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March 28, 1959
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Seniors Blame Pros For Mess Loops Are In
STRATFORD, Ont.— There are some hockey die-hards who disclaim vehemently that there is anything wrong with senior hockey, while others are just as emphatic that not only senior hockey, but all hockey is ailing and venture to prescribe for the illness. George Inglis, of the Kelowna B.C. Courier, home of the Packers, who toured Russia earlier this year, says: “I can’t see the sport dying. It is just sick.” The consensus of opinion is that the senior “A” hockey promoters have none but themselves to blame for the financial situation they find themselves in. Len Taylor of the Kitchener Record, home of Canada’s 1960 Olympic Games team, says: “It isn’t a question of what is wrong with senior hockey. It’s a matter of what is wrong with all hockey, amateur and professional. Everyone…
Annual Slump Over, Don Succeeds Bronco As Bs’ Big Man On Goal Campus
BOSTON, Mass.— Don McKenney of the Boston Bruins has ridden out his annual scoring slump to become one of the National Hockey League’s big guns. Becoming a big gun requires the scoring of 30 or more goals, and McKenney bettered that figure this season for the first time. Over five seasons McKenney has been a prolific scorer for the Bruins, with only one soft spot on his record, his second year. One of the secrets of his scoring success is his attitude toward slumps. As far as he’s concerned they exist only on paper, in statistics. The streamlined forward scored his 30th goal during a spree of five goals in four games, but he prefaced it with a scoreless stretch covering a month, or 11 games. When he wasn’t scoring McKenney wasn’t pressing, however. He kept going…
Selke To Advise Against Selling Amerk Interests
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League have offered to purchase the Montreal Canadiens’ owned stock in the Rochester Americans hockey club. Stafford Smythe, a director of the Leafs made the announcement last week. General Manager Frank Selke, who guides the Canadiens’ farm system, including Rochester, told Smythe that a decision on the offer would be forthcoming when Canadiens owner Senator Molson returns from holidays. Selke told Smythe that he personally would advise against Montreal selling out to Toronto. If the Leafs are unable to purchase the Canadiens interest in the Rochester franchise, it is expected that Stafford Smythe will make arrangements for an AHL farm team — probably Springfield Indians.…
Up And Down, Wharram Looks Like He Might Stick Around For While
CHICAGO, Ill.— Kenny Wharram didn’t get too excited last summer when he learned his contract had been traded to the Black Hawks by Buffalo in exchange for those of Wally Hergesheimer and Frank Martin. But then, the little forward from North Bay had ample reasons to feel the way he did. “Sure I felt pretty good about getting invited to the Chicago camp, but by now this had become something I had gone through more than just a couple of times and each time the result — sooner or later — was the same and I was on my way back to the minors” is the way he put it. Wharram, who doesn’t quite look the 26 that he is or like a settled-down homebody about to welcome a second off-spring, actually first…
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