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March 2, 1957
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Fogolin Knits Cohesive Stampeder Team By Getting Mileage Out Of Veterans
CALGARY. Alta.— Anyway, the coffee was wet. So was the conversation. Hockey was the topic with the Western League getting a fat play. Then somebody wondered what was the best hockey town in the West. Why be provincial? somebody else said. What’s the best hockey town period. The vote was quick and unanimous. Calgary. “They don’t get bad crowds,” said manager-coach Hal Laycoe of New Westminster Royals. “Any time they’re under 6,000 it’s a tragedy.” “For a third-place team…” somebody else almost said. “It makes no never mind.” said sports editor Denny Boyd of the Victoria Times. “They love their hockey. When was the last time they had a winner? Still they pack ’em in. A city that size—a shade bigger than Victoria (about 80,000)—and pound for pound its the hockey capital of the world.” If they ever had…
Litz-Nester-Wilson Line NHL’s Hottest Triumvirate
CHICAGO, Ill.— Don’t look now, but the Black Hawks currently boast the hottest line and single scoring star in the National League. In Ed Litzenberger, Eric Nesterenko and Johnny Wilson coach Tommy Ivan has a combo he wishes he could have started the 1956-57 campaign with. Unfortunately, “Nester” didn’t decide to come out of his brief retirement (dating from the close of last season) until mid-january and it was only a few days later that he. Litzenberger and Wilson were thrown together for the first time. The result has been little short of sensational ever since. A Fast First Month January 17 — February 17 In their first month of activity the three racked up an infinitely better record than Detroit’s highly ranked Lindsay, Howe and Ullman combination during the same stretch and Litzenberger outdid…
Slow and Deliberate Camille Henry Pays Off With Goals
NEW YORK. NY.— “Camille Henry is too slow for this league.” That, in one sentence was coach Phil Watson’s reason for dropping the diminutive dandy from the Ranger roster in late October. “The kid really has been playing well. He’s coming along nicely on defense too. He doesn’t have much weight but he throws what he has around when he has to.” Not that Cammy was three times better when he returned to Manhattan in January but what you have read in the above three sentences is Watson’s comment since his Junior hockey protege bounced back to Broadway. If you believe the figures. Camille The Eel has been nothing short of superb as left wing on the Dave Creighton, Ron Murphy line. So while the opposition says “Gasundheit!” Henry’s 12 points in six games is…
Solinger 200-Goal Clubber, Fisher Approaching Figure
HERSHEY. Pa.— Bobby Solinger, veteran Hershey winger, joined the American Hockey League’s select 200-goal club by potting a pair of scores against the Springfield Indians. Solinger’s thirteenth and fourteenth goals of the season, fired in the Bears’ second 7-6 conquest of Eddie Shore’s skaters, gave him his 11-year total of 200 goals. Former “rookie-of-the-year” when he broke in with the Cleveland Barons in 1947-48, Solinger’s finest offensive mark came with the Pittsburgh Hornets last year, when he lit the red lamp on 27 occasions and registered 46 assists. Another Bear. Dune Fisher, is also coming up on his 200th goal. Dune needs only eight more scores in Hershey’s 13 remaining games to join Solinger and Arnie Kullman, his teammates, in the elite circle. Kullman became a 200-goal man last season. Fisher, incidentally, has passed Willie…
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