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January 14, 1961

The Hockey News January 14, 1961

DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; An article in the current issue of Sport quotes Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings as saying: &ldquo;I figure that I&rsquo;ve collected more than $40,000 in NHL bonuses alone since joining the Wings and that doesn&rsquo;t include my regular salary, special team bonuses or my income from outside interests.&ldquo;Then there&rsquo;s the terrific NHL pension plan, the best in sports. When I&rsquo;m 45 years old, I&rsquo;ll be the league for the rest of my life.&rdquo;The article, under Howe&rsquo;s byline, went on to say that he is a wealthy man and that the Wings pay him more than $25,000 a &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Howe Tells All; Salary Is Over $25,000 A Year

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>Toronto, Ont.Don&rsquo;t be surprised if Leafs ask the National Hockey league for more Sunday games.As of Jan., 1, Leafs had won 10 of their 12 Sabbath games in Detroit, Chicago, Boston and New York.They tied another and tost one for a net gain of 21 of a possible 24 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03310/2061867-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="274" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Bower</figcaption></div>Leafs&rsquo; Sunday night victims were Boston Bruins and New York Rangers four times each, Chicago and Detroit once apiece. Red Wings provided the tie and loss.&ldquo;I just wish we were as consistent at home&rdquo;, says coach Punch Imlach. Leafs had won seven, tied four and lost two on Saturday evenings and their Wednesday home record was a win, two losses and two draws.Leafs&rsquo; Jan. 1 victory in Madison Square Garden was their sixth in a row on the road (and sixth in a row over Rangers).However, nobody can guess why they&rsquo;re so good away from home unless, as Imlach suggests, they need the Saturday night game at home to loosen up. Another factor, of course, is that goalie Johnny Bower is much better on the road than he is at home-for some unknown reason.Leafs&rsquo; expanding airborne policy helps them, too, eliminating long tiresome trips to Boston and New York. Now they fly to either city immediately after a home game and are in bed in their hotels by 2.30 a.m. That means they&rsquo;re well-rested and feeling keen. &#9632;

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Sunday Nigh ts Success Leafs Biggest Story

CHICAGO, Ill.The Chicago Black Hawks got back on the winning road last week as they ran their streak to seven straight games. Leading the Hawks out of the wilderness was their gritty little right winger Stan Mikita.Stan, the only player in the league born in Czechoslovakia, scored four goals and added an assist as the Hawks jumped to within seven points of the second place Toronto Maple Leafs. In the Braves&rsquo; seven game streak Mikita scored one or more goals in each. In that streak he scored nine goals, one more than his 70 game total last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05191/2061182-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="250" height="404"></div>This was the Hawks&rsquo; winning record for the week:Staa MikitaJan. 4, Chicago 3 at New York 3 (Mikita scored two).Jan. 5, Chicago 4 at Boston 3 (Mikita scored one goal).Jan. 8, Toronto 1 at Chicago 5 (Mikita scored 1 goal, 1 assist).His week&rsquo;s work gave Stan a total of four goals and one assist. His total after 40 games was 12 goals and 18 assists for 30 points, three more than his 70 game total last season.The sudden splurge by Mikita and linemate Ab. McDonald and Ken Wharram has brought the Hawks out of a mid-season slump that saw them slip from second into third.Mikita, rated one of the finest juniors ever to come out of Canada, was a star with the St. Catharines Teepees prior to being elevated to the Hawks. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-Week

DETROIT, Mich, &mdash; After the Toronto Maple Leafs had crushed the Detroit Red Wings for the second time in as many nights, General Manager Jack Adams of the Wings said:&ldquo;Those Leafs could take it all. That&rsquo;s quite a hockey team and everything is going for them. Especially that big fellow (Frank Mahovlich).&ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing the way Gord Howe did the year he got 49 goals. That Mahovlich got his 35th in this game and with only a little better than half the season gone he could crack that 50 goal record of the Rocket.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s getting the breaks but he&rsquo;s working and skating to earn them. And to think we almost snared him as a kid.&rdquo; &#9632;

“Leafs Could Take It All” Warns Adams

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0192/2062357-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Only One Richard Is Gone</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;A handful of veterans will be on the spot during the second half of the 1960 - 61 schedule. What they do in that second half will determine where they will play next season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0275/2062350-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="270" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption></div>At the top of the list are Rangers&rsquo; Andy Bathgate and Bill Gadsby; Bostons&rsquo; Leo Boivin, Bronco Horvath and Jerry Toppazzini. General Manager Jack Adams at Detroit will be watching the play of Goaler Terry Sawchuk closely during the second half of the season, as well as Gary Aidcorn and Len Lunde. Unhappy with the mid-season slump his Chicago Black Hawks went into, General Manager Tommy Ivan will be seeking to strengthen for next season. A man who has never hesitated to trade to improve his club, he too will be watching his veterans closely during the second 35 games of the year. He most certainly will be keeping an eye on Jack Evans, Al Arbour, Ed Litzenberger and Tod Sloan.The Toronto Maple Leafs, breathing down the necks of the Montreal Canadiens, are counting on their ageing veterans to carry them to their first NHL title since the 1947-48 season. Manager-Coach Punch Imlach has said all along that he has a contender. But when he said it he meant it would stay a contender as long as Johnny Bower, Bert Olmstead, Red Kelly and Al Stanley held up. But while the Leafs are giving the Habs a close run for the money. Imlach has indicated that his club lacks a strong right winger to put them in a class with the Canadiens. To fill that weak spot on his club he went after Rangers&rsquo; Bathgate, but failed to close the deal. He didn&rsquo;t offer enough for the Blues&rsquo; powerful winger. Yet there&rsquo;s reason to believe that if the Rangers continue to slump, the Leafs offer will loom bigger and better. Just who Punch offered for Andy is a matter known only to the Leafs&rsquo; front office. But it&rsquo;s not hard to figure out who they might offer. Three of the four veterans named above are virtually untouchables at the moment. But Imlach would throw Stanley into the deal.It goes without saying that Punch thinks too highly of Frank Mahovlich, Bob Pulford, Carl Brewer, Dave Keon and Bobby Baun to part with them. So that puts a total of eight Leafs on the untouchables list. It leaves such performers as George Armstrong, Dick Duff, Ron Stewart, Bill Harris, Al Stanley, Larry Regan and Tim Horton as tradeable material. The Rangers could have any two of these for Andy.General Manager Muzz Patrick admits that the Leafs have been bidding for his Star. Last week he said he was ready to part with him, too. This week he feels a little differently.Asked if he was getting ready to break up his team, he replied: &ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;ll have to. But I&rsquo;m not going to give any stars away, particularly Andy Bathgate. We need Bathgate bad on this club. A couple of weeks ago, Toronto made an offer for him. But all they wanted to give were stiffs. Now there&rsquo;s talk in Toronto of them getting Bathgate. But I&rsquo;ve got to get value.&rdquo;With Bathgate on their side, there&rsquo;s no doubt the Leafs would be as formidable a club as the Canadiens. But Muzz is going to think twice before parting with him. Not only is Bathgate one of the all-time great Rangers, but he&rsquo;sone of the few players on Broadway today, who can bring people into Madison Square Garden.The Canadiens, of course are still the leaders. But it&rsquo;s been a long time since they could look back after 40 games and see another team behind them. General Manager Frank Selke and Coach Toe Blake aren&rsquo;t used to it, and neither are the players. But the Habs can&rsquo;t be blamed for the Leafs success. As a matter of fact had the Habs had not as much success against the Leafs this season they would be sitting in second place behind the Torontonians. The Leafs have improved just a little more than the Canadiens this season, hence the close race. But the second half of the season remains and it will be interesting to see how the Habs progress. They have problems, too. Lets look at some of them.(1) Can Charlie Hodge maintain his fine play in goal?(2) If Blake decides to put Plante back in the nets, can Jacques make a comeback to the level that made him one of the greatest in NHL history?(3) Can the Habs get enough goals from their second stringers to offset a slump of great proportions by veterans such as Beliveau, Geoffrion and Henri Richard?(4) Can Dickie Moore find the range again? He has scored only one goal since early in December!(5) Can Doug Harvey and company &mdash; the defense corps &mdash; stay healthy.Of course Toe Blake may be holding an ace-in-the-hole in Jacques Plante. It&rsquo;s a big ace too, for if he decides to use him he will be getting a fresh goaler for the second half of the schedule. And if Bower suddenly runs cold the Habs&rsquo; big advantage will be in goal, for Imlach has no ready repacement for Johnny.So it will be an interesting second half. It will determine the future of some of the greatest names in the business. 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How They Go Will Determine Their Future

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT. Mich.Wilfred McDonald, M.P., and Hubert Quackenbush a pair of unlikely sounding names, have been voted into the Detroit Hockey Hall of FameNever heard of them?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01440/2060411-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="278" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Quackenbush</figcaption></div>Try Bucko McDonald and Bill Quackenbush.Bucko and Bill became the 18th and 19th men to be selected for the Red Wing Hall and two more different defensemen couldn&rsquo;t be found.Bucko, as his nickname implies, was a crackling, swashbuckling rearguard who hit with the gentleness of a truck.Quackenbush was smooth; an expert at poke-checking and a Lady Byng winner after going through the 1948-49 season without a single penalty.Bucko was a star of the Red Wings&rsquo; first two Stanley Cup teams in the mid 1930s and then went on to Toronto and finally finished up his NHL years at New York.Bucko, now coaching intermediate hockey, spent 12 years in parliament. Quackenbush is in business in the Boston area.Quackenbush didn&rsquo;t go for the &ldquo;belt em&rdquo; school of defense.&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t play that kind of hockey,&rdquo; Bill said. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t because I&rsquo;m just not a good bodychecker and I admit it.&ldquo;And I don&rsquo;t think you have to be a knock-dcwn guy to be a good defenseman. The important thing is to get the puck.&rdquo;How successful Quackenbush was in his method is illustrated by the fact that he made the first All-Star team three times and twice was named to the second All-Star unit in a 13-year NHL career.He was traded to Boston after his best of six seasons with Detroit. That was 1948-49 when he was first All-Star, Lady Byng winner and top scoring defenseman with six goals and 17 assists.Quackenbush spent seven years with the Bruins and in his 13 years in the big time, the Toronto native missed the playoffs only twice.And Bucko&rsquo;s style could be termed a &ldquo;smashing&rdquo; success.&ldquo;He was one of the hardesl checkers I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; says Red Wing general manager Jack Adams.Bucko was schooled in rugged play in his hometown of Fergus, Ont. Hockey was just about unheard of in Fergus. The only game in town was lacrosse and Bucko was one of the best in Canada.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02421/2060404-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="512" height="827"><figcaption class="caption-body">Color Guy</figcaption></div>He didn&rsquo;t start playing hockey until his mid-teens and he went into the Toronto chain. Conn Smythe dropped him off at Buffalo stating that McDonald didn&rsquo;t fit Leaf plans.But there were howls from the Leafs when Detroit bought Bucko from Buffalo for $1,500. In 1938, Adams sold Bucko to the Leafs for $10,000.McDonald came to Detroit in 1934 at age 21. His peak came two years later in the 1936 playoffs. Detroit met Montreal Maroons for the pennant with Hooley Smith the ace of the Maroons.McDonald checked Hooley so hard and so often that Smith didn&rsquo;t do a thing in the series. Bucko wasn&rsquo;t stingy with his attentions, he blasted several other Maroons forwards.&ldquo;He never got in a fight,&rdquo; Adams recalled. &ldquo;When Bucko checked someone, the guy didn&rsquo;t have any fight left in him.&rdquo;That was the series that saw Mud Bruneteau end hockey&rsquo;s longest game with a goal at 2:25 a.m. &mdash; 16:20 of the sixth overtime period, for a 1-0 Red Wing victory. The Red Wings went on down the Maroons and then beat Toronto for the Stanley Cup.Bucko was a big favorite wherever he played. He was beloved by the sports writers of the time Because he always was good copy. One described him as the &ldquo;Babe Ruth of hockey&rdquo; for his voracious appetite and easy-going manner.Bucko was a two-steak man and once was putting on poundage at such speed that Adams threatened to fine him $50 a pound for every pound up to 195 and $100 a pound for every pound over that.But McDonald checked in at a mere shadov and Adams didn&rsquo;t even recognize him as he strode through the darkened Olympia corridor.Although gone from the Red Wing scene for 22 years, Bucko has a hand in this year&rsquo;s Red Wing team. Rookie defenseman Gerry Odrowski is one of his proteges.It was Bucko who switched Odrowski from forward to defense.set Odrowski free. But Odrowski isn&rsquo;t a defenseman in the McDonald manner &mdash; he&rsquo;s a swift skater and not known as a belter.The others in the Detroit Hall of Fame, selected by the city&rsquo;s sports writers and sportscasters, are Sid Abel, Adams, Larry Aurie, Marty Barry, Bruneteau, Carson Cooper, Ebbie Goodfellow, Don Grosso, George Hay, Syd Howe, erbie Lewis, Johnny Mowers, Reg Noble, James D. Norris Sr., Jack Stewart, Frank (Honey) Walker and Doug Young. &#9632;

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Quack, Bucko In Red Wings’ Hall Of Fame

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div>Toronto. Ont.The Maple Leafs have decided they need one more first-grade player to make them strong ennnoh tn challenee Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; long-established ownershipof the Stanley Cup.They proved they&rsquo;re thinking big when they offered New York Rangers a parcel of players in exchange for none other than Andy Bathgate, one of the best right-wingers in the National Hockey league.&ldquo;We turned down their offer,&rdquo; said Muzz Patrick, Rangers&rsquo; general manager. &ldquo;They&rsquo;d have to do a lot better than what they had in mind.&rdquo;Just now, of course, Leafs are working with a makeshift lineup because of slow-healing injuries to fellows like Bobby Pulford, Larry Regan, Ron Stewart and Carl Brewer. However, even when they&rsquo;re at full strength, they lack just that extra dash which would pull them even with Canadiens.Frank Mahovlich, of course, is the league&rsquo;s best goal-scorer and upped his output to 33 goals in Leafs&rsquo; first 37 games.The second line of Bert Olmstead with Pulford and Stewart, when they&rsquo;re available, is of proven quality.And the third unit with either Dave Keon or Billy Harris centring DickDuff and George Armstrong is satisfactory and could be more than that if Duff ever regains his old-time scoring eye.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03379/2060442-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="272" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption></div>At right wing, though, there&rsquo;s not much punch. Stewart, Armstrong, Bob Nevin and Eddie Shack &mdash; none of them is a big goal-scoring threat.That is why Bathgate would be an excellent acquisition. Imagine, for example, him on the right side with Mahovlich and Red Kelly.Of course, if Duff reverted to the way he played the year he scored 29 goals, Leafs would be able to stand pat.At present, though, they have to look to Mahovlich to hit all their home runs.And they&rsquo;re consistently rescued, when they commit bloopers or have an off-color game, by their incredible goaltender, Johnny Bower. Working behind an improving defence that will get stronger with Brewer&rsquo;s return to health, Bower has been phenomenal all season and has yet to encounter the letdowns that punctuated his two previous years with Leafs.An example was Leafs&rsquo; New Year&rsquo;s doubleheader with Rangers. The New York club played extremely well both nights and deserved at least a split in points. But they couldn&rsquo;t overcome Bower.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you what&rsquo;s keeping Leafs up there,&rdquo; said Brian Cullen after the series, which Toronto swept by 2-1 and 4-1 scores. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s Bower. I don&rsquo;t understand how the old so-and-so keeps it up. You just can&rsquo;t say enough good things about him.&rdquo;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; agreed Johnny Wilson. &ldquo;He just stands there and defies you to put the puck past him. He fantastic.After 37 games, Bower still led all NHL goalies, although Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall was beginning to cut into his margin.Brewer and Regan were expected to rejoin Leafs last week. Brewer dressed for the two games against Rangers but appeared for only one shift. Stewart and Pulford were to be lost much longer, perhaps returning next month. Stewart has a cracked ankle and Pulford torn knee ligaments. Both were wearing casts.Coach Punch Imlach rearranged his forward lines. He kept Mahovlieh, Kelly and Nevin together, placed Olmstead on a unit with Keon at centre and Shack on right wing. Harris went to centre between Armstrong and Duff. The spare forward was Johnny McMillan, who killed penalties and spelled Nevin, Shack and Duff. &#9632;

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Imlach’s Bait Fails To Hook Bathgate From Lowly Rangers

TORONTO, Ont, &mdash; Punch Imlach has been fined $200 for public criticism of National Hockey League game officials.Clarence Campbell, NHL president, levied the fine after investigating a Dec. 1 outburst in Montreal in which Imlach told reporters he thought referee Frank Udvari and linesman Loring Doolittle and George Hayes had contributed to Canadiens&rsquo; 4-1 win. He said he thought they should have been chosen as stars of the game.Campbell said Imlach&rsquo;s remarks reflected on the &ldquo;general competence and integrity&rdquo; of the officials.Jim Proudfoot. &#9632;

Imlach Kayoed

NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash; General Manager Muzz Patrick admits that he is ready and willing to trade any of his Ranger players, if the trade will bring players who can beef up the Blues. Patrick said this week he is still looking for talent and is ready to trade anyone, if the price is right.Asked about the report he is just about ready to send Andy Bathgate to the Toronto Maple Leafs, Muzz replied; &ldquo;the way we&rsquo;re going now we&rsquo;d deal with anybody to help the team.Told that there was talk he&rsquo;d offered to sell Bathgate to the Leafs but the price was too high, he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not asking too much. I&rsquo;m just asking more than they offered.&rdquo;Meanwhile Coach Alf Pike intends to give his Rangers every chance to prove themselves. But his patience is wearing thin.&ldquo;For the first time we have everybody healthy,&rdquo; says Pike. &ldquo;Even though we&rsquo;ve been losing, we haven&rsquo;t been outplayed. So we&rsquo;re going to give our fellows a chance.&ldquo;But if we don&rsquo;t start winning there&rsquo;s going to be a lot of changes after or even during our next road trip which begins this week. We&rsquo;ll know the club we&rsquo;ve got just can&rsquo;t do it and we&rsquo;ll have to shake it up from the roots.&rdquo; &#9632;

Barter Gates Wide Open If Price Right — Patrick

<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01439/2060528-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Junior In Senior CompanyIn the middle of the Canadiens&rsquo; spotlight these days is Albert &lsquo;Junior&rsquo; Langlois, young defenseman who proved his worth to his bosses recently, when the club&rsquo;s defense corps was riddled by injuries. Above, the big five of the team&rsquo;s blueline brigade, left to right: Tom Johnson, Bob Turner, Langlois, Doug Harvey and Jean Guy Talbot. On the left, Junior in action.</figcaption></div><h2>Stars After Injuries Hit Hab Defense</h2>Junior&rsquo;s Play When The Club Had Three Men On Blueline Was The BestMONTREAL, QUE. &mdash;It will be some time before a man named Junior Langlois forgets the 24 hour period that turned the year 1960 into brand new 1961.The Canadiens defenseman is not what can be called the worrying type. But when a player has the normal pressure of his occupation increased by becoming a father, then finds himself one of only three surviving members of his team&rsquo;s defensive forces all within the same 24 hours, things can get a little bit tense.That&rsquo;s the way it happened for Langlois, when his wife gave birth to a baby girl in the closing hours of 1960, and Junior went with the team from a New Year&rsquo;s Eve tussle with the Rangers in the Forum, to a wild encounter with the Bruins in Boston on New Year&rsquo;s night.&ldquo;I was delighted with my new daughter,&rdquo; says Junior. &ldquo;The game in Boston &mdash; that was something else.&rdquo;<h3>A Big Test</h3>The daughter in the Langlois household was the 3rd born to the husky Hab defenseman and his wife, and if it brought increased responsibilities as a husband and father to the likeable Canuck, so did the January 1 meeting with the Bruins bring further responsibility to Junior as a player.For it was in that tussle, one of the roughest of the current season with 32 penalties including 4 majors and 2 misconducts dished out, that the Habs lost their 3rd defenseman in a row when rookie Jean Gauthier joined Harvey and Turner on the sidelines. It left Langlois with Johnson and Talbot as the sole defense Canucks had to offer an aroused band of Bruins. And, as Gauthier was hors de combat from midway through the 2nd period, it involved the remaining trio in some 30 minutes of trying to stem the Boston at-They nearly did it too, but the Habs lost the edge by a 3-2 count.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02354/2060521-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1125" height="1800"></div>&ldquo;It was my second experience like that in a week,&rdquo; reflects Langlois. &ldquo;The first one was against Rangers.&rdquo;He referred to the Christmas night encounter in New York when the Habs saw Turner get his wrist shattered by a 2nd period drive from the stick of Gadsby, which Bob tried to block. Once again, it remained for Langlois, Johnson and Talbot to hold the line, and if they failed to hold it against the Rangers&rsquo; 4 goal splurge in the 3rd period on that occasion, it wasn&rsquo;t from the lack of trying.&ldquo;We were each on the ice 15 minutes a period in that one,&rdquo; recalls Langlois.<h3>Overshadowed By Doug</h3>The year end doings the nature of a baptism of fire to Junior, now only in his 3rd full season with the Stanley Cup champions, excluding a 1957-58 stint that saw him in 1 regular and 7 playoff encounters.&ldquo;I was brought up from Rochester that time, to fill in for Tom Johnson, who was hurt,&rdquo; Junior remembers.But what may be significant is the fact that the heavy going as the schedule turned the corner of a new year, could have marked the first step that will see Junior begin to play a role of more stature on the Hab blueline.Though right along a steady going type of performer, his play tends to be overshadowed by that of the Harveys and Johnsons, yet 1961 may find him faced with a more assertive type of role. If it does, Junior is ready as always, to give it all he&rsquo;s got.him with being the guiding genius of the Hab blueline, and tells of the great help he&rsquo;s received personally from Doug, through various stages of his career.<h2>Harvey Gets Credit For Newest Zip</h2>Says Doug Gives All Of Defencemen Confidence; Calls Him The Greatest&ldquo;When he&rsquo;s out there, he gives us all confidence,&rdquo; Junior declares. &ldquo;I believe he could play the whole 60 minutes if he had to. I think he&rsquo;s the greatest of them all, bar none,&rdquo; concluded Langlois simply.<h3>He&rsquo;ll Remember Grind</h3>Readying himself for the part of the schedule that the team will kick off in this first month of the new year, Langlois cannot predict what Fate may have in store for himself or the team as such.But as the race tightens up and the pressure of play increases, he knows one thing for certain. Those 24 hours that changed a year, a household, and a responsibility for Junior Langlois, will be ones that he&rsquo;ll remember for a long time to come. &#9632;

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Langlois’ Stock Set To Take Leap In 1961

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03230/2060559-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"></div>LANGLOIS, ALBERTBorn, Magog, Que., November 6, 1934. Defense. Shoots tetf. 6&rsquo;, 198 lbs.Last amateur club: Quebec Frontenacs (Jrs.) &#9632;

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Junior’s Career In Nutshell

<div class="byline">BY ken Mckenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01503/2060611-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="352" height="391"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25. Que.Ken McKenzie. Will V. Cote. Len Bramson.President a nd Publisher Vice-Pres.& Gen. Mgr. Editor-tn-ChiefYearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth; $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign CountriesEntered as second-class matter, October 3, 1953, at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd. 1879 Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed in CanadaVol. 14 MONTREAL, JANUARY 14, 1961 No. 16&bull; JERRY MELNYK of Detroit is the only NHL regular who has yet to receive a penalty this season. The slim Red Wing&rsquo;s center, who is playing his second season in the league, was assessed a total of 12 minutes last year &hellip; Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall leads all NHL goalies in shutouts with six &hellip; The capable backstop had three shutouts in four games recently and all three shutouts were over the slipping Detroit Red Wings &hellip; and all by the same score of 3-0 &hellip; New York Rangers lost nine games out of their first 37 this season by the margin of one goal &hellip; The Boston Bruins lost seven games out of 38 played by one goal &hellip; Eddie Shack is a popular player in Toronto and the Maple Leafs&rsquo; fans go wild whenever he rushes down the ice with the puck &hellip; All the major magazines and newspapers are rushing stories into print on hockey&rsquo;s hottest item at the moment, the Leafs&rsquo; Frank Mahovlich &hellip; Referee Frank Udvari missed several assignments recently due to his wife&rsquo;s illness &hellip; Gump Worsley was stumped when asked to name hockey&rsquo;s hardest shot &hellip; He couldn&rsquo;t decide between Jean Beliveau, Bobby Hull or Gordie Howe &hellip; Who could argue with any one of this trio? &hellip; Montreal&rsquo;s Eddie Quinn, one of the smartest and nicest wrestling promoters you&rsquo;ll find anywhere, rates Frank Selke as the top arena manager he has ever dealt with, and Eddie has dealt with most of them throughout Canada and the United States &hellip; Tim Daly, retired trainer of the Toronto Maple Leafs who spent 50 years in sport and most of them with Toronto&rsquo;s pro hockey teams, is enjoying a vacation in Florida &hellip; Tim is now is his late seventies &hellip; Conn Smythe left last week for his annual midwinter vacation in Florida.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02468/2060604-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="276" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Selke</figcaption></div>&bull; YOU THINK New York and Boston are having it tough this year? &hellip; Back in 1928-29 the Chicago Black Hawks finished last in the American Division of the National League scoring only 33 goals in 44 games &hellip; The Hawks were shut out no less than 20 times that season and eight of these shutouts were in a row &hellip; Members of the Detroit Hockey Writers have voted Bucko McDonald and Bill Quackenbush into the Detroit Hockey Hall of Fame &hellip; They were the 18th and 19th Red Wing players to be so honored &hellip; McDonald was one of hockey&rsquo;s hardest-hitting defensemen in the late thirties and early forties and played a major role in the Wings&rsquo; Stanley Cup triumphs of 1936 and &lsquo;37 &hellip; It was during these playoffs that a rabid Detroit fan named Harry Jacobsen paid Bucko $10 for every opposing player he knocked off his feet &hellip; Quackenbush was the first defenseman in history to win the Lady Byng Trophy for outstanding sportsmanship &hellip; Other Detroit defensemen in Detroit&rsquo;s Hall of Fame besides Quack and Bucko are Jack Stewart, Doug Young and Ebbie Goodfellow &hellip; Stan Mikita, sophomore center of the Chi Hawks, is currently enjoying a goal-scoring splurge &hellip; Stan has scored one or more goals in the last six Hawk games &hellip; He&rsquo;s scored a total of eight goals in those six games &hellip; Frank Mahovlich is a little back of the pace set by Maurice Richard in 1944-45 when he scored his 50 goals in 50 games &hellip; Big M had scored 35 goals after 39 games this season &hellip; Richard scored 43 goals after the same number of games in &lsquo;44-45 &hellip; He scored his 44th goal in Game No. 40 &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03392/2060597-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="248" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">Stan Mikita</figcaption></div>&bull; PUNCH IMLACH&rsquo;S comment when he heard Audy Bathgate might be available in a trade between Toronto and New York &hellip; &ldquo;Look, we have bid for Bathgate about 10 times, and he is still in a Ranger uniform. So what else is new? &hellip; Terry Sawchuk made 45 saves against Toronto the other night in Detroit and was still booed by the Motor City fans &hellip; It looks like Terry is falling from favor with the Detroit faithful &hellip; Defenseman Pete Goegan of the Red Wings is the fourth highest point-getter on his team &hellip; Only Howe, Ullman and Delvecchio are ahead of him &hellip; Andy Bathgate is said to be annoyed with the way his manager Muzz Patrick has been whacking him in the public prints &hellip; Bathgate doesn&rsquo;t feel that he should be the goat for the Rangers poor showing &hellip; &ldquo;All I want to make clear is that if they&rsquo;re making me the goat, I&rsquo;m not taking it lying down,&rdquo; Bathgate told Milt Dunnell of the Toronto Star &hellip; The NHL tour of New York and Boston to Europe in 1959 went $101,000 in the red &hellip; Looks like it will be awhile before other NHL teams make the trip &hellip; Best<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04334/2060590-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="263" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL Toronto Stor</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06260/2060680-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg"></div><h2>Andy Angry Over Public Spanking</h2>ANDY BATHGATE, who Is an outspoken gentleman himself, doesn&rsquo;t like the way his boss, Muzz Patrick, has been whacking him in the public prints. Patrick put the blast on Andy after the Detroit Red Wings had blitzed the faded Broadway blueshirts with three goals in 41 seconds and skated away with a game which the Rangers appeared to have in the sack.Muzz mentioned Bathgate&rsquo;s fancy salary and said the Rangers didn&rsquo;t give Andy that kind of money to make stupid plays. Patrick was particularly perturbed because Bathgate gave away the puck for the winning goal. Norm Ullman of the Red Birds knocked down an attempted pass by Bathgate in the Rangers&rsquo; end of the rink and rammed the puck into the net. Detroit won, 4-3.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07208/2060673-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="542" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption></div>&ldquo;They (the management) blamed me for all four goals,&rdquo; Bathgate lamented when he came to town with the New York club for the start of a weekend double-header with Leafs. &ldquo;The story was in the papers before anybody said anything to me. I spoke to Muzz (Patrick) yesterday for 45 minutes. All I want to make clear is that if they&rsquo;re going to make me the goat, I&rsquo;m not taking it lying down.&rdquo;Bathgate admitted he had been on the ice for all three goals which the Red Wings blasted in their 41-second assault. He wondered whether the Ranger forward line shouldn&rsquo;t have been changed before the Red Wings&rsquo; rally became a, rout. The observation was made without mentioning the name of coach Alf Pike, who would have been responsible for the switch.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no question about my by being wrong on the winning goal,&rdquo; Bathgate said miserably. &ldquo;I should have frozen the puck against the boards. Instead of that, I tried to do something I had done many times before. Norm Ullman managed to get his stick on the puck.&ldquo;The thing that concerns me most is that the blame for the loss has been pinpointed on me. If the club doesn&rsquo;t go well, I&rsquo;m afraid the fans will be on me for the rest of the season. When a team is losing, there has to be a goat.&rdquo;<h2>He&rsquo;s Accustomed to the Cheers</h2>ALTHOUGH he isn&rsquo;t asking to be traded, Bathgate confesses he wouldn&rsquo;t be unhappy if Patrick made a deal for him. He&rsquo;s been a favorite of the fans at Madison Square Garden and he&rsquo;s dismayed at the prospect of having the huzzahs turn to hoots. Less than two years ago, he was the golden boy &mdash; winner of the Hart Trophy as most valuable player to his club, and choice of the electors as all-star right wing.Patrick didn&rsquo;t accompany the Rangers to Toronto, because of business in New York, but Pike pooh-poohed the idea that public criticism of Bathgate by the general manager might bring down the displeasure of the customers on Andy&rsquo;s handsome head.&ldquo;Name me an athlete who hasn&rsquo;t been roasted in the papers at some time or other,&rdquo; Pike challenged. &ldquo;Yes, even Gordie Howe has been criticised. It happened to me lots of times when I was a player. The criticism might even do Bathgate some good. If he&rsquo;s the kind of player I consider him to be, he will lead us into the playoffs.&ldquo;I can understand that Bathgate doesn&rsquo;t like to be criticised in the newspapers,&rdquo; Pike conceded, &ldquo;but he did give away the puck for three goals. And don&rsquo;t forget that players sometimes get praise they don&rsquo;t deserve. You never hear anyone complain about that. I remember a game with Detroit. We won it 4-1. Andy got a goal &mdash; but he played a poor game. Next day, one of the papers said Bathgate starred.&rdquo;Every club in the league would bid for Bathgate. Up to now, no team has offered enough. Leafs have maintained they&rsquo;re the logical party of the second part in any deal for the sharpshooting winger. If they&rsquo;re serious, &#9632;

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Speaking on Sports

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>EDMONTON, Alta &mdash; Those fantastic week-end scoring binges of Frank Mahovlich&rsquo;s had to be the cue to pump Rocket Richard about the jeopardy in which he finds his National League record.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05303/2060642-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="273" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Manrice Richard</figcaption></div>There have been as many false alarms as there have been years slipping by since Babe Ruth set his home run record of 60.So the Rocket&rsquo;s high-water mark of 50 goals in a 50-game schedule of 1944-45 will stand figure. Many&rsquo;s the slip between cup and lip.Boom-Boom Geoffrion, for instance, has never gone a full season in one piece, so it has to be premature to take too much notice of his scoring heroics to this point.Nevertheless, when the great Maurice dropped down out of the clouds last night to keep tonight&rsquo;s Sportsmen&rsquo;s Dinner date at St. Paul, it was only fitting to ask the man himself how long he thought his record would continue to stand up. What about Mahovlich, for example with his 33 goals in the 37 games?&ldquo;Say,&rdquo; Richard retored, &ldquo;should I worry about just him? Looks to me like three or four guys wiH beat my record this year.&rdquo;He&rsquo;d mean, then, Dickie Moore, now with 25 and Geoffrion with 26 &hellip; along with Toronto&rsquo;s Big M. And not entirely out of it &hellip; would be the likes of Andy Bathgate and Bobby Hull and Alex Delvechio and his kid brother, the Pocket Rocket.So how is it that there is this sudden rush of scoring outbursts?Well, the Rocket had his explanation all ready.&ldquo;The big thing, I think, is the better coaching the kids are getting these days,&rdquo; he declared.He suggested this came about at the junior and semi-pro levels &hellip; even right here in the Western League. So how does this explain the Mahovliches, Moores and Geoffrions?&ldquo;Well, it&rsquo;s probably their experience paying off now,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;I think the players are getting better all the time, Sure, the goalies are still good, but the forwards are shooting more and more.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that they&rsquo;ve forgotten how to check up there, either. They&rsquo;re still checking &lsquo;em close, but like I say, the forwards just don&rsquo;t stop shooting. And when they keep shooting, more and more pucks have to get past the goaltenders.&rdquo;Somebody asked the Rocket about his number nine. What did Frank Selke say about it? Was it to be retired as a tribute to his greatness?&ldquo;It hasn&rsquo;t been given to anybody yet, anyway;,&rdquo; Richard replied. &ldquo;Mr. Selke sort of told me that he&rsquo;d keep it for one of my kids. I suppose if they don&rsquo;t make the grade, the Canadiens will finally turn the number over to somebody.&rdquo;The immortal Howie Morenz&rsquo; No. 7 is still in storage, though as well as Butch Bouchard&rsquo;s No. 3. There could be a good chance, however that another Richard will come along eventually to pick up where Rocket left off last spring.Maurice has a 15-year-old playing juvenile now who has been attracting a lot of attention. However, he thinks more of the chances of his 10-year-old.&ldquo;This one is a better skater,&rdquo; he contended. &ldquo;More like the Pocket, I think. He&rsquo;s got a better chance of going to the NHL.&rdquo;There has been an amazing difference in the Rocket&rsquo;s temperament since we last talked with him. The guy is less intense, easier to converse with, poised, has polished up his English beyond the knowing almost and even mellowed!He&rsquo;ll talk straight from the shoulder on any subject you care to bring up. About his future, for instance. He&rsquo;d like to stay with the Canadiens but not on the present basis. He&rsquo;ll have a showdown with them on his assignments that keep him away from home so much. May 1 &hellip; that&rsquo;ll be it. He&rsquo;ll take off for Europe, or some such place, with his family on a holiday, and lay his cards on the table when he returns.What about coaching? Absolutely no intention to coach &hellip; I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m cut out for it.&rdquo;His brother Claude? &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;ll make&rsquo; it. He has just eome back to Montreal after his club in Philadelphia folded. I don&rsquo;t know where he&rsquo;ll go now, but it won&rsquo;t be ever to the NHL.&rdquo;Did the Canadiens get the better of the deal with Boston that got them Jean-Guy Gendron, who has been something of a mild sensation since he joined the Habitants? &ldquo;Well, he&rsquo;s probably better than (Andre) Pronovost. One thing about it, he&rsquo;s playing with Beliveau and Geoffrion. Pronovost never had that kind of a chance.&rdquo;About Cliff Pennington now, the kid many observers contend has the hardest shot in hockey. Richard didn&rsquo;t have to draw pictures to get across his point that he isn&rsquo;t overly impressed with him. He doesn&rsquo;t like Pennington&rsquo;s attitude obviously. That might be what could keep him forever in the minors.Then the Rocket got onto the subject of handing out so many cheap assists. &ldquo;A couple of years ago, I wanted to put up a trophy for the player scoring the most goals. Mr. Campbell said no. Maybe he&rsquo;s right. It&rsquo;s a hard thing to deal with. And definitely, it Would make a big difference to team play, if goals were of more value than assists. The guys would be shooting more.&rdquo;A word on Detroit&rsquo;s Great White Father, Jack Adams, selfappointed president of the Howe Fan Club, then. &ldquo;A nice enough fellow &hellip; but &hellip;&rdquo;And how does he compare Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante? Was it the luckiest thing that could have happened to Plante that he got the Canadiens to play behind? &ldquo;Well, Hall works harder than Plante. But don&rsquo;t think that Plante doesn&rsquo;t belong. You should see him when he wants to beat somebody!&rdquo; &#9632;

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Rocket Admits His Goal Mark May Be Broken

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01460/2060739-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="535" height="846"><figcaption class="caption-body">Put Braves Back On WarpathStan Mikita</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02425/2060732-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="532" height="831"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Wharram</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03347/2060725-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="552" height="825"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ab McDonald</figcaption></div>BOSTON. Mass.The Bruins finished fifth in the National League last spring and had only secondhand accounts of the Stanley Cup playoffs through newspapers, radio and television.Halfway through this season&rsquo;s schedule they looked like potential non - participants again, for they were in sixth place.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04245/2060718-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="282" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bronco Horvath</figcaption></div>So as far as the standings Were concerned, the Bruins&rsquo; attitude towards 1960 was, &ldquo;Get lost!&rdquo;There were other hockey developments here during the past year, however, and not all of them as dark as the playoff picture.The Bruins signed an American, 20-year-old Tom Williams of Duluth, Minnesota, and turned him over to capable Wren Blair of the Kingston Frontenacs for polishing.The throwing of debris at Bruins&rsquo; games at the Garden was ended when Boston police arrested a spectator and a Boston municipal court judge fined him $25 for disturbing a public assembly.The Bruins gained their youngest regular goalkeeper in more than 20 years when barrel-chested Bruce Gamble, 22, was promoted from the Providence Reds to replace Don Simmons.Fleming Mackell, greatest Stanley Cup player in Bruins&rsquo; history, reached the end of the playing trail here and followed a new one &mdash; to the Quebec Aces of the American League.Doug Mohns became Convertible Doug, a left defenseman one ir oment, a left wing the next, depending upon the needs of the Bruins.The famed Uke Line of Bronco Horvath, Johnny Bucyk and Vic Stasiuk, which set three modern and two all-time Bruins&rsquo; scoring records last season, was broken up this season because of inability to score often enough.Horvath, who scored 39 goals last season, wound up on the bench this season as he played 16 straight games between goals.The Bruins were forgiven by the fans for shipping Charley Burns to Kingston in October by<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05164/2060711-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="548" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body">Endurance GuyDouq Mohns</figcaption></div>Willie O&rsquo;Ree became the first member of his race to play regularly in the NHL when the Bruins also brought him up from Kingston.Horvath made the year&rsquo;s strangest goal when his shot over the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; net struck the glass, bounced back out over the net, hit Goalie Hank Bassen on the back of the neck and dropped over the goal line.Bruins&rsquo; leaders in statistics given little prominence were Leo LaBine in major penalties with four, Stasiuk in misconduct penalties with five and Mackell in games missed with 22.One of the outstanding feats of endurance of last year was by Mohns, who played 18 minutes of the third period of a game with Toronto here. But Doug may have showed more endurance by hitching and hiking 19 miles from South Station to his home in Weymouth last month.The Bruins may have had troubles in &lsquo;60, but lack of spectator support was not one. More than 440,000 people came to see them play here.The continuous support of a losing team would seem to indicate that not only are New Englanders interested in the welfare of the Bruins, they are also willing to pay to show their interest. &#9632;

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There Were Some Rosy Hues In Hub In 1960, But Not In Win Column

CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;Chicago Black Hawk goalie Glenn Hall, who led the National Hockey League in shutouts last season with six in 70 games, equaled that total in Chicago&rsquo;s 37th game this season, Jan. 1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-06100/2060794-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="280" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div>In three games over a span; of eight days, on Dec. 25 and Dec. 31 in Detroit, and on Jan. 1 against Detroit in Chicago Stadium, Hall blanked the Red Wings by 3-0 scores They were his fourth, fifth and sixth shutouts of the 1960-61 season as he ran up a string of 182 minutes, 1 second of whitewash hockey against Detroit.Hall&rsquo;s other shutouts this season have been 3-0 and 2-0 over Tronto and 4-0 over New York. All in Chicago Stadium.In the three straight shutouts over Detroit, Hall totaled 94 saves &mdash; 30 in the first game, 27 in the second and 37 in the third. During the same stretch the Detroit goalies, Terry Sawchuk twice and Hank Bassen once, totaled 60 saves.Moller &#9632;

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Hall Hits 6th Zero In 37 Games; Took 70 In ‘59

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the way they skated in training camp,&rdquo; beamed Chicago General Manager Tommy Ivan as Stan Mikita, Ab McDonald and Ken Wharram whirled down the ice against Detroit.&ldquo;They scooted all over the rink. That&rsquo;s why we dubbed them the &lsquo;Scooter Line&rsquo;. When the season started they hustled pretty well but things didn&rsquo;t seem to go in for them. Now they&rsquo;re scooting again and making their own breaks.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0756/2060849-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="264" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption></div>At the start of the season, General Manager Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous set goal quotas for their three forward lines. The quota for the Mikita-McDonald-Wharram line was 55 goals, or 27.5 over the first half of the season.At the 33 game mark the trio had totaled only 14 goals &mdash; three each by center Mikita and right wing Wharram and 8 by the big left wing, McDonald.At that point the once spurting Black Hawks were sputtering alt over the National Hockey League. They had won only one of their 12 previous starts and had gone four in a row without a victory. Ivan and Pilous had even shuffled their lines around for a few games for the first time since training camp but the only measure of success was one triumph, a 4-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Dec. 14.Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, the almost forgotten &ldquo;Scooter Line&rdquo; began to scoot again. In the team&rsquo;s next four games they tallied 10 goals (out of a total of 13 for the entire team) and along with goalie Glenn Hall led the Black Hawks to four straight victories between Christmas Night and New Year&rsquo;s night.Three of the victories were over Detroit, all by 3-0 shutout scores, and put Chicago in a tie for third place with the Red Wings as of games of Jan. 1.During the surge, Mikita tallied five goals, Wharram three and McDonald two.What caused the sudden spurt by once impotent third line?In answer to the question, center Mikita pointed toward McDonald.&ldquo;Ken and I couldn&rsquo;t seem to put the puck in the net no matter how hard we tried. I guess we began to get pretty down about it. Then one day McDonald got us together and we had a talk about our line. We weren&rsquo;t getting much ice time because of penalties and being the third line. But we decided no matter how often we got on the ice or how long, we would dig and hustle and go all out every second of every turn. Ab is the one who is always talking to us and building up our confidence.&rdquo;Actually, the &ldquo;Scooters&rdquo; had their little meeting early in December, just before General Manager Ivan and Coach Pilous shuffled their lines around. In the shift Mikita spent a few games on the &ldquo;Million Dollar Line&rdquo; with Bobby Hull and Murray Balfour, and the No. One line center. Red Hay, played between McDonald and Wharram.&ldquo;The shift did me a lot of good,** admits Mikita. &ldquo;It was a boost to my morale and confidence that they would put me on the top line. I also changed my approach. I began to be more offensive minded &mdash; to shoot the puck at the net more. But now I&rsquo;m glad to be back on my regular line with Kenny and Ab.&rdquo;McDonald, the big forward obtained from Montreal in an offseason trade, commented:&ldquo;We talked things over and decided that the Black Hawks were having real trouble and that everybody had to carry a little more than his&rsquo;share of the load or we wouldn&rsquo;t get straightened out. We decided we should be doing more than we had been and became that much more determined.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re also getting more ice time now,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;And our confidence has returned. We hit so many posts and skates before. Now the puck is going in the net.&rdquo;Says right winger Wharram, who had become the hard luck player for the Hawks this year:&ldquo;We played well in training camp and we knew we could play well together again. It was just a matter of time, so long as we didn&rsquo;t give up on ourselves. I scored 14 goals last year and had only three in the first 33 games this year. It&rsquo;s hard not to get discouraged. But we all keep hustling and once the puck started going in again for us it shot our confidence way up.&rdquo;Mikita now has eight goals for the season to equal his output as a rookie last season. Wharram has six goals and McDonald, at 10, has surpassed his 9-goal total of last &#9632;

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Rudy To Pile Work On ‘Scooters’ Since They Rescued Club

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><h2>Henry, Prentice, Cullen Back At Regular Posts</h2>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;This is THAT time of the year for the Rangers.The Ice Follies have moved into Madison Square Garden and the Blues are hitting the road with a bumpy six-straight games on foreign ice.The away stint begins on Jan. 12 at Boston and continues Jan. 14, at Detroit, Jan. 15 at Chicago, Jan. 18 at Toronto, Jan. 21 at Chicago and Jan. 22 at Chicago again.The welcome home party is slated for Jan. 25th when the Blueshirts entertain the Bruins.While a six-game road stint is hardly the tonic for lifting a club out of the second-division, the cold fact remains that NOW is the time for the Rangers to move up.The feeling among Ranger players is that if any club can be overtaken it will be the Red Wings, with an outside chance of catching the Black Hawks.This stems from a conviction that Gordie Howe can not carry Detroit home on his sloped shoulders and that the Rangers have more quality players than Detroit.So far the Wings have made the quality argument look rather flimsy but some Ranger veterans insist that with nearly half a season remaining, they still can puncture the Detroiters.But they&rsquo;ll have to start their doing on the road trip or pull off a small miracle between Jan. 25 and March 19.1961 started out as a healthy if not happy New Year for the New York Rangers as invalids Dean Prentice, Camille Henry and Brain Cullen returned to play.None of the trio were in A-l condition at first but as one observer along Eighth ave. put it, &ldquo;at least they give the Rangers a feeling of class.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01529/2060880-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="542" height="530"><figcaption class="caption-body">Back In BlueCamille Henry</figcaption></div>If the Blues are to remain in playoff contention a majority of their solid performers will have to stay out of the hospital from here on.Without Henry, the Rangers missed the goal man on the power play. Without Prentice, they missed the both-way guy on the Andy Bathgate line. And without Cullen, they missed the most productive center on the team.Even coach Alf Pike, who heretofore has not sought membership in the Alibi Club, allowed that it was about time he hat a full team to w&rsquo;ork with.Alf was quick to point out that despite the loss of three out of three games from Dec. 28 through Jan. 1, the Rangers still did not look like a case for the local mortuary.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been playing well in spite of injuries,&rdquo; Pike insisted, &ldquo;but we haven&rsquo;t been winning.&rdquo;If this sounds cryptic, it most be noted that in such games as the Dec. 28 loss to Detroit and the Jan. 1 loss to Toronto, the Blues skated and checked hard but were caught short without bread-and-butter guys like Henry and Prentice to score.Meanwhile, Andy Bathgate, a bread-and-butter guy who was supposed to score, wound up with a pasting from the management for alleged faulty play in the 4-3 Detroit loss on Dec. 28.<h2>Team At Full Strength or 1st Time In &lsquo;60-61</h2>A sure win turned into a calamatous defeat that night when Detroit scored three goals in 41 seconds to reverse 3-1 Ranger lead with 6:20 to play.Bathgate was on the ice for all three goals &mdash; Andy points out that he wasn&rsquo;t the ONLY player on the ice &mdash; and was directly responsible for the winning tally when his pass was intercepted and converted to a score.Pike hit a near-record boiling point (though still far short of the old Phil Watson mark) for him when the Bathgate faux pas was brought 1 up.After the smoke cleared a few days later, the coach and his star conferred about the boo-boos.&ldquo;I had a long talk with Andy,&rdquo; Pike admitted. &ldquo;He made mistakes and he&rsquo;s aware of them. He had one of those bad nights any hockey player does and we just hope he has no more.&rdquo;The Bathgate enigma which sometimes seems insoluble is his preference for passing the puck instead of shooting it. Andy owns one of the hardest shots, slap or wrist, in the league yet he utilizes his asset to a minimum much to the great distress of Pike.&ldquo;I told Andy he had to sh ot more,&rdquo; Pike said. &ldquo;With the shot he&rsquo;s got, he should be firing instead o&rsquo; trying to dipsy doodle around.&rdquo;One theory is that Bathgate is a philanthropist at heart and can&rsquo;t stand the sight of a goalie being stoned by one of his shots.On Canadiens&rsquo; last visit he nearly beheaded Charlie Hodge with a slap shot that singed the cross bar. Andy appeared so concerned about Hodge&rsquo;s health he forgot to lift his stick in the traditional goal salute. &#9632;

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Catch Kings, Rangers Newest Sonata As They Lift Curtain On Road Trip

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N. Y.In Toronto, Big M means Frank Mahovlich. In Rangerville it means M-U-R-D-E-R.Mahovlich, the devastating Maple Leaf left wing, powered 13 of his first 34 goals past Blueshirt goalies and has been instrumental in torpedoing the good ship Ranger.Big M started the New Year off wrong for New York by scoring a couple of goals against the Rangers enough to put a serious crimp in the Blueshirt playoff drive.This was on January 1. It was a 1-1 game at Madison Square Garden with 11 minutes left in the third period.At this point Red Kelly was good enough to drop a pass to Mahovlich who was steaming over the blueline.Big M wound up and sent a shot at Gump Worsley that had all the qualities of an intercontinental ballistic missile.Worsley&rsquo;s radar machine de-from the west about 25 feet in front of the net.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02408/2060911-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="532" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leafs&rsquo; BlasterFrank Mahovlich</figcaption></div>Gump brought his glove hand up and his head down in self defense.The hard rubber whacked into the goalie&rsquo;s glove but its momentum was irresistible and the puck worked its way free and fell over the red line for a goal.Mahovlich cracked another one past Worsley later in the game and personally sunk the Blueshirts 4-1.Just how the Rangers&rsquo; Central Intelligence Agency will cope with Big M in the future remains a mystery.&ldquo;When he gets going it&rsquo;s almost impossible to stop him,&rdquo; says Camille Henry, a keen observer of scoring technique.Mahovlich shift would confound Univac.&ldquo;He will move his right foot over his left and then bring his left back over his right almost in one motion,&rdquo; Henry explains. &ldquo;How can you defend against that?&rdquo;The strange thing about the Big M case is that Mahovlich plays some of his worst games against the Rangers and still ruins them.&lsquo;In Toronto a few weeks ago he did nothing,&rdquo; Red Sullivan says, &ldquo;but he got a couple of points.&rdquo; &lsquo;On a recent visit to New York, Big M told the reporter he had had a bad night &hellip; but he scored a goal and an assist.Under the circumstances, the Blueshirts have almost unanimously conceded that Mahovlich will break the 50-goal barrier this season.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got all the ability to do it&rdquo; says Andy Bathgate who once hit for 40.&ldquo;I agree,&rdquo; says Harry Howell.So far, only one visitor to Madison Square Garden dissented on Mahovlich&rsquo;s 50-goal chances. That was Montreal goalie, Jacques Plante.&ldquo;It won&rsquo;t be easy in the second half of the season,&rdquo; Plant insists. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;ll be getting them in clusters the way he did at the beginning.&rdquo; Plante looked good for six days.But a week later Big M banged home a pair against the Rangers, and the Blueshirts response to Plante was a raucous &ldquo;Bah &#9632;

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Rangers See ‘M’ Breaking Goals Record In 1961

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;OOO OOO OOOThat&rsquo;s what Glenn Hall has oeen doing to the Red Wings. Those nine zeros add up to three Red Wings defeats at the hands, stick and pads of their one-time teammate.And what makes it more maddening, the Red Wings have had Glenn like a sitting duck.The Detroiters outshot the Chicago Black Hawks, 94-69, in three holiday games but the Black Hawks took three 3-0 victories.On Christmas night the shots were 30-21. New Year&rsquo;s Eve it was 27-18 and New Year&rsquo;s night it was 37-30.Hall&rsquo;s brilliance rocketed the Black Hawks out of their slump and into a tie for third place with Detroit at the close of the holiday period.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03297/2060942-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="268" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Delvecchio</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The only thing you can do is keep on shooting,&rdquo; said slightly shell-shocked coach Sid Abel.Abel did more than that. In the New Year&rsquo;s night game he juggled his lines coming up with all different combinations in at attempt to snap Hall&rsquo;s spell.He put Gordie Howe, Norm Ullman and Alex Delvecchio, the club&rsquo;s top scorers, together but they couldn&rsquo;t dent Hall.Fortunately, in between the Christmas blanking and the pair of New Year&rsquo;s hangovers, the Red Wings picked up a victory at New York and a tie in Montreal.At New York, before more than 15,000 fans, the &ldquo;&lsquo;ings looked like the club of November exploding for three goals in 41 seconds late in the final period to wipe out a 3-1 deficit and pull out a 4-3 victory.At Montreal the Detroiters nearly won the game with a third period shot barrage but settled for a 1-1 tie, their first point in four games at the Forum.So that in the last five games, the Wings scored only five goals, hardly enough to set the world on fire.Illustrative of this lack of scoring punch are a few figures: Vai Fonteyne went 32 games without a goal, Gary Aldcor.i 25, Len Lunde 14, Alex Delvecchio and Allan Johnson 10. Of the defensemen, Marc Reaume and Gerry Odrowski didn&rsquo;t have a goal.Rookie left winger Ed Diachuk has gained a following at Olvmpfa for his rocking checks but in 10 games, he didn&rsquo;t have a goal or assist.Delvecchio&rsquo;s plight has worried the Wings. Alex was off to his best start with 15 goals in the first 27 games. He had a chance to end his scoreless streak in New York when Gump Worsley was pulled in the final minute but his shot went inches wide of the net.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been making occasional mistakes,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;But the thing that&rsquo;s beating us is the lack of goals. You&rsquo;re not going to win without them.&rdquo;December was a frigid month at home for the Detroiters. In six games, the most they had to show was a single tie whereas in six road games they won three, tied two and lost only once.ICE CHIPS &mdash; Peaceful Pete Goegan easily is the most improved of the Red Wings in the last year &hellip; the big defenseman had three goals and 15 assists at the halfway mark of the season to better by one point his total output for 102 previous NHL games.Just as Glenn Hall has the hot hand against Detroit, Hank Bassen has a hot hand against New York &hellip; he&rsquo;s won all five starts against the Rangers.And two of them came with the Rangers seemingly having the contest locked up with 3-1 leads in the last period.The latest rally &mdash; three goals in 41 seconds by Murray Oliver, Howie Glover and Norm Ullman &mdash; was 20 seconds off the NHL record &hellip; victims of the record assualt were the Rangers in 1952 when Chicago&rsquo;s Bill Mosienko got three in 21 seconds in a 7-6 Chicago victory.The Red Wings were comparatively free of injuries in the first half of the season but then they lost defensemen Warren Godfrey and Marc Reaume over the New year&rsquo;s weekend.Godfrey aggravated pulled back muscles in the Chicago series and was placed in traction when the club returned from the Windy City. Reaume fractured a toe in a practice session and it was bound up for games &hellip; then he took a shot on the foot in Chicago and the doctors ordered him off his feet for several days. &#9632;

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Goals And Hall Put Crimp In Wings Run For Playoff Posies

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<h2>GADSBY PRODUCTIVE MAN</h2>Defenseman Bill Gadsby of the New York Rangers has scored at least one goal in each pro season he&rsquo;s played. Now in his 15th season. Gadsby started the current season with 103 goals to his credit and 317 assists for a total of 420 points in 860 games. That&rsquo;s almost one point every two tames.<h2>ALEX SEES 200 GOAL CLUB</h2>Alex Delvecchio of the Detroit Red Wings needed but 41 goals this season to hit the 200 goal club. He started the season with 159 goals to his credit in 602 games. He turned pro with Indianapolis of the AHL in 1951-52, played six tames there and then joined the Wints.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Wed. A.M. Jan. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01481/2061151-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="579" height="190"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Includint Games of Sun., Jan. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02443/2061144-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="598" height="2844"></div><h2>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1960-61</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03359/2061137-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="573" height="446"></div>PENALTIFS IN MINUTES BY CLUBS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04274/2061130-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="577" height="123"></div><h3>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31</h3>Boston 1 at Montreal 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06141/2061123-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="571" height="475"></div>New York 1 at Toronto 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-07101/2061116-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="572" height="468"></div>Chicago 3 at Detroit 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0881/2061109-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="559" height="109"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0963/2061102-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="570" height="288"></div><h3>SUNDAY. JANUARY 1</h3>Montreal 2 at Boston 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1050/2061095-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="570" height="701"></div>Toronto 4 at New York 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1145/2061088-1-eng-US/f0007-112.jpg" title="f0007-11" width="335" height="85"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1236/2061081-1-eng-US/f0007-122.jpg" title="f0007-12" width="570" height="407"></div>Detroit 0 at Chicago 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1330/2061074-1-eng-US/f0007-132.jpg" title="f0007-13" width="570" height="436"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4</h3>Detroit 4 at Toronto 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1421/2061067-1-eng-US/f0007-142.jpg" title="f0007-14" width="563" height="353"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1516/2061060-1-eng-US/f0007-152.jpg" title="f0007-15" width="577" height="351"></div>Chicago 3 at New York 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-169/2061053-1-eng-US/f0007-162.jpg" title="f0007-16" width="569" height="670"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 5</h3>Toronto 4 at Detroit 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-179/2061046-1-eng-US/f0007-172.jpg" title="f0007-17" width="558" height="134"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01514/2061039-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="568" height="312"></div>Chicago 4 at Boston 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02443/2061032-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="580" height="701"></div><h3>SATURDAY. JANUARY 7</h3>New York 3 at Montreal 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03370/2061025-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="571" height="624"></div>Boston I at Toronto 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04281/2061018-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="571" height="491"></div><h3>SUNDAY. JANUARY 8</h3>Montreal 2 at New York 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05209/2061011-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="564" height="596"></div>Boston 3 at Detroit 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06167/2061004-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="562" height="559"></div>Toronto 1 at Chicago 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07127/2060997-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="572" height="570"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

TORONTO, Ont. &mdash; General Manager Punch Imlach of the Toronto Maple Leafs admits he&rsquo;d like to have Rangers&rsquo; Andy Bathgate, but he isn&rsquo;t pressing the point.In an interview with Scott Young of the Toronto Globe and Mail this week Imlach admitted he&rsquo;s made offers for Andy:&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how many times we&rsquo;ve tried to get Bathgate. Six at least. I&rsquo;m not telling you when. That New York has got to keep talking. Their team isn&rsquo;t winning. But a lot of rumors are just plain crazy.&rdquo;Imlach mentioned specifically the rumor about Lou Fontinato.&ldquo;The last guy we want is Fontinato,&rdquo; he said. &#9632;

‘Bathgate Yes, But Never Fontinato’, Says Mr. Imlach

<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que &mdash;If 1961 has brought the customary challenge of a New Year to Montreal&rsquo;s Cup coveting Canucks, it appears to have singled out the team&rsquo;s defense corps for a particular kind of attention.Up front the Habs big guns have been booming spectacularly through the schedule to date. Behind them, the defensemen have witnessed some downright amazing puck-stopping from surprise package Charlie Hodge. But almost from the schedule&rsquo;s beginning, when sparkplug Doug Harvey parlayed a training camp toe injury into an indifferent early season start, the defense collectively have had their troubles getting into stride.Particularly nightmarish to the Hab rearguard, was the recent holiday season period from Christmas to New Year&rsquo;s night inclusive when injuries twice reduced their ranks to a scant 3 players.Against the Rangers in Manhattan on Christmas, Habs had Bob Turner join Doug Harvey on the sidelines, when a shot from the stick of New York&rsquo;s Gadsby broke Bob&rsquo;s wrist. The depleted defense tried valiantly, but couldn&rsquo;t prevent the Blueshirts&rsquo; 4 goal outburst in the last 20 minutes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01515/2061237-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="283" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Johnson</figcaption></div>Again on New Year&rsquo;s night, the trio of Johnson, Talbot and Langlois found themselves all alone defensively against the rough housing Bruins in Boston, when rookie replacement Gauthier was belted out with a rib injury halfway through the 2nd period. As things turned out it was to be the last appearance of Gauthier for a while, he subsequently being returned to the minors. The more immediate effect however, was to leave the Habs with only 3 defenders for some 30 minutes against the Bruins and the net result was they blew the decision tto the cellar-dwelling team by a 3-2 count, and thus began the New Year in reverse.To their unhappy festive season, Canadiens could add the loss of forward Claude Provost, forced out of action with an injured ankle, and the experience of watching Harvey make a game but ill-advised 21 minute return to battle against Leafs on Dec. 28th, which had the effect of aggravating Doug&rsquo;s already separted shoulder.If there was a happy note for the Habs from the blueline in&mdash;and fortunately there was &mdash; it centered on the superlative performance of little Hodge in the nets. The pint-sized goalie continued to maintain his near flawless pace, and perhaps reached his peak performance of 1960 in a Dec. 29th tilt against Detroit, when a weary defense left him on his own to handle 17 straight blasts in the final period. Charlie booted out everything including one of Howe&rsquo;s deluxe efforts and presented his mates with a 1-1 tie.The rash of injuries along the blueline that ushered the Habs into 1961, coincided perfectly with a similar outbreak of hurts to adequate minor league replacements; and turned a sudden spotlight on the surviving trio of Johnson, Talbot and Junior Langlois. Johnson has been called one of the most underrated players in the NHL, and to all intents and purposes he proved this back in 1958-59. At that time Tom filled the gap left by a sidelined Harvey with an effort that wound up winning him the Norris Trophy. Johnson, 33 next month, may be challenged during 1961 to repeat that kind of performance this year, as Habs head toward the stretch experiencing a much closer run for their money, notably from the hard pressing Leafs at the current stage.As things shape up for the Habs at the moment, they&rsquo;re in no position to breathe easy, in spite of the mending defensemen. With the Mahavolich-paced outburst of the Maple Leafs January 4th effort against Detroit, the Torontonians had narrowed the gap separating them from the first placed Habs to a flimsy 4 points.So as the Canadiens, paced this far by the high flying Boomer & Co. up front, and diminutive Charlie Hodge in the rear, head from their opening week respite into the heavy going of 1961, much may depend on how fast the regrouped defensive forces can match their teammates&rsquo; performance.How they acquit themselves of 1961&rsquo;s challenge, may decide just how close a race to the wire the Habs are going to experience. &#9632;

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Defense Will Spin Champs Final Yarn

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll Montreal Gazette</div><h2>The Goalkeepers Union</h2>Little Gump Worsley, the sitting duck behind the New York Rangers&rsquo; defense, thinks that the fellow who did the biggest job in the first half of the National Hockey League season was Johnny Bower, the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; veteran goalkeeper.&ldquo;They say he&rsquo;s 47 or 48 or something like that,&rdquo; Gump said on Saturday in the hotel lobby after he&rsquo;d returned from appearing on a television program with his teammate, Bill Gadsby &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s been playing great hockey for Toronto. I&rsquo;d say he&rsquo;s the fellow who&rsquo;s been keeping the Leafs up there.&rdquo;Did he think Bower had made a bigger contribution than Frank Mahovlich, the league&rsquo;s new scoring sensation?&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say he has,&rdquo; replied Gump. &ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s saved more games for them than Mahovlich has won.&rdquo;Bower is undoubtedly enjoying his greatest season, which is certainly unusual at his age. Fast reflexes are essential in a goalkeeper and it doesn&rsquo;t seem logical that Bower&rsquo;s reflexes could be faster this year than when he was younger.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if Bower&rsquo;s are faster this season, but I know there&rsquo;s certainly nothing wrong with them,&rdquo; said Gump. &ldquo;The guy&rsquo;s been tremendous against us and they tell me he&rsquo;s been just as good against the other clubs. If I had a vote for the Hart Trophy, I&rsquo;d give it to him.&rdquo;If Bower&rsquo;s reflexes aren&rsquo;t any faster, then another reason for his improved play could be experience. When Gump said &ldquo;they say he&rsquo;s 47 or 48&rdquo; he probably meant 37 or 38, though it&rsquo;s sometimes difficult to tell when athletes are kidding or on the level. Even so, Bower has been in hockey so long that he must be past the place when he can learn anything from experience.Gump thought that over for a moment. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been around a long time,&rdquo; he admitted, &ldquo;but how long has he been in the National Hockey League? I think this is only about his third year.&rdquo;<h2>Maybe He&rsquo;ll Crack</h2>That could make a difference, to be sure, because the longer a goalie is in the league the more he learns about the habits and mannerisms of opposing snipers, particularly around the goalmouth.Could it be that he&rsquo;s getting better protection from his teammates this season?&ldquo;Maybe, though I don&rsquo;t think so,&rdquo; Gump answered. &ldquo;Toronto has had a lot of injuries, including some to guys like Brewer and Horton. This is a high-scoring season, too. They&rsquo;re shooting on him as much as they ever did, but he&rsquo;s making the saves.&rdquo;Did Gump know that Bower said away back in September he didn&rsquo;t think he could play a full schedule?&ldquo;Yeah, I know,&rdquo; he nodded. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll all be waiting for him to crack and maybe he won&rsquo;t be as good in the second half, but he&rsquo;s standing up real good right now.&rdquo;Bill Gadsby, who was in the offing, was asked if he thought Red Kelly was (he reason for the development of Frank Mahovlich into the league&rsquo;s leading goal-getter.&ldquo;Kelly&rsquo;s helped him,&rdquo; said Gadsby, &ldquo;but I think it&rsquo;s more a matter of confidence. He&rsquo;s got it and he didn&rsquo;t have it before.&rdquo;A Matter of ConfidenceIf anything happened to Kelly, did he think Mahovlich could maintain his present torrid scoring pace?&ldquo;I think so,&rdquo; he affirmed: &ldquo;As I said, he&rsquo;s got his confidence now. I think he&rsquo;d play just as well on a line with Pulford.&rdquo;Mahovlich was quoted recently as saying that he thought he was finally learning how to play hockey. If he was quoted correctly, it follows that he must be doing some things differently from the way he did them before. Had Bill noticed any difference in his general play?&ldquo;Yeah, I notice quite a difference,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But let&rsquo;s face it, the guy always had the makings of a great hockey player. He&rsquo;s big and strong, very fast, and he can shoot a puck. Now he&rsquo;s capitalizing on all those abilities.&ldquo;I guess he could always carry the puck, but he didn&rsquo;t always do it. Now he&rsquo;s going back to his own blue line, picking up the puck and carrying it in over the opposing team&rsquo;s blue line. That&rsquo;s one big change I&rsquo;ve noticed.&ldquo;Another thing, he used to wind up in the corners a lot. When he&rsquo;d be coming in on me I always tried to edge him outside with my shoulder. I used to be able to do it, too, but not any more. Now he cuts in and he&rsquo;s so strong there isn&rsquo;t much you can do about it. He&rsquo;ll still try to go around you occasionally and now he has a far better chance to do it, because there isn&rsquo;t any one way you can play him. He&rsquo;s going to be around a long time, that guy.&rdquo; &#9632;

playing the field

WINNIPEG, Man. &mdash; The Winnipeg Maroons came home to a rousing welcome last week. But perhaps the most pleasing aspect of the whole trip to Czechoslovakia were the words of praise heaped upon them as individuals, both by Canadian and Czech hockey officials.W. A. Hewitt, Toronto, registrartreasurer of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, declared: &ldquo;These boys are all friends in private life and they carried with them onto the ice the very finest of team spirit. They are a very fine senior hockey team with plenty of ability but it was their spirit which was most outstanding.&ldquo;The Maroons are a great credit to Winnipeg and to Canada and their friendly, gentlemanly spirit made them great favorites of the people here.&rdquo;Edward Fardu, Czech national coach said he was &ldquo;very satisfied&rdquo; with the Winnipeg club because &ldquo;they fulfilled what we were expecting of them.&rdquo;&ldquo;They showed our teams a simple but strong and efficient game. The tour was a great help to some of our younger players as potential members of our national team for the forthcoming tournament in Switzerland.&rdquo;Pardu termed Maroons&rsquo; ability to forecheck in their opponents&rsquo; territory and their skill at getting the puck out of their own zone as impressive feature of the tour. Their more forceful use of the stick for checking was also mentioned by the Czech coach.Miroslav Subt, head man of the Czech ice tour, said the Maroons &ldquo;showed our people the kind of Canadian hockey we wanted them to see.&ldquo;Your club has left a lasting impression on the Czech fans and hockey players, because they showed that hockey can be played in the rugged Canadian style without becoming a dirty game.&rdquo;Hewitt, who managed Canadian Olympic teams in 1920, 1924 and 1928, was impressed with the passing, backchecking and forechecking finesse.&ldquo;They have speed and conditioning and never once did any of them quit,&rdquo; said Hewitt.If Maroons had a weakness, he added, it was for fancy plays in front of the net instead of shooting &mdash; &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ve seen some pretty good professional teams with the same weakness.&rdquo;Playing coach Gordon Simpson credited the team with &ldquo;1,000 per cet cent effort,&rdquo; noting that the only loss came in the first game when his boys were hampered by the condition of the ice at Pilsen.An outstanding feature of the tour was the precision body-checking of Bill (The Beast) Juzda, at 39 the oldest on the team. &ldquo;This was something the Czechs had never seen,&rdquo; said Simpson.The 205-pounder&rsquo;s clean, stand-up style of hitting captured the fancy of the fans as had no other feature of the Canadian game.Team manager Terry Hind, who himself won plaudits for his handling of the tour, liked the friendliness of the Czech people and their hockey officials &mdash; &ldquo;Their arrangements could not have been better and our tour director and our interpreter made things as easy as possible for us.&rdquo;Hind said the best Czech clubs would rate with the best senior amateur clubs in Canada &mdash; &ldquo;In our case we met strengthened chibs on almost every occasion. Some Czech players faced us four or five times, so we know we are seeing some of the best they have, such as defenseman Kaspar and forward Vlack, both of their national team.&rdquo; &#9632;

’Peg Maroons Praised For Tour Conduct

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.Coach Frank Eddolls has decided to bank upon young Dennis Dejordy as the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; goaltender for the last half of the American Hockey League season.Eddolls made the decision after a lengthy period of waiting for Roy Edwards to regain the form he displayed in the closing months of his rookie season last year.Before effecting an intra-organization switch in which Edwards replaced DeJordy at Sault Ste. Marie, Eddolls played amateur Roger Crozier of the Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; St. Catharines Teepees two games while Roy rested.&ldquo;I think in the long run the shift will work out to Roy&rsquo;s advantage,&rdquo; said Eddolls after reaching his decision. &ldquo;He was having a rough time and was pressing with us. It was affecting his ability to relax. A fresh start in the Soo could get him back on the beam. I still think he&rsquo;s a fine prospect.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01500/2061316-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="260" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dennis DeJordy</figcaption></div>Eddolls was profuse in his praise of Dejordy&rsquo;s work in his Buffalo debut, a win over Hershey which extended the Herd&rsquo;s streak to three games.&ldquo;Dennis looks like a goaltender,&rdquo; he began. &ldquo;He moves out to play the angles, has quick hands and makes use of his feet. If we give him proper protection, he&rsquo;ll do a good job for us.&rdquo;While the Bisons have been in the battle for second-place behind the pace-setting Springfield Indians, it has usually taken a good number of goals to insure victory.As this edition of The Hockey News went to press, only the powful Indians had scored more goals than the Eddollsmen. Defensively, however, only last-place Providence and the Quebec Aces have had more goals scored against them.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve allowed too many goals for sure,&rdquo; commented Eddolls, &ldquo;but don&rsquo;t get the impression that I&rsquo;m saying it&rsquo;s all been Roy&rsquo;s fault.&ldquo;It hasn&rsquo;t. We have a young club and, have committed plenty of mistake, that led to goals.&rdquo;In an effort to strengthen the Bisons&rsquo; defense, Eddolls brought up blueliner Bob Wilson and dispatched Rino Robazza to Sault Ste. Marie at the same time as the goaltender exchange took place.Wilson, a rugged and willing worker, earned the promotion because Eddolls felt he was a superior blocker.Bison Briefs &hellip; The Bisons opened the New Year with a 4-3 victory over Springfield. Eddolls went for a six-man attack in the final minute of regulation play and it paid off as Indian defenseman Bob McCord knocked the puck into his own net as he tried to clear it. Larry Wilson got his second goal of the game for the winner less than a minute after the overtime began &hellip; Defenseman Doug Barkley leads AHL rearguards in scoring with 9 goals. &#9632;

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Eddolls Patches Herds’ Leaky Defense, Calling Dejordy To Stem Flow

<h2>TOPPER, BO OUT</h2>The Providence Reds got bad news from the doctor&rsquo;s clinic last week when they were told that both Zellio Toppazzini and Bo Elik would be on the sidelines for three weeks each. Topper will be out for that<h2>INDIANS 50 UP ON HERD</h2>The Springfield Indians have so much power they are making winning their second straight AHL title an easy task. After 37 games the Indians had scored 187 goals. Next best club offensively is the Buffalo Bisons who scored 137 goals in 35 games.<h3>Friday, December 30</h3>Providence 3 at Cleveland 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02473/2061459-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="554" height="668"></div>Buffalo 2 at Rochester 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03420/2061452-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="554" height="475"></div>Saturday, December 31Providence 3 ot Hershey 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04356/2061445-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="553" height="299"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05281/2061438-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="556" height="516"></div>Cleveland 3 at Springfield 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09198/2061431-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="556" height="643"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4</h3>Springfield 2 at Hershey 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11159/2061424-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="547" height="398"></div><h3>FRIDAY, JANUARY 6</h3>Springfield 4 at Cleveland 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12126/2061417-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="557" height="494"></div><h3>SATURDAY. JANUARY 7</h3>Rochester 4 ot Cleveland 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13112/2061410-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="555" height="576"></div>Buffalo 1 ot Hershey 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1491/2061403-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="544" height="425"></div>Providence 3 at Springield 13<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1571/2061396-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="552" height="181"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1650/2061389-1-eng-US/f0009-162.jpg" title="f0009-16" width="572" height="812"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 8</h3>Hershey 1 ot Buffalo 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1736/2061382-1-eng-US/f0009-172.jpg" title="f0009-17" width="564" height="531"></div>Springzfield 3 ot Providence 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1818/2061375-1-eng-US/f0009-182.jpg" title="f0009-18" width="560" height="481"></div>Cleveland 2 ot Rochester 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1916/2061368-1-eng-US/f0009-192.jpg" title="f0009-19" width="562" height="481"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including games of Sun.. Jan. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06242/2061361-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="565" height="411"></div><h3>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07217/2061354-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="570" height="209"></div><h3>Penalty Leaders</h3>Most Penalized Team, Cleveland, 623 minutes.Most Penalized Player, Howie Young, Hershey, 158 minutes.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues. A.M. Jan. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08202/2061347-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="568" height="209"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.The runaway by the Springfield Indians is probably indicative of their power as they lead the rest of the pack by 22 points. It&rsquo;s probably the greatest runaway in the league&rsquo;s history.One of the leading players in the Indians race from the opening gun has been Billy McCreary. He has already scored 24 goals this season, which is five better than he was able to do all last season.Last week the Indians went on another scalping party as they won three.On January 4 they defeated the Hershey Bears 2-1. McCreary scored the winning goal at 8:30 of the overtime period.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10184/2061490-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="256" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy McCreary</figcaption></div>On January 7, the Indians showed all their power as they soundly trounced the Providence Reds 13-3. McCreary scored two goals and added a pair of assists.On Sunday, January 8 the Indians went into Providence and defeated the Reds for the second straight night, this time they won by a 3-2 count. McCreary scored one goal and added an assist. In three games McCreary scored four goals and added three assists for seven points. It upped his points total to 24 goals and 29 assists for 53 points in 41 games and moved him into second place in league scoring.McCreary was originally a member of the New York Rangers organization. He graduated from their Guelph junior team in 1953 and turned pro in 1955-56. He was traded to the Detroit organization in 1956 but in 1958-59 he was traded to Springfield.This is the second time in his pro career he has broken the 20 goal mark. He did it in Edmonton in 1956-57 when he scored 33. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. &mdash;If Bill Sweeney has as good a second half &mdash; and he&rsquo;s usually hotter in the latter part of a campaign &mdash; he could wind up as the AHL&rsquo;s greatest scorer in history.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-08100/2061521-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="279" height="427"></div>At approximately the mid-way point the Springfield Indians&rsquo; brilliant play-maker and scorer deluxe has 60 points to his credit.If he can do as well in the last 35 games of the year, Sweeney can better George (Red) Sullivan&rsquo;s all-time season record of 119 points.Sullivan, currently a center for the New York Rangers of the NHL, set the standard while with the Hershey Bears back in 1953-54.Including games of Jan. 1, Sweeney had 21 goals and 39 assists. Even if Sweeney doesn&rsquo;t better the AHL mark, he has an excellent chance of hitting the 100-point figure, a plateau which no other Springfield player in history had been able to reach.Matter of fact, only eight players in the annals of AHL playspanning a quarter century, have hit the 100 point or better mark.Sweeney, incidentally, is the Indians&rsquo; all-time scoring leader for a single season &mdash; with 96 on 37 goals and 59 assists &mdash; a record he set last season.In his fourth season in the AHL, two with Springfield and one each with Buffalo and Providence, Sweeney has been one of the circuit&rsquo;s top scorrs in each of his campaigns but has yet to win a scoring championship.He looks like a cinch to do it this season.As the pivotman on a line with Billy McCreary and Bruce Cline, Sweeney has been a sensational assistman. His two linemates, like himself, have been among the top scorers in the AHL all season.In the regular AHL scoring race, Sweeney is first and the other two were tied for fourth.Already one of the better paid minor leaguers. Sweeney has a good chance of hauling in better than $2,000 in extras this season, $300 each as leading scorer, all-star center and most valuable player from the AHL, plus anywhere from $1,000 to $1,500 in playoff shares.Sweeney, formerly the property of the Rangers, is now owned by the Springfield Hockey Club, as part of the deal which sent Ken Schinkel to New York, and Bill is now regarded as one of Owner Eddie Shore&rsquo;s most valuable assets. &#9632;

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Sweeney Could Hit All-Time AHL Pts. Mark

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, PA. &mdash;Howie (Wild Man) Young, the Hershey Bears rugged 23-year-old defenseman, is king of the penalty box in the American League and figures to set a new record for camping in the sin bin.Through the first 35 games, Young, a hell-for-leather skater, drew 152 minutes in penalties and is 61 shy of eclipsing the old mark of 212 held by Harry Dick, of Buffalo. Dick set the mark in 1950-51.Young is the hockey counterpart of tough Chuck Bednarik, the world champion Philadelphia Eagles football star, who put two opponent players out of action curing the past season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0977/2061559-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="292" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howie Young</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1062/2061552-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="277" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Dick</figcaption></div>Young&rsquo;s wild and wooly play, which cost him a four same suspension in December for engaging in a stick fight with the usually quiet little Eddie Panagabko, has posed a problem for coach Frank Mathers.&ldquo;Young is a tough kid, but he&rsquo;s not going to do us any good sitting in the penalty box, said Mathers. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s got so that the officials have an eye open for him. He&rsquo;s a hard checker and I don&rsquo;t mind his rugged play as long as he stays out of the penalty box.&rdquo;Young, a Toronto native, celebrated his return from the suspended list New Year&rsquo;s night by smashing Ray Ross, of Providence, with a vicious check into the boards. Young dropped Ross like an axed steer and it was a miracle Ross wasn&rsquo;t seriously injured. Young drew a two minute highsticking penalty, while Ross must have felt like a guy in orbit.Mathers has been contemplating trying Young at right wing in an effort to curb his penalties. Young played about 25 or so games with Rochester last year at a wing spot.&ldquo;If he&rsquo;s up on a wing he&rsquo;ll be playing the puck instead of the man, like he does on defense,&rdquo; said Mathers.Young, whose penalty record in the pro ranks is astounding &mdash; 528 minutes in three years &mdash; is a powerful built skater. He packs a solid 175 pounds on a 5-11 frame, but what&rsquo;s more he&rsquo;s a terrific skater. &#9632;

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Badman Young On Way To Bin Record

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R. I.&mdash;When it comes to choosing the most improved hockey player on the Providence scene, one must reckon with Robert Beckett, 24 year old left winger of the Rhode Island Reds.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1152/2061590-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg" title="f0010-11" width="259" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Beckett</figcaption></div>For the past two seasons the barreling forward has progressed towards the great expectations made of him some six years ago when he completed junior hockey and played his first pro game in the Boston Bruins organization.In 1956-57, after performing quite capably with the QHL&rsquo;s Quebec Aces, Bob was awarded a Boston trial, but managed only 13 assists in 18 games.The next season, while toiling for the Springfield Indians. Bob scored 17 goals to earn himself another late season trip to Boston. This trial was even less productive as he failed to gain a point in 9 outings.Beckett&rsquo;s two failures were attributed to his lack of agressiveness and drive. The big forward had the size critics said, but lacked the push needed to make good.In 1958-59 the Bruins switched affiliations to Providence, and Bob Beckett came to the Reds. Overweight and listless, Bob played half the season here and was on his way back to Quebec for the remainder, where his efforts were just as dismal.Just as night turns into day, Bob Beckett rose from a bleak hockey career to brightness last season as he put his full effort into playing consistently. Teamed with Rookie - of - the - Year Stan Baluik and speedster Danny Poliziani, Bob totaled up 42 points 14 in his 57 games, for his best season in pro hockey. However, the big forward failed to hit any scoring prowess as he tallied only 11 times. Bob utilized his size and strength for the first time in his career, and his fine play earned him 31 assists.This sason Beckett has come into his own, and at this writing the 5&rsquo;11, 180 lb. winger has fired 13 goals in 38 games, a pacewhich will see him rack up his most productive campaign. Along with this he has helped on 16 other goals for 29 points.Why the suddent change of form?General manager Terry Reardon has one idea: &ldquo;Bob has always been a boy with plenty of potential. He has the size and weight and ability, but what he lacked was aggressiveness. For the past two seasons Bob has been using his weight more, and it has paid off. There&rsquo;s no one tougher than Bob in the corners, just ask the players.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Beckett Draws Raves For His 1st Half Play

BOSTON, Mass. &mdash; The Boston Bruins, already deep in the cellar in the National Hockey League race, have demoted Orval Tessier. This week they sent Tessier to the Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern Pro League.Tessier will be an assistant coach in addition to playing with the Frontenacs.Tessier started the season with the Bruins. In 32 games he scored only three goals and had four assists.The veteran Tessier, a graduate of the Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Junior Hockey Association, has thus failed in the second trial with the Bruins.A native of Cornwall, Ontario, Tessier has set all kinds of records in the minor ranks. Last season with Kingston he led the Eastern League in scoring. &#9632;

Orval Dropped

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div>EDMONTON, Alta.They&rsquo;re running the gamut in their ups and downs hither and yon about the Western League this year.There was many a bright spot during the first half of the schedule, but George Agar over at Victoria struck a wrong note with a bleat in the direction of the fourth estate.Here was this rookie professional coach, still making sounds like an amateur when he expounded on what he considered to be wrong with hockey today.&ldquo;The press,&rdquo; he wailed, &ldquo;has to stop knocking us. They have to help promote sport instead of pointing to television, Winnipeg and Victoria as trouble sources.&rdquo;The one - time league scoring champion (about a decade ago) was sharply rapped across the wrists around the circuit for barking up the wrong tree.Here was a sample and typical reaction from the typewriter jockeys: &ldquo;Hockey, then, is in a sad way, if it needs the papers and similar mediums to beat the drums for them and do a selling job.&ldquo;If it has anything to offer, then hockey like any other endeavor can stand on its own feet.&ldquo;And frankly, it&rsquo;s this agent&rsquo;s conviction that this game will bounce back bigger and better, and on its own merits &hellip; rather than look to us to make like tinhorn promoters.&rdquo;This might have been laying it on somewhat thick, and Agar was probably irritated by the fact that in every reference of late to proposed expansion of the WHL, Victoria (and occasionally Winnipeg) vas significantly not mentioned.Meanwhile, theories that better days are in store gain strength when you look in the direction of Portland, where the Buckaroos recently played to an all-time league record crowd of 9,753.This figure eclipsed by a few hundreds the previous mark set by Winnipeg Warriors in their league debut some years back.It added up to something like a $16,000 gate, and more heartening assurance to manager Harry Glickman and coach Harold Laycoe that they&rsquo;re in for a long successful run.Portland is nightly attracting an average of close to 6,000 through the turnstiles of the Memorial Coliseum, and that aforementioned big one when the Edmonton Flyers visited town came despite the BuckaroOs losing four in a row.In the meantime, such other matters were developing in Al Leader&rsquo;s league as:1 &mdash; A bid from a Russian hockey promoter to have the Calgary Stampeders venture behind the Iron Curtain for a series with Russia&rsquo;s national team. 11 would have meant interruptins the league schedule, which didn&rsquo; go over too well &hellip; but you eat bet that Bud Poile&rsquo;s Flyers would have been clad to have had amtruant in recent weeks. They dropped from first place into seventh with an all-time personal losing streak, and jeopardized their record as the only Western League club never to have missed out on the playoffs. Six of the eight make it, and it&rsquo;s no part of a lock for the Edmontonians.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01512/2061645-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="523" height="837"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sets New RecordGuyle Fielder</figcaption></div>2 &mdash; Perennial league badman Frank Arnett went berserk after an altercation with Spokane&rsquo;s Forbes Kennedy, meant to punch referee Loru Farelli, missed and struck a linesman instead. He came out with enough penalty time that the Seattle defenceman may yet retain his title though he sits out the rest of the season.3 &mdash; While Eddie Dorohoy was still refusing to report to Winnipeg after being dealt off by Vancouver, Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder surpassed him as the league&rsquo;s top pointgetter ever. The night at the turn of the year when Fielder scored a goal at Victoria, it marked his 813th Western League point, 210 of them goals. &#9632;

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‘Don’t Knock Us,’ Blast By Agar Gets Him Blast From Steamed Up Press

<h2>NEW PENALTY RECORD</h2>Spokane and Victoria set a new Western League record for penalties in a fame last week. The previous record for the most penalties in a came was 147 minutes set in March 1956 between Seattle and New Westminster. The latest outburst brought on a total of 220 minutes. Referee was Lou Farelli.<h2>FIELDER GETS NEW RECORD</h2>Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder set a new all-time scoring record for the Western Hockey League last week. The Seattle Totems and Portland Buckaroos played a 5-5 tie. Fielder scored one goal to boost his all-time points total to 813. The previous mark was set by Eddie Dorohoy.<h3>Sunday, December 25</h3>Seattle 2 at Portland 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02466/2061774-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="558" height="326"></div><h3>Monday, December 26</h3>Spokane 4 at Seattle 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03394/2061767-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="557" height="554"></div>Portland 4 at Victoria 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04321/2061760-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="556" height="153"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05271/2061753-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="561" height="380"></div>Calgary 2 at Winnipeg 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08214/2061746-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="557" height="488"></div><h3>Tuesday, December 27</h3>Winnipeg 1 at Calgary 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09204/2061739-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="553" height="380"></div>Edmonton 4 at Vancouver 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10183/2061732-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="559" height="605"></div><h3>Friday, December 30</h3>Portland 5 at Seattle 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11160/2061725-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="566" height="691"></div>Spokane 2 at Victoria 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12147/2061718-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="553" height="606"></div>Edmonton 1 at Vancouver 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13123/2061711-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="565" height="461"></div><h3>Sunday, January 1</h3>Edmonton 3 at Portland 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1496/2061704-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="552" height="533"></div>Spokane 4 at Seattle 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1576/2061697-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="555" height="560"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1653/2061690-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="571" height="245"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues., A.M., Jan. 3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06242/2061683-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="572" height="234"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including Games Of Mon., Jan. 3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07221/2061676-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="575" height="506"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash; It goes without saying the Kelowna-Penticton Combines would welcome with open arms one of the most powerful and colorful defensemen the Western Hockey League has known.That title belongs to Pete Durham, who at the peak of his career, close to four years ago, suffered a fractured vertebrae, while in a playoff game against the Victoria Cougars.The same season, the former Port Arthur junior star, was named the most valuable player on the new Westminster Royal Squad.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01495/2061805-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="246" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pete Durham</figcaption></div>Today Pete Durham is employed with a large construction company as a mechanic, and was recently transferred to Kelowna.&ldquo;I have no intentions of returning to the game,&rdquo; said Pete during a hockey game at Kelowna. &ldquo;My last game was played in March of &lsquo;57 and that&rsquo;s the way it will stand.&rdquo;&ldquo;Yes I could go out there and play, but not the way I would want to. I&rsquo;m now 33 years old, and this is no time to make a come back, it would be senseless.&rdquo;Durham who appears fully recovered from his serious injury, has his 10-year-son playing in the local PUP League. &#9632;

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Durham Nixes Comeback Idea

<div class="byline">By PETER WARREN</div>SAINT JOHN, N.B.&mdash;Last season&rsquo;s Eastern Canadian Memorial Cup semi-finalists, Moncton Junior Beavers, are proving that a good little team can stand up to a good big team &hellip;The Ron Gaudet-coached Beavers currently lead the four-team New Brunswick Hockey League and have dropped only two games this season, in some 14 starts.Playing fast, snappy-passing hockey the Beavers &mdash; the oldest player is 18 &mdash; have dropped other circuit entries: Saint John Irving Oilers, Fredericton Caps and Fredericton Juniors, with regular monotony.The league &mdash; run by former Boston Bruin Rollie McLenahan &mdash; draws regular crowds of over 2,000 and is the first step towards the re-organization of senior hockey in New Brunswick.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02410/2061836-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="266" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rollie McLenahan</figcaption></div>Maritime puck greats, Crow Hewey, Bob Bowness and Doug MacPhee together with the new stars appearing on the two junior lineups have made for exciting action and the fans are starting to turn out.But Moncton isn&rsquo;t resting on its certain pennant-winning laurels in New Brunswick alone &hellip;The spunky crew, paced by their power line of brothers Gene and Oscar Gaudet together with ball star Phil Doiron, took on Windsor Maple Leafs, third place squad in the powerful Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League, last week and whipped the Leafs 7-3 in a cliff-hanger.Saint John sports a team of seasoned veterans and if General Manager Solly Goldberg, can get the team team to click before playoff time, the Oilers will be tough opponents for all Maritime teams.Fredericton Caps, the cellar-dwellers, have a nifty outfit that plays good hockey but allows itself to be out-hustled by faster teams.The Capital City Juniors &mdash; challenging Saint John for second place &mdash; need only a touch of experience in their average forward line to really be considered a potential honors-winning crew.But, despite its faults, the New Brunswick Hockey League &mdash; in its first year of operation &mdash; is making good progress. Hard-fought games, lots of determination and plenty of fans are gradually bringing the province back to the days when it produced such stars as Gordie Drillon, Pete Kelly and Rollie McLenahan, and Jackie Keating. &#9632;

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New Brunswick Fans Rush To Back New Senior Loop

<div class="byline">By BERNIE PASCALL</div>YORKTON, Sask.&mdash;Tragedy hit the Yorkton Terriers on New Year&rsquo;s Day with the death of playing coach Vic Kreklewetz in a highway accident, Kreklewetz was in the second carload of players enroute to Saskatoon for an afternoon league game against the Quakers when the accident occured. Kreklewetz was a passenger in the car with two other Yorkton players forward Adam Twardowsky and defenceman Ed Moskal. Moskal and Twardowsky are in critical condition in Saskatoon Hospital. The remainder of the team did not hear of the highway tragedy until the first period was under way and with a crowd of 1901 on hand they decided to continue the game. The Quakers loaned them 4 players. Saskatoon won 7-3. The league will likely hold a benefit game for the players, but nothing definite has been announced as yet.Around The League: Medicine Hat Monarchs boast the hottest line in the Saskatchewan senior league, coach Alex Kaletas number one line is made up of league scoring leader Vic Link who plays centre and wingers Bill Thieman and Cliff Lennartz. Thieman is in second place in league statistics and Lennartz is also among the top 5. The line named the &ldquo;Jr Kraut Line&rdquo; by their teammates has scored 48 goals in 15 games. Link is the leagues top goal scorer with 21 tallies. The Monarchs have averaged 1,000 fans per game in this their first start in senior company.Saskatoon Quakers: Have been receiving top performances from Bill Lindsay, Sid Puddicombe and Morris Pacula and Quakers are still strong contenders to hold onto the league championship they won last year &hellip; They are in 4th place in league standings 2 pts ahead of cellar dwelling Yorkton.Moose Jaw Pla-Mors: Have been getting steady goaltending from former Prince Albert junior Ken Kuntz &hellip; Kuntz is in his second year with the Pla Mors &hellip; Moose Jaw boasts the largest crowd of the season 2,360 watched December 29th as Pla Mors downed medicine hat 8-1. Jackie McLeod formed WHL performer has been reinstated as an amateur and just recently joined the Pla Mors who already have sole possession of first place 6 pts ahead of second place Regina Caps.Yorkton Terriers: With the loss of Vic Kreklewetz and Moskal and Twardowsky are not likely to make playoffs &hellip; Terriers are the only team to have natural ice, which delayed their home opener for over a month, this is the main reason they trail the 5 team loop.Regina Caps: Strong contenders in the league hnd boast many top performers in Pete Petrovitch, Butch Leskun, Pat Lundy and Danny Banda &hellip; Banda plays pro football with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Former Junior goalie with Melville, Bill Sides has been guiding the twine lately for the Caps. &#9632;

Yorkton Terrier Coach Vic Kreklewetz Killed

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;Fred &lsquo;Bun&rsquo; Cook is compiling quite a reputation as an interim manager with Kingston Frontenacs in the Eastern Pro Hockey League.When Wren Blair took time out shortly after the New Year turn to go on the hunt for new talent calculated to bolster the Fronts into an upward climb, Cook nominally the club trainer, was installed as team pilot for the second time this season.His first test in the new hitch came when his larrigans tackled the Royals in Kingston. And the Frontenacs raised hob with the NHL Habs&rsquo; farmhands for a 6-3 triumph to put a crimp in Royals&rsquo; notions that they were due to make a serious bid to climb from the cellar depths.It seems that when he gets really riled at his hired help Blair threatens to quit and asks the top brass in Boston to appoint another man to run the club, so that he, Blair, can devote his full thinking and energies to management and scouting.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01491/2061922-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="273" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bun Cook</figcaption></div>He gave his team a severe tongue lashing tv this effect, then went home to Oshawa for the New Year festivities, handing over the reins to Cook with the above cause and affect.This was the second time that Cook had suddenly been handed responsibility of running the team. Back in December he took over while Blair was called home owing to a death of a relative. Cook was the skipper for two games, winning in Sudbury, but losing in Sault Ste. Marie.Of course running a hockeyf team is &ldquo;old hat&rdquo; for Bun Cook. For many years he was a very successful coach with Cleveland Barons in the AHL, following his career as an all superstar with New York Rangers in the heyday of Lester Patrick.The Cook-Boucher-Cook Line is hallowed in memory by old time hockey fans &mdash; Bun Cook at left wing, Frankie Boucher, center and Bill Cook on the right rail.Joe Spence, who travels the Eastern Pro circuit to vocalize crisp, colorful accounts of Wolves&rsquo; muscular endeavors in other rinks of the circuit for Sudbury radio fans, showed daring and initiative by organizing a jury to vote not one, but three All-Star teams at the halfway point of the schedule.His companions on the six man panel were: Al Trottier, Montreal Forum public relations staff; Harry Wolfe, Soo; Lionel Duval, Hull; Hugh Bowman, Kitchener and Jim Shearon, Ottawa &mdash; all like Spence play-by-play spielers.Votes were tabulated on the usual formula &mdash; five points for a first team nomination, three points for second choices and one for a third team vote.Bobby Rousseau, of the H-O Habs was the only player to receive six first team votes, though five pollsters named him a rightwinger and one called him for the left side. Rousseau was also given the call for best rookie, though in this he shaded Cliff Schmautz of the Soo T-Birds by only one point.Here&rsquo;s how these six fearless experts lined up. with the total points in brackets:<h2>First Team</h2>Denis Dejordy, Soo, goal (20); J. C. Tremblay, H-O (24) and Pat Stapelton, Soo (20) defence; Cliff Pennington, H-O (25) center; Tom McCarthy, Sudbury (28) leftwing; Bobby Rousseau H-O (25) rightwing; Glen Skov, H-O (26) coach; Rousseau, best rookie (18) and McCarthy, MVP.<h2>Second Team</h2>Eddie Johnston H-O, goal (18); Al McNeil, H-O (19) and Jean Gauthier, H-O (18) defence; Ed. Hoekstra, Kitchener (14) center; Fred Hilts, Soo (13) leftwing; Cliff Schmautz, Soo (13) right-wino-Rillv Reav Soo. (20) coach &#9632;

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Fronts Turn To Cook To Spice Up Their Old Menu

<h2>SKOV PLAYS DEFENCE</h2>When Al McNeil was struck by Pat Stepleton&rsquo;s slapshot for a broken cheekbone Dec. 29 at the Soo, Hull-Ottawa. Habs were reduced to two defencemen. Playing coach Glen Skov joined J. C. Tremblay and George Bouchard on the back-division next outing in Sudbury. It was Skov&rsquo;s first turn on the rearguard as a pro.<h2>MURPH PRESCRIBES BOWLING</h2>Days they workout in the mornings on skates, the Sudbury Wolves get together again afternoons and throw those big bowling projectiles at the heavy pins in a new shopping center up in the Nickel Belt metropolis. The Wolves generally split up into two teams and put a little money on the line to make things interesting.<h3>TUESDAY, JANUARY 3</h3>Hull 6 or Montreal 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02448/2062030-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="550" height="462"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4</h3>Montreal 3 at Kingston 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03412/2062023-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="548" height="627"></div><h3>THURSDAY, JANUARY 5</h3>Kitchener 3 at Sault 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04376/2062016-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="556" height="728"></div>Montreal 1 at Hull 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05317/2062009-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="550" height="263"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06271/2062002-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="514" height="86"></div><h3>FRIDAY, JANUARY 6</h3>Kitchener 1 at Sudbury 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07256/2061995-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="555" height="669"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JANUARY 7</h3>Sault 1 at Kingston 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08241/2061988-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="553" height="569"></div><h3>SUNDAY. JANUARY 8</h3>Sudbury 3 at Montreal 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09231/2061981-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="560" height="473"></div>Sault 5 at Hull 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10220/2061974-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="562" height="836"></div>Kingston 3 at Kitchener 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11198/2061967-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="557" height="628"></div><h2>How The Race Goes</h2>(Standings On Tues. A.M. Jan. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12178/2061960-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="566" height="187"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2>(Including games of Sun., Jan. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13147/2061953-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="565" height="284"></div><h3>Leaders</h3>Most Goals, Bobby Rousseau, H-O, 27.Most Assist, Cliff Pennington, H-O, 43.Leading Goalkeeper, Eddie Johnston, H-O, 36, 86, 8, 2.36.Most Shutouts, Eddie Johnston, H-O, 8.Most Penalized Team Sault Ste. Marie, 621 minutes.Most Penalized Player, Matt Ravelich, SSM, 84 minutes.<h3>SPORTS PHOTOS !</h3>Thousands of different 8 x 10 glossy photos. Ideal for your bar, den or clubroom. 60 cents each.SPECIAL OFFER10 Hockey Hall of Famers: $4.00Send for FREE LIST. &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HAL WALKER (Toronto Telegram)</div>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;An invasion by young Canadian hockey players who can get an education because of their talents on the ice has touched off one of the bitterest fights in U.S. college athletics, it is revealed in the Current issue of Time Magazine.Front and centre in this warmed-over feud that has existed the past few years is Murry Armstrong, former centre with Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans and a native of Regina, Sask. Armstrong is the most successful recruiter of Canadian talent and makes no apologies for the tactics that has won him 98 of 140 games, and, which also, incidentally, beat the U.S. Olympic team last year. As coach of Denver&rsquo;s defending national collegiate champs, Murray coolly cites the lesson he learned during his career in the National League. &ldquo;The key to success in any athletics is recruiting. You can&rsquo;t make a race horse out of a mule. I simply go where the best hockey is played &mdash; in Western Canada &mdash; and look for players with good brains.&rdquo;American pride apparently is wounded by the fact that its best college team is manned almost entirely by Canadian youngsters. Denver has only one American, spare goalie Paul DiNapoli of Belmont, Mass., and Paul watches most of the games from the bench.While defending his recruiting, Armstrong admits some of his players did play in Junior A leagues in Canada, but he claims that none of them were paid the $60 a week maximum allowed under our tolerant amateur (?) hockey setup.Claims like this, Time reports, bring a hoot and a holler from John Mariucci, one of the few Americans to make the NHL (Chicago) and who coaches Minnesota. &ldquo;If you find a boy like that,&rdquo; Mariucci snaps, &ldquo;bring him to me. I&rsquo;ll tell him he&rsquo;s been cheated. They all get paid.&rdquo;The Western Collegiate Hockey Association now deprives Canadian players of one season of U.S. college eligibility for every year they played the game in Canada after their 20th birthday. And under pressure from irate antiCanadian coaches, the policy committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association this month will debate a far tougher measure: total loss of eligibility for a man who has played in any league that pays any of its players.In the meantime, Denver is looking forward to another championship this year. Shrugs one Denver fan: &ldquo;All I care about is &#9632;

Canuck Scholars Middle Of Feud In U.S. Colleges

<div class="byline">By HERB ELK</div>PHILADELPHIA. P.A.&mdash;It&rsquo;s too bad that the Eastern Hockey League doesn&rsquo;t have a &ldquo;comeback-of-the-year&rdquo; award. Chuck Stuart, smooth skating centerman of the Ramblers, would be a cinch to win it.The 25-year-old St. Catharines, Ontario, has scored one or more points in each of the Ramblers&rsquo; last 20 games, and he&rsquo;s been playing with a cast on his broken hand for the past three weeks.Stuart came to the EHL in 1956-57, with the Charlotte Clippers. The Clips were &ldquo;loaded&rdquo; that season, and, after one game. Chuck was loaned to Johnstown for the balance of the season. He finished third in scoring &mdash; behind Bibber O&rsquo;Hearn and Doug Adam, his coach on the Ramblers &mdash; with 108 points.In 1957-58 he accounted for 74 points as a member of the pennant winning Clippers and finished sixth in individual scoring. The following season saw the 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; hustler traded to Philadelphia. His point total fell to 34 and at the age of 23, Chuck felt he was through.Last season Stuart took a year off. He stayed in Canada and played Senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; hockey with Niagara Falls.Coach Doug Adam of the Ramblers convinced Chuck to rejoin Philadelphia this season. His fine work not only has him among the league&rsquo;s top scorers (20 goals and 29 assists) but has sparked his linemates, Stan Parker and Blinky Boyce as well.The Ramblers as battling for the Southern Division lead, after a dismal start (they dropped their first four games while allowing 41 goals) and much of the credit goes to number 10, Chuck Stuart.Charlotte &mdash; Jim Maxwell leads team with 21 goals and 34 points &hellip; Moe Savard also has 34 points, including 25 assists &hellip; Norm Armstrong&rsquo;s penalty total reached 101 minutes in Dec. 27th 3-2 loss to Philly &hellip; Checkers won against Greensboro, 6-4, Dec. 28 and trail third place Ramblers by five points.Clinton &mdash; Coach Irwin Gross scored three times and veteran Art Rose four as Comets whipped Rovers, 12-1, Dec. 28. Each had two assists in addition to goals &hellip; Spider Brown and N.Y.&rsquo;s Norm Ryder drew majors, misconducts and game misconducts in same tilt &hellip; Comets tied with Ramblers, 2-2, Dec. 25 and trail New Haven by one point for Northern Division lead.Greensboro &mdash; Goalie Don Campbell suffered severe cut in Dec. 28 game with Charlotte and club has obtained Chuck Adamson from Indianapolis of IHL as emergency replacement. Adamson started season in nets for Chiefs and has been shelved with broken ankle.Jersey &mdash; Larks&rsquo; losing streak hit seven before they beat Rovers, 7-2, Dec. 27. Gil Champagne paced win with two goals and three assists &hellip; It was Larks&rsquo; first home win in last five starts &hellip; Jerry Stringle also netted twice in same game &hellip; Danny Patrick is team scoring leader following departure of Steve Kuzma for Charlotte.Johnstown &mdash; Remi Lesage sidelined with broken wrist, injury came in practice session &hellip; Clare Wakshinski suspended when he refused to report to Jersey, thus nullifying deal for Danny Patrick &hellip; Bruno Talbot playing both wing and defense during past week &hellip; Jets beat Rovers, 4-2, Dec. 26, and then dropped 9-1 and 7-3 verdicts to Blades and Rovers, Dec. 28 and 29New Haven &mdash; Gord Stratton continues to pace league in scoring with linemate Don Davidson third &hellip; Blades dropped 8-4 decision to Philly in Valley Forge, Pa., Dec. 23 and topped Larks, 5-1, Dec. 25 and Jets, 9-1, Dec. 28, during week&rsquo;s action &hellip; John Brophy drew nine minutes in latter tilt and now has 188 minutes in sin bin.New York &mdash; Serge Beau-dreault, Claude Vinet and Bob Cowan scored two goals each in 7-3 win over Jets, Dec. 29 &hellip; Ike Scott&rsquo;s goal at 2.50 of third saved Rovers from shutout in 12-1 loss to Comets, Dec. 28 &hellip; Scott and Pierre Gagne scored in 7-2 loss at Jersey, Dec. 27 &hellip; Gord Turlik and Vinet scored in 4-2 loss to Jets, Dec. 26 &hellip; Rovers hold one point edge over Jersey and have two games in hand in battle for third in Northern Division.Philadelphia &mdash; Coach Doug Adam averaging point-per-game since return to action &hellip; Eno Kraft is Phillv&rsquo;s badman with 93 Blades, Dec. 23 &hellip; Ramblers tied Comets and topped Checkers on road as ice show has taken over Arena for two weeks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01487/2062085-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="550" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larks&rsquo; StarDanny Patrick</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Phillies Chuck Stuart Tabbed ‘Comeback Star’

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA, B. C. &mdash;The new year offered little to shout about for Willie Schmidt and his Kamloops Chiefs, and the Kelowna - Penticton Combines didn&rsquo;t help matters any.In a holiday game at Kelowna, the Combines whipped the Kamloops crew 12-4 before 1,100 cheering fans, the largest Kelowna crowd ol the season.The Chiefs played the game minus four of their better players, who apparently left for greener fields in Northern Alberta. These include Larry Berg; Shorty Styles; defenseman Don Busch, and netminder John Panagrot, who had the best goal against average in the league. All four players were guaranteed employment, something almost unheard of in this part of the country.The Kamloops pilot will have to go along with local talent, because at this late date, together with the poor attendance and the unemployment picture, outside help is oue of the question.Meanwhile the high flying Kelowna-Penticton Combines have moved into a first place tie with Odie Lowe&rsquo;s Vernon Canadians. Each have eight points in the three team circuit. Kamloops Chiefs occupy the basement with four points.Playing coach Jim Middleton of the Combines has selected 15 players from the ranks of the defunct Penticton Vees and Kelowna Packers, who have agreed to play out the season.Although strong up front but somewhat weak on defense and in goal they are: defenseman Rheo Touzin, Jack Durston; forwards Don Slater, Jack Howard, Warren Hicks converted to a defensive spot, and Walt Peacosh, who will soon be joining the overseas bound Trail Smoke-Eaters.The Kelowna players include Middleton, Mike Durban, Brian Doche, Bill Swarbriek, Bill Jones, Jim Tompkins, Nick Bulach, and netminders Ed Schluter, and Boris Kabatoff, both from the intermediate ranks.Fred Gaber the chunky centreman with Kamloops Chiefs continues to set a torrid pace in the league scoring race. In 25 games player Gaber has amassed 76 points made up of 31 goals and 45 helpers, both of which are tops in the league.Far back in second place is Walt Peacosh of the Combines who has 30 goals and 30 assists. Gabers linemates Rex Turple and Bob Gannon run third and fourth respectively. Turple has 55 points, and Gannon 51. Tied for fifth are two Vernon players, playing coach Odie Lowe, and veteran Don Jakes, each have 47 points. Combines Bill Jones follows with 17 goals and 28 assists. &#9632;

Steady Jobs Attract Kamloops Quartet, Leaving Club In Hole

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01464/2062140-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Boston player shown in centre.7&mdash;Initials of Conacher of Hershey Be-rs.9&mdash;Mrs. Bob Goldham.10&mdash;Initials of Meissner, ex-Bruin.11&mdash;Dalton McArthur sustained a cut above one on Dec. 4.13&mdash;Hockeyists do this at training camp.14&mdash;Native province of pictured star (abbr.).15&mdash;Leaf trainer, Bob Haggert, took a course at this university (abbr.).16&mdash;League in which pictured player last played amateur hockey (abbr.).18&mdash;Zero.19&mdash;The &hellip;. worn by 7 down is 17 (abbr.).20&mdash;Initials of Collins of Quebec Aces.21&mdash;Initials of the famed &ldquo;Hooley&rdquo; Smith.23&mdash;Initials of Johnson of Spokane.25&mdash;Initials of Thurlby, player acquired by Boston in summer draft.27&mdash;Billy Harris brought several back from Europe.32&mdash;Opposite to out.33&mdash;The wife of 17 down is one.35&mdash;Calder Trophy winner of 1946-47.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;One of the Montreal Canadiens.2&mdash;Name given Millar of Hershey.3&mdash;Most penalized Black Hawk of 1959-60 season.4&mdash;Battalion (abbr.).5&mdash;Behold!6&mdash;Before.7&mdash;A New York forward.8&mdash;Initials of Maki of Buffalo Bisons.12&mdash;This Hershey rearguard is a native of Toronto.17&mdash;This Leaf defenseman sells used cars.22&mdash;Name given Brian Smith&rsquo;s dad.24&mdash;Don Johns&rsquo; second name.26&mdash;George Armstrong&rsquo;s father is one.27&mdash;Number of shut-outs Glenn Hall collected last season.28&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L. referee.29&mdash;Providence player known as &ldquo;Bo&rdquo;.30&mdash;Negative answer.31&mdash;Initials of Duff of Toronto.34&mdash;Initials of Buffalo&rsquo;s netminder.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Duff3&mdash;Hall7&mdash;Lunde8&mdash;None11&mdash;Creighton13&mdash;EC.14&mdash;He16&mdash;Apr.17&mdash;Ted.18&mdash;G.S.19&mdash;H.H.21&mdash;Ear23&mdash;Arm25&mdash;Marry27&mdash;Gaye28&mdash;April31&mdash;Read32&mdash;Sask.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Dance2&mdash;Fine3&mdash;Hugh4&mdash;An5&mdash;L.D.6&mdash;Leonard9&mdash;Orchestra10&mdash;E.I.12&mdash;Teacher15&mdash;Ed.17&mdash;T.G.20&mdash;Harris22&mdash;Ry.23&mdash;Agar24&mdash;Myra26&mdash;Apps29&mdash;Ra30&mdash;L.K. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;Steve Ruznisky&rsquo;s suspended Prince Albert Mintos have been admitted back into the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League with most of their players intact, and with little hope of vacating the cellar position.Mintos, along with owner-manager Ruznisky, were suspended indefinitely by commissioner Frank Boucher of Saskatoon for actions &ldquo;detrimental to the welfare of the league&rdquo; following the sale of defenceman Jim Neilson to Brandon of the Manitoba Junior League.A marathon league meeting in Regina cleared up the situation by levelling an ultimatum at Ruznisky &mdash; either he rescind all deals for players and continue with the present lineup until the end of the season, or fold.With little chance of gaining a playoff position, Ruznisky had hoped to deal off his last-year men, and &ldquo;build for the future.&rdquo; Besides the sale of Neilson to Brandon for $2,055 cash, he had planned on offering Darrell Lubiniecki, Roy Patrick and Hubert Greyeyes to other SJHL members through a player pool draft.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02406/2062171-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="557" height="815"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Rodger</figcaption></div>Mintos trail the sixth-place Saskatoon Quakers by 12 pointsand are 17 points behind the fourth and last playoff spot. They have won only-six of 36 starts.Brandon put up a small noise about returning the starry Neilson, but their hands were tied since his inter-branch transfer had been held up by the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association.Besides taking back Neilson, the Minto owner retained Lubiniecki and Patrick. During a late session he was allowed to place Greyeyes in a player pool and Saskatoon Quakers drafted the right winger for a set price.Afterwards, Boucher said that guys like Ruznisky and Scotty Munro at Estevan could get the league in some ticklish spots, but they were &ldquo;good to have around. They always managed to keep us in the spotlight.&rdquo;In regular league action, Doug Bentley&rsquo;s Quakers continued to be the hottest team in the loop, picking a tie in Moose Jaw and beating Mintos in Prince Albert. Since Nov. 21 the Bentleymen have lost only three of 14 starts, with all the defeats coming at the hands of the leading Regina Pats. They have a six-game unbeaten road record going for them.Centre John Rodger of Estevan was the league&rsquo;s hottest man, individually, potting four goals and adding as many assists during a 13-3 romp over Melville. The victory was a big one for Bruins, moving them three points ahead of the third place Millionaires.The outburst carried Rodger, an import from St. Boniface of the Manitoba league, to within two points of scoring leader Ed Lawson of Melville, another centre.Lawson had 70 points on 31 goals, as compared to 68 points on 30 goals for Rodger. Lawson&rsquo;s linemate, Les Calder, is a strong third with 61 points. &#9632;

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Ruznisky And Mintos Allowed Bock Into SJHL With Warning

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;New Year&rsquo;s Day, 1961, marked the mid-way point in the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; schedule and to the surprise of almost no one the Guelph Royals carry a comfortable first-place margin.Generally rated as the team to beat when sports writers and sportscasters scrubbed their crystal ball before the season opened, the Royals were a little slow to start but have gradually lengthened the gap between first and second position as the weeks progress.With all teams having played 24 of their 48 games, the Royals, coached by first-year man Emile Francis, have 37 points, 12 more than Niagara Falls Flyers and 14 more than the third place Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01339/2062202-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="272" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barclay Plager</figcaption></div>Hamilton Red Wings and Peterborough TPT Petes are another five points back with 22 apiece while St. Catharines Teepees holds a precarious one-point edge over Toronto Marlboros in the race for the sixth and final playoff position.A 5-2 win by the Teepees over the Majors in Toronto enabled them to scramble out of the basement.Oddly enough the only team to give Guelph any serious trouble has been last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup champions, the Teepees.In their first three meetings the&rsquo; Teeps had won one game, tied two others with the Royals and were the only club to hold an edge over them on the season&rsquo;s play.However this myth of invincibility was shattered last week when the Royals thumped the Teepees 9-2 to leave the teams even with four points apiece against each other in four games.Perhaps the most improved player on the Guelph team this season has been Denny Jordan, acquired by the Royals from Hamilton in a deal hatched during the summer months.Jordan looked at so much rubber while in the nets for the last place Hamilton club last season that it was said he got a case of the shakes even when he had to change a tire on his dad&rsquo;s automobile.However this year, under the coaching of former NHL and AHL star Emile (The Cat) Francis, Jordan has emerged as one of the better guardians in Canadian teenage hockey.With tremendous scoring punch from Jean Ratelle and Rod Gilbert, good defensive work by Mike McMahon and Al Lebrun, the Royals could go all the way.Barring late-season developments there will be no junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; all-star game in Ontario this year.However Eddie Bush, former coach of the Royals and now with the surging Hamilton Red Wings, has come out with his choice as the top six men in the league.Bush, second only to Hap Emms in pbint of service among the seven junior coaches, picked Roger Crozier of St. Catharines in goal; Terry O&rsquo;Malley of St. Michael&rsquo;s and Barclay Plager of Peterborough on defence; Rod Gilbert of Guelph at centre; Jean Ratelie of Guelph and Wayne Boddy of Peterborough on the wings.Few coaches in the junior circuit would have the need of crying towels if they had those six players in their lineup for one season and the selection by the former NHL defenceman was greeted with general accord. &#9632;

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No Contest As Guelph Turns OHA Derby Into 1 Horse Race To Wire

TORONTO, Ont.Walter (Turk) Broda, the &ldquo;fabulous fatman&rdquo; when he guarded the nets of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League, has ended a brief retirement from hockey and returned to coach the Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league.Broda was either fired or ex-retired (reports differ on this score) last season when, after leading the Marlboros to first place during the regular junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; schedule, the Dukes were eliminated by Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors in four straight games.Jerry Brown, who handled Sault Ste. Marie in the Eastern Pro League last year, was hired to replace Broda but so far has been unable to dislodge the Dukes from last place in the seven-team circuit.Brown, in relinquishing the Marlboro coaching duties, will continue in the Toronto organization as assistant to Scout Bob Davidson.Gatecliff &#9632;

Broda Returns

TIMMINS, Ont. The Northern Ontario Hockey Association meted out its hardest penalty last week when it ordered Coach Stan TallOn of the Rouyn-Noranda Alouettes suspended for one year for pulling his men off the ice during a game.President Cliff Thomson of the NHA announced the suspension which follows a temporary suspension after the December 27 game in which Tallon called his players off the ice.Tallon&rsquo;s Alouettes were leading 2-1 in the game at Abitibi when an Eskimo goal brought on a protest from Tallon. Referee Gus Plager ordered Tallon to return his men to the ice in two minutes, But he delayed their return for three and a half minutes. &#9632;

Rouyn - Noranda’s Coach Suspended For One Year

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;&ldquo;We only have Danny Summers, Fred Brown and Jean Paul Denis out Other than that we&lsquo;ve o.k.&rdquo;.This was St. Paul Saint General Manager, Joe Lein talking. Lein&rsquo;sInternational Hockey League squad and archrival Minneapolis are running neck-and-neck for the top spot in the IHL&rsquo;s Western Division.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02277/2062281-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="273" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Summers</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Summers, who is our captain has been out a month with a dislocated shoulder and Brown and Denis have knee ailments. They should be back soon however,&rdquo; said Lein.Lein opined that coach Fred Shero has done an excellent job in reshuffling the lines to get things on an even keel.Shero has used Richie Brown, Dick O&rsquo;Brian and Bob Sharrow, all St. Paul youngsters, in addition to Jerry Kruk, obtained from Minneapolis and former U. S. Olympic players John Newkirk, John Mayasich and Dick Dougherty, as replacements.&ldquo;By using the Minnesota boys, ii help us with our public relations with the fans and boosts hockey in our area for youngsters,&rdquo; asserted Lein.Before Summers, Brown and Denis were hurt, St. Paul won 18 out of 21 encounters. The Saints have won three and tied one out of their next nine.It&rsquo;s no disgrace. Every club reaches a point in the schedule where they slack-off somewhat. Coupled with that, and Minneapolis&rsquo; 13-game winnng streak, the Saints, trail Minneapolis two games, with five games in hand.IHL NOTES &hellip; Minneapolis&rsquo; 13-game winning streak was snapped by St. Paul. The Saints bested the Millers 2-1 in overtime on Marcel Rochon&rsquo;s tally at 2:04 of the extra session &hellip; A crowd of 8,156 saw game in St. Paul &hellip; Saints are averaging better than 5,300 per game.Indianapolis broke their 12 game losing streak, with a 4-4 tie with Muskegon at Indianapolis &hellip; Ronnie Brain tallied for the Chiefs mid-way through the final stanza.Ft. Wayne holds the IHL record for consecutive wins &mdash; 14 and Windsor Ryaneretes far the number of consecutive losses &mdash; 15.Chick Chalmers leading loop in scoring with 64 points, followed closely by Lennie Thomson of Ft. Wayne with 62 &hellip; Thomson is ahead in assists with 43. &#9632;

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St. Paul Using U.S. Born Kids To Fill Holes

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div>FORT WILLIAM, ONT. &mdash; The presidents of two of the Lakeheads junior clubs, Stan Mack of the North Stars and Chris Asseff of the Canadiens are both being honored for their ten years of service to their clubs and junior hockey, with a big presidents night celebration. Both their parent clubs, the Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings are sending special representatives to tthe banquet and hockey game. From the Red Wings will be Gordie Howe and Jack Adams. The Canadiens are sending Ken Reardon and Jean Beliveau. Presentations will be made to both presidents from the people, the clubs and the Thunder Bay Amateur Hockey Association. Howe is going to coach the North Stars and Beliveau the Canadiens that night &hellip; Charlie Rayners Kenora Thistles are off to a fine start in the Ontario Minnesota League, and have completely reversed their position of last year and find themselves tied for first place after the first month&rsquo;s play &hellip; Montreal Canadiens Eastern scout Lou Passador signed Dennis Veneruzzo eighteen year old junior star of the Fort William Hurricanes. Passador feels the lad has a lot of possibilities &hellip; Nipigon Flyers of the North Shore League changed coaches, to see if they couldn&rsquo;t instill a little life in their club, who are riding in last place. Jack Staples who played junior hockey for the old Port Arthur Bruins has taken over the club. Marshall Borsk, former coach has become the manager &hellip; Port Arthur North Stars, have brought two of last years junior club back into town to finish out the sea son, Roy Manilla of Nipigon and Bernie Mainsville of Fort Frances &hellip; The Kenora Community Centre fund which is raising money to build a much needed rink and recreation centre in Kenora, have had to put the draw for a completely furnished new home off until July, because the post office department has seized some of their tickets which have come through the mails &hellip; United States National team will play the Warroad Lakers twice and the Fort William Beavers once on their tour across the country &hellip; Coaches Lee Fogolin of the Bearcats, Mickey Hennessey of the Canadiens and Moe Irving of the North Stars will act as officials of the game on Presidents night &hellip; Still no word on whether Bill McKenzie, Thunder Bay referee, who worked at Squaw Valley in the Olympics last year will be going to Switzerland for the World championships in March &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03207/2062319-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="296" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">To CoachGordie Howe</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04171/2062312-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="261" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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