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February 24, 1962

The Hockey News February 24, 1962

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p>CINCINNATI, O.&mdash;</p><p>Just like a veteran getting ready for a hockey season&mdash;tougher with each year&mdash;scribes in the International Hockey League will find it rugged to pick an all-star team for the 1961-62 campaign.</p><p>Said one observer, &ldquo;The hockey talent that has been coming into the International Hockey League the past few seasons, is of top-grade quality. Sometimes we need a&lsquo;ouigi-board&rsquo; to pick the best players.&rdquo;</p><p>Ray Mikulan, Minneapolis&rsquo; fine netminder walked off with first team goaltender honors last season. Other first team mentions were Cy Whiteside of the Millers and Muskegon&rsquo;s Gerry Glaude at defense with Len Thomson, Ft. Wayne, centering for Ken Hayden, Muskegon, at right wing and Ken Yackel, Minneapolis player-coach on left flank.</p><p>Yackel, one of the few American-born pucksters in the IHL, was named the &ldquo;dream team&rsquo;s&rdquo; coach. Chirp Brenchley, of Toledo placed second.</p><p>This year, however, Mikulan will have a hard time repeating. Omaha&rsquo;s Glenn Ramsay, Reno Zanier of Ft. Wayne and Muskegon&rsquo;s Jim McLeod all have been playing top-notch goal for their respective teams.</p><p>St. Paul&rsquo;s Jacques Marcotte would have been a &ldquo;shoe-in&rdquo; for first team goaltending honors, but the high-strung Frenchman was suspended for the balance of the season for striking an official, early in January.</p><p>Gerry Glaude. the Zephyer&rsquo;s likeable captain, figures to be the only returnee at defense on the number one squad. Muskegon&rsquo;s other rearguards, Player-Coach Moose Lallo and Joe Kiss might be mentioned, to the first team along possibly with Lionel Repka of Ft. Wayne, St. Paul&rsquo;s Mickey Keating and Joe Lund, Whiteside, Minneapolis, Moe Benoit and Moe Collins, Omaha, Marcel Goyette, Indianapolis and Toledo&rsquo;s Guy James.</p><p>Thomson and Omaha&rsquo;s Chick Chalmers, currently running-one-two in the scoring race, will battle it out for the center position on the all-star contingent. Although, the two could get some competition from the Saints Paul Masnick, who is one of the best two-way forwards in the loop.</p><p>Muskegon&rsquo;s Kenny Hayden is having another fine year at right wing, as is teammate Bryan Mc-Lay. MeLay is tops in the circuit in goals scored. Ft. Wayne captain Eddie Long, Moe Bartoli, Minneapolis and St. Paul&rsquo;s Jean Paul Denis and Elliott Chorley could &ldquo;upset the applecart.&rdquo;</p><p>Although Yackel is not having the fine year he had last season, the hustling Miller leader nevertheless. is a &ldquo;key&rdquo; player in Minneapolis&rsquo; attack. Yackel possibly could gain first team selection again at left wing, but this figures to be the closest race among the playing-positions.</p><p>Omaha&rsquo;s Pat Ginnell and Greg Jablonski, along with Roger Mai-sonneuve, of Toledo, St. Paul&rsquo;s Gilles Thibault and Joe Kastelic, Muskegon along with Yackel, are vieing for wing votes.</p><p>Moose Muskegon, expects to get the nod for coaching the selected team. However, fine jobs have been turned in by Howie Milford. Omaha. Yackel, Fred Shero of St. Paul and Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Art Stone.</p><h2>Sure Repeater</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02361/1894411-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="572" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry Glaude</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

IHL All-Star Selectors Will Find It Tough Job

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</p><p>Brandon Wheat Kings have clinched another playoff berth in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, currently sharing first place with the amazing Monarchs who won 11 of their last 12 starts to come out of nowhere to battle for the league&rsquo;s leadership.</p><p>Getting in the playoffs is not new for Brandon. We never have known a Brandon team ever to miss out even in the pre-Second World War days. However it is something else again as far as winning the circuit. The Wheaties did it two years ago but were rudely kicked out by Winnipeg Rangers last season. This year&rsquo;s club is strong on attack but have only a so-so defence and Coach Ollie Dorohoy now is experimenting with his third goalkeeper, 18-year-old Ben Harper. Gary McAlpine from St. Paul, Minn., and Tom Bend of Poplar Point, Man., were the other two.</p><p>There is no question about the Wheaties&rsquo; fire-power up front but unless Dorohoy finds a few answers to his defensive problem the Wheat Kings may find it sticky going in the playoffs.</p><p>Toronto chief Scout Bob Davidson has been impressed by Monarch goalkeeping Brian Lunney and forwards Terry Moore and Peter Stemkowski. It will be Davidson&rsquo;s job to convince Lunney that hockey is more profitable than football. Brian is most capable on the gridiron, too. Significantly Lunney joined Monarchs the day they started their hot streak. Moore is a rough, tough forward, who leads the MJHL in penalities. He backs away from nobody and he is not the type of player you take into the corners.</p><p>Coach Gordon Pennell&rsquo;s Rangers are shooting for the fourth and last playoff spot and it appears Braves are out of the running this trip and St. Boniface Canadiens have slumped badly again. The Habs took a 15-3 whacking in Brandon, the worst defeat in the club&rsquo;s history.</p><p><b>NOTES</b>&mdash;The team without a league, the senior Maroons remain undefeated and true to their great amateur tradition they have been playing exhibitions at Stony Mountain Penitentiary on an open-air rink in 20-below weather. But the inmates ate it up&hellip;Ranger juniors have heard no more about a plan to stock the short-staffed Vancouver Canucks of the Western league with juniors who are New York property. Kids from Brandon, Rangers and Flin Flon Bombers had been seleected by Western scout Deno Ball to help the Canucks who had lost several players who were Eddie Shore&rsquo;s property.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Brandon Wraps Up A Berth In Loop Playoffs

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THE BIG SHOW

<div class="byline">By Ken Mc Kenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01442/1892796-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="365" height="384"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02408/1892789-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="512" height="74"></div><p>&bull; <b>HANK BASSEN</b> is playing great goal for Detroit. The 29-year-oId redhead racked up two shutouts in his first 11 games played for the Red Wings&hellip;Toe Blake is receiving more and more recognition as the Top NHL Coach. Blake is given most of the credit for keeping the Canadiens in first place all season, especially in view of the numerous injuries to star players&hellip;Bobby Rousseau, Canadiens&rsquo; ace rookie forward, is also a crackerjack golfer. He is a former assistant professional who expects to be reinstated as an amateur soon&hellip;Cliff Pennington, Boston&rsquo;s rookie center, is the only National Hockey League regular who has yet to visit the penalty box this season&hellip;Sy Adelson and Paul Gardella have to be two of the New York Rangers&rsquo; most faithful and loyal fans. Sy and Paul, with seats right back of the press box in Madison Square Garden, have seen the last 330 Ranger games in the Garden&hellip;Normie Ullman has scored five winning goals for the Red Wings. Gordie Howe leads the team with seven winners&hellip;Bernie Geoffrion was honored as Montreal&rsquo;s professional athlete of the year by the Sportsmen&rsquo;s Association of Montreal&hellip;Frank Boucher was the champion hand wrestler of the original New York Rangers&hellip;Ward Cornell in Toronto and Frank Selke Jr. in Montreal, are doing excellent jobs as between period interviewers on Canada&rsquo;s national hockey telecasts&hellip;Bobby Hull, Chicago&rsquo;s Golden Jet and the leading goal scorer in the NHL, has scored only twice in the Montreal Forum. How about that?&hellip;Jack Adams told Toronto writers recently that Eddie Litzenberger would be in the minors by next season&hellip;The February issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL rates as the finest yet in this seven-year-old publication. The outstanding pictures and colorful stories being the reason for the sizzling growth of this picture-packed hockey monthly.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03332/1892782-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="267" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Rousseau</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>JOHN SOLLENBERGER,</b> president of Hershey Estates and a leading figure in American Hockey League circles for a number of years, was honored at the annual dinner of the Lancaster, Pa. Sportswriters and Broadcasters&hellip;Howie Morenz was Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s idol as a boy&hellip;Patrick played on the same line as his idol in 1935-36, when Morenz played a number of games for the New York Rangers&hellip;Detroit plans to keep Larry Jeffrey, former Hamilton forward playing with Edmonton earlier this year, for the balance of the season&hellip;Toe Blake gave his team the silent treatment when their undefeated streak was snapped at 13&hellip;&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t very well bawl them out. So I gave them the silent treatment,&rdquo; Toe informed&hellip;After sitting on the bench for most of the first half of the season, Ted Green, 21-year-old Boston defenseman, has played himself into the No. One right defense position on the club. Extremely popular with Boston fans, Green reminds the Bruin followers of Fern Flaman and Leo Boivin&hellip;rugged and rough&hellip;Green received six major penalties for fighting already this season&hellip;Be sure to vote for your favorite player in THE HOCKEY NEWS Annual All Star team. See the ballot on another page in this issue. This will be the 15th annual HOCKEY NEWS All-Star Team and is the only All-Star aggregation selected strictly by the fans themselves&hellip;Jim Ellery is doing a fine job in the American Hockey League office&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs break around 1,500 sticks every year which costs approximately $4,000. They lose about 1,000 pucks and use a ton-and-a-half of tape which costs them about $2,000&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04276/1892775-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="275" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Ellery</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01280/1894549-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Boston Bruins, last place club have beaten the Leafs twice and tied them once. That&rsquo;s more than any other team has been able to do. Those five points killed Punch Imlach&rsquo;s chances of a first place finish.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

Cover-01

Leafs Fade: Injuries Or Old Age?

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Jack Adams, pulling all possible switches to get the Red Wings into the playoffs for the 23rd time in the last 24 years, dealt defenseman Pete Goegan to the New York Rangers for Noel Price and brought up 21-year-old Larry Jeffrey from Edmonton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01378/1892527-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="281" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Noel Price</b></figcaption></div><p>Both moves had immediate results. Price, in his first game with the Red Wings, started the play that led to one of the Detroit goals in a 2-2 tie with the Rangers at New York.</p><p>Jeffrey, playing his first National Hockey League game, contributed a goal to the Wings&rsquo; 5-0 whipping of the Toronto Maple Leafs, a game that just about finished Toronto&rsquo;s chances of making first place.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02360/1892520-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="277" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Jeffrey</b></figcaption></div><p>Price, 26, had previous tours with Toronto and New York for a total of 36 NHL games. The Toronto St. Michaels product was playing with Springfield of the American League when the Wings made the deal.</p><p>Adams contacted several AHL managers and asked them who the best defenseman in the league was. Then he made his move for Price.</p><p>Goegan, also 26. had five goals and five assists up to the time that he was swapped but the Wings felt his play was too spotty.</p><p>Jeffrey is one of the bumper crop of juniors the Wings have turned pro the last two seasons.</p><p>Larry&rsquo;s trip to the big time was a weary one. He was at the Edmonton airport at 12:45 Sunday</p><p>morning and because of weather problems, didn&rsquo;t arrive in Detroit until 50 minutes before game time after spending most of the time in the Edmonton and Minneapolis airports.</p><p>&lsquo;I didn&rsquo;t have any legs at all on my first two shifts, Jeffrey said later.</p><p>But it didn&rsquo;t show. He handled himself well.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the best looking player the Wings have brought up this season,&rdquo; said one ex-National Leaguer in attendance at the game.</p><p>And Jeffrey is the 30th player to wear the Red Wings uniform this season, one more than played for Detroit through the 70-game schedule last year.</p><p>Jeffrey, who was playing left wing for the Hamilton Juniors last season, had 21 goals and 20 assists when he was called up.</p><p>Edmonton manager Bud Poile gave him the word after a 5-1 victory over San Francisco.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I didn&rsquo;t play much in the game and Bud told me to go to his office after the game; I thought I had done something wrong. He asked me how my ribs were&mdash;I broke two ribs in January when I went into a goal post. I told him my ribs felt fine.</p><p>&ldquo;Then he said Mr. Adams wanted me in Detroit,&rdquo; Jeffrey said.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought if I scored 30 goals this season I might have a chance to make the club next season but I wasn&rsquo;t even thinking of this year.&rdquo;</p><p>After Jeffrey&rsquo;s initial starts, Adams said he would remain with the club for the rest of the season.</p><p>Jeffrey&rsquo;s goal came at 2:33 of the second period with Eddie Shack in the penalty box. It was the third goal the Wings scored while Toronto was short-handed.</p><p>&ldquo;Bill (Gadsby) shot from the point and Bower (Johnny) blocked the shot,&rdquo; Jeffrey said. &ldquo;It was</p><p>right at my feet and I lifted it in.&rdquo;</p><p>Jeffrey raised his stick in the traditional sign as the goal light flashed and then, at about the same rapid speed as the puck went into the net, he raced into the cage to retrieve the souvenir.</p><p>Although Jeffrey is from Goderich, Ont., some 175 miles from Detroit, his parents weren&rsquo;t able to see him make his NHL debut because of a snow storm.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Whizz-Kid Jeffrey, Price Join Wings Race To 4th

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><h2>Smartens Up</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03327/1892558-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="527" height="1280"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Reg Fleming</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;</p><p>Reg Fleming, one of the most penalized players in the National Hockey League last season with 145 minutes, has done a surprisingly about-face this year.</p><p>It&rsquo;s not that that bull-necked Fleming isn&rsquo;t as fiery or as aggressive a competitor as he was last year. He&rsquo;s still one of the sparkplugs of the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>But this year the 26-year-old Fleming&mdash;only rookie on Chicago&rsquo;s champions last season&mdash;is a year older and wiser.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;Last year the overhead was too high,&rdquo; says Fleming &ldquo;I was fined $250 and every dime of those fines came out of my pocket.&rdquo;</p><p>Among his fines last year was $75 for three separate fights, two misconduct penalties and a minor which amounted to 37 minutes in penalties one night in New Yorks Madison Square Garden.</p><p>The 37-minute total set a one-game National Hockey League high. League president Clarence Campbell fined Fleming another $100 with a promise to give it back if Reg behaved the rest of the season.</p><p>No doubt a subsequent 22minute penalty night in Toronto later in the season had some bearing on President Campbell&rsquo;s decision not to repay Fleming the $100.</p><p>This season it&rsquo;s different. With only 18 games to play in the 196162 season, rugged Reg has only 44 minutes in penalty minutes&mdash;approximately 100 less than he totaled all last year. Six Black Hawks are ahead of him in the penalty department&mdash;compared to league leader Pete Pilote who was the only Hawk to collect more penalty minutes last year than rookie Fleming.</p><p>&lsquo;Fleming still has a much determination and fire and enthusiasm,&rdquo; says Chicago general manager Tommy Ivan. &lsquo;&lsquo;He&rsquo;s just matured this year. He&rsquo;s just as aggressive but he&rsquo;s learned how to use his enthusiasm better.&rdquo;</p><p>Says Fleming, whose primary job for the Black Hawks is killing penalties:</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not getting as much ice time this year as I did last season: I just decided I can&rsquo;t afford to get too many penalties.. My job is to kill penalties, not to get them. I&rsquo;m not backing down to anybody but I&rsquo;m not looking for trouble.&rdquo;</p><p>To date (through games of Feb. 13) Fleming has only $25 in fines this year, for opening his mouth to a referee in Toronto one night.</p><p>He has come close to a few fights this year but always pulled in his horns before striking the first blow.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t had as much body contact this year,&rdquo; says Reg. Does he mind? &ldquo;Yes and no. It takes a lot out of you when you do a lot of hard checking. It also helps keep you in good shape.&rdquo;</p><p>Fleming, a coin collecting and hi-fi loving bachelor, rooms with forward Murray Balfour in a north side Chicago apartment. The two keep in top physical condition and training during the hockey season. In fact, Black Hawk Coach Rudy Pilous has remarked:</p><p>&ldquo;If all the other Black Hawks paid as much attention to their training and condition as Fleming and Balfour, we wouldn&rsquo;t have had such a bad start.&rdquo;</p><p>As a penalty killer, Fleming is one of the best in the NHL. He teamed with Earl Balfour in this vital department last season. This year, with Balfour gone, Fleming has handled this chore with a variety of Black Hawks although Bob Turner (obtained from Montreal in the offseason) is his most common partner.</p><p>&ldquo;With Balfour I was really green and I ran around a lot on the ice. He covered up a lot for me and taught me a great deal. This year I&rsquo;ve matured here, too. I&rsquo;m not roaming as much as I used to and I can cover up for the other fellow. Eric Nesterenko, for example, moves all over the ice so I back him up most of the time.</p><p>&ldquo;Turner has been in this league a few years and we worked well together right from the start. We talk things over a lot off the ice.&rdquo;</p><p>Fleming made the Black Hawks as their only rookie last season on his versatility. He had played both defense and forward in the minor leagues. &ldquo;He fits in well where we need him,&rdquo; says G. M. Ivan.</p><p>This year Reg has stuck pretty much to his penalty killing although he has filled in on left wing on occasion for various lines.</p><p>On the scoring end, Reg scored two goals in one game this season while playing left wing with Bronco Horvath at center and Jerry Melnyk on right wing as two regulars (Nesterenko and Ron Murphy) were out of action on Horvath&rsquo;s line. His other two goals came when Chicago was shorthanded.</p><p>Probably the biggest goal of Fleming&rsquo;s hockey life came in the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring, in Detroit. The Red Wings were ahead, 1-0, and pressing in Chicago&rsquo;s end while the Black Hawks were shorthanded. Fleming intercepted the puck in the Detroit end, lost it, hustled to get it back and went in for the tying goal. The score was the turning point in the game and gave the Chicago team the lift it needed to go on to win 5-1 and take their first Stanley Cup in 23 years.</p><p>Fleming is the nearest thing in hockey to the Eddie Stanky of major league baseball of a few years ago. He can&rsquo;t skate, score or pass well enough to win a spot on a regular line. But his hustle and versatility and aggressiveness make it impossible to leave him off the Black Hawk squad.</p><p>&ldquo;Anyone who works as hard as Fleming and hustles like he does is going to stay on this squad,&rdquo; says Chicago&rsquo;s Ivan. &ldquo;He does the job we ask him to do and does it well and with enthusiasm and fire. Every squad needs a player or two like Fleming.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reg Cuts PIM’s Record To Bits -- He’s Matured

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>Maple Leafs hit the skids late last month and the urgent question at Maple Leaf Gardens concerned the permanence of this decline.</p><p>During an 11-game stretch ending Feb. 11, Leafs collected only eight of a possible 22 points and dropped out of contention for the National Hockey League championship. With 17 games to go, they were 11 points behind the red-hot Montreal Canadians. Their prime consideration, actually, was to retain second place, with Chicago Black Hawks in hot pursuit.</p><p>Over those 11 games, Leafs won three, tied two and lost six, scoring only 27 goals while yielding 31 to the opposition.</p><p>One school of thought blamed the recession on injuries. Red Kelly was operating with a shoulder injury, suspected of being a separation. Dick Duff still was out. but skating on the ankle which had been broken. Eddie Shack had just returned to duty after a six-week absence because of torn knee ligaments.</p><p>Punch Imlach, worried Toronto coach, pointed out this list included one man off each of his regular forward lines.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget,&rdquo; Imlach said, &ldquo;we were lucky. We were winning games but doing it by scrambling. Those injuries were bound to start hurting us sooner or later.&rdquo;</p><p>Another suggestion, however, was that old age finally had caught up with Leafs.</p><p>Many observers had considered it a dangerous situation when Leafs embarked on the 1961-62 schedule with aged veterans in several key positions: Johnny Bower, 37, in goal; Allan Stanley, 35, a defence regular; Kelly, 34, and Bert Olmstead, 35, important forwards.</p><p>These oldsters were great during Leafs&rsquo; first 40 games but it now appears the pace has begun to wear them down. Bower and Stanley still play excellent games but not as regularly any more. Kelly seems to have become prone to frequent injury. Olmstead still can out-think most National Leaguers but can&rsquo;t skate with them any more.</p><p>&ldquo;It may be that the years have caught up with some of Leafs&rsquo; old-timers,&rdquo; said Jack Adams. Detroit general manager, after his Red Wings administered a 5-0 defeat, Leafs&rsquo; worst this season. &ldquo;And Ed Litzenberger will be in the minors next season.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams was referring to the player Leafs purchased from Wings for the $20,000 waiver price. After two weeks of steady improvement, Big Litz levelled off and showed no indication of returning to his 30-goal form of a few seasons back.</p><p>Imlach frankly admitted he was worried and gave most of his men a four-day rest as soon as the schedule gave him the opportunity. However, he did not concede Leafs had any problems beyond the injury matter.</p><p>&ldquo;One guy off each line fouls up everything and makes you shuffle,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And this won&rsquo;t be corrected over night. I know that a guy who comes back after a long layoff needs a couple of weeks to get back in playing condition.&rdquo;</p><p>Imlach&rsquo;s hope was that he&rsquo;d have a full lineup by March 1, which would give him 25 days to prepare for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Did that mean he&rsquo;s given up the idea of finishing in first place?</p><p>That was something Punch never would admit. But that 11-point spread seemed next to insurmountable, especially since there was no hope of the Leaf problems being cured very soon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05182/1892589-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="272" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Shack</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Did Leafs Fold From Old Age Or Injuries?

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04250/1892620-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="550" height="253"></div><h2><b>February 24 to March 2</b></h2><p>26&mdash;Wally Chevrier, Vancouver, defense, 1938.</p><p>27&mdash;Dick Lamoureux, Spokane, forward, 1934.</p><p>27&mdash;Gord Miller, Kingston, forward, 1940.</p><p>1&mdash;Allan Stanley, Toronto, defense, 1926.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01377/1892658-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;</p><p>Jean-Guy Talbot has emerged from the shadows to become Canadiens&rsquo; outstanding defenceman. After six seasons as second-fiddle to perennial all-star Doug Harvey, Talbot has been playing with new confidence this year and should stand beside Doug when the 1961-62 dream teams are announced.</p><p>The 29-year-old native of Cap de la Madeleine, picked as a second star in halfway voting, has stepped up his scoring pace since Christmas and has been steady, if not brilliant defensively.</p><p>After 51 games, Talbot was the highest-scoring rearguard in the league with a total of four goals and 29 assists, already three points ahead of the 31 points he earned last year&mdash;his best previous season in the NHL. In addition, he hadn&rsquo;t missed a game through the schedule as Coach Toe Blake used Talbot as one of the keys to a revamped rearguard corps.</p><p>Because Jean-Guy has often been rated as a fringe player, his showing this season may be surprising in some quarters. However Talbot, himself, may not see things the same way.</p><p>At training camp last September, Talbot was looking forward to his best season in the National League.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m hoping for my greatest year with Canadiens,&rdquo; said Jean-Guy just before the Habs started their exhibition tour. &ldquo;I finished strong last season. I&rsquo;ve had a good training camp. And without Doug Harvey around, I&rsquo;ll probably get a lot more ice.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong. I&rsquo;ve never thought much about playing in the shadow of Harvey since I joined Canadiens in 1955. Doug is the greatest defenceman to come into the NHL and there&rsquo;s no shame for anyone to be second to him. On the contrary, I was mighty happy that he was on our side.</p><p>&ldquo;Even when I was sitting on the bench I was learning from Harvey,&rsquo;&rsquo; remarked Jean-Guy, &ldquo;You should never try to imitate a star but you can always learn just by watching him.&rdquo;</p><p>Talbot was asked if there was any big reason for his improved play this season.</p><p>&ldquo;Confidence,&rdquo; answered Jean-Guy tersley. &ldquo;The more you play, the more confidence you get. The coach has given me a lot of ice this season and I&rsquo;ve been doing things that I wouldn&rsquo;t try before.&rdquo;</p><p>After drawing 143 minutes in penalties last season, the five-eleven, 170-pound rearguard isn&rsquo;t likely to come even close to that figure this season.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew that I was getting a lot of penalties, trying to stop puck-carriers around the left side,&rdquo; recalled Talbot. &ldquo;Jacques Plante explained that I was staying too close to centre and leaving too much room on my left. When the centre made a pass to his right wing, I was too far over to check the puck-carrier. 1 had to use my stick and get penalties. I&rsquo;m playing my position better now. Whether the centre makes a pass or not, I still have time to cover up.&rdquo;</p><p>Jean-Guy has shown this year that he&rsquo;s one of the smoothest skaters among defencemen in the NHL. However he remembers a time when it wasn&rsquo;t that way.</p><p>When he first got into hockey, Talbot couldn&rsquo;t skate and became a goaler. He wasn&rsquo;t much good at that spot, however, and switched to defence.</p><p>&ldquo;My juvenile coach really helped me,&rdquo; says Talbot. &ldquo;He told me that if I ever wanted to play in the NHL, I had to be able to skate fast both ways. Night after night we would go over to the rink and skate for hours. That really helped me.&rdquo;</p><p>With a chance to challenge the NHL assists record of 46, set by Bill Gadsby with Rangers three years ago, Talbot hasn&rsquo;t been over anxious to score goals, although he&rsquo;s likely to top the five-mark he hit last season.</p><p>At Boston, last Christmas night when the Habs beat the Bruins 5-2, Jean-Guy was accused of playing Santa Claus to his teammates.</p><p>Talbot&rsquo;s hard shot twice hit the net behind Don Head but on both goals, the puck had been touched in flight by Claude Provost and Ralph Backstrom. The tallies were credited to Jean-Guy before he advised the official scorer otherwise.</p><p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the matter with you,&rdquo; said the official scorer. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you want any goals. That&rsquo;s twice you&rsquo;ve asked me to change in favor of someone else.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll never get a hat-trick that way,&rdquo; said a dressing-room visitor after the game.</p><p>&ldquo;As long as we win, it doesn&rsquo;t matter much whether I score or not,&rdquo; replied Talbot. Those assists mean just as much to me.&rdquo;</p><p>Jean-Guy was somewhat surprised that he had made the second all-star team in the halfway voting.</p><p>&ldquo;I thought I would get a few votes, but not that many,&rdquo; remarked the Hab rearguard. &ldquo;I knew I&rsquo;d get some consideration since I was one of the highest scorers among defencemen in the first half. But when you&rsquo;ve never been picked before, you hardly expect it. It&rsquo;s certainly encouraging for the second half of the season.&rdquo;</p><p>Talbot made the second team along with Chicago veteran Jack Evans while Carl Brewer of Toronto drew the first-team berth with Doug Harvey in the first-half voting. However Brewer had only a 10-point margin on the Montreal defender and Talbot&rsquo;s fine second-half play should push him up to the first team in the final all-star balloting.</p><p>&ldquo;Boy, I could sure use that extra $1,000,&rdquo; said Talbot the other day. &ldquo;It would make up for what we lost by missing the Stanley Cup finals last year.&rdquo;</p><p>The hockey season has always been long for Jean-Guy since he broke into organized hockey with Three Rivers Reds of the old Quebec Junior League. His team has always been in the playoffs and he&rsquo;s been on seven championship clubs.</p><p>Talbot turned pro with Quebec Aces of the Quebec Senior League in 1952-53 and stayed there two seasons before moving to Shawinigan Cataracts in 195455. He had a three-game trial with Canadiens that season before moving up to the NHL for good in 1955-56.</p><p>He joined Canadiens the same year that Toe Blake took over as coach from the late Dick Irvin, Claude Provost and Henri Rirhard also making their debuts with the Habs that season. Jean-Guy replaced Bud MacPherson as the Habs&rsquo; fifth defenceman while Butch Bouchard and Doug Harvey, Dollard St. Laurent and Tom Johnson formed the regular defence pairs.</p><p>Talbot has played a total of 442 NHL games in which he has scored 19 goals and earned 132 assists in scheduled play. He has also tallied twice and helped set up 10 goals in 54 playoff contests.</p><p>Jean-Guy is married and the father of three children: Carole, Danny and Michel. During the hockey season he lives in the Rosemount district of Montreal. He returns in the summer to Three Rivers where he is employed by the brewery which owns Canadiens.</p><h2>Zooms To Top Of Habs&rsquo; Hit Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02305/1892651-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1062" height="999"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Guy Talbot, left, has developed into the Montreal Canadiens top rearguard and is in the thick of the race for all-star honors. He has been a valuable member of the club since he joined it from Shawinigan in 1955-56. A popular guy, he is seen with other members of the club above, left to right: Phil Goyette, Talbot, Claude Provost and Marcel Bonin.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Playing 2nd To Doug Was No Handicap

<p><b>Follow the example of Jean Guy Talbot&mdash;enjoy BEE HIVE CORN SYRUP on bread, cereal, and pancakes.</b></p><p><b>All the Maple Leaf and Canadien hockey players use and recommend BEE HIVE CORN SYRUP exclusively.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03198/1892696-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="587" height="839"></div><p><b>For a free picture of Jean Guy Talbot or any member of Montreal Canadiens or Toronto Maple Leafs send one Bee Hive Corn Syrup collar or token; top from Durham Corn Starch or Ivory Laundry Starch; collar from St. Lawrence Corn Oil 25 oz. One collar, top, or token for each picture. Show your name and address, name of player you want, and mail to:</b></p><p><b>ST. LAWRENCE STARCH COMPANY LIMITED Dept. &ldquo;H&rdquo;, Port Credit, Ont.</b></p><p><b>Mounted pictures measure 5&rdquo; &times; 7&rdquo;</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04122/1892689-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="286" height="644"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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GET JEAN GUY TALBOT’S PICTURE FREE FROM BEE HIVE GOLDEN CORN SYRUP

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<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p>Founded October 1st, 1947 35</p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd.</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Ken McKenzie, Will V. Cote. Len Bramson.</b></p><p><b>President and Publisher Vice-Pres.& Gen. Mgr. Editor-in-Chief</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth;</b></p><p><b>$4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries</b></p><p><b>Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.</b></p><p><b>Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department. Ottawa,</b></p><p><b>and for payment of postage in cash.</b></p><p><b>Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>VOL. 15 FEBRUARY 24. 1962 No. 21</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05248/1892834-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="316" height="458"></div><h2><b><i>The New Image of the Habs</i></b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>Y</span>OU used to think of Montreal Canadiens as meaning Rocket Richard, Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau, Boom-Boom Geoffrion and Dickie Moore&mdash;with Jacques Plante operating behind a mask, so he could commit larceny and conceal his blush.</p><p>That&rsquo;s not the true image of the Habs any more. They&rsquo;re disproving an old theory that the only difference between the top and the bottom in big league shinny is in superstars. For decades, it has been pretty well accepted that every club could get bodies of acceptable proportions to fill the suits. But the Howes and the Hulls are the types who haul in Lord Stanley&rsquo;s silverware.</p><p>The Red Wings were invincible until Sid Abel, Bob Goldham, Ted Lindsay and a few more ran out of legs.</p><p>Then the Habs hopped into the driver&rsquo;s seat, with the Rocket, Beliveau, Boomer, Harvey, and associates providing the motive power. Both clubs had some mediocre talent on their rosters&mdash;players who would have been hard-pressed to hold their jobs with lesser teams. They hung on because they were the tail of the kite.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06208/1892827-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="517" height="484"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gilles Tremblay</b></figcaption></div><p>That&rsquo;s where the current Canadiens are different. Plante is still the master thief. He robs opposing forwards despite his baling wire and bandages, his aches and his pains. Aside from Jacques, though, it&rsquo;s a new cast of Canadiens that is carrying the club. The Habs still have Geoffrion, Beliveau, Moore and the Pocket Rocket&mdash;but without upstarts such as Gilles Tremblay, Claude Provost, Ralph Backstrom, Bobby Rousseau and even J. C. Tremblay, they might be somwhere back of Boston on the totem pole.</p><p>You won&rsquo;t see any of these gentlement cited for the most valuable player award. As a collection, they could cart the Stanley Cup back to the Forum. It would be a triumph for the tribesmen and a free ride for the chiefs. When it comes time to cut up the loot, the high-priced help should throw the peons a great feast.</p><h2><b><i>Let the Other Guy Do the Worrying</i></b></h2><p>GILLES TREMBLAY, an unassuming left-winger, is typical of the new order in Habitant affairs. Last season, he used to go home and tell himself he wasn&rsquo;t playing as well as he should. It probably was a pretty accurate appraisal since he managed only seven goals. Last season, he was obsessed with the idea he had to watch &ldquo;the other guy&rdquo;&mdash;meaning his check. This season, he decided to let the other guy worry about watching him. The experiment has paid off. He should finish the season with something like 30 goals.</p><p>Aside from scoring goals, he doesn&rsquo;t do anything for the Habs&mdash;except play on two different forward lines and frequently kill penalties. If the Habs had a team bus, he undoubtedly would be the driver, since he&rsquo;s a young fellow who loves work.</p><p>Sam Pollock, who rides the range on the Montreal farm system, sent Gilles to the Habs with flattering recommendations. When Gilles turned out to be something of a flop last season, a few discreet questions were asked about Sam&rsquo;s eyes. It was suggested he might have been stricken with snow blindness.</p><p>Sam countered with a prediction that things would be different this season at training camp. He was right, too. Things were different. Tremblay was worse. The only thing that saved him from being shipped to the minors was that Fred Hilts, who had been ambushed and seized from the Chicago organization, showed nothing either. Both were under surveillance on suspicion of being able to play left wing.</p><p>Tremblay since has revealed why he looked so bad. It was a calculated risk on his part. Previously, at training camps, he had been plagued by pulled groin muscles when he attempted to hurry his conditioning. This time, he decided to make haste slowly. It took him longer to get into shape, but once the serious shooting started, he was ready for the fray. He got his first goal in the Habs&rsquo; third game of the season, and he&rsquo;s been shooting them consistently ever since.</p><p>He even won a fight&mdash;and fighting actually isn&rsquo;t his line. Under provocation from Eric Nesterenko of the Black Hawks, Gilles finally invited Nester to take off his gloves. They both did. Explaining his victory, Gilles modestly relates; &ldquo;I hit first.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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MILT DUNNELL speaking on SPORT IN THE TORONTO STAR

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Detroit Red Wing Souvenirs

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Showcase Of The World

<p>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>The new Madison Square Garden Center to be built at ground level above the Pennsylvania and Long Island Railroad Stations has signed its major tenant.</p><p>American Machine & Foundry Company plans to lease twelve floors comprising 229,000 square feet as its new executive world headquarters in the 30-story office building to be erected on the Thirty-first street and Seventh Avenue corner of the property. This was announced by Irving Mitchell Felt, President, and Rear Admiral John J. Bergen, USNR (Ret.), Chairman, of Madison Square Garden Center, Inc., and by Morehead Patterson, Chairman, and Carter L. Burgess, President, of American Machine & Foundry Company.</p><p>In addition to this office building, the Center will include the new Madison Square Garden on the western portion of the nine acre site and a 30-story combination office building and hotel on the Thirty-third Street and Seventh Avenue corner.</p><p>The new office building to be occupied by AMF will be known as the AMF Tower, and the main floor will be utilized by the company to display, demonstrate and market its line of products. This space will also be used to promote customer products produced on AMF equipment.</p><p>The AMF Tower will be connected by a pedestrian bridge with a 60-lane bowling center located on the second floor of the new Madison Square Garden. This center will be equipped with AMF Pinspotters and Magic Triangle Bowling equipment.</p><p>Mr. Felt said that Madison Square Garden Center, Inc., 75 per cent owned by Graham-Paige Corp, and 25 per cent by the Pennsylvania Railroad, is currently actively negotiating with other large corporations interested in multi-floor office space in the AMF Tower and in the combination office building and hotel. He stated, &ldquo;I am confident that the AMF lease will lead to the early conclusion of leases for all remaining space in the Center&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;We look forward with real interest and enthusiasm toward making this great new center the executive world headquarters of our 52 plants and 19 engineering and research laboratories in the U. S. and 11 foreign countries&rdquo; said Morehead Patterson, AMF board chairman. &ldquo;The fact that 50 million persons will pass through this spectator and transportation hub each year will make this location a number one window and showcase where we can interest the public in our technical and product advances and uses as well as in the products which our customers produce on AMF equipment.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;This space plus the new bowling center,&rdquo; said Carter L. Burgess, AMF president, &ldquo;will also provide the company with a unique means to actively demonstrate at the time of main Garden events AMF&rsquo;s wide line of sports and recreational equipment. These areas are scheduled for readiness by the time of the World&rsquo;s Fair in 1964. Together with Madison Square Garden and other leading American businesses, we are planning on making this the most exciting center of its kind in the world.&rdquo;</p><p>In addition to the 25,000 seat main arena and the bowling center, the new Madison Square Garden will include a smaller convention and special events arena and a skating rink. The entire Center is being designed by the architectural firm of Charles Luckman Associates. Tishman Realty & Construction Company is consultant to the owners.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

New MSG Signs Its First Tenant To A Contract

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02365/1892951-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="283" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Williams</b></figcaption></div><p>A friendship may have provided the Boston Bruins with the first high scoring young forward they&rsquo;ve had since Don McKenney&rsquo;s younger days.</p><p>The candidate for the distinction is Tom Williams, a rangy native of Duluth, Minnesota.</p><p>Since McKenney joined the Bruins in 1954 they have spent a fortune on the development of young forwards who have failed to mature as National League scorers.</p><p>But the price they paid for Williams is the cost of a friendly telephone call from Minneapolis to Boston.</p><p>On the calling end two winters ago was Jack Riley, coach of hockey at the United States Military Academy at West Point and, at the time, coach of the United States Olympic team.</p><p>On the receiving end was Walter Brown, president of the Bruins and a leading supporter of amateur hockey besides.</p><p>And, of more importance to the Bruins, a close friend of Riley&rsquo;s.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a boy practicing with us here,&rdquo; said Riley to Brown, &ldquo;who I think has NHL potential.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a forward, a center, but I&rsquo;m using him on right wing because he&rsquo;s a right-hand shot and I&rsquo;m a little short of right-hand shots. He&rsquo;s only 19 years old.</p><p>&ldquo;His name,&rdquo; said Riley, &ldquo;is Tom Williams. You&rsquo;ve probably never heard of him.&rdquo;</p><p>Replied Brown, &ldquo;Jack, you know a hockey player when you see one. I&rsquo;ll tell Lynn about him right now.&rdquo;</p><p>So Brown walked down the corridor from his office to Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s and told Patrick of his conversation with Riley. Patrick opened a folder, studied a series of lists and said to Brown, &ldquo;He isn&rsquo;t on anyone&rsquo;s negotiation list. I&rsquo;ll put him on ours.&rdquo;</p><p>Williams&rsquo; name was placed on the Bruins&rsquo; list. Soon the United States team came here to play a pre-tournament exhibition game consisting of a period apiece against the teams of Boston College, Northeastern University and Boston University. Patrick assigned John &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Kane of the Bruins&rsquo; scouting staff to the game and Kane returned a favorable report on the teen-age blond from Minnesota.</p><p>Before the Olympics were over Williams was no longer an unknown. Placed by the canny Riley on a line with the Christian brothers, Bill and Roger, Williams set up two goals against the Russian team and showed to advantage in other games won by the United States team.</p><p>But when other professional teams checked, Tom was unavailable. He was on the Bruins&rsquo; list.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the way it happened,&rdquo; related Patrick. &ldquo;Jack called Walter who talked to me and we put Tommy on our list.</p><p>&ldquo;I wanted him to play a couple of games with one of our junior teams after the Olympics but he had already agreed to play for a team in Fort William, Ontario, so we didn&rsquo;t press the matter. He played two games for Fort William and made four goals.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins signed Williams a year ago last fall and Patrick assigned him to Wren Blair&rsquo;s Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern Professional League. He was making steady progress as a professional until Defenseman Jean Gauthier of the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens caught him with a check which broke his collarbone. The injury was slow in mending.</p><p>Williams was back with Kingston this season until the Bruins underwent a revision of their lineup in mid-January. The shakeup shook Tom onto their forward squad&mdash;or more properly, onto their bench. He didn&rsquo;t play in his first two games here.</p><p>The speedy Minnesotan then scored four goals in 10 games, however, even though Phil Watson, the Bruins&rsquo; coach, used him only occasionally. Williams&rsquo; finishing skill on his goals delighted Patrick no end.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;There&rsquo;s a knack to scoring and he has it,&rdquo; maintained the Bruins&rsquo; manager. &lsquo;&lsquo;He has a fine burst of speed which gets him into scoring position and he knows what to do with the puck.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;ll say right now that he figures definitely in my plans for next year as a right wing. I know he&rsquo;s basically a center, but I&rsquo;m getting the feeling that right wing can be his position. Every time he makes a good play there he convinces me more.&rdquo;</p><p>Williams&rsquo; modest scoring start, which enabled him to equal in three weeks the season&rsquo;s outputs of some of the Bruins&rsquo; more highly touted youngsters, was well-earned. Three of his goals were made against Chicago&rsquo;s great Glenn Hall, two after picture passes from Don McKenney, the Bruins&rsquo; captain and his frequent linemate.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;So we can thank Walter&rsquo;s friendship for him,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;I think he has the makings of an, outstanding player.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Williams First To Win Job With 1962-63 Hubs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03294/1892982-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="285" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Hay</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, m.&mdash;As the NHL schedule starts to bend into its last lap all eyes are on the Chicago Black Hawks. Can they duplicate their 1960-61 efforts?</p><p>Much depends on one player. He&rsquo;s 26-year-old Billy &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Hay, generally regarded as the leader of the rough, tough Hawks. If he stays healthy then they have a chance, Without him the Hawks will be only a shadow of the club that last season went all the way to the Cup.</p><p>As the center for the &lsquo;Million Dollar&rsquo; line, Hay has been responsible for the sudden burst of scoring power by Bobby Hull. There are few playmakers to equal him in the League.</p><p>Not a great goal scorer&mdash;he&rsquo;s got only eight this year&mdash;Hay nevertheless, provides the spark and leadership that the Braves need to keep them in there.</p><p>Yes, Red Hay is probably the man all Chicago is looking to to lead them to their second straight cup. He&rsquo;s their kind of player, and we&rsquo;ll bet he&rsquo;s &lsquo;Your Kind of Player&rsquo; too.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Your Kind Of Player

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p><b>(HOCKEY NEWS correspondent Stan Fischler sot alongside Canadiens&rsquo; vice president Ken Reardon during the Feb. 10 Chicago-Ronger game in Madison Square Garden. The following are Reardon&rsquo;s thoughts as caught by the reporter.)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01468/1893013-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="270" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Reardon</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;I have absolutely no interest in this game,&rdquo; said Montreal&rsquo;s vice-president Ken Reardon as he settled down to a Rangers-Chicago fooferaw at Madison Square Garden. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care who wins?&rsquo;</p><p>(Rangers outplayed Chicago in the first period causing Reardon to disparage the Black Hawks.)</p><p>&ldquo;Hawks play like tigers against Canadiens every time. Here they&rsquo;re just an ordinary team.&rdquo;</p><p>(The public address announcer reported that Detroit and Boston were tied 1-1.)</p><p>&ldquo;Rangers should finish fourth. They&rsquo;ve got a better team than Detroit. Andy Bathgate is as good as Gordie Howe. They&rsquo;re about even line for line but Detroit isn&rsquo;t getting consistent goaltending.&rdquo;</p><p>(Marcel Paille caught a Bobby Hull slapshot in the chest.)</p><p>&ldquo;Paille is a giant-killer. He killed us last week in New York but I didn&rsquo;t think he was that good. It wasn&rsquo;t that he made so many saves as it was a case of us hitting him with the puck.&rdquo;</p><p>(Dave Balon launched a rush for Rangers culminating with a save by Glenn Hall.)</p><p>&ldquo;That kid (Balon) is the best player on the ice. I knew he&rsquo;d be good when I saw him in juniors. The trouble was the Rangers never gave him enough ice &lsquo;til now. Any time Rangers want to get rid of Balon I&rsquo;ll take him.&rdquo;</p><p>(Hull moved into the face-off circle and brushed back his hair before the teams lined up.)</p><p>&ldquo;Bobby&rsquo;s hair needs a little bleaching. Really, I heard he bleaches his hair. It&rsquo;s dark now. I guess he&rsquo;s waiting for the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>(Rangers publicist Herb Goren announced that the Saturday afternoon game was a 15,925 standing room sellout.)</p><p>&ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t that something? Those American sports editors try to keep hockey off the sports pages. They run pictures of ball players in training, basketball and a lot of nonsense. And still, this hockey draws.&rdquo;</p><p>(Somebody asked Reardon about Canadiens&rsquo; new scoring ace, Claude Provost.)</p><p>&ldquo;He should have been on the first All-Star team. If the writers had given an honest vote Provost would have made it. Instead these guys were trying to shill for their hometown boys.&rdquo;</p><p>(Pat Hannigan deliberately shot the puck into the crowd to relieve pressure on Rangers.)</p><p>&ldquo;He should be penalized for that. It ruins the game.&rdquo;</p><p>(Another reporter asked about Lou Fontinato.)</p><p>&ldquo;They like him in Montreal but not as much as they did in New York where they cheered anything he did, good or bad. When he&rsquo;s bad in the Forum they get on him but mostly he&rsquo;s been playing well.&rdquo;</p><p>(The Rangers went ahead 2-1 and with a minute to go Chicago pulled goaltender Glenn Hall and put on the pressure.)</p><p>&ldquo;I changed my mind&hellip;C&rsquo;mon Rangers!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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An Evening With Ken Reardon At A Rangers Game

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02349/1893051-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="269" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Marshall</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>An under-rated veteran stole some of the thunder from a highly-rated rookie recently as Canadiens started pulling away towards their fifth straight league championship.</p><p>Don Marshall, 29-year-old forward confined mostly to penalty-killing roles in almost eight NHL seasons, connected for two important goals as the Habs beat Toronto and Chicago in back-to-back road games.</p><p>Marshall, seeing more offensive action as a left-winger to Ralph Backstrom and Bernie Geoffrion but still a penalty-killer deluxe, jolted the Leafs with an early goal while the Habs were shorthanded.</p><p>Killing off a sentence on Lou Fontinato, Don anticipated Red Kelly&rsquo;s intended pass to George Armstrong, intercepted it and promptly shot the puck past Johnny Bower.</p><p>&lsquo;I had Kelly covered and figured he had to pass or give me the chance to check him,&rdquo; related Marshall. &ldquo;When I intercepted the pass, I shot right away. I knew Bower wasn&rsquo;t expecting the shot.&rdquo;</p><p>The goal really startled the Leafs and it wasn&rsquo;t long before Jean-Guy Talbot scored a power-play tally to give Canadiens a 2-0 lead enroute to a 4-2 victory and the first by either team away from home.</p><p>&ldquo;Marshall&rsquo;s goal really hurt and we never recovered,&rdquo; moaned Toronto coach Punch Imlach.</p><p>At Chicago, the following night, Marshall turned in another fine performance by killing off three dangerous penalties and connecting for the winner. Canadiens beat the Hawks 4-3 and stretched their first-place lead to nine points.</p><p>Marshall, who has tallied three times at Chicago Stadium this season and got the only goal in a 1-0 Montreal win last December, has been shooting with power and accuracy in recent weeks.</p><p>When Bernie Geoffrion put him in the clear with a perfect centre-zone pass, Don made no mistake and whipped a 30-footer past Glenn Hall for the winning goal.</p><p>The marker was Marshall&rsquo;s 15th of the season and earned him a $1,000 contract bonus. It also left him only two short of his first scoring milestone&mdash;100 goals in NHL play.</p><p>Marshall&rsquo;s big goals took some of the shine off Bobby Rousseau, the rookie who has been getting most of the ink in Canadiens&rsquo; surprising run to the top of the standing.</p><p>Nevertheless, Bobby also had a big share in the win over Toronto when he thrilled a packed Maple Leaf Gardens with two brilliant plays. He scored the winning goal on a 35-foot slapshot and set up the insurance tally with a quick-thinking effort that fooled the Leafs and the fans completely.</p><p>Wheeling down right wing after taking a forward pass from defenceman Tom Johnson, Rousseau was moving in on Allan Stanley when he made his move. Instead of taking the puck in himself, Bobby drop-passed to Ralph Backstrom and skated head first into the Toronto rearguard.</p><p>Bower was screened by the falling Stanley and Rousseau as Backstrom fired a 35-footer to the far side of the Toronto net. It was like a football play with Rousseau as the blocking back and Backstrom the ball-carrier.</p><p>Said Rousseau about the play: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know why I did it that way. I guess I figured Ralph had the best chance to score.</p><p>Backstrom wasn&rsquo;t surprised: &ldquo;Bobby and I pulled that stunt a few times when we won the Memorial Cup with Junior Canadiens.&rdquo;</p><p>Another bright spot of Canadiens&rsquo; play recently has been the effort of Jean Beliveau. The big centre, although still hampered by a knee injury &ldquo;which I&rsquo;ll have the rest of the season&rdquo;, has been approaching old-time form. He had a goal and an assist against the Leafs and tallied twice at Chicago where the Habs came from behind three times for their victory.</p><p>The two-game output gave Beliveau a total of 11 goals and 14 assists for 27 games which can&rsquo;t be sneezed at by any NHL performer. Big Jean now has a career mark of 285 tallies, 15 short of the 300-mark reached by only five other National Leaguers&mdash;Maurice Richard, Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Nels Stewart and Bernie Geoffrion.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04169/1893044-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="1056" height="637"></div><p><b>The Broadmoor World Arena Identification Pin, a collectors item, perfect for jackets and hats. Shown twice actual size above, pins are east metal with enameled finish.</b></p><p><b>$1.50 Boxed.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Marshall’s Hot Stick Triggers Habs’ Pull Away

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05141/1893082-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>o</span>f the nations participating in the 1962 WORLD and EUROPEAN ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS, March 8-18, The Broadmoor World Arena Colorado Springs, Colo.</b></p><p><b>All in colors, durable enameled metal, with sturdy pin mounts. Actual size shown above.</b></p><p><b>$15.00 for entire package $ 1.25 individually</b></p><p>Postage Prepaid&mdash;No C.O.D.</p><p><b>Write: Broadmoor World Arena Souvenirs Colorado Springs, Colo., U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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16 FOREIGN OFFICIAL HOCKEY PINS

<p><b><i>tells the inside story of Big-Time Hockey in</i></b></p><p><b>HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA</b></p><p><b>Hockey fans of all ages will enjoy this exciting account of professional hockey and its stars from the early days to the present. Illustrated, $3.95.</b></p><p><b>THE RYERSON PRESS</b></p><p><b>299 Queen Street West Toronto 2B, Ontario</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03249/1893113-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="544" height="867"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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FOSTER HEWITT

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s that time again&mdash;time when our many thousands of readers throughout the world get a chance to pick a National Hockey League All-Star team.</p><p>Below you will find a ballot form giving you, the reader a chance to pick the NHL dream team of your choice. Fill it in and send it along.</p><p>This season starts our 15th annual fans&rsquo; All-Star team and we want to make it the best ever. And don&rsquo;t forget, you also get a chance to vote for the NHL All-Star Coach. Rookie-of-the-Year and Most Valuable Player.</p><h2><b>Don&rsquo;t Miss Your Chance</b></h2><p>The rules, which appear elsewhere on this page, are simple to follow. The most important thing is to get your ballot in so your favorite players are not let off.</p><p>The faster you get them in the sooner we can tabulate them, too.</p><p>It doesn&rsquo;t matter who you vote for&mdash;but vote!</p><p>The ballot appearing below will appear in three issues only and your team will be announced in THE HOCKEY NEWS dated March 31.</p><p>Remember, if one of your favorites should fail to gain a berth on the Fans&rsquo; All-Star team by the margin of just a few points, it could be because you didn&rsquo;t send that ballot in as you had intended. So right now, while it&rsquo;s still fresh in your mind, fill out the ballot on this page and mail it right away to All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</p><h2>Six of many choices</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01419/1893179-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="549" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Glen Hall</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02385/1893172-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="583" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Guy Talbot</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03304/1893165-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="575" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Brewer</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04232/1893158-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="578" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dean Prentice</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05157/1893151-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="530" height="519"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Howe</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06112/1893144-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="530" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don McKenney</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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It’s Time For Fans to Pick Their Drcam Team

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><h2>Deluxe Standin</h2><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>As the Red Wings&rsquo; alternate goalie, Hank Bassen hasn&rsquo;t been alternating much this season.</p><p>But, when given the chance for a few games in a row, Bassen has sparkled.</p><p>Hank started 33 games last season and played parts of two others, splitting the duties almost evenly with Terry Sawchuk. He hung up a 2.98 goals against average and led the club to several unbeaten strings that helped the Wings into the playoffs.</p><p>This time around. Bassen played only once in the first 20 games and that was a 4-0 loss at Boston. Then, after a dismal road swing in which Detroit lost five of six starts, coach Sid Abel decided to give Terry Sawchuk a rest.</p><p>Bassen immediately led the Wings to two victories and a tie in the next three starts before dizzy spells sidelined him and Sawchuk. after the rest, came back with a shutout in his first start.</p><p>Hank didn&rsquo;t get the call again for five games and the Wings lost, 4-2, in Boston. He came down from the pressbox, his vantage point when not playing, on Christmas night when Sawchuk was injured in the pre-game warmup but there were no presents for the Wings or Bassen that night and New York won, 6-4.</p><p>Then Bassen had his longest respite from NHL action&mdash;17 games&mdash;although he did a weekend relief stint for Sudbury of the Eastern Pro League in January.</p><p>The two-goalie system went into effect again on Feb. 4 when Sawchuk wrenched his shoulder making a save on Alex Delvecchio in the warmup period before a game with Boston.</p><p>The 29-year-old Bassen was the perfect reliever. He blocked 21 shots and registered a 6-0 shutout.</p><p>With that going for him, Abel wasn&rsquo;t about to switch goalies when the Wings went into New York for a key game with the Rangers.</p><p>Again Bassen was superlative with 31 saves in a 2-2 tie. Andy Bathgate scored the tying goal and Bassen had little chance&mdash;Bathgate shot from the side of the net and it hit Bassen on the back of the leg and caromed into the net.</p><p>Bassen was tough again in a Saturday matinee at Boston with 25 saves in another 2-2 tie.</p><p>Although the Wings lost ground to New York, finishing the week two points out of fourth place after starting out one point behind, they were grateful for the pair of road ties. Highways just aren&rsquo;t happy ways for the Red Wings whose road record of 4-18-4 is the poorest in the league.</p><p>Back home in Detroit, with the Toronto Maple Leafs at Olympia, Bassen hung up a second straight home ice shutout, 5-0. The game just about dashed any Toronto chances of finishing first, putting the Leafs nine points hind Montreal.</p><p>Bassen had a total of 16 saves in the first two periods as the Wings scored three times in the opening session and twice more in the middle period.</p><p>He had to be especially good in the final period when the Leafs had a pair of power play chances and tested Bassen with 15 shots.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0779/1893210-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="527" height="816"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Bassen</b></figcaption></div><p>Hank is not the favorite goalie of the cardiac cases&mdash;he keeps everyone on the edge of their seats with his roving style&hellip;but he clears the puck.</p><p>On one shot by Bob Baun from outside the blueline, the puck took a big bounce in front of Bassen and he came up under it and batted it back over the net like a volleyball player.</p><p>That made two victories, both shutouts, and two ties in four starts for Bassen with only four goals allowed. And the shutouts were the sixth and seventh for the Wings this season, most for any club in the league.</p><p>And isn&rsquo;t that ironic? Only Boston has allowed more goals this season than Detroit. Which would seem to say that when the Wings are good, they&rsquo;re very good and when they&rsquo;re bad&hellip;well, you finish it.</p><p>While the Wings could reflect on the sharp work of Bassen, there also was heartening news from the injury front which has been a busy one the past weeks.</p><p>Vic Stasiuk started skating nearly two weeks after a knee injury and it was hoped that he would be available again in time for the Wings&rsquo; Feb. 18 home start against Montreal.</p><p>But, coloring Stasiuk&rsquo;s progress, was a knee injury to Bruce MacGregor who sprained knee ligaments when checked by Boston&rsquo;s Leo Boivin.</p><p>MacGregor had just taken a shot and had all his weight on one leg when Boivin, hardest body-checker in the league, caught him.</p><p>So MacGregor joined the injury bench sitting with Stasiuk, Howie Glover and Sawchuk.</p><p>Ice Chips: Norm Ullman and Alex Delvecchio have joined Gordie Howe in the 20-goal department&hellip;Ullman scored his 20th against New York to make it five straight seasons of 20 or more goals.</p><p>Delvecchio, with five goals in six games, collected his 20th against the Maple Leafs.</p><p>Statistically, the Wings are good&hellip;and bad. In addition to the league-leading seven shutouts noted earlier, the Wings held a 31-26 advantage in power play goals through their first 53 games and in an 18 game stretch, allowed only three goals while shorthanded while scoring 12 themselves.</p><p>But on the negative side. Detroit has been outscored 60-36 in third period play this season&hellip;and while outscoring the opposition 88-60 at Olympia, the Wings have yielded a whopping 103 goals on the road while scoring only 56&hellip;nearly a 2-to-l margin.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hank Standout As Standin For Ailing Sawchuk

<p>1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to cast ballots for the National Hockey League All-Star Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming first and second team, as well as coach, MVP and Outstanding Rookie.</p><p>2&mdash;The ballots will run for three weeks. Final ballot will appear in the issue dated March 3, 1962.</p><p>3&mdash;Use blanks published in THE HOCKEY NEWS, or reasonable fascimile or tracings of same if you do not wish to deface your copy. Be sure to fill in your own name and address.</p><p>4&mdash;Ballots must be mailed&mdash;to All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal, Que.</p><p>5&mdash;All ballots must be postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, Wednesday, March 15, 1962.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Hockey News 1961-62

<h2><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></h2><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Wed. AM. Feb. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01453/1893373-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="569" height="179"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun., Feb. 18)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02386/1893366-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="591" height="2788"></div><h2><b>Record of Goalkeepers for Season 1961 &ndash; 1962</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03306/1893359-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="567" height="523"></div><h2><b>Penalties In Minutes By Clubs:</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04240/1893352-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="566" height="155"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 New York 3 at Chicago 4</b></h2><p>New York&mdash;goal: Paille; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Howell, Cahan, Spencer; forwards: Bathgate, Hannigan, Prentice, Gendron, Balon, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Hebenton, Wilson, Schinkel, Hampson.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Evans, Fleming, St. Laurent; forwards: Balfour, Hay, Hull, Horvath, Murphy, Melnyk, McDonald, Nesterenko, Wharram, Mikita, Turner.</p><p>Referee: Buffey; linesmen: Hayes, Armstrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05183/1893345-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="565" height="635"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15 Boston 1 at Montreal 9</b></h2><p>Boston&mdash;goal: Gamble; defense:Green, Mohns, Westfall, Stapleton, Boivin; forwards: Pennington, Meissner, Leach, McKenney, Williams, Pronovost, Oliver, Bucyk, Toppazzini, Burns, Connelly.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante; defense: Fontinato, J. C. Tremblay, Johnson, Talbot, MacNeil; forwards Beliveau, Rousseau, G. Tremblay, Richard, Provost, Moore, Backstrom, Geoffrion, Marshall, Goyette, Hicke.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Pavelich, Wicks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06148/1893338-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="566" height="788"></div><h2><b>New York 3 at Detroit 4</b></h2><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Langlois, Harvey, Howell, Spencer, Goegan; forwards: Ingarfield. Prentice, Bathgate, Gendron, Balon, Hebenton, Wilson, Schinkel, Henry, Hampson, Gilbert.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Bassen; defense: Gadsby. Pronovost, Price, Godfrey, Odrowski; forwards: Delvecchio, La-Forge, Howe, Ullman, LaBine, Fonteyne, Lunde. Holmes, Boileau, Macdonald. Jeffrey.</p><p>Referee: Powers; linesmen: Armstrong, Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07120/1893331-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="571" height="627"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Chicago 2 at Montreal 6</b></h2><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Turner, Evans, Pilote, Vasko, Fleming: forwards: Hull, Hay, Maki, Horvath. Murphy, Melnyk, McDonald, Nesterenko, Wharram, Mikita.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante: defense: J. Tremblay, Fontinato, Johnson, Talbot, MacNeil; forwards: Rousseau, Beliveau, G. Tremblay, Geoffrion, Backstrom, Hicke, Moore, Provost, Richard, Goyette, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08102/1893324-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="571" height="711"></div><h2><b>New York 3 at Toronto 5</b></h2><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Howell, Cahan, Spencer; forwards: Bathgate, Hannigan, Prentice, Gendron, Balon, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Hebenton, Wilson, Schinkel, Hampson.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defense: Baun, Brewer, Horton, Stanley, Arbour; forwards: Keen. Pulford, Armstrong, Kelly. Mahovlich, Nevin. Litzenberger, Olmstead, Stewart, Harris, Shack.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0984/1893317-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="568" height="676"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Montreal 2 at Detroit 4</b></h2><p>Montreal: goal: Plante: defense: Johnson, Talbot. J. C. Tremblay, Fontinato, MacNeil; forwards: Beliveau, Richard, G. Tremblay, Geoffrion, Backstrom. Hicke, Moore, Provost, Rousseau, Goyette, Marshall.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Bassen; defence: Pronovost, Gadsby, Price, Godfrey, ski: forwards: Ullman, MacDonald, Jeffrey, Howe, Delvecchio, Stasiuk. Fonteyne, Lunde, Holmes, LaForge, Boileau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1070/1893310-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="571" height="605"></div><h2><b>Boston 0 at Chicago 6</b></h2><p>Boston&mdash;goal: Gamble; defense: Stapleton, Mohns, Green, Westfall, Boivin; forwards: McKenney, Toppazzini, Burns, Pennington, Connelly, Bucyk, Williams, Pronovost, Oliver, Meissner, Leach.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Evans, Turner, Pilote, Vasko, St. Laurent; forwards: Hay, Balfour. Hull. Mikita, Wharram, McDonald, Horvath, Nesterenko, Melnyk, Murphy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1158/1893303-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="573" height="644"></div><h2><b>Toronto 2 at New York 6</b></h2><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defense: Brewer, Baun, Horton, Stanley, Arbour; forwards: Keon, Armstrong, Pulford, Kelly, Nevin, Mahovlich, Litzenberger, Stewart, Olmstead. Harris, Kozak.</p><p>New York&mdash;goal: Faille; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Howell, Cahan, Spencer; forwards: Ingarfield, Bathgate, Prentice, Hannigan, Gendron, Balon, Hadfield. Hebenton, Wilson, Schinkel, Hampson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1242/1893296-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="569" height="638"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<h2><b>GORDON&rsquo;S DRY GIN</b></h2><p><b>Makes a Martini Perfect</b></p><h2><b>GORDON&rsquo;S DRY GIN</b></h2><p><b>Perfect with any mix</b></p><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><p><b>(Standings On Tues. AM. Feb. 20)</b></p><h3>Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01438/1893495-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="571" height="125"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02414/1893488-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="571" height="127"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., Feb. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03362/1893481-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="575" height="328"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Providence 0 at Buffalo 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04305/1893474-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="555" height="460"></div><h2><b>Springfield 2 at Cleveland 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05241/1893467-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="552" height="482"></div><h2><b>Hershey 3 at Pittsburgh 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06205/1893460-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="552" height="383"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Providence 2 at Rochester 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07189/1893453-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="555" height="552"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Providence 2 at Cleveland 9</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08176/1893446-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="566" height="762"></div><h2><b>Rochester 6 at Pittsburgh 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09172/1893439-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="560" height="563"></div><h2><b>Hershey 2 at Springfield 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10158/1893432-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="556" height="641"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18 Pittsburgh 3 at Buffalo 9</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11135/1893425-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="560" height="837"></div><h2><b>Springfield 1 at Providence 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12103/1893418-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="552" height="336"></div><h2><b>Hershey 3 at Quebec 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1390/1893411-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="553" height="642"></div><h2><b>Cleveland 4 at Rochester 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1473/1893404-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="560" height="646"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Once upon a time the Bears family had ideas of chasing a pack of Indians out of the American Hockey League throne room. The dream turned into a nightmare.</p><p>The Hershey Bears, with 22 games remaining on the schedule as of Feb. 9, found themselves trailing the powerful Springfield Indians by a whopping 17 points&mdash;eight and a half games.</p><p>Hershey&rsquo;s problem now is to try and hold on to second place in the AHL&rsquo;s eastern division race&mdash;and this isn&rsquo;t going to be a snap.</p><p>On-rushing Quebec, once the league&rsquo;s doormat, is making a brilliant bid for its first shot at the Calder Cup since entering the circuit three years ago.</p><p>And the Providence Reds haven&rsquo;t tossed in the sponge, either. As of Feb. 9, The Bears held the runner up slot by a slim two points over Quebec, which only had a two point margin on Providence.</p><p>Since Jan. 1, the Bears have done nothing but stumble around, winning only six of 15 games.</p><p>Currently the outfit is on an extended seven game road trip, which ends Feb. 25.</p><p>There have been many reasons for Hershey&rsquo;s collapse. Lack of a scoring punch, ineffective defensive play, which includes the work of the forwards, and injuries.</p><p>In the goals for column, the Bears are the league&rsquo;s second worst, showing only 149 counters in the first 48 games. Quebec had the same number, while Pittsburgh was the weakest with 120.</p><p>No less than 25 different skaters have donned Bears&rsquo; uniforms this season, including 16 forwards, six defensemen and three goal tenders.</p><p>Coach Frank Mathers has continually scrambled the lines in an effort to get a scoring punch, as well as to overcome the injuries.</p><h2>Finds Range</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1556/1893533-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg" title="f0009-15" width="488" height="750"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Johnson</b></figcaption></div><p>In checking the records, the book shows the Bears dropped 10 games by close margins, six by a goal and four by two goals and managed to win only four of ten overtime contests. They gained a standoff in four, while losing two in sudden death action.</p><p>Winger Al Johnson, shipped here from Detroit Dec. 27, has begun to find the range and popped in five goals in his last three starts, compared to only one in the first 15 games.</p><h2>Hits Stride</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01452/1893526-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="538" height="524"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Ciesla</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bears Feel Aces Breath Down Necks In Hot Race

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND.O.&mdash;</p><p>As late as last December, it was reported in this column that hockey fans in Cleveland were reserving judgment on two acquisitions from the Rochester Americans&mdash;Hank Ciesla and Dick Van Impe.</p><p>At that time, both were feeling their way with the Cleveland Barons&mdash;and not too successfully.</p><p>Cleveland fans now have made up their minds on the pair. It is &ldquo;thumbs up&rdquo; on both.</p><p>Ciesla and Van Impe are flying, just as they used to fly against the Barons when they wore Rochester spangles.</p><p>For some reason or another, neither could get the range of enemy nets in their early games with Coach Jackie Gordon&rsquo;s crew. Fans knew they had the ability, but neither of the newly-acquired Barons were producing.</p><p>All that has changed. Van Impe, out for several games with a leg injury, still is not sinking goals, but he is rolling in assists in droves. Ciesla is potting goals with regularity.</p><p>At this writing, Ciesla has scored 19 times and assisted on 29 more goals for a 48-point total, putting him only eight points behind Fred Glover, the team leader. Van Impe has produced only six goals, but has 28 assists.</p><p>Their biggest night of the season came in Hershey, where Ciesla sank all four scores for the &ldquo;top-hat trick&rdquo; as the Barons skated off with a 4-1 decision. Van Impe assisted on all four scores.</p><p>Juggled around extensively by Coach Gordon while they were trying to get their bearings, they have wound up on the same line. Ciesla is centering the unit, with Van Impe working at left wing and a suddenly-confident John Ferguson operating at right wing.</p><p>Just at the time the sizzling Glover-Ron Attwell-Jim Mikol line began to slow down from its furious mid-season pace, the Ciesla Van Impe-Ferguson combo took up the slack.</p><p>In recent Baron games, with the team still making a mighty effort to overtake the Buffalo Bisons, Ciesla started clicking. His play, which had been unproductive, began to sharpen. He skated hard, dug into the corners for the puck, passed brilliantly.</p><p>Shortly thereafter, Van Impe worked himself into shape after his lengthy layoff. His passes began to find their mark.</p><p>Commenting on his four-goal outburst against Hershey, Ciesla gave Van Impe the credit.</p><p>&ldquo;Every time I found myself loose in front of the net, there was the puck, set up for me by Van Impe,&rdquo; Hank explained.</p><p>It takes three to make a successful line, so credit, too, must go to Ferguson.</p><p>&ldquo;Big Bad&rsquo;&rsquo; John, who had been more policeman than scorer, suddenly blossomed. Almost overnight, he found that he could score.</p><p>The Barons, meanwhile, are getting able help from their other unit of Cal Stearns, Eddie Mazur and Billy Sutherland, with Mazur&rsquo;s 19 goals setting the pace for this trio.</p><p>And while these lines are producing, the city&rsquo;s attention still is on Glover, whose 394 goals to date put him only six away from the almost undreamed-of 400 circle.</p><p>A local newspaper is running a contest in which fans are asked to pick Glover&rsquo;s total number of goals by the end of the season, plus the date, period and time when he scores his final goal of the year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ciesla Snaps Out Of It In Time To Help

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02384/1893588-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="271" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bruce Draper</b></figcaption></div><p>ROCHESTER. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Memo to Jim Ellery, secretary-treasurer, American Hockey League:</p><p>&ldquo;Please forward Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial Trophy to Bruce Draper, Rochester Americans. War</p><p>Memorial, Rochester 14, New York.&rdquo;</p><p>While the voting for the AHL&rsquo;s individual awards won&rsquo;t be conducted for another month, Ellery can save himself paper for votes and time by just shipping the Garrett Trophy to Draper any old time.</p><p>Ballotting will be a mere formality when it comes to picking the 1961-62 season&rsquo;s outstanding rookie performer. Draper is as much of a cinch as the Indians were over General Custer or the lions were over the Christians.</p><p>Just what are the credentials of the 5-7, 157-pound, 21-year-old Amerk center?</p><p>At this writing. Draper had 18 goals and 29 assists for 47 points&mdash;the only first-year skater to collect more than 30 points other than Pierre Brillant and Serge Boudreault of Providence. Brillant, at this writing, had 24 goals and 16 assists for 40 points, and Boudreault five goals and 27 assists.</p><p>But if the points alone aren&rsquo;t enough to assure the former St. Michael&rsquo;s College star of winning the AHL award, take a peek at the timeliness of his scoring.</p><p>Bruce had a hand in the winning goal in 12 of the Amerks&rsquo; first 24 triumphs. Five times he scored the game-winning goal himself, and assisted on seven others.</p><p>He either scored the big goal or assisted on it in five victories over Pittsburgh, two over Hershey, and one each over Quebec, Cleveland, Springfield, Buffalo and Providence.</p><p>How do Draper&rsquo;s five game-winning goals and seven assists compare with others on the Amerk squad?</p><p>Bruce is tied with Gerry Ehman in the important goal department, and is out in front in the assists on game-winning markers. Trailing Draper and Ehman in game-winning goals are Jimmy Pappin and Larry Keenan each with four, and Dick Gamble with three is the only other player having more than one.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Draper Favored As Rook-Of-Year

<div class="byline">By JIMMY JORDAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03319/1893619-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="288" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Larry Regaa</b></figcaption></div><p>The Pittsburgh Hornets haven&rsquo;t found a winning combination, but things have been far from dull around the Civic Auditorium, despite a succession of losses which reached 10 straight February 11.</p><p>The fans keep coming and having fun. They&rsquo;ve seen four penalty shots already this season, which may or may not be some kind of a record.</p><p>Coach Larry Regan slapped fines of $100 each on everybody the other day, including himself, for what he called &ldquo;indifferent play&rdquo;. Lated he rescinded the fines of four of the players.</p><p>The penalty shot series reached four February 10 when the Buffalo Bisons clipped the Hornets, 7-1.</p><p>Jack Price tripped Wayne Hicks who was goalward-bound on a breakaway. Hicks missed the penalty shot when Gerry McNamara went far to his left to deflect it with his glove.</p><p>The succession of gift shots, started back on October 28. Earl (Ching) Johnson scored on a penalty shot which beat Quebec that night, 2-1, for the first of the eight victories the Hornets have managed to score this season.</p><p>The second came on December 9 as Buffalo was trimming the home folks, 5-3. Dave Creighton took the shot and made it. But the Hornets protested that he wasn&rsquo;t even on the ice at the time of the rule&rsquo;s infraction, and American Hockey League president Jim Balmer, of Pittsburgh, ordered the game replayed from that point in the final period, with the score reverting to 4-2.</p><p>So on January 6, the replay took place. Billy Dea, who should have had the shot in the first place, started from the blue line and lifted the puck clear over the net! The final official score was 4-3, but the Bisons won the regularly scheduled game that night, 3-0&mdash;one of three shutouts Dennis DeJordy has inflicted on the hapless Hornets.</p><p>The fans were treated to another rarity that night, of January 6, too. Creighton broke loose, fired on an open net after the goalie had been removed&mdash;and hit the goalpost!</p><p>Regan slapped the fines on all the players following Sunday&rsquo;s 4-1 loss to Cleveland. His decision came after the team: (1) blew up midway of the second period when the score was tied, 2-2, and dropped a 9-3 decision to Springfield; (2) Blew up after five minutes of the second period when the score was tied, 1-1, and lost to Buffalo, 7-1; (3) Blew up midway of the final period at Cleveland with the score tied, 1-1, losing, 4-1.</p><p>Those three games were successive&mdash;February 7, 10 and 11.</p><p>Later he rescinded fines against Center Ray Brunel and Defensemen Dick Mattiussi, Gary Collins and Paul Jackson. They hadn&rsquo;t played very much in any of the games, so couldn&rsquo;t be held responsible for too much of the shoddy, inept play.</p><p>What&rsquo;s next? Just about anything can happen in the Big Igloo with its red plush seats, and probably will.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Despite Hornets, Things Far Front Dull For Fans

<p><b>NOW&rsquo;S THE TIME TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF&hellip;</b></p><h2><b>THE 1961-62 EDITION OF</b></h2><p><b>THE N.H.L. PRESS & RADIO GUIDE</b></p><p><b>The 1961-62 N.H.L. Press & Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey and is the finest Hockey Guide published.</b></p><p><b>This compact 236-paqe book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American, Western and Eastern Professional Leagues. H&rsquo;s a must for hockey fans everywhere.</b></p><p><b>ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.00 (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06151/1893678-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="271" height="391"></div><p><b>THE THIRD EDITION OF</b></p><h2><b>THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL 1962</b></h2><p><b>This 96-page book is jam-packed with full-length features about your favourite hockey stars&hellip;biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players&hellip;birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance!</b></p><p><b>You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.</b></p><p><b>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY!&hellip;ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07113/1893671-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="334" height="433"></div><h2><b>OFFICIAL N.H.L. RECORD BOOK 1917-61</b></h2><p><b>(This is not the N.H.L. Press & Radio Guide but an entirely different book).</b></p><p><b>The Official N.H.L Record Book includes complete team standings and individual scoring records of every season from 1917-18 up to the present.</b></p><p><b>This 350-page &ldquo;Hockey Masterpiece&rdquo; contains statistics and records unobtainable in any other publication. It is the most complete Record Book on Hockey ever published.</b></p><p><b>The supply is limited and books will be sold on a First Come&mdash;First Served basis.</b></p><p><b>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY&hellip;$1.25 PER COPY (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0889/1893664-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="275" height="410"></div><h2><b>THE AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE YEAR BOOK FOR 1961-62</b></h2><p><b>(Fifth Annual Edition)</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Contains complete professional records of all American Hockey League players, both present and past.</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Complete team and individual records for the twenty-five year history of the American Hockey League.</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Pictures of league officials, championship teams, trophies and star players of the past and present.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0968/1893657-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="326" height="422"></div><p><b>AVAILABLE FOR ONLY 50 CENTS PER COPY</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1055/1893650-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="1692" height="608"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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ATTENTION HOCKEY FANS!

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How Well Do You Know Your Hockey?

<h2><i>Before you say</i>&nbsp;<b>SCOTCH</b> say <b>DEWAR&rsquo;S</b>&nbsp;<i>never varies</i></h2><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Tues. A.M. Feb. 13)</b></p><h3>Southern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01450/1893859-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="575" height="134"></div><h3>Northern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02406/1893852-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="568" height="130"></div><h3>(Intersectional Play)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03336/1893845-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="564" height="228"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., Feb. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04274/1893838-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="571" height="479"></div><h2><b>(Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05234/1893831-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="568" height="230"></div><h2><b>(The Leaders)</b></h2><p>Most Points: Max Mekilok, Spo. 71.</p><p>Most Goals: Tom McVie, Port. 37.</p><p>Most Assists: Norm Johnson, Cal. 48.</p><p>Most First Goal of Game: Jim Baird, Van. 8; Art Jones, Port. 8.</p><p>Most Game Winning Goals: Tom McVie, Port. 9.</p><p>Most Game Winning Assists: Max Mekilok, Spo. 10.</p><p>Most Hat Tricks: Gerry Goyer, L.A. 3.</p><p>Most Goals With Man Adv.: Gerry Goyer, L.A. 7; Don Chiupka, Sea. 7; Gerry Brisson, Spo. 7.</p><p>Most Goals Against When Serv. Pen.: Bill Burega, L.A. 11.</p><p>Most Min. In Penalties: Connie Madigan, Spo. 124.</p><p>Most Shutouts: Bev Bentley, S.F. 3.</p><h2><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Seattle 3 at Vancouver 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06207/1893824-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="557" height="369"></div><h2><b>San Francisco 3 at Calgary 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07187/1893817-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="558" height="607"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7 Los Angeles 2 at Portland 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08181/1893810-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="567" height="631"></div><h2><b>San Francisco 6 at Edmonton 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09172/1893803-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="570" height="812"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 9 Spokane 0 at Seattle 1</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10152/1893796-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="548" height="400"></div><h2><b>Los Angeles 1 at Vancouver 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11130/1893789-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="551" height="428"></div><h2><b>San Francisco 1 at Edmonton 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12119/1893782-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="555" height="439"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10 Los Angeles 4 at Seattle 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1397/1893775-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="550" height="501"></div><h2><b>Portland 1 at Spokane 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1473/1893768-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="551" height="449"></div><h2><b>San Francisco 5 at Calgary 8</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1554/1893761-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="568" height="821"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 11 Los Angeles 4 at Portland 6</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1639/1893754-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="569" height="730"></div><h2><b>San Francisco 4 at Spokane 5</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1732/1893747-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="562" height="607"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1826/1893897-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="269" height="382"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hugh Currie</b></figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;I am no quitter,&rdquo; declared Philip Francis Maloney, when he was advised that he was being relieved of the command of the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>So he stayed on as star centreman and the Pacific National Exhibition&rsquo;s only hockey asset of any consequence.</p><p>Probably, if the PNE was of a mind to pass favors around, there was no greater service they could do for Maloney than to remove that awesome millstone around his neck.</p><p>The miserable excuse for a hockey team that Maloney inherited at the beginning of the season, followed by the colossal gall of Springfield&rsquo;s Eddie Shore in pulling five players out of Vancouver, never should have happened to a man of Maloney&rsquo;s intensive competitive spirit.</p><p>But by way of showing that he is a hockey player first and foremost, as if to dwarf the petty prejudices and abyssmal ignorance in the Canucks&rsquo; front office that must have made his coaching regime a hideous nightmare, Maloney turned in another of his super-special performances in Hugh Currie&rsquo;s debut as the coacher.</p><p>Maloney hustled the Canucks to their first win in 10 games as he fired the winner and set up another goal in providing the Vancouver club with a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Blades.</p><p>Thus Currie managed to avert the Canucks eclipsing their all-time record of nine straight losses established 10 years ago.</p><p>So now the responsibility of salvaging something from the worst season on all counts in Vancouver history is Hugh Currie&rsquo;s headache&hellip;and perhaps no drug store ever hustled a more potent antidote than is offered him in the person of player Maloney.</p><p>With Maloney on his side, he has a chance. Incidentally, it has been a long way around for Hugh to get to Vancouver to take over the Canucks on his own.</p><p>Going back a decade, Currie has served as Art Chapman&rsquo;s righthand man with the Canucks, but this is the first time he really has been calling the turn.</p><h2>Relieved</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1922/1893890-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="517" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Maloney</b></figcaption></div><p>He started the season as property of the Calgary Stampeders, but because of Currie&rsquo;s aging legs (he&rsquo;ll be 37 next fall), he didn&rsquo;t figure in Alf Pike&rsquo;s plans.</p><p>Hugh makes his off-season home in Edmonton, so he was given the green light to try to make a deal with the Flyers. He turned out to a few practices with the Edmonton club, but they weren&rsquo;t able to work anything out.</p><p>Bud Poile admitted he was leery of Currie&rsquo;s legs, because most of his games would be on the larger ice surfaces, such as in the Gardens in Edmonton (are you reading us loud and clear, Prof. Harold Laycoe?)</p><p>He was tempted to reach for Currie, if only because he was starting out with three rookie defencemen&hellip;Knobby Walsh, Doug Messier and John Miszuk&hellip;and perhaps he could use Hugh&rsquo;s experience to advantage as a stopgap.</p><p>It turned out that Poile had no fears on that count,&rsquo; and meanwhile his former owner Coley Hall decided that he could use him with the new club in San Francisco. Then after a few weeks, the Canucks were desperate for defencemen and acquired Currie for the balance of the season while giving up centreman Ray Cyr.</p><p>So two injuries (both of which successively threatened to end his career) later, Hugh is bossman of the Canucks, and may be about to make the most of that last year as a professional hockey player that he had been begging for.</p><p>Providing of course that the Seals waive their rights to Currie when he reverts to them at the end of the season, and the Rangers or somebody provide them with an adequate talent supply line. Which reminds that manager Dave Dauphinee warns that all future arrangements with Rangers or any other tieup will be in writing in future.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fired Maloney Stays On As Pivot With Canucks

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1962 World Hockey Tournament Broadmoor World Arena March 8-18, 1962

<div class="byline">By PAUL RIMSTEAD</div><p>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01439/1894004-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="277" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Sinden</b></figcaption></div><p>One of the big problems of the minor professional hockey coach is to get a 100 per-cent effort from his veterans.</p><p>The older fellows, the story goes, are content to play out their careers in a cushy fashion just as long as they are getting a regular paycheck.</p><p>Their sights are no longer set on the National League and many of them have lost their boyish enthusiasm.</p><p>Hockey is merely a way of keeping Sockeye Salmon instead of Tuna on the family table.</p><p>Taking this into consideration, it has to be admitted that Wren Blair of the Kingston Frontenacs knows how to handle men.</p><p>Either that, or the Frontenacs&rsquo; GM has been blessed with an exceptional crop of veterans.</p><p>When THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, Frontenacs were skipping lightly along on the right end of the Eastern Professional Hockey League ladder and the veterans were the guys who put them there.</p><p>A sensational scoring spurt by Tom McCarthy (28-year-old and a castoff of the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins) shot Frontenacs past Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers into the league lead in mid-January.</p><p>Frontenacs were then hit by injuries and the talk around the league was that it was only a matter of time before the Frontenacs dropped a rung or two.</p><p>Kingston faced the crucial three-game trip through the north in early February and Hull-Ottawa Canadiens and Kitchener-Waterloo were pressing hard.</p><p>This, the railbirds said, was where Blair&rsquo;s Frontenacs would fall.</p><p>Because of injuries and the league&rsquo;s rookie rule, Frontenacs headed north with a skeleton crew of only 12 men.</p><p>Even Blair was on the sidelines. He was at home with influenza and assistant coach Orv Tessier (28 years old and the league&rsquo;s leading scorer) was in charge.</p><p>Bun Cook, the learned trainer of the club, was in New York for the Frank Boucher presentation. Bun often lends a hand when Blair is absent.</p><p>Frontenacs had three games in three nights, starting at Sault Ste. Marie Feb. 6.</p><p>They surprised everyone by whipping the Thunderbirds 8-5 and Tessier scored three goals.</p><p>But winger Terry Gray was injured and Frontenacs&rsquo; lineup now included only 11 men.</p><p>The following night Sudbury Wolves were hardpressed to win 3-2. Frontenacs lost winger Nels Leclair who developed a case of the flu.</p><p>It was beginning to reach the ridiculous stage as Frontenacs lumbered into North Bay the next night with only 10 players&mdash;three defensemen, two forward lines and goaltender Ed Chadwick.</p><p>Frontenacs proved that night that if anyone wants to replace them as league leaders, it won&rsquo;t be without a fight.</p><p>With 10 players, no coach and three nights of riding on a bus, Frontenacs baffled the experts by trimming the Trappers 4-2.</p><p>Ed Chadwick was the veteran who came through in the clutch that time.</p><p>&ldquo;Most players would have complained before they left on a road trip with only 12 guys,&rdquo; said Blair from his sickbed at home. &ldquo;These fellows went up there and won two out of three games.</p><p>&ldquo;Winning at North Bay with only 10 men proves to me this club has spirit.&rdquo;</p><p>McCarthy, Tessier and Chadwick, all veterans, have been sparkplugs for Frontenacs in a young man&rsquo;s league.</p><p>And three more veterans, Harry Sinden, Alf Treen and Dick Cherry, have made them hard to beat.</p><p>Sinden, who stood sixth in the league&rsquo;s scoring race when THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, is the outstanding defenceman in the league.</p><p>He had seven goals and 45 assists in his first 50 games and needed only four more points for a record.</p><p>J. C. Tremblay had 56 points while with Hull-Ottawa in the 1959-60 season.</p><p>Sinden has already eclipsed Pat Stapleton&rsquo;s record for most assists by a defenceman inn a season and he has 20 games to go.</p><p>Stapleton had 54 assists last season with the Thunderbirds.</p><p>In Kingston Frontenacs&rsquo; case&mdash;the veterans are more than pulling their weight.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Crippled Fronts Stay On Top Thanks To Veterans

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The league pennant and the final playoff position are still up for grabs as the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league makes the turn into the home stretch of its regular schedule.</p><p>Montreal Junior Canadiens scored four victories in four days (league wins over Hamilton, Guelph and St. Catharines; an exhibition win against Marlboros of the Toronto Metro junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; group) to streak into a first place tie with the Red Wings of Hamilton.</p><p>They were slowed down slightly by St. Catharines Teepees who held them to a 4-4 draw after losing 4-1 on home ice two nights earlier. However the single point picked up by the Canadiens, who had to come back from a 4-2 deficit late in the third period to gain the draw before 3,500 fans in the Forum, broke the first place stalemate and shunted the Montrealers into a slim lead.</p><p>Hamilton and Montreal were scheduled for a home-and-home series later in the week which could finally decide the league championship.</p><p>At the other end of the group Niagara Falls Flyers and Guelph Royals are staging a hair-raising race for the fourth, and last, playoff spot.</p><p>At one time Guelph had a seven-point margin over the Falls but Hap Emms&rsquo; Flyers have put together an undefeated home streak of 10 games and are just one point behind Guelph.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Habs, Wings May Fight To Wire For Loop Flag

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO, N. Y.&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02356/1894059-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="271" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Hall</b></figcaption></div><p>There was too far to go, as this edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, for anyone to start laying claim to championships, but the Buffalo Bisons at long last showed the balance required to remain on top in the torrid American Hockey League Western Division race.</p><p>When the Herd whipped the Hershey Bears, 7-1, here Feb. 11 before 9,391, the AHL&rsquo;s biggest crowd of the campaign, it was the Bisons&rsquo; 10th win in 12 starts and their second seven-goal outburst in as many nights.</p><p>What pleased Coach Billy Reay most, however, was the scoring distribution.</p><p>&ldquo;For some time I was concerned with our scoring balance, since the Cullen line (Barry and Brian Cullen, with either Chico Maki or Wayne Hicks) was doing most of our scoring.</p><p>&ldquo;However, in our last three games, it has been a different line which carried the load. When you have three lines capable of exploding for goals, that&rsquo;s the kind of balance which can take you places.&rdquo;</p><p>Reay has been particularly pleased with the work of rookie Murray Hall, the sensation of the parent Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; training camp.</p><p>&ldquo;Murray has really come along, and it just shows what hard work will do,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;He was outstanding against Hershey, and that was his best game since camp.&rdquo;</p><p>Ed Van Impe and Autry Erickson, two newcomers to the Buffalo defense this season, also drew special praise for their work in the Herd&rsquo;s surge to the front.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t ask any player to give more than those two have given this club,&rdquo; Reay pointed out.</p><p>Van Impe, a rookie up from Calgary of the Western League, drew a regular shift after Ron Ingram was sidelined Jan. 24 with a painful groin injury after sliding into the skates of goalie Denis DeJordy. Ingram was expected back in the lineup after a 10-game absence.</p><p>At this writing, the second-place Cleveland Barons had played five games less than Buffalo, and were only three points back of the Herd. However, the remainder of the schedule favored the Bisons.</p><p>The Bisons&rsquo; schedule called for 10 home games and 6 on the road, while the Barons had 9 left at home and 12 away. The third-place Rochester Amerks, 9 points back of the Herd, had 9 left at home and 10 away.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Schedule Favors Bisons In AHL Western Div. Race

<div class="byline">by Jack Thomson</div><p>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Galt Terriors, Canada&rsquo;s resentatives in the World tournament at Colorado Springs start their Western Canada tour in the Lakehead this week and will play three games in the Thunder Bay branch&hellip;Willie Yasinski, former junior hockey player with the Fort William Hurricanes, has been suspended by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association on behalf of the American Amateur Hockey Association for leaving his club in Rochester, Minnesota in the Central League. Yasinski was playing defence with the Dryden Rockets in the Ontario Minnesota League&hellip;Another Fort William player is in the news this week Brian McLay former Canadian junior has taken over the lead in the international League goal scoring department with a thirty five total&hellip;The Lakehead Junior Champion will play a best of seven series against the Kenora Fort Frances winner for the Thunder Bay title and the right to advance against Manitoba in the Western semifinal&hellip;Ted Hogan, Hurricane defenceman, moving, they say, to the west coast.</p><p>The Port Arthur North Stars and the Fort William Canadiens have made an interesting fight for the top spot in the league during the final week of play and the Hurricanes who are out of the fight altogether can be the real spoilers in the whole affair&hellip;Mike Pearson the big centre ice man of the Fort Frances Canadians has taken over the lead in the individual scoring race in the Ontario Minnesota Hockey league with thirty two points&hellip;Charlie Rayner is doing double duty in Kenora. The ex-New York Ranger Star is coaching the intermediate Thistles and the Junior Thistles&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<h2>Don&rsquo;t be <i>vague&hellip;</i>say HAIG&HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY</h2><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Mon. AM. Feb. 19)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01438/1894232-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="581" height="176"></div><h2><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Hull-Ottawa 4 at Sault Ste. Marie 2</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02396/1894225-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="567" height="510"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Hull-Ottawa 2 at Sault Ste. Marie 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03362/1894218-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="568" height="534"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Hull-Ottawa 5 at Sudbury 3</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04328/1894211-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="570" height="687"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Sudbury 0 at Kitchener 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05280/1894204-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="563" height="480"></div><h2><b>Sault Ste. Marie 1 at Kingston 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06241/1894197-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="562" height="405"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Sault Ste. Marie 2 at Hull-Ottawa 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07227/1894190-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="572" height="677"></div><h2><b>Kingston 2 at North Boy 7</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08214/1894183-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="561" height="576"></div><h2><b>Kitchener 2 at Sudbury 4</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09207/1894176-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="562" height="541"></div><h2><b>GEAT MOMENTS IN HOCKEY</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10197/1894169-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="2046" height="1135"></div><h2><b>GREAT MOMENTS IN SMOKING</b></h2><p><i>Carry your enjoyment with, you</i></p><p><b>EL PRODUCTO</b></p><p><b>&hellip;in the new FOLD-A-PAK that slims down to fit your pocket</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11176/1894162-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="909" height="956"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EASTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By SID PAYNE</div><p>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02341/1894263-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="247" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Joe Crozier</b></figcaption></div><p>It&rsquo;s getting close to playoff time in the Eastern Hockey League and the circuit&rsquo;s Board of Governors at a recent meeting announced plans for the post season action which is slated to get under way the week of March 4.</p><p>Six of the eight clubs will again compete in the playoffs with three teams already &lsquo;in&rsquo; and two others virtually certain to qualify. One club&mdash;the Long Island Ducks&mdash;is just about out of it.</p><p>The race for the sixth berth between Charlotte and Philadelphia is still winging along and it&rsquo;s quite likely the outcome won&rsquo;t be decided until the last week of the regular season. Only two points have separated the Checkers and Ramblers the past two weeks and at this stage of the campaign it&rsquo;s a toss-up as to which squad will make it.</p><p>Once again the divisional champs will square off in the big series&mdash;a best-of-nine-affair&mdash;with the winner gaining the best-of-seven final round. Meanwhile, the second and third place finishers in each division will clash in best-of-five series with another best-of-five set be between these survivors needed to determine the other finalist.</p><p>As things now stand, this is how the opening rounds of the playoffs should shape up:</p><p>Series A&mdash;Clinton (Northern winner) vs. Greensboro (Southern winner) in best-of-nine series.</p><p>Series B&mdash;Johnstown (Northern 2nd place finisher) vs. New Haven (Northern 3rd place finisher) in best-of-five series.</p><p>Series C&mdash;Knoxville (Southern 2nd place finisher) vs. Charlotte or Philadelphia (Southern 3rd place finisher) in best-of-five series.</p><p>Series D&mdash;Series B winner vs.</p><p>Series C winner in best-of-five series.</p><p>Series E&mdash;Series A winner vs. Series D winner in best-of-seven series for championship.</p><p>There&rsquo;s still speculation of a possible &ldquo;World Series&rdquo; of minor league hockey between the Eastern League playoff winner and the International League kingpin. If this comes off, fans will finally get their chance to judge which loop is the best in amateur hockey.</p><p>Proof that hockey has made a big hit with the southern fans was the announcement from the league office that Greensboro, Charlotte and Knoxville are the circuit&rsquo;s leaders in attendance. Each of these clubs have been averaging around 3,000 fans per game all season.</p><p>The battle between Charlotte and Philadelphia for a playoff spot also matches the two rookie coaches who were rivals for many years in the American League. They are the Checkers&rsquo; Joe Crozier and Ramblers&rsquo; Obie O&rsquo;Brien.</p><p>John Lumley&rsquo;s four goals against Philadelphia put the Johnston star left winger over the 50-mark for the season. He has 52. Lumley also leads the league in hat tricks with five.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Playoffs Set For March 4th Opening

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div><p>NEW GLASGOW. N S.&mdash;</p><p>Alain &ldquo;Slapshot&rdquo; Caron, who commanded the Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League scoring race from the opening night of the season, failed by one goal to equal the all-time Maritime goal scoring record established eight years ago.</p><p>Caron, scoring wizard of the Amherst Ramblers, closed the campaign with 76 goals, one less than Maritime record books credit to Billy Ford of the Halifax Atlantics in the 1953-54 season.</p><p>Caron&rsquo;s bid for new ice laurels was cut short when the Windsor Maple Leafs, eliminated from postseason playoffs, refused to play a make-up game with the Ramblers. The extra game may have given Caron a new record.</p><p>Despite his failure to eclipse the Ford mark, Caron shattered the NSSHL record book. He finished the 48-game schedule with 76 goals and 46 assists for 122 points, a whopping 33-point bulge over runner-up Daryl &ldquo;Big M&rdquo; MacMillan of the New Glasgow Rangers.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t news when official statistics gave the crown to the Amherst slapshot ace. Caron had lead the race from opening night and his margin continued to get bigger over the rest of the field throughout the winter.</p><h2>Comes Close</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01433/1894294-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="581" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alain Caron</b></figcaption></div><p>Caron&rsquo;s bid for the Maritime goal scoring high stole much of the spotlight from the final battle for playoff berths.</p><p>Windsor Maple Leafs, who had been struggling in a three-team battle with New Glasgow and Halifax Wolverines, collapsed in the final two weeks and dropped to the bottom&mdash;and out of the money rounds.</p><p>Amherst had little trouble finished at the top, 16 points up on second place Moncton Beavers. The Moncton club was trailed by three points by the Rangers, who in turn were three points ahead of Halifax. The Wolves were seven points ahead of last place Windsor.</p><p>Two best-of-seven semi-final series opened Feb. 13. Moncton and New Glasgow were engaged in one set while the Ramblers and Halifax were paired off in the other round. Winners of the league advance against the Cape Breton Hockey League champions in the Maritime semi-final.</p><p>Amherst&rsquo;s hopes of a third straight loop crowd were strengthened considerably when they tried goalie Jean Guy Morrissette in the nets. He immediately sparked the club back to winning ways and was playing much better hockey than his predecessor, Emery Cormier.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Caron Fails In Bid To Set New Scoring Record

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA, B. C.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey Fever, something unheard of in these parts for quite sometime, struck the Okanagan Valley this week, and with it brought enthusiasm, spine twisting hockey, pandemonium, and tremendous support at the box office.</p><p>That just about sums up the current semi-final series now underway in the four team Okanagan junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; hockey league.</p><p>Kelowna-Vernon series has taken the spotlight for thrills, excitement, and upsurge of crowded arenas.</p><p>Odie Lowe&rsquo;s Vernon Canadians sat in the league basement for most of the season, and failed to impress anyone. As the semi-finals closed in, they quickly rallied with strong player reinforcements. These players, signed on a Vernon card prior to deadline date had shifted back and forth from junior, to a neighboring intermediate &lsquo;bush league&rsquo;, and a number failed to make many out of town junior trips.</p><p>The additions put new life into the Vernon Club, and a well balanced 15-man roster became a threat as playoffs approached.</p><p>Three games have been played in the Vernon-Kelowna series.</p><p>The first, in the best of five series was played at Kelowna before some 800 fans. The large Vernon contingent had plenty to roar about as their &lsquo;kids&rsquo; upset the Buckaroos 2-1 in a real thriller.</p><p>The same gruelling, hard cheeking fast skating hockey continued for the next two games. At Vernon for the second fixture and witnessed before some 1,200 fans, Moe Young&rsquo;s hustlers trailed for two periods. Behind 4-2 with 15 minutes remaining in the final stanza the Bucks started to take charge. A goal by centreman Fred Thomas saw the Bucks move into high gear. Minutes later winger Elmer Arrance had the game tied, and three minutes later 16-year-old Terry Kasubichi, up from the Kelowna juvenile ranks, potted the winning marker.</p><p>So with the series tied at one game apiece the stage was set for the third game at Kelowna. Playing before the largest crowd to witness a hockey game in Kelowna in three seasons some 1,400 fans voiced their approval as the junior Bucks won a well earned 4-2 thriller. They led 3-0 after twenty minutes, increased it to 4-0 after two periods, but saw their lead cut, as Canadians came back with two counters in the final stanza. Sonny Herbst led Kelowna with two goals, while Don Culley Jr., and Elmer Arrance scored singletons. Capt Seiko Ouichi and David Kowal were the Vernon goal getters.</p><p>The Bucks, who now lead the series 2-1, travel to Vernon for the fourth game. If a fifth is necessary it will be at Kelowna.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01410/1894380-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><p><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Pictured Ranger player.</p><p>7. NHL clubs begin to&mdash;in September.</p><p>8. Given name of a new member of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>10. Whether.</p><p>11. NHL club with least number of major penalties in 1960-61. (abbr.)</p><p>12. Tiny Thompson serves as one for the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>14. Initials of Rousseau of Montreal.</p><p>16. Short for given name of Ranieri of Providence.</p><p>18. NHL club coached by Sylvio Mantha in 1935-36 (abbr.)</p><p>20. A Leaf forward answers to this.</p><p>21. Nickname of line made famous by Conacher, Primeau & Jackson.</p><p>22. Initials of Prystai, ex-NHL player.</p><p>24. Former New York defenseman.</p><p>25. Pronoun.</p><p>26. Punch Imlach&rsquo;s son.</p><p>28. Players sometimes feel this way after a hard game.</p><p>30. Tellurium (Sym.)</p><p>31. This player won the Hart and Byng trophies in 1947-48.</p><p>32. Native province of Andy Hebenton (abbr.)</p><p>33. Ex-NHL player, WaHy Stanowski, was born in&mdash;Boniface, Man.</p><p>34. Province recently visited by Dick Duff (abbr.)</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. This player appeared in Detroit&rsquo;s lineup on Jan. 13.</p><p>2. Phil Watson ordered Bruce Gamble to go on one.</p><p>3. Pronoun.</p><p>4. Second name of Needham of Cleveland.</p><p>5. This Detroit player is a native of Sorel, Quebec.</p><p>6. Initials of a former Canadien coach.</p><p>9. Contraction of over.</p><p>13. Number of NHL teams with which 23 down played.</p><p>15. A Springfield left winger.</p><p>17. Jerry Melnyk&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>19. Condition hockey players like to be in (slang.)</p><p>23. A member of the 1945-46 Cup winning Canadiens, first name Jim.</p><p>24. Initials of an AHL coach.</p><p>26. Relationship between Guy and Bob Rousseau (abbr.)</p><p>27. Al Arbour pays this to Charlie Burns.</p><p>29. Ocean (abbr.)</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1. Backstrom</p><p>7. II</p><p>8. Co.</p><p>9. Skinner</p><p>11. Ten</p><p>12. G.D.</p><p>13. C.T.</p><p>14. One</p><p>15. Car</p><p>16. Use</p><p>17. Le.</p><p>18. Dea</p><p>19. T.I.</p><p>20. Mt.</p><p>22. OB</p><p>24. Dahlstrom</p><p>27. R.K.</p><p>28. Tor.</p><p>29. Lee</p><p>31. John</p><p>33. Eleven</p><p>34. Ed.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1. Boston</p><p>2. Chinese</p><p>3. Sing</p><p>4. Tied</p><p>5. Oc.</p><p>6. Montreal</p><p>10. Ken.</p><p>13. Case</p><p>15. Cudworth</p><p>17. Lima</p><p>21. Three</p><p>23. Boone</p><p>24. Dale</p><p>25. L.K.</p><p>26. M.R.</p><p>30. E.L</p><p>31. J.E.</p><p>32. On.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<div class="byline">By BOB TATE</div><p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Juvenile hockey in these parts is presently enjoying its biggest boon.</p><p>Not since the late forties and early fifties when Sid Finney, Ronnie Stewart and Hank Bassen starred in Calgary&rsquo;s minor puck ranks has enthusiasm been as high.</p><p>A dozen full-fledged juvenile teams are operating in the city in two leagues.</p><p>The cream of the pre-junior crop is found in the juvenile &lsquo;A&rsquo; Black Hawks and Bronks. Performing in the 12-team Southern Alberta Junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; Hockey League, the Black Hawks are in second place and Bronks hold down a respectable fourth spot.</p><p>Including the two junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; clubs and the numerous juvenile age players on other teams in the league, the juvenile representation totals more than 60.</p><p>Another 160 players perform in the juvenile &lsquo;B&rsquo; league which also includes the city&rsquo;s two finest midget &lsquo;A&rsquo; teams.</p><p>The junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; league is perhaps the best minor hockey idea to come out of these parts in years. The circuit comprises nine teams from Calgary and clubs from Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Canmore.</p><p>Calgary&rsquo;s representatives come from the two juvenile clubs and city districts&mdash;like South Calgary&mdash;league leaders and provincial finalists in four of the last five years&mdash;Killarney, Inglewood, Capitol Hill, University of Alberta, West Hillhurst and Tuxedo.</p><p>The juvenile setup is also divided amongst city districts with the exception of the midget teams. South Calgary leads the southern division of the league and the midget Stampeders pace the north section.</p><h2>Calgarians Under Big Top</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02121/1894518-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="539" height="513"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-03116/1894511-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="580" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hank Bassen</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0495/1894504-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="545" height="516"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ron Stewart</b></figcaption></div><p>Both leagues are members of the Calgary Minor Hockey Association.</p><p>It has been a long time since a Calgary-trained hockey player has made it all the way to the top. Bassen and Bill Gadsby are the two standouts of recent vintage in the NHL.</p><p>It appears that of the present crop, goaltenders may be the best bets for future hockey stardom. In the junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; league the three standouts are all of juvenile age.</p><p>Bronks&rsquo; Mike Berridge, at 17, leads the league with two shutouts and a 1.6 goals against average in seven games. Just behind at 1.76 is 16-year-old Dwight Lyons of the Black Hawks who has three blank jobs and at 2.8 is Dwight Bearchill of South Calgary.</p><p>South Calgary coach Stan Jay-cock attributes much of the league&rsquo;s success to the goalkeepers.</p><p>&ldquo;These goalies are making the league known through their excellent play and are largely responsible for their team&rsquo;s high standings,&rdquo; he said when referring to Berridge, Lyons and Bearchill.</p><p>Bearchitt. at 16, stands six feet and weighs 170 pounds. He has both the size and speed needed in professional hockey.</p><p>Berridge is a southpaw and may find a problem in that regard.</p><p>Dennis Surrendi and Dave Toner of the Bronks; Les Payne of Black Hawks, Canmore&rsquo;s Pat Riva and Maynard Switzer of South Calgary have performed best among the juvenile forwards and centres in the junior circuit.</p><p>Their stock as future pros is largely unknown, but Jaycock gives each of them a good chance to develop into top junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; players.</p><p>Wayne King of the Bronks and Pat Halas of the Black Hawks have the size and look strong enough to become regular junior rearguards.</p><p>Crowds at the junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; games have not been full houses but games played in the 8.000-seat Stampede Corral attract enough fans to give the league executive encouragement.</p><p>The juvenile &lsquo;B&rsquo; league is somewhat less appealing to the fans but interest is growing.</p><p>Goalie Irwin Keiser of the midget Stampeders, although still a youngster, is showing his heels to the rest of the pack. With four shutouts for the undefeated midget team, Keiser is getting most of the raves from coaches and players.</p><p>Centre Gordie Karch has size, weight and age pulling for him. The 15-year-old speedster is a strong skater and is blossoming into a husky, six-footer.</p><p>Karch is the top scorer in the league.</p><p>Others who may develop into professional prospects are South Calgary&rsquo;s Rob Anderson; Cam Boyer and Allen Brook of the midget Rangers; and Stampeders&rsquo; Randy Murray and Ricky Dolan.</p><p>From these youngsters Calgary minor hockey supporters are confident a few professionals can be found. With renewed support and vigor all around, it seems only a matter of a few years and Calgary will again be a source of good hockey talent.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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