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April 19, 1958

The Hockey News April 19, 1958

GoalersThe Montreal Royals were the only club in the QHL to use than one goaler during the playoffs. Coach Roger Leger replaced Charlie Hodge with Claude Pronovost. Hodge played one period of the game and Pronovost two.First PointWhen Bev Bell scored the win-ling goal in the final game of he Montrea&rsquo; Shawinigan QHL emi-final series it marked the irst point of the series for the Saskatchewan native scored what proved to be Winner in the first<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01350/1622729-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="295" height="322"></div><h2>Al Parsley</h2>On The SidelinesOVERTONES OF COMEDY, though the principal actors failed to see much that was funny, highlighted the overthrow of the haughty Chicoutimi Sagueneens by j Quebec Aces in the Quebec Hockey League semi-finals. The Quebecers finishing fourth in the standing after the long haul of 64 games, eliminated Chicoutimi four games to two.In the final game of the series, the Aces, descriehd by Lou Fusk. able sports editor of The uebec Chronicle-Telegraph, to be as prim as the &rsquo;09 class at Vassar, were on their best behavior. Michel Labadie. and Bob Sabourin got the Quebec markers. Jacques Locas tallied for the Sagueneens. This was Wednesday night. April 9. in Quebec.It appears the Aces were by no means so prim in the previous contest Sunday, April 6, at Chicoutimi. The Quebee-ers gave rousing display, though blanked 2-0 by the Chirks, and there was much high-jinks including a knockdown pier six brawl in which some of spectators joined and one fan suffered a cracked pate and was hauled off to hospital.Gary Blaine, Quebec right winger who has made quite a name for himself this year in alternate roles as a defenseman. is alleged to have clubbed the rail-side spectator over the noggin, after the customer put the clutch on Blaine.Aces&rsquo; goaler Al Millar was hit in the face by another fan who somehow got possession of a hockey stick, Millar retailliated and drew blood by striking the Chicoutimi client in the face.Over past seasons Millar, an individualist given to eccentric behavior at times, has been the target for invective and abuse by Chicoutimi fans. In one league game this past winter they kept pelting fire-crackers into his goal area, and when out of ammunition, hurled rubber footgear.There was bad blood to begin with on account of the in-istence of the Chicoutimi club for a Sunday date in their own rink after the fourth game was booked for the same Sunday at Quebec. The argument grew so heated that the Sagueneens&rsquo; directors threatened to withdraw their team from the playoffs.To settle the dispute league president Byron Higginson ordered the fourth game moved to Saturday night at Quebec, and the fifth was played at Chicoutimi the next afternoon. That&rsquo;s the one that brought out all the shenanigans.Late in the game Millar insisted on taking a center ice face-off. Neither the remonstrations of his coach, Joe Crozier, nor the howls of the Chicoutimi cash customers could deter him and finally the puck was dropped between Millar and Sagueneens&rsquo; regular centerman, Michel Harvey so that the referee could get the game going again.Phil Renauld. Chicoutimimanager-coach, gave out statements to the press that player-coach Joe Crozier of the Aces had no control over his players, that Millar&rsquo;s action was a &ldquo;dindon de la farce&rdquo;. Which freely translated means Millar acted like a crazy turkey.Renauld further is quoted by Canadian Press that to allow a clown like Millar to flout all authority can be extremely dangerous.Crozier didn&rsquo;t see much that waa funny about the entire business, at the end of the series when Aces beat the Sags for keeps, this &ldquo;old ironside&rdquo; of the back-division was quite happy that things hand ended so gloriously. After the crowded action in the five days of the wind-up of the Quebec-Chicoutimi series, Joe looked like he had been through a mangle, his face was that badly battered and scarred. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

QUEBEC LEAGUE

Lundy Has RecordThe individual scoring record for a seasons playoff is held by Pat Lundy of Calgary with 25 points on 15 goals and ten assists.Two More RecordsAlex Kaleto and Ray Manson of Saskatoon hold the record for most assists in one season playoffs with 14 each.The most shutouts in one season playoffs by a goalkeeper was three by Jerry Cotnoir of Victoria in 1951.TUESDAY. APRIL 1Edmonton 3 at Calgary 4(Calgary leads best of five series 1-0)First Period1&mdash;Edmonton, McCreary(Leonard, Hendrickson)&hellip; 2:102&mdash;Calgary, Wilkie(Michaluk)&hellip;&hellip; 2:263&mdash;Edmonton, Coflin&hellip;&hellip; 2:504&mdash;Calgary, Sclisizzi.(C. Blair, D. Blair)&hellip;&hellip; 17:27Penalties: Holmes and Wilkie 3:10, D. Blair 5:00, Burton 9:02.Second Period5&mdash;Calgary, Wilkie,(Ford, Finney)&hellip;&hellip; 9:176&mdash;Edmonton, Roggeveen(Burton, Lunde)&hellip;&hellip; 10:43Penalties: Kilburn 7:55, McCreary 11:33.Third Period7&mdash;Calgary, Wilkie(S. Hucul, F. Hucul)&hellip;&hellip; 14:48.Penalties: Ford 2:56, Roggeveen and Hicks 5:32, Leonard 13:17.Stops:Rollins 8 3 6&mdash;17Riggin 9 7 12&mdash;28Winnipeg 1 at Vancouver 4(Vancouver leads best of seven series 1-0)First Period1&mdash;Winnipeg, Straton(Kapusta)&hellip;&hellip; 12:352&mdash;Vancouver, McLeod(MacNab, Maloney)&hellip;&hellip; 18:17Penalties: Mosienko 2:10. Douglas 9:52, Dobbyn 13:12 and 16:42.Second Period3&mdash;Vancouver, McLeod(Maloney. Peacosh)&hellip;&hellip; 2:07Penalties: Summers 1:48, Dobbyn 4:02 Keating 8:24, Mosienko 17:31, Douglas 17:55.Third Period4&mdash;Vancouver, Maloney(McLeod, Peacosh)&hellip;&hellip; 1:035&mdash;Vancouver, McNab(MacQueen, Chorley)&hellip;&hellip; 15.23Penalties: MacNab 2:50, Douglas 12:34 and 14:43, McLeod 17:26.Stops:Mikulan 5 13 6&mdash;24Pelletier 12 5 15&mdash;32WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2Seattle 2 at New Westminster 3(New Westminster leads best of five series 1-0)First Period1&mdash;New Westminster, Fashoway(Van lmpe)&hellip;&hellip; 16:172&mdash;Seattle, Filion(Boyce, Chiupka)&hellip;&hellip; 19:27Penalties: Tottle 2:30, Creighton 4:09, Sinclair 5:33, Hunt and Schmautz 6:27, Kuzma 14:17, Creighton 17:28.Second Period3&mdash;New Westminster. Edmundson(Jones)&hellip;&hellip; 7:504&mdash;Seattle, Kinasewich(McFarland, Fielder)&hellip;&hellip; 11:00Penalties: Sinclair:29, Schmautz9.40, Kuzma and Barlow 12:18 Filion 18:39, Matthews 19;20.Third Period5 New West minster, Van Impe (Schmautz, Goodwin)&hellip;&hellip; 16:36Penalties: Schmautz 11:20.Stops:Bassen&hellip;&hellip; 8 11 10&mdash;29Bentley&hellip;&hellip; 9 10 9&mdash;28THURSDAY. APRIL 3Calgary 3 at Edmonton 6(Best of five series tied 1-1)First Period1&mdash;Edmonton, Duke (Kilburn, Macpherson)&hellip;&hellip; 6:182&mdash;Edminton, BurtonSEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02308/1622550-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="576" height="903"></div>(Roggeveen, Leonard)&hellip;&hellip; 9:233&mdash;Edmonton, Burton(Yanosik, Leonard)&hellip;&hellip; 14:25Penalties: Kilburn, Ford. Wilkie.Second Period4&mdash;Calgary, Wilkie(C. Blair, Michaluk)&hellip;&hellip; 3:475&mdash;Calgary, Marcetta(Kuryluk. F. Hucul)&hellip;&hellip; 12.006&mdash;Calgary, Ford&hellip;&hellip; 13:55Penalties: None.Third Period7&mdash;Edmonton, Burton(McCreary)&hellip;&hellip; 12:258&mdash;Edmonton, Lunde(Duke)&hellip;&hellip; 14:149&mdash;Edmonton, Hendrickson(Lunde)&hellip;&hellip; 17:49Penalties: Leonard (major), SHucul (major), Michaluk (2).Stops:Rollins&hellip;&hellip; 3 6 8&mdash;17Riggin&hellip;&hellip; 9 12 8&mdash;29FRIDAY, APRIL 4Winnipeg 3 at Vancouver 5(Vancouver leafs best of seven series 2-0)First Period1&mdash;Vancouver, McLeod(Maloney, Folk)&hellip;&hellip; 3:352&mdash;Vanvouver, McLeod(Maloney. Peacosh)&hellip;&hellip; 6:153&mdash;Vancouver, Peacosh(Folk. Maloney)&hellip;&hellip; 9:30Penalties: Douglas 2:38 and 8:20, Cleary 11:21 and 16:01.Second Period4&mdash;Winnipeg, Glover(Lea, Lamoureux)&hellip;&hellip; 19:115&mdash;Winnipeg, Redahl(Witiuk)&hellip;&hellip; 19:26Penalties: Folk 4:01 and 13:34.Third Period6&mdash;Vancouver, Ghorley (Cleary, MacQueen)&hellip;&hellip; 5:137&mdash;Winnipeg. Ingarfield(Kapusta, Redahl)&hellip; 15:108&mdash;Vancouver, Maloney&hellip;&hellip; 18:04Penalties: MacNab 6:29 Lamoureux 8:18, Mikulan (served by Keating) and MacQueen Majors 8:48.Stops:Mikulan&hellip;&hellip; 8 8 7&mdash;23Pelletier&hellip;&hellip; 6 11 10&mdash;27SATURDAY. APRIL 5Calgary 0 at Edmonton 3(Edmonton leads best of five series 2-1)First Period1&mdash;Edmonton. McCreary&hellip;&hellip; 13:01Penalties: Ford 3:12, 11:14, Kuryluk 7:05, Coflin 14:14. 18:29.Second Period2&mdash;Edmonton, Leonard(Roggeveen)&hellip;&hellip; 13:25Penalties: Barclay 4:15 and 9:29, Hicks 15:20. Kilburn 16:07, F. Hucul 17:04, Hendrickson 1.9:10.Third Period3&mdash;Edmonton, Duke (Lunde).. 13:25Penalties: Houghton, Coflin 5:12,Hicks. Kilburn 9:10. Michaluk 17:20.Seattle 4 at New Westminster 3(Best of five series tied 1-1)First Period1&mdash;New Westminster, Van Impe(Schmautz, Goodwin)&hellip;&hellip; 2:152&mdash;Seattle Chiupka(Filion, Tottle)&hellip;&hellip; 15:013&mdash;Seattle. Chiupka(Sinclair. Tattle)&hellip;&hellip; 15:51Penalties: Davidson 9:31, Creighton 12:03, Baseen (served by Kuzma).Second Period4&mdash;New Westminster, Jones(Bergeron, Edmundson)&hellip; 4:565&mdash;Seattle. Kinasewich(Fielder, McFarland)&hellip;&hellip; 10:356&mdash;Seattle. McFarland(Kukulowicz, Kuzma)&hellip;&hellip; 16:03Penalties Hunt 2:34, Hrymnak 10:29, Tottle 18:15, Jones 17:33. Tottle 19:07.Third Period7&mdash;New Westminster, Schmautz(Matthews, Hrymnak.)&hellip;&hellip; 9:32Penalties: Schmautz 3:19. Seattle team misconduct (served by Filion) 3:20 Van Impe (10 mins, misconduct) 17:68.Bassen&hellip;&hellip; 5 8 10&mdash;28Bentley&hellip;&hellip; 5 6 5&mdash;16SUNDAY, APRIL 6New Westminster 2 at Seattle 5(Seattle leads best of five series 2-1)First Period1&mdash;Seattle, Chiupka (Fielder, Boyce)&hellip;&hellip; 2:392&mdash;Seattle, Kukulowicz(McFarland, Kuzma) 17:53Penalties: Kinasewich 1:48, Edmundson 13:53, Hunt 19:03, Van Impe 19:54.Second Period3&mdash;Seattle. Kukulowicz(Kuzma, McFarland)&hellip;&hellip; 5:084&mdash;Seattle, Boyce(Filion, Chiupka)&hellip;&hellip; 13:48Penalties: Sinclair 6:12, Hannigan 18:20, Goodwin (10 min. misconduct.) 19:14.Third Period5&mdash;Seattle. Filion(Boyce, Chiupka)&hellip;&hellip; 6:506&mdash;New Westminster, Hannigan(Jones. Edmundson)&hellip;&hellip; 9:557&mdash;New Westminster, Goodwin (Van Impe, Matthews)&hellip; 12:54Penalties: Jones .20, Kinasewich: 20. Creighton 1:38.Stops:Bentley&hellip;&hellip; 8 8 7&mdash;28Bassen &hellip;&hellip; 8 5 7&mdash;30<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03247/1622543-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="576" height="653"></div>Most GoalsMurray Wilkie, Cal&mdash;Jackie McLeod Van&mdash;4.Most AssistsPhil Maloney, Van&mdash;5.Hat TricksMurray Wilkie, Cal&mdash;Cummy Burton, Edm&mdash;1.Most Minutes In PenaltiesKent Douglas&mdash;12.Most. ShutoutsDennis Riggin. Edm&mdash;1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04198/1622536-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="577" height="217"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><h2>Top Men In Mentors&rsquo; Book</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03246/1622505-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="262" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04191/1622498-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="262" height="391"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Kraftcheck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05154/1622491-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="265" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mathers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06131/1622484-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="264" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bo Elik</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07100/1622477-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="259" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dunc Fisher</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0879/1622470-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="256" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body">Willie Marshall</figcaption></div>HARRISBURG, Pa.&mdash;For the second straight season, the Hershey Bears and Cleveland Barons make up the American Hockey League All-Stars selected by the coaches for the Sunday Patriot-News.The sixth annual dream club was selected for Pennsylvania&rsquo;s capital city newspaper by the six league coaches who were not permitted to vote for their own players. They based their ballots on the home and away performance of the players.Five of the selections, who repeated from last year, were Cleveland&rsquo;s Johnny Bower (goal): Bo Elik (left wing) and Steve Kraftcheck (defense); Hershey&rsquo;s Dune Fisher (right wins) and Willie Marshall (center). The new addition to. the top lineup, but certainly no stranger, was Hershey playercoach defenceman Frank Mathers. He made the club five of the last six years, missing out only list season.All were unanimous choices with the exception of Elik and Mathers. Five point were awarded for a first team ballot, three for second and the maximum a player could receive was 25.The selection for the Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year will be announced at a later date.In the second team picks, providence won two spots. Marcel Faille (goal) and Ivan Irwin (defense), while Cleveland matched the Reds with JimmyMoore (center) end Fred Glover (right wing). Rochester&rsquo;s Noel-Price got the other defensive post, while Springfield&rsquo;s Gerry Ehman won the left wing job.Only in a couple of instances in the past have the coaches selections differed from the All-Star picks of the league&rsquo;s sportswriters and sportscasters who pick the official club.Bower, without argument, has been Cleveland&rsquo;s strongest line of defense. Through the first 64 games he owned a 2.21 goals against mark and was way out in front in shutouts with eight, one short of equaling the league&rsquo;s all-time mark for one season. Twice he backstopped Providence to the loop title and a Calder Cup before being traded&rdquo; to Cleveland, where he has refused offers to go to the National League.The front line trio of Fisher-Marshall-Elik is a goal happy crew. They rapped in 103 by the 63 game mark and had well over a 100 assists.Fisher Tops At RightFisher is recognized as being head and shoulders over the rest of the league&rsquo;s right wing crop. The little 30-year-old guy has 36 goals and is four short of setting an all-time circuit mark. When and if he hits No. 4 0 he will become the first player in 22 years ever to score that many goals four times. What&rsquo;s more astounding is that he is gunning for his third straight 40 goal season!.Every coached has agreed the little gamecock richly deserves another shot at the National League, despite his age. He has helped make two of the greatest centermen the league has ever known. Marshall and George (Red) Sullivan, the New York Rangers&rsquo; captain and holder of the loop&rsquo;s all-time scoring mark of 119 points.Marshall is a virtual cinch to be drafted into the big time. At the 64 game level, he had 3 6 goals and 5 9 assists for 9 5 points, which just about locked up his first scoring crown. He had been runner-up for the $300 bundle the past two years. He&rsquo;s a fast skater, has a tricky shift and a quick shot like his linemate Fisher.Bower, a fellow who should know, says Marshall and Fisher are the two toughest forwards for him to stop. The tandem have punched 11 past Bower. &ldquo;Both of &rsquo;em belong in the National League,&rdquo; said Bower. &ldquo;They can score from almost any angle.&rdquo;Elik, too, is another destined for the major league. He won the Rookie of the Year prize last season and as a sophomore the 26-year-old winger hasn&rsquo;t slacked up one bit. In the first 62 games he had 32 goals.Kraftcheck and Mathers are solid hackliners. Kraftcheck is a tough, aggressive player. He has a fine shot from the point and is the key trigger man in the Barons&rsquo; power play. He paces the league&rsquo;s scorers among the defense corps. He has 14 goals and 31 assists for 45 points after 64 games.Mather&rsquo;s play has been remarkable. It&rsquo;s task enough to be saddled with coaching the club, but in the stretch drive for the pennant, the 32-year-old star has been a real leader on the ice. Only a glance at a March 9 game at Buffalo proves the point. He was on the ice for five of the club&rsquo;s six goals and help engineer three power tallies to drive his charges to a come-from-behind triumph. He&rsquo;s done similar jobs many times through the long, tough campaign.In addition to Mathers, selecting the team were coaches Harry Watson, Buffalo: John Crawford, Providence; Jack Gordon. Cleveland; Roly McLenahan. Rochester, and Cai Gardner, Springfield. &#9632;

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AHL Coaches Return Five To All-Stardom

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0178/1622912-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0277/1622905-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="319"></div>VOLUME II MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 1958 No. 35 &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01195/1622943-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVOL. II&mdash;No. 28 Entered as Second Class Matter Post Office, Rouses Point. N.Y. MONTREAL, APRIL 19, 1958 PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS<h2>Sixty-Third Battle For Battered Mug</h2>plus a well Boivin to carry the defense, if will be up to Schmidt to find a little more goat scoring power. If he can do that he might cause an upset. Where he will get the extra power remains a mystery. He has Earl Reibel, drafted from Chicago and Guy Gendron from Rangers. Neither are great scorers. In fact Gendron is a penalty killer and Reibel was used solely on the power play in Chicago. Schmidt also has speedy Dan Poliziani from Cleveland and Gord Redahl from Winnipeg to aid him. However, it&rsquo;s doubtful Milt expects to get the. added power from them. If he is going to get it all, it must come from Leo Labine, who had such a miserable goal scoring season. in 1 957-58. If Leo can net 25 or 30 goals and the remainder of the club score at last year&rsquo;s pace then watch out!The Detroit Rod Wings still have Gordie Howe, Red Kelly and Terry Sawchuk. And as long as they have that trio they must be considered a threat. If not to first place, then at least to third. But the Wings depend on Howe. If he fails then the Wings" fail. Unless they get a great year from Alex Delvecchio, Norm Ullman. Jack McTntyre, Nick Mick-oski and Forbes Kennedy, they can&rsquo;t expect to challenge the Habs. Besides the Wings lost Al Arbour in the draft to the Hawks. Already weak on the blueline, the club had to pick up veteran Gus Mortson to fill the gap back there. Jack Adams and company are hoping for big things from Dune Fisher, picked up from Hershey and a couple of farm hands from Edmonton to give them a boost. If Prono-vost can come up with another great year and Kelly can make a comeback and if Howe gets his 35 and Delvecchio has a good year then Sid Ab-M can at least count on a playoff berth.The New York Rangers got picked apart in the draft. Despite what Messrs Watson and Patrick say, no club that finished second can afford to lose four regulars and expect to improve. It will take more than one year for the Blues to mould into a challenger.The question an old one at that of who is in goal? is still very much alive around Gothem. The Rangers training at Niagara Falls, Ontario will not divulge their plans for goal. The fact they left Gump Worsley off the protected list would lead one to believe they don&rsquo;t care for his services. Yet Gump himself says he&rsquo;ll be there when the season opens.However, goaling. despite what Watson says, has never been a Ranger problem. He got more than adequate service from both Paille and Worslev last season. His defense was fair and he got good mileage from most of his forwards. But they&rsquo;re a small club physically and a bunch of little guvs can&rsquo;t stand up to a bunch of big guys for 70 games and not expect to feel It. The Rangers petered out at the tail end of the season. Perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps not.At any rate, the experts can&rsquo;t see the Rangers in a challenging position this season. They have too many spots to fill with players with little or no experience. If Worsley or Paille stand up and if Gadsby and Howell have another great year and Fontinato continues to improve then Watson will have a fairly good defensive club. He must then start looking around for those goals that Creighton. Lew-icki and Gendron gave him last season. If he gets them from Shack. Ingarfield and Bartlett then he might finish better than fourth.The Chicago Black Hawks, fifth place finishers Last season, Plight be th? dark horse club. They have the best goaler in the league, according to the experts, and with the" acquisition of St. Laurent from Canadieus and Arbour from the Wings, they now have the second best defense in the league. But goal scoring is Rudy Pilons&rsquo; problem. The Hawks lost more games by one goal last season than they care to remember. The addition Of Howie Glover from Winnipeg might help, likewise Sloan from Toronto. If Tod can have a good year and if Litzen-berger and Nesterenko &rsquo; come through and Lindsay gets a few more than last season, then Rudy might upset the dope.The Toronto Mapie Leafs, with, as Stafford Smythe calls them, their college kids, ready to hustle, have a defense problem. and no one can see them improving until they get some strength back there. Certainly the addition of Steve Kraftcheck will help, but he alone is not going to do it. Billy Reay expects to use Ron Stewart up front, this season. Thus he has Bower and Chadwick alternating in goal and Reaume. Kraftcheck. Baun. McNeil. Morrison and Horton in front of them. Certainly not enough experience to keep the likes of Howe. Richard. Moore, and Mackell from the door.Up front the Leafs will be hoping for some defensive aid from Bert Olmstead, drafted from the Canadiens. But Olmstead has another problem at the moment and it will be a tew days before they will know&rsquo; if he will he okay to play this season. The Leafs must have remembered that Bert is one of the few&rsquo; players able to hold Howe in line and Howe has a field day against the Leafs every season. Likewise they will sent Bert out against former teammate Maurice Richard and exlinemate Boom Boom Geoffrion. So the key man on the Leafs this season is Bert Olmstead. Rear is hoping for big seasons from Willie Marshall, from Hershey and great seasons from pick Duff, the Cullens and Stewart. If he gets them and Olmstead stops the opposition then&mdash;well then, who knows?So, that&rsquo;s what they&rsquo;re saying about the forthcoming season.ing agreement with the rink owners.Leafs will be send eight or nine first class players to Chicoutimi and Sagueneens&rsquo; ranks will be filled by the best of last year&rsquo;s clew as hold-overs with the infiltration of junior talent of class. said to plentiful in the Saguenay-Lake St. John area.Good Hockey ManNothing&rsquo; is settled about a coach, though its possible that Hebert always a successful operator, might take over this chore himself in addition to running the Chicoutimi Colisee, his dual assignment for the four or five years of his previous tenure. It was in the Hebert regime that the Sagueneens won their only QHL championship in the 1952-53 season.Murdoch has been associated with the Chicoutimi club for the past seven years, and in his home town is regarded as a man wealthy enough to take to hockey as a hobby, as other monied men embrace horse-racing or yachting.Show On The RoadHebert hopes to take the show on the road, He has asked the league executive&rsquo;s permission to schedule four of the Sagueueens&rsquo; home games in Other cities in the district. notably Port Allred and Jon quiere. Both towns are reported to have adequate rinks and hold great enthusiasm for hockey.In league councils it is also indicated that the Toronto and Boston NHL clubs will play exhibition games against one another in the three cities of the QHL other than Montreal.Suspension of the Shawini-gan Cataracts, now impliment-ed a second time, was a surprise and a shock in view of the great efforts put on by local hockey zealots. A season ticket subscription plan was going in high gear. One report was that 780 tickets on the ful season basis had been underwritten.This was denied by Shawi-nigan hockey executives who declared at the league meeting that less than 400 tickets had been pledged.Behind the promotion was Shawinigan Mayor J. A Poucher. Bernard Tremblay was president of the ticket drive, associated by Dr. L. P. Janelie, mayor of nearby St. Boniface Que., Gilles Trudel, president of the Optimist Club of Shawinigan, and representatives of 30 more service clubs and public spirited organizations.A Shawinigan report said that Fred-Shero, who coached the Cataracts to a title last season, had accepted a position as junior coach in Saska toon. &#9632;

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Bs Success To Spark More June Drafting

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;The great success of the Boston Bruins draftees both during the regular season and in the playoffs will lead to more drafting by Other NHL clubs at the league&rsquo;s annual meeting early in June.Clubs who heretofore looked upon both the inter-league and intra-league draft as a &lsquo;get rich quick&rsquo; proposition that seldom paid off have now had a change of heart and record drafting by big league&rsquo; clubs can be expected when the names come up for grabs.The Bruins are the one club in the league who have made both drafts pay off. In fact had it not been for the wise planning of general manager Lynn Patrick and his fellow worker&rsquo;s it&rsquo;s doubtful that the Bruins would be in the battle for Stanley Cup honors right now. Both Bronco Horvath (31 goals) and Larry Regan came to the Hub via the draft. Another performer, Norm Johnson also drafted last season has been showing well in the playoffs.Patrick is the first to admit that the draft has been his savior.&ldquo;The last player we got from our farm system was Don McKenney. We&rsquo;ve had to depend on the draft until the system started to produce again.&rdquo; says Lynn.Other clubs, namely the Toronto Maple Leal&rsquo;s and possibly the Detroit Red Wings are in the same position. The Leafs until now have always steerd well away from drafting players, prefering to rely on their farm system to fulfil their needs. But there have been indications that they will discard their &lsquo;lets grow &rsquo;em&rsquo; policy come June, in favor of picking them up ready made.Bruins first, success in drafting came with Larry Regan. Larry-had retired from the game to go into business in Ottawa. After a year on the sidelines he returned to play with the Quebec Aces. Spotted by Milt Schmidt and Patrick they decided to draft him for a spin with the Bruins.Larry immediately paid off, won the Calder Trophy and proved that a player in his late 20s can get started just as well as one in his early 20s&rsquo;. At one stage in his career Regan belonged to the Toronto Maple Leafs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02129/1622981-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="256" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Johnson</figcaption></div><h2>Picked Right</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0355/1622974-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="467" height="813"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>Off-season planning by Pa trick, Schmidt and scout Baldy Cotton paid off this season. Patrick dispatched Cotton to fol low the Brandon club of the WHL last April. He was told to keep an eye on Norm JohnsonCotton liked what he saw and advised Lynn to have a look. Patrick also was impressed and decided that if the Rangers, to whom Johnson belonged did not protect him they would pay the price and draft him.The Rangers neglected to pro tect Norm and Lynn grabbed him to the annoyance of brother Muzz and Phil Watson.&ldquo;We had planned to draft only three players. Horvath. Johnson and Larry Hillman-that is if they went unprotected, &ldquo;says Patrick. &ldquo;We picked Johnson first and Horvath second; when you look at them now it&rsquo;s hard to figure why we did.&ldquo;Both went unprotected. We knew that Rangers. Detroit and Montreal would not take Horvath because they had him at one time or another. Chicago had already picked up Hillman and we knew that the Leafs weren&rsquo;t going to draft. So we took Johnson first and then grabbed Horvath. We wanted Hillman but the Hawke got him and then when they tried to ship him to Buffalo we grabbed him. There were the three players we wanted, and we got them.&rdquo;The only other club who had big success with a drafted player last season was the champion Canadiens. They picked up Marcel Bonin from Boston. He had played with the Quebec Aces all season.But there is expected to be a rash of drafting in both sessions this time. Leafs have already said they will draft tor the first time and don&rsquo;t care what positions the players they get perform at.There are many outstanding players who could find their way into the NHL through the draft next season. Since a club can only protect 18 players from that draft, and generally a club carries at least 17 throughout the NHL season that must be protected, considerable juggling must be done to save a kid or two from being grabbed.Names who come to mind who might get an NHL chance next season are Bo Elik of the Cleveland Barons of the AHL as well as both Dune Fisher and Willie Marshall of the Hershey Bears. Ail three were high in scoring with both Fisher and Marshall having NHL shots at one time, or another.The reserve list of each National Hockey League club carries up to 31 players during the season. However, of the 31 18 are placed on the protected list prior to the drafting by member clubs. The remaining players are eligible for draft by National League teams..Such was the case of Hillman, Johnson and Horvath. All three were on National League reserve lists but were outside the limit of 18 players required to be protected from the league draft. &#9632;

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Leafs, Hawks, Wings Expected To Make Use Of Right

<div class="byline">By DINK CARROLL</div>Montreal GazetieMONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The largest audience ever to see a Stanley Cup final series is watching the one now in progress. It&rsquo;s estimated as being in he millions.The answer, of course, is elevision. A year ago live Television in Canada was fairy well restricted to Quebec and Ontario, but now the coaxial cable stretches from Halifax to Calgary and it won&rsquo;t be long before it-eaches Vancouver. The radio broadcast goes over a national hookup, so every hockey fan in the country has a chance to watch or listen to the big series.We don&rsquo;t know why the CBC decided to telecast the entire series. It may have teen pressure from owners of TV-sets, or it may be that he corporation found it convenient to clear the lines and made the decision itself. One hockey executive we talked with suggested that it may rave been an end result of he action of a big U.S. network in telecasting an NHL tame on Saturday afternoons luring the regular schedule,&ldquo;I know those telecasts from United States cities had in effect on the telecasts up here,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They caused the CBC to add an extra camera and go after the type of entertainment in between periods.&rdquo;,Kids Quit Too EarlyBe that as it may, it&rsquo;s the notion here that televising the series will give hockey in Canada a real shot in the arm, especially in the Prairie Provinces and in the Maritimes. The telecasts manage to convey much of the atmosphere and glamor of hockey as played in the NHL, and we think it will make youngsters want to play the game and adults want to watch it from the rinkside.Every now and then you hear one of the more pessimistic followers of the sport ask where the hockey players of tomorrow are coming from. He will point out to you that there are only six teams in the Nationa1 Hockey League and yet the league finds difficulty in staffing them with competent players.We don&rsquo;t know the answer to that question, either. We hear that the kids are finding curling and skiing more attractive than hockey as participant sports. That may be true in some sections of the country, but certainly not in all.For every pessimistic tan you meet an optimistic one The latter will tell you that there are more kids playing hockey in Canady now than ever before.You repeat this to scouts like Harold Cotton, of the Boston Bruins, or Johnny Mitchell, of the Detroit Red Wings. They make a living by digging up prospects for their respective clubs.&ldquo;That may be true,&rdquo; says Harold Cotton, &ldquo;but from our point of view they quit playing at the wrong time. A boy who wants to have an NHL career should start concentrating on the game when he&rsquo;s 14 or 15, but it seems that a great many of them quit around that age.&rdquo;<h2>Kid Problem</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01276/1621535-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="523" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harold Cotton</figcaption></div>Cowley, McCool Choose 3 Stars in Hab-Bruin OpenersMONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The parade of hockey personalities that appeared on the CBC network during intermissions in rhe NHL playoffs was probably the greatest, in history. Among those on were Art Ross, Hit Clapper, Bill Cowley, King Clancy, Ken Reardon, Jack Adams, Elmer Lach. Tommy Ivan, Muzz Patrick, Lynn Patrick, Newsy Lalonde and Frank McCool.Both Cowley and McCool were asked to pick the three stars in the first two games of the finals in Montreal.McCool, now a newspaperman in Calgary and formerly with the Toronto Leafs as a goaler, chose Jacques Plante, Don Simmons and Doug Harvey as his top three in the opening game.Cowley chose Don Simmons, Larry Regan and Doug Harvey in the second game.Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; general manager, was looking far ahead when he went over to Oslo in February to watch the so-called world championship hockey tournament.&ldquo;I saw a number of players who could play in the NHL,&rdquo; he said on his return. &ldquo;There were three or four on the Russian team I&rsquo;d have been glad to sign for the Bruins. The calibre of hockey is improving so rapidly in Europe that every team in the NHL will soon have to send scouts to the world tournament.&rdquo;<h2>Hunts In Sticks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02260/1621528-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="520" height="819"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Mitchell</figcaption></div>Lynn was admitting right there that there is a paucity of good young &rsquo;players in this country and that it won&rsquo;t be long before European players will be included in the lineups of NHL clubs.Need U. S. PlayersFor years it was the hope of club owners in United States cities in the NHL that they could come up with native-born players.There have been a few, but not many. Art Ross had a number of them in Boston. He&rsquo; had a pretty good one in George Owen, a great all-around athlete at Harvard, but George retired early to go into the investment banking business. Another college athlete with the Bruins was Myles Lane, who abandoned hockey to practice law.Then there was Eddie Jeremiah, who was also developed around Boston. We had some correspondence with him some years ago and discovered that he was coaching hockey at Dartmouth.There, were a few from Minnesota who landed in the NHL. Two of them, Frankie (Mr. Zero) Brimsek and Mike Karakas, were goalkeepers. Art Ross still picks Brimsek as his all-time netminder.The others from the Swede Belt were Johnny Mariucci and Doc Romnes. The latter was a centre while Mariucci, a husky defenseman, was also a good football player. Karakas, Mariucci and Romnes were all with the Chicago Black Hawks.There is a new and growing interest in hockey in the United States as a result of those Saturday afternoon telecasts mentioned earlier. Whether it will produce hockey players a few years from now of NHL calibre remains to be seen, but they would certainly be welcome.Ross Interviewed On TV, But Left Immediately FollowingBOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Television viewers, watching the final game of the semi-final series between the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers were treated to an interview between Tom Foley and Art Ross, former general manager of the Bruins. It was one of Ross&rsquo; very rare appearances on TV since his retirement. &rsquo;Ross consented to appear on the show after general manager Lynn Patrick called and told him it would not only be great for the game but also would give his many friends across Canada a chance to see him again.Ross agreed to go on when Patrick promised that he would have former Boston great Dit Clapper on with &ldquo;him.However, Ross didn&rsquo;t stay around too long. Immediately after bis TV appearance he left the Gardens and returned home where he watched the remainder of the game on TV. &#9632;

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TV Swells Onlookers To Series Greatest

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins&mdash;New York Rangers playoff rivalry has regained all of its pre-World War II enthusiasm.That&rsquo;s the consensus in the wake of the first playoff series between the neighbors in 18 years, or since 19 40.Matching the pre-war tempo seemed a difficult assignment in advance, but the Bruins and Rangers carried it out satisfactorily, especially from a Bruins&rsquo; point of view.The six-game series in which, the Bruins won four games to two for New York had a full quota of tension, action, charges and countercharges, heroes and villians. Audiences numbered capacity thousands, with unseen audiences of millions following developments through newspaper, radio and television mediums.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good thing for hockey to have these two old rivals playing again,&rdquo; declared General John Reed Kilpatrick, president of the Rangers. The general&rsquo;s sentiments were seconded by Walter Brown, president of the Bruins.Lynn Patrick, a pre-war participant as a New York player and a post-war figure as Bruins&rsquo; manager, thought the renewal of the playoff rivalry a worthy one.Patrick thought the second game in New York, won by the Bruins on Jerry Toppazzini&rsquo;s overtime goal, the most spectacular of the-six.&ldquo;That game was a spectator&rsquo;s delight, both teams playing very well,&rdquo; he said.Another consensus thought here was that the decision of Phil Watson, New York coach, to have his team try to match the Bruins bump for bump, was a factor which had a strong influence on the outcome of the series. Bumping was the Bruins&rsquo; game, not the Rangers&rsquo;.One of the sidelights of the series was the contrasting treatment of the big press delegation by the opposing coaches. Milt Schmidt of the Bruins permitted visitors in his dressing room before and after practice and games and extended the same over-all cooperation to the press which has put him in a class by himself.Big New York ContingentWatson chose to bar all writers from contact with the Rangers except New York writers. At interview times he would say. &ldquo;New York press follow me. All others keep out.&rdquo;.The New York contingent, easily the most enthusiastic to represent the city in years, responded thoroughly&rsquo; to the Watson touch with a steady supply of lively partisan stories.The Rangers&rsquo; press corps was composed of Paul Durkin of, the Newark Star Ledger, Mel Woody of the Newark News, Jim Burchard of the New York World Telegram-Sun, Len Shechter of the New York Daily News, Bill Seward of the New York HeraldTribune and Joe Nichols of the New York Times.<h2>Opened The Door</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03235/1621573-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="577" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div><h2>Closed The Door</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04182/1621566-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="579" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Watson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hub-Blues Hate In Semis To Be Toted Into ’58-59 Season

Doug Mohns<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05139/1621604-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="259" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Mohns</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Doug Mohns set a bevy or new Stanley Cup playoff scoring records for defensemen in the series between the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers.The 24-year old Bruin set a new league record for points by a detenseman with it, on three goals and eight assists. The old record of 10 points was set by Wally Stanowski of Toronto in 13 games against New York and Detroit in 1942.Mohns broke the Bruins&rsquo; points record of nine, set by Flash Hollett in nine games in 1943 and his three goals tied the club record set by Pat Egan in 10 games in 1946.Don McKenney. Bruins&rsquo; left wing, also tied a. league record with his five assists in the last game of the six-game series with New York. He shares the &rsquo; record with Toe Blake, Maurice Richard and Bert Olmstead of Montreal.The Bruins and New York combined for a new league record for penalties in a series, &rsquo;their total of 78 (39 each)wiping out the old record of 61, set. by the Bruins and Toronto in 1951.Other Bruins contributed to a rewriting of club records in the process of taking the series with New York by four wins to two.Fleming Mackall&rsquo;s 14 points on four goals, and 10 assists tied Bill Cowley&rsquo;s record made in 12 games in 1939. Jerry Toppazzini&rsquo;s eight goals tied the record set by Eddie Sandford in 11 games in 1953.The Bruins&rsquo; total of 28 goals broke the series record of 22 set. in seven games in 1945 and the eight-goal splurge in the last game of the series broke the old one-game record of six goals, set in 1927 against Chicago and tied in 1953 against Detroit. &#9632;

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Bruins Riddled Record Book In Rangers Six Games Series

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01275/1621635-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Elmer Lach, left checks his blades before donning them for all important game against Bruins. Billy Reay, right looks on. Lach them went out and scored winning goal in overtime.</figcaption></div>(Toronto Star)TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Canadiens to win in five games. Furthermore, they&rsquo;ll score 16 goals. No, the race isn&rsquo;t rigged. And you don&rsquo;t need a crystal ball. It just happens to work out that way if you call them according to form. And you know what happens to form players&rsquo;: Often as not they go home in a barrel. But you can&rsquo;t blame them for persisting&mdash;especially when you know that Habs versus Bruins in the Stanley Cup shufbles have been the chalk players&rsquo; picnic for the past dozen years.They tell you anything can happen in a hockey game. It&rsquo;s one of the oldest cliches in sport. Maybe anything can happen in a hockey game&mdash;but it doesn&rsquo;t happen in a Stanley Cup series when Habs are haggling with Bruins over the long end of the foot. They skate almost according to script and the good guys (Montreal version) always win. The frustration which the Dodgers used to suffer in their world series safaris with their neighbors from the Bronx is nothing compared to the failures of the Bruins in their battles with the Habs.Habs Have Been ConsistantThey&rsquo;ve met seven times since (and including) the spring of 1946. The Bostons still haven&rsquo;t won a pot. They came close in the cup semifinal of 1951-52. That year they had a chance to wrap it up in six games on Hab ice. Paul Masnick, now with Leafs, but then a Canadiens&rsquo; third-stringer, potted the winning goal at 7.49 in the second period of overtime. That squared the set and sent the teams back to Montreal where Habs won. It didn&rsquo;t do them much good in the long run. Detroit Red Wings, who bad more legs then than they have now, cake-walked in the final round.<h2>Big Goal Came This Night</h2>The fantastic part of Canadiens&rsquo; consistency over Bruins is not so much that they have won&mdash;but how they have won. In five of the seven Stanley Cup circuses involving the teams since 1946, Montreal has taken four games to one. Once the Habs took four in a row. And in four of the seven series, Montreal&rsquo;s total has been 16 e-oals For sake of variety. Les Habs fired only 15 goals a year ago when they routed the bean boys by the usual count of four games to one.Form Players Get RichHere are the Stanley Cup past-performance charts on Bruins-Habs for the last 12 years. They&rsquo;re a form bettors&rsquo; delight. Race-horses which ran as consistently as Canadiens have run in their heats with the Bruins would have broken the tracks by causing minus pools:1956-57: Canadians, four games. to one. Bruins&rsquo; lone win was a 2-0 decision at home. Habs had a total of 15 goals in the five games; Bruins scored six.1954-55: Canadiens took the series, four, games to one. Canadiens fired 16 goals; Bruins finished with nine.1953-54: This was strictly no contest. The Habs won four in a row. Canadiens scored the usual 16; Boston managed four.1952-53: Here we go again&mdash;four games for Canadiens; one for Boston. Sixteen goals for Canadiens; seven for Bruins. Elmer (The Elegant) Lach settled this series with the deciding goal at 122 of the first overtime period.1951-52: The Hub&rsquo;s greatest hour. Bruins carried Habs right down to the wire. Canadiens, four games; Bruins, three. Canadiens, 18 goals; Boston. 12.1946-47: Guess what? Canadiens, four games; Bruins, one. Canadiens got the regular quota of 16 goals, and Bruins settled for 10.1945-46: Canadiens won by the usual four games to one, but three of the tussles went into overtime, with Bruins taking one. Habs blasted 19 goals in that series Bruins did some sharpshooting, too, with 13.The tipoft on the Hub&rsquo;s hopes could be the performance of the new firing squad of Jerry Toppazzini, Fleming Mackell and Don McKenney which Mill Schmidt welded for Bruins. This threesome practically decimated Rangers in the first round. If the line continues hot, it will be a good sign, because Canadiens have a way of cooling out Bruins&rsquo; best when the bonus money is up for grabs. And the Habs seem to be in a hurry, judging by what they did to the Wings. &#9632;

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7 Meetings 7 Victories For Canucks 1951-52 Was Hubs’ Finest; Went7 Games

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02229/1621666-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Masnick</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins have gone collegiate this spring in their preparation for the Montreal portion of their Stanley Cup playoff series with the Montreal Canadiens.Instead of staying at their customary Montreal hostelry the Bruins choose to hibernate at the Alpine Inn, located in the ski resort town of Ste. Marguerite in the Laurentian Mountains.They commuted from the Montreal Forum by bus for the first two games of the series there, in the fashion of college football teams, which frequently go into seclusion before big games.The idea for the mountain retreat was Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s, the Bruins&rsquo; manager explaining. &ldquo;Any change over our past play-off games in Montreal is bound to be for the better. It can&rsquo;t hurt us and it may help. We don&rsquo;t want those ticket hunters round.&rdquo;<h2>Netted An Important One &#9632;</h2>

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Bruins Hide In Laurentians To Skip The Ticket Hunters

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;A dab of psychology as applied by Coach Milt Schmidt of the Bruins has proved to be a playoff lifesaver for one of the season&rsquo;s most outstanding lines.The line is that of Bronco Horvath. Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk, which scored 7 2 goals for the Bruins during the regular season.Bronco and his Busters ran into a snag once the playoffs started, however, in the form of a checking line assembled for the purpose by Phil Watson, coach of the New York Rangers.Watson assembled a unit of Hank Ciesla Andy&rsquo; Hebenton and either Guy Gendron or Dean Prentice and assigned it to shadow Horvath, Bucyk and Stasiuk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03152/1621697-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="256" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div>The snapshooting Horvath scored a goal in the second period of the first game, but with that exception Watson&rsquo;s ice detectives proved most successful. Everywhere the three Bruins went they had company.Finally after four games Schmidt stepped in. He talked the situation over with the three sidekicks, discussed possible tactical antidotes, expressed his confidence in their ability to shake the persistent checks.Early in the fifth game the Bruins were working hard on a one-goal lead when a New York player drew a penalty. Schmidt looked down his bench and waved out Horvath, Bucyk and Stasiuk. the line which had carried his team for most of the season.Twenty-eight seconds later Horvath lifted his own rebound over Gump Worsley and into the New York net and the line was out of its slump.&ldquo;Gosh, I didn&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;d ever break out.&rdquo; exclaimed Horvath afterward. &ldquo;We Were all worrying and getting no place&ldquo;When Milt put us on when that penalty came up I guess the three of ns felt the same way, that was our chance and that we had to make good on it.&rdquo;The attention which the Rangers paid to Bronco and his Busters during the six games was close, and the three showed the effects afterward. Horvath was hospitalized with a moderate concussion and lacerated scalp after being slashed by New York&rsquo;s Jack Evans but he played afterward with a gold helmet Bucyk sustained a 12-stitch cut over his eye and Stasiuk, the favorite New York target after his check broke George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan&rsquo;s jaw in the first game, acquired a couple of new bruises. &#9632;

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Milt’s Psychology Breaks Slump For Ukes; Short Chat And A Goal

<div class="byline">By GEORGE DULMAGE</div>Toronto TelegramTORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Anybody approved by the CAHA may take a hockey team to Europe for the world championships. Approval means sound management and adequate financial backing. Plus enough ability to win or at least make a good showing.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07108/1621794-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="272" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Dudley</figcaption></div>The Olympic year is something else again. The team may be sponsored but the sponsor won&rsquo;t get a nickel&rsquo;s worth of advertising out of it because, at the Olympics, it is Canada&rsquo;s team. Any team won&rsquo;t do. The Olympic team must be amateur. Amateur in the sense that it has no reinstated professionals manning it.When the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen made their ill-fated trip to Cortina in &rsquo;56 they were not a company-sponsored team. They were referred to in the Canadian prints as the Dutchmen; in the rest of the world as the Canadians. Since no company is likely to put up the kind of cash necessary to finance such a team and not get any advertising, then this Olympic team will have to be financed some other way.Dunlops Cost $100,000We have no knowledge what it cost to send the Dunlops to Oslo recently, but $100,000 would not be out of line in putting that team together, paying salaries, traveling expenses, uniforms. etc. Some of it comes back, of course, via the gate. There was a good liason between the Dunlop company and the team in regards to work and pay for players. None of which holds good for an Olympic team.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, in the Olympic year, has always paid the freight for the overseas expenses of the team&mdash;in the case of Kitchener about $17,000. But the Dutchies played OHA hockey until just before the tournament, were not gone very long, and played OHA hockey when they came back.George Dudley, the CAHA secretary-manager, doesn&rsquo;t think a similar proposition would be successful and he knows that Canada wants nothing but success.&ldquo;I would like to go with my idea of two years ago.&rdquo; Dudley said recently. &ldquo;It would mean an expenditure of possibly $80.000&rdquo; (we think this is too low). That idea was to gather an allstar team, getting the players from the top senior clubs in the province. &ldquo;If we could get the Allan Cup team of the previous year as a nucleus that would be even better, but we&rsquo;d have to pry the best players loose from other clubs,&rdquo; he says.Dudley, too, thinks that when this team is picked and moulded. it should not play any but European rules. Since the CAHA is in charge of the team it would see to it that this type of play prevails.When Dudley flew a trial balloon on the all-star team after the Kitcheners lost at Cortina, the whole deal fell with a dull thud. Nobody wanted any part of putting up $75,000. No team went to Moscow that year. Canada&rsquo;s prestige fell in the hockey marts of Europe and it took the Whitby team to restore it.Dudley, by the way, is a Progressive Conservative of fairly deep hue; in fact the man took to the hustings in the Midland area where he lives, in the recent election. &ldquo;I brought the Olympic team matter of financing to the attention of Finance Minister Donald Fleming at one meeting and I&rsquo;m not letting it go,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Our people (the CAHA) are going to keep working on the government to put some money into our next team.&rdquo;Money Big ProblemGeorge has another interest. He&rsquo;ll be in charge of the Olympic hockey tournament at Squaw Valley, Calif. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;d like Canada to have its finest team there. We can&rsquo;t afford another Cortina.&rdquo;Dudley also feels that if the money is forthcoming the main problem will be solved. &ldquo;Once you&rsquo;ve got the dough you can always get the team.&rdquo; is his philosophy.The original Dudley idea was to invite the top amateur players of Canada to a tryout camp and there, under the scrutiny of the best coaches available (Hap Day, Joe Primeau were mentioned, among others) pick the team. Exhibition games would prove its worth and where it needed strengthening it would be strengthened a process which Wren Blair was able to conduct with the Whitby Dunlops, but which would be more difficult for any Olympic manager. Blair&rsquo;s replacements were professionals.If this idea of Dudley&rsquo;s goes through, there are three things required thereafter (a) a management team consisting of coaches and manager which works in complete harmony, (b) a team that realizes what it is playing for and why&mdash;in short with a national fervor, and (c) the complete dedication of all hands to the job at hand.This is not exactly your correspondent&rsquo;s idea of making hockey enjoyable for anyone but the spectators, but is the only way Canada can hope to win in the face of fierce desire of the Russians, the Czechs and the Swedes to grab that title. And the U.S., still smarting over its 1958 team which wasn&rsquo;t comparable to a good intermediate team before, during or after Oslo, has already named Jack Riley, an old pro, as Che coach of its Olympic team. Remember what they did to the Canadians at Cortina?. &#9632;

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Our Olympic Reps Will Have To Be All Out Amateurs

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0894/1621832-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg"></div>Toronto StarThe Price Of Ignoring Wise CounselDoug Harvey is the kind of misfortune that can befall A hockey man who disregads the well-intended advice of his pals. Mr. Frank Selke. who is a devout and thoughtful little citizen of Montreal, must feel that way when he&rsquo;s using the sleeve of his jacket to wipe a fleck of dust off Lord Stanley&rsquo;s cup. Selke&rsquo;s meditations might go something like this: &ldquo;My enemies are few and I&rsquo;ll handle them by myself but thanks be to heaven for protection from my friends.&rdquo;One of Selke&rsquo;s buddies once told him: &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll never have team spirit until you get rid of Harvey. I wouldn&rsquo;t have that guy around. All he ever thinks of is himself.&rdquo;At the time. Selke might even have suspected his adviser was right. Frank wasn&rsquo;t feeling too happy about Harvey either. In those days, it wasn&rsquo;t unusual to find Harvey in somebody&rsquo;s hair. He got there with less effort than he now appears to expend when he breaks up a rush in front of his net, heels the puck into position, lines up a winger who is barrelling along the rail and drops a feather-light pass on the blade of his stick.That&rsquo;s how Harvey operates&mdash;with, less drama than a cobbler displays in hammering home a heel. He never seems to be hurting himself with overwork&mdash;until you begin counting the mileage he runs up on the ice. Then he&rsquo;s revealed as a slave who seldom has the chains of the galley unlocked from his wrists. Strangely enough, the rap against Harvey used to be that Im never gave more than he had to give to keep his card in the time clock. That was the complaint against him on the occasion when Selke&rsquo;s associate urged him to throw the bum out.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0990/1621825-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="520" height="843"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey</figcaption></div>Harvey had failed to show for a benefit baseball game here between Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. Maybe that sounds trivial. It wasn&rsquo;t. Rocket Richard was so sore because the Habs took a drubbing that Selke announced publicly there be a bonus for the Rocket in his next shinny contract. The boss was impressed by Le Rocket&rsquo;s refusal to accept defeat placidly, even in an off-season baseball game. That made Harvey&rsquo;s seeming disinterest all the more painful.Day Offered A Modest DealFortunately. Selke always resisted the wave of resentment among his friends and his fans which was strongly in favor of sending Harvey to Baffin Bay or the North Pole. He contented himself with suggesting on several occasions that Tom Johnson was the most overlooked rearguard on the Montreal club. Harvey came in for faint praise&mdash;which probably was what he rated then. But there can he no question about the richness of the dividends which Canadiens have reaped because Selke stuck with his problem boy when &ldquo;stuck&rdquo; seemed like an appropriate word. Harvey has few detractors now. About the only arguments you hear about him concern his placing among the all-time greats of the blueline trade.In the opener he was strictly in character as he kingpinned Canadiens to their all-important opening game win of the gravy games with the Bruins. Whenever the Bostons appeared to be on the point of unravelling Jacques Plante, like one of his own hand-knitted undershirts, Harvey emerged from the melee with the puck.It was Hap Day who predicted, back in the days when he was riding the airlanes and the ratlers in search of talent for Leafs, that Harvey, then with Montreal Royals, had the makings of a big leaguer. Hap offered Gaye Stewart, an established major leaguer, as trade bait. If Habs had accepted&mdash;which they didn&rsquo;t&mdash;that would have been the biggest steal ever perpetrated in the tame of professional sport. Al] of which is no reflection on Stewart, who was a good player. Harvey just happens to be one of the all-time best.There&rsquo;s always the chance, of course, that Leafs wouldn&rsquo;t have kept him. They&rsquo;d have been under the same pressure to bail put as Selke suffered in Montreal. If Selke ever did waver in his decision to wait for Harvey to reach his potential, he&rsquo;s foolish if he admits it. He can answer any questions by asking one: &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s got Harvey&mdash;and who&rsquo;s got the Stanley Cup?&rdquo; &#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 19, 1958 No. 29<h2>Passing THE PUCK</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01343/1621763-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="374" height="437"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02308/1621756-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="769" height="154"></div>&bull; LARGEST AUDIENCE to ever see a Stanley Cup final is watching the one now in progress. Television is the answer and it&rsquo;s estimated that millions will view this year&rsquo;s finals&hellip; Larry Regan&rsquo;s goat in the Bruins 5-2 win in the second game was a pretty a goal as you&rsquo;ll ever see&hellip; He stickhandled around three Montreal players and placed a perfect shot in the lower left-hand corner between Plante&rsquo;s pads and the goal post&hellip; Regan is one of the finest stickhandler s in the game right now&hellip; After a so-so season he has played brilliantly in the playoffs&hellip; Spirit in the Boston camp is as high as the birds in the sky&hellip; Milt Schmidt was lavish in his praise of Goalie Simmons after the first two games&hellip; Simmons was the individual star of the two games played in Montreal&hellip; He made key stop after stop as the onrushing Canadiens&rsquo; forces raced around his goal&hellip; Boom Boom Geoffrion had more good scoring chances and made the most of the chances he had than any other Montreal forward thus far in the series&hellip; Toe Blake blasted his charges after their loss to the Bruins&hellip; &rsquo;&rsquo;Carelessness and stupid penalties for hooking and slashing cost us the game.&rdquo; Blake stated&hellip; &ldquo;We let them get their first goal after only 20 seconds of play. Plain sloppy work.&rdquo;&hellip; &ldquo;And then there was Jean-Guy Talbot running around until 6 p.m. looking for tickets for friends&hellip;&rdquo; The realistic Blake who is going after his third Stanley Cup is as many years summed it up pretty well when he said: &ldquo;If we can&rsquo;t win on Boston ice we don&rsquo;t deserve to win the Cup.&rdquo;&bull; IF DESIRE alone can win a series there is an abundance of hope for the Bruins&hellip; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen a group of players so eager to beat Canadiens,&rdquo; said Lynn Patrick&hellip; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s almost an obsession with them&rdquo;&hellip; Patrick picks Doug Mohns as Boston&rsquo;s No. One playoff player&hellip; &ldquo;I would pick him even ahead of Toppazzini in the New York series,&rdquo; he said&hellip; Norm Johnson, Boston&rsquo;s rookie forward, has been outstanding in each playoff game&hellip; Right at the moment he looks like the best rookie in the NHL but of course will not win the Calder Memorial Trophy as he was brought up too late in the season. He played 15 games during the regular schedule and will be eligible for the Calder Trophy next seasori&hellip; Most of the so-called experts picked Crinadiens to win the series in five games at most with many saying that they would capture it in four straight&hellip; Funny how one loss can change things?&hellip; Many of these same prognosticators are now favoring the Bruins&hellip; They figure that the Bruins will win the two games in Boston and then will be too far ahead to catch&hellip; Sportscaster Doug Smith has called the turn right on the first two games&hellip; Tom Johnson, Canadiens&rsquo; injured defenseman, isn&rsquo;t likely to play any more hockey this season&hellip; He has a banged-up knee and club doctors won t even let him skate&hellip; Frank McCool, former star goalkeeper of the Toronto Maple Leafs and now assistant publisher of the Calgary Albertan, was on hand for the first two games of the finals&hellip; Frank picked the three stars in the opening game and he selected Doug Harvey and the two goalies Plante and Simmons&hellip; McCool was the Calder Memorial Trophy winner in 1944-45 and racked up three straight shutouts against Detroit in the Cup finals of 1945&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03232/1621749-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="258" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bucyk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04179/1621742-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="264" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean-Guy Talbot</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05157/1621735-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="241" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Johnson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06129/1621728-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="262" height="364"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fleming Mockell</figcaption></div>&bull; BOSTON PLAYERS have been taking Vitamin A wheat germ throughout the playoffs and they notice it helps them a lot. Gives them more energy&hellip; Doug Mohns was the first to start taking Vitamin A after he returned to action from his broken jaw&hellip; Mohns had more pep than ever before and seemed 50 percent more fresh at the end of a game The other players noticed this, too, and so they&rsquo;ve all decided to use it&hellip; Johnny Bucyk hasn&rsquo;t played too well for the Bruins to date and Milt Schmidt may bench him in place of Buddy Boone if his play doesn&rsquo;t improve&hellip; Boone, the utility forward, has played well throughout the series&hellip; The line of Fleming Mackell, Jerry Toppazzini and Don McKenney is still the Bruins top trio&hellip; Jean Beliveau has been one of Canadiens&rsquo; few individual stars in the first two games&hellip; Plante amd Doug Harvey have been others&hellip; The Richard brothers haven&rsquo;t found themselves as yet in the finals and the Pocket Rocket may be rested more by Coach Blake&hellip; Bruins stayed at the Alpine Inn a Laurentians&rsquo; resort, about 60 miles from Montreal during their two games in Montreal&hellip; Flem Mackell tied the NHL record lor most assists in a playoff series when he garnered his 12th assist, the other night against Canadiens&hellip; Writers are covering the series from every NHL city, but New York&hellip; The two Ottawa sportswriters. Bill Westwick of the Journal and Jack Kinsella of the Citizen, are covering the entire finals&hellip; Managers noted in attendance were Jack Adams. Muzz Patrick and Tommy Ivan&hellip; Coach Hilly Reay and Scouts Jack Humphreys of New York, and Harold Cotton of Boston&hellip; Chicago minor officials worked the games in Montreal. They motored the 900 miles from the Windy City to Montreal.&bull; WHEN RED STOREY thumbed off 13 players in the first period of the opening game it fell two short of the record for most penalties in one period in a playoff game. The record is 15 and was set on April 1, 1951, between Boston and Toronto&hellip; Maurice Richard set a new record for most games in playoff competition. He played his 117th game last Thursday&hellip; Canadiens loss in the second game was their first in six playoff games this year&hellip; In the last three seasons in playoff play the Canadiens have an impressive record of 21 wins and five losses&hellip; Mackell with 16 points is just four shy of lying Gordie, Howe&rsquo;s mark if most points in a series. Howe racked up 20 points in 1954-55&hellip; Doug Mohns has been taking treatment on his ailing back each day while in Montreal&hellip; Toe Blake lias implied that he may make several changes in the NHL champions lineup if they don&rsquo;t start to play a little better&hellip; He may bring up a player or two and he has signified that left wing is a position where a change or two may come about.Gordie Drillon. the former Toronto and Montreal star was in Boston for the opening game there&hellip; Also nearly 250 Canadiens&rsquo; supporters came in on a special train&hellip; Lynn Patrick was ired by the fact that 250 Hab fans found tickets for the Boston game but ten limes as many Bostonians had to be turned away&hellip; He has no control over Garden tickets&hellip; Maurice Richard and his wife will holiday in British West Indies when the series is over&hellip; The Boh Turners will drive to Florida for their holiday&hellip; Billy Reay watched the two Montreal games along with Frank Mahovlich and Barry Cullen&hellip; The most frustrated man in Montreal during the opening Boston game was Jockey Fleming. The Bruins hid in the Laurentian Mountains rather than risk their lives against the ducat hunters. Screamed jockey: &ldquo;This is the worst in my 40 years hustling. They&rsquo;re up in the mountains with my tickets!&rdquo;&hellip; General Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins has promised his players a breakup party in Montreal if they win the cup. Even if they take it. in Boston he will ride them to Montreal for their going home party. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By RED FISHER.</div>Montreal StarMONTREAL, Que,&mdash;Ask the man in the hotel lobby and he will tell you there is nothing like sentiment in the cockpit of professionalism. The hockey players who are in this city straining for the almighty dollar know what is expected of them, accept it, and if they produce, they&rsquo;re secure in the knowledge that the rewards are there at the end of the series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01296/1621870-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="253" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption></div>Perhaps it&rsquo;s true that sentiment is a nebulous thing, but there will be no greater decision made in this series, and with as much regret as the one made before the third game by the coach of the Montreal Canadiens. He benched Bert Olmstead to allow for the insertion of a grim-faced kid named Ab McDonald, and while Blake shrugged off sentiment when he decided on the move it was made with deep sorrow, like a father taking away a favorite toy from his charge.Admits Knee Is SoreBlake talked to Bert on the train carrying the team to Boston on Saturday night.&ldquo;You know what I think of you,&rdquo; Blake said to the left-winger, &ldquo;but tell me, are you 100 percent?&rdquo;What Blake had in mind, of course, was the knee that has been bothering Olmstead since the start of action last Fall. And his reply to the coach was: &ldquo;You know the way it is. It&rsquo;s not in the best of health, but if I play, you know I&rsquo;ll be doing the best I can.&rdquo;Blake didn&rsquo;t have to be told this by a player with Olmstead&rsquo;s talent and courage. For years, he was the musclepower that set up the great scorers on this club&mdash;the Richards and Geoffrions and Beliveaus. He did it with no lust for personal glory. It was a job to do. and he did it with a grin and delightful talent.Few hockey players managed to beat hint, but now. especially in view of Blake&rsquo;s latest move, It could be that his days are numbered, though the feeling here is that there&rsquo;s still enough left in him for another season in the National Hockey League. His knee, however, is a tricky, painful thing, a betrayer to his body and something that makes even the simple proposition of moving along a puck with his skate a painfull, cheerless challenge.Blake Wants Him Back&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see him back,&rdquo; Blake was saying after his&rsquo; club&rsquo;s 3-0 win. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s given so much to me and the club, it&rsquo;s only right that he be given another chance.&rdquo;Which is all right to his many admirers. So many hockey players concentrate solely on shooting for the stars, Olmstead, has had the warming faculty of making them.Men who had been jiggling With glee only a few days ago in Montreal walked with long and solemn faces in the Boston Bru ins&rsquo; dressing room. This was after Canadiens&rsquo; assassination of the Bruins, and for no good reason whatever, somebody in the room mentioned that 93 years ago on this same night President Abe Lincoln also was assassinated under more tragic circumstances.<h2>Steps In</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02268/1621863-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="542" height="1121"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ab McDonald</figcaption></div>But there was no room for jocular comments in this room, and perhaps the least enthused was general-manager Lynn Patrick who advanced the view that the Boston team had been slowed in its skating by the poor condition of the ice.&ldquo;We had an ice show this afternoon.&rdquo; he explained to visiting friends with faces longer than that of the general-manager&rsquo;s. &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s what slowed us up. The condition of the ice was poor.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Toe Asks, Bert Tells Him His Knee Isn’t 100%

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><h2>Topper Danced All Night</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04158/1621932-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="760" height="1123"><figcaption class="caption-body">Zellio Toppazzini scored the goal that turned the tide in favor of the Bruins. Above he dances through the Rangers&rsquo; defense while an adequate Gump looks on.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;Why did the second place Rangers bow to the fourth place Bruins in the playoffs?How come the Beantowners outscored and outhit their first division foes and eventually outskated the New Yorkers.These are some of the questions bothering citizens of Rangerville who will have five months to ponder them until the next ice surface is laid in the Fall.Strictly as a second guess and food for thought here are the reasons:The Bruins were the better hockey club over the six game Cup stretch. Not luckier but superior. The 28-16 scoring edge is proof of that. And they bad the home ice advantage.They were a better hockey club because a number of Blueshirts were not producing up to their potential, for one reason or another.And one reason&mdash;a very important one, at that&mdash;that killed New York was injuries. To Red Sullivan. Bill Gadsby, Lou Fontinato. and Jack Evans, all key men, the first three of which were irreplacable.Now you can take your pick about the cause of the injuries. That is, they were either accidents or the result of Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s admitted design to outhit and soften the Rangers. That better suits the big Bruins&rsquo; style of play. Sullivan&rsquo;s injury resulted from a collision with Vic Stasiuk. Gadsby fell prey to Leo LaBine, Evans to Fernie Flaman and Fontinato to any Bruins who contacted his sore hip.Couldn&rsquo;t Play Bruins&rsquo; Hitting GameThere were times when Rangers tried to play Boston at their own hitting game. Andy Hebenton for one was most effective with his stocky body. But he couldn&rsquo;t handle the gaff alone and players like Dean Prentice and Hank Ciesla couldn&rsquo;t turn the tide. Once the defensemen became immobilized the sock bad gone from the Rangers.The Bruins softening up process helped stifle high-scoring Camille Henry (Buddy Boone as his watchful wing), Larry Popein (who had a bad series) and in one way or another the other classy but not beefy Blues.The Bruins were a better hockey club because they could win home games. And since they had a possible five home tilts to Rangers two it gave them a psychological lift. Of course, one might say that the Blues did very well on Boston ice this season. True enough, but not in the playoffs.Having to open the series with two games in New York was not the blessing for Phil Watson it appeared on piper. It meant, for all intents and purposes that Rangers had to sweep the duet if they were to survive. The pressure was on them and they showed it. A number of Blues admittedly were tight. By the time they got to Boston they were physically and eventually mentally spent. In the last two games it was easy for Boston to outskate their enemy.Gump Worsiey&rsquo;s goaltending as nothing more than adequate. Considering the wounded, Swiss-cheese defense in front of Gump he did as well as expected. In the key game&mdash;the second tilt at New York&mdash;the Gump stopped Larry Regan and Norm Johnson both on clean breakaavs until he eventually capitulated to Don McKenney and Jerry Toppazzini on the winner in overtime. But the Blues already had faded in the third period.In retrospect it was Topper&rsquo;s goal that proved the turning point in the series. It sent Rangers to Boston with the dismal prospect of winning three of five games on foreign ice. They couldn&rsquo;t.In evaluating the series one must bear in mind that Boston was a more formidable foe than their fourth place standing indicates. For example they outscored New York over the season and were close behind in goals against. In fact they&rsquo; only won five less games and lost three more in the respective won and lost columns to finish eight points behind New York.Boston had a comparatively healty team in the semi-final although Leo LaBine played with an injured shoulder and Bronco Horvath was sidelined for part of a game. And they had a hot line in Toppazzini. McKenney and Mackell. &#9632;

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Here’s Stan’s Five Month Food-For-Thought Plan On NY Freeze

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05108/1621963-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="255" height="376"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Gadsby</figcaption></div>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;It Phil Watson, coach of the New York Raugers has his way only light of the player who dressed in his club s colors last season will be back for the 1958-59 curtain raiser.The Rangers, second place finishers in the NHL race this year lost out in the first round of the playoffs to the Boston Bruins in six games.Watson, who has threatened to ship most of his club to the minors at one time or another sags he has only eight players who he considers indispensahle. He named Andy Bathgate. Lou Fontinato, Red Sullivan, Dave Creighton. Camille Henry, Harry Howell, Dean Prentice and Andy Hebenton as those players and said he will definitely keep them for next season.Watson said two of his players will have to fight to keep their, jobs. They are goaler Gump Worsley and all-star defenseman Bill Gadsby.&ldquo;Lome will have to fight to retain his job against Marcel Paille and Bruce Gamble. And Gadsby could be used as trade material, so that I could get some needed scoring strength. Next season I intend to stress youth. I want young players, young legs. Gadsby is 30 years old and Worsley is 28&rdquo;Also said to be untouchable is young Eddie Shack. Shack was the top Ranger prospect last season and the Blues were all set to recall him from Providence of the AHL when he broke his leg for the second time in the season. &#9632;

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Phil Names Eight Sure Bets. Calls Gads by TopTrade Bait

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;There were two glowing goals and some sparkling cinders in the ash heap that represents the Rangers after their 4-2 defeat at the hands of the Bruins in the Cup semi-final.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03207/1621901-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="256" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hank Ciesla</figcaption></div>Shining throughout the playdown was Andy Bathgate, who never wavered despite his unpredictable knee and who remained the team leader until the flames of Cup hopes were extinguished.It is Bathgate, who for the sake of the Blues has to have a no-trade tag on him, who will be looked to as the balance wheel of next year&rsquo;s club.Far removed from Bathgate, ability-wise at this moment but with nearly as much potential at the same time in his career, stands Hank Ciesla who in a lesser way, provides some spark in the New York hour of hockey gloom.Called on to replace captain Red Sullivan following the latter&rsquo;s injury in the opening Cup match, Ciesla played better hockey than he has all season. Now that may not be saying a whole lor because the big fellow had a lustreless campaign. But it was good enough to draw applause from Phil Watson and Lynn Patrick, those chaps who rarely agree.Especially encouraging to Watson was Ciesla&rsquo;s desire to toss his 6-2, 190 pound frame around. He forechecked well enough and managed to collect two assists over the six game stretch. Nothing spectacular, as we noted, but a heck&rsquo; of a lot better than some of the other Blues did.So, it appears that instead of being farmed to Providence next season. Hank will likely be brodght back to the big time again or at least be given every opportunity to stick during Fall training camp.You might say that Andy Hebenton and Dave Creighton were the others that illuminated the Stanley Cup goal for New York. The Heb toiled as hard as he knows and even managed to get angry once in while thus producing some interesting body checks. Creighton was a consistent point-getter right through until the Bruin fire extinguishers were applied.It shouldn&rsquo;t take much guessing to figure&rsquo;out why there are no defense players among the Blue up notables. Over the six game stretch Boston outscored New York. 28 (4.6) to 16(2.6) and appeared to be able to tally at will in the last two games when they scored six and eight goals respectively.The healthiest and perhaps the best backliner was Harry Howell. Larry Cahan was capable at times but his whimsical attitude toward the series almost cost him a $100 fine when Watson caught him joshing around in the hotel lobby before the final game. Jack was so-so.Bill Gadsby, the bellwether of the defense, played the entire series with an injured shoulder but still managed to pick up the odd assist. Lou Fontinato&rsquo;s play left something to be desired which prompted Watson to crack &ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t played a good game yet,&rdquo; before the finale. Fonty also claimed his skates weren&rsquo;t being sharpened correctly but Gadsby killed that quote by noting, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s not the skates.&rdquo;Looking back a few weeks it appears the Rangers, to a man, knew what they were talking about when they told the reporter they warned to meet Detroit in the semi-finals and not Boston or Montreal. There was no Santa Claus in Boston.RANGERABILIA: Watson forecast the Blues&rsquo; doom prior to the fifth playoff game saying &ldquo;The team which wins this one wins the series.&rdquo;&hellip; We had picked Rangers in seven. Ha!&hellip; New York fans were shut out of the sixth and last game. No radio or TV&hellip; Every game of the set was a standing room sellout&hellip; Fontinato expects to go into the house-building business during the Summer in Guelph, Ont&hellip;. Camille Henry will be married in Quebec City&hellip; Sullivan will sell sporting goods in Peterboro, Ont. for Dit Clapper. &#9632;

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Ciesla Saved A Trip To Minors By Good Series

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01367/1622008-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">On their way to their first victory of the 1957-58 Stanley Cup final series coach Milt Schmidt shouts encouragement and advice to his players. It paid off, as can be shown below.</figcaption></div>(MontreaJ Gazette)They All Make MistakesJack Adams, the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; general manager, admits that he made a mistake with Jerry Toppazzini, who scored 25 goals for the Boston Bruins this past season and added eight more in the semi-final series with the Rangers. Jack had him with the Red Wings and traded him off to the Bruins.&ldquo;It was a choice between Toppazzini and Bill Dineen,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;I had faith in Dineen and went along with him for two reasons: He was a product of our farm system and he was nearly two years younger than the Topper.&ldquo;As it turned out, Toppazzini was a late developer and Dineen never did live up to our expectations. It was a mistake.&rdquo;Making a mistake with Toppazzini doesn&rsquo;t make Jack unique; there are at least two other fellows in the same category. They are Lynn Patrick, manager of the Bruins, and Tommy Ivan, manager of the Chicago Black Hawks.The Bruins had Topper originally and traded him to the Chicago Black Hawks during the the 1953-54 season. Prior to the 1955-56 season, the Hawks traded him to the Red Wings, who dealt him off a few months later to the Bruins along with Real Chevrefils in exchange for Lome Ferguson and Murray Costello.&ldquo;Sure, I made a mistake with Topper,&rdquo; says Lynn Patrick, who is here with the Bruins for the Stanley Cup final series &ldquo;But I had enough sense to rectify it when I got the chance. When I saw him playing with other clubs I appreciated his good qualities.&rdquo;There has never been any question of Toppazzini&rsquo;s courage. Last year he suffered multiple facial fractures when Ted Lindsay crosschecked him. The doctors said he was out for the season, but he came back in time to participate in the playoff. This season he was nicked accidentally in the eye by Floyd Curry&rsquo;s stick and again it was announced that he was through for the Season, but here he is carrying the mail for the Bruins again.But those close to the Bruins claim he is the follow who sparks the club, the inspirational factor who makes it go.A Hockey DebateWhat started Jack Adams talking about Topper was a debate over the type of player that is best for a team. It is one who is brought up in the club&rsquo;s organization? Or one acquired in a trade?&ldquo;It depends on the individual,&rdquo; Jack concluded. &ldquo;We once thought a farm product would be more loyal and have more team spirit compared with a player traded from club to club, but Toppazzini disproved that one.&rdquo;We asked Lynn Patrick how he felt about it.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d day it depends on the individual,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;Look at Fleming Mackell. He was brought up in the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; organization and we got him in a trade, but he&rsquo;s been great for us.&rdquo;Frank Selke. the Canadiens&rsquo; general manger, prefers the players who are developed in the organization.&ldquo;I think they&rsquo;re better because they have no divided loyalties,&rdquo; be said. &ldquo;Of course, there are exceptions and we have one on our own team in Bert Olmstead. He was with Detroit when the Red Wings had one of their most powerful teams and they weren&rsquo;t using him at all. I got him from Jack Adams, not because Jack wanted to deal him off but because he did me a personal favor.&ldquo;Jack couldn&rsquo;t use Olmstead but we could. I went to Jack and said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll send you Leo Gravelle in return for Olmstead. We both know that Gravelle is timid, but your team is so big and strong that he may play better with you.&rdquo;The Case Of Leo BoivinThe next gentleman to be asked for an opinion on the Matter was Harold Cotton, who treks all over the country in his capacity as chief bird dog of the Bruins. The veteran scout is also here to watch the big series.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m like Frank Selke&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;I like the kids you bring up in your own organization. When you asked (hat question the first player I thought of was Leo Boivin.&ldquo;I spotted Leo aS a junior and sent him to play in Port Arthur. He liked the&rsquo; Boston Bruins and his great ambition was to play for them some day. Then we made a crazy deal with the Toronto Leafs the one involving Bill Ezinicki and Vic Lynnand some other guys&mdash;and darned if Boivin wasn&rsquo;t in it.&ldquo;When I went to see Leo about it he cried. He was only a kid then and he wondered if we&rsquo;d been disappointed in him We weren&rsquo;t because he&rsquo;d been playing well in Port Arthur.&ldquo;But it was business and when executives are making a deal they don&rsquo;t stop to think about the kids and the kids don&rsquo;t understand them. I know enough about young players to know that they usually have a goal and that goal is to play for a certain club.&ldquo;When you take that goal away from them they are bewildered and a little lost. It&rsquo;s hard for them to adjust themselves. It&rsquo;s regrettable, but it&rsquo;s part of the business of professional hockey. When we had the opportunity to get Leo back we grabbed him. He belonged in our organization, anyway.&rdquo;<h2>A Scream Here And There</h2><h2>&hellip; Nets You Smiles</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02251/1622001-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="1698" height="1071"><figcaption class="caption-body">Two outstanding players for the Bruins, Fern Flam an on the left and Leo Boivin on the right ployed it right to the hilt. Flaman sent in some of the har dest bodychecks seen around the league in years. When it was over they were tired, but happy, as shown below.</figcaption></div><h2>&hellip; Plus A 5-2 Victory</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03166/1621994-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="1680" height="1066"><figcaption class="caption-body">Three outstanding players in the Bruins win smile it up for cameramen. Flem Mackell on the left is leading the league in playoff scoring and has been outstanding in each game. Don McKenney, centre, playing on a line with Mackell and Toppazzini has been the class of the playoffs while Vic Stasiuk on the right indicates the Bruins have one down and three to go. Hobs didn&rsquo;t feel the some way. They won the next one 3-0.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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playing the field

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01318/1622046-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Flem Mackell</figcaption></div>Milt Decided One The Move Following Detroit Loss; Net 17 In Ranger Series Idea Was To Allow McKenney To Make Greater Use Of His Speed Playing On Left WingBOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Back in February in a &ldquo;nothing to lose&rdquo; move Coach Milt Schmidt of the Bruins revamped a line which wasn&rsquo;t going well.Schmidt switched two of the forwards, moving 23-year old Doti McKenney from center to left wing and 28-year old Fleming Mackell from left wing to center.McKenney and Mackell played the last 12 games of the National league season at their new positions with the one holdover. Right Wing Jerry Toppazzini.The line fared relatively well | in that stretch, making a total of 18 goals even though Toppazzini missed four games with an eve injury.But like a bomb with a fuse | lit by Schmidt weeks earlier it. exploded in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, at the expense of the New&rsquo; York Rangers.The Bruins riddleci the New York defenses for 28 goals in six games. McKenney. Mackell and Toppazzini scored 17 of the goals and assisted in three others.&lsquo;Nothing To Lose*In the wake of the explosion Schmidt had no difficulty in remembering making the switch of Mackell and McKenney or recalling why he had made it.&ldquo;I made it because I felt I didn&rsquo;t have a darned thing to lose.&rdquo; declared the frank Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;Mackell wasn&rsquo;t going well on left wing and McKenney wasn&rsquo;t going well at center. Only Topper was going well.&ldquo;Things reached a climax in game in Detroit in which we were beaten badly. I didn&rsquo;t play Mackell for the last part of the game. We had a game coming up in Chicago the next night so I decided to do something. I did. moving the two.&ldquo;I hoped Mackell would regain his drive at center&mdash;after all, he was an all-tar there in the 1952-53 season&mdash;and that McKenney would make greater use of his speed and have more drive on left wing where he had played a little.&ldquo;As I said. I felt I had nothing to lose, and now I can say that I have lost nothing. In fact we&rsquo;ve gained a great deal because the line&rsquo;s play against New York was wonderful.&rdquo;With its strong finish in the dozen regular-season games the line scored big. McKenney had 28 goals. Toppazzini 25, Mackell 20 and all three probably won bonuses.<h2>Came Around In Time</h2>The 26-year old Toppazzini, who scored eight goals during the regular-season while the Bruins were short-handed, most of them with the connivance of Mackell, scored &rsquo; two more against New York. The Bruins scored four short-handed goals in all&mdash;Ferny Flaman and orman Johnson the other two&mdash;as compared to four power play goals for the Rangers.As far as power plays were concerned the Bruins weren&rsquo;t conspicuous during the sea on for the proficiency of theirs, out they scored eight times with it in the New York series.The Bruins this past season had the second-highest scoring record in the team&rsquo;s history, with 199 goals They boasted i six 20-goal scorers, the first time a National league team has ever had such au array.But their scoring punch was sporadic over the season, provided mostly by the hard-working Bronco Horvath. Vic Stasiuk and Johnny Bucyk, the so-called &ldquo;Uke&rdquo; line. even though Horvath is not of Ukranian ancestry.By the time the series with New York arrived the Mackell-McKenney-Toppazzini line was rolling, and the Rangers-were unable to handle them.Power Play PowerfulNew York concentrated its checking on Horvath&rsquo;s line with satisfactorily results but it was a case of the old jingle. Close the windows, they&rsquo;re coming &rsquo; through the doors.Schmidt kept punching the Rangers with three lines, backed up by an aggressive defense suddenly displaying offensive talent with young Doug Mohns as the ringleader.When the firing was over after six games here was the statistical story of the scintillating Mackell line:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04166/1622039-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="576" height="153"></div>First game&mdash;Two goals, two assists.Second game&mdash;Three goals, four assists.Third game&mdash;Two goals, two assists.Fourth game&mdash;Two goals, one assist.Fifth game&mdash;Three goals, two assists.line the league has ever known, gave New York a full taste of their astounding penalty-killing prowess.Six game&mdash;Five goals, eight assists.Mackell and Toppazzini, who may be the greatest two-man &#9632;

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Hub Wins In ‘Nothing To Lose Move

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Jerry Toppazzini. high scoring right wing of the Bruins, has made &ldquo;a clean sweep of awards this season.The recipient earlier of the Elizabeth C. Dufresne trophy end the Gallery Gods trophy, Toppazzini received the Carling trophy during the Stanley Cup playoff series with the New York Rangers.The latest trophy as his team&rsquo;s most valuable player was voted to the 28-year old forward by postcard ballots cast by thousands of fans along the six-state Bruins&rsquo; radio network. The presentation was made by Henry M. &ldquo;Tim&rdquo; Russell, vice-president of the Carling Brewing Company which has been cosponsor of Bruins&rsquo; broadcasts for many years. &rsquo;<h2>Speeded Up</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02285/1622077-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="512" height="829"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don McKenney</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Topper Makes Clean Sweep Of Awards To Hub Players

BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;The fifth game of the Bruins-New York playoff series was played at Boston Garden, but technically it was the Rangers&rsquo; home game.So, in keeping with the temper of the series. Manager Lynn Patrick of the Bruins requested the Rangers supply the pucks for the game..&ldquo;Ordinarily I wouldn&rsquo;t bother,&rdquo; explained the Bruins&rsquo; Patrick, &ldquo;but ill this series it&rsquo;s the principle that counts.&rdquo;Coach Phil Watson of New York had suggested earlier that he might carry the Rangers&rsquo; &ldquo;home team&rdquo; rights to the point where they would demand use of the Bruins bench, but any ideas Watson may have had along those lines were short-circuited by Clarence Campbell, National league president.Muzz Patrick. New York general manager, revealed the receipt of a directive from Campbell forbidding the move.<h2>Sparkplug</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03218/1622108-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="500" height="805"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Toppozzin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rangers Forced To Supply Pucks In Boston Home Game

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Stanley Cup playoff experiment of making new ice just before the start of games has received the approval of Milt Schmidt.&ldquo;From a coach&rsquo;s point of view I like the idea,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;Having my team back in the dressing room while the new ice is being made gives me a last, chance to talk to the players.&ldquo;Formerly there was a lapse of 15 or 20 minutes between a coach&rsquo;s final talk and the start of the game. With his schedule that lapse is eliminated. Then too. it gives a coach a chance to make last-second changes in plans.&rdquo;The New&rsquo; York Rangers and the Bruins expressed pleasure In the improved surfacing of the first periods of their semi-final games tinder the new plan which provides for warmups before the ice-making. &#9632;

New Ice Surfacing Rule Is Applauded By Milt Schmidt

New Game RecordWhen Maurice Richard played rhe second game of the Stanley Cup series against the Boston Bruins in Montreal on Thursday. April 10th he set a new record for games played. It was his 117th playoff game of his career.Most Playoff Shutouts Ex-Toronto Maple Leaf goaler Turk Broda holds the record for the most shutouts in NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. In 13 playoff series Turk scored an even dozen shutouts to establish the record.<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01351/1622184-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="571" height="1399"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>SEMI-FINAL SERIESSERIES ATuesday, March 25Detroit 1 at Montreal 8.Thursday, March 27Detroit 1 at Montreal 5.Sunday, March 30Montreal 2 at Detroit 1 (over time)Tuesday. April 1Montreal 4 at Detroit 3,<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02288/1622177-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="573" height="103"></div>Montreal wins best of seven semifinal series 4-0).SERIES BTuesday, March 25Boston 3 at New York 5.Thursday. March 27Boston 4 at New York 3 (overtime)Saturday. March 20New ork 0 at Boston 5.Tuesday. April 1New York 5 at. Boston 2.Thursday. April 3New York 1 at Boston 6.Saturday. April 5New York 2 at Boston 8.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03222/1622170-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="574" height="100"></div>(Boston Wins best of seven semi final series 1-2)STANLEY CUP FINAL SERIESSERIES CTuesday, April 8Boston 1 at Moniroal 2.Thursday. April 10Boston 5 at Montreal 2.Sunday, April 13Montreal 3 at Boston 9.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04166/1622163-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="570" height="99"></div>ago. For the past three seasons Albani has compiled an outstanding record with Sudbury Wolves.Hendy had an opportunity to secure Al Rollins of Calgary. Lou Duchene of Saskatoon, Marcel Pellitier of Vancouver or Al Millar of Quebec but passed over all of them in favor of Albani&ldquo;Albani has been on Cleveland&rsquo;s list for three years and has demonstrated through his record he has lots of ability,&rdquo; Hendy said. &ldquo;He has plenty of guts and desire and we think he will make the grade if the defense and forwards give him normal protection." Hendy concluded.Cleveland plans to team up Georges Bouchard and &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Hollingworth as one defense combination, with Bill Needham and Gordie Tottle as the other pair. A fifth defenseman will be selected from lan Anderson. Jim Mikol&rsquo; and Don McGregor.. At center Cleveland will have Jimmy Moore, Gordie Vej-prava and Art Stratton. Stratton was &ldquo;rookie on the year&rdquo; last season with Winnipeg where he compiled an excellent record. An lias been in the Cleveland system for six years, they having acquired him when they sponsored Winnipeg Barons. He was moved along slowly with a season at St. Catharines, a year at. North Bay where he was named &ldquo;rookie of the year&rdquo;, turned pro last season and loaned to Winnipeg.In case of injury to any of this trio Cleveland will have Coach Jack Gordon and Cal Stearns on call. &rsquo;On right wing, where the Barons lost Dan Poliziani io the Bruins and prospect Howie Glover to Chicago. Cleveland will have veteran all-star Captain Fred Glover and Don Hogan of last season&rsquo;s team.Jack Adams of Detroit cooperated in the Barons&rsquo; search for a right wing by selling them big Bob Bailey. The Kenora Kid who has played for-Toronto, Chicago and Detroit in recent years was turned pro by the Barons and sold to Toronto at the end of the 1952-53 season. Bailey married a Cleveland girl when he played there, owns his home in Bay Village (a suburb of Cleveland made famous by Dr. Sam Sheppard) and is delighted to be back with the Barons. The Barons also purchased right wing Mike Labadie from Quebec Aces and he will be battling for a position on the club.On the left side the Barons traded their brilliant &ldquo;veteran rookie&rdquo; Bo Elik to Montreal-Rochester for big Ed &ldquo;Spidery&rdquo; Mazur. Mazur always been popular in Cleveland and will be teamed up with Jimmy Moore and Fred Glover to give the Barons a very dangerous&rsquo; line.Bashing Bill Shvetz and Bob Barlow will be the two other left wings with Jean Marie Cossette, purchased from Quebec Aces-ready to break into the-lineup.For the past few seasons Cal Stearns has functioned as utility played and penalty killer Supreme of the Barons. But Cal has been working for the club on a year &lsquo;round basis in Ticket Promotion Sales so will only play this season in case of injury. His place will be taken by Eddie MacQueen who played defense for the Barons two seasons ago was learned to Vancouver last season where he was used all over the forward line and for killing penalties.&ldquo;This may not be the highest scoring club Cleveland ever had,&rdquo; Hendy said, &ldquo;but it will be one of our roughest. Maybe we wont make the playoffs, but the clubs ahead of us will have a few scars to show&rsquo; for their victories.&rdquo;ment with that club last season include: left wingers, Ed Shack. Jim Bartlett and Bruce Carmichael; centers, Bill Sweeney, Ray Cyr and Ted Hampson; right winger, Bruce Cline; defensemen Ivan Irvin, John Hanna and Aldo Guidolin and wingers, Belisle and Mel Pearson. As among the other Ranger talent, the disposition of Irwin still remains undecided. He could play with either Springfield or Buffalo and if a deal is made he might even ba with Providence.Also on the hockey scene here was Jack Toupin, former Springfield player from 1935-38 on the French Line with Marcel Raymond and Ad La France, who is coach of the Three Rivers team of the Quebec League. Three Rivers has been a farm club for Springfield and New&rsquo; York but under a new agreement the AHL and NHL clubs will act jointly this season in a pact with the team above the border, a move expected to be beneficial to all three organizations. With Toupin was his son Claude.Springfield started its preparations for the training this season by shipping trainer Wally Barlow to New&rsquo; Toronto with equipment, followed by owner Shore and coach Sonmor. The squad will return here either Oct. 2 or 3. depending on when the Coliseum is converted for practice after the Eastern States Exposition. Opening game here is with Providence on Wednesday, Oct. 8, followed by a Saturday night tilt with Buffalo. First road game will be at Providence on Oct. 12. &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;In the first three games of the Stanley Cup final series Doug Harvey was chosen one of the three stars in each game by observers. No one deserved the tribute more than the cool, calculating rearguard who is now being hailed as the greatest defenseman ever to play in the National League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0691/1622270-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="249" height="406"></div>It was the great defensive work of Harvey that saved the day the for the Canadiens in their opening 2-1 win over the Bruins. He stopped more shots than either goaler, killed off penalties in spectaculor fashion was a tower of strength on offense with his rushes and on defense where he cleared, smeared and made the Bruins fear him. In the opening game he played 44 minutes, including the complete final period.In the second game he played 39 minutes as the Bruins won their first 5-2. But Harvey tried throughout the game to spark the Habs, and ail in vain.In the opener in Boston Harvey was the standout player as the Canadiens took a 2-1 lead in. games with a 3-0 win. With Maurice Richard scoring two and Henri Richard once, Doug was outstanding in front of Plante who had to make only 18 saves. Harvey must have made 20 more.But is was Doug offensively that ruined the Bruins bid for their second win. He set up two goals, the first and second. His first was a neat play that saw Maurice whip in a 15 footer. His second was similar as the younger Richard scored his first playoff goal.Doug&rsquo;s two assists were his 45th and 45th in playoff competition. He is now only one behind the alltime record of 47 held by Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-Week

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;A pretty goal by Dickie Moore at 13.52 of the second period gave the Canadiens a 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins in the opening game of the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series at the Forum.Boom Boom Geoffrion had opened the scoring for the Canadiens in the first period and Allan Stanley had tied the count for the Bruins early in the second when Digging Dickie came through with the big one. It was the fifth straight triumph for the Habitants since the playoffs started, but this was a tough one.The Bruins, who are underdogs in the betting, were skat i ing faster than at any time during the regular schedule. The team that Coach Milt Schmidt calls &ldquo;agressive&rdquo; was all of that in the opening period and seemed determined to chase the Canadians out of the rink. The latter weren&rsquo;t going to be chased and there were 13 penalties in the period, which is within two of the record for a period established by the Boston and Toronto teams in the 1951 playoffs. Two of the penalties were majors to Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard and Doug Mohns for fighting.The teams cooled off a little after that rough opening session and there were six penalties in the second period and only two in the third for a total of 21. Referee Red Storey had a hard game to handle and did a good job of officiating.All three goals were scored while &rsquo;the team that was scored upon was playing shorthanded the Pocket and Doug Mohns were serving their majors when the Boston team was given a minor for; having too many men on the ice in the first period. Larry Regan went into the box and less than a minute later Boom Boom Geoffrion gave the 14,316 fans their first chance, to cheer when he took a pass from Don Marshall and beat Don Simmons, whose view of the puck was obscured by Jean Beliveau. The time was 12.24.<h2>The Hero</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05118/1622215-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="562" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption></div>Jean Beliveau was serving a tripping penalty when the Bruins knotted the count at 5.54 of the second period. The Bruins&rsquo; power play went, to work and Allan Stanley combined with Fleming Mackell and Don McKenney to fool Jacques Plante with a well-placed shot that was partly screened.Leo Labine was thumbed off later in the period tor tripping Geoffrion when Dickie Moore scored what proved to be the clincher.TUESDAY. APRIL 8Boston 1 at Montreal 2 (Montreal lends best of Seven Series 1-0)Boston Goal: Simmons: defence.Flaman. Mohna, Stanley, Hill man; forwards: Johnson. Regan, Labine. Mackell. Toppazzini. McKenney. Horvath, Stasiuk, Bucyk. Boone. Peirson.Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense Harvey. St. Laurent. Talbot. Turner. Langlois; forwards: Beliveau. Marshall. Olmstead. H. Richard. M. Richard. Moore. Goyette. Provost, Pronovost. Bonin. Curry. Geoffrion.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion(Marshall, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip; 12.24Penalties: Labinc 0.55. Flaman 3.03, 5.17. Beliveau 4.00. Provost 5.17. Stanley 7.08. M. Richard 7.31. Mohns and H. Richard (majors) 8.00. Boston bench (served by Regan) 11.44. Beliveau, 13.18, Labine 16.47. Pronovost 16.47.Second Period2&mdash;Boston: Stanley(McKenney. Mackell)&hellip;&hellip; 5.543&mdash;Canadiens: Moore(Beliveau, M. Richard)&hellip; 13.52Penalties: Beliveau 4.25. Harvey 6.25. 19.33. Mohns 6.45. St. Laurent 9.46. Labine 12.45Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: H. Richard 16.47, Mackell 17.25. &#9632;

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Moore Nets Winner In Penalty Riddled Opener In Montreal

MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;A determined and hungry team of Boston Bruins upset the highly-favored Canadiens in the Forum, beating them by a 5-2 score and tying up the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series at one game apiece.The Bruins led in all three periods. Norm Johnson opening the scoring for them in the first period. Boom Boom Geoffrion tied it up, but Don McKenney and Bronco Horvath &ldquo;tallied before the period was over to give the visitors a 3-1 lead. Each team scored in the second period with Larry Regan and Doug Harvey being the marksmen. Horvath notched the only counter of the final period.The Canadiens were not outplayed. but they ran into Don Simmons when he was having a hot night. They had numerous good scoring chances, but they just couldn&rsquo;t beat Simmons, who certainly earned his spurs as a National League goalie. The notion was that he was over his head in the opening game of the series, hut he played every bit as well last night.The game wasn&rsquo;t as rough as last Tuesday&rsquo;s game, though it was bumpy enough. This time it was the Canadiens who started off making muscles and they incurred penalties that hurt. Two of the Bruins&rsquo; goals came while the Habitants were playing shorthanded, though they did score once while they had a one-man advantage.Referee Eddie Powers called 17 penalties all told, including a freak 10-minute misconduct against Marcel Bonin. Nine of the penalties were against the Canadiens. Linesman Bill Morrison threw up his hand to signal &ldquo;icing&rdquo; and accidentally struck Bonin in the face, who promptly socked him back. Bonin may not have seen who hit him and may have thought it was a Boston player.The Bruins had a goal 20 seconds after the opening whistle. Larry Regan shot the puck in over the Canadiens&rsquo; blue line, beat Dollard St. Laurent to it, passed to Leo Labine and the latter relayed to Norm Johnson, he banged it into the net.Allan Stanley-was sent off for hooking Dickie Moore and the Habitants&rsquo; power play produced the tying marker. Boom Boom Geoffrion combined with Doug Harvey and Moore to beat Simmons with a scorcher just inside the goal post on Simmons&rsquo; left-hand side. The time was 3.12.THURSDAY. APRIL l0Boston 5 at Montreal 2(Bent of Seven Stanley Cup Final Series Tied 1-1)Bowlon Goal: Simmons: defence: Flaman. Mohns, Stanley. Boivin, Hillman; fro wards: Johnson, Regan, Labine, Mackell, Toppazainl, McKenney, Horvath, stasiuk, Bucyk, Boone, Peirson.Canadirns&mdash;Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, Talbot, Turner, Langlois; forwards: Beliveau, Marshall, Olmstead, H, Richard, M Richard, Moore, Goyette, Provost, Pronovoel, Bonin, Curry, Geoffrion.First Period1&mdash;Boston: Johnson(Regan, Labine)&hellip;&hellip; 0.202&mdash;Canadians: Geoffrion(Harvey. Moore)&hellip;&hellip; 3:123&mdash;Booton: McKenney(Regan, Mackell;&hellip;&hellip; 6.584&mdash;Boston: Horvath(Boone)&hellip;&hellip; 17:28Penalties: Stanley 1.55. Turner 5.31Hervey 6.10, 12.52, Labine 8.38, Mackell 9.48, McKenney 15.23. M. Richard 15.23 St. Laurent 16.28.Second Period5&mdash;Boston: Regan (Stanley)&hellip; 5.006&mdash;Canadiens: Harvey(Moore)&hellip; 7.00Penalties: Bonin (misconduct) 11.28. M. Richard 11.35, Boivin 15.31.Third Period7&mdash;Boston: Horvath(Stasiuk, Mohns)&hellip;&hellip; 16.52Penalties. Boivin 4.54, Horvath 8.49 Talbot 8.49. Pronovost 19.27, Hillman 19.40. &#9632;

Simmons Holds Off Habs; Hubs Get A 5-2 Win

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Paced by Maurice (The Rocket) Richard, the greatest scorer of them all. the Canadiens defeated the Bruins here tonight, 3-0 to take a two-one lead in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final seriesBefore the game, coach Toe Blake said: &ldquo;If we get the first goal tonight we&rsquo;ll win.&rdquo; The Rocket got the first goal in the opening period and the last one in the final period. Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard got the other one, also in the final period. his first of the playoffs.The Canadiens showed a complete reversal of the loose form they displayed in Montreal last Thursday. They tightened their defenses and their attacks had direction and precision.The line of Richard brothers and Dickie Moore was the big one for the Canadiens tonight. The Rocket scored seven goals in the semi-final series against Detroit, but these were his first in the current series.It was the seventh shutout for Jacques Plante in post-schedule games. He had 18 shots to handle, some of them difficult, but he played spectacularly. Doug Harvey was the glue in the defense in front of him Don Simmons, who was called upon to handle 36 shot wasn&rsquo;t audio as good as in the first two games and neither were his teammates.<h2>Adds Pair</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0768/1622301-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="527" height="834"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richord</figcaption></div>Referee Frank Udvari called only seven minor penalties, four against the Bruins. They did net figure in the scoring.Pace Extremely Past.The pace was extremely fast in the opening period and the Canadiens had the advantage of the extra man on four occasions when the Bruins drew penalties, but their power play just couldn&rsquo;t get going. The Bruins almost scored when they were a man short with Flem Mackell getting a breakaway, but Plante came up with the big save.SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1958Canadiens 3 at Boston 0(Canadiens lead best-of-seven Stanley Cup final 2-1)Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Plante: defense. Harvey, st, Laurent. Talbot. Turner. Langlois; forwards; H. Richard. M. Richard Moore. Beliveau. Geoffrion. McDonald, Goyette Provost Pronovost Marshall. Curry.Boston&mdash;Goal: Simmons; defense; Stanley Hillman. Flaman. Boivin. Mohns; forward: Mackell. Toppazzini McKenney. Horvath, Stasiuk. Bucyk, Johnson, Labine, Regan. Boone. Peirson.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: M. Richard (Geoffrion, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip; 18.20Penalties: Pronovost 3.27. Boone 6.27, Toppazzini 7.29. Johnson 12.25. Horvath 16.17.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: McDonald 1.41. Talbot 19.03.Third Period1&mdash;Canadiens: H. Richard (Harvey)&hellip;&hellip; 3.003&mdash;Canadiens: M. Richard(H. Richard, Moore)&hellip;&hellip; 15.06Penalties: None. &#9632;

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Rockets Catch Fire For Three—Bostons Get Only 18 Shots

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Hairy Watson, his future as playing coach of the Buffalo Bisons a matter of conjecture, has returned to his Toronto home willing &ldquo;to wait and see what develops.&rdquo;Before his departure from Bisontown, the former National League left wing star discussed his status with Buffalo General Manager Fred Hunt.Hunt told him that &ldquo;everything is up in the air about next year &hellip; maybe I won&rsquo;t even be rhe guy around doing the hiring by then.&rdquo;While several questions concerning the Buffalo operation are unanswerable at this time, it is a safe bet that Hunt will be back for his seventh semester in the Bison front office.Watson, on the other hand, will likely be a casualty of the Bisons last place finish in the American League race. Handsome Harry, in fact, didn&rsquo;t enjoy complete management support even during the season.The season was hardly a month along when it was rumored publically that he was on his way out. This was quickly followed up by pronouncements that he had &ldquo;100 per cent&rdquo; backing from Owner Ruby Pastor down the line.Watched From StandsHowever, he was removed from the bench &ldquo;to watch the team from the stands and get a better line on it&rdquo; for a six game period late in the season. When the Bisons won only two of the six games and thereby virtually eliminated themselves from the playoffs, Watson was returned to his post with the explanation &ldquo;Harry is a good coach but we had to try something to shake up the team.&rdquo; from Pastor.Watson, who believes he learned much in his freshman year as a coach, would like to return to Buffalo next year.&ldquo;As far as coaching, that&rsquo;s up to Ruby,&rdquo; he prefaced. &ldquo;In the event I didn&rsquo;t coach, the decision concerning my playing contract would be up to (Chicago) Black Hawks as I still belong to that club.&ldquo;If Buffalo and Chicago break up I don&rsquo;t know where I&rsquo;d be left standing. So for the present. I'm adopting a wait and see attitude.&ldquo;But I would like to make it clear that I appreciate the nice things that were done for me. I think that, almost without exception, the players gave me their best. I enjoyed my association with Ruby, Fred, and Frank (Eddolls) and felt the fans and press were more than fair.&rdquo;Watson, while professing to having a &ldquo;poor year&rdquo; as a player was one of the crowd favorites because of the crackling bodychecks he doled out when the opportunity presented itself. He also transferred from his normal left wing slot to defense and later right wing when injuries decimated those positions.<h2>Question Mark</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01336/1622332-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="530" height="1139"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Watson</figcaption></div>A veteran on the club revealed that the players discussed &ldquo;refusing to dregs for the game&rdquo; the first night Watson became coach-in-the stands.&ldquo;We wanted everyone to know that we were behind Harry 100 per cent but decided it wouldn&rsquo;t do him any good and wouldn&rsquo;t be what he&rsquo;d want,&rdquo; he explained.&ldquo;If Watson has any failings as a coach it&rsquo;s that he&rsquo;s too nice a person and doesn&rsquo;t crack down often enough.&rdquo; the player added.In the event that he is replaced, Watson will join two other ex-NHL left wing stars on the list of short-term coaches in Buffalo.Toe Blake, currently hockey&rsquo;s most successful coach with Montreal, left in the middle of the 1948-49 campaign when he couldn&rsquo;t get underway a Buffalo team that eventually finished last.Gaye Stewart, after directing the Herd to the Calder Cup playoffs finals in 1 954-55 &mdash; the only time a Buffalo team has gone that far in more than a decade became the &ldquo;fall guy&rdquo; in a switch of coaching assignments by the then-owner Black Hawks.Now Blair accuses Brabiu and the new&rsquo; Kingston coach. Bus Gagnon, of tampering with soma of the Whitby players, by offering them from $20 to $60 per week more than the Whitby club could ever afford to pay and still remain in business. Blair is quoted as saving: &ldquo;We have concrete proof that the Kingston club, through Welly Brahin and Bus Gagnon, have approached at least five players on the Whitby Dunlops.&rdquo; Kingston is reported to have lost $11,000 last season, and Blair questions how they can ever expect to break even the coming season if they are prepared to shell out that kind of money for talent.It is known that Kingston had been dickering with defenceman Harry Sinden of Whitby, but he finally signed again with Blair. Another rumor has centerman Gerry Moore traded by Kingston to Cornwall for MooSavard, with Kingston putting up a bundle of cash to maha the deal. From a Kingston source, however, comes word not to be too sure that the deal won t go as far astray as did the Kingston announcement a few week ago that Sinden would play there next season.<div class="sidebar"><h2>WANTED</h2>1st issue October 1955 &lsquo;Hockey Pictorial&rsquo;. Albums or Loose Copies of &lsquo;Les Sports&rsquo; years 1-1952 & 2-1953 to make sets complete. Must be perfect. Lowest offer accepted. Send direct. Mildred F. Bailey, 134 Woodlawn Ave. Valley Stream, Long Island, New York. U.S.A. &#9632;</div>

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‘Wait And See, ’Hunt Tells Watson Of His Plans For ’59 Herd

Playoff Points RecordZellio Toppozzini of the Providence Reds holds the record for the most points in one playoff series. In 1955-56 Toppazzini, playing for the Reds racked up 20 points.Fastest Goal RecordThe fastest gaol ever scored in American Hockey League play came in six seconds. Back in the 1945-46 season while performing with the Providence Reds, Billy McComb opened the scoring after just six seconds of play.TUESDAY, APRIL 8Springfield 4 at Cleveland 2(Springfield wins best of seven series 4-3)First Period1&mdash;Cleveland: Shvetz (Poliziani, Vejprava)&hellip;&hellip; 2.092&mdash;Springfield: Ehman (Anderson, Gardner)&hellip;&hellip; 10:48Penalties: Armstrong 1.39, Needham and Gardner 6.06, Needham 9.55, Smith and Elik 15.48.Second Period3&mdash;Springfield: Beckett (Pidhirny, Leach)&hellip;&hellip; 17.42Penalties: Anderson and Poliziani 2.06.Third Period4&mdash;Cleveland: Vejprava (Elik, Bouchard)&hellip;&hellip; 2.31Penalties: Shvetz and CafferyOvertime Period5&mdash;Springfield: Beckett (Pidhirney)&hellip;&hellip; 2:446&mdash;Springfield: Schinkel (Caffery, Bionda)&hellip;&hellip; 9.23Penalties: None<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02314/1622370-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="572" height="217"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03267/1622363-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="579" height="1464"></div>THURSDAY, APRIL, 10Springfield 2 at Hershey 3(Hershey leads best of seven final series 1-0)First Period1&mdash;Hershey: Marshall (Solinger, O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 9.32Penalties: Leach 1.37, Davis 4.20, Duff 6.52, Bionda 7.32, Anderson 8.07, Price 15.55.Second Period2&mdash;Hershey: Marshall (Fisher. O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 6.443&mdash;Springfield: Smith (Armstrong, Chevrefils) &hellip; 11.02Penalties: Armstrong 4.36. Stankiewicz 9.35, Beckett 18.38.Third Period4&mdash;Hershey: Stankiewicz (Zeidel, Solinger)&hellip;&hellip; 2.255&mdash;Springfield: Armstrong (Ehman, Chevrefils)&hellip;&hellip; 7.29Penalty: Lalande 5.45.SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1958Springfield 3 at Hershey 4(Hershey leads best of seven final series 2-0)First Period1&mdash;Springfield: Leach (Beckett, Bionda)&hellip;&hellip; 13.342&mdash;Hershey: Lalande (Zeidel. Haley)&hellip;&hellip; 17.05Penalties: Schneider, Armstrong, Hollingworth. Armstrong, Mathers.Second Period3&mdash;Hershey: Marshall (Fisher. O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip; 3.224&mdash;Springfield: Armstrong (Chevrefils, Gardner)&hellip;&hellip; 6.505&mdash;Springfield: Schinkel (Nicholson, Armstrong)&hellip;&hellip; 17.23Penalties: Zeidel, Beckett, Duff, Stankiewicz, Armstrong.Third Period6&mdash;Hershey, Marshall (Price, Mathers)&hellip;&hellip; 7.067&mdash;Hershey: O'Brien (Fisher. Marshall)&hellip;&hellip; 10.05Penalties: Schneider, Stankiewicz.SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1958Hershey 0 at Springfield 1(Hershey leads best of seven final series 2-1)First Period1&mdash;Springfield: Gardner (Smith, Ehman)&hellip;&hellip; 3.072&mdash;Springfield: Leach (Beckett)&hellip;&hellip; 8.283&mdash;Springfield: Anderson (Ehman, Gardner)&hellip;&hellip; 9.51Penalties: Leach 0.39. Duff 11.30, Leach 15.00, Hollingworth and Beckett 18.55.second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Anderson 3.07, Zeidel 5.53 and 18.32Third Period4&mdash;Springfield: Armstrong (Nicholson, Schinkel)&hellip;&hellip; 7.51 &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

HERSHEY, Pa. &mdash; Willie Marshall of the Hershey Bears, the American League&rsquo;s leading scorer is proving that playoff hockey is not very different from regular season games. One glance at the top of the playoff scorers will tell you what we mean. Yes sir, up on top is the name Willie Marshall. He has scored seven goals and added seven assists for 14 points in eight games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04226/1622401-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="254" height="413"></div>There is little doubt about Willie&rsquo;s ability to play in the National Hockey League and there are those who will tell you that he will be getting another chance under the big top next season. In the meantime Marshall is continuing to perform as the hottest player outside of the NHL. After three games of the Calder Cup finals against the Springfield Indians the Hershey Bears were strong favorites to take it all. If they do take it all Marshall will be the sparkplug for the Bears.Holding a two-one lead in games over the Indians. Marshall had scored four of his teams seven goals in the series and assisted on another.In the first game in Hershey on Thursday, April 10th the Bears won 3-2 and Willie scored his club's first two goals.Two night later on Saturday, April 12th he scored two more and assisted on another. His second goal tied the score at 3-3 and then he set up the winner.up until this season the experts called Marshall a player who could perform well in any league but the National. Willie countered by saying that when he had his trial with the Toronto Maple Leafs they were a defensive club and he is an offensive player. He believes he can make the NHL with a club that plays an offensive type of game &hellip; most believe him and will give odds that he will be with one of the six National League clubs come next September. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-week

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01350/1622439-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="259" height="389"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;Whatever the fate of the Barons in the Calder Cup playoffs, there can be no fault to find with the Fabulous Fat Man who came flying out of the Far West to fill the hole back in the nets.They said the Barons were cooked when Johnny Bower was hurt late in the regular season.They said that minus the China Wall, who led the American Hockey League goalies all season, the Barons would be bums.Then came Lucien (Lou) Dechene, 200 pounds, plus quite a few of quick moving blubber.This was the guy who was alleged to be too fat for the good teams.This was the guy who they said was too fat for the National League. Even too fat for the American League Even, perhaps, too fat for the Western League.They&rsquo;re not saying he&rsquo;s too fat now.Ask the Springfield Indians, who tried for seven games to bust through that Fat Man.Ask some hot stickmen such as Real Chevrefils, ex-Boston Bruins. Ask Cal Gardner. Ask Gerry Ehman. Ask any of those Springfield Rifles how simple it was to put the rubber bullet past this guy Dechene.They&rsquo;ll tell you they used decoys, screens, muscle, they&rsquo;ve used high shots, low shots, change-up shots. They&rsquo;ll tell you they tried to lure him out. drive him in.But Dechene, the stand-up type of goalie, repelled the worst of the blizzards in a shower of glory.After four games of the playoffs. he had 1.59 average. After five games he had a 1.33 average.Dechene refuses to be faked. He stands his ground firmly, awaiting the first move of the enemy. He insists upon the attacker declaring himself first.Little Known GoaleeLittle was known of Dechene when he came flying to the aid of the Barons in the closing days of the regular season. He had been knocking down rubber blizzards in the Western League for the past decade.Such authorities as Frank Boucher declared that this fellow, despite his weight, was one of the best close-up shot stoppers &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve ever seen&rdquo;.Said Boucher, in an interview with the writer, &ldquo;you&rsquo;ll think the puck is going in most of the time but it won&rsquo;t. He fools you with his style. It&rsquo;s very deceptive.&rdquo;How fat is Dechene?He&rsquo;s anywhere between 210 and 230 pounds depending upon when he ate. He loves food, goes lightly on sweet stuff, can chomp a steak in record time.He loves, too. to cook. Can whip up a fine plate of spaghetti and ribs for his teammates.He misses very much the cooking of his wife, Paulette, up there in Quebec City with the three children.One thing is certain.The Barons will never be able to point to the goalie as the source of their troubles in the 1957-58 Calder Cup playoffs.They could well be saddened by the loss of the great Johnny Bower.But they could find no one in the world of hockey that could have kepi them so healthy in front of their own net as the Fabulous Fat Man from Saskatoon.<h2>Sharp As A Baron</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02291/1622432-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="1113" height="2012"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lucien Dechene</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Fats Dechene, As Bower Stand-In Stands-Out In Barons’ Backstop

<div class="byline">By DALLIS BECK</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;Maybe it&rsquo;s the spring air in these parts but the crystal gazers are busy around the WHL. Saskatoon is obviously dead as a pro hockey base so the word is around that next year&rsquo;s edition of the Western circuit will boast an eastern division consisting of Winnipeg, St. Paul, Denver, Des Moines and Omaha.Where this leaves Calgary and Edmonton isn&rsquo;t exactly known, but for the time being they can join a western division of the league encompassing Spokane, Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria, with Portland due in a couple of years. If such talk materializes the boys on the beat would relish some of those road trips in the middle of a Canadian December.Oh yes, someone mentioned Los Angeles, too.Friendly Frank Boucher set things straight concerning an Edmonton opinion that the Regals had been threatened with a $100 fine apiece if they didn&rsquo;t beat Bud Poile&rsquo;s Flyers in their last meeting of the schedule. The Saskapauls responded and their 6-5 verdict helped knock Edmonton out of the prairie division&rsquo;s first-place money&hellip; Winnipeg did the rest the next Bight.&ldquo;I heard about those Edmonton boys accusing us of fining our players if they didn&rsquo;t win that night,&rdquo; grinned Frank, &ldquo;Truth is that we did threaten fines, but it wasn&rsquo;t for that particular game. It was when our team was making it&rsquo;s west coast tour and had just got beaten by 13 and 10 goals out at Seattle. I wired the boys that if they didn&rsquo;t start giving our young goalkeeping substitute (Frank Kubica) some protection there would be some stern measures taken. I told them not to allow more than four goals against themselves in any further game on the trip or there would be some action from the front office.&rdquo;<h2>Set A Quota</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01349/1622581-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="577" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Boucher</figcaption></div>Frank&rsquo;s words must have impressed the weary Regals. They didn&rsquo;t win any games but they gave Vancouver and Edmonton a powerful run on the way home and finally beat the Flyers in Saskatoon to fall one game short of tying Victoria&rsquo;s record 14-game losing streak of the few years ago.A foregone conclusion way back when the schedule was in diapers. Art Stratton and Orland Kurtenbach won the rookie-of-the-year awards and the 100 clams that goes with them. Stratton had his best argument as suspected from the big late-season rush from Winnipeg teammate Howie Glover and Kurtenbach. even though a shoulder separation shelved him after 52 games, had still displayed enough early moxie to beat out New Westminster&rsquo;s Art Jones and Vancouver partner Ron Hutchinson.Looking it over you could call it a good year for centre icemen. Stratton, Kurtenbach and Jones all play down the middle and Hutchinson was converted to the wing last fall by Art Chapman at Vancouver&hellip; Good year too for Cleveland&rsquo;s Jim Hendy&hellip; He holds the contracts of both Stratton and Glover. &#9632;

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RumorRowSaysWHI Prairie Loop Would Add Four US Clubs

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Orland Kurtenbach of Vancouver and Arthur Stratton of Winnipeg were selected as the best Rookies in the WESTERN HOCKEY LEA GUE from their respective divisions for the 19571958 season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05164/1622612-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="236" height="347"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art Stratton</figcaption></div>Stratton led all rookies in scoring with 23 goals and 5 3 assists for a total of 76 points. He played in all of his teams 70 games. He scored the game winning goal in six games and the first goal of the game 4 times. He only spent twelve minutes in the penalty box. He received 54 of a possible 60 votes. His teammate Howard Glover was next in line with 35 votes. Jack Hendrickson of Edmonton was third with eight votes.Kurtenbach, who was sidelined by a shoulder injury in his 52nd game, scored 15 goals and assisted in 39 for 5 4 points. Six of his goals were game winners and he scored the first goal of a game twice. He spent 58 minutes in the penalty box. He received 56 of the 60 votes. Art. Jones of New Westminster was second with 26 votes followed by Ron. Hutchinson of Vancouver with 10 votes.Kurtenbach was born in Cudworth. Sask. Sept. 7th 1936 and played his junior hockey in Prince Albert.Stratton was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, October Sth, 1935 and played his junior hockey in Winnipeg.Kurtenbach and Stratton will each receive $100.00 for winning. the rookie Award. &#9632;

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Kurtenbach, Stratton Top Rooks In WHL Divisions

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Two veteran centremen, S i d Finney and Guyle Fielder, leading scorers in their respective divisions, were selected as the Most-ValuablePlayer for the 1957-58 season.This is Finney&rsquo;s sixth season in the WHL. He led all goal scorers the past season with 45 goals and added 4 3 assists for 88 points to lead the Prairie Division in scoring. This is the third season that Sid. has scored over 40 goals. He received 41 of a possible 60 votes and was followed in the balloting by Bill Mosienko of Winnipeg with 26 votes and teammate Al. Rollins with 18.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06148/1622643-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="267" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guyle Fielder</figcaption></div>Fielder, for the second straight year, was selected as the Most-Valuable Player-in the Coast Division. He again led the league in scoring with 111 points although missing the first eight games of the season. It was the third time that he has led the league in the six seasons he has played in it. He scored 2 6 goals and assisted in 8 5 others&mdash;four assists short of his league record of 89 set last season.The voting for the Most Valuable Player in the Coast section was the closest it has ever been with Fielder getting 38 of a possible 60 votes. Phil Maloney of Vancouver picked up 32 votes and Bev. Bentley of New Westminster 30.Both Fielder and Finney will receive $100.00 from the League for winning this award.Neither of the award winners were born in Canada. Finney was born in Banbridge. Ireland May 1st 1929 and Fielder in Potlatch. Idaho November 21st 1930. Fielder won the rookie award in the W.H.L. in 1951-52 while playing for New Westminster and the rookie award in the American league the next season while playing for St. Louis. &#9632;

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WHL Picks Vets Finney, Fielder As Loop’s MVPs

<div class="byline">By TOM BOLGER</div>Toledo Blade Sports EditorTOLEDO, Ohio&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01345/1622674-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="266" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Mulligan</figcaption></div>From all indications hockey gets another lease on life next season at the Toledo Sports Arena.Although the club lost money, Andy Mulligan, the general manager, believes the interest was great enough to warrant another try. The Arena board of directors will meet next month to try to reach a decision on the fate of Toledo&rsquo;s last professional sport.Things are bounds to be different next season. Just remember that Cincinnati did not win the International Hockey League playoffs this time. The always powerful Mohawks who were constantly on the verbal warpath with Mulligan this past year, were knocked out of the first round of the playoffs by Louisville, which finished third this season.Even the Mercs managed to break the Mohawk jinx this time&mdash;breaking even in the six games played in Toledo. Probably the biggest disappointment, though, was the night a standing-room-only crowd of more than 5,600 watched the Mercs lose to the Mohawks.Crowd Went Down As Slump WorstenedCertainly that wasn&rsquo;t new or entirely unexpected. But that loss started the Mercurys on their worst slump in the 11-year history of Toledo hockey. The team went 11 games without a victory&mdash;losing nine straight before salvaging a tie. And every time the team lost the crowds went down. By the time the team regained its strength there was only a month left to play. But during that month the Mercs played the best hockey in the IHL and lost only one of a dozen games at home.They made a desperate try for the playoffs, since a Toledo team had managed to get into the post-season play for 10 straight years. But it was a matter of that old story, &ldquo;too little and too late.&rdquo;The lateness was the result of holding on to players too long. Mulligan had no alibis to offer and admitted the team made a bad mistake in bringing in Buddy MacDonald and releasing Bilk Booth. It takes an awful lot of courage&mdash;especially where everybody is an expert&mdash;to admit a mistake and rehire a player who has been fired.But the Mercurys thought they were being strengthened when they brought in MacDonald from the Western League&mdash;a pro league of higher classification than the IHL. He was one of the top scorers for Saskatoon and was cut as an economy wave hit the WHL. Since the player limit in the IHL is 14 players somebody had to go and Booth was the one to get the axe. This move didn't sit well with many of the fans. Booth had won a lot of followers in his six years wearing the green, white and gold of Toledo.The first two games MacDonald played he looked good and it seemed as if the Mercs had made a wise move. But at the end of 17 games MacDonald hadn&rsquo;t scored a single goal. Unbelievable, Mulligan says, but true. So Booth was brought back.That was move number one. The second ' reason for the collapse &mdash; and certainly the most logical &mdash; was the poor play of Andre Binette in goal during the three-week slump. During the first half of the season Binette was rated one of the best goaltenders in the IHL. He was named to the second team of the first-half All-Stars and his play impressed the opposition coaches to the extent that he just missed being named to the first club.Nobody&mdash;players, coach or Mulligan&mdash;seems to have the answer to what happened to Andre, but all are agreed. He fell apart. The young man with the French accent blamed it on a knee injury. But two doctors in Toledo examined him and took X-rays in an effort to locate the trouble. No injury was found&mdash;unless mental attitude can be classified as an injury. So Binette was shipped off to Montreal and Al Bennett who had minded the nets the two previous seasons, was brought down from Chatham.And the Mercs started to win. Move number three was the release of Defenseman Jack Higgins, the captain of the team. Last year the likeable Higgins was one of the most feared men in the league. This past season he never got going. Some blamed it on the fact he couldn&rsquo;t adjust to coach Doug Balwin&rsquo;s style of play. Others said it was his dissatisfaction with the local powere&mdash;but regardless of the reason he wasn&rsquo;t playing good hockey.Baldwin went searching and by accident ran across Bob Schiller, a onetime star with the University of Michigan. Schiller is still a student at Ann Arbor but he had used all his eligibility a year ago. He decided hockey and studies could still mix&mdash;even if it weren&rsquo;t for the alma mater&mdash;so he came to the club. His aggressive style not only helped the club but won him a large following the short time he was in Toledo uniform. Chances are that the 24-year-old Schiller will be back with the Mercs next season since he will be still getting some advanced education to add to his bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering he will earn in June.Mulligan, always the optimist when it comes to hockey, already is talking about next year&rsquo;s club even though this year wasn't too much to cheer about as far as box office is concerned. And the concern of anybody in professional sports is the jingle of the cash register. We think Mulligan will get his way again and Toledo will be represented again in hockey. It would really be the end of an era if the last organized sport is allowed to die.Multiple changes in player personnel appear mandatory for the 1958-59 campaign if the Mercurys are again to become a leading contender in the IHL. As general manager, that responsibility rests with Mulligan.The bidding for talent in hockey is just as competitive as in other sports. From where we sit, Milligan must be well-heeled financially on his next scouting mission to his native Canada in search of talent. In summation, a winner is reflected at the box office in any sport, but you can&rsquo;t win without the horses. &#9632;

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Mercs May Get Another Chance If New Blood Can Be Located

SEATTLE. Wash.&mdash;The winners of series &ldquo;PB&rdquo; (Edmonton or Calgary) and the winners of series &ldquo;CB&rdquo; (New Westminster-Seattle) will meet in a best-of-five game series immediately following the current series for the right to meet the winner of Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; (Vancouver or Winnipeg). There will only be one move made in series &ldquo;C&rdquo;. The team finishing higher in the regular season, in points, will have the right to decide whether they will play the first two games at home and then finish the series in their opponents&rsquo; rink or play the first two games in their opponents&rsquo; rink and complete the series at home. Should New Westminster win series &ldquo;CB&rdquo;. they will make the selection as they finished the regular season with 81 points. Edmonton had 80, Seattle 70 and Calgary 65. Therefore should Edmonton and Seattle win. Edmonton will have the choice and if it is Seattle and Calgary, Seattle would have the choice. Series &ldquo;C&rdquo; got underway last weekend. Series &ldquo;D&rdquo; will open in the home arena of the winners of series &ldquo;A&rdquo;, Vancouver or Winnipeg. This will be the best-of-seven games for the Presidents&rsquo; Cup and the playoff championship. &#9632;

WHL Announces Further Rounds In Presidents Cup And Playoff Honors

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02308/1622774-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bev Bell</figcaption></div>SHAWINIGAN FALLS, Que.&mdash;Minus all acrimony and bitterness, and any anti-climax in the law courts the Cataracts ground their way into the Quebec Hockey League finals here last Sunday when they eliminated Montreal Royals in the penultimate game a best-of-seven series, 2-1.The Cataracts were to open up the final lap against Quebec Aces, also billed best-of-seven style, here Wednesday, April 16.League president Byron Higginson withheld alloting further dates while progress of Cana-diens vs Bruins in their Stanley Cup final round was clarified. The QHL solons are most anxious to avoid confliction with radio and television of the big hockey classic, because same would surely downgrade the Quebec Leaguers&rsquo; box-office receipts.It took the Shawinigan forces the full seven games to subdue a Montreal team that twice battled its way for survival in dramatic style, whereas the Aces were permitted to make the big money round in six games against a Chicoutimi team that put up a shoddy lackadaisical performance in the estimation of ardent supporters of this team that acted as the league pace-maker practically since first shots were fired last October.Law Suits PendingTwo Quebec players are now vulnerable to lawsuits, according to advices from the Saguenay district metropolis. One Chicoutimi man has already taken action against Gary Blaine. who allegedly struck the plaintiff with his stick during a wild scuffle close to the boards in the Aces-Sague-nay game. Sunday April 6. A legal spokesman for the injured party claimed his client&rsquo;s skull was fractured.For a time it seemed Blaine would not be permitted to play for Aces in the deciding game which Aces put the ouster on the Chicks 3-2. Blaine set off next day to Chicoutimi fortified with $500 bail money. He posted $300 at a preliminary hearing to guarantee further appear-J ance when the case is continued April 21.Al Millar. Quebec goalie, has also been threatened with legal action by another rail-sitter who alleges he was struck in the face by Miliar&rsquo;s heavily swung stick. As THE HOCKEY NEWS was press-wise no further word on this case had been received.Fans Well-BehavedNo such contre temps disturbed Royals-Cataracts&rsquo; series, though several robust incidents, and some rousing enthusiasm was shown by the customers both at the Montreal Forum and the Shawinigan Falls arena, the belligerency was contained by the paid performers.For the second time within a week Roger Leger&rsquo;s legionai-res fought off extinction when they ripped the Cataracts 5-0 on Forum ice. Charlie Hodge in the Royals&rsquo; net put up such a plaudits from many of the bigwigs of the NHL who sat in at the contest. This august group included besides Jolly Jack Adams, general-manager of Detroit Red Wings, Tommy Ivan, of Chicago Black Hawks, Baldy Cotton, Boston Bruins, Jack Humphreys and Muzz Patrick of New York Rangers and Johnny Gagnon,&rsquo; former Chicoutimi &ldquo;Black Cat&rdquo; of Canadiens, now Quebec area scout for the New Yorkers and their farm chain.Praise From AdamsAdams was quoted by Montreal scribes &ldquo;That Hodge was simply great out there&hellip; No doubt about it, he won the game for Royals, just like that boy Simmons did the other night for the Boston Bruins against the powerful Canadiens.&rdquo;Lulu Denis, Walter Bradley, Murray Balfour. Cec Hoskstra and Denis Boucher, scored Royals&rsquo; markers. Hodged blocked 2 5 shots in racking up the-only blackout job of the series and Eddie Johnston the Shawinigan goaltender was bombarded with 39 shots, of which he parried 34.There was a paying crowd of 3,971 at this game Friday. April 11 in Montreal, to see Royals knot the series at 3-3 in games.At Shawinigan Falls two days later, 3,353 turned out to whoop it up for Freddie Shero and his boys as they fought their way to the QHL finals for the third time in the past four seasons.The Cataracts struck swiftly for two goals in the first three minutes of play, enough to wrap up the decision. Though Royals replied on a marker by Kenny Mosdell last in the middle stan za.Stubborn fore-checking combined with relentless back-checking thwarted all further efforts of the Royals who were able to get only 19 direct hits on Johnston in the Shawinigan rets in the entire game, while Hodge was making 27 stops to hold of the Cataracts the remainder of the contest after the home forces&rsquo; early outburst.First. Ronnie Attwell sagged the mesh with help from George Faulkner and Al Johnson, then Bev Bell completed the scoring for the Cats aided by Claude Labrosse and Max Mekilok.In the post-mortems Coach Leger and Royals&rsquo; GM Frank Carlin admitted the Royals lacked the drive and verve they had exhibited only two days before in the Forum.Watson&rsquo;s ViewPhil Watson, New York Rangers&rsquo; coach, among those present said he didn&rsquo;t think Royals showed enough skate and Shero of the Cataracts held the same sentiments.&ldquo;We were really skating today.&rdquo; Shero. had the Cataracts fired up and he admitted they played much better than on the previous Friday.&ldquo;It was a tough series all the way,&rdquo; said the Shawinigan mentor in the Cats&rsquo; quarters following the game as he sagged wearily against the rubbing table. &ldquo;Our boys deserved the win, we got great series out of Attwell, Faulkner and Johnston and we had wonderful penalty killing by Gerry Desaulniers.&rdquo;In the Montreal Star, Charlie Halpin wrote: &ldquo;The Cataracts glittering display that he drew were full value for their victory. They played a spirited game behind a two-goal lead and in the third period when the Royals went all out in a vain effort to tie the score, they stifled them with close-checking tactics. The Shawinigan defense&mdash;Ted Hodgson, Claude Labrosse, Pete Taillefer, Leo Amadio and goalie Eddie Johnston&mdash;stood up well and rated the plaudits of the delighted Shawinigan fans.&rdquo;<h2>Fires Big One</h2>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9Montreal 2 at Shawinigan 3(Shawinigan leads best of seven series 3-2)Royals&mdash;Goal: Hodge; defense: Roche, Mantha, Balfour, Bownass. Clune: forwards: Kowalchuk. Boucher Cressman, Burnett, Denis, Mosdell. Bradley. Hoekstra, Lund.Shawinigan&mdash;Goal: Johnston: defense: Amadio, Hodgson. Labrosse, Taille-fer; forwards: Fleming. Desaulniers. Wary, Girard, Bouchard, Mekilok, Attwell, Bell, Johnson, Faulkner.First Period1&mdash;Royals, Denis (Mosdell)&hellip;. 4:122&mdash;Shawinigan, Girard 8:003&mdash;Shawinigan, Attwell(Johnson, Faulkner)&hellip;&hellip; 12:564&mdash;Royals, Bradley(Denis, Hoekstra)&hellip;&hellip; 19:47Penalties: Balfour 2:35. 7:53. 13:15; Labrosse 13:55; Fleming 17:46.Second Period5&mdash;shawinigan, Bouchard (Desaulniers, Wary) 2:57Penalty: Fleming 5:16.Third PeriodNo scoring.Penalties: Kowalchuk 2:28; Amadio 5:32Stops:Hodge.&hellip;&hellip; 16 4 5 8-22Johnston.&hellip;&hellip; 6 5 5-15Chicoutimi 1 at Quebec 2(Quebec wins best of seven series 4-2)Chicoutimi&mdash;Goal: Boisvert; defense: Claude Deslauriers, Roy, R. Rousseau; forwards: Leclair, Harvey Locas. Perrault, Courcy, Smrke, Pichette, Caron, G. Rousseau. Hicks.Quebec&mdash;Goal: Miliar; defense: Mas-cotto. Crozier. Hillman. Picard. La-mlrande; forwards: Hayden, Blaine, Teal. Sleaver. Labadie, Sabourin, Gagnon. Cossette. Maxwell.First Period1&mdash;Quebec. Labadie(Teal. Cossette)&hellip;&hellip;5:40Penalties: Leclair 2:14; 11:07.Second Period2&mdash;Quebec,. Sabourin(Blaine. Gagnon)&hellip;&hellip;4:523&mdash;Chicoutimi. Locas (Hicks)&hellip; 11:56 Penalties: Crozier 4:58: Courcy 8:47;Locas and Maxwell 11:58.Third PeriodNo scoring.Penalties: None.Stops:Boisvert&hellip;&hellip; 11 9 5-23Millar&hellip;&hellip; 4 7 8-19FRIDAY, APRIL 11Shawinigan 0 at Montreal 3(Best of seven series tied 3-3)shawinigan&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;Royals. Denis (Mosdell. Bownass)&hellip;&hellip; 12:02Penalties: Amadio 3:64; Balfour 1:20;Second Period2&mdash;Royals. Bradley (Bownass. Burnett)&hellip;&hellip; 0:283&mdash;Royals. Balfour (Mosdell. Denisf&hellip;&hellip; 91:20Penalty: Mosdell 10:06.Third Period4&mdash;Royals. Hoekstra (Kowalchuk. Mantha) 8:185&mdash;Royals. Boucher(Burnett, Bradley)&hellip; 16:15Penalties: Hodgson 9:16; Mantha. 14:09: Clune 17:18.Stops: Johnston&hellip;&hellip; 9 12 13-34Hodge&hellip;&hellip; 11 8 6-25SUNDAY. APRIL 13Montreal 1 at Shiwinigam 2(Shawinigan wins best of seven1 series 4-3)Royals&mdash;Goal: Hodge: defense: Roche. Mantha. Bownass. Clune: forwards Kowalchuk. Boucher, Cressman. Bur--nett. Denis. Balfour. Bradley. Mosdell. Hoekstra. Lund.Shawinigan&mdash;Goal: Johnston; defen-se: Amadio. Hodgson. Labrosse. Ta&rsquo;lle-fer: forwards: Fleming. Desaulnirs, Wray. Girard. Bouchard. Mekilok, Attwell. Bell. Johnson. Faulkner.Referee: Len Corriveau; linesmen: J. Landry, R. Landry.First Period1&mdash;Shawinigan. Attwell(Faplkner Johnson)&hellip;&hellip; :542&mdash;Shawinigan. Bell(Labrosse. Mekilok)&hellip;&hellip; 2:54Penalties: None.Second Period3&mdash;Royals. Mosdell (Denis, Balfour)&hellip; 15:57Penalties: None.Third PeriodNo scoring, penalties: None.Stops:Hodge&hellip;&hellip;. 12 9Johnston&hellip;&hellip; 4 6 10-20<h2>The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03277/1622767-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="568" height="313"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04248/1622760-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="570" height="751"></div> &#9632;

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Cats Oust Royals, Sharpen Up Claws For Final Against Aces

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>Norm Defelice Fills In In Goal for Hurt Pidsodny and Plays Starring RoleWASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;The winner and new champion of the Eastern Hockey League&mdash;the Washington Presidents.The skaters from the nation&rsquo;s capital earned this title by defeating the defending champion Charlotte Clippers four game to three in the best-of-seven series.Washington made the final round by defeating the Johnstown Jets in the semi-finals while Charlotte qualified by knocking out the New Haven Blades.The Presidents won the title the hard way. They spotted coach Andy Brown&rsquo;s crew a three game to one advantage, then roared back to take the next three games&mdash;all on Charlotte ice.It marked the end to a perfect rags to riches story for the Presidents. Last year, Washington (then playing under the name of the Lions) finished last in the EHL.But last summer, the franchise was secured by Harry Glynn and Jerry DiLise, who used to own New Haven. This pair not only changed the name of the club, but hired a new coach and almost all new pleyers. It certainly paid off.Champs May Be ShiftedWashington is faced with the strange situation of losing its hockey team despite the fact it won the league title. Glynn and DiLise have intention&rsquo;s of moving their outfit to Northern New Jersey.Although they played exciting hockey throughout the campaign the Presidents did not do too good at the box office. &ldquo;Half the people in Washington are military men and the other half politicians,&rdquo; DeLise said. &ldquo;And all of them are always looking for free passes.&rdquo;Clipper coach Andy Brown voiced fear of the Presidents before the series opened.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll be out there trying to knock us out of the arena.&rdquo;Due to the lack of ice at either Washington or Charlotte, the opening game of the championship round was played at neutral Johnstown. Washington won this one. But when the series shifted to Washington for the next two encounters, the Clippers prevailedWhen the series moved to Charlotte for the remaining four games, the Clippers had a 2-1 lead in games and everybody thought it was all over, especially when the Clippers won the first game at home to stretch the advantage to 3-1.But the never-say-die Prexys came figihting back to cop the next three tilts and the EHL crown.Washington won the opening game, 4-1. Winger Wally Kull-man scored two goals in the opening period to give the Presidents a lead they never relinquished. Jean Leclerc and defenseman Lloyd Hinchberger added the other two Washington tallies while Herv Lalonde tanged in the sole Clipper point.Charlotte evened things at one all in the next game when it spotted Washington a 4-1 lead in the first period and then came roaring back with four goals to win out, 5-4. The deciding tally came with just minutes to play by veteran winger Dougie Adam.After the Clips won their second game here, the series moved to Charlotte. The southern outfit made it 3-1 with a 6-5 overtime triumph. The margin of victory was provided in this won by Chucky Stuart, the Clippers roly-poly centerman. He scored his third goal of the night with 14:06 gone in the extra session to win the game.But here the stage was set for Washington&rsquo;s surprising ccmeback. Leclerc and Ray Lacroix banged home a pair of first segment scores and Roger Hayfield and Steve Kuzma tallied in the middle stanza to give coach Steve Brklacich&rsquo;s operatives a 4-2 victory.Washington then Hollowed up with a 5-3 victory to even things at 3-3. Still everybody thought Washington was lucky and Charlotte was going to win because who ever heard of them dropping three in a row on home ice? But they did.Sparked by a hat trick by winger Vip Palladino, who finished 40th in scoring during the regular campaign, the Prexys copped the all-important rubber game, 5-2.Player-coach Steve Brklacich and Angie Defelice, whose brother filled in for Washington as goalie during the playoffs, tallied the other two scores. Gerry Sullivan and Al &ldquo;Bibber&rdquo; O&rsquo;Hearn offered the only resistance for Charlotte.Two of Palladino&rsquo;s goals came in the first period as did the club&rsquo;s other two tallies to give Washington an early pad to work with. Vic added his hat trick shot in the early moments of the final period.As mentioned earlier, Norm Defelice, who played the regular season with the last place Clinton Comets, filled in for Washington goalie Nick Pidsodny who suffered an ankle injury during a workout. He played a major role in the Presidents pulling off the coup.It was only fitting that a sensational final playoff series cap a sensational season in the Eastern Hockey League.<h2>Stand in Star</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01349/1622805-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="568" height="1123"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Defelice</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Washington Takes EHL Crown Clipping Clippers In Final

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01322/1622836-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Solution In Next Week&rsquo;s Issue</figcaption></div>ACROSS1&mdash;Boston player shown in centre.5&mdash;Initials of Toronto&rsquo;s coach.7&mdash;Denotes number worn by Allan Stanley.8&mdash;One of the Colville brothers of Ranger fame.S&mdash;Chicago&rsquo;s chief eastern scout.11&mdash;This New York player is a native of Wales.13&mdash;Pictured star played in this league in 1955-56 (abbr.)16&mdash;Preposition17&mdash;Body of water.18&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom pictured player first played (abbr.)19&mdash;Ton (abbr.)20&mdash;Initials of a Ranger rearguard.22&mdash;Name given 15 down.23&mdash;An N.H.L. linesman answers to this.24&mdash;Larry Hillman&rsquo;s brother.26 Initials of an N.H.L. coach.27&mdash;A place with a medicinal spring.29&mdash;Dick Duff&rsquo;s brother.30&mdash;Initials of Lynn, former Maple Leaf forward.32&mdash;Foot (abbr.)33&mdash;Initials of Reibel of the is Hawks.34&mdash;Wear No 2. for Toronto.DOWN1&mdash;Played defense for Canadiens recently.2&mdash;Henri Richards sells this in the summer.3&mdash;Pietured star has had this broken.4&mdash;Girls&rsquo; name.5&mdash;Dickie Moore&rsquo;s second name6&mdash;Initials of Leger, ex Hab defenseman10&mdash;First two letters of overt.12&mdash;A former Chicago rear-guard.14&mdash;Pronoun.15&mdash;One of the Canadiens.20&mdash;First name of Boston&rsquo;s president.21-&mdash;Detroit traded, this player in order to obtain Goegan.y5&mdash;Short for given name of a New York forward.28 Complete initials of Phil Maloney..29&mdash;The (Fr.)31&mdash;Los Angeles (abbr.)Last Week&rsquo;s SolutionAcross1&mdash;Richard6&mdash;OO7&mdash;H.O.8&mdash;Goldhar12&mdash;All13&mdash;Hyman15&mdash;A.G.16&mdash;Ont18&mdash;Tie19&mdash;O.E.20&mdash;O.K.21&mdash;Bun22&mdash;Red24&mdash;Ann25&mdash;On27&mdash;C.I.32&mdash;A.R.33&mdash;O&rsquo;ConnorDown1&mdash;Regan2&mdash;College3&mdash;Hod4&mdash;Reay5&mdash;John9&mdash;OI.10&mdash;H.H.11&mdash;M.M.14&mdash;Announcer15&mdash;Aiken17&mdash;Tennis18&mdash;Toronto21&mdash;B.A.23&mdash;Det.23&mdash;WT29&mdash;Jan.31&mdash;J.C. &#9632;

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;It will be Toronto Marlboros and Ottawa-Hull Canadiens in the Eastern Canada junior final and if the the current front-office feud between the two clubs rubs off on the players it will be a bitterly contested affair.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02284/1622874-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="243" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Pollock</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03260/1622867-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="257" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Staff Smythe</figcaption></div>Ever since the disbanding of the Quebec Junior Hockey League, the OHA Junior A Council has been unhappy with the arrangement that permits the junior Canadiens a bye into the Eastern Canada final. Little was said or done about it however until a CAHA ruling allowed Canadiens to pick up Bruce Gamble and Wally Chevrier from Guelph Biltmores of the OHA.The OHA then filed a protest and Chevrier was refused permission to play for Canadiens. Gamble however did join Hal&rsquo;s and after going to New York as stand-by goalkeeper for Rangers in the Stanley Cup semi-final then returned to Ottawa.At. the most recent Junior Council meeting the OHA threw further fuel on the fire by voting to cancel the Laurier Cup series between OHA cl ubs and the junior Canadiens. The vote was 6-0 with Montreal s Peterborough Farm club abstaining.Harold Ballard. President of Marlboros stated. "If they were in our league and subject to elimination it would be different but we&rsquo;re just providing competition for an All-Star team which comes along fresh with a bye into the playoffs. Canadiens are no longer a good enough drawing card to justify our expense in going to Ottawa twice during the season.Never at a loss for words, Canadiens Farm director, Sam Pollock shrugged off rhe OHA move. &ldquo;The Ontario junior teams weren&rsquo;t drawing flies,&rdquo; said Sam, "We didn&rsquo;t figure on continuing the series after this year anyway.Stafford Smythe. Marlies vo-lataile general manager, still fuming over the use of Gamble by Canadiens has stated that Marlies will play every game under protest or else use the best junior they can find in the. OHA as &rsquo;a replacement. If they&rsquo;re going to improve their team with an ineligible player we might as well do it too", was his comment.The Junior Council hag backed Marlboros in whatever plan of action they decide to undertake.Marlboros reached the final round by eliminating St. Catharines and Hamilton Tiger-Cubs. Hamilton on the strength of a great netminding display by CarlWetzel extended the series to five games by holding Toronto to a 3-3 tie in the fourth game after dropping the first three. Marlies took the deciding game however by a one-sided 7-1 margin to advance to the Memorial Cup semi-final for the third time in the last four seasons.Ottawa-Hull played Cape Breton All-Stars in a best of five quarter-final series that was called off for the second time in as many years after two games. Canadiens took the first 18-3 and the second 12-2.Notes: Bill Kennedy who returned to Marlboros for the playoffs after &ldquo;retiring&rdquo; scored six goals in the Hamilton series&hellip; Boh Nevin counted 13 times in Dukes two playoff series&hellip; Barrie&rsquo;s high-scoring Hill Forhan turned professional with Springfield of the American Hockey League after Flyers were ousted from playoff contention by St. Mike&rsquo;s&hellip; Former Hilt-more star Eddie Shack has been named one of Phil Watson&rsquo;s &ldquo;indispensibles&rdquo; for next season&hellip; He joins other ex-Hatters, Andy Bathgate, Lou Fon-tiuato. Dean Prentice and Harry Howell on the untouchable list&hellip;Junior Council has requested the OHA to extend the cutdown date from December 15th to January 15th&hellip; Marlboros (and Maple Leaf Gardens) are annoyed because playoff arrangements; cut them out of a lucrative Sunday date&hellip;<div class="sidebar"><h2>Brown Slams Sam For Trying To Add Junior B Replacement</h2>HAMILTON, Ont.&mdash;Further fuel was added to the already smoldering battle between the Toronto Marlboros and Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens when Gerry Brown, coach of the Hamilton Cubs of the OHA junior League said the Canadiens were making a shambles of the Memorial Cup playoffs.&rdquo;Latest move by Pollock is to ask for a replacement from the Metropolitian Junior B league. He is already using replacement Bruce Gamble of Guelph in goal. His request for Wally Chevrier of the Guelph club was turned down.&ldquo;Pollock claims that the Quebec teams are of Junior B calibre,&rdquo; Brown said. But both Pollock and Montreal Canadiens managing-director Frank Selke have repeatedly referred to the league as one of the finest Junior A leagues in the country.&ldquo;It seems the status of the league is changed whenever a change will benefit the Montreal organization. Canadiens run the Quebec branch and they refuse to recognize the Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s draft rule. They have killed-Junior A hockey in Quebec in order to satisfy their own selfish demands.&rdquo; &#9632;</div>

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April 19, 1958

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