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December 12, 1959
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Leach Corner Silence Plus In Boston’s Dressing Room
BOSTON, Mass.— Larry Leach has had a good grip on the title as the most taciturn of the Boston Bruins since coming up from Providence last winter. In a dressing room peopled by such conversationalists as Leo LaBine, Bronco Horvath, Don Mcenney and Jerry Toppazzini, Leach is a veritable island of silence. In addition, he occupies a corner of the room screened off by a clothes rack. When the rack is filled only Bob Armstrong, his next-door neighbor, knows for certain whether or not Leach is in.…
Champs’ Hopes Dashed At No. 19 On Flick Of Frank’s Silencer
MONTREAL, Que.— One flick of Frank Mahovlich’s hockey stick and it was all over for the Montreal Canadiens. The runaway Habitants, thundering along through 18 straight unbeaten games—five off the existing NHL record set in 1940-41 by Boston—saw their dreams of a new mark shattered by Toronto’s ‘Cinderella’ Leafs 1-0 in a tense and exciting hockey game that left 14,632 Toronto fans bubbling in their beer. It was no hackneyed performance that ultimately tripped up the Stanley Cup champs either. Ageing Johnny Bower had to perform hand-stands to silence the big Canadiens’ guns and become the first NHL goalie to achieve a shutout against the Habs since Dec. 31, 1958, a run of some 55 games. It also flushed the rangy Mahovlich out of the Leafs’ ‘dog house’, where he had been under fire for…
Dozen Of Bronco’s First 20 Came on Bruins Powerplay
BOSTON, Mass.— When the Boston Bruins opened their National League schedule in early October, Bronco Horvath had his season’s scoring objective on file. It was a modest objective, his standard objective. Horvath hoped to score 20 goals. On November 29 Horvath scored two goals against the Montreal Canadiens in a game here at the Garden. The goals were Bronco’s 19th and 20th of the season. The game was the Bruins’ 24th of the season. And the season lacked a week of being two months old. Records, records, records…Horvath, already the target for interviewers and photographers in New York, Detroit, Toronto, here, there, everywhere, was hearing the word in his sleep. “I’ve said before I never think about records,” reiterated the well-spoken native of Port Colborne, Ontario. “I’m happy I’ve been fortunate enough to get 20 goals. I hope I’m…
Blues Trouble Is Thing Called Confidence, Among Other Things
NEW YORK, N.Y.— The Rangers feel like the boy who fell into a well—you know, the murky, deep kind—with no one around to help. That left the poor bloke with a choice of either drowning or hauling himself out…by the bootstraps, if you’ll pardon the cliché. Similarly, the Blues find themselves on their backs looking up like classical Tantalus at the covetous grapes, in this case playoff berth. Any authority on anatomy will tell you that a man can survive at the bottom of a well just so long, then he just fades away. While time isn’t exactly running out on the Blues, it is apparent that the hour has come for an upward move. On paper it would seem that neither Toronto, Detroit or Boston are so far above the grappling blues that they…
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