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April 12, 1958

The Hockey News April 12, 1958

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IN THIS ISSUE

Stanley Cup Records For Boston, Montreal

BOSTON, Mass. Johnson is such a common name in this part of the world that subscri, ers owning it fill more than 29 columns in the Greater Boston telephone directory alone.But Norman Johnson is the first of the world-wide clan to play tor the Bruins in the years they&rsquo;ve been in the hockey business here.They&rsquo;ve had Peirsons, Hendersons, Jacksons, Thompsons. Carsons, Pattersons and Wilsons. Now after 4 years they finally have a Johnson. &#9632;

Johnson First Of His Clan To Play With Boston Bruins

Brother ActsThere are four brother acts operating between the Notional and American Leagues. They include Dickie and Jimmy (AHL) Moore, Jerry and Zellio (AHL) Toppazzini, Dick and Les (AHL) Duff, Johnny and Larry (AHL) Wilson.The Lone StarBronco Horvath, who was the AHL&rsquo;s all-star centre last season, was the only member at the 1956-57 dream&rsquo; team to be promoted to the big time. Horvath was drafted from Rochester by the Boston Bruins and became a 30-goal scorer<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02448/1996698-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="571" height="371"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03395/1996691-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="572" height="1385"></div>WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 2Hershey 9 at Providence 1First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bertiett 6:20, Duff 7:20, Hanna 9:20. Zeidel 18:15, Guldolin 17:48.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Zeidel 8:28.Third Period1&mdash;Providence, Larivee (Bedard, Cline)&hellip;&hellip; 9.08Penalties: None.Cleveland at Springfield First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bionda (cross check) 2.03, Glover (elbowing) 10;14, Bionda (slashkhg) 10:14, Kraftcheck (hooking) 12:42, Shvetz (hooking) 19:12.Second Period1&mdash;Sprinigfeild, Ehman (smith, Gardner)&hellip;&hellip; 5:44Penalties: Strate (charging) 5:07, Bronstrong (interference) 6:00. Caffery (charging) Armstrong (boarding and 5 min. fighting) 15:24; Glover min. fighting) 15:24; Needham (Leugining) 15:24, Anderson (roughing) Ehman (high stick) 19:18.Third Period2&mdash;Springfield, Smith(Gardner Armstrong)&hellip;&hellip; 4:52Penalties: Glover (tripping) 9:59. Beckett (tripping) 11:04: Leach (interference) 14;26. Blonde (tripping) 1.4:49, Glover (butt ending) 16:33, Shvetz (tripping) 19:02.SATURDAY. APRIL 5. 1958Hershey 6 at Providence 3(Hershey wins best-of-seven semifinal 4-1).First Period1&mdash;Herwhey: O&rsquo;Brien(Fisher, Marshall)&hellip;&hellip; .472&mdash;Providence: Carmichael(Hampson, Cline)&hellip;&hellip; 10.093&mdash;Providence: Hanna (Cline) 19.59 Penalties: Duff 8.05. Duff and McAvoy 15.26. Hanna and Hollingwoith15.58, Price 17.59. Zeidel and Bartlett 1948.Second PeriodScoring&rsquo; None.Penalties: Hollingwoith 5.54. McAvoy 11.58. Solinger 12.09, Hanna 12.87. O&rsquo;Brien 13.12, Hanna 15.10.Third Period4&mdash;Hershey: Stankiewicz(Bolinger, Kullman)&hellip;&hellip; 2.045&mdash;Hershey: Kullman&hellip;&hellip; 2.186&mdash;Hershey: Marshall(Haley. O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 15.287&mdash;Hershey: Fisher(Marnhall, O&rsquo;Biien)&hellip;&hellip; 15.448&mdash;Hershey: Haley (Lalande)&hellip;&hellip; 16.299&mdash;Providence: Guidolin(Bartlett, Cline)&hellip;&hellip; 18.05Penalties: None.Cleveland 5 at Springfield 2(Cleveland leads best-of-seven semifinal, 3-2).First Period1&mdash;Springfield: Ehman (Smith. Bionda)&hellip;&hellip; 1.442&mdash;Cleveland: Poliziani(Shvetz, Bouchard)&hellip;&hellip; 6.27Penalties: Shvetz and Schfnkel 19.46. Beckett and Glover (major) 17.25.Second Period3&mdash;Clevland: Poliziani(Vejprava)&hellip;&hellip; .324&mdash;Cleveland:(Shvetz, Vejprava)&hellip;&hellip; 11.005&mdash;Cleveland: Stearns(Shvetz,&hellip;&hellip; Needham)&hellip;&hellip; 15.506&mdash;Springfield: Cherry (Caffery) 17.06Penalties: Ginver and Schneider 14.09, Bionda 19.55.Third Period7&mdash;Cleveland: Shvetz&hellip;&hellip; 9.09Penalties: McLellan 5.08. Nicholson, Elik and Armstrong 11.55, Hudson 18.02.SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1958Springfield 3 at Cleveland 0(Best-of-seven semi-final tied 8-3).First PeriodScoring None.Penalties: Bionda 5.08, Barlow 19.08.Second Period1&mdash;Springfield; Ehman (Smith. Gardner)&hellip;&hellip; 13.19Penalty: Anderson 16.07.Third Period2&mdash;Springfield: Caffery(Blonde, Schinkel)&hellip;&hellip; 10.223&mdash;Springfield: Leach(Pidhirny. Beckett)&hellip;&hellip; 15.11Penalties: Shvetz and Gordned 7.68 &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05265/1996815-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="382" height="373"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cal Gardner</figcaption></div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;The Springfield&mdash;Cleveland playoff series includes two of the most experienced men in hockey&mdash;and they skate opposite each other as playingcoaches.One is Cal Gardner, a 33&mdash;year-old wonder who ranks as Springfield&rsquo;s most valuable player.The other is Jackie Gordon, a 30-year-old smoothie who plays best&rsquo; when the big money is on the line.They rank among the real veterans in both the National and American Leagues.Only Maurice Richard of Montreal, Fernie Flaman and Harry Lumley of Boston, Harry Watson of Buffalo, and Tony Leswick of Detroit have been around longer than Gardner.Watson. Buffalo&rsquo;s playing-coach, is the oldest veteran. He started in 1941-42.Gardner began his illustrious career in 1945-46 with the New York Rangers and be never played minor league hockey until this season, when he accepted the Springfield job.Gordon entered pro hockey in 1 947-48 with the old New Haven Ramblers. He played only 45 games in the NHL in his 11 years. All the rest of the time he has been in the American League with New Haven, Cincinnati and Cleveland.Gardner toiled three years with the Rangers, had four big ones with Toronto power-houses, saw service once in Chicago and closed out his excellent NHL record with four Boston years.Right now. Gardner probably has an edge on Gordon. Jackie didn&rsquo;t play too much this year. He. often relegated himself to the bench in order to let Cleveland&rsquo;s many young stars do the flying.Gardner, on the other hand, played practically the whole season after recovering from an injury. He wound up as one of the league&rsquo;s top scorers and its most feared playmaker.Now that the playoffs are here, Gordon is back in, haunting the Tribe.Jackie sal out the series opener which his club lost by 2-1. Then he decided that the time had come for him to play. The result two resounding Cleveland viclories in which he has stood out as the man behind the gun.This is Gordon&rsquo;s sixth season with Cleveland. His biggest was in 1953-51. when lie racked up 102 points. He had 71 assists that year&mdash;a tribute to the playmaking role that has made him famous.Gordon has been a 20-goal man in five of his 11 years.Gardner&rsquo;s top MIL production was in 1950-51. when he notched 51 points for Toronto, He has enters he 20 goal club seven times in his 13 yearsIt&rsquo;s Interesting to watch the two operate. They&rsquo;re the real pros of the playoffs &#9632;

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Hockey Oldies Now Rivals As Playoff Coaches In AHL

MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens were ready to go back into action in quest of their third successive Stanley Cup after some 5 days of biding their time awaiting the Boston Bruins for the start of the final series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0384/1997432-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="280" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Blake</figcaption></div>League President Clarence Campbell announced the best-of-seven playdown would start in Montreal, April 8. Subsequent dates were April 10 at Montreal, April 13 and 15 at Boston, April 17 at Montreal again, either April 19 or 20 at Boston aml April 22 at Montrtal, if a seventh game was necessary.Coach Toe Blake of the Canadiens was quietly confident his club would come through although he did express some con cern over Boston&rsquo;s resurging scoring machine that had rolled up 28 goals in six games in eliminating New York Rangers.What was Blake planning to do about stopping the Bruins&rsquo; high-scoring trio of Fleming Mackell. Jerry Toppazzini and Don McKenney?The &lsquo;Old Lamplighter&rsquo; figured if the Bruins were to be halted, they must be muffled early in the game. They have scored 14 of their 28 playoff goals in the first period and Blake said he would make this a special point of interest to the Canadiens in their pre series drills.Blake felt that if the Canadiens can contain the Bruins offensive it was merely a matter of sending out such gents as &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, Dickie Moore. Jean Beliveau and a few of his other big guns to rub a few goals into the Bruins&rsquo; noses.Goalie Don Simmons was given the go ahead by Coach Milt Sdhmidt to start the first game of the series and the Hubs were ready to turn their heavy artillery on the young netminder who came through admirably in the series with Rangers.The Canadiens were heartened by the news that Moore, the NHL scoring champion this ear would be ready to play with a new cast on his broken wrise Moore lias been hobbled for the past seven weeks by the injury but it didn&rsquo;t keep him from getting five points against Delimit, who we out in four straight at the expense of Montreal.Everything was in the readiness for the big show with hockey&rsquo;s two best performers standing in the centre ring. &#9632;

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Habs Ready To Make Bid On Home Ice

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVOL. II&mdash;No. 28 Entered as Second Class Matter Post Office, Rouses Point. N.Y. MONTREAL, APRIL 12, 1958 PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTSBOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins went into the 1957-58 Stanley Cup final playoff series against Montrea1 Canadiens with the throttle wide open and three guys by the names of Toppazzini, Mackell and McKenney blazing the way.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01312/1997401-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="277" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Mohns</figcaption></div>The Bruins vaulted into the World Series of professional hockey when they ousted the New York Rangers in six games using two set patterns of attack: 1. outscore them, 2. out-bump them.The Boston team walloped the Rangers by a resounding 8-2 score in the series finale at Boston Saturday night to win the best-of-seven semi-final 4-2 in games.The defeat was a pretty inept performance on the part of the Rangers, who found themselves hanging on after a rugged series in which th heavier Boston players excelled.Fleming Mackell was a Bruin star, so was Jerry Toppazzini, their courageous winger, and Don McKenney, the slick playmaker. Between them, the trio accounted for 17 of the 28 Boston goals, 19 of their 46 assists and 36 of their overall 74 points.Ties Club RecordToppazzini fired three, Mackell two and McKenney tied a Stanley Cup playoff record for most assists in one game&mdash;five&mdash;when the Bruins polished off the Rangers in the last game.The Bruins were the class of the series and with 13,909 Boston fans urging them on they dusted off the homeless Rangers, who had to play out the semi-final round on the road when the circus took over Madison Square Garden.The series may have proved somewhat costly to the Bruins, who had to leave their big, rugged rearguard Doug Mohns in Boston when they left for Montreal and tike start of the cup final.Mohns was a pillar of strength for the Hub in this past series. He collected 11 points&mdash;three of them goals&mdash;to eclipse a longstanding club record for most points by a Boston defenseman in the playoffs. Flash Hollett held the old mark of 10 set in 1940-41.The demise of the Rangers sent Coach Phil Watson back into his oratorical best when he announced that only eight players on the Broadway Blueshirts were indispensable. Who were they?He said Andy Bathgate &ldquo;will always play for me. So will Lou Fontinato. The others whom I definitely will keep for next season are Red Sullivan. Dave Creighton, Camilie Henry, Harry Howell, Dean Prentice and Andy Hebenton.&rdquo;Two players who jobs are in jeopardy are goaltender Gump Worsley and all-star defenseman Bill Gadsby.Fiery Phil admitted that both players are top performers but said he feels Lorne will have to fight for his job against Marcel Paille and Bruce Gamble. And Gadsby could be used as trading bait, so that I could get some needed scoring strength. Next year I want to stress youth. I want young players, young legs. Gadsby is 30 years old and Worsley is 28.&rdquo;<h2>Hockey&rsquo;s Explosive Rocket</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02211/1997394-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1677" height="2831"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; irrepressible scoring star, went on another of his old time point splurges last week that rocked the Detroit Olympia to its very foundation. Richard scored seven times in four games to singlehandedly bounced the once pompous Red Wings from the Stanley Cup semi-final playoff series in jig time. The Rocket&rsquo;s fourth-game performance during which he counted three times, including the winner, will long be remembered in NHL playoff circles not to mention Detroit. Now having played in his 1,000th big league game, Richard also holds the all-time playoff record 77 goals. All this at an age when most players have hung up their skates.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Boston Trio On Rampage In N. Y. Rout

<div class="byline">By LYALL SMITH</div>(Lyall Smith, sports columnist of the Detroit Free Pi-ess, recently penned a tribute to Maurice Richard during his great scoring plurge in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Here it is as it appeared in Mr. Smith&rsquo;s daily column, AS OF TODAY)DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;IT NOW BECOMES OBVIUS that when historians get around to chronicling events of the &lsquo; Satellite Era&rdquo; they will be forced to make some vital changes in the script.They have led us to believe that Russia was the first to propel a rocket into the rarified atmospheres and send it spinning.And that the United States was next to get into the act with its Explorer and Vanguard projects.But that no nation has yet been able inject the human element into the rocket program by firing a flesh &lsquo;n&rsquo; blood mortal into outer space.That&rsquo;s what they&rsquo;ve told us. It is wrong. Canada has been slighted&hellip; especially the Province of Quebec and the City of Montreal.They have had a &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; in orbit for 16 years. Two inches short of six feet, it weighs 180 pounds. While it definitely is temperamental, it got off the ground back in 1942 When launched from a sheet of artificial ice. and hasn&rsquo;t been grounded since.For several seasons now there has been speculation that it was losing its speed and would be forced down.! Yet while its over-all age will be 37 years, come Aug. 4, it now has proved it is capable of remaining in starry orbit for at least one more year, maybe more.Why Do A Thing Half may?WHERE OTHER NATIONS tacked short names to their whirling missiles, Canada shot the works. Full title of the Canadian &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; is Joseph Henri Maurice Richard with the last name pronounced Reeshar.There is rumor that the Rocket is not human. This view is taken by hockey skeptics who insist that no mere mortal could accomplish his feats.But if proof is needed, just ask any of the hockey followers who have followed his fantastic flight.He now has scored a total of 585 goals in the 1,000 games he has played for the Montreal Canadiens. Nobody else comes close He has scored 77 of those 585 in the 115 games which came when the heavy pressure was on him&hellip; the playoffs for the Stanley Cup.The Rocket has had sensational seasons. But none approaches the one which now is coming to a close. He started it against Detroit back on Oct. 16 by scoring three times.He ended it (for Detroit) here Tuesday night by scoring three more times to propel the Canadiens to their four-game sweep of a series which could have gone seven.One More Than Our Whole GangIN THOSE FOUR GAMES, he personally fired seven shots which flashed the light behind goalie Terry Sawchuk. If seven doesn&rsquo;t sound big, then consider the fact that the entire Detroit offense was able to score only six times in the same four games.Fantastic is a weak word for a 36-year-old star who is at least four years over the age when most icemen hang up their skates.It is especially weak when it is realized that after getting away to a magnificent start in the season, he was put out of action for 42 of the 70 games in the regular campaign by a cutting injury to a tendon in the back of his ankle.When he returned to action after his long layoff, he was expected to act his age.He did not live up to those expectations. After 16 years, the Canadian Rocket still is in orbit&hellip; and out of this world. &#9632;

The First Satellite? It Wasn’t Sputnik But The “Rocket”

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01414/1996022-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Several times in past years Detroit&rsquo;s title-winning teams were broken up with wholesale trades.Now Jack Adams says the switch will be the other way after the poorest season in 11 years&mdash;a third-place finish followed by elimination from the Stanley playoffs in four straight games by Montreal.There was not a single threat or even a hint of a shake-up in the Detroit organization as an aftermath of the disappointing playoff performance.First step in an announced long-range &ldquo;stand pat&rdquo; policy was to rehire Sid Abel as coach for 1 958-5 9.Adams also insisted that there would be &ldquo;only two or three minor changes&rdquo; in personnel. He stressed that he does not plan to follow his usual ummertime hobby of trading players.&ldquo;This will be a year to build up, not rebuild,&rdquo; was how he put it.The retention of Abel was expected. Sid came out of hockey retirement (unless you count his role as a radio-TV commentator) to take over the club Jan. 4. Detroit had a won-lost record of 13-17 and seven ties at the time. Under Abel the Wings did 16-12 with five ties.Announcement that Abel would stay on the bench came after a high-level huddle at Olympia following the final defeat from Canadiens. Bruce Norris, club president, conferred for one hour with Adams and Abel before departing for his home in Chicago.Questioned when the session ended. Norris replied, &ldquo;Ask Jack and Sid&mdash;they&rsquo;re in charge around here.&rdquo; That was the official confirmation that Sid had the job.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a verbal agreement&hellip; we shook hands on it,&rdquo; Sid explained. The absence of formal contracts is customary for Detroit officials. Adams has been general manager for 32 years without a contract. Tommy Ivan and Jimmy Skinner, Abel&rsquo;s predecessors, never inked a pact either.Some believed that Abel also might land a new title such as coach and assistant general manager, inasmuch as he is viewed as the eventual successor to Adams when Jack choses to retire. Adams said, however, that Sid was back &ldquo;on the same basis&rdquo; as this season.In his formal acceptance speech Abel said that he welcomes &ldquo;the challenge to coach the Wings for a full season and to build the club up to the place it has held for so long in the NHL&rdquo;Incidentally. Abel also will continue his outside business connection, at least through the summer. He held a sales position with a sheetmetal fabricator at the time he was tapped as Skinner&rsquo;s successor and he doubled in that job while coaching.It required only one full night&rsquo;s sleep after Rocket Richard put the Detroiters out of business for all the recent worries and problems to evaporate around Olympia. Adams waved aside mention of the series against Montreal with this comment:&ldquo;We gave as good as we had and it just wasn&rsquo;t enough to beat a great Montreal team. I was hoping we could win one or two games and we did come close But that&rsquo;s all behind us now.&rdquo;He was interested only in the future.&ldquo;After nine years of great success we must face the fact that our once powerful team has disintegrated. Now we&rsquo;re going to start building all over again and we&rsquo;ll wish for the same kind of luck.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have any trades in mind. No, .1 won&rsquo;t list any players as untouchable but that&rsquo;s because we have no one we want to trade who can bring us anyone better.<h2>Fresh Start For Bench Boss</h2>&ldquo;I believe we need about three more Players&mdash;a defense-man and a couple of wingers. Maybe we can get them out of our farm system. Maybe we can draft them. Maybe we can draft someone we don&rsquo;t want and then make a deal for someone we do.&rdquo;<h2>Altar Bound</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02396/1996015-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="580" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption></div>Adams and Abel both planned to pass up the chance to see Detroit&rsquo;s farm clubs in playoff action and instead expected to attend the Stanley Cup finals. Detroit had Johnny Mitchell, chief scout, assigned to the Hamilton Juniors for the latter part of the season and the play-offs, while Skinner filled the same role of observor with the Edmonton Flyers in the Western League.It didn&rsquo;t take long for the team to start its breakup for the summer. Tony Leswick hurried back to Edmonton to rejoin the Flyers as coach. Rules prevent him from becoming a playing-coach like he was early in the season, such player aid from the NHL being prohibited. Billy McNeill also &rsquo; left at once for Edmonton where his wife was expecting.Howe Detroit Summer ResidentMost of the players planned on remaining in Detroit at least one week. A suburban fan group had an annual team banquet set and it&rsquo;s traditional for all players to attend, Gordie Howe is one of the few who will remain in Detroit throughout the summer.Capt, Red Kelly is altar-bound. A May wedding date was set a year ago to culminate his long engagement to skating star Andra McLaughlin. After a honeymoon. they plan to spend time both in Detroit and at Kelly&rsquo;s farm near Simcoe, Ont.The resume of the brief play-offs shows that the Wings did improve steadily at least. Montreal won by successive scores of 8-1, 5-1, 2-1 and 4-3. After the two decisive beatings in Montreal, the Wings were hoping for a home-ice rally. But Andre Pronovost&rsquo;s overtime goal settled the third game and a three-goal Canadien rally in the last period wiped out Detroit&rsquo;s 3-1 lead in the finale.Rocket Richard can answer all other questions. He out-scored the entire Detroit team, 7 to 6, in the series with one of his greatest performances. The Rocket got the first two goals of the opener in the first four minutes of play and he finished off with a hat trick in the fourth game. Tn between he was outstanding, too.Aside from perhaps Johnny Wilson, not a Red Wing came up to the standard expected of him. Gordie Howe was held pointless for the first three games. Alex Delvecchio and Norm Ullman, the team&rsquo;s next two leading goal-getters, went goalless throughout. The defense had a ragged start with Red Kelly illness no help. He was hospitalized after the second game for a bowel infection and left the hospital only to play in the last two games.There was logical evidence that the Canadiens were loaded with question marks going into the series. Boom Boom Geoffrion had not played in two months&hellip; The Rocket was in a scoring slum&hellip; two regular defensemen, Tom Johnson and Dollard St. Laurent, were out with injuries&hellip; Dickie Moore and Henri Richard had gone sloppy on defense while staging their big point race, etc.But every Montreal question got an affirmative answer, some even with a bonus Or two. The Rocket was truly amazing. Geoffrion was booming from the start on the power play. Moore and the Pocket had two-way zip. Junior Langlois did a remark-able fill-in on defense. The kid line of Goyette-Provost-Pronovost was even better than in the season.Canadiens were even stronger than at any time during the regular season. Not a single player had a bad playoff series and Jacques Plante was superb in the cage aS he stopped 130 of 136 shots.Montreal also had 136 shots. Terry Sawchuk stopped only 117 of these but, despite that unimpressive statistic, he still was the best of the Red Wings.That by itself tells the Detroit story. &#9632;

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Red Wings Planning ‘Build Up’ With Abel At Helm Next Season

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins have been collecting the final payment on Terry Sawchuk in their Stanley Cup playoffs games this spring.Sawchuk is the goal-tender, rated by some hockey authorities as the greatest ever, who left the Bruins in mid-season a year ago. He spent a full season and a fraction of another here and he was the highest paid player the team has ever had.Early last summer Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins trailed Sawchuk to Detroit, whence he came two years earlier.In return Patrick received a 22-year old left wing named Johnny Bucyk and a sum of cash, the exact amount unannoueced but said to be &ldquo;considerable.&rdquo;Bucyk, a colorful youngster, has begun to realize on a potentially brilliant figure by scoring 21 goals in his first season with the Bruins.Next, Patrick took $15,000 of the &ldquo;considerable&rdquo; sum and acquired in the American league draft a 28-year old center from Rochester named Bronco Horvath.Owner of a snap shot with few equals for speed and accuracy, Horvath has scored 30 goals in his first season with the Bruins, a total exceeded by only one other center (Cooney Weiland) in the history of the team.Horvath represents the second payment for Sawchuk.Plucked From DraftWhat of the rest of the money which came here with Bucyk? Patrick used some, perhaps all, for another draft purchase. He bought a 25-year old forward from Brandon of the Western League.The forward&rsquo;s name is Norman Johnson. With the Bruins&rsquo; Springfield farm team for most of the season, increasingly impressive after being called up to the varsity in late February, Johnson has been a spring sensation in the Stanley Cup play-offs.Johnson represents the third and last payment for Sawchuk.For a goal-tender whose departure created an opening for the fiery Don Simmons the Bruins are collecting dividends on Bucyk, Horvath and finally Johnson.Patrick saw Johnson before he bought him With Milt Schmidt, Bruins&rsquo; coach, he watched part of the Brandon-Quebec series for the Edinburgh trophy last spring. To his own observations he added the opinions of several other hockey men. one of them Harold Laycoe, the Weston resident and former Bruin who has been doing a sparkling job as manager-coach of the Western League&rsquo;s New Westminster Royals.<h2>Young Cubs Feeling Way In Bruin Den</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01413/1996074-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="840" height="1157"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bucyk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02335/1996067-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="822" height="1153"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bronco Horvath</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s extremely effective and he&rsquo;s versatile, too,&rdquo; Laycoe told Patrick last summer, &ldquo;and he seems to have the puck a lot. An awful lot, and it makes you realize that he can do a good job of hanging onto it.&rdquo;Patrick on the basis of Johnson&rsquo;s play with Brandon, Spring-field and the Bruins, rates his third payment for Sawchuk &ldquo;good&rdquo; as a player.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03218/1996060-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="580" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>&ldquo;By that I mean I rate him good on a number of points,&rdquo; explained the astute Bruins&rsquo; boss. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good skater, good stick-handler, good passer, good checker, good penalty-killer, good point-man on power plays, good and smart.&ldquo;The only thing on which I can&rsquo;t rate him good yet is in scoring, but he made 32 goals for Brandon a year ago so I&rsquo;ll wait a while longer before rating him on that point.&rdquo;Schmidt has used Johnson mainly at center although the balding 170-pounder can play all positions including defense, and in the Bruins&rsquo; playoff series with the New York Rangers the coach used him as the spearhead of an effective checking line. Schmidt flanked him with Larry Regan, Leo LaBine or Buddy Boone as the situation dictated and the line gave the Rangers a real workout. Johnson displayed all kinds of checks including body checks and played smartly in all respects.&ldquo;He has been doing a real job for me,&rdquo; praised Schmidt after three games of the series, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;d rate him our unsung hero so far. He goes out there and works and whatever his job takes he uses.&rdquo;Johnson, a native of Moose Jaw, Sask., was an outstanding player as a teen-ager but his plans for future did not include the playing of professional hockey. He was working for the Canadian Pacific Railroad at the age of 16 and professional hockey would have taken him away from the position and the seniority he was acquiring.&ldquo;But I changed my mind two years ago,&rdquo; related Norm. &ldquo;I had an opportunity to get into the lumber business in Brandon and I took it.&ldquo;No railroad job, no reason why I shouldn&rsquo;t play hockey&mdash;it was as simple as that&rdquo; added the well-spoken young man, a bridegroom last summer. &ldquo;Hockey could be fitted into the lumber business so I signed with Brandon.&rdquo;Johnson was Punch Imlach&rsquo;s troubleshooter at Springfield, doing a little of everything and making eight goals and 35 assists in the process. The Bruins first had him up late in December for a two-game emergency stint when Regan was out with an injury.Thus the departure of Sawchuk, who was expected to give tse Bruins super-star goal-tendiug for many years, has had a pleasant aftermath for team after all.Simmons, Sawchuk&rsquo;s replacement, has filled the bill.Bucyk has added color, power and scoring punch.Horvath has added goals, a badly needed ingredient.Now Johnson, final payment for the departed goal-tender, has identified himself as a major leaguer in the pressurized Stanley Cup playoffs.<h2>Stanley Cup Winners</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04136/1996053-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1153" height="2134"></div> &#9632;

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Bruins Collecting First Dividends In Playoff Series Johnson Proves Good Draft Pick For ’Hub’ Brass

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Rotund Buddy Boone of the Bruins is establishing himself as a hockey version of Johnny Mize, for his pinch-hitting production in Stanley Cup playoffs.A year ago in his first turn on the ice tor the Bruins Boone scored a goal with his first shot which touched off a win over the Detroit Red-Wings. He was serving as a 20-second substitute for Jerry Toppazzini when he scored.In the third game of the Bruins-New York Rangers series here Bronco Horvath sustained a head injury and Boone, normally a wing, was shifted to center in the emergency.On his second turn between johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk the 178-pound blond scored a goal against the Rangers. The shot was his first of the game.Mize gained pinch-hitting fame in world series competition with the New York Yankees a few years ago. &#9632;

Boone Hockey’s Johnny Mize’ Doing Pinch-Hit Role For Hub

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;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&rsquo;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 represent the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks and Rangers in the discussions. It has been said that next year&rsquo;s hockey TV schedule will be-considerably shorter than this year&rsquo;s slate of 20 games, which began on November 2One of the factors cited in the switch of the basketball TV to Sundays was the difficulty hockey teams would have in keeping Sunday afternoon dates in certain scheduling circumstances. &#9632;

NHL Teams Bump Cagers Off Saturday Television

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; sizzling young rookie, Phil Goyette, will be a thousand dollars richer this season whether or not he wins the National Hockey League rookie award.The managing director of the Stanley Cup chanrpions, Frank J. Selke, disclosed that Goyette will get his bonus even if he L beaten out by Frank Mahovlich of Toronto Maple Leafs and Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks. Goyette was far back of both freshman stars in the midseason voting and his chances of winning the Calder Trophy are very remote.&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t expect Phil to win the official award.&rdquo; said Selke.&ldquo;But our club believes he is the best rookie in the league today. And. just as we did when Henri Richard was nosed out of the rookie award two years ago by Glenn Hall, we intend to give Phil $1,000 from the club, which is what he would get from the league it he were winner.<h2>Hits Jackpot</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07197/1996219-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="573" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Goyette</figcaption></div>Goyette was a hard-luck scorer during the Regular NHL season, playing well but getting only nine goals in the season&rsquo;s 70 games. But he collected 37 assists, only three short of the NHL record for assists by rookies. The record was made 14 seasons ago by Gus Bodnar of Toronto.The slim little centre has costarred-with the dashing Maurice (Rocket) Richard during the recent Stanley Cup semi-final series against Detroit, scoring four goals and assisting on a fifth as the Habs ousted the Red Wings in four straight games.In the semi-final playoffs this year Goyette came up with his first hat trick as a National Leaguer when he scored three times in the series start against Detroit. The youngster was so jubilant at getting the goals he retrieved the puck for a souvenir.The ironic part about Goyette&rsquo;e success this season was the fact his status with Montreal was in extreme doubt at the outset of the campaign. Club officials wouldn&rsquo;t, say as much, but there was the possibility he &lsquo;might have been sent back to the minors when he couldn&rsquo;t hit his stride in the early games.But the Canadiens could afford to be patient and their tolerance finally paid off in Stanley Cup goals. &#9632;

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Habs Make Sure Goyette Can’t Lose In Rookie Derby

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08154/1996257-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg"></div>Toronto StarAll-Star Picks And Four-Horse ParlaysPicking all-time all-star teams normally is as fruitless as playing four-horse parlays at racetracks. You can&rsquo;t win, and there&rsquo;s always the danger someone will say you should be locked up. Still, there was an amazing percentage among the 70 handicappers who wrote the roster for Sport magazine&rsquo;s all-everything shinny squad. The editors side-stepped the only issue that might have wrecked the poll. They decided they wouldn&rsquo;t insist on designation of right and left wing. This by-passed the traffic jam on right rail,. where Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe tower over their rivals of any age.Many of the pickers, including this one, anticipated the approval of the publishers by writing in the Rocket at left wing. That&rsquo;s his natural position, anyway. And can anyone who&rsquo;s serious about it leave either Howe or the Rocket off any all-star squad? So the verdict of the electors was this: Bill Durnan in goal; Eddie Shore and Doug Harvey on defence; Howie Morenz at centre; Richard and Howe on the wings. A coach who had that starting lineup could put the stick boy, a sweeper from the blues and Tim Daly on the bench.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09136/1996250-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="548" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Durnan</figcaption></div>Challenges and complaints against that lineup would have come from devotees of &ldquo;the good ole days,&rdquo; if they came at all. Few moderns would question the status of the Rocket. Harvey and Howe. And Bill Durnan hasn&rsquo;t been gone from the pits long enough for folks to forget how he won the Vezina vase half a dozen times. Nor is any person, regardless of age, likely to lose faith in the power of the ballot because Eddie Shore made the team. That leaves only centre open for assault. And is there even a peep of protest because Morenz got the call?Mr. Tay Pay Gorman, the ageless Ottawa Irishman, says there is. Tay Pay definitely is a member of the old school. He managed the first of his seven Stanley Cup winners almost 40 years ago.Neighbor Over Morenz At Centre?&ldquo;There would be only one change in that all-star team if I had picked it,&rdquo; Tommy said yesterday. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d have put Frank Nighbor at centre instead of Morenz. Nighbor belong there. Until Doug Harvey came along, I&rsquo;d have had Sprague Cleghorn on defence, too. But I can&rsquo;t push him in ahead of Harvey. Shore, of course, would be everybody&rsquo;s pick.&rdquo;Gorman could have been speaking from his wallet, as well as from his heart, when he gave honorary mention to Cleghorn. In addition to being one of the greatest players in the history of the game, Sprague made Gorman look like the owner of the goose that laid golden eggs. Cleghorn belonged to the old Montreal Wanderers. He was in hospital with a broken leg. While still in sick bay, he went out for a brief look at the town one night&mdash;and broke the other leg. This convinced Wanderers there was nothing to be gained by keeping Sprague on their roster, Gorman got him for the price of his train fare.&ldquo;Nighbor had it over Morenz as a two-way player,&rdquo; Tay Pay insisted. &ldquo;And he played 60 minutes, although I agree no person could do that in the game as it&rsquo;s played today. Do you know we (the Ottawa Senators) had only seven players in the Stanley Cup series with Edmonton back in 1923?&rdquo;That was the classic in which King Clancy played every position on the ice. When King went to centre, it gave Nighbor a chance to drop back and take a breather on defence. Clancy played goal because Clint Benedict, the Ottawa backstop, was thumbed to the sneezer for taking a whack at Joe Simpson with his stick. The goalie had to serve his own penalties in those days.Gorman&rsquo;s observations regarding Nighbor and Morens brought to mind the argument of another veteran, Art Ross, recently in Boston. Ross contended he would have to take Milt Schmidt over Howie, because of Milt&rsquo;s superior defensive skills. But there again the styles of two different eras influenced the choice. In Howie&rsquo;s day, there was a happy theory that if a man put the puck in the net at fairly regular intervals, he could depend on others to keep it out of his own cage. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September byKen-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.1434 Ste. Catherine Street WestMontreal 25, Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth:$4.00 in the U.S.A, ano Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter. October 3. 1953. at the Post Officeat Rouses Point. N.Y.. under the Act of March 3rd. 1879Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department. OttawaPrinted in CanadaVOL. 11 MONTREAL. APRIL 12. 1958 No. 28<h2>PASSING THE PUCK</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01477/1996188-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="374" height="437"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02443/1996181-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="769" height="154"></div>&bull; IT WAS retribution setting in when Montreal Canadiens polished off Detroit Red Wings in four straight games&hellip; Detroit did this to Montreal in the Cup finals of 1952&hellip; Last team to down Detroit in four straight was Toronto in 1949&hellip; Canadiens right now have one of the finest hockey machines ever assembled&hellip; Even when the Red Wings? were two goals ahead in the fourth game, you could almost feel the Montreal power being unchanneled and that it would only be a matter of time before they rolled over the Detroiters&hellip; The Red Wings gave it their best in the last two games of the series which were thrillers all the way&hellip; Jack Adams summed it up at the end of the series when he told his club: &ldquo;You played your guts out. That&rsquo;s all any team can do.&rdquo;&hellip; Canadiens took their semi-fintl victory in stride&hellip; Coach Toe Blake sized it up when he said: &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t celebrate winning this series&hellip; Jack Adams announced as soon as the series was over that there would be no off-season deals for the Red Wings. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to start rebuilding. We have good young players in Norm Ullman. Billy McNeill, Pete Goegan and Don Poile and there are some good kids playing for us in Edmonton. I&rsquo;m going to build a team around them and we may also draft a few youngsters. Jimmy Skinner is out in Edmonton now watching our younger players&rdquo;&hellip; Incidentally, Mel Woody of the Newark News, is the only hockey writer we&rsquo;ve come across who called the exact finish of the NHL season for 1957-58&hellip; Here&rsquo;s how the writers picked &rsquo;em for THE HOCKEY NEWS poll last October: 1. Montreal, 2. Detroit, 3. Chicago, 4 Boston, 5. New-York and 6. Toronto&hellip; The only positions named correctly were first and fourth where Montreal and Boston finished&hellip; &ldquo;This is the noisiest crowd of the season.&rdquo; stated Fred Huber, Detroit publicist, in describing the crowd at the final game of the season in Detroit.&bull; MAURICE RICHARD&rsquo;S winning goal in Detroit in the fourth game was his 96th winning goal in regular season and playoff competition&hellip; What a record!&hellip; It also marked the 32nd time he had scored a &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; in the NHL&hellip; He scored 26 &ldquo;Hat Tricks&rdquo; in regular scheduled play and six in the playoffs&hellip; The Rocket has scored four goals in a playoff goals&hellip; If you haven&rsquo;t already bought your copy of the Stanley Cup be sure to do so right away&hellip; This is the fine history of hockey&rsquo;s most famous trophy by Toronto writers Jack Suljivan and Bob Hesketh&hellip; It sells for 50 cents and may be obtained on all leading newsstands in Canada&hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Bronco Horvath and Rangers&rsquo; Bill Gadsby hurled insults at each other throughout the Bruins-Rangers series&hellip; Horvath called Gadsby &ldquo;Big Ears&rdquo; while Gadsby called Horvath &rsquo; Hose Nose&rdquo;&hellip; Jerry Toppazzini has really &ldquo;arrived&rdquo; in the star classification&hellip; Voted the Bruins most valuable player during the regular schedule, Topper has been nothing short of senational throughout the playoffs&hellip; He scored eight goals and had. two assists for 10 points in the six-game series with New-York&hellip; Toppazzini wasn&rsquo;t even supposed to play in the playoffs originally. It was &ldquo;feared that his eye injury suffered in mid-March would keep him sidelined for the rest of the season&hellip; The new Bruins&rsquo; line of Toppazzini, Fleming Mackell and Don McKenney has been great ever since they started playing together&hellip; In the six games against the Rangers they scored 17 of the 28 Boston goals and collected 19 of the 36 Boston assists. The trio was responsible for 36 of the 74 points accumulated by the Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03367/1996174-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="269" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Toppazzini</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04309/1996167-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="256" height="370"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bronco Horvath</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05280/1996160-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="268" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06238/1996153-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="273" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Ullman</figcaption></div>&bull; CANADIENS&rsquo; TOE BLAKE employed perfect strategy in leading his team to a sweep over Detroit&hellip; Blake used four forward lines on occasions and alternated the new NHL scoring champion Dickie Moore and Marcel Bonin very effectively. He would use Bonin on the line when Gordie Howe appeared and the pesky Bonin did a masterful job of containing the high-scoring Howe&hellip; Moore was always that much fresher when called upon&hellip; Blake has handled his players like a master throughout the season&hellip; Bill Eainicki. one of the most colorful players in the NHL when he played forward with Toronto Maple Leafs, picked up $1,250. in seven events on the winter pro golf circuit. Ezzy says he will make the full tour next year&hellip; Jack Adams encountered King Glancy in the hotel lobby after the Wings had lost 8-1 to Canadiens in the opening game of their series&hellip; &rsquo; Did you bring your skates? We Can use you, shouted Adams&hellip; &ldquo;No, and I don&rsquo;t think your team brought theirs, either&rdquo;, Clancy answered&hellip; Someone asked Clancy if it were true that Toronto wanted to peddle Marc Resume and George Armstrong to the New York Rangers for Bill Gadsby &hellip; King turned to Jack Adams and quipped: &ldquo;Sure, and if I had my way I&rsquo;d give you some good ones. Some of those long-range checkers.&rdquo;&hellip; To illustrate his point, King made a few timid swipes with an imaginary stick &hellip; &ldquo;Keep &rsquo;em,&rdquo; Jack chuckled&hellip; &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got enough of those shadow&rsquo; boxers now. What we need is belters.&rdquo;&hellip; Milt Schmidt has decided to stick with Don Simmons for the remainder of the playoffs&hellip; Simmons has goaled well since he replaced Harry Lumley after the first game of the Bruins-Rangers series&hellip; Harry has developed into quite a radio and television personality and has appeared often in both mediums during the series commenting on the play of that particular game and the series as a whole.&bull; SYD HOWE, the former Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; great, came down from Ottawa to watch Detroit play their two games in Montreal&hellip; It was the first time he had seen the Red Wings in action since he left the team after the 1945-46 season&hellip; It was the first time he had seen Gordie Howe play&hellip; Bob Turner has played exceptionally well for Canadiens on defense since he was given an opportunity to play more &hellip; Most of the Canadiens had no preference which team (Boston or New&rsquo; York) they would meet in the finals&hellip; The Canadiens have a championship air about them and appear to take everything in stride&hellip; They are cooly looking forward to the finals and while they respect the Bruins for the manner in which they eliminated the Rangers, they don&rsquo;t figure they will give them anymore trouble than Detroit did&hellip; Detroit attendance was down this year over last season,&hellip; Red Wing attendance for the 35 home games was 372.061, or 79.086 less than last season&rsquo;s record 451.147&hellip; This year&rsquo;s Toronto Maple Leafs were the most scored upon in Leaf history&hellip; but it was also the fifth-highest scoring team in Toronto history&hellip; &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;The Bruins were preparing to leave their dressing room for the start of the overtime period at Madison Square Garden when Leo Labine of the keen memory made a passing comment to his nextdoor neighbor.&ldquo;You know, Topper,&rdquo; he said to Jerry Toppazzini, &ldquo;in all the years I&rsquo;ve been playing hockey I&rsquo;ve never scored an overtime goal.&rdquo;Toppazzini conducted a swift overhaul of his own memory and replied. &ldquo;Know what, Leo? Neither have I.&rdquo;&ldquo;Well don&rsquo;t bother thinking about making one tonight,&rdquo; cracked Bronco &rsquo;Horvath from farther down the line. &lsquo;The winning goal tonight is in my stick.&rdquo;So Toppazzini, the man who wasn&rsquo;t even supposed to play in the Stanley Cup playoffs, went out and did something he had never done before.<h2>Brave Guy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01434/1996288-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="577" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Toppazzini</figcaption></div>He scored the goal which ended the first overtime game of this year&rsquo;s playoffs, in the process moving the Bruins into a series tie with the New York Rangers at one win apiece.Toppazzini, 26-year old right wing on the line which has Fleming Mackell at center and Don McKenney at left wing, came close to losing the sight in his, left eye two weeks to the night before making his addition to Stanley Cup history.He was struck by the stick of gentlemanly Floyd Curry in a game with the Montreal Canadiens. Assured of his sight, he was told his chance of taking part in the playoffs were almost nil.But as the condition of his eye improved rapidly the spunky fellow took the matter of his return to the lineup into his own hands. A day after his discharge from the hospital he was skating and five days later, in time for the last game of the regular season with Chicago here, he was playing.His comeback was prefaced by the reception of two awards, one for being voted the most valuable Bruin. To celebrate he scored his 25th goal:&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no one like him,&rdquo; averred Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s irrepressible, that&rsquo;s all. He can&rsquo;t be kept down.&rdquo;The Mackell-McKenney-Top pazzini line figured in all four goals in the overtime game and the winner was a line production all the way. Mackell fed McKenney who passed to Toppazzini. parked 20 feet out from Gump Worsley.The energetic forward set himself and fired a blinding shot on which Worsley had no chance.Changes Style&ldquo;We&rsquo;d been doing so much slapping at the puck I vowed I&rsquo;d take my time if I got a good chance,&rdquo; related Topper, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s what I did.&ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t made a hard shot all night and I just knew I had one in me. Boy. I really let &rsquo;er go. I don&rsquo;t believe Gump saw it and I know I couldn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;His hockey life has been one comeback after another for Toppazzini, a native of Copper Cliff. Ont., and preceded into the Bruins&rsquo; organization by his older brother Zellio.Lack of scoring ability threatened to end his stay in the National League three years ago when he was with Chicago, but constant practice developed the skills he needed.A year ago he was injured in mid-February, and he. didn&rsquo;t regain. his full stride until this season was underway.But the spectacular goal in New York was in keeping with the form chart of the spectacular young man. who has demonstrated on numerous occasions that he has a genuine flair for the dramatic. In the Stanley Cup playoffs there&rsquo;s nothing more dramatic than an overtime goal. &#9632;

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Boston Takes Hat Off To Topper As Gritty Bruin Scores Big Goal

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03325/1996374-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jimmy Ward</figcaption></div>Montreal StarMONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The old arena in Portland, Ore., where the late Dick Irvin played hockey more than 35 years ago, has been condemned. The ground is now being cleared for an $8million sports centre to include hockey and if Jimmy Ward can get the right people to back him he&rsquo;ll organize a team for entry in the Western Hockey League.Supporters of the old Montreal Maroons remember Ward, especially thousands of kids now moving through middle life, Jimmy was their idol.Born in Fort William. Ont., he came to Maroons in 1927 and he was always a Maroon until the demise of the club after the 1937-38 season. He was a big cog in the Stanley Cup machine when Maroons won in 1934-35. His linemates were Hooley Smith and Baldy Northcott. His biggest scoring season was 1931&mdash;2 when he bagged 19 tallies. had 19 assists to finish ninth in the Canadian Division. The NHL was then divided in two sections, playing 4 8-game schedules.He played one season with Canadiens, and another with New Haven before his retirement in 194 1, after scoring 147 goals and accumulating 257 points in major league competition.When the Ice Follies partners&mdash;Shipstads and Johnson&mdash;purchased the Portland Arena in 1944, Ward was hired to manage and coach a club in the then Pacific Coast League, which included clubs in San Diego and Hollywood in the south, and Vancouver in the north. The Portland hockey operalion was very successful for five years.<h2>Looking For Support</h2>Now 51. Jimmy has been working for a large auto parts firm in Portland the past six years. The owner, Dick Whittaker, an ardent hockey fan, was president of the Portland Fan Club. &ldquo;When the arena was condemned the closest he could get to hockey was to hire the old hockey coach, &rsquo; says 15 ard in a letter to this department.While playing for Maroons he married a girl from Morin Heights, Que.&mdash;Maude Campbell. They have four children, Jimmy, Jr., 25, has just returned from France, having served his army hitch for Uncle Sam. He&rsquo;s a graduate in science from Michigan State, where he broke existing scoring records on the hockey team and was&rsquo; chosen MVP. While overseas he married a Swiss girl.The eldest daughter Wendy 21. attends Portland State College. Peter, 20, is at Lewis and Clark College. A good ball player he hit.350 to lead his team to a Conference title, and during a tournament game made an unassisted triple play, quite a feat in ny class of baseball competition. Playing shortstop he speared a line drive, touched second to retire the second man, then ran down a man coming on from first base. Gayle, the youngest is 18 and in her graduating class at high school.Jimmy Sr., plays golf all summer&mdash;&ldquo;one of the tew men who never gets a tan,&rdquo; he says. He has a nice older type home with a flower garden, and fruit trees walnuts, apricots, cherries, apples, peaches and pears.&ldquo;The climate is wonderful,&rdquo; he adds. &ldquo;Just enough change to make one appreciate summer and winter&hellip; plenty of rain in winter&hellip; but we don&rsquo;t have to shovel the rain&hellip; If we want snow it&rsquo;s only 50 miles to Mount Hood.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Old Hockey Star Hopes To Revive Portland Entry

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01504/1996405-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate, New York Rangers&rsquo; dynamic winger, cat same fancy capers during the NHL season and he also cat a fancy figure with the Rangers&rsquo; Fan Club, who picked him as the most popular player on team. Here Bathgate receives Frank Boucher Trophy from fan club secretary Lillian Greenberg, left, and treasurer Jessie Gardlelle.</figcaption></div>(Montreal Gazette)&ldquo;The Guy Isn&rsquo;t Human&rdquo;If the Detroit Red Wings never see Maurice (The Rocket) Richard again, it will be too soon.&ldquo;He beat me in 1951 when I was a rookie,&rdquo; said Terry Sawchuk Wings netminder, in the dressing room after Montreal Habs-bad ousted Detroit from the Stanley cup playoffs, &ldquo;and he did it again this year.&rdquo;What Sawchuk was alluding to was the 1951 playoff series when the Rocket scored a couple of overtime goals. In the series just concluded, he scored a couple of goals in less than five minutes of the opening game and he wound up by scoring two more in the third period of the last game. What the Rocket starts, the Rocket finishes.Jacques Beauchamp, the sport editor of Montreal Matin, asked Gordie Howe, who was standing nearby, a question.&ldquo;I answered that question for you two weeks ago.&rdquo; Howe said, &ldquo;and the answer is still the same.&rdquo;The question Jacques had asked the Wings&rsquo; star was, &ldquo;Do you think you&rsquo;ll ever beat the Rocket&rsquo;s scoring record?&rdquo;&ldquo;No&rdquo;, answered Howe, &ldquo;not even if they count the goals I score in exhibition and practice games.&rdquo;Sid Abel, the Wings&rsquo; coach, had only one comment to make.&lsquo;The guy isn&rsquo;t human&rdquo;, he said.The Rocket himself is the only person who doesn&rsquo;t express surprise at his feats. He takes it al] in stride.&ldquo;Good game. Rocket&rdquo; a guy said to him after the series clincher.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re all good when you win,&rdquo; the Rocket said, and that was that.Nothing Left to SayCoach Toe Blake has often expressed amazement at the Rocket&rsquo;s determination. In a recent Detroit game, the Rocket was battling to put the puck in the net. He slashed at it three times and wound up going headfirst into the fence.&ldquo;I thought he was going to move that end of the building out,&rdquo; Toe said later, &ldquo;I never saw anybody so goal-hungry. You&rsquo;d think he was still going for the first goal of bis career.&rdquo;Be that as it may, the writers on the hockey beat may have to retire before the Rocket does. They have worn out superlatives in writing about him and they have nothing fresh to say because he keeps on doing the same incredible things. There is one rule book for the Rocket: another for the rest of us.Jack Adams, the Red Wings&rsquo; general manager, didn&rsquo;t blame the officials for the Wings&rsquo; defeat in the final game, which struck the Canadian as a switch.&ldquo;A couple of unfortunate penalties meant the difference,&rsquo; be said. &ldquo;But that&rsquo;s what you have to put up with inexperience. McNeill is only 22 and Goegan has played less than one season.&rdquo;Billy McNeill and Pete Goegen were the Wings who drew chippy penalties in the final period. While they were sitting them out the Canadiens scored twice to tie the score, and the Rocket then went on to put the clincher in the net. But the Habitants have so much speed and class that opposing players have to resort to hooking and holding to keep up with them.Who&rsquo;s Going to Beat Them?The Canadiens will have to stand by now until the other series&rsquo; produces a winner. There was no celebrating after Detroit victory, but the players were quietly confident, returning home on the train.&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t won the Stanley Cup yet,&rdquo; Toe Blake pointed out. &ldquo;When we do it will be time enough to celebrate.&rdquo;He didn&rsquo;t say that winning the Cup will be nothing more than a formality, but that&rsquo;s the feeling you get from watching this team. Billy Reay, the coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, enumerated his reasons for picking the Canadians to retain the Cup.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a good clutch goalkeeper and the best defenseman in the game,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got the two leading scorers, three good centres, and on top of all that they&rsquo;ve got the Rocket. Who&rsquo;s going to beat them?&rdquo;The answer is nobody. Neither the New York Rangers nor the Boston Bruins, even if they were healthy, and the way they are slapping each other around the survivods will be left standing end not much else. The rested Canadiens shouldn&rsquo;t have any more trouble with them than they had with the Red Wings.The Red Wings&rsquo; era is over and the Canadiens figure to stay er, top for years to come. On a recent visit to Montreal, King Clancy, the Leafs&rsquo; scout asked if he&rsquo;d seen any good prospect.&ldquo;Yes &ldquo;, he said, &ldquo;and they all belonged to the Canadiens.&rdquo;<h2>Andy Sweet Like Candy &#9632;</h2>

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<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;In the midst of the playoff madness coach Phil Watson of the New York Rangers took time out to reveal for the first time his &ldquo;20 best National Leaguers.&rdquo;Last month Watson was asked along with the five other NHL coaches, to pick the choice team but until now the mentor&rsquo;s choices wore a well-kept secret.After some light grilling it was learned that Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk and Maurice and Henri Richard tied for top spot with two votes each on Watson s hit parade.Howe was picked as the smartest player and best puck carrier. Sawchuk got the nod as best goalie on screened shots and best goalie man against man. Henri Richard was chosen best, and fastest skater and&mdash;get this&mdash;best fighter!. Maurice Richard won out as most accurate shooter and best man on a breakaway. Watson differed from the collective coaches choices on tour counts.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02384/1996436-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="254" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Watson</figcaption></div>The coaches selected Howe as the best passer and playmaker but Phil thought Jean Beliveau was better. Fernie Flaman was the mentor&rsquo;s pick as best fighter. Although Tom Johnson got the vote for most underrated player, Phil cast his ballot for Vic Stasiuk. Likewise, the most improved player vote went to Forbes Kennedy although Watson liked Dickie Moore.Red Sullivan, Rangers&rsquo; captain was named the best defensive forward checker and best hustler, hardest worker while Bill Gadsby of New York got the call as best attacking defenseman.Since Watson was not permitted to vote for his own men he chose Alex Delvecchio as the best defensive forward checker and Fleming Mackell as the best hustler, hardest worker. Phil&rsquo;s choice as the best attacking defenseman was Pierre Pilote.The remainder of Watson&rsquo;s choices are as follows;Hardest shot, Boom Boom Geoffrion; Best stickhandler, Larry Regan; Best penalty-killer, Jerry Toppazzini; Hardest bodychecker. Leo Boivin; Best defensive defenseman, Doug Harvey.And last but positively not least in Phil&rsquo;s estimation, best referee&mdash;Eddie Powers!BANGERABILIA: Playoff panic plays no favorites. Blue vets Harry Howell and Lou Fon-tinato admitted they were all jitters in the first minutes of the Cup opener. Tn spite of it. the Rangers romped&hellip; The collision between Bronco Horvath and Jack Evans which resulted in the injury and hospitalization of Horvath was the culmination of a small season long feud between the two&hellip; for inexplicable reasons&hellip; He may not have collected the majority of the points but Andy Hebenton has been the most effective and hardest working Blue in the semi-final round&hellip; For the second year in a row the Manhattan hockey season ended with a sudden death goal. Last year Hebenton won it for the Blues against Montreal and this semester Jerry Toppazzini conked the Rangers for Boston&hellip; Red Sullivan&rsquo;s loss to the Blues was not the first, time the club lost a captain in the playoffs. Before the war Art Coulter&hellip; then one of the top back liners, was sidelined. &#9632;

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Howe, Sawchuk, Rocket Rank High On List Of Watson’s ‘Best’ Players

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Hockey teams frequently hide themselves away between Stanley Cup playoff games, coming into town just long enough to play, but the New York Rangers carried the practice to new lengths for their first two games here.The Rangers commuted from New York by train, a round trip of more than 400 miles.The New York team left home on the Bay Stater at 10 o&rsquo;clock the morning of eaeh game, arriving here 4&frac12; hours later. The Rangers returned home after the first game on the Owl. leaving a half-hour after midnight. They remained here after the second game.&ldquo;By going home we&rsquo;re assured of having practice facilities explained Phil Watson, New York coach. &ldquo;Besides, I don&rsquo;t want my players hanging around Boston any more than they have to.&rdquo; &#9632;

N. Y. Rangers Go To Extremes Returning Home For Practice

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01455/1996498-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="522" height="829"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guy Gendron</figcaption></div>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;New York Ranger defenseman Louie Fontinato was checked where it hurt the most&mdash;right in the wallet&mdash;as he was fined $25 after Municipal Judge Jacob Lewiton found him guilty on a charge of assault and battery stemming from his part in a wild melee with a fan at the Garden on March 15.Bruins&rsquo; fan Antony Tavilla. 30, of Lexington was convicted of disturbing a public assembly and fined $10. Both Fontinato and Tavilla appealed their fines after Judge Lewiton dismissed assault and battery charges against Rangers Bill Gadsby and Guy Gendron, who were also charged with assautl and battery for leaping into the brawl.No mention was made regarding the disposition of assault and battery charges levelled against George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, captain of the Rangers, who is still hospitalized in New York with a fractured jaw ind was unable to be present at the court hearing.In a game between the Bruins and Rangers on March 15 at the Garden. Fontinato, while in the penalty box, took exception to the remarks made by Tavilla who was seated near the box. Fontinato finally swung on Tavilla and several of the Rangers leaped over the dasher to Fontinato&rsquo;s aid in the wild melee.Bruin winger Vic Stasiuk who was in the penalty box with Fontinato when it started, was a witness for Tavilla in court yesterday.He testified. &ldquo;I was sitting to the right of Lou. I heard this fan giving him the razz. He called Lou a bum and said he couldn&rsquo;t play hoekey, and without a hockey stick he was still a bum.&ldquo;All of a sudden Lou swung over my head and 1 ducked. Before I could get up again, I saw Lou going down the aisle and jumping this fan. Then I went up to grab Lou. And that was when things started.&rdquo; Stasiuk said.Lou went down six or seven seats after Tavilla. Then I saw a wave of blue shirts coming across the ice and saw some seats tumble down. Finally, everybody was in the stands and everything was all upset. I grabbed Lou who was on top of Tavilla, who was lying down.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02420/1996491-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="482" height="843"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Fontinato</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Fiery Fontinato Fined For Fighting Fan

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;The Black Hawks were roaring along at full steam with more pep than they&rsquo;d had in many weeks when the 1957-58 schedule unfortunately ran out to lick their bid for a playoff spot for another year. Nevertheless, the club posted what is definitely an enviable scoring record.Unofficial as it is, it is doubtful that any other NHL team has ever had an entire squad, sans goalie of course, that right down the line has registered improvement, so stoutly from the&mdash;first half of the schedule to the second. The Hawks had not one exception.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to start next season right now with tthe way we have been playing,&rdquo; mused Coach Rudy Pilous at the close of game No. 70. Most of the players&mdash;at least the younger pepsters would probably have been glad to go along with such words of encouragement.Had Chicago made the playoffs, even many of the unbias authorities feel, the team would have tested any of the other three qualifiers thoroughly and may well have pulled off the Cinderella fete that last gave a fourth place Chicago team the Stanley Cup 20 years ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03337/1996536-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="574" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Litzenberger</figcaption></div>The adjoining table, shows just how strongly the Hawks to the last man&mdash;scored like champions during the last half of the year. And comes the real search and test: to get a team to play that way with success during tmore than lust a half of the campaign.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04255/1996529-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="1070" height="597"></div>Wingers Ed Litzenberger and Eric Nesterenko were the Black Hawk bonus babies of the 1957-58 National League season as they collected $1,500 between them for reaching and surpassing goal-getting aims set before the campaign began in talks at the contract table with General Manager Tommy Ivan.Big &ldquo;Litz,&rdquo; in connecting for 82 goals for the second year in a row, garnered $1,000 of the total above and beyond his established salary. The first $500 came when he reached the 25-goal mark and the second followed after he notched No. 30.Nesterenko waited until the final moments of the season to come through and qualify for a $500 bonus for scoring 20 goals. It was the first time in his six-year NHL career that he reached the charmed circle. His 15 goals with Toronto in 1954-55 marked his previous peak.The combination of Litzenberger. Eric and cagey Ted Lindsay ranked as one of the league&rsquo;s top offensive threats in pre-season predicting, however, the line never quite Jel led and the three found themselves with differnt units as many games passed. &#9632;

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Lowly Black Hawks Had Throttle Open In Closing Weeks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05176/1996567-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg"></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Wren Blair, the energetic hockey figure who built the Whitby Dunlops into Allan Cup winners and later World hockey champions, may land in the Toronto Maple beats organization next, season.The only hitch to Blair joining the Leafs is the matter of salary, which must be straightened out between the Whitby GM and Stafford Smythe, who holds a similar post with the National Hockey League team.Smythe confirmed that he offered Blair the dual posts of general manager of the Leafs-owned Toronto Marlboros junior team and director of the pro club&rsquo;s hockey farm system at a recent meeting between the two men.Nothing was definitely decided but the chairman of Leafs committee of seven said a further get-together is planned for next week after Smythe has discussed the matter with the Gardens&rsquo; board of directors.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m interested in having Blair in our organization,&rdquo; Smythe admitted, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;re quite a bit apart on salary and terms. He&rsquo;s pretty high-priced and what he&rsquo;s asking might not be acceptable.&rdquo;In making the announcement of the Smythe offer, the general manager and guiding light behind Whitby Dunlops, who arrived home recently after winning back the world amateur hockey championship for Canada at Oslo three weeks ago, stated it was agreed Dunlops would be taken into the Leaf fold and that Blair could remain their general manager.&ldquo;As a matter of fact,&rdquo; continued Smythe, &ldquo;the retention of his job as general manager of Dunlops is the only basis by which we could get together. Otherwise there is too big a spread between us.&rdquo;Smythe, also the current Marlboro boss, went on to say that it&rsquo;s hard to find men with the necessary knowledge who are willing to take such a job as he offered Blair.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to build up our farm system all over the country,&rdquo; Stafford added, &ldquo;and in order to get back even with Canadiens (the NHL version) we&rsquo;ve got a long way to go. You saw what they did against Detroit.&rdquo;It has been rumored for some time that. Leafs were interested in acquiring Blair&rsquo;s services but apparently his desired stipend staggered even the stolid Smythe. Besides his hockey position. Wren also works for national housing.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m looking for a man in our organization who can do what Sammy. Pollock does for Canadians.&rdquo; revealed Smythe, &ldquo;and that was the general idea of our discussion.&rdquo;<h2>He Costs Money</h2>Blair, who came from under the bleachers to lead Whitby to the Allan Cup last year anil then sold the CAHA on the idea that Dunnies could regain Canada&rsquo;s hockey prestige in Europe, is a gent who knows what he wants and is determined to get it.If he and Smythe can come to an amicable agreement, chances are good that Billy Reay will move up to become Leafs general manager and Turk Broda will take over as coach of the Leafs come next fall. It is known that Broda, after four years at the helm of Marlboros, is impatient to grab the reins of the faltering Maple Leafs.Winning the OHA junior title again with the Marlies is another feather in the cap of the portly Broda. who has the &rsquo;Leafian&rsquo; background for the job. &#9632;

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Blair Headed For Dual Leaf Role If He Can Hurdle Salary Barrier

Diesel Rolling Along When diesel Doug Mohns ended the current semi-final playoff series against Rangers with 11 points, he eclipsed the old Boston Bruins record for most points by a club defenceman in playoff play. Flash Hollett held the old mark of 10 set in 1940-41.Don McKenney of the Bruins tied a Stanley Cup playoff record for most assists in one game when he figurer in five Boston goals in the final with New York. Three others share the feat, Toe Blake, Maurice Richard and Bert Olmstead.<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01489/1996605-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="573" height="342"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02422/1996598-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="576" height="1338"></div>TUESDAY, APRIL 1thMontreal 4 at Detroit 3Montreal&mdash;Goal: Plante: defense: Harvey, Langlois, St. Laurent, Talbot, Turner: forwards: Beliveau, Olmstead, Marshall, H. Richard, M. Richard, Moore, Provost. A, Pronovost, Goyette, Curry, Geoffrion.Detroit&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk: defense: Pronovost, Kelly. Godfrey, Geogan, Arbour; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Wilson, Ullmen, McNeill, Leewick, Poile, McIntyre, Kennedy, Mickoski, Bailey.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bailey 2.22. Harvey 2.35, Moore 9.45, Kennedy (two minors) 9.45, H. Richard 14.08, A. Pronovost 18.08.Second Period1&mdash;Detroit: McIntyre (Howe)&hellip;&hellip; 5.492&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(H. Richard, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip; 8.453&mdash;Detroit: Howe(UlIman, Mcintyre)&hellip;&hellip; 10.274&mdash;Detroit: McNeill(Wilson, Arbour)&hellip;&hellip; 11.13Penalties: Talbot 3.38, St. Laurent 14.43.Third Period5&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(Harvey, Beliveau)&hellip;&hellip; 4.006&mdash;Montreal: Monre(Beliveau, Geoffrion)&hellip;&hellip; 9.077&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard(H. Richard)&hellip;&hellip; 9.56Penalties: McNeill 2.02. Geogan 8.41, Goyette 16.33.New York 5 at Boston 2New York&mdash;Goal: Woreiey; defense: Howell, Pontinato, Gadeby. Evans, Cahan; forwards: Ciesla, Hebenton, Prentice. Creighton. Bathgate. Henry, Popein, Gendron. MacDonald, Foley, Lewicki.Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense: Stanley, Boivin, Flaman. Mohns, Hillman; for wards: Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk, MaeKeli, Top-pozzini. McKenney, Johnson. Labine, Regan, Boone, Peirson.First Period1&mdash;Now York: Prentice(Bathgate)&hellip;&hellip; 6.192&mdash;New York: Creighton(MacDonald, Henrv)&hellip;&hellip; 9.47Penalties: Bucyk 1.11, Hebenton 2.17, Fontinato 4.24, Gendron. MacKell and Boivin 6.13. Bucyk 2.16. Foley 15.41, Evaas&rsquo; and Staeiok 17.45.Second Period3&mdash;Boston; Toppazzini&hellip;&hellip; 0.044&mdash;New York; Hebenton(Prentice, Fontina to)&hellip;&hellip; 10.175&mdash;New York: Bathgate&hellip;&hellip; 15.12 Penalties: Hebenton 24. Mohns andLewicki 7.43. Gahan 14.01.Third Period6&mdash;Boston: Toppazzini(Mackell. Mohns)&hellip;&hellip; 11.327&mdash;New York: BathgatePenalty; Boivin 10.41.THURSDAY. APRIL 3New York 1 at Boston 6Boston&mdash;Goals: Simmous; defence: Flaman, Mohns. Stanley, Boivin, Hillman; forwards: Johnson. Labine. Ragan, Horvath, Stasiuk. Bucyk, Mackell, Toppazzini, McKenney, Boone, Peirson.New York&mdash;Goal: Wordey; defense: Ho well, Fontina to Gadsby, Evans, Cahan; forwards: Creighton, Bathgate, Henry, Popein. Hebenton. Gendron, G-iesia, Prentice, Foley, Macdonald, Lewicki.Referee: Frank Uvari: linesmen:Doug Davies. George Havs.First Period1&mdash;Boston. Mackell(Toppazzini, Hillman)&hellip;&hellip; 6:402&mdash;Boston. Horvath(Buryk, Mohnsi)&hellip;&hellip; 9:113&mdash;Boston, McKenney(Boivin)&hellip;&hellip; 11.24Penalties: Mackell 2:13. Howell 4:33, Evane 8:43, Boivin 13:03.Second Period4&mdash;Boston, Flaman (Mackell)&hellip;&hellip; 5:104&mdash;Boston, Flaman&hellip;&hellip; 16:206&mdash;New York, Macdonald(Foley, Ciesla)&hellip;&hellip; 12:44Penalties; Bovin 3:18, Howell&hellip;&hellip; 17:00.Third Period7&mdash;Boston, Toppazzini(Horvath, stasiuk)&hellip;&hellip; 15:32Penalties: Flaman 10:28, Labine 13:18 Prentice 14:45, Fontina to 1-5:43, Boone 19:30.SATURDAY, APRIL 5. 1958Boston 8 at New York 2New York&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense, Gadsby, Evans. Howell, Fontina to, Gahan; forwards: Clesla, Hebenion, MacDonald, Creighton, Bathgate, Henry, Popein, Foley, Gendron, Lewicki, Prentice.Boston&mdash;Goal: Simanons; defense: Fluman Mohns, Stanley, Boivin, Hillman: forwards: Horvath. Stasiuk. Bucyk. Macke-Il. Toppizzini. McKenney, Johnson. Labine. Regan, Boone, Peirson.First Period1&mdash;Booton: Regan(Horvath, Bucyk)&hellip;&hellip; 582&mdash;Boston: Toppazzini(Mackell, Mohns)&hellip;&hellip; 7.273&mdash;Boston: Johnson (Regan) 11.044&mdash;New York: Howell(Creighton)&hellip;&hellip; 14.385&mdash;Booton: Mackell(Toppazzini. McKenney)&hellip; 17.20 Penalties: Evans 13. Regan 3.19, Boivin 6.40, Howell 9.47. Popein 15.15. Flaman 18.51.Second Period6&mdash;New York: Bathgate (Prentice, Gadeby)7&mdash;Boston: Mohns(McKenney)&hellip;&hellip; 13.29Penalties: Bolvain 4.09, feewick and 13.30.Third Period8&mdash;Boston: Mackell eMcKenney, Hillam)&hellip;&hellip; 8.279&mdash;Boston: Toppazzini(WeKenney. Macke10&mdash;Boston: Toppazziwi(McKenney, Peirson)Penalties: Brentfee and 12.00<div class="sidebar"><h2>WANTED</h2>1st issue October 1955 &lsquo;Hocker Pictorial&rsquo;. Albums or Loose Copies of &lsquo;Les Sports&rsquo; years 1-1952 a 2-1953 to make sets complete. Must be perfect. Lowest offer accepted, Send direct. Mildred F. Bailey. 134 Woodland Ave., Valley Stream, Long Island. Hew York. U.S.A. &#9632;</div>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;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&rsquo;s more extraordinary is that Lafond does so mostly for his own amuse, ment, though his voluminous reports are handed over to theShawinigan club directors and policy makers for their enlightenment and what ever action they care to take. Lafond also provides copies for his close friends of the press.Denis &ldquo;Dissected&rdquo;He does more than the regular breakdown on goals and assists. It&rsquo;s most fascinating how he dissects the 39 goals scored by Jean Paul Denis, top-banana for the club and the league, and winner of the President&rsquo;s Cup as high point maker for the recent schedule of 6 4 games.Twenty of Denis&rsquo; tallies are in categories which Lafond classifies as &ldquo;Important Goals&rdquo; which are further sub-divided five ways: first goal of game 3, tying goal 4, winning goal 4, goal closing the gap to one goal 3. insurance goal 3. Every man save the goalkeepers are cut up this way.Opposing players are also chartered in various ways. It&rsquo;s pertinent that Kelly Burnett, Royals&rsquo; veteran center, goal 14 of his 32 goals this season against the Shawinigan club, a feat only equalled by Jacques Locas of Chicoutimi, who was top goal-getter in the circuit with 40.Want the darker side? Well, Ted Hodgson, lanky defenseman of the Cataracts served six penalties that were costly, topping Reggie Fleming, the loop&rsquo;s turbulent character who served 227 minutes in total penalties. Fleming, with five costly penalties. was tied tor this dubious distinction by three team-mates, and this is odd&mdash;Jean Paul Denis.Here&rsquo;s an interesting statistic at the team level: The Cataracts made 2,019 shots at opponent&rsquo;s nets in the 64 scheduled games, an average of 31.5 per game; opposing players made only 1,934 shots&rsquo; on the Cataracts&rsquo; goalies, averaging 30.2 shots per game.There&rsquo;s lots more to Mr. Lafond&rsquo;s mathematics. He does quite a job. &#9632;

Figure Filbert Charts Cats

BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;Few hockey players work as diligently at the game as Fleming Mackell of the Boston Bruins and for the peppery little centre skating against such bigger rivals as he encounters in the National Hockey League is like rolling off a log.Mackell has been a perennial Boston favorite for the past seven years missing the charmed 60-point circle only once in the last six seasons.This year the Bruins formed a new combination when Don McKenney was found to be going no where between Leo Labine and Real Chevrefils. McKenney was promptly tossed in with tween Jerry Toppazzini and Mackell and the move has been one of the most glittering maneouveres Coach Milt Schmidt has pulled off since he took over the club.Almost instantly, the fast skating Mackell became a success with his new linemates and the result started to show just as it did this past week when the trio went on a goal-scoring rampage to lead the Bruins past the New York Rangers into the Stanley Cup finals with Montreal Canadiens.Mackell has personally scored four goals and set up 10 others to take over the individual playoff scoring lead with 14 points, a momentous feat for the spindly-legged veteran who learned his hockey not more a stone&rsquo;s throw from the Montreal Forum.Now an off-season resident of suburban Boston, Mackell has just completed the 1957-58 campaign as the second highest scorer on the club with 60 points, outranked only by rookie Bronco Horvath.If the Bruins make it all the way this year to the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1940-41, then much of the credit will have to be given to this indefatigable ice performer, who rated the player-of-the-week award.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03340/1996660-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="274" height="385"></div> &#9632;

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player-of-the-week

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Springfield Indians have become the big surprise of the current Calder Cup playoff race and if you would lend your ear to Georg&rsquo;e &lsquo;Punch Imlach, the astute general manager of the Tribe, he will merely tell you:&ldquo;I said we would win this series and we intend to. Imlach incurred the wrath of all Cleveland hockey fans and the Barons in particular when he uttered has statement at the outset of the best-of-seven semi-final series between the teams.The Indians made their GM look like a true prophet when they grabbed the opener 2-1. Then the roof fell in on Imlach and the Indians as Cleveland won the next two games 9-1 and 5-1. but Springfield wasn&rsquo;t the least downhearted.With Gerry Ehrnan, Cal Gardner and Jack Caffery leading the way, the Indians squared the round with a 2-0 win for Claude Evans&rsquo; first shutout of the playoffs. Then the Barons caught fire with Danny Poliziani lighting the spark with three goals as they won 5-2 last Saturday night.<h2>Out On A Limb</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01474/1996729-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="536" height="878"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div>But the Tribe wasn&rsquo;t out of the running in rhe least. On Sunday night they stormed back to tie the series at 3-3 with, a 3-0 win over Cleveland as Ehrnan, Caffery and Larry Leach each bagged goals.That set the stage for the deciding game and the way the series has progressed it is anybody&rsquo;s battle with Imlach standing in the wings patiently awaiting the outcome.While the Indians and Barons were staging their little scalping party, the Hershey Bears reared up and polished off the Providence Reds in five games in their best-of-seven semi-final series.Paced by Obie O&rsquo;Brien, Dune Fisher and Willie Marshall, their dynamic threesome who ended one, two and eleven in the regular AHL schedule, the Bears downed Providence 6-3 last Saturday night to finish the series.Providence had won a reprieve by coming through with a 1-0 victory last week as Paul Larivee checked in with, the lone goal in the third period and Marcel Paille stood out in the Reds&rsquo; nets.But the handwriting was on the wall for the Reds in the fifth game as O&rsquo;Brien. Fisher, Marshall. Ed Stankiewicz, Arnie Kullman and Leu Haley each sniped once in the finale. Guidolin, Carmichael and Hanna were the Providence goal-getters.Marshall, who won the regular schedule scoring championship for Hershey, took the playoff lead with nine points with O&rsquo;Brien following close behind along with Bruce Cline of Providence. who has gone to the sidelines for the rest of the season. &#9632;

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Indians On Warpath Forcing Cup Series To ‘Showdown’ Game

TOLEDO. O.&mdash;It was back to Canada for most of the Toledo Mercury&rsquo;s after the 1957-58 International League season came to an end.Two of the Meles. Bill Mitchell and Bill Booth, live the year around in Toledo, but after the Toledo Mercury&rsquo;s Boosters banquet Saturday, March 15th and an exhibition game at Windsor the season was over.For the first time in 11 years the Mercs didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs. They wound up in fifth place, four points back of fourthplace Indianapolis. The Mercs won only one series, too, beating Indianapolis. 8-4, and two games ended in ties. &#9632;

Toledo Mercs Miss Playoffs For First Time In 11 Year

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04334/1996784-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="258" height="415"></div>SPRINGFIELD. Mass.&mdash;The Springfield Indians are in the thick of the Calder Cup playoff race right now and there isn&rsquo;t any doubt they wouldn&rsquo;t have been there in the first place without big Gerry Ehman, who is the American League&rsquo;s player-of-the-week.Ehman has scored four playoff goals for the Indians and this week came up with what amounted to winning points as Springfield twice cut down the haughty Cleveland Barons in the league semi-final round.Ehman counted three times to hit the streaking Barons. who were looking for a fast wrap up of the series before the 26-year-old Ehman stepped up to ruin their efforts.The Indians twice collared Cleveland and both times Ehman came through with the first goal of the game&mdash;which in hockey parlance is the payoff goal.The Cudworth, Sask., winger will probably rate a good chance to make the official AHL all-star team this season in view of the fact he paced the Springfield club in scoring with 40 goals and ranked fifth in the overall race with 79 points, the finest season of his brief pro career.The Springfield winger has been kicking around the minors for several years and this season he may possibly land in the NHL through the draft. His 40 goals in 68 games is the bait for the big leaguers who have hod their scouts on his trail in recent weeks.A Calder Cup, a first-team all-star berth and eventually an NHL tryout would make Gerry Ehman&rsquo;s hockey life complete.Could be, he&rsquo;ll hit the jackpot and get all three this year. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-week

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISCHER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01488/1996853-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Cleveland Barons can thank their lucky stars they were able to pry goalie Lou Dechene away from the Western Hockey League to fill in for the injured Johnny Bower. Dechene, called the &ldquo;Fabulous Fat Man&rdquo;, has proved an adequate replacement for the starry Bower in the current Calder Cup playoffs, in which the Barons are the defending champs.</figcaption></div><h2>Fat Man Fills Big Hockey Bill</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02419/1996846-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="268" height="398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jackie Gordon</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;An old fat rookie and a lean young one have put a fresh punch into the sagging Cleveland Barons.Goalie Lou (The Fabulous Fat Man) Dechene, imported from Saskatoon to replace the injured Johnny (China Wall) Bower is the old rookie.Bobby (Perpetual Motion) Barlow, recently turned pro from North Bay. Ont., is the young rookie.In hockey circles the talk was the Barons were dead without Bower, who had backstopped the Cleveland club to a smashing second place finish behind the Hershey Bears in the regular season.Then Bower was hurt and the 210-pound Dechene finished out the five remaining games of the season with an average of 3.20 despite the fact the Barons were in a very bad slump.Then, in the first three games of the playoffs with the Springfield Indians, Dechene came up with the sensational goals against average of 1.33.He made the big stops time and again to keep the enemy at bay. With Dechene playing magnificently. the Barons rallied from an opening game 2-1 loss on their home ice to come hurtling back with smashing conquests.Barlow Provides SparkBarlow was like a breath of smelling salts. His fire and dash, his hustle and alertness paid off for the Barons quickly. Against Springfield at the Eastern States Coliseum in the third game of the series he popped two goals past Claude Evans within 42 seconds to give the Barons enough for victory. They went on to win it 5-1. after having defeated the Indians in the second game at Cleveland by a whopping 9-1.So despile the loss of Bower, and despite the loss of Jimmy Moore, the Barons&rsquo; top scorer in the regular season. Coach Jackie Gordon&rsquo;s club seemed to be making a strong bid to retain their Calder Cup Trophy.Moore, the cute smoothy, we the victim at Jack Bioudas stick. He suffered pulled muscles in the abdomen.The Barons, too. were finding new power from a newly-fashioned forward unit. Coach Gordon inserted himself between the veteran Fred (No Kid) Glover and Boris (BOTElik and the combo seemed to be made to order. Glover had lour big goals in the first three games.Meanwhile, the Barons seemed to have reacted strongly to some brash remarks by Springfield&rsquo;s Coach George (Punch) Imlach. Imlaeh had voiced great confidence from the outset. He had predicted publicly that his club would win the series from Cleveland in no more than six games. After the Indians took the first one right on Cleveland ice, Imlach&rsquo;s confidence gained.Upon notice that he was getting Real Chevrefils back from Boston, Imlach said &ldquo;I probably won&rsquo;t even need him&rdquo;. The Barons burned. &#9632;

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Rookies Inject Spark Into Sagging Barons For Calder Cup Run

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03352/1996884-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="241" height="392"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Jankowski</figcaption></div>The Buffalo Bisons slipped into the American League basement this year but you have the word of Owner Ruby Pasto&mdash;they&rsquo;re not out of the league.Rumors that the Buffalo franchise was due to be shifted to Syracuse and or sold by Pastor and his brothers, Sam and Al. gained momentum with the end of the regular AHI. campaign.Pastor greeted each rumor with open contempt. &ldquo;Where do they get such ideas?&rdquo; he questioned.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know too many things tor sure about next year&mdash;but I do know we&rsquo;ll be operating in Buffalo.&rdquo; he asserted.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve become a hockey man.&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;and I want to see a winner in a great hockey city&mdash;Buffalo.&ldquo;The fact that I&rsquo;ve been approached by several executives from both the National and American Leagues concerning my future plans bears out my thinking about Buffalo.&rdquo;Pastor, who took over the Buffalo franchise from Chicago two years ago. has taken a bath in red ledger ink each of the seasons as the Bisons experienced their worst back-to-back years in history on the ice.It has been estimated that the 1957-58 loss alone was in excess of $100,009, or double that of his initial year of operation.Still, Pastor insists he wants;, no financial aid &ldquo;from anybody&rdquo; in the event the present tieup with the Black Hawks is severed.&ldquo;All we want is player help, the kind of players that are good enough to give us a contender,&rdquo; he has stated repeatedly.It is unlikely that Pastor will go as heavily in the player market this summer as he did last. Large sums of greenbacks were placed on the line for the purchase of Dickie Gamble, Larry Wilson, Bill Burega, and Les Lilley. He also threw in some fash to obtain Norm Corcoran from Springfield in trade for Defenseman Tony Schneider and Right Winger Don Carter.The aforementioned, plus the likes of Ken Wharram. Pete Co&mdash;naeber, Sam Bettio. Bob Has! sard. Gary Blaine. Lou Jankowski, and Frank Sullivan, gives Pastor good trading bait as well as a nucleus around which a NHL club could help build a contender without completely revamping the lineup.BISON BRIEFS&hellip; Coach Harry Watson remained in the Buffalo area for two weeks following completion of the season so that his schoolage sons could remain in class until their regular Easter vacation. They transferred back to Toronto at that time&hellip; Trainer Frank Christie. after a few days of rest, returned to his summertime occupation of concessions manager of Offermanu Stadium, home of the baseball Bisons&hellip; General Manager Fred Hunt and his assistant Frank Eddolls confined their scouting activities to junior and senior playoffs in Ontario. Last year. Hunt went to look over Western League prospects while Eddoils viewed Quebec League games. &#9632;

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Buffalo Owners To Keep Basons In Hockey Play

OTTAWA, Ont.The Ottawa&mdash;Hull Canadiens were so superior to the Cape Breton All-Stars that they were automatically advanced into the Eastern Canada Memorial Cup final.W. B. George of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association halted the best-of-five series after the Junior Habs walloped the Maritimers 12-2 today, on the heels of an 18-3 triumph Friday.The Canadieus and Toronto Marlboros open the best-of-seven Eastern final in Ottawa Friday, with the winner playing the Western Canada champion.Only the sensational netmind&mdash;ing of Joe McMullin in the Cape Breton cage prevented the Junior (tabs from adding many more to their total.Ralph Backstrom and Claude Richard duplicated their opening-game total of three goals each to again lead the onslaught.While the Canadiens and Marlboros square off in the Fast, the Western Canada finals are already underway with Regina Pats holding a one-game lead over St. Boniface Canadiens, Manitoba champions, as the result of a 7-5 victory over them in the first game of a best-of-seven series.The western champions come east this year to challenge for the Memorial Cup, won last year by Flin Flon, Manitoba.In Senior Allan Cup play in the East, Quebec Levis won a berth in the Eastern Canada final by knocking off Hull 7-1 to win the gest-of-five series 3-2.Levis will now await the winner of the all-Ontario final playdown between Belleville McFarlands and Kitchener Dutchmen. &#9632;

Ottawa Juniors Romp Into Eastern Cup Final

<div class="byline">By DALLIS BECK</div>WINNIPEG. Man.&mdash;The series may be dead by the time this feels the warmth of a reading lamp, but what a difference six months made.Little did the railbirds think last fall at a training camp at the Winnipeg Arena that the two teams involved would be renewing acquaintances some six months later in the key series of the Western Hockey playoffs.The smart money had the Vancouver Canucks pegged all right, just as they said Guyle Fielder of Seattle would win the scoring title again, and did, but they merely smiled and felt sorry, for the other team that was taking its practice licks out on the same fee.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01486/1996977-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="262" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alf Pike</figcaption></div>The other team happened to be Winnipeg j Warriors.The Canucks were loaded&mdash;from Marcel Pelletier out to such able recruits from Providence as Bill Folk or Red Johansen. They also had the most publicized rookie crop in the west&mdash;Hutchinsonfrom Flin Flon, Kurtenbach from Prince Albert and Powers from Humboldt. Throw in the old favorites such as Maloney, McLeod and Currie and it was hard to see why Al Leader bothered drawing up a schedule.Art Chapman took a load of dynamite back to the watery side of the Rockies. And he didn&rsquo;t disappoint. The Canucks blew the odd one but eventually finished out of sight ahead of the rest of the scramble.Pelletier HotAnd they did it in the stretch without Kurtenbach and Johansen, and, briefly too, without Hutchinson. Pelletier, the colorful Marcel from Montreal ran away and hid with the best average in the league and they lost track of the number of shutouts he scored behind a rock-ribbed defence of McNab, Currie, Dobbyn and Folk.This was as it was meant to be.With the Warriors it was different.Alf Pike&rsquo;s collection of greenhorns and old men lost a 4-3 duke to the Canucks in a training camp windup game.Somebody noticed that a kid from Toronto named Glover scored all three Winnipeg goals that night, but passed it off as beginner&rsquo;s luck or the fact that Pelletier wasn&rsquo;t playing goal that night.A few nights later another unheralded local lad named Stratton scored an overtime goal in Calgary in the first game of the prairie season and the Warriors were on top.Stratton and two old gaffers named Kapusta and Mosienko broke the century mark in points before the Christmas turkey was cold and the Warriors were still on top.But everybody was waiting for the bubble to burst.They&rsquo;re still waiting and a guy named Pike and 15 hockey players are smiling with self satisfaction, fierce pride in themselves and a praire division pennant. on the dressing room wall.The kid named Glover went, crazy around the net about the turn of the year and broke a WHL rookie scoring mark with 39 goals. Another unknown young bruiser named Kent Douglas won more fights than anyone else in the circuit and perfected a slap shot that scared the bejabbers out of every goalkeeper in the league and got him 10 goals, just one short of a rookie defenceman&rsquo;s record.Six months have gone by since that training camp game.How do you spell Kurtenbach, Hutchinson and Powers?Or is it Glover, Stratton and Douglas?? &#9632;

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Warriors Surprised Hockey Fans In West By Finishing On Top

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;The Western Hockey League playoff round opened in April 1 in Vancouver and Calgary and April 2 in New Westminster.President Al Leader of the WHL announced the dates for the series as the 70-game scheduled terminated March 30.Vancouver Canucks, first place team in the Coast Division, met Winnipeg Warriors, leaders on the Prairies in series &lsquo;A&rsquo;, which is a best-of-seven. First game-was held in Vancouver, the second also in the coast city April 4, with the teams returning to Winnipeg for the third and fourth, although no date was released.In the two semi-final series, both best-of-five affairs, Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Flyers started in Calgary April 1. In series &lsquo;B&rsquo; Edmonton hosted the second and third games April 8 and 5. The fourth was set for Calgary April 8 and the fifth back in Edmonton April 10, if necessary.The New Westminster-Seattle &lsquo;C&rsquo; series began in the B.C. City April 2 with the second April 5 at the same locale. The teams travelled to Seattle for the third and fourth games April 6 and 8, with the fifth, if needed, slated for New Westminster April 10.Winners of the series &lsquo;B&rsquo; and &lsquo;C&rsquo; will clash in a best-of-five playoff for the right to meet the survivor of &lsquo;A&rsquo; series, either Winnipeg or Vancouver, for the WHL championship.The league will have a new champion since the Brandon Regals. this year the Saskatoon-St. Paul club finished out of the playoffs along with Victoria Cougars. &#9632;

WHL Playoff Dates

<div class="byline">By DALLIS BECK</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;WESTERN ROUNDUP&mdash;Add quotes-of-the-month club&mdash;Bud Poile after his Edmonton Flyers had tied Winnipeg to stay a point ahead in the fierce race for division honors&hellip; &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the point that will win us the title,&rdquo; beamed Bud&hellip; A night later Saskatoon-St. Paul&rsquo;s also-rans beat him 6-5 while the Warriors were whomping Calgary and the next evening Alf Pike and company clipped Bud&rsquo;s boys 5-2 in Edmonton to all but wrap it up&hellip; Poile&rsquo;s remarks hadn&rsquo;t been censored for publication by this time and his remarks two nights later when the Stamps breezed into town and beat him 3-1 will never be printed &hellip; Ah well, Norman Robert may have the last laugh yet. He could win the prairie semi-finals and go on to knock off the coast semi winner and reach the final round the hard way&hellip; It could be the Warriors so the old feud would be on hot and heavy again.Durham HonoredAdd nice-people-depart&mdash;ment&mdash;The folks out around New Westminster who turned out to pay tribute to Pete Durham, the ex-Royal blueline basher who broke his neck last year and is now forced to take his hockey from the gallery.. Durham picked up a cheque for five grand and the good wishes of all old friends and foes alike&hellip; Word is that Pete has been receiving a monthly stipend from Al Leader&rsquo;s office ever since his injury&hellip; The money is accumulated from fines handed out through the league&hellip; Now of course the WHL has started a special injured players&rsquo; fund with receipts derived from the annual All-Star games&hellip; First of these was held in Calgary last January&hellip; Al Rollins got the fans vote for the MVP on the Calgary Stampeder club and the people in Edmonton honored defenceman Hugh Coflin in a like manner&hellip; In Winnipeg. Earl Ingarfield, who set a club record with 81 points this season, won the annual 39th field regiment Cadet Corps trophy for his sportsmanship and ability&hellip; Howie Glover, who set a new WHL. rookie goal-scoring mark at 39, wasn&rsquo;t far behind in the voting, along with tow-time winner, Bill Mosienko&hellip; Mosie picked up six points in his final scheduled game with the Warriors, making a 70-game grind look like a breeze for an old man of nearly 37&hellip; While Howie scored two goals in the same schedule windup to break Barry Cullen&rsquo;s record it was a good night all around o&rsquo;fr the Glover family&hellip; Brother Fred was scoring three for Cleveland the same evening&hellip; And whatever became of Eddie Dorohoy&rsquo;s case against the Victoria Cougars?&hellip; And if New Westminster&rsquo;s Arnie Sehmautz isn&rsquo;t the best pound-for-pound competitor, in pro hockey I haven&rsquo;t met the other one. &#9632;

Quotes From Poile Go Amiss As Team Clipped In Stretch

All Shook UpThe Westers Hockey League final standings were a complete reversal from last season for the first place Winnipeg Warriors and Vancouver Canucks. Last year, Winnipeg ended last in the Prairie Division and Vancouver was on the bottom on the Coast.Champion Tapers OffGayle Fielder. Seattle&rsquo;s sensational point-getter, again captured the scoring championship even though his 1957-58 record was 11 points less than last season when he won with 122. It was third crown for Fielder.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02442/1996946-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="565" height="348"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03371/1996939-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="574" height="1479"></div>MONDAY. MARCH 24Edmonton 5 at Winnipeg 5First Period1&mdash;Edmonton: Ginnell(Leonard, Coflin)&hellip;&hellip; 8.152&mdash;Edmonton: Koggeveen(Kilburn, Coflin)&hellip;&hellip; 7.073&mdash;Edmonton: Burton(Roggeveen. Lunde)&hellip;&hellip; 7.354&mdash;Winnipeg: Stratton(Mosienko, Keating)&hellip;&hellip; 12.48Penalties: Arnett 6.49. Leonard and K. Douglas (two minors) 11.20.Second Period5&mdash;Edmonton: Ginnell(Kilburn, Leonard)&hellip;&hellip; 0.366&mdash;Edmonton: Lunde(Duke, Burton)&hellip;&hellip; 13.257&mdash;Winnipeg: Mosienko(Keating)&hellip;&hellip; 14.07Penalties: Leoonard 8.44, Hendrickson 10.34, Arnett 19.37.Third Period8&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield(Redahl, Keating)&hellip;&hellip; 7.17(Keating. B, Douglas)&hellip;.&hellip;&hellip; 9.439&mdash;Winnipeg: Kapusta10&mdash;Winnipeg: Arnett (Witluk, Redahl)&hellip;&hellip; 16.21Penalties: None.Overtime PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: None.TUESDAY, MARCH 25Edmonton 5 at Saskatoon 6First Period1&mdash;Saskatoon: Colwill(Couture, Willey)&hellip;&hellip; 5.372&mdash;Edmonton: Leonard(Roggeveen, Kilburn)&hellip;&hellip; 12.593&mdash;Edmonton: Leonard(Kilburn, Hendrickson)&hellip; 13.314&mdash;Saskatoon:&hellip;&hellip; Couture(Wiley. Colwill)&hellip;&hellip; 16.225&mdash;Saskatoon: Lynn(Primeau)&hellip;&hellip; 16.276&mdash;Saskatoon: Lynn(Raleigh)&hellip;&hellip; 17.25Penalties: Leonard, Primeau 16.45, Burton, Colwill 17.44, Coflin 18.31.Second Period7&mdash;Saskatoon: Colwill(Primeau, Couture)&hellip;&hellip; 11.668&mdash;Edmonton: Yanosik(Kilburn)&hellip;&hellip;.19.15Penalties: Yanosik 4.34, Couture 6.20. Chryetal 13.52, Leonard 18.34,Third Period9&mdash;Saskatoon: Keller(Willey).&hellip;&hellip; 9.2110&mdash;Edmonton: Burton(Leonard. Yanosik)&hellip;&hellip; 9.3811&mdash;Edmonton: Duke(Lunde)&hellip;&hellip; 10.55Penalties: Lynn 0.25, Yanosik 8.45.Winnipeg 6 at Calgary 2First Period1&mdash;Calgary: Hicks&hellip;&hellip; 4.432&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield(Redahl, Witiuk)&hellip;&hellip; 18. 413&mdash;Winnipeg: Witiuk(Ingarfield, Redahl)&hellip;&hellip; 19.16Penalties: Arnett 1.04, Michaluk 13.59.Second Period4&mdash;Winnipeg: Arnett&hellip;&hellip; 12.335&mdash;Winnipeg: Stratton(Witiuk)&hellip;&hellip; 14.506&mdash;Calgary: Kuryluk(Michaluk)&hellip;&hellip; 15.13Penalties: B. Douglas 7.50.Third Period7&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover(Lea, Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip; 6.008&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover(Lea, Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip; 16.06Penalties: Arnett 1.23, Barkley 4.39. Marcetta 8.09. Zemrau 10.53, Witiuk 13.05.WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26Victoria 4 at New Westminster 6First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Olson(Anderson. Raglan)&hellip;&hellip; 9.102&mdash;Victoria: Egan(Ross, Stewart)&hellip;&hellip; 11.093&mdash;Victoria: Wilson(Macaulev. Raglan)&hellip;&hellip; 14.10 Penalties: Stewart 15.31, and 18.16.Egan 19.40.Second Period4&mdash;New Westminster: Matthews&hellip;&hellip; 12.33(McNab. Hrymnak)&hellip;&hellip; 1.055&mdash;Victoria: Olson(Haworth. Raglan)&hellip;&hellip; 7.036&mdash;New Westminster: Jones (Hannigan. Edmundson).. 10.247&mdash;New Westminster: Sehmautz (Van Impe, Matthews)&hellip;&hellip; 14.438&mdash;New Westminster: Van Impe (Schmautz, Matthews)&hellip; 15.10Penalties: Creighton 5.12, McNab 20.00, Hart 20.00.Third Period9&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway(Barlow, Hrymnak)&hellip;&hellip; 3.5610&mdash;New Westminster: Creighton(Sehmautz)&hellip;&hellip; 15.45Penalties: Creighton 0.19. Pilla 3.16.Hannigan 5.37. Pilla 6.58. Stewart 11.58, Kaiser 18.57.Winnipeg 5 at Edmonton 2First Period1&mdash;Winnipeg: B. Douglas(Kapusta, Stratton)&hellip;&hellip; 3.352&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover(Summers)&hellip;&hellip; 15.53Penalties: Hendrickson 6.05. Kilburn 7.41.Second Period3&mdash;Winnipeg: Lea.(Glover, Keating)&hellip;&hellip; 6.504&mdash;Edmonton: Roggeveen(Coflin, Leonard)&hellip;&hellip; 11.535&mdash;Ed monton: Duke(Kilburn)&hellip;&hellip; 18.23Penalties: Arnett 4.05 Leonard 7.38, B. Douglas 10.04.Third Period6&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield(Witiuk Arnett)&hellip;&hellip; 6 227&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover(Witluk, Lea)&hellip;&hellip; 13.53Penalties: K. Douglas (2) 5.21, Arnett 7.11. Kilburn 11.20.FRIDAY, MARCHVictoria 4 at Vancouver 5First Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Robinson(Hutchinson. Powers)&hellip;&hellip; 2.342&mdash;Victoria: Hart(Egan)&hellip;&hellip; 13.35Penalties: Yanchuk 1.08. and 13.58. Hutchinson 10.44.Second Period3&mdash;Victoria: Pilla(Wilson)&hellip;&hellip; 1.614&mdash;Victoria: Haworth(Olson. Anderson)&hellip;&hellip; 6.485&mdash;Vancouver: Peacosh(Maloney. McLeod)&hellip;&hellip; 16.47Penalty: None.Third Period6&mdash;Vancouver: McLeod(Peacosh, Maloney)&hellip;&hellip; 1.007&mdash;Victoria: Egan&hellip;&hellip; 9.568&mdash;Vancouver: McLeod(Maloney, MacNab)&hellip;&hellip; 12.319&mdash;Vancouver: Chorley(Cleary)&hellip;&hellip; 19.40Penalty: Stewart 15.12.New Westminster 4 at Seattle 4First Period1&mdash;New Westminster: McNab (Fashoway)&hellip;&hellip; 12.302&mdash;New Westminster: Van Impe(Goodwin. Hrymnak)&hellip;&hellip; 16.423&mdash;Seattle: Filon(Chipuka. Pottle)&hellip;&hellip; 18.53Penalties: Edmondson 7.50. Creighton 8.43. Sinclair 10.50 and 13.04, Fielder 15.30, Sehmautz 15.30.Second Period4&mdash;New Westminster: Jones(Edmundson)&hellip;&hellip; 13.18Penalties: Edmundson 0.56, Kuku lowicz 6.11.Third Period5&mdash;Seattle: Fonteyne(Sinclair. Fielder)&hellip;&hellip; 1.296&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway(Matthews)&hellip;&hellip; 3.107&mdash;Seattle: McFarland(Tottle, Kukulowicz)&hellip;&hellip; 6.398&mdash;Seattle: Kukulowicz(McFlarland. Kuzma)&hellip;&hellip; 7.04Penalty: None.Overtime PeriodScoring: None. Penalty: Tottle 8.29.Calgary 3 at Edmonton 1First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: S. Hucul 5.21, Ginnell 18.47.Second Period1&mdash;Calgary: Ford(Wilkie)&hellip;&hellip; 3.122&mdash;Calgary: Wilkie(Finney, Ford)&hellip;&hellip; 3.19Penalties: Diachuk 4.16, Yanosik 7.35, Hucul 10.11. Utendale 14.58.Third Period3&mdash;Edmonton: McCreary (Utendale, Hendrickson)&hellip; 16.524&mdash;Calgary: Hicke(Leopold. D. Blair)&hellip;&hellip; 19.29Penalties: Leopold 6.17. Ginnell 9.34. Ysnoski. Kuryluk 14.18, Leonard 19.25SATURDAY, MARCH 29Vanconver 6 at Victorio 5First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Olson(Wakshinski)&hellip;&hellip; 7.132&mdash;Vancouver: Cleary(Chorley. Dobbyn)&hellip;&hellip; 8.643&mdash;Victoria: Macau ley(Wilson. Pilla)&hellip;&hellip; 9.304&mdash;Vaucouver: Cleary(Currie. Ghorley)&hellip;&hellip; 19.03Penalty: None.Second Period5&mdash;Victoria: Wilson(Macaulev)&hellip;&hellip; 9.186&mdash;Victoria: Anderson(Olson. Haworth)&hellip;&hellip; 11.307&mdash;Victoria: Halt(Ross. Wakshinski)&hellip;&hellip; 10.45Penalty: Dobbyn 10.13,Third Period8&mdash;Vancouver: MacLeod(Currie, Maloney)&hellip;&hellip; 2.189&mdash;Vancouver: Powers(Peacosh. Dobbyn)&hellip;&hellip; 3.2410&mdash;Vancouver: MacLeod(Peacosh)&hellip;&hellip; 15.0511&mdash;Vancouver: Folk&hellip;&hellip; 16.23Penalties: Dobbyn 9.04. Pilla 9.04. MacNab 10.54.Saskatton 2 at Winnipeg 8First Period1&mdash;Winnipeg: Douglas(Mosienko. Stratton)&hellip;&hellip; 5.432;&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover(Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip; 10.023&mdash;Winnipeg: Witiuk(Redahl)&hellip;&hellip; 18.104&mdash;Saskatton: Raleigh(Lynn. Keller)&hellip;&hellip; 18.35.5&mdash;Vancouver: Douglas(Redahl)&hellip;&hellip; 19.57Penalties:&hellip;&hellip; Lynn 12.28. Ingarfield and Miliford 13.42. Mosienko 18.55.Second Period6&mdash;Winnipeg: Mosienko(Douglas)&hellip;&hellip; 17.00Penalties: Arnett 1.24. Couture 7.15, Redhal 14.05.Third Period7&mdash;Saskatoon: Primeau(Lynn)&hellip;&hellip; 5.018&mdash;Winnipeg: Brisson(Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip; 9.239&mdash;Winnipeg: Glover(Ingarfield. Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip; 11.2210&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield(Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip; 19.36Penalties: Kabel 5.25. Glover 12.31. Chrystal 14.13. team penalty (served by Brisson) 17.14. Arnett 17.56.Edmonton 5 nt Calgary 3First Period1&mdash;Calgary: Sclisizzi(F. Hucul. C. Blair)&hellip;&hellip; 1.072&mdash;Edmonton: Roggeveen(McCreary)&hellip;&hellip; 17.3.Penalties: Diachuk 3.45. Kuryluk and Yanosik (major) 10.03.Second Period3&mdash;Edmonton: Lunde(Yanosik)&hellip;&hellip; 17.054&mdash;Calgary: Ford(Finney. Wilkie) 17.555&mdash;Edmonton: Leonard(Ginnell) 18.206&mdash;Calgary: S. Hucul(Hicks)&hellip;&hellip; 18.47Penalties:Coflin 5.18, Roggeveen 19.54.Third Period7&mdash;Edmonton: Duke(Lunde. Utendale)&hellip;&hellip; 3.318&mdash;Edmonton: Duke(Lunde)&hellip;&hellip; 18.53Penalties: McCreary 4.55, Finney 5.01.Seattle 3 at New Westminster 5First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Fielder(Davidson. Fonteyne)&hellip;&hellip; 13.55Penalties:&hellip;&hellip; Hannigan 3.12, Sinclair 5.44, Creighton 11.21.Second Period2&mdash;Seattle: Fonteyne(Davidson, Kinasewich)&hellip;&hellip; 7.003&mdash;New Westminster: Goodwin(Van. Impe. Schmautz)&hellip;&hellip; 10.274&mdash;New Westminster: Barlow(McNab. Creighton)&hellip;&hellip; 11.215&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan(Hrymnak, Matthews)&hellip;&hellip; 13.346&mdash;New Westminster: Jones(Hannigan. Edmundsoni&hellip; 14.29Penalties: Jones 8.05, Kukulowicz 12.44.Third Period7&mdash;Seattle: Filion(Chipuka, Sinclair)&hellip;&hellip; 16.138&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan(JJones, Edmundson)&hellip;&hellip; 16.00Penalties: Matthews 8.28. Davidson 14.20, Fonteyne 17.25.SUNDAY MARCH 30Victoria 3 at Seattle 8First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Fielder(Fonteyne. Tottle)&hellip;&hellip; 0.302&mdash;Seattle: Chiupka(Boyce, Sinclair)&hellip;&hellip; 12.033&mdash;Seattle: Filion(Chiupka. Boyce)&hellip;&hellip; 19.34Penalties: MaCauley 10.44. Francis (served by Hart) 12.40. Kukulowicz 12.40, Hunt 15.13. Olson 18.17.Second Period4&mdash;Victoria: Macauley(Egan)&hellip;&hellip; 3.305&mdash;Seattle: Fonteyne(Fielder)&hellip;&hellip; 12.30Penalties:&hellip;&hellip; Kaiser (minor and major) 11.16, Kukulowicz (major) 11.16.Third Period6&mdash;Victoria: Macauley(Egan. Kaiser)&hellip;&hellip; 2.317&mdash;VVictoria: Wilson(Egan. Macauley)&hellip;&hellip; 3.248&mdash;Seattle: Kuzma(McFarland. Kukulowicz).. 11.169&mdash;Seattle: Filion(Boyce, Chiupka)&hellip;&hellip; 15.910&mdash;Seattle: Kuzma(Sinclair. Kukulowicz)&hellip;&hellip; 16.5311&mdash;Seattle: Kuzma(Kukulowicz)&hellip;&hellip; 18.55Penally: None. &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01471/1997063-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="266" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body">King Clancy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02388/1997056-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="262" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Stafford Smythe</figcaption></div>When it&rsquo;s playoff time in Old Quebec all good shinny players should put their best feet foremost, and shouldn&rsquo;t shoot until they see the whites of the eyes of the goal-keepers.It&rsquo;s not only that the playoff swag is stacked at the foot of the rainbow&rsquo;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&rsquo;re asking loaded questions. And it&rsquo;s not only the scouts that are stalking. Often enough the high brass is around, too. You&rsquo;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 friends or QHL club executives. or veteran hockey personalities, who might appraise the true talents of a left-winger or a rugged rearguard who has a potential, because there are the men who have seen the man under scrutiny operate in many games under various situations of pressure.&ldquo;Just Looking&rdquo;, Said ClancyWhen Royals made their first trip to Shawinigan Fails in these semi-finals, for instance, Frank &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy, assistant-general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs was along. Later, Rudy Pilous, the coach of the Chicago Black Hawks was around for a quick peek.Innocently. Clancy said he was around just to look over Ken Girald. the left-winger Leafs sent down from Rochester Amerks to the Falls, when Cataracts shipped Claude Laforge to Rochester. It&rsquo;s likely Clancy wasn&rsquo;t impressed when a newspaperman told him that Girard, hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal since be came into the Quebec League. He listened intently, however, when the same scribe started to sing the praises of Max Mekilok, who won the Northey Trophy as the laddibuck voted the season&rsquo;s top rookie by writers and radio men.He Was Also ListeningClancy also bent an ear to a few morsels of praise for John Kowalchuk&rsquo;s recent performance; how &ldquo;Kayo&rdquo; had been the March sensation in the Montreal camp, bagging 10 goals to hoist his harvest for the season to 23 tallies.C. Stafford Smythe, son of the noted family which had directed Leaf&rsquo;s operations for better than a quarter of century was here in the Forum for Royals and Cataracts&rsquo; first Montreal hassle. He and Kenny Reardon vice-president of Canadiens were in close confab.A couple of weeks back Tommy Ivan, general-manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, came to Montreal a day ahead of the Chicago team, just so he (Ivan) might make the trip to Shawinigan Falls to see the Cataracts and the Aces collide.They Store Up DopeThere may be no immediate developments from these itinerant hockey savants&rsquo; observations, but you can wager the odd doubloon that they are sizing up players plenty; that more than one Quebec Leaguer may find himself in new surroundings come frost on the pumpkin next fall, because of these journeys.While King Clancy may say that he went to Shawinigan Falls only to have a close look at Ken Girard, he may be looking harder at Kowalchuk or Murray Balfour, and the Toronto club, may be ready to make a pitch to get one or both of these larrigans on its 1958-59 roster. Goodness knows* the Leafs need a lot of help.There&rsquo;s the question of the draft too. Some of these promising young players may not be frozen on major league rosters in mid-summer, and so be vulnerable.Bronco Brought CashOrval Tessier went to Boston from Royals in the draft two summers back, and last year Bronco Horvath was lifted off the Rochester AHL roster by Boston Bruins for a reported $50,000. And, back to the QHL again, the Shawinigan Club had Miche Perreault, a very able goalie drafted from them by Hershey Bears of the AHL.Such transactions which have such an important bearing on the future of many hockey players are the end result of this snooping and scouting, and conversational exercises carried on dur ing the minor league playoffs.Often &ldquo;the brass&rdquo; takes a tour of the playoffs to confirm earlier reports by the club s scouts. Muzz Patrick and Phil Watson have been seen in Quebec League cities in recent years after Rangers were eliminated in the Stanley Cup semi-finals.Johnny Mitchell, chief scout for the Detroit Red Wings, gets around the QHL at least once during the season, Bob Wilson of the Chicago Black Hawks was this way more than once in the past winter, so was Hal Cotton of Boston Bruins, and Tack Humphreys of New York Rangers.From The American League, Lex Cooke, who coached at Quebec some seasons back, travels the QHL route representing Cleveland Barons. A few years back Cooke took goaler Marcel &rsquo; Paille and pattern-maker Jimmy Moore from the Chicoutimi Sag&mdash;ueneens. Paille led the AHL in shutouts with seven in 1956-57 and Moore was high man in assists with 66.Cooke has always been proud of his finds in Chicoutimi and the Quebec League. Justly so. &#9632;

f0012-01

Hockey Scouts On Annual Hunt, Scour Cities In Quebec League

CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;The Cincinnati Mohawks didn&rsquo;t win the International Hockey League championship this season but they did capture the major honors in the annual All-Star teams polling.The Mohawks placed four men on the first squad out of seven and three out of seven on the alternate team.Led by playing skipper, Billy Goold. who was picked as coach Of the year&rsquo;, the league-leading Ohioans had Goalie Glenn Ramsey, defenseman Lou Marcon, left wing John Smith and Goold on the first team.Also listed for the first squad were Fiori Geogan, the big Louisville rearguard; Marc Boi&mdash;leau of Indianapolis, at centre; and Pierre Brilliant, also of Indianapolis, at right wing.On the second team, the Mohawks placed Brian &lsquo;Butch&rsquo; MacKay, on defence; Warren Hynes, the loop&rsquo;s top scorer, at right wing; and Billy Sutherland gained a centre tie with Len Thomson of Fort Wayne.Cliff Hicks of Indianapolis was the alternate goaler, Orrin Gould of Fort Worth, snared the other defense berth, while Gary Sharp of the Lousville Rebels grabbed the left wing spot. Leo Lamoureux, one-time NHL player with Montreal Canadiens. was named second-team coalh. Lamoureux handled the Indianapolis club in the IHL.Brilliant was also named win ner of the Gatschene Trophy as most valuable player in the league while Ramsey picked up the James Norris Memorial Trophy as No. 1 goalkeeper. Both players won the awards for the second year in a row.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03297/1997094-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="538" height="816"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Goold</figcaption></div>Ramsey, Brilliant and Smith are repeaters on the first team while Hicks, MacKay and Lamoureux were selected for the second squad last year. Marcon, on the second team in 1956-57, made it on the first team this season. &#9632;

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Hawks Dominate All-Star Squads Picked For IHL

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>MONTREAL,.Que.&mdash;Tight playoff series loosen up the customers&rsquo; money. This may be one way of tersely explaining that the tense look is now off the faces of the overlords of the Quebec Hockey League.Whereas Messrs. Byron Higginson and Sidney Hol&mdash;stead, respectively the league president and secretary-treasurer, a week ago wore harried looks, now they are beginning to crack dead-pans with a smile. No less than seven days back it appeared there was a chance both semi-final series, might be wiped out in the short cut of four stright games, now both can t be completed in less than six combats.The customer-interest is heating up, and there&rsquo;s a chance of some real loot being added to a very lean league exchequer.It will be remembered that the Quebec Aces held a 3-0 bulge in games in their bracket between fourth and first place teams, and the third place Royals were two down to the second place Shawinigan Cataracts.Rapid Turn OverA rapid turn about occurred when Chicoutimi Sague&mdash;neens jemmied in two wins over Aces on the weekend to cure the jitters caused by by the parties of the first part, while Royals pulled oft two pulse-throbbing triumphs over Cataracts to adjust matters in the other half of the situation of grave stress and strain.Thus the new week showed the Quebecers leading Chicoutimi Sagueneens 3-2 in games, while Royals and Cataracts were all square at 2-2: and the added gates though not expected to harvest anything like the rich rewards of better times, will certainly be preferred to no gates at all. The QHL coffers needed such stimulation badly, in view of the fact that the league underwrites the entire playoff production.First act of the strange melodrama was staged at Shawinigan Falls. Wednesday. April 3. Trailing 6-2 after an unsteady goaling performance by first-stringer Charlie Hodge, consequent to a bash on his still tender cheek by a high-flung stick. Royals were in deep distress. Hodge had a cheek-bone fractured three weeks ago.Hodge was shaky from the blow in the face, and after a conference between general-manager Frank Carlin and Coach Roger Leger between periods it was decided to relieve Hodge by standby net-keeper Claude Pronovost.In the second and third periods Royals started to roll. Led by veteran Ken Mosdell and young Cec Hoekstra the Montrealers hit for five goals in two frames, and at the gong for three stanzas of regular play the teams were locked in a 7-7 draw.<h2>Payoff Cuy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04354/1997170-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="586" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kelly Burnett</figcaption></div>Then it was another veteran, Kelly Burnett, who added the coup de grace to the staggering Shawinigan forces. He hoisted a 30-foot blooper out of a Montreal power-play. The puck skidded. after a hop by the jittery Cataracts&rsquo; coaler, Eddie Johnston, to give Royals their first win in the best-of-seven set.Bradley DeliversWith the power play in high voltage Walter Bradley exploded a waist high shot into the center of the net as Johnston&rsquo;s vision was partly screened.There was a momentary confusion and plaver-pilot Fred Shero of the Cats got his strategy garbled. There is no doubt he intended to derrick his goaler for a great push in those final two minutes. Whether he intended Johnston to vacate the premises during the center-ice face-off following that tally which made the count 3-2 in Royals&rsquo; favor, only Shero knows.At any rate Royals began to holler that the net was unguarded. Cec Hoekstra got free with the puck, back-pedalled a couple of retreating strides and then calmly gave the pick a parabola into the empty herring-trap.In desperation the Cataracts swept into one more blistering assault and in the gang-play Charlie Hodge succumbed to another tally. And he had to make two or three big saves as the second hand on the big clock ticked off Royals&rsquo; reprieve.At Quebec on Saturday night the Chicoutimi Sagueneens and Aces waltzed through what was reported as mainly a monotonous 60 minutes of kitty-bar-the-door. dump-the-puck hockey.Gary Blaine and Stan Maxwell scored for Aces; Lou Smrke and Jacques Locas for the Sagueneens. The score was 2-2 in regular time. In the overtime it took only one minute and 48 seconds for Chicks to wrap it up as big Gerry Glaude slammed the boot heel by Al Millar. Greg Hicks, the Byng of Vimy Trophy winner, helped in all three Chicoutimi tallies.Sunday, the Chicks back home, climbed from the shadows of oblivion as Gilles Boisvert grabbed the shutout and Jacques Pichette and Georges Roy fired the two Chicoutimi markers. &#9632;

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TurnaboutlnPlayoffs Sets ‘Brass’, Crowds Glowing In QHL Run

Scoring Tempo UpPlayoff scoring this season in he QHL will easily surpass last year&rsquo;s efforts. Marcel Bonin counted 14 points to lead all scorers last year. Two Shawini&mdash;gan players, Allan Johnson and Ron Atwell, already have nine each this season.Lamy &lsquo;Grand Daddy&rsquo; Jean Paul Lamirande, Quebec&rsquo;s ancient rearguard, is the grand daddy of &rsquo;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.<h2>Al Parsley</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01469/1997139-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="295" height="322"></div>On The Sidelines&bull; IF HOCKEY&rsquo;S ADHERENTS weren&rsquo;t such a seri&mdash;ous bunch of blokes, were given to a few more spasms of hilarity, it&rsquo;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 their sharp contrasts of performance.Here&rsquo;s a team that can pull off more surprises, more shades of dramatic effort, alternating with bufoonery than any known in modern times. Imagine a club that was positively jeered at by its most loyal supporters as Royals were, March 30 in the Forum when they took a 6-2 shellacking from the Shawinigan Cataracts, making an abrupt switch to win the highest scoring playoff game in years (8-7) in overtime only three days later on foreign ice.Not only that Royals, to win, fought from behind a 6-2 deficit, and with a substitute goaler in their net. in the final two regular chuk&mdash;Royals drove for five goals hers, after their first, string netminder, Charlie Hodge, had been relieved by standby Claude Pronovost Hodge, who is recovering from a shattered cheek bone, was brushed by a stick, the old wound (aggravated in a goalmouth scramble.Veteran middle-man Ken Mosdell and blond Cec Hoekstra, who is fading away to a shadowy he is losing weight that rapidly in the late season pressure and playoff scramble, rallied Royals for five tallies to square the accounts before the final hooter of three standard periods. Then after 5:35 of overtime, for which the athletes are&mdash;not paid at any time&mdash;and-a-half scale, Kelly Burnett hoisted a blooper 3 0 feet down the ice. The puck did a yo-yo antic and skidded by the feet of goaler Eddie Johnston. By this time Johnston was practically gibbering, a case for the psychiatrists.The total harvest of 15 goals in 65 minutes of official time, got people who worry about such things to wondering if it was a record. Seems as how it must be for the Quebec League under full scale pro auspices, though there were a few high counts made in former years when the circuit was known as the Quebec Senior Hockey League, with some vague amateur pretentions.For instance in March 1947 at Shawinigan Falls, Cataracts beat Ottawa Senators 11-7 in a frcas that wasn&rsquo;t extended beyond the regulation limits. This was a league playoff fixture &hellip; the same season Montreal Royals had a great team coched by Frank Carlin and its forces numbered such great stars still twinkling as Doug Harvey, Floyd Curry and Gerry McNeil. Royals won the QSHL title but got careless or&mdash;the word rhymes with drowsy&mdash;when they stacked up the winner of the old Provincial League, the Sherbrooke Red Raiders.The Raiders had those three great colored stars Of the day&mdash;Ossie and Herbie Carnegie and Herbie McIntyre in the cast, and after Royals had collected an 8-1 lead, and went into a trance the Raiders blazed for a late second and full third period holocaust to win 10-8. Royals had won the first encounter of a best-of-five set at Sherbrooke 8-3. So that 10-8 business tossed a mighty scare into their hearts, helped along by a tongue-lashing from Carlin. The Royals got down to work in the next two outings to black-curtain the Red Raiders 3-0 and 6-0 with McNeil collecting the shutouts. And the Royals went on to wrap up Hamilton Tigers and Calgary Stamp&mdash;eders in turn for the last Allan Cup triumph by a Montreal team.Before we leave you, we&rsquo;d like to mention another high scoring game in which a Quebec team was involved though, this too, was in a post-season series.Toe Blake had the Valleyfield Braves on the warpath after winning the Quebec title in 1951. Braves met Sydney Millionaires in a semi-final for the Alexander Trophy, and in one of the games of a best-of-five set, which Braves eventually&mdash;won 4 to 2, the score was 9-6 in favor of Valleyfield. Braves later &rsquo; beat a Toronto team to become first winners of the Alexander Trophy.This prize, put up by Viscount Alexander of Tunis vfhen he was Governor General of Canada, was for the major championship of Canada.In its wisdom the CAHA had. ruled that the Quebec, the Maritime and the Senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; loop &gt;u the OHA were all too powerful for Allan Cup competition. Champions of these three circuits played for the Alexander Trophy, which went out of circulation after the Quebec League became attached to the professional wheel.<h2>How The Race Goes.</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02426/1997132-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="568" height="303"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03390/1997125-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="568" height="1608"></div>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2Montreal 8 at Shawinigan 7First Period1&mdash;Shawinigan: Fleming(Desaulniers)&hellip;&hellip; 1.202&mdash;Shawinigan: Johnson(Attwell, Faulkner)&hellip;&hellip; 4.483&mdash;Shawinigan: Faulkner(Johnson, Attwell)&hellip;&hellip; 8.284&mdash;Montreal: Bradley(Denis, Mosdell)&hellip;&hellip; 11.285&mdash;Montreal: Bradley(Boucher, Burnett)&hellip;&hellip; 12.186&mdash;Shawinigan: Girard (Amadio) 12.307&mdash;Shawinigan: Johnson(Faulkner, Attwell)&hellip;&hellip; 17.128&mdash;Shawinigan: Johnson(Attwell)&hellip;&hellip; 17.18Penalfes: Clune 2.15, Amadio 9.31, Shero 18.03. Balfour 14.15.Second Period9&mdash;Montreal: Denis(Moslell, Bradley)&hellip;&hellip; 5.2010&mdash;Montreal: Boucher (Burnett) 9.3711&mdash;Montreal: Mosdell (Balfour) 13.0112&mdash;Shawinigan; Attwell(Labrosse)&hellip;&hellip; 18.43Penalties: Bouchard 3.07. Bownass (minor, major and misconduct), Clune (major, Amadio (major), Desaulniers 17.47. Hodgson 19.49.Third Period13&mdash;Montreal: Hoekstra(Kowalctuik)&hellip;&hellip; 16.3114&mdash;Montreal: Mosdell(Hoekstra. Denis)&hellip;&hellip; 18.30Penalties: Attwell 0.21. Faulkner 14.42.Overtime Period15&mdash;Montreal: Burnett(Mosdell, Bownass)&hellip;&hellip; 5.35Penalty Taillefer 3.47.Quebec 2 at Chicoutimi 0First Period1&mdash;Quebec: Blaine(Teal, Gagnon)&hellip;&hellip; 18.48Penalties: Mascotto 1.30, Harvey 4.10, 12.07. 17.48, Gagnon 8.23, Lamirande 13.07.Second PeriodScoring: None. Penalies: Blaine 1.18, Courcy 9.00.Third Period2&mdash;Quebec: Lamirande&hellip;&hellip; 5.44Penalties: Sleaver 12.50, Smrke 15.21, Glaude 18.47.SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1958Chicoutimi 3 at Quebec 2Chicoutimi&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Glaude, Deslauriers. Roy. R. Rousseau; forwards: Leclair. Harvey, Locas, Perreault, Courey, Smrke,. Pi chette. Caron. G. Rousseau. Hicks.Quebec&mdash;Goal: Millar; defense: Mascotto, Crozier, Hillman, Picard, Lamirande; forwards: Hayden. Blaine. Teal, Sleaver, Labadie. Sabourin, Gagnon, Cossette. Maxwell.First Period1&mdash;Quebec: Blaine (Labadie).. 5.23 Penalties: Perreault 3.27, Gagnon 10.15, Leclair 10.15, Roy 15.16, Sleaver 16.08, Deslauriers 19.33.Second Period2&mdash;Chicoutimi: Smrke(Roy. Hicks)&hellip;&hellip; 14.50Penalty: Hayden 1.41.Third Period3&mdash;Chicoutimi: Locas(Smrke. Hicks)&hellip;&hellip; 1.064&mdash;Quebec: Maxwell (Crozier)&hellip;&hellip; 8.21Penalties: None.Overtime5&mdash;Chicoutimi: Glaude (Hicks) 1.48 Penalties: Nose.SUNDAY, April 6, 1958Royals 4 at Shawinigan 3Shawinigan&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defense: Amadio, Hodgson, Labrosse.Shero. Taillefer; forwards: Fleming, Desaulniers, Wray, Girard, Bouchard, Attwell. Johnson. Faulkner.Royals&mdash;Goal: Hodge;. defense: Roche. Mantha, Lund. Bownass, Clune; forwards: Kawalchuk, Boucher. Cressman. Burnett, Balfour, Denis, Bradley, Mosdell, Hoekstra.First Period1&mdash;Rhawinigan: Johnson(Taillefer. Attwell)&hellip;&hellip; 15.38Penalties: Fleming 2.47. Attwell 9.05, Clune 15.52, Mantha 17.16, Mekilok 17.16.Second Period2&mdash;Royals: Denis(Mantha. Roche)&hellip;&hellip; 13.233&mdash;Royals: Clune(Burnett. Bradley)&hellip;&hellip; 17.024&mdash;Shawinigan: Wray(Girard, Labrosse)&hellip;&hellip; 19.32Penalties: Fleming 7.33. Balfour 7.33, Bownass 14.45, Balfour 18.28.Third Period5&mdash;Royals: Bradley(Bownass, Hoekstra)&hellip;&hellip; 18.006&mdash;Royals: Hoekstra&hellip;&hellip; 18.417&mdash;Shawinigan: Attwell(Johnson, Fleming)&hellip;&hellip; 19.01Penalties:&hellip;&hellip; Shero 1.30, Desaulniers 16.10.Chicoutimi 2 at Quebec 0Quebec&mdash;Goal: Millar; defense: Mascotto, Crozier, Hillman. Lamirande; forwards: Picard, Hayden, Blaine, Teal. Sleaver, Labadie. Sabourin, Gagnon. Cossette, Maxwell.Chicoutimi&mdash;GoaJ: Boisvert; defense: Glaude, Roy, Deslauriers. Rousseau; forwards: Smrke. Locas, G. Rousseau. Hicks, Perreault, Leclair, Piche tie, Caron, Harvey.First Period1&mdash;Chicoutimi: Pichette&hellip;&hellip; 15.21(G. Rousseau, Harvey)&hellip; 15.21 Penalties: Hicks 0.05. Maxwell 2.42, Hillman. Hayden. Sleaver, Hicks. Smrke. Roy majors 3.10, Quebec bench misconduct 3.10, Roy Hayden 16.46.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.Third Period2&mdash;Chroutimf: Roy (Smrke).. 19.57 Penalties: Sleaver, Crozier misconduct 19.57. &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01464/1997201-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Lamoureux</figcaption></div>INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.&mdash;It took them three years, but they finally did it.Indianapolis&rsquo;s determined Chiefs are the new International Hockey League playoff champions. The Hoosiers defeated the Louisville Rebels in the best of seven series, 4-3.During the regular season Louisville took a 6-5-1 margin over the athletes coached by Leo Lamoureux.Lamoureux was very proud of his squad after the final game. Said Leo. &ldquo;They deserved to win We were in last place up until the first of the year, but with hard work and hustle they won their share of games and eventually wound up in fourth place.&rdquo;The Chiefs finished with 6 2 points during the regular season two less than second place Fort Wayne and one less than Louisville.Indianapolis knocked off Fort Wayne in their first series, three games to one and had to come from behind on foreign ice for the Louisville win. The first two games of the finals were played at the Indiana capital, while the last five encounters were contested at Freedom Hall in Louisville due to the circus that was appearing in the Indianapolis Coliseum.<h2>Him Big Chief!</h2>Probably the happiest guy of all was Chief General Manager Mel Ross who was quite reliev ed after the win. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m proud of every one of the boys. They gave their most and as a result they came out of the finals, as champions,&rdquo; quoted Ross.The Indianapolis dressing room was bedlam after the game with Chief fans and the players going around patting each other on the back and shaking hands.The Rebels have nothing to feel ashamed of. They defeated defending champion Cincinati three to one in the opening round and skated nip-and-tuck with the Chiefs in the final round. In the last two games of the Indianapolis series, the Rebs were beset by injuries and played with only twelve men before calling in Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Eddie Long for a final game replacement. Claude Vinet with a broken toe and Marius Groleau with a severly bruised hip were on the sidelines for the Kentuckians.The hero of the series was Indianapolis goalie Cliff Hicks, who came up with the big saves. Hicks, who was playing despite a bruised thumb, held the Rebels at bay througout the series.After a few mid-season changes, the Chiefs were one of the toughest teams in the league. The lined up in the following manner: goal; Cliff Hicks; defense: Billy Short, Ken Willey, Ron Morgan, Lloyd McKey; centers: Marc Boileau, Frank Kufcma, Germain &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Leger; right wings: Pierre Brillant, Myron Stankiewicz, Sam Gregory; and left wings: Alex Viskelis, Bob Bowness and Don Busch a converted defenseman. The likeable Ken Storrey was the trainer.ICING THE PUCK&hellip; Indianapolis will play the winner of the Eastern League final in the best-of-three series. Currently Charlotte and Washington are battling it out for honors. If Charlotte wins the games will be played there. If Washington is the victor, the games will be in Indianapolis&hellip; Indianapolis scorers in finals were Boileau (four goals) Leger (four goals) Kuzma (three), Brillant, Stankiewicz and Viskelis (two) McKey, Willey, Gregory, Bowness and Busch (one each). Louisville tallies were accounted for by Dudych (four), Ranieri and Wilson (three), Chalmers, Goegan, and Peterson (two), Morton, Spong, Sharp and Long.(one)&hellip; Indianapolis wins Joseph Turner Memorial Trophy&hellip; At least 200 fans motored down to Louisville for the final game. &#9632;

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Indianapolis Ends Title Famine As Chiefs Capture IHL Crown

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa.&mdash;One of the big reasons for the Washington Presidents&rsquo; Cinderella climb from last place in the Eastern Hockey League to the championship a year Jater was their outstanding road record.The Presidents won the EHL title by defeating Charlotte Clippers 5-2 in the seventh and deciding game of their best-of-seven final at Charlotte April 5. Vic Palladino led the way for the new champs with three goals.It is generally conceded in hockey that any team that can do well on the road can finish on top of the pack&mdash;or close to it. Using their record of 19-13-1 while playing on enemy ice as a springboard, the Presidents finished in second place, just a half game behind the pennant winning Charlotte Clippers.The Clippers were the only other team in the circuit not under 500 on the road. The Dixie outfit was just even at 16-16-0. It was their home playing that enabled the Clippers to finish ahead of the Prexys.Oddly enough, Washington won more games on the road than it did at home. While playing at friendly Uline Arena the Presidents could do no better than 17-11-3 while Charlotte was 22-9-1 at the Coliseum. That told the story.Actually, third place New Haven did better at home than did Washington, compiling a 21-9-2 slate, but again, it was the travel record that counted since the Blades were 12-17-3 while away.Perhaps the best example of this &ldquo;win-on-the-road-and-vou-win-the-crown&rdquo; theory was the Philadelphia Ramblers who ended up fifth in the league race. The Ramblers had the best record in the league at home with a 24-6-2 log. But despite this outstanding show, the failure of being able to win the road games led to the dismal season for Philadelphia. Outside the Arena, Philly was 6-25-1.The fourth place Johnstown Jets also did better at home than did Washington. The Jets were 22-11-0 at the War Memorial, but could do no better than 9-19-3 on unfamiliar Ice. &#9632;

Presidents Snare Eastern lce Title In Tough Final

CLEVELAND, Ohio&mdash;Players representing four of the six teams in the American Hockey League were named to the 21st annual All-Star team announced last week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Teams represented include Cleveland and Hershey with two each and Providence and Springfield with one representative apiece.The team is the result of all eligible players in the circuit voting on their choices for all-star berths with no player being permitted to vote for anyone on his own club. This year&rsquo;s edition is the 21st time that a players&rsquo; team has been compiled by the Cleveland paper.Goalie Johnny Bower of the Cleveland Barons became the first player in the long history of the contest to win a position for six seasons. Bower, who polled a total of 69 votes, highest of any player in the league, first made the team back in 1950-51 and was named in 1951-52 and 1952-53. Upon his return to the AHL with Providence he again was chosen for an all-star berth in 1955-56 and 1956-57. This is the fourth time he has been named from Cleveland.In the closest race for a berth, Springfield&rsquo;s sharp-shooter, Gerry Ehman edged Boris (Bo) Elik of the Barons by a margin of five votes for the first team left wing position.<h2>Old Stuff</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02371/1997256-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="583" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>Hershey&rsquo;s two great point-making stars, Willie Marshall and Dunc Fisher, both second team choices a year ago moved up to the first string by. resounding voting majorities. Marshall was named as center with 65 votes while Fisher won the first team right wing spot with a total of 64.Steve Kraftcheck of Cleveland led the defensemen in voting with a total of 63. Ivan Irwin of Providence gained five second defense spot with a total of 33.Chosen for second team positions were Marcel Paille of Providence with 13 votes as goalie; Frank Mathers of Hershey and Tom Williams of Rochester as defensemen; Cal Gardner of Springfield, center, and Elik and Fred Glover of the Barons, left and right wing respectively.For the second straight year Jack Gordon of the Barons was named as coach of the all-star team with a total of 28 vites. Mathers, Hershey&rsquo;s playing coach, was second team choice with 24 votes. &#9632;

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Barons Ace Gets Most Votes; Hershey Duo On First Team; Gordon Selected Top Coach

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01441/1997287-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Solution In Next Week&rsquo;s Issue</figcaption></div>Across1&mdash;Pictured star wears no. 16 for Canadiens.6&mdash;Denotes score between Montreal and Toronto on Dec. 4.7&mdash;Initials of 3 3 across.8&mdash;Defenseman on 1954 - 55 alternate All-Star team.12&mdash;Number of games Parker MacDonald participated in this season.13&mdash;Given name of Buller former member of the Rangers.15&mdash;Initials of hockey&rsquo;s famous &ldquo;Black Cat.&rdquo;16&mdash;Hank Ciesla&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)18&mdash;Chicago and Boston played to one last Dec. 7.19&mdash;Old English (abbr.)20&mdash;Injured players get this from club doctors before returning to action (slang.)21&mdash;Bill Cook&rsquo;s brother.22&mdash;Nickname of player mentioned in 5 down.24&mdash;Mrs. Pierre Pilote.25&mdash;Number of N.H.L. clubs with whom &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Bouchard performed.27&mdash;Channel Islands (abbr.)28&mdash;This member of the Maple Leafs is a native of Regina.30&mdash;Initials of a Montreal defenseman.32&mdash;Initials of a former Toronto netminder.33&mdash;Byng Trophy winner of 1947-48.Down1&mdash;N.H.L.&rsquo;s top rookie of 1956-57.2&mdash;Paul Masnick attends one during the summer.3&mdash;Listed in hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame is the late&mdash;Stuart.4&mdash;This N.H.L. coach is a native of Winnipeg.5&mdash;Given name of Bownass who played defense for Canadiens recently.9&mdash;Olympiad (abbr.)10&mdash;Initials of a New York de fenseman.11&mdash;Initials of MacNab of New Westminster.14&mdash;Bud Palmer is a well known one for hockey.15&mdash;Goalie who replaced Plante in Boston on Mar. 13.17&mdash;Fleming Mackell excells in this sport.18&mdash;Birthplace of Leafs&rsquo; Billy Harris.21&mdash;Degree held by Syl Apps.23&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom Brian Smith had a trial, (abbr.)26&mdash;Initials of 15 down.28&mdash;Month in which Bob Turner celebrates birthday (abbr.)29&mdash;Tony Leswick was born in this month (abbr.)31&mdash;Initials of Carveth, former Detroit forward.<h2>Last Week&rsquo;s Crossword Solution</h2>ACROSS1&mdash;Goegan6&mdash;Vo.7&mdash;Ivan10&mdash;Americans12&mdash;L.A.13&mdash;R.P.15&mdash;S.D.16&mdash;Ice17&mdash;Tim19&mdash;Tot20&mdash;Reg.21&mdash;Te.22&mdash;An.23&mdash;A.T.24&mdash;Is25&mdash;Gendron30&mdash;IE.31&mdash;D.A.32&mdash;Lindsay35&mdash;EelDOWN1&mdash;Goal2&mdash;Eve.3&mdash;Gord.4&mdash;Nick5&mdash;Canadiens8&mdash;Va.9&mdash;N.S.11&mdash;Marcotte14&mdash;Pete15&mdash;Strain16&mdash;It.18&mdash;M.G.23&mdash;Agile26&mdash;Nine27&mdash;Dede28&mdash;O.H.A.29&mdash;Carl33&mdash;S.L.34&mdash;Yr. &#9632;

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Hockey X-word Puzzle

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;The good ship Tiger-Cub, sailing out of Hamilton with its proposed destination that city&rsquo;s first OHA Junior A championship, went down without any survivors this past week.Lashed by the scoring waves of the Toronto Marlboros&rsquo; forward brigade and foundering on the rocks of the Dukes&rsquo; defense, the Tiger-Cub found the Toronto reef impassable. Not even such a competent navigator as Gerry Brown was capable of finding a channel into the harbour.The end came for Hamilton on home ice April 3 as the Marlies wrapped up the best-of-seven final series, 4-0, with one game tied.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02386/1997318-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="260" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Brown</figcaption></div>Sparked by veteran centre Bill Kennedy who scored twice and set up two others, the Dukes rolled over the Cubs 7-1 in the last game. By winning, the Marlboros won a bye into the Eastern Canada Junior finals with the Ottawa Canadiens their likely rivls.Dukes after an in-and-out performance against St. Catharines played their most consistent hockey of the season at Hamilton&rsquo;s expense as they won their third league championship in the past four seasons.Marlies finished fourth during the regular campaign and bad to go eight games before ousting the penant-winning Teepees.Dukes Fooled &lsquo;Brass&rsquo;At varying stages during the season Turk Broda inferred that they were a bunch of bump who weren&rsquo;t giving. He stated that there was only one good pro prospect (Carl Brewer) on the club and that in all probability it would be an early spring.General Manager Stall&rsquo; Smythe offered five players for one in a proposed mid-season trade.Both have had occasion to re-assess their club in post-season play.Marlies did unload three of the five players Smythe had on the block but two. of &rsquo; them, Jim Murchie and Doug Risely are still around and they&rsquo;ve helped.Dukes also have the little windmill Wally Boyer back in the lineup after being sidelined most of the season with injuries and Kennedy came out of his self-imposed retirement for the playoffs.The addition of these two players coupled with Hamilton&rsquo;s loss of their outstanding cenfreman Murray Oliver was the difference. Of maybe it was just a case that Marlies were a blue chips hockey Club. They gave the impression of loafing during the season while Hamilton made a tremendous late season bid to einch second place and come within striking distance of overhauling the front-running Teepees.In three final playoff games it&rsquo;s been all Marlboros. They took the opener 8-1: the second game 6-3 and the third contest 4-2.So it will he Marlboros and Ottawa-Hull in the Eastern Canada final and what a series that should be.Incidentally, Murray Oliver who was slated to play pro hall in the Cleveland organization until that broken arm in the Peterborough series intervened, will see no diamond action this summer. He will however report to Detroit Red Wings hockey camp next fall. It&rsquo;s an ill wind that blows somebody good. &#9632;

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Marlboros Capture OHA Junior Title From Tiger-Cubs

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-01118/1997363-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-02117/1997356-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="319"></div>STRATFORD, OntAs was anticipated, the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey series in Ontario has boiled down to the Belleville McFarlands-and Kitchener Dutchmen, who are engaged in a best-of-seven series right now, with the latter team ruling favorites to advance into the Allan Clip playdowns. It should be pointed out. however, that Kitchener Dutchmen were rated odds-on favorites last season over Wlilt-bv linnlops. competing in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey for the first time, and yet the eastern group win nets nosed out the Dutchmen in the seventh and final, game right on Kitchener ice. and went on from there to capture the Allan Cup.Kitchener Dutchmen are classed as a better squad this season, and the same can be said of Belleville. Yet last season the eastern Ontario group was ignored by the older western Ontario group and considered as something akin to poor relatives or country cousins. The thought is that the western group champion Dutchmen wilt not make the same mistake this season, because Belleville are well rested after a torrid sevengame series with Pembroke Lumber Kings, followed by a rather soft touch in eliminating Porcupine Porkies, NOHA northern group winners, in three &gt; straight games.<h2>Back Again</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-03112/1997349-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="523" height="812"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack McKenzie</figcaption></div>In the meantime, Kitchener Dutchmen have beeu meeting with the toughest kind of opposition from Sudbury Wolves and Windsor Bulldogs, being forced to go all out against the Wolves and then having to play nine games before ousting the Bulldogs.It could be that Kitchener has had too much hockey, because after they wound up the original best-ofseven group finals with Windsor, the round was knotted at three wins each aud one tie. Home-and-horae games were then ordered. with total goals to decide the winners, and the Dutchmen demonstrated their superiority by winning the first game 5-1 and then losing the second one at Windsor 4-2, but taking round honors 7-5.The Kitchener-Windsor playoffs were somewhat, of a surprise, as in their group games the Bulldogs were pretty much pushovers for the Dutchmen. But Windsor showed surprising form in the NOHA-OHA playoffs and became red hot in eliminating the second-place Soo Greyhounds in four straight games, the first two on Soo ice.Loss of Howie Lee. veteran defenceman sidelined with a serious eye injury, has not helped Kitchener&rsquo;s cause any, and coach Bill Durnau was forced Io do some juggling and fortunately had capable reserves. He brought veteran rearguard Harry Psutka out of retirement to fill the hole on the blue line and also shifts Butch Martin back and forth between the forward wall and the defence.Defying the ruling of George Dudley. CAHA secretary-manager, Manager Ernie Goman of the Dutchmep hustled Jack McKenzie back to Kitchener as soon as the Whitby Dunlops landed in Canada from their overseas world championship tournament in Oslo. Norway, and has been using the classy rightwinger ever since. Dudley ruled that McKenzie was not eligible to play for the Dutchmen this season, since Billy Flick of Stratford had been named a replacement for him But in that Dudley did not elaborate on his reasons for the ruling, and as the writer recalls the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; council meeting iu Toronto, there was no ruling to back up the Dudley contention.So far McKenzie has been used sparingly by Kitchener and has not been prominent, but that, could be attributed to staleness after the heavy schedule of games in Europe. The same thing might affect the Dutchmen in their series with the eastern Ontario champions from Belleville, depending, of course, on how long the series lasts and how often they have to play. Certainly, Kitchener has not lacked for action, since they played against Windsor. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday nights, and then had to travel all the way from Windsor, site of the ninth game, to Belleville for the first game of the provincial finals Wednesday night. That trip meant almost from the western end of the province to the eastern end. and that is bound to sap the strength of any athlete no matter how good his physical condition.So the thought is that hockey fans had better not sell the Belleville McFarlands short in their provincial final series with Kitchener Dutchmen. &#9632;

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