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May 1, 1960
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Egan’s Eager Beavers Weild Potent Sticks In Playoffs
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.— Coach Pat Egan’s new-look forward lines sparked the Springfield Indians to their first American Hockey League Calder Cup championship in history. His latest innovation is Dennis Olson, Jimmy Bartlett and Gerry Foley—a unit Egan put together just before the playoffs got underway and which has helped the club to at least three post-season vicories In Springfield’s first victory over the Providence Reds, 3-1, Olson had one goal and Foley and Bartlett set up defenseman Kent Douglas on another. In game No. 5—the clincher in the first set against the Reds—Bartlett scored twice and Foley once while Olson had three assists in a 5-3 victory. Bartlett also scored two goals in the third game of the SpringfieldProvidence set but in a losing cause, 7-6. Against Rochester Americans in the final Cup round, the Indians came…
J.C. Tremblay, MVP, Sault’s Dejordy Top Rook In EPHL
MONTREAL, Que.— The brain cells must have been spinning. Thoughtful members of the selection committee voting on the first batch of EPHL Awards needed deep concentration. In the league chock full of talent. What was a rookie? And where, in many cases, did such rookie differ from a selectee as the most valuable player? Perhaps some of the boys just wrote names on slips of paper dropped the slips in a hat, and drew out a couple. No. 1 they called MVP. No. 2 was the best rookie. At any rate here were the findings as released from headquarters in Ottawa by league president Edward Houston. Jean-Claude Tremblay, who played four or five games for Canadians in NHL competition while the EPHL was just getting off the ground early last autumn, wins the duke as…
Bruins Would Like To Get Another Center And Left Wing; Defense Corps Okay
BOSTON. Mass.— The anticipated absence of Fleming Mack-ell and Jerry Toppazzini from the Bruins’ lineup next season has created two vacancies in the forward squad. Who’ll fill the holes? That depends. “It may depend on players already in our organization,” said Manager Lynn Patrick, “or it may depend on any deals we make. It may depend on how we do in the draft in June. “But we’ll probably have a couple of new forwards, anyway,” said Patrick. The Bruins are expected to begin pre-season training here in September with two holdover lines: 1-Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk, Vic Stasiuk. 2-Don McKenney, Doug Mohns, Leo LaBine. Prospective members of another line are Guy Gendron, who scored 24 goals last season and Dick Meissner, already chosen for regular work by Patrick. Before leaving for an end-of-season scouting trip, Patrick said, “I’d like…
Playing the field
He Knew What He Wanted On the train to Chicago during the Stanley Cup semi-final series between the Canadiens and the Black Hawks, Toe Blake remarked that he knew what he wanted to do in life when he was 10 years old. “My ambition was to play in the National Hockey League,” he said. What about baseball? He played it as a boy. Didn’t he ever feel that he’d like to be a major league ball player? “I guess I’d figured out that a kid born in Canada didn’t have much chance to be a major league ball player,” he replied. “If I’d been born in the United States, I’d probably have thought differently. But I saw all those Canadians playing in the NHL and I felt I had a chance to make it.” He…
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