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April 9, 1960
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PASSING THE PUCK
• DETROIT—VETERAN players like Red Kelly, Johnny Bower, Bert Olmstead and Allan Stanley carried the load for the Toronto Maple Leafs in their semi-final win over Detroit…Toronto is a club that has always emphasized the youth movement, but it was the work of the greybeards who paid off in this series…It was the outstanding play of Kelly and Bower that swung the series to Toronto’s favor…Detroit would probably have won if these stellar performers had been out of the Leaf lineup…Red Kelly was the most demonstrative of the Leafs after it was all over and the Maples had set the Wings back, four games to two…“It’s great to be with a winner, and it was a good move coming out of retirement,” said the former Red Wing ace of 13…


The Jack McMaster Story: A Hockey Tragedy
“I had to lie rigid for three months with an ice tong-like gadget stuck in holes drilled in the sides of my head and held with seven pound weights so I couldn’t move my head at all. “I’ve got a bad limp because they had to take part of my hip bone and place it in my neck, and I don’t have normal feeling from the neck down. “My hospital bills alone amounted to $7,000, and I’ve been under a doctor’s care and undergoing therapy treatments for the nine months since I left the hospital.” Those statements are just part of Jack McMaster’s story, a tragic tale which resulted solely from a piece of paper thrown by a spectator onto a hockey rink in Sudbury, Ont. At 8 p.m. on Dec. 5, 1958, McMaster…


Warriors’ Norm Waslowski Named Top Rookie In WHL
Norman Waslowski of the Winnipeg Warriors won the Rookie Award of the Western Hockey League for the 1959-60 season. In addition to the Rookie Trophy he will receive one hundred dollars from the league. Norm polled 257 of the possible 630 votes in the annual poll by the Sportswriters and Sportscasters of the W.H.L. seven cities. He scored 24 goals and assisted in 25 others in his rookie season with the Warriors. He scored six game winning goals and picked up the first goal of the game twice. He had one three goal “Hat Trick” and spent only 8 minutes in the penalty box. Waslowski was born in Winnipeg April 20, 1938, and played all of his junior hockey in that city. Teammate Teddy Green was next in the balloting with 108½votes.…


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