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March 8, 1958
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First Goal Got club Points In 108 Loop Games
MONTREAL, Que.— Montreal Canadians clinched the National Hockey League championship for 1957-58 when they defeated Toronto, 4-1, on February 27. The Canadiens currently have a total of 86 points. New York Rangers are in second place with 65 points. Third-place occupants are Detroit Red Wings with 59 and Boston Bruins are fourth with 56. Toronto Maple Leafs are fifth with 50 points and. Chicago Black Hawks are sixth with 46. New York’s Andy Bathgate climbed into second place in the individual scoring race. The tall Ranger forward now has 28 goals and 41 assists for 69 points, just four points back of the circuit’s top point-getter, Dickie Moore of Canadiens. Moore has 32 goals and 41 assists for 73 points. Henri Richard of Canadiens also has 69 points but he scored less goals…


Habs, On The Way To Title, Had To Fight


Wings Worry---Will Jack’s Hot Spell Turn Cold?
DETROIT Mich. — Throughout his eight-year career as a professional hockey player, Jack (Jake) McIntyre has carried the label as a hot-and-cold goal getter. “Good shot…fine speed…not consistent,” was the capsule report on this rugged, muscular forward who once was a star pole vaulter. McIntyre would have vaulted right up among the scoring stars the National Hockey League if only he could maintain the blistering pace which he hit on certain nights — or had more of those hot nights. But he couldn’t. Lack of consistency was why the Boston Bruins, who used him for two seasons, farmed him out twice to Hershey. That’s why Boston traded him to Chicago. That’s why Chicago, a team in dire need of scoring punch, farmed him to Buffalo. It also is why Jack Adams was willing to accept…


NOHA Puck Parade
THE FIGHTER…Johnny “Peanuts” O’FLAHERTY, one of the most travelled and misunderstood hockey coaches in Canada, rates quite a bouquet this week…he took over as coach of the Sudbury Wolves when the team was floundering in the basement and all appeared lost…the team officials and fans were singing the blues worse than a jilted lover…the team started out with Vic Lynn as coach, then Nick Tomiuk took over…but the Wolves couldn’t bite through an apple…in a move of desperation, the Wolves cried out tor O’Flaherty, a matt they failed to re-hire and a man who many said was through as a coach…Johnny returned to Sudbury under the most challenging conditions…if he failed he would be classified as a coach who should not have been hired again…if he succeeded he would earn…