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January 21, 1961
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Saint John Oilers Humming Sweet Tune At Ducat Gate
SAINT JOHN, N. B.— Senior hockey has returned to New Brunswick And there’s over four thousand fans in Saint John alone who’ll tell you it’s returned with nothing less than a sputnik blast-off. Moncton Junior Beavers, who reached the Eastern Canadian Memorial Cup quarter-finals last year currently lead the four-team New Brunswick Hockey League merry-go-round. Saint John’s Irving Oilers are in second spot. Saturday the Oilers, who had already lost four decisions to the pesky Moncton outfit, had 4,320 fans roaring their heads off as they streaked to a 3-2 win and outshot the Beavers with over 20 drives. It’s been many years since over 2,000 attended a hockey game in New Brunswick and it’s been longer still since Saint John sported a team worth its upkeep. But apparently they’ve both arrived. Longtime Maritime great Nick…
Wings’Trouble? Cheeking Poor, Overweight Players
DETROIT, Mich… There are several things that force Jolly Jack Adams to become very much unjolly. They are players who are out of shape and the lack of staying with their check. Adams made his points as clear as possible hardly 12 hours after the Red Wings won their first home game in more than a month by beating Boston, 5-3. The next morning Adams had the players on the ice for a two hour and 45 minute workout, personally supervised the weigh-out of every player and ordered Alex Delvecchio and Gerry Odrowski onto the training bike in the dressing room and left coach Sid Abel behind to check on their weights after they pedalled—in bulky pads and all—for something like an hour. “I seldom go into the dressing room to talk to the players,”…
Plante Gets Habs Okay To Play With Farmclub
MONTREAL, Que.—Goaler Jacques Plante, five time Vezina Trophy Winner of the Montreal Canadiens has joined the Montreal Royals of the Eastern Professional Hockey League. Plante is stepping down to the EPHL at his own request. He injured his leg earlier in the season and has never been able to get his job back because of the great work done by Charlie Hodge, who was brought up from the Royals. Plante worked in 21 games and gave up 69 goals, In 20 games Hodge gave up 44 goals. With Plante in the nets, Canadiens won 10, lost seven and tied four. With Hodge they have won 15, lost four and tied one. Plante has been working out regularly at practices with Canadiens for the last couple of weeks and asked that he be sent to the…
Mind Blank From Time He Was Six Feet Away - - Gord
DETROIT, Mich.— Gordie Howe has joined the helmet crew of the National Hockey League. It’s a small group, only three men—Boston’s Charlie Buras and Detroit’s Warren Godfrey are the other members. Howe was ordered to wear a helmet for the rest of the season after sustaining a concussion in a collision with Eddie Shack at Toronto. It’s the second time Gordie has worn the rig. The other time was at the start of the 1950-51 season. Howe had suffered a fractured skull in the playoffs the previous spring after being checked by Toronto’s Ted Kennedy. Howe had little to say about his episode with Shack. “I don’t remember anything from the time he was six feet away from me,” Howe said. But many of the other Red Wings recalled the incident vividly and the thing that grated,…
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