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April 12, 1958
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Hockey Scouts On Annual Hunt, Scour Cities In Quebec League
MONTREAL, Que.— When it’s playoff time in Old Quebec all good shinny players should put their best feet foremost, and shouldn’t shoot until they see the whites of the eyes of the goal-keepers. It’s not only that the playoff swag is stacked at the foot of the rainbow’s tip, but the scouts from the NHL and the AHL are on the prowl. These keen-eyed gents are seen at every game. If they are old pals to the newsmen, they are ready with the warm handshake, and they’re asking loaded questions. And it’s not only the scouts that are stalking. Often enough the high brass is around, too. You’ll see them huddling up in the choice loges, guests of the house, or often they are away in a quiet corner talking earnestly with old…
QUEBEC LEAGUE
Scoring Tempo Up Playoff scoring this season in he QHL will easily surpass last year’s efforts. Marcel Bonin counted 14 points to lead all scorers last year. Two Shawini—gan players, Allan Johnson and Ron Atwell, already have nine each this season. Lamy ‘Grand Daddy’ Jean Paul Lamirande, Quebec’s ancient rearguard, is the grand daddy of ’em in the league. Lamy will be 35 in August. Jean paul Denis of Shawinigan is 34, Jacques Locas 32, Gerry Glaude, Joe Lund and Georges Roy are each 31. Al Parsley On The Sidelines • IF HOCKEY’S ADHERENTS weren’t such a seri—ous bunch of blokes, were given to a few more spasms of hilarity, it’s likely the Montreal Royals of 1957-58 would be lampooned in verse and prose as one of the daffiest teams of all time, because of…
NHL Teams Bump Cagers Off Saturday Television
BOSTON, Mass.—The conflict of coast-to-coast major league hockey and basketball telecasts in this country has been ended after two years, it has been announced by the National Broadcasting Company. For the past two seasons the sports have bumped heads on Saturday afternoons, the Columbia Broadcasting System carrying National Hockey League games, NBC carrying National Basketball Association games. They have finished in a virtual stalemate in a concensus of TV ratings. NBC announced recently, however, that its televised basketball games will he played and carried on Sunday-afternoons next season, beginning on November 9. The basketball program will consist of 16 regular-season and four playoff games. With Saturday afternoons now hockey’s without competition, negotiations have been in progress between CBC and President John Reed Kilpatrick and Vice-President Ned Irish of the New York Rangers, who…
Figure Filbert Charts Cats
MONTREAL, Que.— The great development of statistics as an informative and intriguing feature of hockey lore has been eagerly accepted by modern day hockey fans. Almost every season arises an earnest figure filbert who has added a new mathematical gimmick to break down the performances of players. Some of such amaze an older generation of client, who can recall that even such an important element as the assist on a goal was almost totally disregarded 30 years ago. One of the most, thorough wizards with a sharp pencil that has come to our notice during the past, few campaigns is Paul Lafond, of Shawinigan Falls, Que., who makes the digits dance, literally, on behalf of the Cataracts. And what’s more extraordinary is that Lafond does so mostly for his own amuse, ment,…
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