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December 14, 1957
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Kelly All Star Left Winger?
Humboldt’s Gift To Hockey DETROIT, Mich. — Did anyone ever consider Red Kelly as an All-Star — at left wing? If only for the novelty of it, this is an interesting situation. After hitting the All-Star squad eight straight years as a defenseman, Kelly has abandoned his rearguard position. Now he is a forward and Jack Adams insists that the Red Wing captain will remain a forward, probably for the rest of the campaign at least. Matches Howe No one can question. Kelly’s ability. no Clapper also managed it at both defense and a defenseman. matter where he plays. As a forward, for instance, he matched Gordie Howe in scoring through, their first six games as linemates. Collecting a point or more in each of the six games, Kelly piled up four goals and four…
Player-of-the-week
Johnny Bower …Cleveland Barons CLEVELAND, Ohio. — The Cleveland Barons are currently the hottest club in the American Hockey League. Appropriately enough, goaltender Johnny “China Wall” Bower is the hottest goaltender in professional hockey. During the past week. Bower has set an alltime AHL record—most consecutive playing minutes without being scored upon. The new record owned by Bower is 249 min. and 51 secs. This breaks the previous record by over 28 minutes established by Nick Damore with the Hershey Bears in the 1939-40 season. 18 years ago. Here’s how Bower did is shutout performmance began at 15:09 of the third period against Buffalo when Dick Gamble scored on him. That same game went into ten minutes of overtime. Then followed 1-0 overtime win over Hershey, then 2-0 and 9-0 successive victories over Springfield and…
Detroit’s Howe First Playmaker Of All Time
DETROIT, Mich. — Gordie Howe officially became the No. 1 playmaker in hockey’s record book as of Nov 28. That was the night when Howe scored the 409th assist of his National Hockey League career. It became an all-time record, In his previous start Howe had tied the record of 408 which Elmer Lach left upon his retirement from the Montreal Canadiens. The record assist came on a typical Howe play. He carried across the red line and blue line and, while fighting off two Toronto players, managed a one-armed pass 20 feet forward to Red Kelly. The play gave Kelly and Dutch Reibel a two-on-one situation and Reibel killed Kelly’s pass across the goal mouth for the goal. Now owning 361 goals and Howe’s nest 410 assists, scoring milestone will be his…
QUBEC LEAGUE
The Shawinigan Falls Cataracts exploded for nine goals in Dec. game against the cellar dwelling Montreal Royals. Jacques Gagnon of the Quebec Aces has overtaken Greig Hicks of Chicoutimi in the QHL point race. Gagnon has 31 points, Hicks 30. How The Race Goes THESDAY. DECEMBER 3 Quebec—2 at Royals 2 Quebee— Goal: Dufour; defense: Dzurko, Crozier, Cherry, Gagnon; forwards: Hayden, Blaine, Teal, Sieaver. Labadie, O’Ree. Sabourin, Lamirande, Cossette, Maxwell. Royals—Goal: Hodge; defense: Rorhe. Mantha, Duncan. Bownass, Clune; forwards: Kowalchuk. Achtymichuk, Cressman, Burnett. Balfour, Denis, Bradley, Mosdell. Hoekstra. Referee: Georges Gravel; linesmen: Howie Harvey. Ernie Langevin. First Period 1—Quebec. Cherry (Teal, Gagnon) ………… 6.48 2—Royals Wowalchuk (Achtymichuk, Bownass) ………… 10.00 Penalty: Cossette 16.10. Second Period 3—Quebec. Hayden (Sabourin, Blaine) ………… 7.23 4—Royals Balfour ………… 16.41 Penalties. Bownass 10.32, 15.11, Mantha 18.11. Third Period No scoring. Penalties: Balfour 2.41, Blaine 5.18, Lamirande 8.30. Overtime Period No scoring. Penalties: None. Stops: Dufour ………… 7 6 20…
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