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April 11, 1959
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QUEBEC LEAGUE
Quebec Fans Cheer Two destinct cheering sections have been aligned in the Ancient Capital as the Stanley Cup series wages. The old rooter’s club is of course for Canadiens, since the Montreal Habs lists so many provincial born French-Canadians on its roster. Above all they have Jean Beliveau. The other newer holler group backs Punch Imlach and Toronto Leafs, a real oddity. Settling Arguements In the taverns and tea-shops there have been repeated discussions lately resulting in a hasty call to The Hockey News or another newspaper. No, Algernon, Phil Watson never did coach the Quebec Aces. His masterminding chores in the Ancient Capital were split between two junior clubs at a time junior hockey hit a boom in the Ancient Capital — Citadelles and Frontenacs. How The Race Goes TUESDAY, MARCH 31 Three Rivers…
Powerful Defense, Powerhouse On Offense, Hoisted flag in Clinton
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— The individual scoring race in the Eastern Hockey League this year wasn’t even close. Dickie Wray, the Clinton Comets’ tricky-skating winger, banged home 56 goals and handed off 70 assists for a grand total of 126 points. Running a distant second was Dick Roberge, a member of the Jonstown Jets’ big line, with an even 100 on 54 and 46. Roberge’s linemates, Don Hall and Kenny Coombes, also finished in the top ten to place this great line in that category once again. Last year they came in 1-2-3. This time, however, Hall ended up fourth with 36 goals and 51 assists for 87 points while Coombes was eighth with 28 and 47 for 75. In third place in scoring was the league’s number one bad man, Wally Kullman, of Washington. In addition…
Petes Find Collegians’ Defense Tough To Crack In First Three
GUELPH, Ont.— After three games of the OHA Junior A finals Peterborough coach Scott Bowman was discovering a hard fact of hockey life; goals against St. Michael’s College Majors are tough to come by. It may be a little unfair to say that Bowman was “discovering” this since Scott is a keen student of the game and undoubtedly drew that conclusion by persuing the statistics of the St. Mike’s-St. Catharines series in which the vaunted Teepees scored only 13 goals in the seven games that it took the Irish to eliminate them. After three games of the finals TPT’s had netted six times as the much improved Collegians continued to maintain a two-goals-against defensive average. Petes tied two of those games to keep their hopes very much alive but they were sandwiched around a…
Playing the field
VOLUME 12 MONTREAL, APRIL 11, 1959 No. 28 Montreal Gazette Hawks Talking About Next Season CHICAGO, III. — Once the playoffs start, there is a gag question the sports writers ask the coaches: “What’s the strategy for tonight, coach?”, the question was asked Rudy Pilous, the Hawks’ coach, earlier today. He had a ready answer. “Beer on the bench, rubber sticks and no backchecking,” he said. Regardless of the outcome of the series, the Black Hawks are already talking about next season. They started a rebuilding program about five years ago when Tommy Ivan took over as manager of the club. “We had to start from scratch and set up a farm system,” Tommy said. “You can’t buy hockey players any more. The players the other teams are willing to let you have won’t…
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