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March 7, 1959
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Rough Series Is Predicted If Maroons, Dutchies Meet
STRATFORD, Ont.— The injury-riddled North Bay Trappers and the shorthanded Windsor Bulldogs failed to make the playoff grade in the NOHA OHA group, leaving Chatham Maroons, Kitchener Dutchmen, Soo Greyhounds and Sudbury Wolves to battle it out for group honors, and should Chatham and Kitchener qualify for the finals, the fur may fly, according to reports from both cities, which intimate that there is considerable bad blood between the two clubs, as the result of some lusty, hard-hitting battles in their last two games. The first cry emanated from Kit chener, where the charge was made that teams like Chatham Maroons and Windsor Bulldogs were deliberately trying to injure some of the Dutchmen, especially highscoring Ken Laufman and veteran Bill Wylie. From Chatham comes the quote of Johnny Horeck, coach of the Maroons,…
Four Hat Tricks In One IHL Game; Rebs Closing In
TOLEDO, O.— Five hat tricks were recorded in one week recently in the International Hockey League and four of them came in one game. Pierre Bri1lant, of Indianapolis, set a new IHL record as he scored six of his team’s goals as the Chiefs downed Toledo, 10-2. Brillant’s record surpassed the old mark of five goals in one game held by several players. The national record for the most goals in one game is seven, set by Bill Purcell when he played for the Baltimore Clippers of the Eastern Hockey League against the Boston Olympics in Baltimore on March 3, 1948. The other four hats were earned by three from Louisville and one from Troy, in a game on Feb. 21 in Louisville which the Chiefs won 16-6. Ed Dudych, Joe Kastelic and George…
Scribe Flips As Zeidel Gagged By Boss After Flipping Lid Once More
CLEVELAND, O.— A “gag rule” was invoked on an American Hockey League player for the first time in the memory of this writer when Hershey’s Larry Zeidel was banished from a game in Cleveland the night of Wednesday Feb. 18. More than likely it was the first time in the history of the American Hockey League that a player was put under orders to keep quiet in his contacts with the newspaper reporters. Riotous Bruin Hershey’s Bears won the game from the Barons by a score of 2-1 in “sudden death” overtime. Zeidel, back in action against Cleveland for the first time since he was suspended for three games against Cleveland on Dec. 17, lasted only five minutes in this one. Referee Lou Farelli ordered him to the dressing room at 4:51 of the second period…
Milt Orders Simmons To Talk It Up When Play Is Down At His End Of Rink
BOSTON, Mass— If Don Simmons wants to make a permanent change of personality as one of the more reserved Boston Bruins, it’s all right with his coach. For business purposes only, that is. Simmons has always gone about his goalkeeping with a reticence which contrasts with the icetime conduct of some of his contemporaries. Milt Schmidt, Bruins’ coach, wants the dapper goalie to become more loquacious. Schmidt passed his desire on to Simmons prior to a game in Detroit in which the Bruins beat the Red Wings by 4 to 1. “Don never has much to say on or off the ice,” said Schmidt, “but I’ve told him I’d like him to make more noise on the ice. think that in today’s hockey a team benefits by having a goalkeeper who does a lot of talking. “Don…
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