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January 28, 1961
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Plante Travels With Champs But He’s On Loan To Royals
MONTREAL, Que.—Goaler Jacques Plante turned up to play with the Montreal Royals in Sudbury last week but his equipment failed to arrive with him. He couldn’t tend goal. Plante then met the Canadiens in Detroit and travelled to Chicago with them. The club left by train after the game but Plante, lugging his equipment with him, was scheduled to take an early morning flight back to Montreal. Scheduled for 9.30 a.m., the plane didn’t take off until 11:15 a.m., because of snow. When he arrived in Toronto he was told the flight, originally scheduled to go right through, had terminated. Told he would get top priority on the next flight to Montreal Plante waited until he was offered a flight to Ottawa and hopes of perhaps getting a seat on a plane…
Houston Pressures AHL, WHL For A Post Season Minor Loop Playoff
MONTREAL. Que.— A new pitch for a revival of the East vs. West series with the Duke of Edinburgh Trophy the big prize … Jacques Plante in the nets for the Montreal Royals … Bun Cook firmly established as coach of Kingston Frontenacs with Orval Tessier as his assistant … Paul Masnick joins Sudbury Wolves … Cliff Pennington continues to play monopoly with the loop’s scoring race. These are the major developments in a bustling week of strange didoes in the operations of the Eastern Pro Hockey League. At the mid-season meeting in Kitchener, Ont., club solons were in hearty accord with league president Edward Houston’s latest effort to get the Western League, or the American League, or both, to listen to reason and get a blue ribbon classic of hockey’s minors going…
Ed Wouldn’t Heed Yell To Break Up Club
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.— “Break u p the Springfield Indians for the good of the American League and hockey?” “Nuts,”says club owner Eddie Shore of the Tribe “Let the other clubs build up to our level.” It took Eddie, with the help of the parent New York Rangers of the NHL, years to put together this powerhouse—one of the strongest in the history of the AHL and he has no intentions of weakening the club. At the half-way mark, the Indians were a good 20 points ahead of second place Cleveland and seemed headed for two AHL records currently held by the Barons. The Cleveland entry is the only AHL team ever to accumulate a 100 points in a season. And their 19-point margin over a run-nerup club is the biggest yet. With 30 games to go, the…
Missing Practice Doesn’t Pay, Gamble Fined $50 By Schmidt
BOSTON, Mass.—The fine of $50 to Bruce Gamble for missing a practice is the second-largest levied by Milt Schmidt in his six years as coach of the Bruins. Schmidt fined Gamble, his goalkeeper, for missing a practice here the day after the husky rookie was beaten by the Toronto Maple Leafs, 6 to 4. Four years ago the Bruins’ coach fined a player $100 for breaking training rules during the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Gamble fine was the second by Schmidt in a period of less than 24 hours. The night before, after Vic Stasiuk received an automatic fine of $25 for a misconduct penalty given him by Referee Frank Udvari, Schmidt added another $25. Said Schmidt of the Stasiuk fine, “He deserved the penalty he got in the first place, he shouldn’t have…
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