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March 31, 1962

The Hockey News March 31, 1962

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p>MUSKEGON, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Muskegon&rsquo;s Zephyrs, only in their second season of International Hockey League competition, won the Fred A. Huber, Jr. Trophy, for finishing on top in the IHL during the regular season.</p><p>The Zephyrs&rsquo;, coached by veteran defenseman Moose Lallo and Jerry DeLise as general manager battled down to the wire with St. Paul and Minneapolis for league honors.</p><p>Entering the final week of the campaign, Muskegon held a scant one-point margin over St. Paul, with the Saints having one game in hand. However, the Zephyrs won all three games during the week, while St. Paul split in four&mdash;home-and-home each with Omaha and Minneapolis.</p><p>Muskegon had 88 points, followed by St. Paul, 85. Minneapolis 83, Omaha, 77, Ft. Wayne 70, Indianapolis 38 and Toledo 35.</p><p>Lallo&rsquo;s crew now oppose Minneapolis, in Series &ldquo;A,&rdquo; while St. Paul engages with Omaha in Series &ldquo;B.&rdquo; Both sets are for the best four out of seven. Winners of each series battle in the finals.</p><p>Prior to the start of the 1961-62 season, many experts covering the IHL figured Muskegon to finish no better than fourth or fifth. The Zephyrs must go down in IHL history as being a &ldquo;Cinderella&rdquo; squad.</p><p>When Dennis Jordon was called up to Edmonton in late-November, Jim McLeod replaced him in goal and did an outstanding job. In 47-games, McLeod had a 3.28 average, with a shutout.</p><p>Jim Henderson. Sports Editor of the Muskegon Chronicle said. &ldquo;It was a team effort all the way. No one individual can take the credit for a job-well-done.&rdquo;</p><p>Henderson also stated that if he had to pick the main factor however, it would have to be the clutch goaltending of Jordon and McLeod, &ldquo;who came up with big saves when the club needed it.&rdquo;</p><p>Joe Kastelic, the veteran winger, having his best season in nine IHL campaigns, led the Zephyrs number one line with Bryan McLay at right wing and Warren Back at center. Kastelic had 47 goals, 54 assists for 101 points, while McLay had 47-52-99 and Back 32-62-94.</p><p>Balance among the lines was another factor. The second trio of Lyle Porter (24), Ken Hayden (45) and Stan Konrad (31) pumped 100 tallies in opposing nets, while third liners Larry Lund (29), Ron Stephenson (10) and Claude Boucher (14) accounted for 53 markers.</p><p>Captain Gerry Glaude, the slapshot specialist broke a point total and assist mark for defensemen this year, with his 17-67-85 total. Glaude&rsquo;s 67 assists eclipsed that of Butch MacKay&rsquo;s 51 and Rolly Mc-Lenahan&rsquo;s 74 points.</p><p>Coach Lallo, who seems to get better with every season, scored 24 times and assisted on 48 goals, while the other defenseman, Joe Kiss had nine goals and 42 assists.</p><p>Last year. Muskegon had a 2541-4 record and had only one man that scored 30 or more goals&mdash;Hayden&rsquo;s 52. This year was quite an improvement&mdash;43-23-2. with five men finishing with 30 goals or more.</p><p>IHL NOTES&hellip;Ft. Wayne&rsquo;s Lennie Thomson won his first scoring championship in the IHL. finishing with 32 goals and 90 assists for 122 points&hellip;Thomson was also high man in assists with 90.</p><p>Ken Yackel, Minneapolis-Miller player-coach led in goals with 50. while Omaha&rsquo;s Ted Lebioda set a new IHL mark for penalties in minutes&mdash;274&mdash;two better than Con Madigan, of Ft. Wayne in 1959-60.</p><p>Rounding out the top ten scorers were Reg Primeau. Ft. Wayne (39-66-105), Chick Chalmers, Omaha (29-73-102), Joe Kastelic, Muskegon (47-54-101), Harry Ottenbreit Minneapolis (36-65-101), Moe Bartoli, Minneapolis (32-68-100), Bryan McLay, Muskegon (47-52-99). Ken Yackel. Minneapolis (50-48-98), Eddie Long. Ft. Wayne (48-48-96) and Bryan Derrett, St. Paul (36-60-96).</p><p>In all, 29 records were broken and six others tied in the IHL this season&hellip;It was by far. the closest race for the championship in league history.</p><h2>Leader</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02130/1976027-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="508" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Joe Kasteiic</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Final Standin&ccedil;s</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-03124/1976020-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="578" height="204"></div><h2><b>Top Ten Scorers (Final!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-04102/1976013-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="575" height="270"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Muskegon Zephyrs Take Flag In Second Season

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01305/1976058-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2>A Champion All The Way<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Hawks Sure They Can Do It Again

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02207/1976089-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="271" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Black Hawks enter this spring&rsquo;s post-season playoff ready to fight for their laurels.</p><p>The Black Hawks won the Cup last year with rough-tough play, great goaltending by Glenn Hall and the aggressive scoring efforts of Bobby Hull. Pete Pilote. Murray Balfour and the &ldquo;Scooter Line&rdquo; led by Stan Mikita.</p><p>They eliminated five-time champion Montreal in an exciting semifinal series in six games, including two victories on Montreal ice and back-to-back 3-0 shutout victories in the final two games. They then beat fourth-place Detroit in a six-game finale.</p><p>&ldquo;Our mental attitude this year is every bit as good as last year,&rdquo; said Coach Rudy Pilous. &ldquo;In fact, it should be better. Last year we were confident to the extent we thought we could win it all. This year we have the stronger confidence of having won it last spring.&rdquo;</p><p>But Pilous issued a warning his players must heed this year.</p><p>&ldquo;Because we won it last year we conceivably could be somewhat complacent about the playoffs this year. But I think we got rid of any such thoughts early in the season. The boys often played as if all they had to do was skate on the ice and some of the other teams would play dead because we were the Stanley Cup champions. They soon found out the facts of life. The other team goes that much harder to beat the champion.</p><p>&ldquo;When we got over that attitude and got in better physical condition we built up some real momentum over the last half of the season But our boys know they have to put out 100 per cent or we won&rsquo;t keep the Cup.&rdquo;</p><p>Physically, the Black Hawks compare favorably with a year ago. Their weights are similar and Pilous and General Manager Tommy Ivan have brought them along to a peak in these final weeks. This is a big, heavy team and prone to a slow start but a strong finish if handled properly.</p><p>Only the condition of Pilote, who set a record for defensemen of 15 points in last spring&rsquo;s Cup playoffs (3 goals, 12 assists) and forward Ken Wharram and Ron Murphy, was in doubt in the final week of the season. All were expected to be ready for the opening of the playoffs.</p><p>The Black Hawk players agree with Pilous that the team has reached a peak in the latter stages of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the same sharp edge as we had a year ago at playoff time,&rdquo; said center Red Hay.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re playing strong as a unit. Our attitude is right for the playoffs after a long season. We have the momentum now,&rdquo; said big defenseman Moose Vasko, who played his best hockey of the season over the last six weeks.</p><p>The scoring surge of Bobby Hull over the second half of the season is another example of the momentum the Black Hawks have built up entering the postseason playoffs.</p><p>A year ago the Black Hawks were sentimental favorites. They had not won the Stanley Cup in 23 years, had only won it twice in their history, and had been perennial doormats in the National Hockey League most of the postWorld War II seasons.</p><p>When they won last year it was good for hockey and good for sports. It was a popular victory by a comparatively young team&mdash;a victory achieved, perhaps, a year or two ahead of schedule.</p><p>It is still a young team with its best future ahead of it. But some of the glitters has worn off. This season THE HOCKEY NEWS preseason poll of experts picked the Black Hawks to dethrone Montreal as regular season NHL champion and a sure bet to finish no worse than second in the 70-game schedule.</p><p>But the Black Hawks got off to a slow start, were hampered some by injuries and complacency, and struggled along in fourth and fifth place the first half of the year.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t until mid-season that they started to play up to their potential and eventually finished a strong third&mdash;making a bid for second place up to the final two weeks of the season.</p><p>Now, for the fourth straight season, they have finished third and meet Montreal Canadiens in the opening round. Three years ago they carried Canadiens to a rousing six games; two years ago they lost in four straight; and last year they won the roughouse semifinal in six games.</p><p>There is another difference this year. A year ago they played Montreal to a standstill during the regular season, each winning the same number of games and scoring the same number of goals during their 14 meetings. Several of the Chicago wins were or Montreal ice.</p><p>This season Chicago has not been as successful. They have played well against Canadiens but won only three times, tied two and lost nine games. Only one of the victories was on Montreal ice.</p><p>&ldquo;Our success against Montrea during the regular season las year was important to our menta attitude. It gave us confidence. We had beaten Montreal on their own ice regularly during the season and they weren&rsquo;t monsters to our players,&rdquo; admitted Pilous.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rudy Issues Warning To His Players

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Although their victory seemed to be a foregone conclusion almost a month ago, the Canadiens didn&rsquo;t run away with the league championship as early as expected. It took them 66 games&mdash;after a 2-0 shutout over New York while Chicago was beating Toronto&mdash;and only three less contests than last season when the Leafs chased them right down to the wire.</p><p>Nevertheless, Coach Toe Blake couldn&rsquo;t contain his happiness after Montreal&rsquo;s fifth straight league crown and the sixth in seven seasons since Toe took over as coach. It was also the 13th in Canadiens&rsquo; colorful history and one more than the dozen titles won by Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;Of all the league titles we have won,&rdquo; said Blake, &ldquo;this one pleased me the most.</p><p>&ldquo;During the six previous seasons,&rdquo; Toe pointed out, &ldquo;I had to rely on six or seven players to carry the load. This season it has been a different story. This is truly a team victory. Every player, from the brightest star to the youngest rookie, contributed to the championship when we needed him.</p><p>&ldquo;I have never coached a club that was hit by injuries as much as this one was all season. We started off without Jean Beliveau and had to get along for several games without such stars as Dickie Moore and Boom Boom Geoffrion.</p><p>&ldquo;Our defence was knocked to pieces when Lou Fontinato got hurt and Tom Johnson was sidelined with that serious eye injury. Then Marcel Bonin was finished for the season and a few weeks ago we lost Henri Richard.</p><p>&ldquo;But the rest of the fellows picked up the slack wherever it was. Considering that our youngsters and veterans worked together to keep the team in first place all season, how can anyone say that this was anything less than a great team effort?&rdquo;</p><p>Someone figured out that 10 of the Habs had missed a total of 125 games through injuries and that only eight players hadn&rsquo;t been sidelined during the season. These included Claude Provost, Gilles Tremblay, Bill Hicke, Bobby Rousseau, Jean-Guy Talbot, Jean-Claude Tremblay. Al MacNeil and Goalie Jacques Plante.</p><p>Blake was asked about Plante&rsquo;s contribution to the league championship.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt about it. Plante was the big factor in keeping us in first place, especially in December and January when we had all those injuries. He deserves the Hart Trophy.</p><p>&ldquo;At the same time,&rdquo; added the coach, &ldquo;this must be the best-balanced team I&rsquo;ve ever had. Our scoring is spread out and we can go into the playoffs confident that any line may come up with the big goals.&rdquo;</p><p>For the first time in the Blake regime, the Canadiens didn&rsquo;t have anyone fighting for the individual scoring honors and the Art Ross Trophy. Their points leader after 67 games was Ralph Backstrom with 60 points, far down in 10th place on the individual scoring list.</p><p>However the champions&rsquo; scoring balance was shown by their flock of six 20-goal scorers with four others within range at the 67-game mark. Claude Provost 32, Gilles Tremblay 29, Backstrom 25, Bernie Geoffrion 22, Henri Richard 21 and Bobby Rousseau 21 were already in the 20 circle. Dickie Moore had 19, Bill Hicke 18, Jean Beliveau 17 and Don Marshall 17.</p><p>Frank Selke, the Habs&rsquo; managing director, predicted after Montreal&rsquo;s Stanley Cup semi-final setback last spring that the Canadiens would be back as strong as ever this season. Someone asked him if he was surprised at their league title victory.</p><p>The little G.M. wasn&rsquo;t surprised at the triumph but admitted that it came mostly from an unexpected source. The play of Provost, Backstrom, Gilles Tremblay, Bill Hicke and Bobby Rousseau made up for the performances expected but not given by the injured stars. He had high praise for Jacques Plante, recalling that sometime ago he admitted &ldquo;this team is certainly getting superb goaltending.&rdquo;</p><p>Talking about the game that clinched the title for Canadiens&mdash;a 2-0 win over the hard-fighting Rangers&mdash;Selke lauded Plante and the whole team.</p><p>&ldquo;To win the championship by a shutout is an important thing for Plante and for the team as a whole. It may carry over that way into the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>Selke was confident that barring injuries&mdash;although the Habs had their share of them at the end of the schedule&mdash;Montreal would beat Chicago in the semi-final series.</p><p>&ldquo;The Hawks won&rsquo;t bump this team out of the rink,&rdquo; said Selke. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a new spirit on our team this season and the Canadiens won&rsquo;t be backing away if the rough stuff comes.&rdquo;</p><p>Defenceman Lou Fontinato was singled out as the man mainly responsible for the &ldquo;heart&rdquo; in the Habs.</p><p>&ldquo;Fontinato&rsquo;s spirit has been catching. It rubbed off early on the young fellows like Rousseau and Gilles Tremblay and some of the veterans couldn&rsquo;t help but be affected by it.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; added Selke, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ll miss Henri Richard. He isn&rsquo;t such a high scorer but while he&rsquo;s out there he keeps the opposition on the defensive all the time.</p><p>&ldquo;But the Canadiens have been without one or two stars in every Cup series they&rsquo;ve won. There&rsquo;s no reason why they can&rsquo;t do the same this season.&rdquo;</p><p>By the time this hits the press, the Canadiens&mdash;or the Black Hawks&mdash;will be proving Mr. Selke right or wrong.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01406/1974211-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="274" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Fontinato</figcaption></div><h2>Big Hand For Mr. Plante</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02388/1974204-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1667" height="1100"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>This was the scene in the Montreol Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room after they defeated the New York Rangers 2-0. The win, coupled with Toronto&rsquo;s loss against Chicago gave the Canadiens their sixth straight title. Coach Toe Blake, left, credited Goaler Jacques Plante, right, with being the main force in the win, although Toe says every player on the club gave his best.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“This One Pleased Me The Most,” Says Blake Of Flag Win

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Maple Leafs&rsquo; major concern as the 1961-62 National Hockey League schedule ended was not whom they would be playing in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs but how and with what.</p><p>Leafs had clinched second place but New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings still were scrambling for possession of fourth spot, which would carry with it the right to meet Toronto in one of the semi-final series. Montreal and Chicago, of course, are tangling in the other.</p><p>Leafs&rsquo; big worry concerned injuries. Goaltender Johnny Bower had a badly bruised thumb which might or might not heal in time for the playoffs. And it was doubtful whether Bert Olmstead (broken shoulder bone) or Carl Brewer (severe charley horse) would be able to play again until next fall.</p><p>Just a week earlier, Leafs had beaten Canadiens, 5-2, to stay in the running temporarily for the NHL championship and coach Punch Imlach was rejoicing over the fact his club was in excellent shape, while the Montrealers were hurting in several spots, apart from Henri Richard&rsquo;s broken arm.</p><p>Then, Bower stopped a shot with his thumb during the program warmup March 10. Don Simmons had to be summoned from the stands to fill in and there was no way of knowing whether Bower would get a chance to sharpen up for the playdowns or whether Simmons would have to stick.</p><p>The next night, Olmstead skidded into the end boards at Chicago stadium and fractured a minor bone in his left shoulder area. Verdict was he&rsquo;d be lucky to be playing late in the Stanley Cup finals, if Leafs last so long.</p><p>A week later, Brewer, top candidate for an all-star defence nomination, suffered the charley horse trying to stop Andy Bathgate in New York. At hospital back in Toronto, surgery became necessary to drain off some of the blood. There was a possibility Brewer would be through for the season.</p><h2>Out of Action</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03352/1974242-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="548" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption></div><p>The entire situation was faintly reminiscent of what happened last spring. Bower had a late season injury and played only three of Leafs&rsquo; playoff matches. Cesare Maniago was in for the other two. Red Kelly was hurt, too, and Olmstead was kayoed in the first semi-final game.</p><p>Thus weakened, Leafs were knocked off by the underdog Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Imlach was stunned by latest developments. He said: &ldquo;I get my team back together for one week and then boom it starts over again. This is one of those horrible years when everything happens.&rdquo;</p><p>Leafs&rsquo; reserve strength this season is such that the injuries may not hurt them as much as similar events did a year ago. For example, Imlach had Eddie Litzenberger to put in Olmstead&rsquo;s left-wing spot alongside Bob Pulford and Bob Nevin Larry Hillman had been recalled from Leafs&rsquo; American league team in Rochester as a defence standby and he was ready to go in for Brewer, keeping Al Arbour available as the fifth rearguard.</p><p>And of course, there was the experienced Simmons. As Bower&rsquo;s understudy he was averaging only 2.12 goals against per game, a better mark than any of the regular NHL goaltenders.</p><p>Simmons, of course, was obtained from Boston Bruins in a swap for Ed Chadwick last winter.</p><p>At the time, Simmons had retired and was out of hockey. Imlach persuaded him to return and when Bower was hurt, Leafs were fortunate to have a veteran replacement around.</p><p>However, Leafs need to be at full strength if they entertain any serious hopes of winning the Stanley Cup. For veterans like Bower and Olmsted, this could be the last chance and there was no question they would produce outstanding performances in the money games. And, of course, no NHL team can afford to lose a top defenceman like Brewer.</p><p>So Leafs were ripe for upset again as they were in 1961, when Detroit eliminated them in an embarrassing five games. It could happen again, and for the very same reasons.</p><p>Notes: A new Imlach move was to try Billy Harris at left wing with Dave Keon and George Armstrong. Often suggested, this experiment paid off in the equalizing goal by Harris in a 2-2 tie at New York&hellip;Davey Keon has scored six goals against Montreal this season and that was with one more to go&hellip;Leafs&rsquo; most improved player in recent weeks has been Bobby Nevin, a very late starter last winter, too. He has been infinitely better since he was taken off the Mahovlich-Kelly line and placed on right with Olmstead and Bob Pulford.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Long-Faced Punch Just Stunned By Injury Bug

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04269/1974273-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="547" height="252"></div><h2>March 31 to April 6</h2><p>31&mdash;Bob Pulford, Toronto, forward, 1936.</p><p>31&mdash;Bill Hicke, Canadiens, forward, 1938.</p><p>31&mdash;Jim Moro, Calgary, forward, 1934.</p><p>31&mdash;Gordie Howe, Detroit, forward, 1928.</p><p>1&mdash;Ken Reardon, Canadiens, vice-president, 1921.</p><p>2&mdash;Rino Robazza, Sudbury, defense, 1938.</p><p>2&mdash;Cec Hoekstra, Pittsburgh, forward, 1935.</p><p>3&mdash;Rudy Filion, Seattle, forward, 1927.</p><p>3&mdash;Billy Dea, Buffalo, forward, 1933.</p><p>4&mdash;Howie Hughes, Seattle, forward, 1939.</p><p>4&mdash;Bill MacFarland, Seattle, forward, 1932.</p><p>5&mdash;John Hanna, Quebec defense, 1935.</p><p>6&mdash;Terry Reardon, Providence, manager, 1919.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<h2>Glitter Team&hellip;&hellip;Named By Readers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01405/1974332-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="523" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02329/1974325-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="579" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Brewer</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03213/1974318-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="579" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04132/1974311-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="582" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Mikita</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0585/1974304-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="583" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Hull</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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3 Teams Place 2 on News Dream Team

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The experts can find little to criticize on the 15th annual HOCKEY NEWS All-Star team as chosen by our readers.</p><p>Jacques Plante, the &lsquo;comeback&rsquo; star of the year, who guarded the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; goal and led the Habs to their 6th straight title was an overwhelming favorite for nets on the team. Our readers chose defensemen Doug Harvey of the New York Rangers and Carl Brewer of the Toronto Maple Leafs as the first team defense. At centre, Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks is their choice, flanked by Andy Bathgate of the Rangers on right wing and Bobby Hull of the Hawks on left. Toe Blake of the Montreal Canadiens is the first team coach.</p><p>Fans also named Plante as the &lsquo;Most-Valuable-Player&rsquo; and called hustling Bobby Rousseau, also of the Canadiens the Rookie-of-The Year.</p><p>The fans, also chose a second team. They named Glenn Hall &lsquo;of Chicago in goal; Jean Guy Talbot of Canadiens and Pierre Pilote of Chicago on defense; Gordie Howe of Detroit at right wing; Frank Mahovlich of Toronto, left wing; Henri Richard of Canadiens at centre and Doug Harvey of New York as coach.</p><p>Cliff Pennington was runner up to Bobby Rousseau for rookie honors and Howe was second to Plante as the Most-Valuable-Player.</p><p>Plante, the Masked Marvel, who kept the Canadiens in the race through most of the season drew nearly twice as many votes as Glenn Hall of the Hawks. Plante picked up 6,928 first place votes against Hall&rsquo;s 3,792.</p><p>The choice of Jacques comes as no surprise. On one occasion Toe Blake admitted that the Canadiens never would have ended in first had it not been for the fine work of Plante. Only in the last two weeks of the session did he show the effects of the rough season he put in. He was beaten for 16 goals in three games and for the first time during the season he allowed more than five goals against him during a game. The Boston Bruins scored six against him on Sunday, March 18th as they scored a 6-2 victory. The Canadiens had wrapped up the NHL pennant the night before.</p><p>Doug Harvey played brilliantly for the Rangers through most of the season and he was generally credited with instilling the hustle and desire in his players. Not only did Doug play but he also coached the Rangers, although general manager Muzz Patrick was always on the bench to carry out Doug&rsquo;s orders. Harvey received 9,456 first place votes and was well ahead of Brewer, who was named as his defense partner.</p><p>Brewer, the solid young man from the Leafs had a great first half but didn&rsquo;t show too well in the second. Nevertheless, fans voted him on the first team, mostly because of his first half play. He is generally credited with being the backbone of the club&rsquo;s defense. Offensively few rearguards can carry the puck as well. Brewer received 4,856 first place votes. Talbot of the Canadiens received 4,152 first place votes, 704 behind Brewer.</p><p>Talbot, who some say is the most improved player in the National League picked up 3,072 second place tallies and Pilote received 2,728 for the second team.</p><p>The placing of Talbot on the second team is the only position the experts can do any criticizing about. Talbot was the standout rearguard during the second half of the season and was not too far behind Brewer in the first half. But fans didn&rsquo;t see it that way, and after all it&rsquo;s their team.</p><p>Andy Bathgate made a runaway for right wing All-Star. He polled 7,404 votes against Howe&rsquo;s 4,464 first team votes. Howe also polled 6,608 second team ballots against Claude Provost&rsquo;s 1,288.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t much of a race for the left wing spot. Bobby Hull, the dynamic powerhouse of the Hawks, who came to life in the second half of the season picked up almost three times as many votes as Mahovlich. Hull secured 9,056 as against Mahovlich&rsquo;s 3,212. Frank, however, polled 6,720 votes for the Second team against Dean Prentice&rsquo;s 1,088.</p><p>Like teammate Hull. Mikita made a shambles of the centre position race. The hustling pivot from the Hawks had his greatest year in the majors and our readers made sure he didn&rsquo;t go unnoticed. Mikita picked up 5,864 votes against Henri Richard&rsquo;s 1,992.</p><p>Henri, out for the season with a broken right arm was followed closely by Leafs Dave Keon for the centre spot on the second team. Henri got 2,152 votes against Keon&rsquo;s 1,840. Red Kelly wasn&rsquo;t too far behind either. He picked up 1,528 votes.</p><p>Toe Blake, the sometimes happy, sometimes unhappy coach of the champion Canadiens did an amazing job with his team this year. Picked to finish the season in second by many, he had them in front most of the year. He juggled his lines time and time again when the injury bug struck. He started the season minus two stars, Jean Beliveau and Dick Moore. But he got great years from Ralph Backstrom, Claude Provost and Gilles Tremblay. He instilled new confidence in Lou Fontinato and of course<sub>(</sub> the brilliance of Plante helped to make it another great year for Toe.</p><p>Blake polled 7,992 votes against Doug Harvey&rsquo;s 2,488. Harvey a graduate of the Blake school of learning was followed closely by Rudy Pilous for the second team voting. He received 3,600 votes against Pilous&rsquo; 3,312.</p><p>It was no contest in the rookie race. Bobby Rousseau, called the most exciting player to join the Canadians since Maurice Richard was in his heyday, polled 11,304 votes against 1,264 ballots for Bruins&rsquo; Cliff Pennington. Ted Green of the Bruins received 456 votes and finished third in the race.</p><p>While Jacques Plante had a big lead over Gordie Howe in the Most-Valuable-Player race, it was rather close for the runner up position. Plante picked up 3,240 points against 2,248 for Howe, Bobby Hull was close behind Gordie with 2,072 points.</p><p>Doug Harvey is the only first team repeater. The 1960-61 team, as chosen by our readers saw Johnny Bower, Toronto, in goal, Harvey and Detroit&rsquo;s Marcel Pronovost on defense and Jean Beliveau at centre with Canadiens Geoffrion on right and Mahovlich on left. Punch Imlach was chosen to coach the team. Dave Keon was the Rookie-Of-The-Year and Bower the Most-Valuable-Player.</p><p>Plante&rsquo;s choice as Most-Valuable-Player marks the second season in a row that the fans have picked on a netminder for the honors.</p><p>The Most-Valuable-Player race was between Plante, Howe and Hull. Oddly enough in the NHL&rsquo;s first half voting for the Hart Trophy, which goes to the player adjudged the Most-Valuable-To-His-Team in the League Doug Harvey was out in front of Plante, But the fans gave Doug very few votes when they were asked to pick the man they think should be tagged MVP.</p><p>The Rookie-Of-The-Year race too, saw young Pat Stapleton way behind Rousseau, Pennington and Green yet Stapleton was the player the Bruins talked about most whenever rookie honors were being discussed.</p><h2>MVP - All-Star</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0655/1974377-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="572" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacques Plante</b></figcaption></div><h2>All-Star Coach</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0736/1974370-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="539" height="506"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Blake</b></figcaption></div><h2>Fans&rsquo; Choice As Rookie-Of-The-Year</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0824/1974363-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="1644" height="1607"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Rousseau</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Harvey, Bathgate, Mikita, Hull, Plante, Blake Voted Jacques Also Named MVP; Rousseau Is Rook Choice

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09133/1974408-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="167" height="61"></div><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,</b> President and Publisher</p><p><b>Will V. Cote.,</b> Vice-Pres.& Gen. Mgr.</p><p><b>Len Bramson,</b> Editor-in-Chief</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>Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash.</p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>Vol. 15 MONTREAL. MARCH 31. 1962 No. 26</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By Ken mc Kenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01469/1974467-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="365" height="384"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02436/1974460-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="512" height="74"></div><p>&bull; <b>RED SULLIVAN</b> has done a wonderful job as coach in his first year&hellip;The former New York Ranger center star piloted the Kitchener-Waterloo team in the Eastern Pro League this season and the Ranger executives are all very pleased with his work&hellip;Earl Ingarfield was selected as the Players&rsquo; Player in a vote among his New York teammates. Andy Bathgate, winner of the West Side Assn. Trophy as the Rangers&rsquo; Most Valuable Player was not eligible. Andy Hebenton had won this award the last three years&hellip;&ldquo;I sure was surprised. But that&rsquo;s a great honor being chosen by your own teammates. You can&rsquo;t ask for anything more than that,&rdquo; Ingarfield said on hearing the good news&hellip;Bobby Hull has been paid to play hockey since he was 14 years of age. Now he is a veteran at the tender age of 23&hellip;Most hockey followers pick Hull as the most exciting player in the game today&hellip;Arne Stromberg, coach of Sweden&rsquo;s winning entry in the recent World Championships at Colorado Springs, says the Swedish players are no longer afraid of the big bad Canadians&hellip;&lsquo;&lsquo;We weren&rsquo;t afraid this year when we read of how the Canadian players would bodycheck us right out of the rink,&rdquo; Stromberg revealed on a recent visit to Toronto&hellip;Marcel Pelletier, the ageless goalie, infuriates Los Angeles fans when the Blades are losing and enchants them when they are winning&hellip;Tom Johnson, veteran Montreal defenseman, has been drawing the boos from Forum patrons of late&hellip;Johnny Mayasich of the United States was picked as the outstanding defenseman in the recent World Championships&hellip;Tumba Johansson was named the top forward&hellip;Tumba is the Swedish player who trained with Boston Bruins a few years ago&hellip;Gordie Howe scored his 500th NHL goal while killing a Detroit penalty. Not only is Howe Detroit&rsquo;s finest offensive player but he rates as their No. One defensive player as well and he&rsquo;s on the ice for every key situation&hellip;Johnny Mayasich, who hails from Green Bay, Wisconsin, has participated in six World Hockey Championships&hellip;The Swedish National Team will play a series of exhibition games in Canada next November.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03360/1974453-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="271" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Earl Ingarfield</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>GILLETTE,</b> world&rsquo;s largest manufacturer of razor blades and the company that spends more money than any other in sponsoring major sporting events, invaded the hockey realm this Spring with a very attractive NHL Hockey Digest. This compact hockey booklet may be obtained free of charge to anyone in Canada. For full particulars see the Gillette ad in this issue of HOCKEY NEWS&hellip;Lennart Haggroth, sensational Swedish goalkeeper, will train with the Boston Bruins next fall. He doesn&rsquo;t want to play professional hockey, however. Just wants to learn all he can about training methods employed by an NHL team&hellip;Hockey is becoming more popular every year in Japan&hellip;Lloyd Roubell, coach of Canada&rsquo;s runner-up entry, was offered a two-year contract to coach the Japanese team&hellip;Eddie Wares, former NHL&rsquo;er with Detroit and Chicago, was involved in a serious auto accident near Lethbridge, Alta, last month. He suffered 10 fractures in his right leg below the knee. He is in the Holy Cross Hospital in his home town of Calgary, immobilized in a pelvic cast&hellip;Toronto will be hard hit for the playoffs with Carl Brewer and Bert Olmstead on the side lines through injuries&hellip;Some of the Boston papers have been riding Lynn Patrick for giving Phil Watson a three-year contract as coach of the Bruins&hellip;Bobby Hull says that Claude Provost of Canadiens causes him the most trouble as a checker&hellip;Hull also credits Toronto&rsquo;s Eddie Shack as being a tough customer to get away from&hellip;Dick Gamble, formerly of Canadiens, has passed the 200-goal mark in the American Hockey League. Always a prolific scorer, Gamble has been one of the leading lights in the AHL in recent years. He notched 23 tallies with Canadiens one season. Dick now toils for Rochester.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04302/1974446-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="253" height="372"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Gamble</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>BOSTON BRUINS</b> will make an attempt to get Tom Johnson and Dickie Moore from Canadiens for next season&hellip;Although he has been a top player for the Habs for 11 years, Johnson has fallen into disfavor with the Canadiens&rsquo; fans. He has been ridden unmercifully this year&hellip;Moore is much more popular with Montreal fans than Johnson but he is not the favorite that are many of the other players&hellip;&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t boo him, but then they don&rsquo;t cheer him too much, either,&rdquo; was the way one long-time Montreal fan summed up the situation&hellip;Both players would help the last-place Bruins&hellip;Certain members of the Rangers were reported to be not in the best of condition for a time this season&hellip;Bill Gadsby is being hailed as the next coach of the Edmonton Flyers&hellip;Chicago will be a tough team to beat in the playoffs with their big, rugged players and fast-skating forwards&hellip;Canadiens, still smarting after last year&rsquo;s defeat to the Hawks, will go all-out to avenge themselves&hellip;. This should be one of the greatest series in history&hellip;Many of the Montreal Canadiens work for Molson&rsquo;s during the summer months as public relations men&hellip;Every former member of the Guelph Biltmores Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team playing in pro hockey wears a Biltmore hat&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05273/1974439-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="292" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Rangers nanagedto capture that elusive playoff berth and they have only themsel ves, Eddie Powers, Phil Watson and Hank Bassen to thank.</p><p>The manic-lepressive New Yorkers were strictly manic on March 14th, the night which may have been the most significant in recent local hockey history. It was the night the Rangers nipped Detroit 3-2 at Madison Square Garden to climb over the Red Wings into fourth place.</p><p>But that is merely putting it prosaically. The game was a classic&mdash;a nerve-destroyer unequalled on Broadway since Andy Hebenton beat Jacques Plante in a sudden death playoff five years ago.</p><p>Consider the ingredients:</p><p>&bull; Gordie Howe scores his 500th goal on a spectacular bust-through play typical of Superman.</p><p>&bull; Andy Bathgate matches Howe&rsquo;s tally and the teams are tied 2-2 going into the third period.</p><p>&bull; Bathgate is awarded a penalty shot, the first here in six seasons, after Bassen throws his stick at the puck. Eddie Powers called the penalty. Andy scores.</p><p>&bull; Both teams get a 100 per cent effort from every skater, especially goaltenders, Gump Worsley and Bassen.</p><p>The Ranger hero, for a change, was Bathgate who slowly, almost painfully, cruised in on Bassen for the penalty shot at 9:03 of 3rd period. As 15,326 fans held their lungs Andy deked quickly and sent Bassen sailing off toward the promenade. Given an open net, Andy did not find it difficult to miss.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t make up my mind until I started in,&rdquo; Bathgate explained about the most important goal of his life, &ldquo;when I got close I decided I&rsquo;d fake a shot. If he didn&rsquo;t move I&rsquo;d shoot. If he moved, I&rsquo;d deke.&rdquo;</p><p>Bassen moved.</p><p>The Red Wings, who were remarkably restrained when the penalty shot was called and equally nonplussed in the dressing room afterward, registered an informal protest on the penalty shot the following day. They claimed that Dean Prentice, allegedly was the last to touch the puck before goalie Bassen threw his stick causing the shot to be called. Hence, Prentice should have taken the shot.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no such thing as a protest in the NHL,&rdquo; said league president Clarence Campbell. &ldquo;The result of the game is the result on the ice. It&rsquo;s as simple as that. What I don&rsquo;t understand is why Detroit didn&rsquo;t complain at the time of the shot.&rdquo;</p><p>If the Wings wanted something to complain about they could have beefed about the unexpected rise of Phil Watson&rsquo;s Bruins who broke a 20-game non-winning streak by shutting out the Detroit&rsquo;s on Olympia ice, 4-0, March 15.</p><p>Phillipe, an ex-Ranger coach, has always expressed distant affection for the Rangers, if it meant that his Bruins couldn&rsquo;t gain a playoff berth. Watson didn&rsquo;t let his former countrymen down.</p><p>Rangers most effective weapon was a consummate anti-Detroit feeling, so great that even a sympathetic soul like Bathgate can&rsquo;t summon any emotion for the downtrodden Bassen and friends.</p><p>&ldquo;Me feel sorry for him?&rdquo; Andy said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s taking the bread and butter out of my hand. Why should I feel sorry for those guys&mdash;they made the playoffs last year. We didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06232/1974498-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="279" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Phil Didn’t Let His Former Pals On Rangers Down

<div class="byline">MILT DUNNELL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07191/1974536-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="313" height="451"></div><h2><b><i>A Bad Night for Lady Byng</i></b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>OLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.&mdash;Johnny Mitchell spotted barrelchested Bill Stewart and Doc Romnes in the plush terrace lounge of the Broadmoor, where the sun shines over Cheyenne mountain and bounces off the swimming pool.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget I refereed that series,&rdquo; Mitchell greeted. He didn&rsquo;t know what Stewart and Romnes were discussing&mdash;but it wasn&rsquo;t hard to guess.</p><p>&ldquo;I was just asking Doc to clear me of a charge I&rsquo;ve had hanging over my head since 1938,&rdquo; Bill grinned. &ldquo;Tell &lsquo;em, Doc. Was I the one who told you to take a swing at (Red) Horner that night in Chicago? Didn&rsquo;t I go all around our dressing room and order our guys to stay on the ice?&rdquo;</p><p>Romnes nodded and took up the tale: &ldquo;In the first game, at Toronto, Horner broke my nose in five places. I told him I&rsquo;d get him in Chicago. It was all my idea. Bill had nothing to do with it. On the first face-off, I skated up to Horner and swung my stick at his head. I still can&rsquo;t explain it. I was berserk. Remember, I wasn&rsquo;t that kind of player. Only the year before, I had won the Byng Trophy as cleanest player in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>Romnes fished the Sunday supplement of a Chicago paper from his pocket. There was an action shot of Doc Romnes, Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; centre of 1938, and a flashback story of the night a Lady Byng winner turned terrorist and tried to carve up the bad man of the league. The date on the paper was not 1938&mdash;but March 11, 1952.</p><p>&ldquo;The story will follow you as long as you live,&rdquo; Stewart sighed. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s like my famous pickoff play. I&rsquo;ll be doing an after-dinner speech and somebody will ask whether Masi was safe or out. As far as I&rsquo;m concerned, he&rsquo;s still safe.&rdquo;</p><p>The Masi and the Romnes&rsquo; incidents always will link Stewart with two of the most exciting moments in professional sport. Bill was coaching the Black Hawks to an unbelievable Stanley Cup triumph over the Leafs when Romnes tried to lift Horner&rsquo;s scalp with his stick. Stewart was umpiring at second base in the world series the day Bob Feller attempted to pick off Phil Masi of the Boston Braves. Bill ruled Feller had failed&mdash;so Rapid Robert, one of the greatest pitchers in the history of baseball, eventually hung up his glove without winning a world series game. This was the closest he came.</p><p>&ldquo;The Masi thing was in 1948,&rdquo; Bill mused. &ldquo;Doc and Horner had their feud in 1938. Funny how I was mixed up in those two rhubarbs 10 years apart. Of course, there weren&rsquo;t many dull days when I was coach at Chicago. There, I always was in complete charge of the team. There were stories that this player and that player helped me with strategy. Don&rsquo;t listen. I was the boss. I never even permitted the club brass into the dressing-room.</p><h2><b><i>For Meritorious Service&mdash;Fired</i></b></h2><p>Major Frederic McLaughlin was owner of the Black Hawks then. Bill Tobin, who is still in the organization, was the major&rsquo;s right-hand man. It was Tobin who gave both Bill and Romnes the word they were through with the Hawks.</p><p>&ldquo;We were on our first road trip of the season after we had won the Stanley Cup,&rdquo; Romnes recalled. &ldquo;On our way home from Boston, Tobin sent me word I had been traded to Toronto. That meant Horner and I would be team-mates. When the train reached Buffalo, I got off and headed for Chicago. I informed Tobin I was through.&rdquo;</p><p>Stewart exploded again: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget to say, that I didn&rsquo;t know a thing about it. They traded away one of our top players without even consulting the coach.&rdquo;</p><p>Romnes resumed his recital: &ldquo;Back in Chicago, Tobin sent a taxi and asked me down to the office. There was a bonus clause in my contract that stipulated I would be paid $1,500 if I scored a certain number of goals. Tobin told me the bonus would be waiting for me in Toronto if I would report. Well, I couldn&rsquo;t afford to lose $1,500, so I went.</p><p>&ldquo;When I got off the train in Toronto, the first person I saw was Red Horner. I didn&rsquo;t know what to think. Red removed all my misgivings in a moment. He said: &lsquo;Come on, Doc. From now on, you and I are on the same side.&rsquo; He turned out to be a terrific guy.&rdquo;</p><p>Stewart lasted for a few weeks longer than Romnes. In January, less than nine months after he had been hailed and feted for bringing the Stanley Cup to Chicago for the first time, Bill got the summons to the Major&rsquo;s office.</p><p>&ldquo;He told me he had decided to make a change,&rdquo; Bill growled. &ldquo;Well, that was his privilege and I told him so. I knew I had an ironclad contract for two years. There was no way he could get around that.</p><p>&ldquo;In order to take some of the heat off the club, McLaughlin wanted me to resign. I told him I wasn&rsquo;t resigning&mdash;I was fired. If he didn&rsquo;t announce it that way to the newspapers, I threatened to buy advertisements in all the Chicago papers and tell the fans the truth. I guess he realized I meant what I said. The headlines read: &lsquo;Bill Stewart Fired.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I took my money and headed for Florida. The Hawks won four of their next 27 games. Maybe the Major didn&rsquo;t like the way I told him off. He had a green-covered table with little iron horses on it. The Major was a polo enthusiast, you know. He had a theory that polo and hockey were much the same.</p><p>&ldquo;When he tried to explain his hockey theory by shifting the little iron horses, I told him: &ldquo;Major, there&rsquo;s one big difference. The horses don&rsquo;t have to skate. Somehow, he didn&rsquo;t seem to like that.&rdquo;</p><p>Romnes first came to Colorado Springs with hockey teams which he coached at University of Minnesota. The climate seemed to check the arthritis which has plagued him for years. Even so, he&rsquo;s had three operations on his ailing knees. He still faces the ordeal of having a kneecap removed.</p><p>&ldquo;One of the finest skaters I ever saw,&rdquo; Stewart gloomed, when Doe mentioned this bit of bad news.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08150/1974529-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="536" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Stewart</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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speaking on SPORT IN THE TORONTO STAR

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01426/1974567-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>When Doug Harvey, right accepted the job as player-coach of the New York Rangers he knew he had to add to his defense corps. When he was offered teammate Junior Langlois he said yes, without giving it a second thought. Now Junior has developed into a fine defenseman for the Rangers. Above, Langlois, left and Harvey take a long, last look at Canadiens pennant before moving on to New York.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>If the Montreal Canadiens cooperate and provoke a few more intra-club squabbles then, maybe, the Rangers will have a respectable defense next season. Anyway, it&rsquo;s something to look forward to.</p><p>Last year Albert Langlois, Canadiens&rsquo; employee, and Ken Reardon, the vice president of the firm, had a disagreement. Result: Langlois was dealt off to New York.</p><p>At first Ranger followers were not especially enthused over the deal mostly because they didn&rsquo;t know much about Langlois, whose alias is &ldquo;Junior&rdquo;.</p><p>Now, six months later, the citizens of Rangerville are not only enthused with Langlois, they will graciously accept a few more like him, if the Canadiens don&rsquo;t mind.</p><p>Reason for the joy is simple enough. Aside from playing a reasonably solid defense, the 27-year-old, pasty-faced backliner has scored seven fat goals for the Blues.</p><p>And if seven goals doesn&rsquo;t sound like a lot, just remember that Al scored a grand total of two over three previous NHL seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m playing more and shooting more,&rdquo; explained Langlois the other day in the hothouse that passes for the Ranger dressing room He was the last to strip and sat sucking on a piece of ice while <i>a</i> reporter asked a few questions.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course I had a lotta luck on those goals. Like I&rsquo;ll just take an ordinary shot and&mdash;zing! like that&mdash;it goes in.&rdquo;</p><p>There are goals and there are goals but few this season have beer as important to the Rangers as Langlois&rsquo; seventh; the one that beat Detroit two weeks ago at Olympia in a come-from-behind 5-4 win.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know about that one being luck,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;I broke my stick on the shot but once it took off I felt it was labelled all the way.&rdquo;</p><p>Al is a great believer in luck and knows that a break here and there can mean the difference between laurels and goat horns.</p><p>&ldquo;You take that 3-2 win over Detroit last week,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In the last play of the game somebody tried to pass out. I got my stick down and deflected it out of danger. So I&rsquo;m a hero. But what happens if it bounces over my stick?&rdquo;</p><p>He bit his lip mulling over a question&mdash;whether he&rsquo;d rather play regular in New York or sit on the bench in Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;Personally I&rsquo;m happier here in New York under the circumstances. But all by friends are in Montreal. My wife? She&rsquo;s happy here because I&rsquo;m happy.&rdquo;</p><p>Teddy Hampson, who can&rsquo;t buy a goal, walked by. Hampson had hit the post that night and Langlois had a consoling word for him. Then Al kidded Mel Woody of the Newark News who drifted by.</p><p>&ldquo;You seem to be a meaner player than you were in Montreal?&rdquo; the reporter went on.</p><p>He nodded while untaping his shin guards. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m more a blocker than a hitter. Of course I am hitting more. In Montreal, I couldn&rsquo;t afford to hit. I figured if I got a penalty I&rsquo;d be in trouble ana wouldn&rsquo;t get ice. I got little enough ice as it was.&rdquo;</p><p>Underneath his shoulder guards Langlois was wearing a N.Y. Knickerbockers T-shirt. It was drenched.</p><p>&ldquo;Did you think you&rsquo;d do as well as you did this year?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The season&rsquo;s gone pretty much the way I figured,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The big kick was a tying and winning goal I scored in Montreal. It was just like you being traded to another paper and scooping them. There were a few others. Wait a second.&rdquo;</p><p>He got up, reached in his pants pocket and pulled out a green NHL schedule book.</p><p>&ldquo;I got it all in the green book&mdash;in black and white,&rdquo; he said with a wink that hinted that nobody would talk him out of his success next Fall at contract time.</p><h2>A Last Look<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Langlois Calibre Castoffs Welcome To Blues Anytime

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02392/1974598-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Gordie Howe will remember his 500th goal for a long time but even though it was one of the prettiest he&rsquo;s ever scored, there was a sourness.</p><p>It was sour because the Red Wings lost the game, lost it to a mid-third period penalty shot by Andy Bathgate, another famous Number 9.</p><p>&ldquo;I just wish it could have been the difference in the game,&rdquo; Gordie said of his 500th regular season goal.</p><p>&ldquo;Forty-five more and someone else can take over,&rdquo; Howe said in reference to Maurice Richard&rsquo;s record. The Rocket had 544 regular season goals before retiring at 39.</p><p>And, at this writing. Howe now seeds 43 more to go ahead of the Rocket and Gordie figures he will play four more years. He&rsquo;ll be 34 on March 31.</p><p>Howe was glad to get the 500th out of the way. Everywhere he went, the talk was when Howe would get his 500th.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what all the rush was about,&rdquo; Howe cracked, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been going for it for 16 years.&rdquo;</p><p>Howe&rsquo;s 500th developed with linemate Claude LaForge in the penalty box. Warren Godfrey broke up a Ranger rush inside the Detroit blueline by the boards and threw the puck out to Alex Delvecchio at centerice and Delvecchio fed Howe.</p><p>Doug Harvey, hockey&rsquo;s best defenseman, raced back from his spot on the point on the power play.</p><p>Howe carried over the blueline, a little right of center with Harvey backing up and Gump Worsley crouching in goal.</p><p>Howe gave Harvey a shift, pulled the puck back towards him and cut around to the left, free of Harvey. He kicked the puck ahead with his skate and had the puck on his backhand.</p><p>Howe raised the puck between Worsley&rsquo;s legs and then tumbled over the fallen goaler.</p><p>There was an agonizing moment before the goal light flashed.</p><p>When it did, and Howe got up, his teammates jumped over the boards and swarmed around him.</p><p>The partisan Ranger crowd, many of them standing, gave Howe a big ovation. They didn&rsquo;t need the information from the public address announcer that it was Howe&rsquo;s 500th.</p><p>The joy was short-lived. With LaForge still in the penalty box, Earl Ingarfield tied the game at 2-2 just 41 seconds after Howe&rsquo;s milestone marker and New York went on to win on the third period penalty shot, the 10th such play this season but only the fourth successful one&mdash;Howe had the first one.</p><p>After the game in the Wings dressing room with photographers trying to get pictures of Howe and general manager Jack Adams clearing them out, shouting that the Wings had to catch a plane, Howe said that he was &ldquo;real pleased&rdquo; with the goal.</p><p>And then Gordie said he&rsquo;d take 20 years in the league as his next target. This is his 16th season. Richard played 18 season&rsquo;s and Dit Clapper holds the record of 20 seasons.</p><p>Howe presented his 500th stick to Adams. The blade was cracked.</p><p>&ldquo;It was the only good stick I had so I kept using it after I scored the goal,&rdquo; Howe explained. &ldquo;It got broken later in the game.&rsquo;</p><p>Adams put the momento on his trophy board in his office.</p><p>&ldquo;Gordie was really tightened up before that goal,&rdquo; said his former Production Line mate, Sid Abel, now Wing Coach.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen him fuss with his sticks as much as he did the oast several games.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Gordie Sets Sights On Record Goal Number 545

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Defenseman Bob Turner, who sat. on the end of the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; bench for five and a half seasons has developed into a very fine player for the Hawks. Traded to Chicago in the offseason Turner was expected to be listed as the fifth defenseman for the Hawks and also be used as a utility forward and penalty killer. He has proved that he can handle a defense job, kill penalties and score goals.</p><p>One of the most popular members of the Chicago club, Turner is one of three players in the Windy City who graduated from the Regina Pats juniors. Others are Murray Balfour and Red Hay.</p><p>As a NHL player Turner is big league all the way. He never stops trying, gives his best every game. He surely must rate as &lsquo;Your Kind Of Player.&rsquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03318/1974629-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="280" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Turner</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Your Kind Of Player

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ontreal and Chicago meet in the 1962 Stanley Cup playoffs for the fourth straight year&hellip;This is Canadiens 14th consecutive appearance in the playoffs. Last time they missed was in 1948&hellip;Last year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup champion Chicago Black Hawks will be seeking their fourth Cup. They were victors in 1934, 1938 and 1961&hellip;Canadiens have won the coveted Cup more times than any team. They&rsquo;ve won it 12 times. Canadiens were winners in 1916, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1944, 1946, 1953, 1956, &lsquo;57, &lsquo;58, &lsquo;59 and &lsquo;60&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs will be after their eighth Stanley Cup. The Leafs won the Cup in 1932, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1949 and 1951&hellip;Last time New York Rangers were in the playoffs was 1958&hellip;and the last time they won the Stanley Cup was 1940&hellip;Rangers have won the prized silverware three times, 1928, 1933 and 1940&hellip;Toe Blake will be seeking his sixth Stanley Cup as a coach. He is the only mentor in history to coach five Cup teams in succession&hellip;Rudy Pilous will be after his second in as many years&hellip;Punch Imlach and Doug Harvey will be after their first Cup as a coach&hellip;This is Harvey&rsquo;s first playoffs as coach while Imlach has had three previous tries&hellip;Frank Selke will be going for his seventh Cup as a manager&hellip;Conn Smythe, Jack Adams and Tommy Gorman were the only managers to handle seven Cup winners.</p><p>Doug Harvey has taken part in more playoff games than any player active today. He had played 123 games prior to the start of the 1962 playoffs. Maurice Richard holds the record at 133 games&hellip;Players from Montreal and Detroit hold the majority of the individual playoff records&hellip;Maurice Richard holds the following records himself: Most winning playoff goals (18); Most Hat Tricks (7); Most goals scored in a single game (5); Most goals in playoff competition (82); Most points in playoff play (126)&hellip;He shares records such as: Most goals in a plavoff series (12). Jean Beliveau of Canadiens also had 12&hellip;Most assists in a playoff game (5). Toe Blake, Bert Olmstead and Don McKenney also had 5 assists in a game&hellip;Gordie Howe holds a few records himself, such as: Most points in a playoff series (20); Most assists in playoff competition (64); Fastest goal in a playoff game (9 seconds from the start of the game). Howe and former linemates with the Red Wings, Ted Lindsay and Earl Reibel hold the record for most points by a forward line in a playoff series (51)&hellip;Fleming Mackell set a record of most assists in a playoff series (14) with Boston in 1958.</p><p>Such records as most points in a game by a defenseman (5) is held by Eddie Bush&hellip;Turk Broda set the record for most shutouts by a goalkeeper while playing with Toronto. He racked up 12 shutouts in 13 playoff series&hellip;Jacques Plante of Canadiens has 10 in nine series&hellip;Four goalies, Terry Sawchuk, Frank McCool, Dave Kerr and Clint Benedict, share the record of most shutouts in a playoff series (4)&hellip;Canadiens&rsquo; Dickie Moore holds the record for most points in a single playoff game (6). He had 2 goals and 4 assists against Boston on March 25, 1954&hellip;Most one-sided game was when Montreal defeated Toronto, 11-0, on March 30, 1944&hellip;Shortest overtime game lasted 25 seconds. Syd Howe scored for Detroit to give Wings a 2-1 win over New York Americans on March 19, 1940&hellip;Longest overtime game lasted 176 minutes and 30 seconds&hellip;This game went 116 minutes and 30 seconds into overtime. Mud Bruneteau scored for Detroit at 2.25 in the morning on March 25, 1936 to give Red Wings a 1-0 victory over Montreal Maroons. Hec Kilrea gave Bruneteau the pass at 16.30 of the 6th overtime period&hellip;Canadiens won 8 straight in 1960, over Chicago and Toronto. Detroit won 8 straight in 1952, over Toronto and Canadiens&hellip;Most goals in a final series (47) was set in 1955. Detroit scored 27 and Montreal 20 in a seven-game series&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01496/1974681-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="271" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Bloke</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02377/1974674-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="247" height="377"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Punch Imlach</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03273/1974667-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="262" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04189/1974660-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="274" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie h4oore</b></figcaption></div><p>Teams winning the Semi-Final Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; and &ldquo;B&rdquo; receive $27,000 each. The losing teams in the Semi-Final Rounds each receive $13,500 from the National Hockey League.</p><p>The team winning the Stanley Cup finals will receive $36,000 from the League while the Cup finalists will be recipients of $18,000.</p><p>This money is divided among the players on the teams. It is strictly a club matter how the money is divided although usually it is figured on the basis of 18 units.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL Playoff Notes

<p><b>Playing&hellip;</b></p><p><b>The Arena Minneapolis, Minn.</b></p><p><b>March 28 to April 15</b></p><p><b>Coming To&hellip;</b></p><p><b>Civic Ice Arena Seattle, Wash.</b></p><p><b>April 21 to April 29</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

ICE FOLLIES OF 1962

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;The last of the Ukes&rdquo; has embarked on a new career as a member of a new line.</p><p>Johnny Bucyk, once a muscle-man for the Bruins&rsquo; famed Uke Line, has completed his first National League season in five without Bronco Horvath and Vic Stasiuk.</p><p>Bucyk, distinctly the junior member of the old firm of Horvath-Stasiuk and Bucyk, has had a good season.</p><p>And as the Bruins neared the end of their schedule the hefty left wing began to catch the fancy of the hockey-supporting public here with two new linemates, Murray Oliver and Wayne Connelly.</p><p>From mid-January, when Bucyk, Oliver and Connelly began playing as a unit, they were the Bruins&rsquo; most productive line. The motivating force was Bucyk.</p><p>&ldquo;He proved what I always claimed,&rdquo; said Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, &ldquo;that he was the one who really made the Ukes go. Stasiuk was a hard-working twoway player and Horvath a great scorer, but they had their best games on nights when Bucyk was going. On nights he wasn&rsquo;t going they didn&rsquo;t look as good.&rdquo;</p><p>Bucyk&rsquo;s relationship with Oliver and Connelly is the reverse of his relationship to Stasiuk and Horvath. Now he&rsquo;s the senior member of a line which will probably be on the ice when the Bruins line up for the opening faceoff next fall.</p><p>And the 200-pound Chief admits he has enjoyed his new association, especially as it has gained in effectiveness.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubting the advantage of having fellows play together,&rdquo; said Johnny. &ldquo;I found that out while I was playing so long with Bronco and Vic. It means the difference between saving a split second and not saving it.</p><p>&ldquo;When Wayne and Murray and I began playing together during the winter, we messed up plays because we were unacquainted with one-another. But after a few weeks we began to work things out better.</p><p>&ldquo;Actually, the setup of our new line isn&rsquo;t too much different from that of the Ukes. We have more speed as a line. Connelly isn&rsquo;t as big and strong as Vic but he gets in there, and there isn&rsquo;t a better checker in the league. Oliver can put the puck in the net. If his shot isn&rsquo;t quite as fast as Bronco&rsquo;s it is still awfully hard and good.</p><p>&ldquo;And me,&rdquo; said the big fellow, grinning, &ldquo;I still like to work the corners and get that puck out there.&rdquo;</p><p>Phil Watson, the Bruins&rsquo; coach, thinks he has the makings of a crack line in Bucyk and his two middleweight buddies. Says Watson, &ldquo;They work well together. Oliver couldn&rsquo;t buy a goal early <u>in</u> the season but he scored a lot from Christmas on. Connelly&rsquo;s scoring will improve. And Bucyk can move that puck as well as anyone in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>Bucyk has improved yearly since coming here from the Detroit Red Wings in a deal for Terry Sawchuk when he was 22 years old. His biggest gain this season was in consistency.</p><p>Besides leading the Bruins in scoring for the first time, big Johnny also set modern Bruins&rsquo; records for assists and points by a left wing, breaking his own records in both cases.</p><p>The Bruins haven&rsquo;t announced any list of &ldquo;untouchables&rdquo; as they begin off-season plans to add strength for next season, but it is a foregone conclusion that the Chief and his chums will be back next fall.</p><h2>Hefty Bruin</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05159/1974736-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="553" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Bucyk</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t had as good a record this year but we have played well. Their goalie, Plante, has been the difference in several of the games and some of their second line players have come up with the goals that beat us. You don&rsquo;t usually figure on that happening so often.&rdquo;</p><p>Missing from last year&rsquo;s Chicago Black Hawk Stanley Cup champions are Capt. Ed Litzenberger (who has played with Detroit and Toronto this season); veteran center Tod Sloan, who retired from the NHL; defenseman Al Arbour, with Toronto; and penalty killer Earl Balfour.</p><p>In their place this season the Black Hawks have versatile Bob Turner, obtained from Montreal and who has played defense, forward and killed penalties; veteran center Bronco Horvath, obtained from Boston to replace Litzenberger and Sloan; and forward Jerry Melnyk, obtained from Detroit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruins Finally Find New Mates For Bucyk

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>In every game or season there&rsquo;s a turning point. Sometimes, when one team has much stronger personnel. the turning point is nothing more than the opening kickoff, first pitch or first faceoff.</p><p>The Red Wings can point to game number 65 as the turning point&hellip;more precisely, 8.03 of the third period of game 65.</p><p>That was when referee Eddie Powers awarded a penalty shot to Andy Bathgate of the New York Rangers in a game at New York.</p><p>Detroit had gone into the game tied with the Rangers for fourth place. The Wings also had one game in hand.</p><p>The Red Wings saw Andy Bath gate fire in a wrist shot at 3.02 of the first period but then came back with one by Claude LaForget to tie the score before the period ended.</p><p>Then Gordie Howe, while killing a penalty, scored his 500th regular season goal at 17.10 of the middle period for a 2-1 Detroit lead.</p><p>Forty-one seconds later, with La-Forge still in the penalty box, Earl Ingerfield tied it for the Rangers.</p><p>It seemed the game might end that way and it would have been like a victory for the Wings to gain a tie in their final head-to-head meeting with the Rangers.</p><p>But then, in the third period, Bathgate put Dean Prentice in on a breakaway. Prentice raced in from the blueline alone.</p><p>Wing goalie Hank Bassen moved out of his net toward the right faceoff circle and swung at the puck with his stick, a familiar manoeuvre for Bassen.</p><p>Puck, stick and Prentice all went into the corner and Powers signalled for a penalty shot, saying that Bassen threw&rsquo; his stick at the puck. This was the turning point.</p><p>Powers, according to later word from Ranger coach Doug Harvey, skated over to the New York bench and asked &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s going to take it&mdash;Bathgate?&rdquo;</p><p>The Wings protested that Bathgate had not been the victim but rather Prentice. Powers said the last man to handle the puck was Bathgate and that therefore, he should get the shot.</p><p>Still Detroit protested but Bathgate took the shot. Bassen went for Andy&rsquo;s fake and Bathgate whipped the puck behind him. It was the winning goal and put New York two points up on the Wings.</p><p>Detroit, playing its eighth game in 13 nights the next evening at home, was dead flat and lost, 4-0, to Boston. There went the game in hand.</p><p>Upon returning to Detroit, Red Wing coach Sid Abel fired off a telegram to NHL President Clarence S. Campbell complaining that Powers awarded the penalty shot to the wrong man.</p><p>Campbell replied that the referee&rsquo;s report showed that Bathgate was the fouled player and said that &ldquo;no objection was made by anybody to this designation until after the game.&rdquo;</p><p>The Wings hotly denied that saying that Howe, the club captain and the assistant captains argued that point when Bathgate was de signated to take the shot.</p><p>&ldquo;You argue but he overrules you,&rdquo; said Marcel Pronovost, one of the assistant captains. &ldquo;What: an you do then? If you keep arguing, you get a misconduct.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s happened five or six times this year. The referee makes a mistake and you argue and he tells you to keep quiet or its 10 minutes.</p><p>The Wings drew added proof of the validity of their argument from a television film clip that showed that unless Bathgate suddenly had switched his number from nine to 17 and from a right hand to a left hand shot, Prentice was the man in on the breakaway and also the last Ranger to handle the puck.</p><p>Because the Wings didn&rsquo;t have a stop-frame projector, it couldn&rsquo;t be ascertained if Bassen had thrown his stick or whether it was hooked away from him by Prentice while both were going for the puck.</p><p>But it did show that the puck was loose, ahead of Prentice&rsquo;s stick and that when the puck, Bassen&rsquo;s stick and Prentice went to the corner, Detroit&rsquo;s Parker MacDonald went into the corner with him.</p><p>Prentice tried to center the puck and MacDonald deflected it up along the boards. Norm Ullman banged it off the boards around Bathgate who showed up for the first time and never did handle the puck inside the blueline.</p><p>&ldquo;Who knows,&rdquo; said Pronovost of the penalty shot, &ldquo;a different man&hellip;maybe he wouldn&rsquo;t have scored&hellip;maybe he would. But as long as it&rsquo;s going to be called, it should be called right.</p><p>&ldquo;That could cost us a lot of money,&rdquo; Pronovost said.</p><p>It could cost each of the Wings a minimum of $1,000 and Adams set the club&rsquo;s tag at $100,000 if the Wings failed to make the playoffs.</p><p>After viewing and reviewing the film a number of times, Adams sent another wire to Campbell asking a hearing of the interested parties. That was set to coincide with the general manager&rsquo;s meeting in New York to decide playoff dates.</p><p>&ldquo;The decision won&rsquo;t be changed,&rdquo; Abel said, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s no chance of that. But if we squak loud enough, maybe something will be done so that this won&rsquo;t happen in the future.&rdquo;</p><p>There is no NHL precedent for replaying a game and there hasn&rsquo;t been machinery for an appeal for years in the by-laws.</p><p>But, in a similar case in the American League earlier this sea son, the AHL president overruled referee Dalton McArthur and ordered a Pittsburgh-Buffalo game replayed from the point where Mc Arthur had awarded a penalty shot to the wrong Buffalo player</p><p>Dave Creighton had taken that original shot although he wasn&rsquo;t the man fouled. Creighton scored on his shot. In the replay, Billy Dea, the fouled player, missed on his penalty shot.</p><p>&ldquo;That (penalty shot) was the last possibility I would have thought of in a game like that,&rdquo; said Abel afterwards.</p><p>The Rangers had played a stronger game than the Wings and Bathgate had played an outstanding game. Had Detroit outplayed New York and then lost on a penalty shot, the Wings really would have been in orbit.</p><p>But it&rsquo;s the score that counts and Adams said it was &ldquo;stolen from us.&rdquo;</p><p>After that setback, the Wings weren&rsquo;t in good mental shape for the Bruins the next night, and, as it developed, they weren&rsquo;t in physical shape either.</p><p>Boston, one game away from tying the NHL record for winless streaks&mdash;it&rsquo;s 21 games, was flying.</p><p>Ex-Detroiter Johnny Bucyk, on a new line centered by another former Red Wing, Murray Oliver, counted the first goal late in the second period.</p><p>Linemate Wayne Connelly scored early in the second period and Doug Mohns made it 3-0 before the period ended. Oliver finished the scoring in the final period.</p><p>Howe and Bruin rookie Ed Westfall engaged in a slugging match at 13.48 of the final period with Howe pumping a hard right to Westfall&rsquo;s head before they were surrounded by a mob of players.</p><p>&ldquo;You should have done that in the first period,&rdquo; Abel told Howe after the game. &ldquo;Maybe that would have given us some life.&rdquo;</p><p>By the time the Wings did start shooting, Bruce Gamble was an untouchable and hung up his first NHL shutout.</p><p>But it was a different Detroit Club the next time out. New York had lost a Saturday game in Montreal and the Wings again had a game in hand and were two points behind with four games left.</p><p>Chicago, which had won four straight from Detroit, moved into Olympia with Bobby Hull looking for his 48th goal and trying to extend his scoring streak to a record 10 games.</p><p>But Abel put husky Vic Stasiuk on Hull night-long and Stasiuk clamped the speedy Hawk left winger. Meanwhile, the Wings, skating and checking like they hadn&rsquo;t done for several games, whipped the Chicagoans, 4-1.</p><p>New York lost a 2-0 lead over Toronto that night and was tied so the Wings found themselves just one point behind with three games left to two for the Rangers.</p><p>It seemed certain that Abel&rsquo;s prediction would be right. Early in March he said fourth place probably wouldn&rsquo;t be decided until the final night of the season.</p><p>Abel was right on another prediction. Prior to the Ranger game he said it would be playoff-type hockey and that&rsquo;s what it was&mdash;close-checking.</p><p>New York had a great chance early in the second period to break it open when Warren Godfrey was called for slashing and 30 seconds later, penalty-killer Gerry Odrowski hooked Earl Ingerfield from the red line to the blueline and was chased.</p><p>But the Wing penalty-killers, with&mdash;Pronovost and Bill Gadsby at the rear and first Delvecchio and then Howe up front, thwarted the New Yorkers for 2&frac12; minutes. In the end, it didn&rsquo;t matter.</p><h2>Protested</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01447/1974767-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="517" height="512"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Film Clip Shows Prentice Not Andy Was On Breakaway

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs are acting discreetly vary and the New York Rangers remarkably optimistic as they swing into their semi-final round or the Stanley Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to worry about their big line,&rdquo; said Leaf president Staff Smythe in a capsule review of the Rangers. &ldquo;Bathgate is the gun but Ingarfield and Prentice can be trouble.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe also appeared concerned about the Rangers&rsquo; powerplay, a weapon that also has provoked some dispair on the part of the New York management from time to time.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a good ganging act,&rdquo; said Stafford. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s their killer.&rdquo;</p><p>Allowing that Rangers are a &ldquo;good club,&rdquo; Smythe said it was a refreshing change for his Leafs to meet someone in the semis other than the Red Wings.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s always nicer to spend three days in New York,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;than Detroit.&rdquo;</p><p>With slight variations, Smythe&rsquo;s employees agreed with their boss that Rangers could give them a hard time.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re about on a par defensively,&rdquo; said Bob Nevin. &ldquo;Rangers have a couple of guys who can hit&mdash;Howell and Cahan.&rdquo;</p><p>Someone suggested to Dave Keon that Leafs might suffer a letdown against Rangers similar to the one that befell them last year vs. Detroit. As a result, the Wings burned Leafs in six games.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;ll happen again,&rdquo; said Keon. &ldquo;No, we&rsquo;re not apt to take the Rangers for granted even though we did well against them at home. We just have to play our best.&rdquo;</p><p>Across the rink the Rangers were figuring out how they&rsquo;d beat <b>a</b> club that finished a mile ahead of them during the regular race.</p><p>&ldquo;Hustle and desire,&rdquo; said captain Andy Bathgate, &ldquo;that&rsquo;s the answer. Leafs are big and strong and they&rsquo;ve got balance. They&rsquo;re a good club.&rdquo;</p><p>Good as Toronto may be, the Rangers&mdash;outwardly, at least&mdash;are not shivering in their boots.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a 50-50 chance,&rdquo; rookie Dave Balon figured. &ldquo;You know this playoff is a different league. I&rsquo;d say we&rsquo;re just as good as they are now. And the way Gump has been playing we got the better goalkeeper.&rdquo;</p><p>If the Blues are going to upend Toronto, the miracle will hinge on Worsley and Bathgate. Nobody knows this better than the Rangers themselves.</p><p>&ldquo;If we get hot,&rdquo; suggested Earl Ingarfield, &ldquo;and Gump keeps up the way he has been, and we skate and check with &lsquo;em. That might do it.&rdquo;</p><p>What about the Maple Leaf Garden&rsquo;s voodoo that just about mesmerized the Rangers all season?</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what it is,&rdquo; Ingarfield replied, &ldquo;the big ice surface or what.&rdquo; Bathgate interrupted: &ldquo;The ice there is bad,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why the Leafs get so many leg injuries.&rdquo;</p><p>Camille Henry gives the Rangers an edge on defense. &ldquo;That,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;could be the turning point for us.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy Hebenton&rsquo;s theory differs. &ldquo;The thing for us to do,&rdquo; said Andy, &ldquo;is to check them close and hope that our big line can bust out.&rdquo;</p><p>After digesting all the plans, Rookie Balon pulled out his slide rule, went into deep consultation with himself and. finally, came up with the unbeatable theory on how to defeat Toronto.</p><p>&ldquo;Elementary my dear fellows,&rdquo; he chuckled. &ldquo;The answer is simple, we gotta score more goals than them.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02412/1974798-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="255" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Camille Henry</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blues See Gump As Key To Any Playoff Upsets

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03329/1974829-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"></div><p><b>Question:</b></p><p class="dropcap"><b><span>O</span>nly one member of the Toronto Maple Leafs has ever won the NHL scoring championship two seasons in a row. Who was that player? What seasons did he do it in?</b></p><p>For Correct Answer Please Turn To Page 15</p><p><b>STEEL MAKING: ingots, blooms, billets, rails, angles, bars</b></p><p><b>FABRICATED STEEL PRODUCTS: forgings, bolts, screws, wire, nails, reinforcing bars, pipe, wire mesh, fencing</b></p><p><b>MINING: iron ore, limestone, coal</b></p><p><b>STEEL STRUCTURES: bridges, buildings, towers, ships and ship repairs, railway cars, machinery, etc.</b></p><p><b>DOMINION STEEL and COAL CORPORATION, LIMITED</b></p><p>MEMBER OF THE A. V. ROE CANADA GROUP<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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How Well Do You Know Your Hockey?

<h2><i><u>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</u></i></h2><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><p><b>(Final Standings)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01481/1974937-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="577" height="226"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Final Scoring Statistics)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02414/1974930-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="591" height="3500"></div><h3><b>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS FOR SEASON 1961-62</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06167/1974923-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="569" height="683"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS:</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07138/1974916-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="565" height="150"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, MARCH 20 Detroit 0 at Chicago 3</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Bassen; defense: Pronovost, Gadsby. Price, Godfrey, Odrowski; forwards: Delvecchio, Howe, Stasiuk, Ullman, Kennedy, Fonteyne, Glover. MacGregor, LaForge, Boileau, MacDonald, Jeffrey.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall: defense: Pilote, Vasko, Turner, Evans, St. Laurent; forwards: Hull, Hay. Balfour, Horvath, Melnyk. McDonald, Nesterenko, Mikita, Fleming.</p><p>Referee: MacArthur; linesmen: Wicks, Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03334/1974909-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="568" height="467"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY. MARCH 22 New York 4 ot Boston 3</b></h3><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Howell. Cahan, Langlois, Harvey, Spencer; forwards: Hampson. Schinkel. Wilson. Ingarfield. Bathgate. Prentice. Ba. Ion, Henry, Hannigan, Gendron. Hebenton.</p><p>Boston&mdash;goal: Gamble: defense: Westfall, Mohns, Stapleton. Green: forwards: McKenney, Toppazzini. Burns. Oliver, Connelly. Bucyk, Pennington. Williams, A. Pronovost, Meissner, Leach.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04263/1974902-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="562" height="706"></div><h3><b>Toronto 1 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Simmons; defense: Baun, Horton, Stanley, Arbour. Hillman; forwards: Duff, Armstrong, Keon, Mahovlich, Kelly, Nevin, Litzenberger, Pulford, Stewart, Harris. Shack.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante; defense: Fpntinato, Johnson, MacNeil. Talbot, J. C. Tremblay; forwards: Beliveau, Moore. Provost, Backstrom, Hicke, Geoffrion, Rousseau, Goyette, G. Tremblay, Berenson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05204/1974895-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="560" height="735"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Chicago 3 at Montreal 5</b></h3><p>Chicago&mdash;goal; G. Hall; defense: Evans. St. Laurent. Pilote, Vasko, Turner; forwards: Mikita, Balfour, Hull, Horvath, Fleming. Nesterenko, Melnyk, McDonald. M. Hall.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante; defence: Fontinato. J. C. Tremblay, Johnson, Talbot. MacNeil; forwards: Goyette, Provost. Moore. Beliveau. Rousseau. G. Tremblay, Backstrom, Hicke, Geoffrion, Berenson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08119/1974888-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="572" height="931"></div><h3><b>Detroit 2 at Toronto 2</b></h3><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Bassen; defense: Pronovost, Price. Godfrey. Gadsby, Odrowski: forwards: Delvecchio. Howe. LaForge, Ullman. Jeffrey, MacDonald, Kennedy. Stasiuk, Fonteyne, MacGregor. Boileau.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defense: Baun, Horton. Stanley, Arbour. Hillman; forwards: Kelly, Shack. Mahovlich, Keon, Armstrong. Duff. Pulford, Nevin, Litzenberger, Stewart, Harris.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0999/1974881-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="572" height="416"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Montreal 5 at Detroit 2</b></h3><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante: defense: Fontinato, Johnson, MacNeil,&rsquo; Talbot, J. C. Tremblay; forwards: Beliveau, Moore, Provost, Backstrom, Hicke, Geoffrion. Rousseeau, Goyette, G. Tremblay. Berenson.</p><p>Detroit&mdash;goal: Bassen; defence: Pronovost, Gadsby, Price, Godfrey, Odrowski; forwards: Howe. Delvecchio. Stasiuk. Ullman, Kennedy, Fonteyne, MacGregor, LaForge, Boileau, McDonald, Jeffrey.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1085/1974874-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="572" height="684"></div><h3><b>Toronto 4 at Boston 5</b></h3><p>Boston&mdash;goal: Gamble: defense: Westfall, Mohns, Stapleton, Green; forwards: McKenney. Toppazzini, Burns, Oliver, Connelly, Bucyk, Pennington, Williams. A. Pronovost. Meissner. Leach.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defense: Baun, Horton, Stanley, Arbour, Hillman; forwards: Duff, Armstrong, Keon, Mahovlich. Kelly, Nevin, Litzenberger, Pulford, Stewart, Harris, Shack.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1173/1974867-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="575" height="698"></div><h3><b>Chicago 1 at New York 4</b></h3><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: G. Hall; defense: Evans, St. Laurent. Pilote, Vasko, Turner; forwards: Mikita. Balfour, Hull, Horvath, Fleming. Nesterenko, Melnyk, McDonald, M. Hall, Hay.</p><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Cahan, Langlois, Harvey, Spencer; forwards: Hampson. Schinkel. Wilson, Ingarfield. Bathgate. Prentice. Balon. Henry, Hannigan, Gendron, Heben ton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1257/1974860-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="571" height="640"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">by ANDY O&#x2019;BRIEN</div><p><b>A vivid, action-packed account of the &lsquo;&lsquo;Rocket&rsquo;s&rdquo; tempestuous career. Illustrated. $3.25</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1348/1974968-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg" title="f0008-13" width="254" height="425"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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ROCKET RICHARD

<div class="byline">by Foster Hewitt</div><p><b>The inside story of big-time hockey from its early days right up to 1961. Illustrated. $3.95</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1434/1974999-1-eng-US/f0008-142.jpg" title="f0008-14" width="275" height="455"></div><p><b>THE RYERSON PRESS</b></p><p><b>299 Queen St. W&bdquo; Toronto 2B</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Night In Canada

<p><b>GORDONS DRY GIN</b> Perfect with any mix</p><p><b>GORDONS DRY GIN</b> Makes a Martini Perfect</p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>(Standings On Wed. AM, March 28) Eastern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01466/1975114-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="564" height="126"></div><h3><b>Western Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02440/1975107-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="564" height="131"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun. March 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03387/1975100-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="566" height="344"></div><h3><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04327/1975093-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="561" height="245"></div><h3><b>Penalty Leaders</b></h3><p>Most Penalized Player&mdash;Aldo Guidolin, 171 minutes.</p><p>Most Penalized Team&mdash;Cleveland. 1069 minutes.</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21 Quebec 2 at Hershey 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05258/1975086-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="544" height="442"></div><h3><b>Springfield 7 at Pittsburgh 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06221/1975079-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="558" height="725"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Cleveland 3 at Rochester 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07203/1975072-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="549" height="581"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Providence 4 at Cleveland 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08189/1975065-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="546" height="416"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 2 at Hershey 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09185/1975058-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="555" height="559"></div><h3><b>Quebec 5 at Pittsburgh 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10171/1975051-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="554" height="776"></div><h3><b>Rochester 4 at Springfield 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11148/1975044-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="544" height="437"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Pittsburgh 2 at Cleveland 13</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12116/1975037-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="558" height="972"></div><h3><b>Rochester 1 at Providence 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13103/1975030-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="549" height="519"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>Thousands of different 8 &times; 10 glossy photos Ideal for your tor. den or clubroom. 5 for $3.00</p><p>Write for FREE new and enlarged illustrated catalog. Send 10f (stamps or coin) to cover postage and handling.</p><p><b>ALL SPORTS PHOTOS</b></p><p><b>Box 267-H Freeport. N.Y.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

SPORTS PHOTOS!

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1485/1975169-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="277" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Kent Douglas</b></figcaption></div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Goalie Bob Perreault was the lone Hershey Bears&rsquo; player to land a first team berth on the American Hockey League coaches&rsquo; tenth annual all-star team.</p><p>The eight mentors selected two teams for THE HOCKEY NEW and the Harrisburg PatriotNews.</p><p>Perreault, the 30-year-old balding cage cop, shared the league&rsquo;s most valuable player prize with Cleveland&rsquo;s ace right winger Fred Glover, also a first team choice.</p><p>Springfield, as expected, dominated the balloting, landing three skaters on the first club and two on the second.</p><p>Picked for the top lineup from Springfield were defensemen Kent Douglas and Bob McCord and center Bill Sweeney, who has led the circuit in scoring for most of the season.</p><p>Rounding out the first team was Buffalo&rsquo;s high scoring left winger Barry Cullen.</p><p>In the voting no coach was permitted to cast a ballot for his own player, except in the MVP and rookie-of-the-year selections. Both squads are all-opponent choices and the coaches base their picks on home and away performance.</p><p>Rochester&rsquo;s Bruce Draper won the rookie award going away. He polled six of a possible eight votes.</p><p>Jack Gordon was named coach-of-the-year for the excellent job he has done in guiding the Cleveland Barons to the top of the western division.</p><p>Ironically, goalie Marcel Paille, of Springfield, was snubbed for the second straight year in the first team voting. He was given a second team berth. Last year Ed Chadwick, Rochester, beat out Paille for the No. 1 netminding assignment.</p><p>The remainder of the second team choices were, defense, Aldo Guidolin, Cleveland, Steve Kraftcheck. Rochester; center Willie Marshall, Hershey; left wing Dick Gamble, Rochester and right wing Floyd Smith, Springfield.</p><p><b>HERSHEY NOTES</b>&mdash;Center Hec Lalande, who had been scoring at a terrific rate, went to the sidelines with an infected elbow, Mar. 14. He underwent surgery and was expected to be ready for the Calder Cup playoffs&hellip;Jack McKenzie. high scoring right winger is still hobbling with a ligament injury of the right knee. It&rsquo;s believed he will return to action by playoff time&hellip;With two for wards on the shelf, coach Frank Mathers shifted defenseman Mike Mahoney to a wing and moved rookie Cleeland Mortson to center in Lalande&rsquo;s spot&hellip;The Mar. 15th issue of Sports Illustrated did a fine profile piece on Gene Kina-sewich. young brother of Hershey&rsquo;s Ray Kinasewich. Gene, skating with Harvard College, was tabbed as the best college player in United States. The national magazine overlooked another part of the story. There&rsquo;s another Kinasewich on his way to Harvard&mdash;young Bobby, now a student at Deerfield Academy. The Bay State College soon will be able to boast of the only brother combination in American collegiate ice circles.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AHL Coaches Place Three Indians On All-Star Six

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-15" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1567/1975200-1-eng-US/f0009-152.jpg"></div><p><b>MOST VALUABLE</b>&mdash;Tie&mdash;Bob Perreault. (2 votes); Fred Glover 2) votes)</p><p><b>ROOKIE-OF-THE-YEAR</b>&mdash;Bruce Draper, Rochester, (6 votes)</p><p><b>COACH-OF-THE-YEAR</b>&mdash;Jack Gordon, Cleveland (3 votes).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Coaches’ AHL All-Stars

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND. O.&mdash;</p><p>If a finger could be pointed to one paramount reason for the success of the Cleveland Barons this season, it would have to be pointed to the defense.</p><p>A strong defense is based on several factors&mdash;a good corps of backliners and strong back-checking, for instance. First and foremost, however, it is predicted on excellent goaltending.</p><p>The Barons have had that in abundance. In goalie Les Binkley, they have had a superlative goaltender. When he was out of action for several games, they had a sensational replacement in Al Cullen.</p><p>Binkley must rate as the surprise of the Baron camp. Prior to the season&rsquo;s start, no one. unless it was Coach Jackie Gordon, had much faith in the trainer-turned-netminder.</p><p>Gordon said then that he thought Binkley could go all the way. He was right. Truthfully, however, there was little in Binkley&rsquo;s past history to indicate that he would be an adequate net guardian on a team that would put on a season-long campaign for leadership of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Western Division.</p><p>Binkley had dropped his lina-ment bottles and bandages late last season to step into the Barons&rsquo; net when Gil Mayer slipped badly near the close of the 196061 campaign. Binkley had done a remarkable job. Even so, it was figured by most observers that he had been able to get by in his short stretch of service only because his teammates had gone all out to erect a strong wall in front of him.</p><p>One thing Binkley&rsquo;s play did do was to create confidence in him on the part of his teammates, who admittedly had lost faith in Mayer. They never lost that faith in Binkley and he has done his part to justify it.</p><p>As the Barons chug down the homestretch with the Western Division leadership looming directly ahead of them, Binkley has been one of the club&rsquo;s outstanding stars. His five shutouts and 2.94 goals-against average with only six games remaining testify to his brilliant play.</p><p>Prior to this year. Binkley&rsquo;s only long-haul jobs in the nets have been for amateur clubs Even with those, he enjoyed only medicore success.</p><p>His future in goal was so clouded, in fact, that he jumped at the chance a year ago to join the Barons as their medicine man, with the added duty of donning the pads as a spare goalie in practice sessions. It was hoped that he would not have to don them in a game. Knowing what we do now, perhaps it would have been better if he had.</p><p>Mayer was anything but a standout with the Barons. He was prone to injury. Even when he was in good condition, his play was spotty. He missed enough easy chances to destroy all faith in him.</p><p>The same cannot be said for Binkley. Throughout the season, he has come up with scores of remarkable saves. Even when he has been bombarded, he never has given way to pressure.</p><p>Now, at season&rsquo;s end, he has earned his niche as one of the AHL&rsquo;s best net guardians.</p><p>If he is not picked as the rookie-of-the-year, there are plenty who think he should be.</p><h2>Glitters</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02411/1975293-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="563" height="873"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Les Binkley</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Medicine Man Binkley Barons’ Freshman Choice

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>Owner Eddie Shore of the Springfield Indians and Coach Billy Reay of the Buffalo Bisons blamed each other for a dull weekend of slow, deliberate hockey after the Tribe won a 3-1 decision in Buffalo following a 1-1 tie in Springfield a night earlier.</p><p>The defeat before a near sellout gathering of 9,545 in Buffalo&rsquo;s Memorial Auditorium threw a major roadblock in the Bisons&rsquo; drive for the Western Division title, and that&rsquo;s exactly what Shore wanted.</p><p>&ldquo;I hope those two points we took in Buffalo will be the ones which will cost them the Western Division title,&rdquo; Shore said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re in business to sell tickets in Springfield, people pay to see a contest.</p><p>&ldquo;I have figures which show the Bisons iced the puck 79 times in the game at Springfield. Buffalo certainly didn&rsquo;t make a contest of that one, so why should we change our style. That game in Springfield was the worst game I&rsquo;ve ever seen. They did nothing but keep dumping the puck into our end. so what can you expect us to do.&rdquo;</p><p>Reay laid the blame for the weekend of dull hockey to the Tribe&rsquo;s strategy.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been playing that way from the first time we met them during the training season,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;They just lay back and wait for you to make a mistake, and if you play it wide-open and try to make a show of it for the fans, the Indians murder you.</p><p>&ldquo;The only way you&rsquo;ve got a chance, is to play their style&hellip;and chase the fans out of the building. Sure, Shore&rsquo;s system is successful, but it puts the customers to sleep.&rdquo;</p><p>If the Bisons and the Indians meet in the playoffs the Shore-Reay feud will only serve to deepen the rivalry between the clubs, although none is required.</p><p>Shore hasn&rsquo;t won any popularity contests in Buffalo since he left here in 1945 after three terms as general manager of the Bisons.</p><p>The &ldquo;Great White Father&rdquo; was seated next to Coach Pat Egan on the Indians&rsquo; bench in both weekend games, and every time he got up to talk to one of the players, the crowd hooted derisively. If the Indians and the Bisons do meet in the playoffs, it should be interesting.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03344/1975324-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="301" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Reay Blasts Tribe For ‘Wait For Error’ Style

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01480/1975262-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="294" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption></div><p>PROVIDENCE, R. I.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;A team effort!&rdquo;</p><p>That was the reflection of player&mdash;coach Ferny Flaman when quizzed about the recent rejuvenation of his Rhode Island Reds.</p><p>The Reds, only one month ago. were fumbling through their worst stretch of the campaign. The club was in a 7-game losing streak, had dropped six points behind Quebec into the Eastern Division basement, and was all but counted out of the playoff picture.</p><p>Then it happened. As suddenly as the Reds had hit the skids in late January, the locals snapped back into the form which had them in the fight for second at mid-season, and they have been nearly unbeatable since.</p><p>Over 11 games, displaying a powerful offensive and a vastly improved defense, the Reds won 9, tied 1, and lost only 1 for an unbelievable total of 19 of a possible 22 points.</p><p>In doing so the Roosters gained eight points on the hustling Quebec Aces, and are now back in the thick of the torrid battle for third in the East.</p><p>Right from the goal out, Flaman credits the efforts of his players. &ldquo;Gil Mayer has been amazing,&rdquo; Flaman volunteered. &ldquo;We began to use him regularly around midFebruary, and since then he&rsquo;s delivered the big save in almost every game. What gets me is his attitude. He&rsquo;s 31 years old. but he&rsquo;s playing like a rookie. On many occasions he&rsquo;s broken the spirit of an opposing team with an impossible stop.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Our defense has improved too,&rdquo; Ferny went on. Young Matt Ravlich is as fine a prospect as I&rsquo;ve seen in quite some time, and seems a sure bet to make the NHL in a year or so. And with Bob Blackburn and Dino Mascotto playing the way they have been, I can&rsquo;t see how we&rsquo;ll miss the playoffs. These two guys have improved 100% over the season, and have given us something to lean on.&rdquo;</p><p>To Flaman. the forward wave deserves a round of praise also. &ldquo;Our scoring has been fabulous. We&rsquo;ve averaged nearly 5 goals a game during our streak, and our lines have been dividing the scoring pretty evenly. Three big guys have been Orland Kurtenbach who scored 14 goals in these 11 games, rookie Pierre Brillant who had 9 and Bob Beckett with 8.&rdquo;</p><p>Flaman&rsquo;s opinions about the Reds production are substantiated by a quick look at recent game-bygame records. The line of Kurtenbach, Zellio Toppazzini, and Beckett fired 25 during the rejuvenation, while Brillant, Stan Baluik, and Jimmy Bartlett scored 21.</p><p>Despite scoring only 7 goals over the same period, the combo of Ed MacQueen, Paul Larivee, and Dan Poliziani has proven to be a tight defensive unit, and has still managed several important scores.</p><p>&ldquo;As I see it, it&rsquo;s been a team effort,&rdquo; Flaman said. &ldquo;All the guys are working hard, and I&rsquo;ve never seen better spirit on any team I&rsquo;ve been on!&rdquo;</p><p>Harry was long considered to be an amateur senior star who wouldn&rsquo;t be bothered playing minor pro hockey. He was a member of the Whitby Dunlops, world champs in 1958 who were also coached by Blair.</p><p>When Blair turned pro with Frontenacs last season, he signed Sinden, Bobby Attersley and Alf Treen, all former Dunnies, to their first pro contracts.</p><p>The move has paid off.</p><p>Attersley is third in the scoring race and Sinden and Treen form one of the most effective defence pairs in the league.</p><p>Harry, a stationary engineer in the off-season, hopes to coach some day.</p><p>He feels he has five or six years left, and, although he won&rsquo;t say so publicly, he probably wishes he could spend some of that time in the NHL.</p><p>And, with 10 goals and 54 assists in 64 games, it won&rsquo;t be surprising if Bruins give him a close look at training camp next season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-01

Reds Come To Life In Time For Playoffs

<h2><b><i>Before you say</i> SCOTCH &ldquo;<i>say</i></b> DEWAR&rdquo;S<i>it never varies</i></h2><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>(Standings On Tues. A.M. March 20) Southern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01478/1975474-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="563" height="130"></div><h3><b>Northern Division</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02434/1975467-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="564" height="127"></div><h3><b>(Intersectional Play)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03363/1975460-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="561" height="226"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY. MARCH 13 Son Francisco 4 at Vancouver 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04297/1975453-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="552" height="440"></div><h3><b>Spokane 5 at Calgary 7</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05255/1975446-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="569" height="878"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY. MARCH 14 Vancouver 2 at San Francisco 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06228/1975439-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="551" height="414"></div><h3><b>Calgary 2 at Portland 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07208/1975432-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="559" height="533"></div><h3><b>Spokane 1 at Edmonton 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08202/1975425-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="553" height="601"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Includine Games Of Sun. March 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09192/1975418-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="565" height="539"></div><h3><b>(Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10172/1975411-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="557" height="226"></div><h3><b>(The Leaders)</b></h3><p>Most Points: Max Mekilok, Spokane, 91.</p><p>Most Goals: Tom McVie. Portland and Bill MacFarland, Seattle. 45.</p><p>Most Assists: Norm Johnson, Calgary and Rudy Filion, Seattle, 61.</p><p>Most First Goal of Game: Jim Baird, Vancouver and Art Jones, Seattle 9.</p><p>Most Game Winning Goals: Tom McVie, Portland and Gerry Brisson, Spokane 9</p><p>Most Game Winning Assists: Max Mekilok, Spokane, 12.</p><p>Most Hat Tricks: Gerry Goyer, Los Angeles and Bill MacFarland, Seattle, 3.</p><p>Most Goals With Man Adv.: Bill MacFarland, Seattle, 13.</p><p>Most Goals Against When Serv. Pen.: Bill Burega. Los Angeles, 14.</p><p>Most Minutes In Penalties: Connie Madigan, Spokane, 169.</p><p>Most Shutouts: Bev Bentley, San Francisco, 4.</p><h3><b>FRIDAY, MARCH 16 Vancouver 2 at Los Angeles 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11150/1975404-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="558" height="615"></div><h3><b>Calgary 1 of Seattle 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12138/1975397-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="553" height="511"></div><h3><b>Spokane 2 at Edmonton 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13115/1975390-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="553" height="489"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 7 at Los Angeles 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1489/1975383-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="560" height="807"></div><h3><b>Portland 1 at Seattle 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1570/1975376-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="551" height="348"></div><h3><b>Spokane 0 at Calgary 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1649/1975369-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="546" height="486"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, MARCH 18 Vancouver 0 at San Francisco 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1741/1975362-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="545" height="339"></div><h3><b>Seattle 1 at Portland 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1835/1975355-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="545" height="533"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0011-01

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>You have to marvel at that weird and not-so-wonderful Vancouver hockey operation, if only for its consistency.</p><p>A consistency for being snarling itself up in intrigue and chaos, we mean.</p><p>The most recent development, where the Montreal Canadiens have been showing a definite interest in taking over the club in partnership with a Vancouver syndicate headed by millionaire lumberman Poldi Bentley, is strictly in character with everything else that has been happening to Vancouver hockey for nigh unto a year.</p><p>There were screams from the New York Rangers that the Canadiens were guilty of tampering.</p><p>Subsequently, NHL president Clarence Campbell whitewashed the Montrealers, contending that he found no evidence to support the accusations that they were out of line.</p><p>Meanwhile, the tug-of-war goes on, in and out of the committee rooms of the Pacific National Exhibition, which doubles as the operator and landlord of the Canucks.</p><p>Apparently, they are still badly split on whether to maintain a tie-up with the New York Rangers or perhaps develop a new one or to unload altogether to one of several applicants who exist at this point.</p><p>Muzz Patrick, the Rangers&rsquo; general manager, insists that his organization is anxious to stay on at Vancouver&hellip;and that he would like to put in a bigger and better team.</p><p>He may be a little late for this, contend some interested parties. The Rangers and the Canucks have been going along on a verbal agreement, which hasn&rsquo;t been altogether satisfactory.</p><p>In any event, the Canucks would still not be the New York&rsquo;s No. 1 farm club, not even in the Western League. They would have to still get in line behind Los Angeles Blades.</p><p>&ldquo;Under the New York working agreement with Vancouver during the years,&rdquo; Patrick insists, however, &ldquo;the Canucks have compiled the finest win record on the coast.</p><p>&ldquo;As to this year, the Canueks dealt substantially with Eddie Shore, and they were hurt by his pull-out. Unfortunately, we had no control over that.</p><p>&ldquo;As to the future, we definitely hope for a continuing association and on an increasing scale. I can tell you that the Rangers won&rsquo;t leave Vancouver easy.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile, Roy McBride is heard from Spokane, where his Comets look likely to lose their affiliation with Montreal if the Canadiens move into Vancouver.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not overjoyed at the thought of any Vancouver-Montreal tieup, naturally,&rdquo; the Spokane general manager declares. It might be that the Comets would be invited to leave pro hockey. One rumor has it that McBride was advised to buy into the Vancouver syndicate if he wanted to stay in the WHL.</p><p>Then, there is Vancouver&rsquo;s mayor, Tom Alsbury, who comes out flat-footed to suggest that the PNE should peddle the Canucks.</p><p>&ldquo;I think it would be a good thing that the PNE, and the city, sell the club,&rdquo; the mayor said. &ldquo;If this present deal is to sell for a reasonable price, I would be happy.&rdquo;</p><p>But the cloak-and-dagger stuff proved even more bewildering, when a press conference was called to announce that the Canadiens and the syndicate would operate the Canucks, with an option to buy for $150,000 if a downtown coliseum materialized.</p><p>At the conference table, was Canuck manager Dave Dauphinee, who upon hearing the new development, muttered, &ldquo;Do you know that this&mdash;right here at this table&mdash;is the first I&rsquo;ve heard of all this?&rdquo; Apparently Canadien chief Frank Selke&rsquo;s mid-January trip to look over the Vancouver situation was kept secret even from him, despite the fact Selke attended a Canucks&rsquo; game in the company of PNE president Tom Fyfe.</p><p>And still another comment, this one from Coley Hall who left the Canucks to operate the new San Francisco team: &ldquo;Naturally any tieup with Montreal would mean a contending team. Any change would be for the better.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1930/1975505-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="245" height="384"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Muzz Patrick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0011-19

NHL Clubs Play Tag For Canucks’ WHL Franchise

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>No sooner had the Springfield Indians captured their first two championships&mdash;the Eastern Division and the regular-season American League titles&mdash;when Tribal Chief Eddie Shore confidently predicted that his club would complete the sweep by retaining the Calder Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;I think that we&rsquo;re a better club than we were in the past two seasons,&rdquo; Eddie enthused, undaunted by the fact the Indians will be going into the playoffs without several key players of the past two campaigns.</p><p>&ldquo;Pete Goegan will make a big difference&mdash;he gives us that fourth big defenseman to go with the fellows we already had&hellip;and we have more and better reserve strength than we had last season.&rdquo;</p><p>Goegan was sent to the Tribe a week ago by the New York Rangers, the Tribe&rsquo;s NHL affiliate and his presence now gives the Indians a big four blue-line guard of Goegan, Kent Douglas, Ted Harris and Bob McCord.</p><p>No other club in the AHL can match this rearguard corps.</p><p>In the few games that Goegan has been with the Indians he has jelled very nicely, according to Shore.</p><p>The added reserve material that Shore praised consists of Don Johns and Dave Amadio.</p><p>&ldquo;They can fit in anywhere. Both are good solid defensemen and both can be spotted up front, especially if we need some rough, tough action in the forward lines,&rdquo; Eddie said.</p><p>Then he cited the fact that the club&rsquo;s overall experience of playing together for the past three seasons as another important consideration.</p><p>Bill Sweeney, Bruce Cline and Billy McCreary are playing together on the Indians for three seasons and are combined on the same unit for the second year in a row.</p><p>Their scoring feats have beer magnificent, Sweeney with 92 points on 34 goals and 58 assists McCreary with 27-47-74 and Cline with 36-47-74, when this article was submitted.</p><p>Then the other line, which is just as awesome power-wise, has Brian Kilrea (20-71-91) Floyd Smith (40-34-74) and Jimmy Anderson (35-41-76). They have been Indians for the past three championship seasons and linemates during this entire campaign.</p><p>The Indians also have an effective third combination of Denis Olson centering Dave Duke and Bob Kabel with Amadio and Johns filling in off and on. Kabel and Olson are Indian veterans.</p><p>Finally, on the last line of defense the Indians have &ldquo;Mr. Clutch&rdquo; himself, Marcel Paille, with George Wood, a capable understudy.</p><p>The Indians have made all kinds of kinds of history in the past three years with six different championships, three AHL titles, two Calder Cup championships and one Eastern Division crown.</p><p>And Shore is confident that his Indians will soon write the brightest chapter of all in this history book by taking the Calder Cup championship for the club&rsquo;s seventh title in three years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03292/1975574-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="269" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob McCord.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shore Predicts Another Calder Win For Tribe

<div class="byline">By BOB HULEN</div><p>PORTLAND, Ore.&mdash;</p><p>If this were to be a radio soap opera, the title might be &ldquo;Will Success Hurt Portland Hockey?&rdquo;</p><p>But, it isn&rsquo;t a tear-jerking drama, still the tag fits nonetheless.</p><p>Portland hockey has been successful, very successful and the trend could continue through the forthcoming Western League playoffs. With four games yet to play, all on the road in California, the Buckaroos handily wrapped up first place in the Southern Division of the WHL.</p><p>This marks a great finish in both of the two years the sport has been back in the Rose City after an absence of 10 years. The 1960-61 season saw a Portland team pull a rags-to-riches trick of finishing third in the regular season and then moving on to victory in the playoffs after being picked for last.</p><p>This season two new records were set for WHL play. First, the bucks only lost four games at home to topple the standard set of five home defeats by Calgary (in 1960-61) by Vancouver in 1960 and by the now-defunct Saskatchewan team in 1954. Second, a new paid attendance record of 284,266 was established.</p><p>The attendance figure breaks the 265,198 mark set by Portland last season.</p><p>Average attendance for 35 home games was 8,070 compared with 7,577 in 1960-61. Visiting team with the biggest draw was Edmonton which lured an average of 9,265. Spokane followed with 9,036.</p><p>Portland hockey fans must want the other team&mdash;not their own&mdash;to be rough and tough for both the Flyers and the Comets have a fine cast of rowdies.</p><p>With a 28-4-3 mark for play in the beautiful House of Glass, the Bucks also tied a WHL record for points at home, 59. They fell shy by one of the record for wins at home set by Calgary last season.</p><p>In three of the four losses, Coach Hal Laycoe pulled the goaltender in the closing moments yet only one goal was scored on these occasions. The Bucks were beaten. 6-2 by San Francisco, 3-1 by Edmonton, 4-2 by Calgary and 5-4 by Spokane. Sweeps were scored over Los Angeles and Seattle while Vancouver earned a 7-7 tie in a wild game late in the season.</p><p>Laycoe summed up the fabulous Buckaroo success at home, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s your No. 1 desire to please the home fans. You don&rsquo;t expect to please them to that extent.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course, the Portland first place finish was aided when Spokane lost all four games on the final trip to Calgary and Edmonton, but the Bucks didn&rsquo;t back into the title. A thrilling 2-1 win over Seattle before another 10,000 crowd in the final game provided the insurance. Seattle has won only once from Portland this season.</p><p>Strengthened by a few trades for forwards which saw WHL leading goal scorer Tommy McVie come from Seattle, Gene Achymichuk come from Edmonton and Doug Anderson and Doug Macauley come from Los Angeles, General Manager Harry Grickman said that he expected the Portland team to wind up in first. &ldquo;But, when the injury siege hit, I started to have my doubts.&rdquo;</p><p>Glickman went on to say that the Buckaroos were fortunate that everytime a new goaltender was needed, the situation worked out all right&mdash;except in the case of Gerry McNamara. Two of the home losses and a tie came with McNamara in the nets but much of the problem in these games was the fact that the defense in front of him had weakened decidedly.</p><p>Anticipating the playoffs, Glickman purchased Al Rollins from the now-defunct Winnipeg organization. It was a straight cash deal for the ex-National Leaguer who had come out of retirement to give the Portland team help when it was needed. Glickman also announced that Rollins had been signed to a contract for next year, leaving the question of what happens where Don Head recuperates from his leg injury.</p><p>Portland had an option to repurchase Head from Boston of the National League at the close of the season. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll worry about the problem when we come to it,&rdquo; Glickman said. &ldquo;These are the type of problems we like to have.&rdquo;</p><p>But, as to the question of whether or not success will hurt Portland hockey, the young general manager gave some indication that he feels that it won&rsquo;t.</p><p>&ldquo;The way we have come out all right in spite of the injuries and the goaltending problems points out the necessity of being independent and not having to depend on National League clubs for players. As long as we keep going the way we are, we&rsquo;re going to be all right.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01466/1975543-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="271" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Glickman</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02383/1975536-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="277" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-01

Bucks Set New Record At Gate—Top Own Mark

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Its been a great&mdash;big year for the City of Trail, a real hockey hot bed.</p><p>It&rsquo;s far from over yet, as more trophies and cup are expected to be placed in the Cominco Arena before too long.</p><p>Trail&rsquo;s potent and well organized minor hockey association has once again swept the province, shovelling with it the bantam, midget and juvenile championships.</p><p>But that&rsquo;s not all. The senior Smoke-Eeaters did what was expected. They wrapped up the British Columbia senior crown in four straight games. The 1961 World Champions had little trouble in disposing of Mickey Maglio&rsquo;s Maple Leafs from Nelson, who last season carried the B.C. colors.</p><p>Another Trail club could bring further laurels to the Silver City. The intermediate Smoke-Eaters are presently engaged in the B.C. interior playdowns against the Twin-City Macs who are an amalgamated version of players from Kelowna, Pentiction and Summerland, and over the past years played under the banner of the now defunct Okanagan Senior Hockey League. The best of three series is tied at one game apiece. Macs took the opener 8-5, but the Smokies tied the series in the second game, 5-3.</p><p>Bob Kromm&rsquo;s Western International League champions now advance to the Alberta-British Columbia Allan Cup playdowns, commencing March 28th and 30th at Trail.</p><p>Expected to supply the opposition are the Addison Builders from Calgary, who entered into the senior race this season.</p><p>The Calgary contingent will move into the best of five series without the services of former National League great Al Rollins.</p><p>The veteran custodian who handled the coaching reins as well, is back in professional harness with the Portland Buckaroos of the Western Hockey League.</p><p>Meanwhile on the Okanagan junior scene, the Kamloops Rockets, British Columbia&rsquo;s representatives along the Memorial Cup Trail, are headed for Edmonton, where they will meet the capital city Oil Kings in a best of five series for the Alberta-B.C. title.</p><p>The first two games are slated for Edmonton, with the third back to Kamloops. If further games are necessary, the series will return to Edmonton.</p><p><b>PACIFIC COAST NOTES&hellip;</b> Powell River Regals, after five years of trying, have won a berth into the B.C. intermediate cup finals. Coached by former pro and ex Kelowna Packer star, blueliner Andy McCallum, the Regals defeated Nanaimo Labatts in three straight games&hellip;They will meet the winner of the Trail intermediate, Twin City Macs series.</p><h2>Smokies&rsquo; Coach</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04209/1975605-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="510" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Kromm</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Trail Takes On Calgary In 1st Allan Cup Step

<p><b>Don&rsquo;t be <i>vague</i>&hellip;say</b> HAIG & HAIG <b>SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><h2><b>How The Race Goes</b></h2><h3><b>(Standings on Mon. A.M., March 26)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01465/1975706-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="573" height="176"></div><h2><b>The Point Parade</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., March 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02422/1975699-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="570" height="276"></div><h3><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03386/1975692-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="565" height="175"></div><h3><b>Most Penalties</b></h3><p>Dino Robazzo. Sauli Ste. Marie, 192 minutes; Sudbury, 1060 minutes.</p><h3><b>TUESDAY. MARCH 20 Kingston 4 at Kitchener 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04350/1975685-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="554" height="562"></div><h3><b>Hull-Ottawa 1 at North Bay 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05298/1975678-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="550" height="368"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Kitchener 4 at Kingston 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06258/1975671-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="552" height="514"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY. MARCH 22 Sudbury 4 at Sault Ste. Marie 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07244/1975664-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="563" height="562"></div><h3><b>North Bay 1 at Hull-Ottawa 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08230/1975657-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="552" height="489"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY. MARCH 23 Sault Ste. Marie 4 at Sudbury 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09222/1975650-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="557" height="590"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY. MARCH 25 Kitchener 2 at North Bay 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10212/1975643-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="555" height="518"></div><h3><b>Hudbury 5 at Hull-Ottawa 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11191/1975636-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="561" height="566"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By PAUL RIMSTEAD</div><p>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>If Harry Sinden isn&rsquo;t named the most valuable player in the Eastern Professional Hockey League this season, there will be loud cries of anguish from Wren Blair.</p><p>Blair, manager-coach of the Kingston Frontenacs, does not hesitate to tell you he feels Sinden should be a shoo-in for the coveted award.</p><p>And, when you look at Sinden&rsquo;s record, you start to think that maybe Blair isn&rsquo;t just talking through his hat.</p><p>Sinden has already eclipsed two scoring records for defencemen this season and he&rsquo;s Frontenacs leader on and off the ice.</p><p>Some people are suggesting that Boston Bruins, sponsors of the Kingston team, should elevate him to the National League.</p><p>In the first 64 games this season, the 28-year-old captain of the Frontenacs had scored 64 points!</p><p>The former record was held by J. C. Tremblay of the Montreal Canadiens who had 56 points in the 1959-60 season with Hull-Ottawa.</p><p>Sinden passed that mark some time ago and also set a new mark for assists.</p><p>Pat Stapleton of the Boston Bruins had 43 assists last season with Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds and Harry now has been credited with helping on 54 goals.</p><p>Only two men in the league, teammates Orv Tessier and Bobby Attersley, have more assists than Kingston&rsquo;s valuable rearguard.</p><p>Both have 56.</p><p>Sinden stands eighth in league scoring and had only one point less than Billy Carter of Hull who was elevated to the NHL (as a centreman) by Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Is Harry bitter about not getting a shot at the National League?</p><p>Nope, he looks at the situation realistically.</p><p>&ldquo;I can see Boston&rsquo;s point of view,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;they have to develop their younger players.</p><p>&ldquo;But,&rdquo; he adds, &ldquo;that doesn&rsquo;t mean I don&rsquo;t think I can play in the NHL.&rdquo;</p><p>Harry, who didn&rsquo;t sign a professional contract until last season, admits that this has been his finest year.</p><p>&ldquo;Remember, though,&rdquo; he says modestly, &ldquo;a lot of my points have been scored on the powerplay and we&rsquo;ve scored a lot of powerplay goals this season.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say I got an assist on two of every three goals we got on powerplays because I&rsquo;m on one of the points. That helps build up the total.&rdquo;</p><p>In addition to playing on the powerplay, Sinden is used as a steadying influence when Frontenacs use a young defenceman and he kills penalties.</p><h2>Fronts&rsquo; Fireball</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12171/1975737-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="575" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Sinden</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Kingston Puts Up Strong ‘Sinden For MVP’ Fight

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Metro Prystai has it made in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.</p><p>The long time professional star pulled the surprise of the year when he guided his fifth-place Moose Jaw Canucks into the best-of-seven league final alongside Regina Pats, and, in doing so, shunted Estevan Bruins to the sidelines.</p><p>Prystai, in his second year as coach at Moose Jaw, had his Canucks stepping off a furious pace, and early in the six-team, double round-robin semifinal series, it was obvious that this club would be one of the powers.</p><p>In the end, and much to the surprise of no one, it was Regina Pats in first place and Moose Jaw and Evestan, pennant winners during the regular schedule, tied in the second position. The top two clubs qualified for the final.</p><p>Under regulations set up earlier, Canucks took the last &ldquo;final&rdquo; berth because of more goals scored then Estevan. The Bruins, led by fiery coach Scotty Munro, made a belated appeal to have the constitution changed concerning the breaking of ties, however, their pleas fell on deaf ears.</p><p>Estevan started quickly during the regular schedule and had first place to themselves for the entire season. Ironically, Bruins, now on the outside, set some kind of a record by not suffering a single defeat at home throughout both league and playoff action.</p><p>Bruins, strangely enough, knocked over the big clubs, but had trouble with the others&mdash;Melville, Saskatoon, and Flin Flon, in the round-robin series.</p><p>Estevan split with Regina, losing 3-2 in overtime and winning 3-1, and took three of a possible four points from Moose Jaw. However, they needed overtime to nip Saskatoon, were blanked 2-0 by Melville and lost 3-1 at Flin Flon.</p><p>The disappointed Bruins dominated the all-star selection, took two spots on the first club and three on the second team.</p><p>Goalie Jock Norris and defenceman Dave Padzerski made the grade on the first team along with blueliner Barry Trapp of Melville, centre Gary Peters and right winger norm Beaudin of Regina, and left winger Marv Henning of Saskatoon.</p><p>The second team had Joe Daley of Weyburn in goal, Wayne Smith of Saskatoon and Brian Collison of Estevan on defence, Jim Kozie of Estevan at centre, Jack Koshey of Melville at left wing and Ron Willy of Estevan at right wing.</p><p>Daley, an 18-year-old out of Winnipeg, had himself quite a season with the seventh-place Weyburn club. He made the second all-star team, was a top-heavy choice as the league&rsquo;s rookie and also took the award as the most valuable player to his team.</p><p>Later. Daley was named spare goaltender for the playoffs and saw action in five games&mdash;three with Melville followed by two with Saskatoon.</p><p>Kozie, who collected 104 points and only 17 minutes in penalties, was named as the league&rsquo;s most gentlemanly player combined with ability.</p><h2>All-Star</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01460/1975768-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="262" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gary Peters</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Champion Estevan Pushed To Sidelines By Canucks

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST, CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Niagara Falls Flyers accomplished one of the major upsets of recent junior hockey seasons with the elimination of the powerful Montreal Canadiens in the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; semi-finals.</p><p>The Canadiens, coached by Claude Ruel, won the Ontario pennant in their first full season in the OHA by a margin of three points over the second place Hamilton Red Wings.</p><p>The Flyers finished in fourth place, just edging into the playoffs by a single point over the fifth place Guelph Royals.</p><p>However despite their 30-point margin over Niagara Falls during the regular 50-game schedule, the Canadiens ran into stubborn resistance.</p><p>After four games the best-of-seven series was tied two games each but the Flyers edged the Canadiens 3-2 in Montreal in the fifth game, then eliminated them the following night before a record attendance of 4100 at the Niagara Falls Memorial arena.</p><p>In the other semi-final round, Hamilton Red Wings, coached by Eddie Bush, were given a tremendous battle by the third place St. Catharines Teepees who were handled by former Montreal senior star Ken Campbell.</p><p>The Teeps took the opener in Hamilton, lost the second at home and the third in Hamilton by one-goal margins, then tied the fourth in St. Catharines.</p><p>However, the Wings came through with back-to-back wins in the fifth and sixth starts to advance into the finals against Hap Emms&rsquo; surprising Flyers.</p><p>The winner of the best-of-seven final will meet the Toronto Metro League champions for the Ontario title with the victor in that round advancing into the Memorial Cup playoffs.</p><p>Toronto Marlboros and St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors, the latter the defending Memorial Cup champions, are currenty embroiled in the Metro finals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02367/1975799-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="503" height="725"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hap Emms</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Junior Habs Stunnned By Falls’ Hustling Flyers

<div class="byline">By SID PAYNE</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Before the Eastern Hockey League playoffs began, Greensboro coach Roh Spong predicted his club &ldquo;will knock the pants off the Clinton Comets.&rdquo;</p><p>Few observers took Spong seriously. After all, they argued, the Comets won the Northern Division title with 91 points, 17 more than Greensboro posted to take Southern honors. And, they also figured, should Greensboro upset the Comets, the series would have to go the nine-game limit.</p><p>But it&rsquo;s Spong who is enjoying the last laugh these days as his Generals humiliated the pre-play-offs favorites, five games to one. The Generals will now play the winner of the Johnstown-Knoxville best-of-five series in a best-of-seven set for the championship.</p><p>The Generals, who failed to beat the Comets on their home ice in four regular season games, did it by whipping Benny Woit&rsquo;s club twice at Clinton while sweeping the three games at Greensboro.</p><p>After dividing the first two games at Clinton, the Generals romped 11-1, in their first home game as Comet goalie Normn DeFelice&rsquo;s temper cost his team the all-important third game.</p><p>With Greensboro leading. 2-1, in the first period, DeFelice blew his top at referee Doug Hoskins for allowing Greensboro&rsquo;s go-ahead goal and was ejected from the game. The Comets were forced to use Bev Brown, Greensboro&rsquo;s trainer in the nets, and the Generals proceeded to turn the game into a rout.</p><p>DeFelice was back at goal the Following night and had Greensboro down, 3-1, with only six minutes remaining. But goals by Les Lilley and Don Carter tied it up and Pat Kelly finally won it for the Generals in the second overtime period.</p><p>The Generals virtually coasted the last two games, winning, 4-1, on Gary Sharp&rsquo;s three goals, and then clinched the series at Clinton, 7-3.</p><p>Meanwhile, Johnstown&rsquo;s Jets, behind the stellar goaltending of Jim Helkie, who was recruited from Charlotte, lead Knoxville, two games to one, in their bid for a third straight EHL crown.</p><p>When the Jets lost Dick Roberge, Don Hall and Butch Martin to the. World Amateur Championships, the Jets were almost written off as serious contenders. But as long as Steve Brklacich&rsquo;s gang&rsquo; has the last game of a series scheduled for its home ice, the Jets are mighty tough to beat out.</p><p>With Roberge, Hall and Martin available for duty again, the Jets now stand a good chance of retaining the title.</p><h2>Goes Wild</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03278/1975830-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="528" height="842"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Norm DeFelice</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Clinton Sags, Generals Knock Them For A Loop

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01437/1975920-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><p><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Canadien player shown in centre.</p><p>6. Johnny Bower had the lowest&mdash;in the league last season (abbr.)</p><p>7. Initials of a Detroit rearguard.</p><p>9. Type of farm Red Kelly owns.</p><p>12. Number worn by Andy Bathgate.</p><p>13. Calcium (Sym.)</p><p>14. Number of seasons Ron Stewart has spent with Toronto.</p><p>15. Month in which Fern Flaman was born (abbr.)</p><p>16. Initials of MacQueen of Providence.</p><p>17. Initials of Chevrefils, ex-Boston forward.</p><p>19. Dick Duff celebrates his birthday in this month (abbr.)</p><p>20. Ching Johnson&rsquo;s old NHL club (abbr.)</p><p>22. 6th & 18th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>23. Henri Richard recently fractured one.</p><p>24. Initials of a Buffalo defenseman.</p><p>26. Bobby Hull changed his&mdash;earlier in the season (abbr.)</p><p>29. Johnny Bower formerly played with this AHL team.</p><p>32. League in which 2 down played junior hockey (abbr.)</p><p>33. Upon.</p><p>34. Mrs. Autry Erickson&rsquo;s profession.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. This flying animal recently shocked fans at a Leaf home game.</p><p>2. Red Wing recently demoted to Sudbury.</p><p>3. An NHL manager.</p><p>4. Ed Chadwick&rsquo;s complete initials.</p><p>5. Gone.</p><p>8. Short for first name of Baluik of Providence.</p><p>10. Pictured star has only played with&mdash;NHL team.</p><p>11. Cerium (Sym.)</p><p>13. Vic Stasiuk frequently has one with him on road trips.</p><p>14. Dick Duff&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>15. One of Bob Baun&rsquo;s sons.</p><p>18. Mrs. Aurty Erickson.</p><p>21. Initials of Mickoski, ex-Ranger forward.</p><p>25. A Toronto forward answers to this.</p><p>27. Given name of pictured star.</p><p>28. Former Toronto forward, first name Lorne.</p><p>30. An age of the universe.</p><p>31. Initials of a Ranger forward.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1. Horton</p><p>5. P.P.</p><p>7. At</p><p>8. Earl</p><p>10. Italian</p><p>12. Rail</p><p>13. R.D.</p><p>14. D.W.</p><p>15. Eat</p><p>17. Rag</p><p>19. Rue</p><p>20. SG.</p><p>21. Sam</p><p>22. Out</p><p>23. N.S.</p><p>24. Ellery</p><p>26. T.S.</p><p>28. Rye</p><p>30. Models</p><p>32. Ankle</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Hairdresser</p><p>2. Ottawa</p><p>3. Tail</p><p>4. Near</p><p>5. P.R.</p><p>6. Plante</p><p>9. Anderson</p><p>11. Al.</p><p>16. August</p><p>18. Gamble</p><p>25. Lynn</p><p>27. Sask.</p><p>29. Det.</p><p>30. M.L.</p><p>31. O.E.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By JACK COOK</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>For the second time in three years Saskatooon Quakers are champions of the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League.</p><p>Easy pennant winners during the regular 32-game schedule, Quakers wrapped up the playoffs in quick fashion, polishing off both Yorkton Terriers, in semifinals, and Moose Jaw Pla-Mors, in the final, in straight games.</p><p>The playoff sweep sent Quakers into the Western Canada Allan Cup semi-final against the league-less Winnipeg Maroons.</p><p>Further west Trail Smoke Eaters. defending world champions, go against Calgary Addersons, British Columbia sources have already conceded Smokies the western crown. giving little thought to opposition from Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba.</p><p>Galt Terriers, defeated Canadian representatives in the recently-completed world championships, provided the only yardstick with which to gauge the power of the various clubs. Terriers edged Trail 3-1, overwhelmed Calgary, tied Saskatoon and toon businessman Bill Patrick, the Winnipeg.</p><p>The 1961-62 Saskatchewan League, which embraces clubs from Saskatoon. Yorkton, Regina, Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat, Alta., was pretty much an allQuaker show.</p><p>Working on a player pool basis, but assisted financially by Saskatoon businessman Bill Patrick, the Quakers, under the guidance of former National Leaguer Vic Lynn, walked away with most individual and team laurels, including the scoring championship.</p><p>George Senick. a native Saskatonian who spent many winters starring in the Western League, put on a sparkling display in leading the club&rsquo;s big line of Don Smith and Charlie Goodwin to one-two-three placing in scoring.</p><p>The smooth-working Senick compiled 84 points on 30 goals and a league high of 54 assists. Goodwin, two years out of junior ranks, finished next in line collected 59 points on 28 goals. Smith, a big name last year with Regina Caps, took the third spot with 56 points on 23 goals.</p><p>Danny Banda, the ex-Melville junior and Saskatchewan Roughrider footballer, took fourth position with 53 points, one better than playing-coach Jackie McLeod of Medicine Hat. McLeod was the top scorer in the Colorado championships while playing with Galt.</p><p>Lanky Don Campbell of Saskatoon captured goaltending honors with a 3.33 goals&mdash;against average for 21 games. Campbell shared Quaker duties with Johnny Sofiak, who was standby netminder behind Boat Hurley for Galt Terriers.</p><p>Senick was also named the most valuable player in his team, beating out Banda of Regina.</p><p>With Sofiak in Colorado and Campbell on the injured list for three or four weeks, Quakers had to call upon goalie Reg Kachanoski of Yorkton to tend the nets in the four-game final against Moose Jaw. Kachanoski also started the Winnipeg series.</p><p>The Quaker defence consists of boys who learned their junior hockey in Saskatoon before moving elsewhere for a few seasons. They are Tony Meldrum, Bob Kortje, Andy Voykin, Byron Mc-Climmon, Gaff Turner, and on occasion, Lynn.</p><p>Backing up the &ldquo;big three&rdquo; on the forward brigade are Frank Kuzma. Sid Puddicomb, Bill and Jack Lindsay, Hubert Greyeyes and Herby Jeffrey, who placed seventh in individual scoring.</p><p>The Senick&mdash;Smith&mdash;Goodwin combination continued its torrid scoring clip in the playoffs, and polished off Moose Jaw in the last game by collecting 15 scoring points in a 9-2 rout.</p><p>Senior hockey has been having one of its best seasons in some time in Saskatoon, both at the gate and on the ice. The Winnipeg-Quaker series is expected to pack &ldquo;old-time&rdquo; crowds back into the Arena, which for years was the busiest spot, per capita, in Canada.</p><h2>Champion</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01131/1975951-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="489" height="751"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Senick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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March 31, 1962

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