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February 16, 1957
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WESTERN LEAGUE
31 Tie Games Thirty-one of the 185 games played to date have gone into overtime. 18 of the 31 have been decided in the “Sudden-death” overtime period and 13 ended in a tie. 100th Goal Doug. Macauley of Victoria scored his 100th goal in WHL play January 28 in an empty net against Vancouver. The Canucks had pulled their goalie for on extra attacker only only to have it backfire. HOW THE RACE GOES STANDING ON TUES. A.M., JAN. 29 PRAIRIE DIVISION COAST DIVISION SCHEDULED GAMES JAN. 29 TO FEB. 4 Tuesday January 29th Brandon at Vancouver Victoria at Edmonton Wednesday January 30th Brandon at Seattle Victoria at Calgary Friday February 1st New West, at Vancouver Calgary at Edmonton Victoria at Winnipeg Saturday February 2nd Seattle at New Westminster Edmonton at Calgary Victoria at Brandon Monday February 4th New Westminster at Victoria TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 Brandon 2 at Edmonton 7 First Period Second Period Third Period WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23…
AL PARSLEY
(As seen in the Montreal Herald) Though braked to a slowdown for a short while in their pursuit of the second place Chicoutimi Sague-neens, Royals were actually holding second place in the Quebec Hockey league the early weeks of February according to one method of calculation. And then the Lach Larrigans picked up again. A 4-1 triumph over the Sags last Sunday in Chicoutimi pulled Royals within five points of the second rung on the ladder. By winning 13 of 22 home games played through that date (Feb. 101 Elmer Lach’s larrigans ranked next to Quebec in percentage of points picked up on home ice. Aces mark was 79.6%. Royals 59.1.%, Oddly the Chicks, rated second on the road behind the Aces, were third in the home-ice standing. The Chicoutimi team (55.8%)…
Showing Of ‘Kids’ Pleases Ivan
CHICAGO, Ill — The Black Hawks, slowly — but pretty steadily, are closing in on their pace of a year ago which found them in the thick of the battle for a playoff spot about this time. Due to the miserable start of Tommy Ivan’s pucksters, however, the odds are against their reaching the Stanley Cup grade. Over the past seven seasons that have been at the 70-game distance, it has taken an average of nearly 67 points to hit the post season championship series. The trend this year with the close fight, for the first three positions may well lower that figure, but Chicago’s plight is Still severe for with 28 points in league standings Februrary 1, the Hawks remained about four and a half games off what turned out to be…
Hockey X-Word Puzzle
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK Across 1.—Pictured Toronto star. 4.—“Buddy” O’Connor’s initials. 6.—NHL team with whom Dick Gamble first played (abbr.) 7.—Second name of 12 across. 11.—New England (abbr.) 12.—Detroit defenseman. 14.—Gus Mortson is noted for his ability to do this. 15.—Mrs. Pierre Pilote. 17.—Inside guard (abbr.) 18.—Artifical language. 19.—Jim Morrison uses this to pursue his summertime recreation (sing.) 21.—An NHL linesman answers to this. 22.—North East (abbr.) 24.—One of Hershey’s many goalies. 27.—Initials of Starr, former Ranger forward. 28.—First name of Strate of Detroit. 30.— Former Ranger player who wore No. 13. Down 1.—Leafs’ second string netminder. 2.—Cleveland’s coach. 3.—Length of time Howie Meeker’s coaching contract runs with Toronto. 4.—Rochester Americans’ captain. 5.—Number of assists Don Marshall collected last season. 8.—Upon. 9.—Pron. 10.—Forbes Kennedy played some of his junior hockey this province (abbr.) 13.—Detroit retreats to a hideout in this State during the play-offs. 16.—Trophy won by Doug Harvey last season. 20.—Birthplace of 12 across. 23.—in 1938-39, NHL governors decreed that blue…
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