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October 18, 1958
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(As seen in the Montreal Gazette) A Loaded Hockey Team One job in sport we wouldn’t particularly care to have is Toe Blake’s. Toe is coaching the greatest hockey club in the world and you may ask, “What’s wrong with that?” The only thing wrong with it is that everybody expects the Canadiens to win the N.H.L. championship again and retain the Stanley Cup. If they do as expected, the public will say, “So what?” If they lose, Toe will have to take the blame. In a sense, he can’t win, if you follow us. which is sometimes hard to do. This is a loaded hockey team, to be sure, but much can happen to wreck a loaded team. Such things as injuries, illness, and the failure of certain players to play up to…
AHL Used Up 17 Goalers In 1957-58: Bisons Needed Four
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The six American League clubs used up 16 goalers during the regular season and playoffs in 1957-58. The Buffalo Bisons were high in use of cage defenders. During the year they used four different one. Gerry McNamara started the season with them. He was lost through injury and in came Harry Lumley. He went to Boston and AT Millar tilled in for 19 games and Dennis Brodeur for five. Cleveland used Johnny Bower for most of the seasons and then lost him and picked up Lucien Dechene from Saskatoon. Hershey alternated between Bobby Perreault and Gil Mayer for most of the season with Ivan Walmsley-taking over for one game, and George Dermksian for another Providence used Marcel Paille and Lome Worsley when one of the two weren’t in New York. Rochester had Gerry…
Chad Wins Praise But Bower The Nod As Leafs’ Starter
TORONTO. Ont.— Bower’s in power, but Chad isn’t bad. This could be considered Billy Reay’s theme as he launches the 1958-59 NHL campaign with newcomer Johnny Bower in goal and holdover Ed Chadwick in the wings. The Toronto Maple Leaf coach, who figures goaltending is the biggest single factor influencing a team’s destination, is certain that this season he has the tools to make the playoffs. Although he has not yet adopted any special format for his proposed platoon system of goaltending, Reay feels he can’t go wrong if Bower and Chadwick continue to perform as they did in the Toronto training camp and exhibition series. “Eddie is already, looking much better,” the coach estimates. “He’s in better condition and working harder. And Bower is certainly living up to my expectation—which were high from the…
Dow Red Wings Do Depends On How Howe Does
DETROIT, Mich.— Encouraging… frightening. Either reaction is understandable after studying Gordie Howe’s role in the Detroit Red Wings’ scoring during the preseason exhibition whirl. Long ago the hockey world learned that Howe is the “bell cow” of Detroit’s hockey herd. “Stop Howe and you stop the Wings,” is a familiar saying around the National Hockey League., It is highly debatable if another player in the NHL means as much to his club as Howe does to the Wings. Certainly not last season. Howe was picked as winner of the Hart Trophy as the league’s most-valuable player. It was the fourth time he won the award. While the clue to stopping the Wings is obvious, it has not been easy to follow. Stopping Howe is one project no club over has managed for long. During the past 19 years…
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