Aces are the top-kicks in the current scoring parade in the Quebec circuit figuring this strictly on a point basis. Bonin with nine tallies and 35 assists has 44 points, quite a parcel at that. But it took him 4 2 games to collect this total, Tessier also worked in 42 contests to marshall his 24 goals, 19 assists for 43 points.</p><p>Working on a percentage basis (points per game) Bonin&rsquo;s averages comes out at 1.04, that of Tessier lower still at 1.0 2. Now Smrke&rsquo;s average is 1.15.</p><p>With a knee injury requiring hospitalization and surgery. Stan Smrke had already missed nine of Sagueneens&rsquo; games, at this recapitulation. Conceivably he&rsquo;ll be sidelined for another five or six games before he returns to active duty in another two weeks or so. Should he get back by the second week in February he&rsquo;ll play in 12 to 15 of the Chicoutimi club&rsquo;s scheduled games down the stretch.</p><p>Suppose he makes it for 50 to 55 all told.</p><p>The QHL complete bill of dates calls for each club to go to the post 6 8 times. Fifty games would be better than two thirds of the schedule.</p><p>In that event Smrke could, merit consideration if a minimum of 51 or 52 games were set as a standard to qualify percentage wise for the league&rsquo;s scoring title, and incidental cash or trophy awards. His percentage, if he can hit something like his old stride again, might stand, up as better than that of either Ronin or Tessier or any dark horse that might finish with a. great drive under the whip.</p><p>Mr. Slater has persistently stressed the inequities so strikingly revealed in the case of Stan Smrke. The QHL president is now ready to take this as Exhibit A, and he points out that it isn&rsquo;t only injuries that take players out of QHL competition.</p><p>Many of them lose time because or brief trials in the National Hockey League or occasional shifts to the American League.</p><p>If his percentage plan were implemented Slater believes it would be a system fair to all.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-02

QHL Uses Tape Recorder As Referees Meet On Rules

<div class="byline">AL PARSLEY</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>rois Rivieres, Que.&mdash;It&rsquo;s likely Trois Rivieres Lions have had their fill of Sunday double-headers. Last weekend the Lions played Royals in the afternoon at the Montreal Forum then shuttled back here to meet Chicoutimi Sagueneens the same night.</b></p><p><b>The Lions failed to score a goal all day. Beaten 3-0 by Gerry McNeil and the Royals in Montreal, the Trois Rivieres troupers lost again at night 1-0 in to Ray Frederick and Chicoutimi Sagueneens.</b></p><p><b>This is the second time this season the Lions went for one of these iron-man acts of travel and competition. They doubled up on Sunday, Jan. 6.</b></p><p><b>That time they played the same team twice. They managed to split the spoils. In &lsquo;the afternoon they nosed out Royals 2-1 at the Forum after 1:25 of overtime on a goal by Jean Paul Bisaillon, but Royals won at Trois Rivieres in the evening 4-1.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lions Prove Tame As “Iron Men”

<h2><b>So Chicks Cheer</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>ood news is in stere for the Chicoutimi Sagueneens if high scoring left winger Stan Smrke responds to treatment form Forum physio-theraputist Bill Head. According to medicos schedule Stan may rejoin the Chicoutimi club shortly.</b></p><h2><b>Ticket For $35</b></h2><p><b>Rollie Rousseau, veteron defenseman with the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, paid $35 in fines last week&mdash;and it wasn&rsquo;t for parking. He was tagged with a 10-minute misconduct ($10) which was raised to a game misconduct ($25)</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01359/1643209-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="317" height="138"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, JAN, 15 Trois Rivieres 2 at Quebec 4</b></h3><p><b>Trois Rivieres</b>&mdash;Goal: Marcotte; defense: Bownass, Bedard, Tennant, Leclerc; forwards: Bell, Kapusta, Kabel, Atwell, Vinet, Thibault, Corcoran, Biraillon, Blaine, Goyette.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Millar; defense, Crozier, MacNab, Hillman, Lamirande; forwards: Gamble, Tessier, Groleau, Teal, Bonin, Be Rett, Labadie, O&rsquo;Ree, Achtyinuchuk, Tremblay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02317/1643202-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="323" height="331"></div><h3><b>Shawinigan 1 at Chicoutimi 1</b></h3><p><b>Shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Amadio, Hodgson, Keating, Taillefer; forwards: Flemming, Dcsaulniers, Wfay, Laforge, Bouchard, Courcy, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal; Frederick; defense: Roy, Glaude. Rousseau, Chevalier: forwards: L. Smrke, Topoll, Leger, Parker, Hicks, F. Perreault, Lores, Allard, Langevin, Baluik.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03286/1643195-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="311" height="255"></div><h3><b>Wednesday, January 16 Royals 2 at Trois-Rivieres 4</b></h3><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: Roche, Deslauriers, Duncan, MacPheron; forwards: Corriveau, P. Goyette, Boucher, Rousseau, Burnett, Denis, CressnYan, Gillis, Bradley, Laplante.</p><p><b>Trois Rivieres</b>&mdash;Goal: Marcotte; defense; Bownass, M. Goyette, Bedard, Tennant, Leclerc; forwards: Bell Kaonsta, Kabel, Atwell, Vinet, Blaine, Thibault, Corcoran, Gagnon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04257/1643188-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="318" height="363"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1398/1643181-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="300" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Quebec Wreckers</b></p><p><b>MARCEL BONIN</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1489/1643174-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="301" height="476"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB BECKETT</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 Quebec 4 at Shawinigaa 3</b></h3><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Millar; defense: Hillman, Crozier, MaeNab, Lamirande; terwards: Achtymichuk, O&rsquo;Ree, La bailie, Teal, Tessier, Bonin, Tremblay, Beckett, Gamble, Cossette.</p><p><b>shawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault: defense: Taillefer, Flemming, Hodgson, Amadie; forwards: Courcy, Grosse Wray, Dube, Faulkner, Broden, Deaaulmeis, Bouchard, Denis, Laforge.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05222/1643167-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="312" height="439"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 5 at Royals 8</b></h3><p><b>Chicontimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Gia tide. Chevalier, Roy, R. Rousseau: forwards: Locas Perreault, Leger, L. Smrke, Topoll, Pichette, Baluik, Parker, Hicks, Allard.</p><p><b>Royals</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: Roche, Deslauriers, Duncan, Macpherson; forwards: Corriveau, Goyette, Boucher, G. Rousseau, Cressman, Burnett, Denis, Gillis, Bradley, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06188/1643160-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="321" height="538"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 Chicoutimi 3 at Ottawa 6</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Glaude, Chevalier, Roy, R. Rousseau; forwards: Locas, Perreault, Leger, L. Smrke, Topoll, Pichette, BaHuk, Parker, Hicks. Allard.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b>&mdash;Goal: Boisvert: defense: Ruel, Lengarini, Tardif, Johns, Picard, Lamb; forwards: Richard, Wilson, Backstriom, Balfour, Annable, Carter, Dumouchel, Tremblay, Carroll, Reid.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07175/1643153-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="317" height="394"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, JANUARY 20. 1957 Shawinigans 3 at Quebec 4</b></h3><p><b>Sbawinigan Falls</b>&mdash;Goal: Perreault: defense: Amadio, Hodgson, Flemming, Taillefer; forwards; Desauiniers, Wray, Laforge, Bouchard, Denis, Broden, Grosse, Faulkner, Dube.</p><p><b>Quebec</b>&mdash;Goal: Nlillar; defense; Crozier. Macnab. Hillman, Lamirande: forwards: Gamble, Tessier, Teal, Bonin, Beckett, Labadie, O&rsquo;Ree, Atchmycliuk, Cossette. Tremblay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08164/1643146-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="313" height="335"></div><h3><b>Three Rivers 0 at Montreal 3</b></h3><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Marcotte; defence: Bownass, Bedard, Tennant, Leclerc, M. Goyette: forwards: Bell. Kapusta, Kabel, Atwell, Vinet, Blaine, Thibault, Corcoran, Gagnon.</p><p><b>Montreal</b>&mdash;Goal: McNeil; defense: Roche, Deslauriers, Duncan, Macpherson; forwards: Corriveau, P. Goyette, Boucher, Rousseau, Cressman, Burnett, Denis, Gillis, JBiadley, Laplante.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09158/1643139-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="322" height="296"></div><h3><b>Chicoutimi 1 at Three Risers 0</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi</b>&mdash;Goal: Frederick; defense: Glaude, Chevalier, Roy, Rousseau; forwards: L. Smrke, Watson, Locas, Perreault, Leger, Tepoll. Pichette, Hanna, Baluik, Parker, Hicks.</p><p><b>Three Rivers</b>&mdash;Goal: Marcotte: defense: Bownass, Goyette, Bedard, Tennant: forwards; Bell,. Kapusta, Kabel, Atwell, Vinet, Blaine, Pepin, Thibault, Corcoran, Gagnon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12119/1643132-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="316" height="216"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10152/1643125-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="317" height="485"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11134/1643118-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="315" height="244"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-01

QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>ILD BILL IMPRESSES&hellip;</b>there&rsquo;s no question that Wild Bill Ezinicki made a mighty big impression during his first few days in Northern Ontario&hellip; he arrived in Sudbury the other day amid a big fanfare of publicity and adulation but proved to be a real friendly, modest guy&hellip; he made an instant hit with hockey officials, civic leaders, sportscasters, sportswriters and fans&hellip; Bill appeared on my hockey broadcast from Sudbury back to Sault Ste-Marie and also selected the three stars of a Sudbury-Soo game&hellip; the fans back in Sault Ste Marie told me they enjoyed listening to Ezinicki, who is bound to increase attendance all over the circuit&hellip; said Bill: &ldquo;I feel good over being in Sudbury and I only hope I can help the club. The people in the North have treated me swell and I know I&rsquo;m going to like it here. I&rsquo;m. going to do everything I can to help the Sudbury Wolves.&rdquo; Bill looks fit, as he always does. He is working hard right now getting into top form&hellip; Don Mackintosh, sports editor of the Sudbury Daily Star, gave the Ezinicki story a big play, and of course, sportscasters Joe Spence and Daye Wright also went to town on the deal &hellip; it proved to be one of the major hockey stories of the season&hellip; from my experience with Wild Bill I would say he&rsquo;s going to be a great asset to the sport and will definitely lure many more people into the various rinks all over Northern Ontario &hellip; it will be interesting to see Bill play against Joe Klukay of the Windsor Bulldogs in the interlocking sked&hellip; Bill told THE HOCKEY NEWS that he finds the hockey in the NOHA very good&hellip; WELCOME TO NORTHERN ONTARIO, BILL!</p><p><b>VETS SHOW SI&rsquo;ARK&hellip;</b>one of the most interesting attractions of the 1956-57 season so far was the annual Oldtimers hockey match featuring stars of another era&hellip; rugged Red Hamill, former Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks star, emerged the big star with big goals to spark his Sudbury Oldtimers to a 17-12 triumph over North Bay Oldtimers in a wild and woolly game&hellip; Billy Dwyer, former North Bay senior star,, led North Bay with a three-goal job&hellip; my good friend, Jim Dewey, who was a brilliant star with the famous Frood Tigers who won the Allan Cup back in the torrid Thirties, was another oustanding player for Sudbury along with George Hastie, a teammate of Jim&rsquo;s on that great Allan Cup team&hellip; Pep Kelly, former Toronto Maple Leaf, played with North Bay &hellip; it was quite a game!&hellip; Eddie Joss classy pivot for the Soo Indians, told THE HOCKEY NEWS he may be back soon &hellip; he was injured in North Bay some time ago during a collision with Bill Needham&hellip; Eddie suffered a shoulder separation but told me it was coming along fine and he was confident he could return to action sooner than expected&hellip; we all miss you, Eddie!&hellip; Gus Gustavsen, hard-hitting and popular defenseman for the Sudbury Wolves, required hospital treatment for an eye injury suffered in practice&hellip; but he&rsquo;s back in action now&hellip; everyone in the circuit admires the work of Gus and we&rsquo;re glad to see him back&hellip; Coach Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty of the Sudbury Wolves was kicked out of game against the Soo Indians by Referee Bud McDonald&hellip; Johnny got really burned up over a penalty to Armand Lemieux&hellip; The North Bay Trappers; at this writing, have lost seven games in a row after being the scourge of the NOHA&hellip; they lost games to Sudbury and the two Soos, then dropped all games during their Southern Ontario swing&hellip; however, the big lead they piled up in first place should assure them of the league crown unless they collapse comnletely which isn&rsquo;t likely&hellip;</p><p><b>MAXIE TO GET HEARING&hellip;</b>the Maxie Silverman case will be aired before the NOHA brass in February &hellip; it has become a celebrated case all over the country&hellip; the famous hockey personality was barred by the NOHA for purely personal reasons on the part of the brass and the sooner this great injustice is rectified the better for the NOHA and good clean sportsmanship in Northern Ontario&hellip; the treatment accorded to The Silver Fox goes down in the history books as the greatest black eye in this fine sport&hellip; public opinion demands that Maxie be reinstated and vindicated&hellip; The All-Star game between Sudbury Wolves, NOHA champs, and the pick of the other teams, will be played in Sudbury in February &hellip; it was moved back from a January date&hellip; did you notice a letdown on insane stick-swinging in the NOHA? This Is a good sign&hellip; just before getting this column prepared, we worked out the latest standings in the NOHA scoring parade&hellip; we find that 18 players have 30 or more points&hellip; seven are North Bay Trappers, five Sudbury Wolves, three Soo Greyhounds and three Soo Indians&hellip; veteran Laurie Peterson of the Indians is still the top man with 51 points on 28 goals and 23 assists&hellip; Artie Stratton, clever ex-junior and a star with the Trappers, is second with 47 points on 21 goals and 26 assists&hellip; Nick Tomiuk of Sudbury has 44 points for third place while Billy Watson of Sudbury is fourth with 42 points on 19 goals and 23 assists&hellip; Johnny Offidani of the Indians is tied with Frank O&rsquo;Grady of the Wolves on 39 points, while three Trappers, Gerry Cabana, George Gosselin and Fiori Goegan, are deadlocked in sixth position with 38&mdash;all, strangely enough, with 13 goals and 25 assists&hellip; Johnny Bailey of the Greyhounds is tied with Russ Kowalchuk of the Indians and Andy Milne of the Wolves on 33 points&hellip; tied in ninth spot are Pete Horeck of the Greyhounds, Bobby Forhan of the Wolves and Don Hogan of the Trapers with 32 points&hellip; rounding out the circle of players with 30 or more points are Marcel Clements of the Greyhounds and Stan Maxwell of the Trappers with an even 30&hellip; Peterson leads the field in goals with 28, while Stratton and Tomluk lead in assists with 26&hellip; Peterson, who had a lack-lustre season in 55-56, is the sensation of the circuit this season&hellip; Since Phil Hughes, former North Bay great, joined the Soo Indians the team went on a winning streak with five games in a row&hellip; he allowed only 13 goals in those five games for a 2.60 average&hellip; then the roof finally caved in down in Sudbury where the hungry Wolves trounced the Tribe, 7-1, with Hughes besieged with rubber&hellip; &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s not have any more of those games,&rdquo; sighed Phil&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NOBA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>TROY, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>This hasn&rsquo;t been a happy season for the Troy Bruins of the International Hockey League.</p><p>In fact, it&rsquo;s been a very disappointing one for a club that had made a practice of being up with the leaders year in and year out.</p><p>But General Manager Kenny Wilson and Coach Nellie Podolsky aren&rsquo;t throwing in the towel yet&mdash;-even if their playoff hopes don&rsquo;t appear any too good right now.</p><p>&ldquo;A good winning streak, say five or six games, would put us right back up there within striking distance of a playoff berth,&rdquo; Wilson told your HOCKEY NEWS correspondent recently.</p><p>&ldquo;We still feel that we have a good enough outfit to finish third or fourth, but we&rsquo;ve simply been too inconsistent up to now.&rdquo;</p><p>It hasn&rsquo;t been through a lack of effort on the part of Troy management that the Bruins have been languishing in the basement all year in the IHL. Players have been shunted in and out of Troy with monotonous regularity, as Podolsky sought to put a winning combination on the ice.</p><p>With two thirds of the campaign gone, the Bruins had been able to win just 10, while losing 29 and tying one. This left them five and a half lengths behind the fifth-place Huntington Hornets.</p><p>Huntington, however, is just two and a half games out of second. which is in the none-too-secure grip of Ft. Wayne. Toledo, with the advantage of having four games in hand over Ft. Wayne, is a half game back, with Indianapolis in fourth, a game and a half behind Toledo.</p><p>As for the Cincinati Mohawks, they appear intent on clinching their fifth straight International League crown at the earliest date of all time.</p><p>Beaten only seven times and tied once their first 3 9 times out, the Hawks have piled up 63 points to hold a commanding 13-game advantage over Ft. Wayne.</p><p>Appraising the rest of the loop, Podolsky feels that there are at least two clubs which his Troy team can beat out.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to depend on the boys themselves,&rdquo; Nellie stated. &ldquo;If they want to get in the playoffs badly enough, they&rsquo;ll come through, never fear. Otherwise, if we just continue to coast along like we&rsquo;ve done in a number of games, we&rsquo;ll get nowhere.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the key men in the Bruin hopes for a playoff spot is Marty McAlendin, a young left winger who scored well a year ago despite an injury. Marty had trouble getting started this season, but has snapped out of his slump&rsquo; lately to bolster Troy&rsquo;s attack.</p><p>In his third season with Troy, McAlendin had six goals and 11 assists for 17 points in his first 30 tilts. &ldquo;When Marty begins to score those goals, we&rsquo;ll start moving,&rdquo; says Podolskv.</p><p>ICING THE PUCk&hellip;The U.S. Olympic team found IHL teams very strong in a series of games with them recently. Huntington beat the Nationals, 3-2; Cincinnati blanked them,&rsquo; 5-0; Troy downed them. 4-3, and Ft. Wayne stopped them, 6-4&hellip; The Mohawks, who have won eight in a row, won three close ones last week. They edged Ft. Wayne and Toledo by 3-2 scores and turned back Huntington, 41&hellip;Ft, Wayne&rsquo;s Edgar Blondin has moved past the century mark in penalties, with 101 minutes spent in the sin bin&hellip; Cincinati&rsquo;s Bill Sutherland upped his total of game-winning goals to seven&hellip; John (Bun) Smith, Mohawk winger, is continuing to score goals at a rapid pace and now has 24 to his credit, tops in the IHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Troy Bruins Envision Good Finish

<div class="byline">By DOUGLAS MILLROY</div><p>TRAIL, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The scoring-races in the two interior British Columbia hockey leagues can&rsquo;t exactly be termed races this year: the leaders have had things too much their own way all season.</p><p>In the Western International league, Spokane Flyers sophomore centre Art Jones took the lead after less than six games had been played and has held it ever since, going at better than a two-point-a-game.</p><p>In the Okanagan league, centreman Odie Lowe of the Allan Cup Champions Vernon Canadians took the lead in points and goals at the drop of the puck and is still so far out front be is almost a cinch for the scoring crown.</p><p>In games up to Dec. 11 Lowe had 43 goals and 38 assists for 81 points and a 20-point bulge over Johnny Milliard of Kamloops Chiefs. Billy Hyrciuk, number two scorer in the league while with the Chiefs last season, is only three points back of Milliard.</p><p>Lowe capped his performance for the week with a five-goal, one-assist effort against Kelowna Packers. The five goals enabled him to pass the 100-goal milestone in the OSAHL. He led Canadians&rsquo; scorers last season with 43 goals and 48 assists for 91 points.</p><p>In the WIHL Jones has 71 points in 35 games&mdash;38 goals and 33 assists. He is followed by teammates Lorne Nadeau and Dave Gordichuk, both way back in the low 50s.</p><p>Jones, who led the league in goals last year with 44 in 50 games, should accomplish this trick again easily and also has a chance to make it a clean sweep by coming out top in assists. He leads teammate Frank Kubasek at present by two.</p><p>Both leagues experienced a comparatively quiet week as hockey goes in these parts. It was strictly hockey for everybody and no one bothered to touch off the usual fireworks, much to the pleasure of league officials who were getting somewhat annoyed at the necessity of so many suspensions.</p><p>The Okanagan loop still has one big headache to cure, however. Owner-manager Kenny McKenzie of Kamloops Chiefs has been ordered by the league not to use Fred Sasakamoose, a colorful full-blooded Indian defenseman. Sasakamoose is under suspension until the league and the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association have cleared up his amateur status.</p><p>Kelowna Packers protested Kamloops&rsquo; use of Sasakamoose claiming he was a professional. McKenzie, however, retaliated slating he did not play hockey last year so is an amateur.</p><p>Early last week the league ordered McKenzie not to use Sasakamoose until the case was cleared up. However, McKenzie, in open defiance to the league, used him in two games before giving way to the league&rsquo;s demand.</p><p>Vernon sides with McKenzie on the issue while Penticton Vs team with Kelowna in registering the protest.</p><p>The Canadians maintained their six-point edge over Kamloops for the league lead last week, pouring in 2 2 goals in two games against Kelowna and Penticton.</p><p>Kelowna and Penticton, battling for third place in the four-team league, were tied six points back of Kamloops.</p><p>Until their two-game outburst this week the Canadians had been finding the going rocky In recent weeks. Only their large lead built up in the early part of the season kept them in front of Kamloops. At this time last year Vernon was so far ahead the other clubs couldn&rsquo;t see the Canadians with binoculars.</p><p>In the Western International league, Trail Smokies won two of four games. Both from Ross-land Warriors to cut Spokano Flyers lead to four points. Flyers split a pair of games.</p><p>Smokies got their wins over the cellar-dwelling Rossland Warriors and missed their big chance to gain ground when they lost 6-4 to Spokane in Trail Thursday. The Flyers lost in Nelson Saturday 5-3 as Pat Egan&rsquo;s up and coming Maple Leafs won their second game of the week and fourth in their last five starts.</p><p>Leafs now lead Rossland by 12 points; two weeks back Warriors had chopped a 16-point Nelson lead to six-points in the battle for third place.</p><p>The return of Fritz Koehle after an absence of more than a month has seemingly put life in the Leafs. They knocked over Trail 7-1 Wednesday in a game which saw them recover after blowing a 4-0 lead, looking sharp in stopping Spokane Saturday. Another big factor in Leafs rise has been the return to form of goalie Gus Adams. The little net-minder has allowed only 22 goals in his last eight games.</p><p>Smokies, tied for first with Spokane a little more than two weeks back, snapped a slump that saw them win only one of seven games when they defeated Rossland 5-1. As the WIHL race enters the home stretch Smokies are in a rough position as they trail by four points and the Flyers have two games in hand.</p><p>Rossland seems doomed to last place. They have lost defenceman Bill Short for the season with a fractured ankle and centre Frankie Turik has been on the sick list. Pinoke McIntyre has also lost much of his effectiveness lately as he has received more than his share of rough jolts.</p><p>Winger Norm Lenardon, who asked Trail Smokies for his release just before Christmas, is one bright spot in the Mountain city. Since joining Rossland he has scored seven goals and added, two assists in nine games, and promises more to come.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Runaway Scoring Races Western Senior Loops

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Amateur Puck Parade At A Glance

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD, Ont,&mdash;</p><p>Whether North Bay Trappers&rsquo; four-game tour of the western division of the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA provided a true gauge by which to compare the brand of hockey in the NOH A and the OHA is debatable. The Trappers lost to Windsor, Chatham. Stratford and Kitchener, and possibly playing those four games in five nights took too much of a toll from Eddie Riegle&rsquo;s crew. Reigle, himself, was unable to play, due to an injury.</p><p>But North Bay wasn&rsquo;t the losingest team, because the lowly Owen Sound Mercurys dropped five straight games, and with the exception of their 5-4 reverse at the hands of Stratford, the scores were lopsided, as the Mercurys, were able to score only eight goals in the other four games while having 40 counted against them.</p><p>Verily, the plight of Coach Tommy Burlington&rsquo;s club is something which is causing plenty of concern within the group, because for their last home game less than 400 fans attended. Manager Jack Ingoldsbv denies that the Mercurys will fold, but insist, instead, that they will complete the season.</p><p>What happens next season rests solely with the Owen Sound fans, according to Ingoldsbv. who says they are building for 19S7-5-8, but if patronage doesn&rsquo;t pick up during the balance of the current season, there is a good chance that the Mercs will be forced to call it quits, owing to the lack of finances. The hope exists that the Owen Sound club may be able to find an &ldquo;angel&rdquo; along similar lines to that of &ldquo;Tony&rdquo; Wisne, wealthy Detroit manufacturer who is bankrolling the Windsor Bulldogs.</p><p>Yet when the Mercurys are drubbed 12-3 by Chatham, 10-2 by Windsor and 20-3 by Kitchener, it certainly&rsquo; isn&rsquo;t much of an inducement for any sponsor to dig down and keep the Mercurys alive.</p><p>As for the other four clubs in the group, they are still waging a torrid battle for position, since the four qualifying playoff teams are practically decided, owing to Owen Sound&rsquo;s drab display. Right now Windsor and Stratford share first place, with Kitchener four points behind and Chatham but two points to the rear of the Dutchmen.</p><p>The standing can change at any time, because of the tight race, and for the past week Chatham Maroons and Kitchener Dutchmen won both of their two games, as Chatham chalked up their ninth straight win. Only a few weeks ago they had slumped to eight straight reverses. Windsor won three of their five games, Stratford three of their four and Owen Sound lost all five.</p><p>If one needs any proof of the see-saw tussle between the four top teams, it can readily be seen in such games as those between Chatham and Windsor, with the two teams trading 10-2 and 4-1 wins, Straford blanked Windsor 3-0 and then lost 5-2 to the same club.</p><p>With no team from the Maritimes challenging tor the Allan Cup this season, owing to the CAHA ruling that the AllStar team from down east was organized too late to accept its entry, the western group of the OHA plans extending the schedule, because the present one ends Feb. 20, leaving almost two weeks 1 of idleness before the winners meet the winners of the eastern senior group. It is anticipated that the western Ontario clubs may favor an extra round, or failing that, increase their number of their playoff games, which at present calls for best-of-seven semi-final and final series.</p><p>Misconduct penalties are still being imposed rather regularly, accompanied by $10 fines, and some clubs consider that the referees are becoming too officious and refuse to even listen lo team captains or assistant captains requesting reasons for certain rulings. In fact, the Kitchener Dutchmen have notified Bill Hanley, business manager of the OHA, that they do not want Jack Shropshire of Richmond Hill to handle any more games in which they participate. The Stratford Indians are also critical of Shropshire, who appears to have an itchy thumb judging by the number of misconduct penalties be is assessing.</p><p>One reason for the Stratford Indians&rsquo; lofty position is due to the Roth-Flick-Flanagan line, which has been, playing together as a unit in senior hockey for 10 years, and at the last release of top point-scorers they were running one-two-three, whereas last season Ken Laufman of the Kitchener Dutchen headed the parade. Laufman is tied with Flick for third spot among the leaders, while George Scholes and Jerry Theberge of Kitchener, lire fourth arid sixth respectively. After that 20-3 shellacking the DutChhien handed Owen Sound, Laufman fattened his record by six points. But Roth. Flick and Flanagan also benefitted from the Indians&rsquo; game here with North Bay Trappers, as Roth picked up three goals and one assist Flick two goals and three assists and Flanagan three assists.</p><p>Ted Power and Jim Connelly are supplying Chatham Maroons with much of their scoring power, the former having 39 joints for a three-way third-place tie, and the latter tied with three others for fifth spot with 35 points.</p><p>Gord Haidy and Joe Klukay are the two best offensive players for Windsor Bulldogs, as the former has 38 points and the latter 3 5.</p><p>Don Head of Windsor still leads the goalies with an average of 2.78, while Marve Edwards of Chatham is second with 3.31 and Bruce Dale of Stratford third with 3.8.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Playoff Spots Almost Assured Mercurys Drop Off OHA Pace

<div class="byline">By DAWSON WINCHESTER</div><p>FREDERICTON, N.B&mdash;</p><p>It looks like a great year for Timmy Bliss.</p><p>The youthful playing-coach of the Fredericton Capitals, in his first year in the &ldquo;boss-man&rdquo; role, seems to have gathered together a group of hockeyists who are darn near unbeatable.</p><p>As things stand at this writing the Caps hold a record of 11 wins, one tie and a solitary loss to put them nine full points ahead of the second-place Sussex Legionaires. Languishing in the cellar of the three-team Southern New Brunswick Hockey League are flue Saint John Beavers, 10 points behind the Sussex and 19 out of first place.</p><p>The fact that the SNBHL is operating oft a strict home-brew player basis this year speaks well for the ability of New Brunswick&rsquo;s Capital City when it comes to producing proficient puck-chasers.</p><p>Up front. Bliss has three highscoring combos equally adept at blinking red light&rsquo;s. One trio is made up of Bud Stuart, Ray Bennet and Neil Sewell, another finds Steve Hutchison setting &rsquo;em up for Jim Pike and Murph Allen and the remaining trio has coach Bliss himself working with Bob Mabie and Darryl Seymour.</p><p>On the blueline the Caps have Joe Macintosh, &lsquo;Junior Dunbar. Bruce Watt and Doug Sewell throwing up a stout wall in front of Charlie (The Bonnie Prince) MacTavish. All in all it looks as though the Sussex and Saint John skaters have a tough nut to crack if they intend copping honors in the Southern N.B. circuit.</p><p>On the North Shore of the Province, Ray Leduc&rsquo;s Dalhousie Rangers, aided no end by crafty Tod Campeau who continues to be the loop&rsquo;s top point-getter, cling grimly to a, slim margin which keeps them in first spot in the North Shore Hockey League.</p><p>Within easy striking distance of blie Rangers are Carroll Bloom&rsquo;s Campbellton Tiger? and Lou Kiley&rsquo;s Bathurst Papermakers. And making a determined bid lo rid themselves of the bondage holding them in the league&rsquo;s basement ate the Miramiehi Beavers, going much better under the guidance of their newly-acquired coach, Roger Gagne.</p><p>ICED TID-BITS: Ray (Toughie) Steeves came back recently to guard the twines for the Sussex Legionaires after serving an eight-game suspension and in his first game before the home fans produced the first shutout of the SNBHL schedule blanking Saint John 6-0&hellip; Fans on the North Shore taking a keen interest in the balloting for the MVP awards offered by The Daily Gleaner&hellip; one trophy will go to the player of each squad chosen as the MVP by the vote of the fans&hellip; current leaders are Doug McPhee of Campbellton. Frank Dorrington of Miramichi. Tod Campeau of Dalhousie and Shermie White of Bathurst&hellip; Nick Nicolie, the</p><p>&ldquo;old pro&rdquo; of the Saint John Beavers, playing only home games and is sorely missed by his mates when they hit the road&hellip; Lucien Gilbert the latest acquisition of the coming Miramichi Beavers&hellip; Jim Pike, lanky rightwinger of the Fredericton Caps, and his shooting eye in rare form the night he potted four tallies as he and his mates skated away with an 11-5 victory over Sussex.</p><h2><b>Solution of Lost Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04218/1643381-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="309" height="409"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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When Gump Gets Hot He likes Cold Pucks!

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