The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.

April 7, 1962

The Hockey News April 7, 1962

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08169/3445911-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="547" height="251"></div><h2>April 7 to April 13</h2><p>7&mdash;Bob Armstrong, Hull-Ottawa, coach, 1931.</p><p>8&mdash;Bob Beckett, Providence, forward, 1936.</p><p>9&mdash;Jim Roberts, Hull-Ottawa, defense, 1940.</p><p>9&mdash;Wayne Hicks, Buffalo, forward, 1937.</p><p>10&mdash;Ron Murphy, Chicago, forward, 1933.</p><p>11&mdash;Dennis Riggin, Edmonton, goaltender, 1936.</p><p>11&mdash;Les Hunt, Los Angeles, defense, 1937.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-08

IN THIS ISSUE

Happy Birthday to you

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;If the Montreal Canadiens get by the tough Chicago Black Hawks in the first round of the playoffs they can thank veteran Dickie Moore. He was the inspiration for the Habs as they squeaked out a 2-1 win in the first game and came from behind to win the second 4-3. Bothered with sore knees Moore had what must be termed for him, a bad season.</p><p>Not one to quit Dickie started the playoffs as one of the key men on Toe Blake&rsquo;s squad. Always a great playoff player, it was generally felt that if he could get back into his old form the Habs would have it a lot easier. Well, he&rsquo;s back into his old form and the Hawks will be watching him closely from here on in.</p><p>A real big leaguer, Moore certainly rates as &lsquo;Your Kind Of Player.&rsquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03503/3445552-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="273" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie Moore</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-03

Dickie Moore Montreal Canadiens

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05354/3446226-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg"></div><p><b>&ldquo;GET RID OF THAT GREASY KID-STUFF&hellip;GET VITALIS.&rdquo;</b></p><p>Vitalis keeps your hair neat all day without grease because of V-7, the modern, non-drying grooming discovery. A daily 60 second workout with clean, clear Vitalis Hair Tonic is the best care you can give your hair. Proof? Look at your comb. With Vitalis there&rsquo;s no messy grease. Look at yourhair. Neat and well groomed. Get rid of that greasy kid-stuff. Get Vitalis!</p><p><b>Performance Guaranteed by Bristol-Myers Makers of TRIG&hellip;The Roll-on Deodorant for Men 6475</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06270/3446219-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="669" height="736"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0010-05

Maurice‘The Rocket’Richard says:

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div><p>FORT WILLIAM, Ont&mdash;</p><p>The Thunder Bay junior champions are the Port Arthur North Stars after a thrilling six game series with the much improved Fort Frances Royals. Stars won the series four games to two, and now meet the Brandon Wheat Kings in one half of the Abbott Cup series in Western Canada Memorial Cup play.</p><p>A total of sixteen thousand fans watched the Fort Frances-Port Arthur series. Along with the crowds that watched the North Stars defeat the Fort Williams Canadiens in the Lakehead final, thirty two thousand fans have now paid their buck to watch the North Stars along the playoff trail.</p><p>Coach Moe Irving of the Stars has named three Fort William Canadiens to his lineup for the next series. They are league scoring champion and most valuable player Gary Veneruzzo, Ken Campbell and All-star Herb McCubbin.</p><p>Irving has also named Canadien goaltender Gord Murray as his standby goaltender for the series.</p><p>What must be one of the best junior hockey stories in many seasons is the story of Port Arthur North Stars&rsquo; Ricky Yeo. The eighteen year old Port Arthur boy has been in junior company with the North Stars for the last three years and has been one of their major cogs throughout his three year term.</p><p>But the real story on Yeo lies in the fact that he has played organized hockey in the Port Arthur Minor setup moving right up to junior with the Stars and he has yet to be assessed with a penalty. Now under normal circumstances this may be just another player, but in this lad&rsquo;s case he leads his club, plays a real rugged game and ends up in third place in the individual scoring for Lakehead Junior hockey. Last year he placed eighth in scoring&hellip;For the past two years he has been presented with the George Budd Trophy as the leagues most gentlemanly player.</p><p>Yeo proves the theory, that if your attitude is right you can play a rough, tough game of hockey and still stay out of that penalty box. His coach Moe Irving, who played junior hockey in the Lakehead himself before turning pro, was no stranger when it came to the penalty box, said, &ldquo;Give me a team of Ricky Yeo&rsquo;s and I dare anyone to stop us.&rdquo; He went on to say that Yeo had more heart and desire than he has ever seen in a junior hockey player. The ball of dynamite for the North Stars stands five feet seven inches and weighs one hundred and forty-five pounds, and because he is always a dangerous man with the puck he has to take some pretty stiff checks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02751/3446687-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="270" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rickey Yeo</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-02

Port Arthur, Brandon To Meet In Junior Cup Hunt

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01595/3446908-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Seike</b></figcaption></div><h2>Top Men&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02451/3446901-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1089" height="1076"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Blake</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

Cover-01

Plante, Toe, Selke Men-Of-The-Year

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03198/3446939-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacques Plante</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Three members of the Montreal organization were this week named &lsquo;Men-Of-The-Year&rsquo; in the world of hockey by THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; editors.</p><p>(1) Jacques Plante&mdash;Player-Of-The-Year.</p><p>(2) Toe Blake&mdash;Coach-Of-The-Year.</p><p>(3) Frank Selke&mdash;Executive-Of-The-Year.</p><p>These three men stood head and shoulders above everybody in the professional hockey world in the 1961-62 season.</p><p>Jacques Plante made an amazing comeback this season after a dismal 1960-61. He regained the Vezina Trophy for the sixth time in seven seasons and was outstanding in the 70 games he played. His value to the Canadiens in their race to the NHL title cannot be measured. Coach Toe Blake said time and time again that the club never could have won it had it not been for his &ldquo;Masked Goaler.&rsquo;&rsquo; Certainly Plante deserves the honor for his outstanding play. He was brilliant throughout the year. General Manager Lynn Patrick paid him a compliment when he stated that his Bruins would have made the playoffs with Plante in Bruins&rsquo; goal.</p><p>Jacques played no favorites. He robbed the big guns of every team he went up against. There were games when a porous defense left him to fight it out by himself. When they did this he came up with the big save. He had more shots on goal than any of his competitors yet finished the season with a sweet 2.37 goals per game average. He allowed but 166 goals into his cage in 70 games. He and Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall, were the only two goalers to play the full schedule.</p><p>There were times last summer when the Canadiens weren&rsquo;t sure Jacques would be their goaler. They drafted Cesare Maniago from the Toronto Maple Leafs as insurance. They knew Plante had a bad knee and there was a good chance he wouldn&rsquo;t be able to make the comeback necessary for the club to regain the Stanley Cup. But Plante went to training camp in Victoria, B.C., deter-mined to win his job from all who were out to take it from him. He had his knee operated on during the off-season and spent the summer playing tennis to strengthen it. Hour after hour on the courts was his medicine and finally the bad knee started to come around. When he reported to camp he was in the best shape physically and mentally since he broke in with the Canadiens in 1953-54.</p><p>Plante topped off this, his greatest season by winning the Vezina Trophy, and if he continues to play as he has then the Canadiens have a very good chance of bringing the Stanley Cup back to Montreal.</p><p>The choice of Toe Blake as Coach-of-the-Year cannot be argued. His club was relegated to second and third place by the experts before the season started. He was without Jean Beliveau and Dickie Moore when the first puck was dropped. He lost Boom Boom Geofrion for eight games, veteran defenseman Tom Johnson for eight games and battling Lou Fontinato for 15.</p><p>Blake had to get mileage from the lessor lights this year or face the possibility of not being in the NHL first place race from the opening gun. That possibility didn&rsquo;t appeal to him since he had never finished anywhere but first since taking over the coaching chore of Les Habs in 1954-55.</p><p>Faced with the task of having to revamp his lines and of having to get more goals from kids who had never passed the 15 mark a season before, Toe went at it in same manner he used to play the game. He moved Claude Provost onto a line with Moore and Henri Richard and got 33 goals from him. He placed rookie Bobby Rousseau on a line with Beliveau at centre and Gilles Tremblay at left. When Beliveau was absent he sent Marshall or Goyette or Backstrom into the pivot. When it was all over the figures showed he got 32 goals from Tremblay and 21 from Bobby Rousseau.</p><p>Blake made up another line of Geoffrion, Backstrom and Tremblay or Marshall. This time it was Backstrom who came through with 27 goals.</p><p>In the latter stages of the season he put Hicke on right wing with Backstrom and Tremblay and Hicke started to move. He scored at a red hot pace at the tail end of the season and ended up with 20 goals.</p><p>From a team rated weak on defense and lacking the scoring punch of other years Blake got 20 goals or more from seven players. One finished with 19 goals, and two with 18. His club broke its own record for goals scored in a season when they blasted five past Hank Bassen in the final game of the season. They finished the year with a total of 259 to their credit, one more than the record they established in the 1958-59 season.</p><p>Toe faced this season minus the greatest defenseman in the league&rsquo;s history. Doug Harvey rad moved over to New York as Player-coach. In his place the Canadiens had battling Lou Foninato, a player who had shown signs of brilliance with New York on rare occasions. But the Canaliens wanted a hitter, someone who would keep those onrushing forwards honest. They took Foninato and gave Blake the job of instilling confidence into the big rearguard.</p><p>What kind of a job did he do? General Manager Frank Selke summed it up after the Habs had won the flag:</p><p>&ldquo;Eontinato&rsquo;s spirit has been catching,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;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.&rdquo;</p><p>There&rsquo;s no doubt that Blake did a superb job of leading the Canadiens this season. Perhaps Selke best summed it up recently:</p><p>&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>The spirit of the Habs begins high up in the front office. While he gives the impression that he is a quiet, unaffected type of General Manager, Frank Selke can inspire a team with a dressing room speech if necessary. He backs his coach and players to the hilt. He has never been one to take the credit for the tremendous organization he heads. Instead he prefers to point to the fine talent he has around him. He credits Ken Reardon and Sam Pollock as being the main cogs in the farm system that has been funnelling players to the NHL for years.</p><p>Selke is a firm believer in two things&mdash;a farm system; and that every kid with ability should get a chance to play in the NHL. If he can&rsquo;t find a place for him with the Canadiens then he&rsquo;ll make sure he does with some other NHL club. A look around the league will attest to that belief. Chicago has St. Laurent, Hay, Balfour, Fleming, McDonald and Turner. Boston has Pennington Pronovost and Connelly. Toronto has Olmstead and Litzenberger. New York has Harvey, Langlois, Spencer and Hebenton. Detroit has LaForge and Kennedy.</p><p>After the playoffs last season Selke announced that there would be many changes on the Canadiens. He traded Harvey to New York for Fontinato. Then he sold Langlois to New York, and sent Turner to Chicago. Two kids who were expected to stay with the Habs, Pennington and Wayne Connelly went to Boston. There were many who criticized him for parting with Harvey, Pennington and Connelly. But he stood by his decisions. He insisted Gilles Tremblay be given a chance at camp and signed Bobby Rousseau to an NHL contract. He gave Blake a pair of new defensemen in J. C. Tremblay and Fontinato. And when the curtain rang down on the final game of the season those newcomers had firmly entrenched themselves in the Habs lineup.</p><p>The Canadiens organization which Selke heads was successful in other leagues as well. The Montreal Junior Canadiens loaded with big league prospects won the Ontario Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; title in their first year and then were ousted from the playoffs by the Niagara Falls Flyers. The Hull-Ottawa Canadiens, with at least five sure fire NHL prospects it their lineup won the Easterr Professional League.</p><p>For the Canadiens organization it was one of the greatest years in their history, both in enthusiasm and in dollars taker at the ticket window.</p><p>It was great for every member of the Montreal organization, but particularly for Plante, Blake and Selke.</p><h2>&hellip;From Top Organization<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

Cover-03

Comeback By Jacques Biggest Reason Canadiens Ended On Top This Season

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re on the way back., declared Detroit Red Wing general manager Jack Adams.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have the hard-heckers&mdash;the Abels, the Orlandos, the Stewarts again,&rdquo; Adams promised</p><p>It was 24 hours after the season ended for the Red Wings, ar unhappy ending. They were mis-sing the Stanley Cup playoffs for only the second time in 24 seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;We made some changes after going all the way to the Cup finals last year and we thought we were in pretty good shape. But a lot of things didn&rsquo;t turn out the way Sid (coach Sid Abel) and I hoped.</p><p>&ldquo;We won only one big game all season&mdash;that was a 3-0 game in New York. We blew a game New York when we had a 4-2 lead in the third period with little more than 10 minutes to play. If we had won that, we would have beaten them back-to-back.</p><p>&ldquo;But we couldn&rsquo;t do it. We don&rsquo;t belong in the playoffs this year. I&rsquo;d have hated to see us get in and get knocked off in four straight so maybe it&rsquo;s a good thing that we didn&rsquo;t make it,&rsquo; Adams said.</p><p>The scene of Adam&rsquo;s talk was the annual Red Wing post-season banquet. Then, after detailing the dismal season past. Adams turned again to the future.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a lot of good young hockey players in our system Jimmie Skinner (head scout) has done a good job.</p><p>&ldquo;We turned a lot of boys pre last year from our Edmonton and Hamilton junior teams and we&rsquo;ll do the same again this year.</p><p>&ldquo;Larry Jeffrey, who did a good job for us at the closing of the season, and Bruce MacGregor are the first of the boys to come up from our farms in the past year,&rsquo; Adams said.</p><p>Then the Wing boss told of an OHA playoff game between Hamilton and Niagara Falls that was attended by the Wing brass including owner Bruce Norris Hamilton was down, 3-0, and came back to win, 5-4.</p><p>&ldquo;Those boys hit everything that moved,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;Mr. Norris said it was the most exciting game he&rsquo;s ever seen.&rdquo;</p><p>Then Gordie Howe took the microphone.</p><p>&ldquo;I always thought banquets were for winners,&rdquo; Howe said. &ldquo;We got used to that idea a few years ago when we won the league championship seven straight years.</p><p>&ldquo;But, I&rsquo;m happy to see that you&rsquo;re with us when we&rsquo;ve been losers, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Howe pointed to the &ldquo;continual pressure&rdquo; that was on the Wings in their fight with New York for fourth place as the reason for the club failing to make the playoffs.</p><p>The Wings started poorly and never could put a long winning streak together. They were al-ways struggling.</p><p>&ldquo;We had the guts,&rdquo; Howe said, &ldquo;but we also had a bad season.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams&rsquo; prediction that the Wings will be back may take several years or more to fulfill.</p><p>The Wings are in serious trouble. They need help everywhere, from the forward lines back to goal.</p><p>The Wing defense was the worst in Detroit history, allowing a high of 219 goals.</p><p>Bill Gadsby, finishing his 16th NHL season, will be 35 by the time the next training camp rolls around. Marcel Pronovost, who had a poor year, will be 32 in June. And these two veterans are the Wings top rearguards.</p><p>As it was, Gadsby was figured to be the fifth defenseman this season, lending a steadying influence and helping to teach the younger blueliners. Instead, Bill went the 70-game route and was Detroit&rsquo;s most efficient defenseman.</p><p>The forwards, aside from Howe, Alex Delvecchio, Norm Ullman and Vic Stasiuk, didn&rsquo;t score. And, after the mid-point of the season, there was almost no back-checking by any line.</p><p>The Wings weren&rsquo;t a club to be feared physically. Other clubs had no difficulty free-wheeling on Detroit and they didn&rsquo;t have to worry about skating with their heads down most of the time.</p><p>Neither Terry Sawchuk nor Hank Bassen was able to go the whole way and the goal-tending problem will be with the Wings again next season.</p><p>Dennis Riggin, figured to be next in line, is doubtful because of two serious eye injuries. Rig-gin, still wearing dark glasses, won&rsquo;t know his hockey future for two more months.</p><p>After Riggin are two juniors.</p><p>The Wings will have to go through much the same painful process that the Boston Bruins are experiencing.</p><p>They can&rsquo;t expect rookies just out of junior or one year in pro hockey to lead the club to the Stanley Cup.</p><p>But the farm system way is the only way these days to build or rebuild a club. It&rsquo;s long, trying and expensive, but it&rsquo;s the only way&hellip;unless, of course. Montreal suddenly became generous and found a few extras the like of Red Hay, Murray Balfour. Reg Fleming, Ab McDonald and Dollard St. Laurent, players that the Canadiens peddled in the Help-the-Hawk movement of a few years ago.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> Season&rsquo;s end meant marriage for Val Fonteyne and MacGregor and a trip to the hospital for Delvecchio, Pronovost and Claude LaForge.</p><p>Fonteyne has a May 26 date set with Anna Eldey and MacGregor is marrying Audrey Lund of Edmonton.</p><p>Delvecchio was entering the hospital for minor surgery and Pronovost for a checkup.</p><p>LaForge went into get his nose repaired. It was broken&mdash;for the fifth time&mdash;in a late-season Ranger-Red Wing game.</p><p>Howe was set for a brief vacation at Aspen, Colo., with his wife, Colleen, and then was due to return in time for the Stanley Cup finals to serve as a commentator.</p><p>Colleen is a skier but Howe hasn&rsquo;t tried the slats, yet.</p><p>&ldquo;If they had a real small beginner&rsquo;s hill I might try it,&rdquo; Gordie said.</p><p>Howe was the recipient of three trophies at the annual Trophy Night ceremonies&mdash;he won awards as top goal scorer (.33), point man (77) and most valuable player. The MVP award was Gordie&rsquo;s seventh straight.</p><p>MacGregor was named the club&rsquo;s top rookie and Gadsby the best defenseman. Delvecchio took a trophy as the most gentlemanly.</p><h2>Not Gloomy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01853/3445311-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="543" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-01

“Didn’t Belong In Playoffs,” Admits Adams

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins may have set some negative records this season. but not all of their records were negative.</p><p>There&rsquo;s the matter of games lost through injury, for example.</p><p>The Bruins this season lost a total of only 17 games because of injuries.</p><p>A year ago they totalled that many missed games before mid November. There have been seasons since World War II when their total of missed games has been close to 200.</p><p>But this season the Bruins were able to ice their full lineup regularly. In fact, during the last four months of the schedule their absenteeism was only 10 games.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s how the Bruins missed:</p><p>Ed Westfall, bruised right ankle, seven games.</p><p>Dick Meissner, bruised leg, one game; broken toe, two games.</p><p>Johnny Bucyk, injured knee, three games.</p><p>Leo Boivin, injured knee, five games.</p><p>In addition, Doug Mohns missed one game because of illness.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; durability may be a tribute to Phil Watson&rsquo;s training methods.</p><p>It may be based on the low average (24 years) age of the players.</p><p>Or it may be traceable to the team&rsquo;s style of play.</p><p>Regardless, it is still a fact.</p><p>Other facts:</p><p>By scoring 22 goals, Captain Don McKenney became the first player in Bruins&rsquo; history to score 20 or more for six consecutive seasons and the first in the team&rsquo;s history to score that many for seven seasons.</p><p>By making 40 assists, Bucyk broke his own modern record for <i>a</i> Bruins&rsquo; left wing which was 36.</p><p>By making 60 points Bucyk tied his own modern Bruins&rsquo; record for points by a left wing.</p><p>By scoring 14 goals, Mohns posted the third-highest total in Bruins&rsquo; history for a defenseman. Flash Hollett once scored 19 goals, Eddie Shore 15 once. Mohns set a modern record, breaking the old one shared by Bill Quackenbush and Jim Morrison.</p><p>When he made 50 saves against the Bruins in the season&rsquo;s final game-here, Toronto&rsquo;s Johnny Bower broke the modern Garden record belonging to Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk, who had 49 saves here in 1959.</p><p>Oddities:</p><p>Don Head became the first Bruins&rsquo; goalkeeper in memory to receive a fighting penalty here when he engaged in a bout with Detroit&rsquo;s Vic Stasiuk last fall.</p><p>When Referee Vern Buffey pulled a muscle in a Bruins-Toronto game on March 4, Linesman Neil Armstrong did a competent job of being both referee and linesman.</p><p>The Bruins twice scored goals at 19:59 of a period, the green light ending the period beating the red light signalling a goal but Referees Eddie Powers and Buffey ruling in favor of the scorers, Jerry Toppazzini and Ted Green.</p><p>Young Green, who came here with a reputation as a fighter, couldn&rsquo;t do any for two months after his first fight, in which he broke his left hand hitting Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich atop the head.</p><p>Tommy Williams of Duluth, Minnesota, became the first product of United States hockey to play regularly for the Bruins since Frank Brimsek, when he joined them on January 18.</p><h2>Fighter</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03615/3445373-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="506" height="733"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Green</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-03

Not All Hub Records Were Bad This Season

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins must pass two teams in the standing if they are to become participants in the 1963 Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>The two teams, obviously, are the Detroit Red Wings, who finished fifth this season, and the New York Rangers, who finished fourth.</p><p>Detroit this season was in a condition comparable to that of the Bruins of two years ago, with veterans with their best days behind them in key positions.</p><p>New York this season was carried mainly by a half-dozen first class players none of whom figure to improve with age.</p><p>Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; manager, has figured his team&rsquo;s needs for advancement closely. Whether or not he can acquire the players he thinks he needs to jump the Bruins into the playoffs remains to be seen.</p><p>But this is a list of the hockey commodities Patrick is seeking:</p><p>An experienced goalkeeper, so the Bruins can carry another besides young Bruce Gamble.</p><p>A steady right defenseman.</p><p>The material for a strong line to support that of Murray Oliver, Johnny Bucyk and Wayne Connelly.</p><p>Before the Bruins finished up, Coach Phil Watson and Patrick revealed they will have two goalkeepers next season.</p><p>&ldquo;Gamble has done well at times, very well, in fact,&rdquo; said Patrick, &ldquo;but we want competition in that goal. Then if a goalkeeper runs into a bad stretch, we can make a change without having our team demoralized by easy goals.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick hasn&rsquo;t revealed the object of his goalkeeping search. It might be Easy Ed Chadwick of the Kingston Frontenacs, who played here twice this season. It might be little Charley Hodge of the Quebec Aces, who has done well in major league trials with the Montreal Canadiens. It might be someone else.</p><p>Right defense has been a sore spot for the Bruins for a long time. The situation was complicated further by the trade early in the season of the veteran Bob Armstrong.</p><p>The Bruins have real strength at left defense in all-star Doug Mohns, busting Leo Boivin and little Pat Stapleton. Ted Green progressed steadily at right defense and young Ed Westfall had his moments. Westfall&rsquo;s downfall was his lack of muscle, for the youngster jumping from junior competition has courage and determination. If he can build himself up to a 190-pounder, he may be the man.</p><p>In the meantime, Patrick is looking for a Tom Johnson-Armstrong type to play with either Mohns, a rusher, or Boivin, a hitter. One Bruins&rsquo; farmhand who may receive a chance is Kingston&rsquo;s Harry Sinden; another is Providence&rsquo;s Matt Ravlich.</p><p>&ldquo;We have outstanding penalty killers in Jerry Toppazzini and Charley Burns,&rdquo; said Patrick, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;d like to see them used for just that purpose next season. If they are, and we come up with the right defenseman, I&rsquo;ll guarantee we won&rsquo;t have five power play goals scored on us all year.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins will have Captain Don McKenney as a nucleus of a second strong line to support that of Oliver, Bucyk and Connelly. The Oliver line was created in January and meshed, Oliver and Bucyk showing scoring punch and Connelly checking fervently.</p><p>McKenney can play any of the forward positions, so Patrick has leeway in his look for companions. Here he has Tommy Williams, Andre Pronovost and Larry Leach, Kingston&rsquo;s Dick Cherry and Providence&rsquo;s Orland Kurtenbach and Bob Beckett are possibilities.</p><p>&ldquo;Kurtenbach finished up in a real blaze with Providence,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;He seems to lack stamina, but he&rsquo;s big and tough and he has developed into a scorer. Cherry is a good hockey player who can be better than he was this season, when he played only part has developed into a scorertime because he was going to school.&rdquo;</p><p>Williams, a right wing, has real speed and a quick accurate shot which seems likely to win him a steady job here.</p><p>The Bruins spent a lot of money for new players for this season, which cannot be considered a complete failure despite their last-place finish and poor record.</p><p>They found their veteran players capable of playing to form, some of them above previous form.</p><p>Of the new players, Green and Connelly made considerable second-half progress and Stapleton, who began well at left defense, finished well after being returned from an ill-advised try at right defense.</p><p>Gamble tended goal in lively fashion after replacing Don Head in mid-January, stubby Bruce numbering some truly brilliant games in his lot. He&rsquo;ll be the Bruins&rsquo; number one goalkeeper next season, barring an unexpected development.</p><p>Of their other young players, Williams seems the most likely to play a leading part in next year&rsquo;s program. But Cliff Pennington, Dick Meissner, Terry Gray, Westfall and some of the others may benefit enough from their experience to muscle into the picture, too.</p><p>There is no question of Watson&rsquo;s status. He alienated a sizeable segment of the press-radio contingent here when the season began, and he was the target for a record number of hoots and jeers from the customers. He used major league practice time for junior fundamentals and his old-style short passing offense didn&rsquo;t solve any problems for a team which needed a tight defense first and a version of Montreal&rsquo;s &ldquo;open spaces&rdquo; offense second.</p><p>But Watson stuck to his guns stubbornly, never complaining in public about the treatment he was accorded. The first year of his three-year contract must have been a hard one, but the second is not likely to be harder.</p><h2>To Get Chance</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02785/3445342-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="537" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Matt Ravlich</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-02

Lynn’s Needs Are Simple; Goaler, Right Defenseman

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01858/3445404-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Bobby Hull was a tired but contented Golden Jet as he peeled off his gear in the visitor&rsquo;s dressing room at Madison Square Garden.</p><p>Tired because he&rsquo;d been working overtime the past two weeks to reach the NHL 50-goal scoring record. And content because he dramatically climbed to the lofty plateau on the final night of the season.</p><p>The 50th goal befitted its exalted label. Bobby had just swooped over the bench as the game approached the five minute mark. Already he had tested Ranger goalie Gump Worsley with stunning drives and Gump repulsed them cleanly.</p><p>This time New York defenseman Al Langlois tried to flip the puck out of Ranger zone but the disc hit Hawk Reg Fleming about 40 feet out to the left of the net. Instinctively, Fleming looked for Hull.</p><p>He found him, almost magically, at his right, flipped a pass and, in a trice, Bobby was in orbit.</p><p>He swung sharply, his back to the goal, and, as Langlois and Doug Harvey, frantically dove in front of him, unleashed a backhander from about 20 feet out.</p><p>The puck flew sharply and cleanly past Worsley&rsquo;s desperate kick and the 22-year-old suddenly was catapulted into a class with Maurice Richard and Bernie Geoffrion.</p><p>&rdquo;For a second,&rdquo; Bobby admitted, &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know it was in. One of their defensemen blocked my view. Then I saw the red light.&rdquo;</p><p>So did a dozen dizzy Black Hawks on the bench who vaulted the barrier to join their compatriots who were busy destroying Hull&rsquo;s blond hair comb. The time was 4:58 and the partisan New York crowd responded with a warm but not overwhelming ovation.</p><p>It looked good for Bobby. He had nearly three periods in which to ram home number 51 and he went about his task without any apparent excitement. But the Rangers began to concentrate more heavily on him.</p><p>Pat Hannigan, Andy Hebenton and Johnny Wilson all but fastened themselves to Hull who only occasionally managed to unchain himself for a clear shot.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew they&rsquo;d check me,&rdquo; he said later as a horde of newsmen and photographers ringed him, &ldquo;on account of Bathgate. Once Pat Hannigan said&ldquo;&lsquo;I&rsquo;d like to see you get fifty-one but I got a job to do&rsquo;.&rdquo;</p><p>At times Bobby skated with his regular linemates, Murray Balfour and Red Hay. Just as often he was thrown in with such as Eric Nesterenko, Stan Mikita and any line that happened to be out there.</p><p>&ldquo;I was getting tired,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;We played the night before and those two straight games made it a little rough, I started the game at about 190 pounds. Now I&rsquo;m 185.&rdquo;</p><p>Hull had three more good chances to break the record. Late in the second period he whipped a backhander&mdash;similar to number 50&mdash;which nearly trickled through Gump&rsquo;s pads. But Worsley held firm. Seconds later, Bobby fired a low drive to the left corner which Worsley nailed with his skate.</p><p>Midway in the last period, Larry Cahan of the Rangers was penalized for interference. Hull got off one bomb that was deflected over the net. After that Bobby had had it.</p><p>&ldquo;Were you disappointed you didn&rsquo;t hit fifty one?&rdquo; someone asked.</p><p>Bobby seemed surprised. &ldquo;Would you be?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I take &rsquo;em as they come.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What are you going to do with the puck?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;A friend of mine electroplates them for me. He did it with the first one and, I guess he&rsquo;ll do it with this, one.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Did you think you&rsquo;d catch Andy?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I thought so when I got within two or three points of him. I&rsquo;d like to say this&mdash;all the players gave a hundred per cent to help me. So did the coach and the management. I wish you&rsquo;d print that.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Anything else, Bobby?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah. I said a little prayer before every game. I had faith and it came to pass. I have to thank the Almighty for that.&rdquo;</p><h2>Room At The Top<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0003-01

Hull Didn’t Know He Had Scored Goal

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>Andy Bathgate lost the Art Ross Trophy and tied Bobby Hull for the NHL scoring championship because he is a team man first and an individualist second.</p><p>The two will pocket $1,000 each for finishing in a dead heat with 84 points but Bobby&rsquo;s 50 goals to Andy&rsquo;s 28 give him sole possession of the Ross silverware.</p><p>What&rsquo;s even more depressing to Andy is the fact that he paced the scoring race all season&mdash;with two months to go, he led Hull by 18 points&mdash;only to blow the lead on the last weekend&hellip;because he&rsquo;s a team man.</p><p>Andy&rsquo;s teammanship blossomed a week previous in the key game against Detroit. With the Rangers leading by a goal and the Wings net vacated by Hank Bassen, Bathgate took a pass with seconds left in the game.</p><p>Instead of firing at the empty cage, Andy carried the puck over the Wing blueline and well into Detroit territory before shooting. The puck went in&hellip;but two seconds after the buzzer sounded. If Andy had fired from center ice, he might be the champ today.</p><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t sure of the time,&rdquo; Bathgate explained. (The Garden clock had gone on the blink late in the game). &ldquo;The only thing on my mind was to keep possession of the puck. That&rsquo;s why I waited.&rdquo;</p><p>Andy also waited on the final night. When Hull scored first early in the game it put Bathgath in second place for the first time since October. Within six minutes of Bobby&rsquo;s goal, Andy was tied again, thanks to his center, Earl Ingarfield.</p><p>Chicago appeared about to clear the puck from its zone when Ingarfield trapped the puck at the right point and bullied his way back in. He winged a cross-ice pass to Bathgate stationed to the left of the net, about 10 feet out. Biff, bam, and it was in cleanly, a swift low shot past Glenn Hall.</p><p>While Hull was shooting for the 51st goal, Bathgate was willing to settle for an assist. It looked like he had the big assist when the Rangers had a man advantage early in the second period.</p><p>Taking a back pass from Camille Henry, Bathgate put Andy Hebenton in the clear along the right alley. Hebenton zoomed straight in on Hall and shot for the right side but the goaltender smothered the puck.</p><p>The Hawks assigned Reg Fleming, Eric Nesterenko and Murray Balfour to guard Bathgate and as the game wore on they did everything but attach a lock to Andy&rsquo;s stick.</p><p>Bathgate&rsquo;s restraint was a classic in self-control. There were at least a dozen occasions when he had just cause to impale his tormentors on the blade of his stick.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew I had to stay on the ice,&rdquo; he explained later in his corner of the Ranger room, &ldquo;so I kept to my business.&rdquo;</p><p>Bathgate&rsquo;s business was to set up goals if he couldn&rsquo;t score, and he did. He started the play on Andy Hebenton&rsquo;s tally at 6.23 of the last period but Dean Prentice and Doug Harvey also handled the puck and won the assists.</p><p>&ldquo;A little later,&rdquo; Andy lamented as he knotted a brown tie, &ldquo;Dean hit the post. I came in for the rebound but I was hooked as I went in and missed it.&rdquo;</p><p>In the closing minutes the Hawks were shorthanded two skaters but this only increased the attention given Bathgate. At one point Nesterenko had him in a bear-hug in front of the net while Fleming pushed and pulled. Andy&rsquo;s comment:</p><p>&ldquo;Nester is like that all the time. Reg is a pretty good kid. He made a pretty good move. No, I can&rsquo;t blame him, the guy was doing his job. He played me close but clean.&rdquo;</p><p>The Rangers tried vainly to set him up in the dying seconds but exasperated Andy was bulled out of the play and, finally, lost his stick. Then, the buzzer sounded to end the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02729/3445435-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="285" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-02

Bathgate Had Everything On The Tip Of His Stick

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;</p><p>The last three goals didn&rsquo;t come easy for Chicago&rsquo;s record tying Bobby Hull.</p><p>Goal No. 48 came on March 20 in Chicago Stadium, the last home appearance of the regular 1961-62 National Hockey League season for the Black Hawks. It was late in the game and Chicago had a 2-0 lead with Detroit pressing in the Black Hawk end. All game long the Black Hawks had been feeding Hull and the Red Wings&rsquo; Vic Stasiuk had stuck to him like glue.</p><p>Suddenly a Red Wing pass was deflected to Chicago center Red Hay and he steamed out of the Chicago zone with Hull close behind. There was nobody between them and Detroit goalie Hank Bassen. In sped Hay with the puck, up to 10 feet of the unprotected Bassen, before he dropped the pass to his wingmate and screened to the right as Hull faked, sidestepped to his left and lifted the puck over a prostrate Bassen.</p><p>Goal No. 49 came in Montreal in the next game, again late in the final period (13:37) and again after a night of frustration from a rival checker&mdash;this time Claude Provost. Hull took 18 different turns on the ice and played 37 minutes. Finally center Stan Mikita took a shot from the side from 25 feet out. Hull, coming straight down the rink in the center, got his stick on the puck and deflected it into the net past goalie Jacques Plante.</p><p>Goal No. 50&mdash;to tie the NHL record held by Montreal&rsquo;s Rocket Richard and Bernie Geoffrion, came the next night in New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden in the final regular season game. This one was comparatively easy and came at 4:58 of the opening period when teammate Reg Fleming intercepted the puck in the New York zone, passed quickly to Hull and Bobby lifted a soft backhand past goalie Gump Worsley from 15 feet out.</p><p>After that it was all potential gravy for Hull as he set his sights on the big No. 51. But this time he had a three-man zone to contend with in Doug Harvey, Al Langlois and Earl Ingarfield.</p><p>Chicago&rsquo;s Blond Bomber came close but didn&rsquo;t quite make&rsquo; it. Said Bobby after the game:</p><p>&ldquo;Murray Balfour was in too close to the Ranger net to get off a shot and the puck was coming out to me right near the crease. Suddenly my stick was yanked away by Cahan. I had Worsley dead, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Hull was on the ice for 33 minutes in that final game in New York. He skated regularly on the powerplay, on his own Million Dollar Line with center Red Hay and right wing Balfour, and on Stan Mikita&rsquo;s Scooter Line in place of injured Ken Wharram.</p><p>Hull scored in 12 of his last 13 games, including the last three, and totaled 34 goals in Chicago&rsquo;s last 30 games of the season. He had only 15 goals over the first half (35 games) of the season.</p><p>He scored 24 goals on the road and 26 on friendly Chicago Stadium ice. His favorite target was Boston, with 14 goals, followed by Detroit, Montreal and New York with 10 each. Toronto was stingiest, allowing Hull only six goals during the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Cahan Hook Stopped Him Reaching 51

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div><p>CHICAGO, ILL.&mdash;</p><p>Five weeks before Bobby Hull scored his record-tying 50th goal of the 1961-62 National Hockey League season, Chicago Black Hawk teammate Reg Fleming called the turn.</p><p>&ldquo;When you get No. 50,&rdquo; the irrepressible Fleming told the Blond Bomber, &ldquo;Old Reg will be the man who feeds you the puck.&rdquo;</p><p>It was a remark typical of the enthusiastic Fleming, now in his second year in the NHL and the only rookie member of last year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup champion Black Hawks.</p><p>True to his word, it was Fleming who set up Hull&rsquo;s historic 50th goal in New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden on the final night of the regular NHL season. And he did it in typical Fleming fashion.</p><p>At the five minute mark of the first period Fleming pressed Ranger defenseman Al Langlois in the New York end. Reg feinted Langlois into a bad pass, intercepted the puck and passed over to Hull, standing about 15 feet in front of the Ranger goal. Hull whirled for&rsquo; a quick back-hander which floated over goalie Gump Worsley&rsquo;s shoulder and high into the webbing of the net.</p><p>Thus the final entry on Bobby Hull&rsquo;s historic 50-goal season, which ties the NHL record held by Montreal&rsquo;s Rocket Richard and Bernie Geoffrion, reads:</p><p>First Period: Black Hawks&mdash;HULL (Fleming) 4:58.</p><p>Off the ice the bull-necked Fleming is as soft spoken as a summer breeze. But once the game starts he is probably hockey&rsquo;s fiercest competitor.</p><p>Playing less than any of his Black Hawk teammates because his main duty is as a penalty killer, Fleming makes up for his lack of hockey talent and finesse with his aggressiveness and enthusiasm.</p><p>He also has a habit of being in the right spot at the big moments&hellip;</p><p>In the final minute and 31 seconds of the last game in New York. Chicago played with only three skaters to five for New York. The Rangers desperately tried to get the puck to Andy Bathgate to give him at least an assist on a goal and break his league scoring deadlock with Hull. Each had 84 points but Hull stood to win the title because he had more goals. First Eric Nesterenko (who got whistled off the ice) and then Fleming for the final 42 seconds of the season draped themselves about Bathgate so that he couldn&rsquo;t get his stick near the puck. It was the kind of &ldquo;assist&rdquo; that doesn&rsquo;t go in the record books.</p><p>A year ago this April, in the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs between Chicago and De-troit in Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia, the Black Hawks were losing 1-0 early in the first period.</p><p>With Detroit pressing with a man advantage the irrespressible Fleming harried the Detroit puck carriers, stole the puck, lost it, stole it again in the Detroit end and barked in toward Red Wing goalie Hank Bassen. More than anything else he barrelled the puck past a startled Bassen and the tide of battle changed. The Black Hawks were suddenly back in the game and charged up and went on to win going away, 5-1, for their first Stanley Cup in 23 years.</p><p>Afterwards everyone from General Manager Tommy Ivan and Coach Rudy Pilous on through all the players agreed to a man it was Fleming&rsquo;s goal which turned the tide and gave them the spark for the victory.</p><p>But back to this year. In recent games, with Ron Murphy sidelined with a groin injury the last few weeks of the season, Fleming has been taking a regular turn with Bronco Horvath at center and Eric Nesterenko at right wing. He had a two goal night in Montreal Forum in the only regular season game won their all season. And he showed surprising improvement as a regular wingman. He also has the stamina and drive to continue his key job as a penalty killer with Bob Turner.</p><p>The spotlight in the big games? In the 69th game of the season for Chicago, Bobby Hull got his 49th goal in Montreal Forum in the last seven minutes of play. And, once again, it was the aggressive Fleming who helped set the stage.</p><p>Prior to Hull&rsquo;s big goal Fleming was involved in the four different fights with Montreal players. These included Bill Hicke twice, J. C. Tremblay and Jean Beliveau (skirmish only). He totaled six penalties for the evening worth 15 penalty minutes.</p><p>This, of course, wasn&rsquo;t much of a night&rsquo;s work for the man who, as a rookie, ran up a league record of 37 minutes in penalties in one game in New York which included three fights and a couple of misconduct penalties. It also cost him $200 for the evening, including a special fine of $100 levied after the game by League President Clarence Campbell.</p><p>Fleming has curbed his fighting somewhat this year and concentrated more on his penalty killing and made the most of his opportunities to play on a regular shift. But he has lost none of his aggressiveness or crowd appeal.</p><p>In Chicago Stadium, against the Detroit Red Wings on March 20 in Chicago&rsquo;s last home game of the year, the biggest cheer of the night came in the last period when Hull scored no. 48. But even before that it was. the enthusiastic Fleming who drew a round of applause and murmers of excitement from the fans every time he was sent on the ice&hellip;. and a cheer nearly as big as Hull&rsquo;s on several occasions when he went off.</p><p>Bobby Hull and goalie Glenn Hall are still the big hockey heroes to Chicago fans but close behind as their favorite player is irrepressible Reg Fleming&mdash;the player whose intense desire to win makes what hockey talent he has go a long, long way.</p><h2>On The Spot</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01827/3445490-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="532" height="1275"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Reg Fleming</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-01

Reg Always In Right Spot At Right Moment

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Punch Imlach has abandoned his famous crystal ball.</p><p>Maple Leafs&rsquo; manager-coach steadfastly refused to make any predictions whatsoever about this year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to give anybody any psychological weapons to use against me,&rdquo; Imlach explained.</p><p>Last spring. Detroit Red Wings credited Imlach&rsquo;s pre-series oratory with inspiring them to the major effort they needed to upset Leafs in the semi-finals. After the decisive game, general man-ager Jack Adams said: &ldquo;We have Imlach to thank for this.&rdquo;</p><p>Apparently, some newspaperman had quoted Imlach as predicting Leafs would knock Wings out in five or six games. Punch himself didn&rsquo;t remember it.</p><p>Imlach was so cautious this year he even declined to state whether he&rsquo;d sooner play Detroit or New York in the first playoff round, while those teams still were struggling for possession of fourth place. Obivously, he reasoned either team would resent it if he implied it would be a soft touch.</p><p>The impression given is that opposition coaches study all newspapers for Imlach quotes which they can clip out and use to fire up their players. All this goes back to the spring of 1959 when Leafs made their famous charge into the Stanley Cup playoffs. Imlach had forecast 65 points would put Leafs in and when they got their 65th point on the final night of the schedule, it placed them the necessary single point in front of fifth-place New York. From then on, every prediction Imlach made seemed to turn out correctly and he acquired this reputation as a 20th century soothsayer.</p><p>Also Imlach was stung by the fact his major prognostication for the 1961-62 season had turned out badly. Ninety-two points had been the objective he set up for this year&rsquo;s Leafs (a 27-point improvement in three years, by the way) and they wound up with somewhat less.</p><p>Meanwhile, New York Rangers, Leafs&rsquo; first-round opponents, were waging a little psychological warfare of their own. Manager Muzz Patrick and playing coach Doug Harvey spoke mysteriously of a &ldquo;secret weapon.&rdquo; Naturally, they refused to divulge any details.</p><p>You could guess, though. They rested right-winger Ken Schinkel the final weekend of the schedule and it might have been they were preparing him for the arduous assignment of checking Frank Mahovlich. Or maybe they planned to use Andy Bathgate at a new position. Or maybe they planned to overpower the left side of Leafs&rsquo; defence, weakened by injuries to Bert Olmstead and Carl Brewer.</p><p>In any event, Leafs were solid favorites to eliminate Rangers and on that basis, were second choices behind Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup. They were 12 to 5 for the Cup, compared to 5 to 7 on Canadiens, 5 to 1 on Chicago and 12 to 1 Rangers.</p><p>Recapping the regular season, Johnny Bower lost the goaltending championship. And Frank Mahovlich&rsquo;s goal total was down 15 to 33. However, Davey Keon&rsquo;s shooting was up to 26 in his sophomore season and George Armstrong had a tremendous season with 21 goals and 32 assists. So did Red Kelly, who had 22 goals and 27 assists despite a series of injuries all winter. And Tim Horton and Allan Stanley, with 39 points and 35, respectively, had extremely productive seasons.</p><p>Imlach tabbed Kelly as the key man in the series against Rangers. &ldquo;We learned that last spring when we didn&rsquo;t have him,&rdquo; Punch said.</p><h2>No Comment</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02696/3445521-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="532" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Punch Imlach</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-02

Punch Packs Crystal Ball In Moth Balls This Time

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Early last October, the finest shinny brains on either side of the U.S.-Canadian border were asked to stir their cerebellum and pick the order of finish in the NHL.</p><p>While there was some wavelength confusion over the ultimate league champion, the minds agreed that the New York entry would not finish first. Nor second, third or, for that matter, fourth.</p><p>Now it&rsquo;s April and, despite all ouija boards, the official NHL standing boldly indicates that the geniuses were wrong. The Rangers finished fourth.</p><p>So, wha&rsquo; happen?</p><p>In a few words&mdash;Earl Ingarfield, Andy Bathgate, Dean Prentice, Gump Worsley, Harry Howell, Al Langlois, Doug Harvey, a smidgen of luck and the ineptitude of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Andy Bathgate ran home with the Ranger MVP prize again and there are few who will argue with Andy&rsquo;s team scoring leadership or worth to the club. But there were times before when Bathgate paced the Blues in scoring and New York failed to make the playoffs so there had to be more this year.</p><p>Obviously, there was. After years of searching, the Blues finally came up with center Ingarfield, the fabric who could sew together the varied talents of Bathgate and Prentice.</p><p>Easy-going Earl&mdash;voted the Rangers&rsquo; Player&rsquo;s Player award&mdash;sunk 28 goals, more than any pivot in the line&rsquo;s history and skated with an aplomb that was downright un-Ranger-like. Without Ingarfield, the Blues would have been fighting to stay out of Boston&rsquo;s way.</p><p>Bad back and all, Dean Prentice labored up and down the left wing so competently that even coach Harvey, the phlegmatic king, was stirred to enthusiasm.</p><p>&ldquo;I never knew Dean was such a worker,&rdquo; said Harvey a few dozen times during the season, &ldquo;until I came to New York.&rdquo;</p><p>The rap&mdash;or ONE of the raps&mdash;against Worsley over the years has been his failure to stop the big ones in the big games. The chunky one went a long way toward dispelling that line with some clever goaltending during the final two weeks.</p><p>Gump needed help up front and he got it, more than ever, from Howell, Langlois and Harvey, in that order. Howell was the solid rock, Langlois, the good rusher, good shot, who did a lot of covering for the coach, and Harvey with still enough All-Star in him to be effective. Camille Henry, Dave Balon, Andy Hebenton and Ted Hampson rate E for effort.</p><p>Lest their be any illusions about the Rangers&rsquo; quality, it should be recalled that the New Yorkers didn&rsquo;t clinch fourth until the next last night of the season, backing in as Detroit tied Toronto 2-2.</p><p>Rangers were fortunate to run into last-place Boston in its 69th game and nipped the B&rsquo;s, al-though Phil Watson&rsquo;s outfit gave the Blues a devil of a time.</p><p>New York also got a break when referee Ed Powers called a penalty shot against Detroit in the decisive Dec. 14th game at Madison Square Garden. Bathgate scored and the Rangers soared.</p><p>And, of course, the Blues must give thanks to the Wings, who while the Rangers were suffering through a 10-game losing streak that should have passed them into oblivion, played so aimlessly as to leave the Blues within striking distance of fourth.</p><p>Make no mistake, though, the Wings had a fair shot at the playoff berth with a week to go. But Detroit blew the March 20th game at Chicago. The Rangers went to Boston March 22. had to win, and did. Detroit needed the victory at Toronto and lost.</p><p>Rangers were, four points better than Detroit. That&rsquo;s why they finished fourth in spite of the shinny experts.</p><h2>Leader</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02744/3445583-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="524" height="840"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-02

Rangers Upset Dope Sheet By Finishing 4th

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>No one will ever mistake Eddie Shore for Roger Maris.</p><p>Twenty-three years after his last appearance in a Bruins&rsquo; uniform, Shore still remembers the people who have perpetuated his fame and hockey feats.</p><p>He still has the same magnetic touch with New England&rsquo;s hockey public and New England sportswriters that he had in his heyday as the game&rsquo;s greatest player.</p><p>When the Gallery Gods, the second balcony fans&rsquo; organization here, chose Doug Mohns as the recipient of their first annual Eddie Shore Award, they asked Shore himself to make the presentation.</p><p>So Shore, made the 100-mile trip from Springfield and after being introduced by Dick Lambert before the Bruins-Toronto final game of the season here, he stopped to the microphone to a thunderous ovation.</p><p>&ldquo;Hello, all you wonderful people?&rdquo; said the man who is credited with paying for Boston Garden with his hockey skill.</p><p>Then Shore gave a lively little speech, referring to &ldquo;my friends in the press box who have always treated me so well.&rdquo; Said one press box occupant, &ldquo;Maris should take lessons from Eddie.&rdquo;</p><p>Shore called Mohns &ldquo;Mr. Mohns&rdquo; and termed him &ldquo;a great defenseman.&rdquo; Then he retired to his seat to hear Sportscaster Frank Fallon present Mohns with the Elizabeth C. Dufresne Trophy as the most valuable Bruin, an award which he was the first to win 27 years ago.</p><p>To complete the presentation program Andre Pronovost received a trophy from a group of fans, represented by Sportswrite Leo Monahan, for his play in road games.</p><p>It has been known for many months that Shore&rsquo;s Springfield franchise in the American League is for sale. One report is that the Baltimore Colts&rsquo; football team, which has applied for an AL franchise, has done some negotiating with Shore.</p><p>Regardless, it was obvious by the affection shown him on his visit here that he will always be assured of a warm welcome should he care to return in any capacity, especially, quipped one press box pundit, &ldquo;as a player.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01941/3445614-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="274" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Shore</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-01

Bruins Fans Give Shore Big Welcome

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Just before the regular schedule ended, as the Canadiens were wrapping up their fifth straight league championship, Coach Toe Blake expressed relief that his big guns were starting to show old-time form.</p><p>He was referring to Boom Boom Geoffrion who had started scoring and wound up with 23 goals, big Jean Beliveau who had missed the first 25 games of the schedule but was driving at the finish, and Dickie Moore, who was overcoming the injuries that hampered him all season and was getting his share of goals in the late-schedule games.</p><p>&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t expect to win the playoffs without them,&rdquo; said Blake. He pointed to the fact that the lesser lights had carried the Habs through to first-place but couldn&rsquo;t be expected to do it all in the run to the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Nevertheless, Blake couldn&rsquo;t have even hoped for the kind of drive shown by Dickie Moore in the first two games of the best-of-seven series with Chicago. Moore was the brightest star of Montreal&rsquo;s 2-1 and 4-3 victories that sent the Habs into Chicago Stadium with a 2-0 lead in the semi-final round.</p><p>Moore, a doubtful starter before the playoffs after suffering a rib injury the second last week of the schedule, scored Canadiens first playoff goal in the series opener and was the spark-plug of their comeback in the second contest. In that game, when the Habs came from behind with three goals in three minutes late in the third period, Moore scored twice and set up the other goal by defenceman Jean-Guy Talbot.</p><p>Dickie, ever skating and ever driving while most of his mates floundered around in that second game, was back to his old tricks as a tremendous playoff performer ever since he joined the Canadiens 11 years ago. He ran his playofi total to 37 goals in 103 series games&mdash;in which he twice was top goal getter and most points man in previous years.</p><p>Considering that Moore had beer a question mark since training camp, due to a gimpy knee that had been with him since the 1961 playoffs, his efforts in the first two games of the semi-final gave Blake and his charges a tremendous lift.</p><p>Moore came out of the second games with his eye almost closed after being nicked by Hawk Bobby Hull&rsquo;s stick in the third period. But he was ready and raring to go when the series shifted to Chicago Stadium for the third and fourth games.</p><p>Frank Selke, the Canadiens&rsquo; man aging director may have had Moore&rsquo;s desire in mind when he said of the Hab&rsquo;s after their second win at Montreal:</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the big thing with this team, it never quits.&rdquo;</p><p>Selke&rsquo;s words were echoed by some 14,000-plus fans who sat in on the Forum thriller in which Canadiens played their worst 50 minutes of hockey before coming from behind to edge the Black Hawks 4-3. Moore&rsquo;s second goal of the game (while Chicago&rsquo;s Murray Balfour was penalized) gave the Habs the life they needed to gel three goals in three minutes foi na very important victory.</p><p>Said Toe Blake after the game:</p><p>&ldquo;We stole that one. To be honest we only played about five minutes of hockey. What else could it be but a steal.&rdquo;</p><p>In reference to the second period, in which the Hawks hemmed Habs into their zone to the point that seven shots were made by Chicago defencemen, Blake admitted that it was Canadiens&rsquo; worst second period all season.</p><p>&ldquo;Nevertheless,&rdquo; said Blake, &ldquo;I have to give the Black Hawks credit. They never gave us a chance to get started.&rdquo;</p><p>Besides Moore, Jean Beliveau who got credit for the winning goal in the first game (on a deflection of defenceman Tom Johnson&rsquo;s shot) and Phil Goyette who went all the way at centre as Canadiens operated with only three forward lines, Blake also praised the work of goalie Jacques Plante.</p><p>&ldquo;Plante kept us in there with those clutch saves&mdash;he&rsquo;s our big factor in this series.&rdquo;</p><p>While the coach was relieved at winning the first two games of the series, he had occasion to blast his charges on at least two occasions.</p><p>Coach Blake was fuming for a few minutes after the series opener in which the Habs had a letdown in the dying minutes and allowed the Hawks to score while they themselves were shorthanded.</p><p>&ldquo;Our fellows were dancing around with the puck in our end instead of rushing it out of there,&rdquo; bellowed Blake. &ldquo;The first thing we knew, the Hawks got it and it was in our net. We can&rsquo;t afford to have those letdowns in the playoffs. Chicago has too good a team to give them goals.&rdquo;</p><p>Blake&rsquo;s other blast came between the second and third periods of the second contest, recalling that Montreal had won the first game last year but lost the second and eventually the series. He gave his team a tongue-lashing but wouldn&rsquo;t single out anyone in particular.</p><p>There were too many involved,&rdquo; said Blake in an understatement of the poor showing by Canadiens in that second period.</p><p>As the Canadiens went into Chicago for the third and fourth games, Toe was asked how he felt about having a 2-0 lead in the series.</p><p>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the coach tersley, &ldquo;let&rsquo;s just say that we are a lot better off than we were last year at this time.&rdquo;</p><h2>Never Quits</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03536/3445645-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="447" height="624"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie Moore</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-03

Like Old Days—Moore Inspiration For Habs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04369/3445676-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"></div><p>&bull; <b>Want to Check a Refs Decision?</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Want to be a Hockey Know-It-All?</b></p><p>Here&rsquo;s your chance. With this handy pocket-size rule book you&rsquo;ll be able to check a decision on the spot. Fill in the coupon below and enclose 25 cents per copy for handling and mailing.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-04

Hockey Rule Book Now Available!

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL POMPEI</div><p>SPRINGFIELD. Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Springfield Indians will carry an amazing record into the American Hockey League Calder Cup playoff series.</p><p>The Tribe will have a 10-game winning streak going for them and a remarkable 16 out of 18 as it seeks the Calder Cup championship for a record third successive time.</p><p>Here is a brief run down of the Indians&rsquo; two-year Calder Cup record:</p><h2>1959-60 Semifinals</h2><p>Springfield 3, Providence 1</p><p>Springfield 2, Providence 1 (overtime)</p><p>Providence 7, Springfield 6 (overtime)</p><p>Springfield 4, Providence 3</p><p>Springfield 5, Providence 3</p><h3>Finals</h3><p>Springfield 3, Rochester 2</p><p>Springfield 3, Rochester 2</p><p>Rochester 7, Springfield 2</p><p>Springfield 3, Rochester 2</p><p>Springfield 6, Rochester 3</p><h2>1960-61 Semifinals</h2><p>Springfield 8, Cleveland 1</p><p>Springfield 3, Cleveland 2</p><p>Springfield 4, Cleveland 1</p><p>Springfield 3, Cleveland 1</p><h3>Finals</h3><p>Springfield 4, Hershey 3</p><p>Springfield 3, Hershey 2</p><p>Springfield 7, Hershey 3</p><p>Springfield 3, Hershey 0</p><p>Although the Tribe&rsquo;s record at home is a perfect 10-0, the club&rsquo;s record on the road is nothing to sneer at either&mdash;with six out of eight.</p><p>The Indians have outscored their opposition. 64-40. in playoff competition, during the spell.</p><p>No other club in the 26 year history of the AHL has such an impressive record over a two-season span. Only one other club, the Indianapolis Capitals in 1949-50, has ever swept the series in the minimum eight games as the Tribe did last season.</p><p>The records are fine to look back on but what lies ahead for Owner Eddie Shore and his Indians?</p><p>By the big Chiefs&rsquo; own admission. the Indians will have added difficulties this year. While he admits that this club is as good as the two preceding Tribes, Shore is also convinced that his opponents are stronger, too.</p><p>&ldquo;Most other teams have strengthened up this year and I believe that our boys will have to play harder than they did in the past in order to take the Cup again,&rsquo;&rsquo; Shore said recently at a banquet given to his Indians by the Greater Springfield Joint Civic Agencies on the occasion of winning the regular American League title for a record third straight year.</p><p>But for all their wonderful accomplishments during the past few years, Springfield stands to lose this great hockey club to the City of Baltimore.</p><p>Baltimore, hoping to gain admission to the AHL next season, is bidding high for the Springfield franchise and the hockey club.</p><p>Shore has said that he would sell his club if the price is right.</p><p>Baltimore interests have made overtures to Shore but whether or not they have met his price and conditions are yet unknown.</p><p>There is one other hitch, too, the transfer of any franchise must be be unanimously approved by the AHL governors and whether or not Shore&mdash;even if he gets his price can get that okay is still another matter.</p><p>At any rate, the Indians are for the moment concerned with only the Calder Cup playoffs which open this week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Baltimore Bidding High For Indians’ Franchise

<p><b>APRIL ISSUE Now At YOUR NEWSSTAND PICTORIAL</b></p><p><b>WORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINE</b></p><p><b>The Great Comeback Of George Armstrong</b></p><p><b>ALSO IN THIS ISSUE</b></p><p>&bull; <b>The Alex Delvecchio Story</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Gilles Tremblay Nixes Jinx</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Rangers Immortals hold reunion</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Cesare Maniago&mdash;Sure Fire NHL Bet</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;When I actually turned pro I was not at all optimistic about lasting very long in the NHL. When I signed my first contract I wasn&rsquo;t sure I could last ten years. I guess I expected to wear out early,&rdquo; says the Leafs&rsquo; Captain.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04382/3445738-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="567" height="648"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05269/3445731-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="1080" height="648"></div><p><b>Subscribe Now and SAVE!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-04

HOCKEY PICTORIAL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01866/3445769-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Springfield Indians. 1961-62 American Hockey League champions, as they were honored recently by the Greater Springfield Joint Civic Agencies. Seated at left is Owner Eddie Shore and at right Coach Pat Egan. Left to right: Bill Sweeney. GM Jack Butterfield. Bob McCord. Kent Douglas. Floyd Smith. Ted Harris (rear), Don Johns, Davey Duke, Jim Anderson, Dave Amadio, George Wood, Denis Olson (back), Billy McCreary. Brian Kilrea, trainer Wally Barlow (front). Publicity Director Burleigh Brown and Bob Kabel.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-01

The Peaceful Indians Honored

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>When Jim Ellery drew up the American Hockey League schedule last summer, he listed two long time rivals, the Buffalo Bisons and the Clevelan Barons, to wind up the season with a home-and-home weekend series.</p><p>As this edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, there was a good chance those two games would decide the Western Division title. The torrid race between the clubs has brought the hockey interest to high levels in both cities, and they&rsquo;ll need shoe horns to jam the customers into the buildings.</p><p>At this writing, each club had two games remaining, with the Barons holding a two-point lead.</p><p>The Bisons blew a two-goal lead and a chance to move back into a tie with the Barons when the Hershey Bears roared from behind for a 3-2 decision over the Herd in Hershey, March 24. The surprising Providence Reds, a notoriously weak road club this winter, whipped the Barons, 4-1. in Cleveland the same night, and then followed with a 4-1 win over Rochester at Providence the following night.</p><p>If the two-game Buffalo-Cleveland series became the determining factor in the Western Division run, the Bisons had to be favored by a wide margin off the past performances.</p><p>The Bisons won three and tied one with the Barons in Buffalo, and won three and lost one in Cleveland. In four of those eight games, the Barons held two and three-goal margins, but weren&rsquo;t able to hold off the Herd.</p><p>Cleveland has never been a good drawing city in the playoffs. The Indians of the American Baseball League dominate the sports pages in the spring, and the Barons, in the past, have played to some tiny playoff crowds in the spacious Cleveland Arena.</p><p>However, the Buffalo-Cleveland rivalry this season has been widely publicized in both cities, and league officials are certain the Barons will show improvement at the playoff box office.</p><p>In Buffalo, plans were being made by Owner Ruby Pastor to televise the April 1 game at Cleveland back to Buffalo over a local station. It was likely that Bill Mazer, the Bisons&rsquo; play-by-play announcer on Radio Station WGR, would TV the game through his station&rsquo;s video affiliate, WGR-TV.</p><p><b>ALONG THE BOARDS</b>&mdash;The Bisons were forced to hold several workouts at nearby Ft. Erie, Ont., when the Ice Follies moved in Memorial Auditorium&hellip;The 17-man Buffalo squad was back in top form physically for the first time in weeks, although Art Stratton was still hampered by sciatica&hellip;Denis DeJordy was scheduled to commute between here and Montreal as the parent Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; standby goalie for the first two games of the Stanley Cup playoffs&hellip;Roger Crozier, the young St. Catharines Teepees&rsquo; goalie, joined the Bisons following the Teeps&rsquo; elimination from the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA playoffs. Defenseman Bob Wilson Jr. and left-winger Doug Robinson were scheduled to report here from the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds at the close of the Eastern Pro League season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02742/3445807-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="272" height="337"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ruby Pastor</b></figcaption></div><h2>Still Limping</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03537/3445800-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="564" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Stratton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-02

Bisons, Barons Fight To Wire For Western Title

<p><i>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;</i></p><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><p><b>Tuesday, March 27</b></p><p>Chicago 1 at Montreal 2</p><p>(Montreal leads best of seven series 1-0)</p><p><b>Thursday, March 29</b></p><p>Chicago 3 at Montreal 4</p><p>(Montreal leads best of seven series 2-0)</p><p><b>Sunday, April 1</b></p><p>Montreal 1 at Chicago 4</p><p>(Montreal leads best of seven series 2-1)</p><h3><b>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</b></h3><p><b>Tuesday, March 27</b></p><p>New York 2 at Toronto 4</p><p>(Toronto leads best of seven series 1-0)</p><p><b>Thursday, March 29</b></p><p>New York 1 at Toronto 2</p><p>(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-0)</p><p><b>Sunday, April 1</b></p><p>Toronto 4 at New York 5</p><p>(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-1)</p><h2>Stanley Cup Point Parade</h2><p><b>(Including games of Sun., April 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01930/3445880-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="574" height="559"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><p><b>TUESDAY, MARCH 27 Chicago 1 at Montreal 2</b></p><p>(Montreal leads best of seven semi-final series 1-0)</p><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Pilote, Vasko, Evans, St. Laurent, Turner; forwards: Hay. Balfour. Hull. Mikita, McDonald. Wharram, Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk. Kuryluk.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante; defense: Johnson. Talbot, Fontinato, J. C. Tremblay, MacNeil; forwards: Goyette, Provost, Moore. Beliveau, Rousseau. G. Tremblay, Backstrom, Geoffrion, Hicke, Marshall, Berenson.</p><p>Referee: Powers; linesmen: Armstrong, Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02831/3445873-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="561" height="550"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h3><p><b>New York 2 at Toronto 4</b></p><p>(Toronto leads best of seven semi-final series 1&mdash;0)</p><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Howell, Cahan, Harvey, Langlois, Spencer; forwards: Ingarfield. Bathgate, Prentice, Henry, Hadfield, Hebenton, Gendron, Hampson, Schinkel, Baton, Hannigan, Wilson.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Baun, Arbour, Hillman; forwards: Mahovlich, Kelly Shack, Armstrong, Keon, Duff, Pulford, Stewart, Nevin. Litzenberger, Harris.</p><p>Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Wicks. Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03693/3445866-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="564" height="475"></div><h3>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h3><p><b>THURSDAY, MARCH 29 Chicago 3 at Montreal 4</b></p><p>(Montreal leads best of seven series 2-0)</p><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defense: Evans, St. Laurent, Pilote. Vasko, Turner; forwards: Hay, Balfour, Hull, Mikita, McDonald, Wharram, Horvath, Nesterenko, Fleming, Melnyk, Kuryluk.</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante; defense: Johnson, Talbot, Fontinato, J. C. Tremblay, MacNeil; forwards: Goyette Provost, Moore, Beliveau, Rousseau. G. Tremblay. Backstrom, Geoffrion, Hicke, Marshall, Berenson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04440/3445859-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="562" height="695"></div><h3>SERIES B&rsquo;</h3><p><b>New York 1 at Toronto 2</b></p><p>(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-0)</p><p>New York&mdash;goal: Worsley; defense: Harvey, Langlois, Howell, Cahan, Spencer: forwards: Bathgate. Prentice, Ingarfield. Balon, Gendron, Hebenton, Henry, Hanningan, Schinkel, Wilson, Hampson.</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower: defense: Horton, Stanley. Arbour, Baun. Hillman; forwards: Kelly, Mahovlich, Shack, Keon. Armstrong. Duff. Pullford. Litzenberger, Nevin, Stewart, Harris.</p><p>Referee: Buffey; linesmen: Wicks, Haves.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05331/3445852-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="562" height="476"></div><h3>SERIES A&rsquo;</h3><p><b>SUNDAY, APRIL 1 Montreal 1 at Chicago 4</b></p><p>(Montreal leads best of seven series 2-1)</p><p>Montreal&mdash;goal: Plante: defence: Johnson. Talbot. J. C. Tremblay, Fontinato. MacNeil: forwards: Goyette, Provost, Moore. Beliveau. Rousseau. G. Tremblay. Backstrom, Geoffrion, Hicke, Marshall, Berenson.</p><p>Chicago&mdash;goal: Hall; defence: Pilote. Vasko. Evans. St. Laurent. Turner: forwards: Hay. Balfour. Hull. Mikita, Wharram. McDonald, Horvath. Fleming. &ldquo;Nesterenko Melnyk Kurrvluk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06265/3445845-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="570" height="610"></div><h3>SERIES B&rsquo;</h3><p><b>Toronto 4 at New York 5</b></p><p>(Toronto leads best of seven series 2-1)</p><p>Toronto&mdash;goal: Bower; defence: Arbour, Horton, Baun, Hillman, Stanley; forwards: Mahovlich, Litzenberger. Pulford, Kelly, Duff. Armstrong, Nevin, Stewart, Keon. Shack, Harris.</p><p>New York: goal: Worsley; defence: Langlois, Harvey, Howell. Cahan. Spencer; forwards: Ingarfield, Bathgate, Prentice. Balon, Wilson. Gendron, Hebenton, Hampson, Hadfield, Hannigan, Gilbert.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07207/3445838-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="563" height="691"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>C</span>oach Toe Blake commenting on Mikita&rsquo;s last minute goal in first game 2-1 Hab win:</b> &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no excuse for giving away goals in playoff hockey. My fellows were dancing around with the puck instead of getting it out of our end of the rink. The Black Hawks are too good a team for us to make mistakes and expect to beat them.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Coach Rudy Pilous after his team dropped opener 2-1:</b> &ldquo;They won the opener last year too, remember. And I can tell you this series is far from over just as the one last year. It Was just a case of the puck rolling for them. We just didn&rsquo;t capitalize on our chances in the first period. It&rsquo;s been the same all season. We have no alibis over that game.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Billy Hicke, after game in which he was given misconduct:</b> &ldquo;Nesterenko hooked my arm and swung me around in front of Powers and I looked at the referee to see if he was going to call a penalty. I hadn&rsquo;t said a word, but Powers said to me: &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t say anything.&rsquo; That did it. I said something and got the penalty.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Coach Punch Imlach after his Leafs won first game against Rangers:</b> &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not going to have our own way in this series, that&rsquo;s for sure. They played well and checked as well as any game they ever played against us.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Coach Doug Harvey, after opening loss to Leafs:</b> &ldquo;It was one of those games that could have gone either way. We missed a few chances that might have meant a different outcome. However the Leafs got a couple of lucky breaks and the puck bounced their way.&rdquo;</p><p><b>General Manager Lynn Patrick of the Rangers after opening loss:</b> &ldquo;We gave the Leafs three gift goals and we can&rsquo;t ever win if we play that way.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Rudy Pilous, After Hawks &ldquo;Blew&rdquo; Second Game:</b> We should have had a big enough lead they couldn&rsquo;t touch us with a 10 foot pole in the last period. But we didn&rsquo;t and we gave them the chance to redeem themselves. They played as if they were giving it one last shot in the last 10 minutes. They didn&rsquo;t do anything until then.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Elmer Vasko, Chicago defenseman after&rsquo; second loss:</b> &ldquo;We&rsquo;re really behind the eight ball now.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Glenn Hall, Chicago goaler, after second loss:</b> &ldquo;This club has lots of spirit, but it&rsquo;s going to be tough to win this series.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Johnny Gottselig, after second loss:</b> &ldquo;They played three minutes of hockey and won it.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Toe Blake after pulling out second win:</b> &ldquo;You have to give the Hawks credit. They bottled us up and wouldn&rsquo;t let us get started. But Dickie&rsquo;s goal fired us up. It changed the whole game and gave us confidence to make a comeback.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Frank Seike, after second win:</b> &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the difference between this season and last season&mdash;this team can really come back.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Claude Provost, about his game winning goal in 4-3 win:</b> &ldquo;When that puck bounced off Goyette, I didn&rsquo;t give Hull a chance.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Doug Harvey, after second game loss in Toronto:</b> &ldquo;They were checking us pretty good, and it was really tough for us to get many shots away after Pulford&rsquo;s goal. But we still weren&rsquo;t skating as well as we should.&rsquo; &lsquo;</p><p><b>Andy Bathgate, in Ranger room after 2-1 loss:</b> &ldquo;I think our rink will make a big difference to us in the next two games. We just haven&rsquo;t any confidence when we play here. The boards round the rink are the liveliest in the league, and it&rsquo;s hard to get used to them, even after nine games.&rdquo;</p><p><b>Punch Imlach, after 2-1 win in Toronto:</b> &ldquo;We just squeaked by in the two games here. If my players are over-confident then they&rsquo;re just the stupidest bunch of hockey players in the world.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-09140/3445949-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="270" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04465/3445942-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="290" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Elmer Vasko</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-09

Playoff Dressing Room Comments

<p><b>GORDONS DRY GIN</b> Perfect with any mix</p><p><b>GORDONS DRY GIN</b> Makes a Martini Perfect</p><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><p><b>(Final Standings)</b></p><h3>Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01900/3446064-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="560" height="128"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02799/3446057-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="562" height="125"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><p><b>(Final Scoring Statistics)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03619/3446050-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="564" height="323"></div><h3>(Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04504/3446043-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="564" height="346"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 Rochester 2 at Buffalo 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05388/3446036-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="551" height="521"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 3 at Hershey 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06330/3446029-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="554" height="453"></div><h3>Cleveland 3 at Springfield 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07289/3446022-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="559" height="532"></div><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 31 Buffalo 4 at Cleveland 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08265/3446015-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="558" height="773"></div><h3>Rochester 0 at Hershey 12</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09256/3446008-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="558" height="763"></div><h3>Providence 7 at Pittsburgh 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10234/3446001-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="556" height="784"></div><h3>Quebec 3 at Springfield 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11203/3445994-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="547" height="524"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 1 Cleveland 5 at Buffalo 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12165/3445987-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="552" height="696"></div><h3>Quebec 7 at Providence 10</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13149/3445980-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="570" height="1019"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p>Obviously, the Cleveland Barons would be thrilled to win the Calder Cup playoffs, in which they currently are embroiled. But after what happened on March 25, even a victory in the post-season classic might almost seem anticlimactic.</p><p>That was the day that the roof came close to being blown off the Cleveland Arena.</p><p>The force that generated the power came from over 4,000 human throats as a litle rubber puck nestled inside the Pits-burgh Hornets&rsquo; cage.</p><p>The goal really meant nothing. It was the 11th score of the afternoon for the Barons, who hung a 13-2 pasting on the hapless Hornets.</p><p>But to those fans, to the Barons and, especially, to one Frederick Austin Glover, it meant everything.</p><p>For it was the 400th time in his illustrious American Hockey League career that Glover had planted the wafer behind an enemy netminder.</p><p>His 400th goal had seemed so long in coming. All afternoon, the fans had screamed every time Glover got his stick on the puck. They had moaned whenever he failed to net a tally, cheered when he unselfishly had passed off to a teammate, hollered when he stepped onto the ice, clapped when he skated off.</p><p>His center, Ron Attwell, had tallied once. His left winger, Jim Mikol, had scored twice. Still nothing for Glover and time was a-wasting.</p><p>Then, at 15:47 of the third period, Glover&rsquo;s goal came following passes by Bill Needham and Mikol. Pandemonium broke loose. Rising to its feet as one, the crowd clapped and screamed and whistled and cheered&mdash;for what seemed like an age. The game stopped as his teammates gathered around to clap him on the back, rumple his hair, pummel him and pound him.</p><p>Benchwarmers left the Cleveland box and deluged him. Goalie Les Binkley skated all the way down ice to add his congratulations.</p><p>The Glover story had started back in Indianapolis in the 194849 season. On March 3, 1951 the 23-year-old winger became the 54th player in AHL history to score 100 goals. On February 17, 1956r now playing for Cleveland, the 28-year-old Glover became the 16th man to tally 200 goals. As captain of the Barons on February 27, 1959, the 31-year-old Glover became the second man in AHL history to score 300 times.</p><p>And on March 25, 1962, the 34-year-old assistant coach of the Barons became the first to reach the magic 400 figure.</p><p>In the course of his 14-year AHL career, 10 of which have been spent with Cleveland, Glover has numbered these outstanding achievements among his many individual records: winner of the Les Cunningham Trophy as the league&rsquo;s most valuable player, 1959-60; winner of the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as the league&rsquo;s leading scorer, 1956-57 and 1959-60: leading goal scorer, 1950-51; leader in assists, 1959-60; member of the official all-star team, 1950-51, 1954-55, 1956-57, 1959-60; all time leading scorer with 971 points; all-time leading goal scorer with 400; all-time assist leader with 571. For the record, his 1555 minutes in penalties also stands as a league mark.</p><p>Above all, he has been a. remarkable team player, an inspiration to his mates, a favorite of the fans, a performer who at all times has given his best despite countless personal injuries, a selfless participant who has helped many of his linemates achieve stardom.</p><p>In the current Calder Cup playoffs, the Barons must be accorded an excellent chance for victory. After all, they have a weapon possessed by no other club.</p><p>That weapon is Frederick Austin Glover!</p><h2>Records Another</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-14122/3446095-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="552" height="540"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fred Glover</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-14

Glover Stings Hornets, Whipping In His 400th

<p><b>1st Classes</b></p><p><b>AUGUST 15 thru AUGUST 21</b></p><p><b>2nd Classes</b></p><p><b>AUGUST 22 thru AUGUST 28</b></p><p><b>INSTRUCTORS</b></p><p><b>GORDIE HOWE EDDIE BUSH SID ABEL and other Red Wing Stars</b></p><p><b>JIM SKINNER, Chief Red Wings Scout, on hand to review prospects.</b></p><p><b>Write for full particulars to:</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY SCHOOL</b></p><p><b>Olympia Stadium 5920 Grand River Avenue Detroit 8, Michigan</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

1st Annual DETROIT RED WINGS HOCKEY SCHOOL AT DETROIT OLYMPIA Home of the Red Wings

<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>The prolific sticks of a 29-year-old rookie and a 25-year-old veteran have sparked the Rhode Island Reds to a fantastic whirlwind finish in the AHL this season&mdash;a finish which propelled the Reds from a hopeless last-place situation to a playoff position over the final four weeks of the schedule.</p><p>With rookie Pierre Brillant regaining his educated scoring touch, and with veteran Orland Kurtenbach finding new whip in his Northland, the Reds, who were six points behind Quebec a month ago suddenly exploded for an amazing string of 11 victories and a tie in 13 games to nail down a playoff slot in the Eastern Division.</p><p>Brillant, one of the leading candidates for rookie-of-the-year honors in the AHL this season, scored 24 goals in his first 49 games this season, but then hit a 5-game famine while the Reds lost 7 in succession during February.</p><p>Suddenly, the Rimouski Rifle, as he is called, regained his touch a month ago and exploded for 12 goals in the red-hot streak of 13 games, upping his season total to an impressive 36 counters.</p><p>More important, three of these 12 were of the winning variety, giving the flashy right winger seven clinchers for Providence over the campaign.</p><p>While Brillant was terrorizing opposing goalies from the right side, big Orland Kurtenbach, a veteran of 5 pro seasons, found new scoring magic in his lumber. Only a moderate sniper throughout his previous stints in the NHL, AHL, and WHL, the big centreman got off to a dismal start this season.</p><p>In his first 22 games Kurt was able to register only 2 goals, but slowly he gained momentum as the season progressed. Finally, a month ago, the six-footer found the range, and popped in 13 in the next 13 games, giving him a personal high of 28. Kurt added 12 assists during the Rooster feast.</p><p>Three of Kurt&rsquo;s 13 goals, also, won games for the Reds during their comeback streak, upping his total to 5 for 1961-62.</p><p>While Brillant and Kurtenbach were filling the nets with scores, other Roosters contributed to the cause. Stan Baluik, Brillant&rsquo;s center, fired 5 while collecting 17 assists. Jimmy Bartlett, left winger on the same wave, had 7 and 10.</p><p>One very noticeable improvement was made by veteran Zellio Toppazzini who snapped a mid-season slump while teaming with Kurtenbach. The Topper, all-time Reds scorer, pumped in 5 and set up 10 over the 13 game stretch, accounting for some magnificent manoeuvres so typical of him in past seasons.</p><p>Bob Beckett, counterpart of Topper and Kurt, came off the injury shelf to register 9 tallies and 9 assists, and threw some heavy weight around the left wing boards.</p><p>All in all, the 13 games were amazing as far as the Reds were concerned. The club averaged nearly five goals per game, and defensively, the rearguard improved to an astounding degree.</p><p>Gil Mayer, in the nets, continually came up with the big stop when needed, and the defense corps of coach Ferny Flaman. Dino Mascotto. rookie Matt Ravlich and Bob Blackburn gave him Herculean support.</p><p>Prospects for the playoffs&rsquo; Despite the fact that Providence i: faced with the prospect of two games on Hershey ice in their opening best-of-three series against the Bears, observers around the Rhody capitol feel that Ferny Flaman&rsquo;s charges now have the guns to make some deafening noise in the Calder Cups this season.</p><p>For the first time since New Year&rsquo;s, the Reds are at top physical strength, and Flaman has the Roosters skating at top speed. The Reds coach has molded his boys into a smooth-passing, sharp-shooting unit which now ranks with the best in the AHL.</p><h2>Finds Target</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01921/3446150-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="564" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Orland Kurtenbach</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0010-01

‘Sags To Riches’ Story—Red Hot Reds Make It

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03610/3446188-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg"></div><p>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>With the American Hockey League being conducted on a two division basis this season, a revised Calder Cup Playoff Plan was necessary to replace that of recent years when the league had only a single division.</p><p>This season, the first three teams in each division will participate in the post season classic, instead of the first four of the seven team complement or teams in the past.</p><p>A guaranteed player pool of $75,000 is another innovation over the system of last season, which was based on a percentage of the net gate receipts for the players.</p><p>In Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;, the winners of the Eastern and Western Divisions during the regular season, will meet in a best four out of seven series. The first two games will be played on the ice of the team having the greater number of points at the end of the season. The defending champions, Springfield Indians have already clinched top honors, and will meet the top team of the Western Division, undetermined at this date, starting on Wednesday, April 4 and continuing on Saturday, April 7, in Springfield.</p><p>The next two games will be played in the arena of the Western Division title holder. If further contests are necessary, games 5 and 7 will return to Springfield and game 6 will be on Western Division ice.</p><p>Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; will be between the teams which finish second and third in the Eastern Division, and will be a best two out of three. The first game will be conducted on the ice of the second place club, then switching to the third place finisher and returning to the original site if necessary.</p><p>Series &ldquo;C&rdquo; finds the second and third place teams in the Western Division meeting, also in a best two out of three, and the games will be conducted in the same manner as Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;, as to locations.</p><p>In the Semi-Finals, or Series &ldquo;D&rdquo;, the victors of the &ldquo;B&rdquo; and &ldquo;C&rdquo; Series will face each other in a three out of five, with the winner to advance into the Finals and play the winner of Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; for the Calder Cup Championship. The opening pair of games in Series &ldquo;D&rdquo; will have the team with the greater number of points in the final standings as the host, with the next two on the opponent&rsquo;s ice if necessary and if the series requires a fifth game, it will return to the site of the first two games.</p><p>In the Series &ldquo;E&rdquo; finals, a best four out of seven, the winner of Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; will have home ice for the two first games, with the Series &ldquo;D&rdquo; victor having the next two. Games 5, 6 and 7 if necessary will alternate as in Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;.</p><p>The player financial pool provides that 20% of the total of $75,000 be allotted to regular season finish, with the two first place teams receiving 8% each and the two runners-up getting 2% apiece. The third place team do not share in the regular season provisions.</p><p>The complete breakdown of the playoff pool split is:</p><p>First Place Teams (2) Each 8%</p><p>Second Place Teams (2) Each 2%</p><p>Third Place Teams 0</p><p>Thus, if a first place team should go all the way and annex the playoff championship, it would receive 34% of $75,000 or $25,500. Should a first place team lose in the finals, it receiver 28% or $21,000.</p><p>If a second place team wins the Calder Cup, it will be the recipient of 33% or $24,750, and if they advance to the finals before losing, 27% or $20,250 will be the reward.</p><p>A third place team which wins the final round for the title, would get 31% or $23,250, and a third place losing finalist, 25% or $18,750.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02773/3446181-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="271" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Ellery</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0010-03

Playoff Clubs To Cut Up Sweet $75,000 Melon

<p><b><i>Before you say SCOTCH say&ldquo;DEWAR&rdquo;S it never varies</i></b></p><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><p><b>(Final Standings)</b></p><h3>Southern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01896/3446376-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="562" height="125"></div><h3>Northern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02807/3446369-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="562" height="125"></div><h3>(Intersectional Play&mdash;Final)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03651/3446362-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="560" height="220"></div><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 20 Portland 6 at Los Angeles 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04530/3446355-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="553" height="682"></div><h3>Spokane 5 at Vancouver 8</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05432/3446348-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="562" height="675"></div><h3>Seattle 3 at Edmonton 9</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06375/3446341-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="562" height="722"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 Los Angeles 2 at San Francisco 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07339/3446334-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="553" height="527"></div><h3>Seattle 7 at Calgary 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08318/3446327-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="567" height="652"></div><h3>FRIDAY. MARCH 23 Portland 2 at Los Angeles 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09305/3446320-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="547" height="437"></div><h3>Seattle 2 at Vancouver 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10278/3446313-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="549" height="576"></div><h3>Calgary 3 at Edmonton 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11251/3446306-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="549" height="456"></div><h3>SATURDAY. MARCH 24 Portland 4 at San Francisco 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12224/3446299-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="561" height="458"></div><h3>Vancouver 4 at Spokane 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13177/3446292-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="555" height="630"></div><h3>Edmonton 5 at Calgary 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-14137/3446285-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="557" height="582"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Portland 3 at San Francisco 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-15109/3446278-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="551" height="565"></div><h3>Spokane 0 at Seattle 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1682/3446271-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="548" height="423"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><p><b>(Final Scoring Statistics)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1856/3446264-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="564" height="536"></div><h3>(Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records&mdash;Final)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1949/3446257-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="562" height="223"></div><h3>(The Leaders&mdash;Final)</h3><p>Most Points: Max Mekilok, 97.</p><p>Most Goals: Bill MacFarland. 46.</p><p>Most Assists: Norm Johnson, Calgary, 64.</p><p>Most First Goal of Game: Jim Baird, Vancouver and Art Jones, Portland. 9.</p><p>Most Game Winning Goals: Tom Mc-Vie, Portland and Gerry Brisson, Spokane, 9.</p><p>Most Game Winning Assists: Max Mekilok, Spokane, 13.</p><p>Most Hat Tricks: Gerry Goyer, Los Angeles and Bill MacFarland, Seattle, 3.</p><p>Most Shutouts: Bev Bentley, San Francisco, 4.</p><p>Most Minutes In Penalties: Connie Madigan, Spokane, 171.</p><p>Most Goals Scored With Man Adv.: Bill MacFarland. Seattle, 12.</p><p>Most Goals Against When Serv. Pen.: Bill Burega, Los Angeles, 14.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-01

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DON FLEMING</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta&mdash;</p><p>Obviously there is more to this business of nailing down a playoff berth than meets the eye.</p><p>Take that opener of a home-and-home series with the Edmonton Flyers, which the Calgary Stampeders entered three points in arrears to Seattle Totems in quest of second place in the northern division.</p><p>Each had only two games left, so the odds in favor of the Calgarians gaining home ice advantage for the odd game of a best of three semi-final were scarcely the best.</p><p>Well, it all came down this Friday night to a faceoff in the Edmonton end of the Gardens, with just six seconds remaining, and the teams deadlocked 3-3.</p><p>It didn&rsquo;t seem likely that a tie would get much of a job done. Surely the Totems would be able to snatch a single point out of their remaining jousts with the lowly Vancouver Canucks and the tough Spokane Comets!</p><p>As referee Willie Papp waited for the rival mentors to deploy their men for the big faceoff, Alf Pike called his netminder, Ed Babiuk, to the bench. It was apparent that he felt he needed a victory.</p><p>Then suddenly there was Babiuk skating back to his post, as Pike recalled the sixth attacker to the Stampeder box.</p><p>What was the Calgary coach thinking of? After all, he had to harken back to only the last seven seconds of regulation time that very night to gain some encouragement that the gamble of pulling the goaltender would pay off. From a faceoff in the same spot, Len Lunde batted the puck into the goalmouth from where Billy McNeill smashed it over the goal-line, much as one of those feverish one-yard-to-go situations on the gridiron.</p><p>Yet Pike was spurning the opportunity to throw six men into the fray. In the last six seconds, his luck would really have to be out for the Flyers to win the faceoff and somehow get the puck to the other end of the arena in time to deprive Calgary of even a tie.</p><p>What changed Alfie&rsquo;s mind?</p><p>&ldquo;Well, I had a guy checking up on how the Totems were faring at Vancouver,&rdquo; Pike explained the delay. &ldquo;Because of the time difference, they had just finished the second period.</p><p>&ldquo;But the Canucks had gone ahead 4-1, and then I gambled on them staying on top, then hoping for Spokane to beat Seattle on Sunday. I felt I couldn&rsquo;t afford then on having that single point slip away on me. That time I could see that half a loaf was better than none.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s how it worked out, too. Unsettled by losing to the hapless Canucks, the Totems were blanked 4-0 by Spokane as the curtain came down on the regular schedule. And the Stamps beat the Flyers 6-5 in their finale at the Corral.</p><p>And Calgary, by possessing both more victories and a better goal average than the Totems, won the privilege of expressing its preference for the venues of the best of three semi.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1768/3446407-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="259" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0011-17

Last Second Gamble By Alf Gets Him Odd Game

<div class="byline">By BOB HULEN</div><p>PORTLAND, Ore.&mdash;</p><p>Controversial Coleman (Coley) Hall has had a lot of pleasureable moments&mdash;in the 12 years he has been connected with the Western Hockey League.</p><p>As owner and general manager at Vancouver and later general manager after he had sold the Canuck franchise to the Pacific National Exhibition for the past 11 years, he has seen teams miss the WHL playoffs only once. But, this current season must be one of which has given him the most satisfaction.</p><p>His San Francisco team, which everyone connected with the league&mdash;including this writer&mdash;had picked for last place in the Southern Division as a hastily assembled first-year entry, made the playoffs, and with two games to spare.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m really pleased about it,&rdquo; Hall said the other day as we chatted by means of Alexander Graham Bell&rsquo;s interesting invention, he at his suite in the Jack Tar Hotel which is sandwiched between the host of auto emporiums on Van Ness in that super-fabulous city called &ldquo;Bagdad by the Bay&rdquo; and the author, unfortunately, at a just plain office in Portland.</p><p>&ldquo;We started without a rink and without a hockey club and here we are in the playoffs. It was quit a job for Max (Max MacNab, the lean ex-National Leaguer who coaches the Seals) to put a club together in a matter of six weeks and with everybody living out of suitcases and everything. With our first 14 games away from home while they were getting the rink ready, it was only natural we would get off to a bad start. The club&rsquo;s been under pressure ever since.&rdquo;</p><p>Reviewing how a team was assembled and was able to finish third despite such obstacles, the expansive president of the San Francisco hockey club pointed out that &ldquo;we didn&rsquo;t have a player when we started. I had to go to everybody to get what I could. Boston was good to me, so was Toronto.&rdquo; Four of the Seals are owned by the Bruins. There are three Maple Leaf chattels and one from the New York Rangers. A defenseman is on option from Los Angeles of the WHL and Hall has an option to purchase a forward who was instrumental in the San Francisco success from Springfield of the American Hockey League.</p><p>Six members of the team which beat Los Angeles, 3-2 in overtime in the game which clinched third place and in the Southern Division of the WHL and the playoff berth, are San Francisco owned. Another two pieces of Seal property were on the bench.</p><p>Like those involved in the Portland and Los Angeles managements, Hall believes in not having to depend upon National League teams for talent. &ldquo;Major League teams have a lot of other committments. You&rsquo;ve got to have your own nucleus. Otherwise, you&rsquo;re always on your knees begging.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We hope to get more of our own players, but it&rsquo;s tough to buy them. The National League clubs seem to want to hold on to them. Those clubs apparently don&rsquo;t want to let any trade bait get away.&rdquo;</p><p>Hall certainly should be able to provide samples of some of the ore mined in the latest California gold rush in dealing for livestock. It&rsquo;s been a good year for tellers at the Bank of California with Bay Area citizens taking to the sport as a teenager takes to Chubby Checker.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m financially pleased,&rdquo; Hall admitted. I thought we might drop as much as $100,000. Instead we made money on an operating basis. Of course the rink (at the decaying Cow Palace) costs almost $300,000 and we had to get new uniforms and new equipment, but you can&rsquo;t expect to pay that off the first year. You&rsquo;ve got to spread that out over a period of time.</p><p>&ldquo;We should gross something like $300,000 this year. I think that next year, with a lot of time to organize advance ticket sales and everything, we could do $500,000 to $600,000. It was wonderful to get the support that we did with our team down below most of the way.&rdquo;</p><p>The average attendance, Hall reported, was approximately 7,000 &ldquo;with a bad schedule.&rdquo; Largest crowd was 9,400 paid and close to 11,000 all told for the crucial with natural rival Los Angeles. &ldquo;Our only giveaways were letting children in free when accompanied by an adult on some Mondays and Wednesdays. There weren&rsquo;t any tie-ins with someone like Union Oil.&rdquo;</p><p>The mention of Union Oil, of course, was prompted by the manner in which the Los Angeles management has worked with that company in luring crowds to the Sports Arena in Smogville.</p><p>&ldquo;The biggest crowds have been for weekend games&mdash;Fridays and Saturdays more than Sun-days. Actually we&rsquo;ve only played a few Sundays. I think that day would be all right if there was continuity in the schedule&mdash;say two Sundays in January, two in February, two in March.</p><p>&ldquo;Before January, pro football hurts on Sundays. The 49ers are tough competition and when they are out of town the Los Angeles Rams&rsquo; games are televised back.&rdquo;</p><p>And the scoffers in the East who are unable to comprehend the strides made by all sports&mdash;not just hockey&mdash;west of the Rockies might take note of the fact that in the first year of operation, the Seals have won the allegiance of San Franciscans without the necessity of a high finish. At the team banquet at the Fairmount Hotel, no less than $3,000 in merchandise prizes was distributed, gifts from merchants and fans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01892/3446438-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="256" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Max MacNab</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-01

Suitcase Seals Made Money In First Year

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02767/3446469-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg"></div><p><b>Question:</b></p><p><b>What player holds the record for the most goals in a playoff series?</b></p><p>For Correct Answer Please Turn To Page 15</p><p><b>STEEL MAKING:</b> ingots, blooms, billets, rails, angles, bars</p><p><b>FABRICATED STEEL PRODUCTS:</b> forgings, bolts, screws, wire, nails, reinforcing bars, pipe, wire mesh, fencing</p><p><b>MINING:</b> iron ore, limestone, coal</p><p><b>STEEL STRUCTURES:</b> bridges, buildings, towers, ships and ship repairs, railway cars, machinery, etc.</p><p><b>DOMINION STEEL and COAL CORPORATION, LIMITED</b></p><p><b>MEMBER OF THE A. V. ROE CANADA GROUP</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-02

How Well Do You Know Your Hockey?

<p><i>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say <b>HAIG & HAIG</b> SCOTCH WHISKY</i></p><h2>How The Race Goes</h2><h3>Final Standings</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01868/3446563-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="571" height="173"></div><h2>The Point Parade</h2><h3>(Final Scorine Statistics)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02762/3446556-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="575" height="272"></div><h3>Goalkeepers</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03681/3446549-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="573" height="272"></div><h3>MONDAY, MARCH 26 Kingston 3 at Sudbury 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04609/3446542-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="559" height="479"></div><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 27 Kingston 5 at Sault Ste. Marie 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05501/3446535-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="569" height="713"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 30 Sault Ste. Marie 3 at Kitchener 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06425/3446528-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="556" height="610"></div><h3>North Bay 4 at Sudbury 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07392/3446521-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="554" height="479"></div><h3>Hull-Ottawa 4 at Kingston 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08368/3446514-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="563" height="481"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 1 Kitchener 3 at Hull-Ottawa 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09349/3446507-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="560" height="698"></div><h3>Sudbury 6 at North Bay 6</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10328/3446500-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="563" height="757"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-01

EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By PAUL RIMSTEAD</div><p>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>This is the time of year that National Hockey League scouts load their duffle bags with toothpaste, long underwear, good-luck charms, fountain pens and blank contracts.</p><p>Then, wearing their most persuasive smiles, the hockey hunters bid their families farewell and head for the Eastern Professional League.</p><p>Hockey&rsquo;s most productive circuit is again expected to be productive.</p><p>And it is rumored that teams such as the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers may be persuaded to make room for a few new faces next fall.</p><p>Chicago Black Hawks are also showing interest, and the Montreal Canadiens not standing pat, have a man on the job.</p><p>Three years ago the EPHL was formed to provide a training ground for young players not yet ready for the NHL.</p><p>Despite less than sensational attendance figures in two of the member cities, the EPHL is still regarded as a very successful venture by the NHL bosses.</p><p>In its first two seasons, the EPHL sent twice as many players to the big time as the American and Western leagues combined.</p><p>&ldquo;We are willing to take a $35,000-$40,000 loss in the EPHL this year,&rdquo; said a well-known NHL executive recently, &ldquo;because it is worth more than that to develop these young fellows.&rdquo;</p><p>Boston Bruins had seven players this year who were playing their shinny in the EPHL last season.</p><p>The Beantowners acquired Cliff Pennington, Wayne Connelly and Terry Gray from the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens; Tommy Williams, Ted Green and Dick Meissner from their own Kingston Frontenacs; and Pat Stapleton from the Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds.</p><p>Not all of these fellows-will be long-time NHLfers, but some of them will stick.</p><p>An indication of the interest being shown again this year is the fact that half of the NHL&rsquo;s general managers attended a game recently between Kingston and Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers at Kingston.</p><p>Muzz Patrick of the New York Rangers, Tommy Ivan of Chicago and Lynn Patrick of Boston were on hand to see Kingston win 5-1.</p><p>Also on hand was Boston&rsquo;s assistant GM, Milt Schmidt.</p><p>The league has three top teams this season, Hull, Kitchener and Kingston, and two of them are considered to be &ldquo;million dollar&rdquo; clubs.</p><p>Kingston is the outsider.</p><p>Montreal&rsquo;s top prospects are at Hull and New York has a glittering young lineup at Kitchener.</p><p>The Scouts, working on the assumption that Montreal and New York are going to have problems protecting their young&rsquo;uns this year, are trying to make pre-draft deals.</p><p>Chicago is also expected to have more than it can tuck away on its protected list.</p><p>Following is a list of the players who rate highest on this writer&rsquo;s list.</p><p>They are divided into a red-hot prospect class and the fellows who are given an outside chance.</p><p>Name of the sponsoring NHL team or teams is in brackets.</p><p><b>HULL-OTTAWA CANADIENS</b> (Montreal)&mdash;<b>Red Hot Prospects:</b> Goal&mdash;Cesare Maniago, Defence&mdash;Barclay Plager, Jean Gauthier, Forwards&mdash;Bill Masterton. <b>Outside Chance:</b> Defence&mdash;Terry Harper, Forwards&mdash;Keith McCreary. Bob Ellett, Billy Carter, Fred Hilts, John Rodger. Jim Roberts, Brian Smith.</p><p><b>KITCHENER-WATERLOO BEAVERS</b> (New York)&mdash;<b>Red Hot Prospects:</b> Defence&mdash;Jim Neilson, Forwards&mdash;Rod Gilbert, Bryan Hextall. <b>Outside Chance:</b> Goal&mdash;Jack McCartan: Defence&mdash;Al LeBrun, Adam Keller: Forwards&mdash;Leon Rochefort, Mel Pearson, Len Ronson.</p><p><b>KINGSTON FRONTENACS</b> (Boston)&mdash;<b>Red Hot Propects:</b> Forward&mdash;Bobby Leiter. <b>Outside Chance:</b> Goal&mdash;Ed Chadwick, Defence&mdash;Harry Sinden. Ken Ste-phanson. Forwards&mdash;Dick Cherry, Tom McCarthy.</p><p><b>SUDBURY WOLVES</b> (Detroit)&mdash;<b>Red Hot Propect:</b> Forward&mdash;Bob Dillabough, <b>Outside Chance:</b> Goal&mdash;Carl Wetzel, Defence&mdash;Jack Hendrickson. Jack Turner, Forward&mdash;Neil Forth.</p><p><b>NORTH BAY TRAPPERS</b> (Cosponsored by Montreal, Chicago, Detroit, Boston and New York)&mdash; <b>Red Hot Prospect:</b> Forward. Doug Senior. <b>Outside Chance:</b> Defence&mdash;Bob McCammon. Forwards&mdash;Harold White, Gary Mork, Bill Isbell. Joe Szura.</p><p><b>SAULT STE. MARIE THUNDERBIRDS</b> (Chicago)&mdash;<b>Red Hot Prospect:</b> Forward. Doug Robinson. <b>Outside Chance:</b> Forward, Dale McDonald.</p><p><b>(FOOTNOTE</b>&mdash;Choices were made taking youth into consideration. For example, Ed Chadwick played well enough this season to be rated a red-hot prospect as did Leon Rochefort, Harry Sinden. Tom McCarthy and Jack Hendrickson).</p><p>Best bet for a team of the future: Goal&mdash;Maniago. Defence&mdash;Plager and Neilson; Forwards&mdash;Masterton. Gilbert and Robinson with honorable mention to Dillabough.</p><p>This scouting report provided absolutely free of charge.</p><h2>Red Hot Prospects</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11300/3446601-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="577" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Barclay Plager</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12262/3446594-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="576" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Masterton</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-11

Many Stars Expected To Be Drafted In June

<div class="byline">By SID PAYNE</div><p>NEW YORK. N. Y.&mdash;</p><p>If Greensboro ends Johnstown&rsquo;s reign as Eastern Hockey League kingpins, the second game of their best-of-seven series would go down as the one that turned the trick.</p><p>After dropping the opener at Johnstown, 6-1, the Generals snapped the Jets&rsquo; 15-game home winning streak, 5-4, and squared the final round series. With three of the next five games scheduled for Greensboro, the Generals have assumed the favorites&rsquo; role.</p><p>Despite beating Clinton, five games to one in the semifinals, Greensboro entered the finals as the underdog since Johnstown once again had the services of Dick Roberge, Don Hall and Butch Martin, who had played in the World Amateur tournament at Colorado Springs.</p><p>The Jets had gained the finals by beating New Haven and Knoxville. Each series went the five game limit and the Jets pulled it off because the deciding game was played on the Cambria War Memorial Coliseum ice where the Jets lost only four times in 34 regular season contests.</p><p>Despite finishing second in the Northern Division, the Jets were awarded the seventh game in the final series (if it should go that far) on Johnstown ice because they had posted more points during the regular season than the Southern Division champions.</p><p>Greensboro&rsquo;s breakthrough in the second game was triggered by Ron Quenville&rsquo;s two goals. After the Jets grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first period, the Generals drilled four past Johnstown goalie Jim Helkie in the middle session and just managed to hold on the rest of the way. Ken Laufman scored twice for Johnstown.</p><p>The Jets are shooting for their third straight playoff championships, a feat that has never been accomplished before in the history of the league.</p><p><b>PLAYOFF NOTES:</b> Roberge and Hall scored two goals apiece when the Jets eliminated Knoxville, 6-1, in the fifth game at Johnstown. Ken Coombes bagged the Knights&rsquo; lone goal. Knoxville goalie Claude Cyr enjoyed fine series, allowing only 17 goals in eight games. Philadelphia tallied only five goals against him and Johnstown netted the other 12&hellip;Knoxville led the league in attendance, followed by Greensboro and Charlotte, while New Haven and Philadelphia slumped at the gate.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01876/3446632-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="266" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Laufman</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-01

Greensboro, Johnstown In Tight Battle For Title

<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div><p>KELOWNA. B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Top-notch Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; Hockey moved into the Okanagan-Mainline Junior League over the weekend, and the spotlight focussed on the classy Oil-Kings from Edmonton.</p><p>The occasion was the Alberta British Columbia Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; playoffs at Kamloops B.C., home of the British Columbia champions.</p><p>Ken Stewart&rsquo;s Rockets, rated as the best club to come out from the Province in a number of years, were game and eager, but this played a small part, as the powerful Kings displayed superiority in almost every department with their skating, checking and much more added experience.</p><p>Buster Brayshaw&rsquo;s Oilers, who last season met head-on with Toronto St. Mikes in the Memorial Cup finals, gave some 3,800 Kamloops fans plenty to think about though being held to two goals throughout the sixty minutes of close checking action.</p><p>In the first two games at Edmonton. the British Columbia representatives were whipped 6-0, and 10-1. Brilliant netminding by Penticton&rsquo;s Dale Harder, and Rocket regular Peter Sternig pre-vented the Alberta Smoothies from tripling the score.</p><p>Young Harder who played with Penticton in regular season play, was in the nets for the first two games and stopped no less than 95 shots, as time after time the much bigger Edmontonians roared in at will.</p><p>Persistant checking, and a stonewall defense corps made up of captain Danny Muloin, Larry Hale, Jim Eagle and Butch Barber kept the opposition completely unbalanced with smart neat puck control, and timely bodychecking.</p><p>The Kings scored no less than 18 goals in the three games, and net-minder Harrison Gray, who experienced a somewhat easy time, cashed in two shutouts. The much lighter Kamloops bodies managed to beat Gray only once in the three games.</p><p>Following the series, Buster Brayshaw the black-wavy haired Edmonton master praised both the Kamloops club, and the Okanagan Junior League. &ldquo;Your league is to be congratulated on their tremendous showing, after only one year of operation, In the Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; bracket.&rdquo; Brayshaw added, &ldquo;you have a good set up here, and the Valley has a lot to offer these players. Within four or five years this League could be one of the best in the country.&rdquo;</p><p>Brayshaw voiced the opinion that in order for the Okanagan League to be a strong contender for Memorial Cup action, the League should allow importing of players, say two or three each season. In its first year of operation the non-import rule was strictly taboo, as each club used personnel from within their own boundaries.</p><p>The Twin City Macs, an intermediate group who operate out of Summerland, have won the British Columbia Intermediate Championship. Made up of ex-Okanagan Senior League veterans, the Macs had little trouble in disposing of Andy McCallum&rsquo;s Powell River Regals in two straight games of scores of 7-3, and 6-1&hellip;Bernie Bathgate&rsquo;s Macs will now advance to the Western Canada semi-finals against the Lacombe Rockets, in a best of five series to be played in the Okanagan.</p><p>Meanwhile, Trail Senior Smoke Eaters await the arrival of Calgary Adderson Builders, also a best of five series for the Alberta-B.C. Senior &lsquo;A&rsquo; title. As added strength coach Bobby Krommm has recruited high scoring centreman Howie Hornby from the neighboring Nelson Maple Leafs squad.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Edmonton Kings Easily Outplay BC Junior Kings

<p><b>NOW&rsquo;S THE TIME TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF&hellip;</b></p><h2>THE 1961-62 EDITION OF THE N.H.L. PRESS & RADIO GUIDE</h2><p><b>The 1961-62 N.H.L. Press & Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey and is the finest Hockey Guide published.</b></p><p><b>This compact 236-page book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American, Western and Eastern Professional Leagues. It&rsquo;s a must for hockey fans everywhere.</b></p><p><b>ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.00 (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03580/3446746-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="269" height="389"></div><h2>THE THIRD EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL HOCKEY ANNUAL 1962</h2><p><b>This 96-page book is i am-packed with full-length features about your favourite hockey stars&hellip;biographical sketches and pictures of over 120 National Hockey League players&hellip;birthdates and places of birth too&hellip;All at a glance I</b></p><p><b>You can&rsquo;t afford to pass up the opportunity of availing yourself of a copy of this outstanding hockey publication.</b></p><p><b>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY!&hellip;ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04422/3446739-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="329" height="432"></div><h2>OFFICIAL N.H.L. RECORD BOOK 1917-61</h2><p><b>(This is not the N.H.L. Press & Radio Guide but an entirely different book).</b></p><p><b>The Official N.H.L Record Book includes complete team standings and individual scoring records of every season from 1917-18 up to the present.</b></p><p><b>This 350-page &ldquo;Hockey Masterpiece&rdquo; contains statistics and records unobtainable in any other publication. It is the most complete Record Book on Hockey ever publish-ed.</b></p><p><b>The supply is limited and books will be sold on a First Come&mdash;First Served basis.</b></p><p><b>SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY&hellip;$1.25 PER COPY (Postage Paid)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05300/3446732-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="276" height="404"></div><h2>THE AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE YEAR BOOK FOR 1961-62</h2><p><b>(Fifth Annual Edition)</b></p><p>&bull; <b>Contains complete professional records of all American Hockey League players, both present and past.</b></p><p>&bull;<b>Complete team and individual records for the twenty-five year history of the American Hockey League.</b></p><p>&bull;<b>Pictures of league officials, championship teams, trophies and star players of the past and present.</b></p><p><b>AVAILABLE FOR ONLY 50 CENTS PER COPY</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06249/3446725-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="324" height="421"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07203/3446718-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="1672" height="599"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-03

ATTENTION HOCKEY FANS!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01850/3446777-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</b></h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. Pictured Detroit player.</p><p>3. Initials of Reaume of Hershey.</p><p>5. Name given Pittsburgh&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>6. Given name of Bell of Spokane.</p><p>11. Birthplace of McFadden, 194748 Calder winner.</p><p>13. Mrs. Pierre Pilote.</p><p>14. Nickname of Simon, AHL player of the 1940&rsquo;s.</p><p>16. North East (abbr.).</p><p>17. Nickname of 15 down.</p><p>18. Initials of Slowinski, ex-Ranger.</p><p>19. Former Leaf. Bobby Copp, is now one. (abbr).</p><p>20. Initials of a Boston forward.</p><p>22. Calgary&rsquo;s goalie answers to this.</p><p>25. Number of seasons pictured star played with Vancouver.</p><p>26. Red Kelly is soon to enter this field.</p><p>28. Preposition.</p><p>30. Given name of Rupp of Springfield.</p><p>32. Edmonton forward who hails from Campbell River, Alta.</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Mrs. Norm Ullman.</p><p>2. Bobby Hull&rsquo;s number.</p><p>3. Month in which Bob Baun celebrates his wedding anniversary.</p><p>4. Initials of a Leaf forward.</p><p>5. Played defense for Quebec last season.</p><p>7. Given name of Dickens, ex-NHL defenseman.</p><p>8. Initials of Lach, NHL scoring champion of 1947-48.</p><p>9. Initials of Armstrong, Hull-Ottawa&rsquo;s coach.</p><p>10. 12th & 14th letters of the alphabet.</p><p>12. Name given a former Toronto captain.</p><p>15. Player who scored Montreal&rsquo;s 259th goal of the 1961-62 season.</p><p>21. Detroit&rsquo;s trainer.</p><p>23. Of (Fr.)</p><p>24. Month in which Quebec&rsquo;s John Hanna was born.</p><p>25. Ocean (abbr.)</p><p>27. Synonymous with 25 down.</p><p>29. Ab McDonald celebrates his birthday in this month (abbr.)</p><p>31. A Toronto defenseman answers to this.</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3><p>1. Beliveau</p><p>6. Av.</p><p>7. W.G.</p><p>9. Tobacco</p><p>12. Nine</p><p>13. Ca.</p><p>14. Ten</p><p>15. Jan.</p><p>16. E.M.</p><p>17. R.C.</p><p>19. Feb.</p><p>20. Ran.</p><p>22. FR.</p><p>23. Arm</p><p>24. A E.</p><p>26. No.</p><p>29. Cleveland</p><p>32. OHA</p><p>33. On</p><p>34. Nurse</p><h3>DOWN</h3><p>1. Bat</p><p>2. LaBine</p><p>3. Ivan</p><p>4. E.W.C.</p><p>5. Ago</p><p>8. Stan.</p><p>10. One</p><p>11. Ce.</p><p>13. Camera</p><p>14. Terrance</p><p>15. Jeff.</p><p>18. Carol</p><p>21. N.M.</p><p>25. Eddie</p><p>27. Jean</p><p>28 Carr</p><p>30. Eon</p><p>31. V.H.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-01

HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div><p>OMAHA, Neb.&mdash;</p><p>Omaha&rsquo;s Knights and St. Paul Saints are deadlocked at two games apiece and Muskegan holds a 3-1 edge over Minneapolis in the International Hockey League&rsquo;s semifinal best of seven playoff series.</p><p>The Howie Milford-coached Knights came back after losing the opening pair in St. Paul. Muskegon won the first two in Muskegon and split at Minneapolis.</p><p>Joe Kastelic and Warren Back of Muskegon, lead all post-season point-getters with eight points, followed closely by St. Paul&rsquo;s Bryan Derrett with seven.</p><p>Omaha defenseman Moe Collins tops all goal-scorers with five, while Back and Derrett lead in assists with six.</p><p>Playoff highlights:</p><h2>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;&mdash;Muskegon vs. Minneapolis</h2><p>Muskegon jumped off to a 2-0 lead in the opening contest, early in the second period on goals by Gerry Glaude and Back, but the Millers Aggie Kukulowicz, with help from Bob Currie narrowed the margin to 2-1. Claude Boucher&rsquo;s tally at 9:03 of the finale was the eventual winner for the Zephyrs. Back and Coach Moose Lallo also added third period goals, bringing the final count to 5-1.</p><p>The Zephyrs made it two in a row over Minneapolis, with a convincing 8-4 win. Kastelic high-lighted the assault on Miller net-minder Ray Mikulan with the three-goal hat trick. Muskegon had a 6-0 lead before Minneapolis defenseman Cy Whiteside scored at 3:01 of the second period. Moe Bartoli scored two for the Millers.</p><p>Minneapolis came from behind to win their only game of the set thus-far, in the third encounter, 3-2. Muskegon was out in front 2-0 on first period tallies by Ken Hayden and Joe Kiss. Defensemen Danny Summers at 4:49 and Bob Currie at 10:52 evened matters in the second session and Laurie Langrells &ldquo;red lighter&rsquo; at 5:38 of the last stanza gave the Millers the victory.</p><p>In the fourth game at Minneapolis, it was the home-town Millers who jumped off into an early lead&mdash;3-0. However, paced by Bryan McLay&rsquo;s pair, the Zephyrs countered with a five goal third period to win, 7-5. Paul Johnson had three-goals for Min neapolis.</p><h2>Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;&mdash;St. Paul vs. Omaha</h2><p>St. Paul scored five consecutive times before the Knights scored a pair of third period goals. This was the final score. Dick Bouchard had two scores for the Saints Match penalties were handed out by referee Jack Paterson to St. Paul&rsquo;s Ted Hodgson, John Bailey and Mickey Keating and Omaha&rsquo;s Ted Lebioda, Brian Roche and Bill Swarbrick.</p><p>Elliott Chorley&rsquo;s tally at 3:33 of the first overtime session gave the Saints a 2-0 go-ahead in the series and a 3-2 win. Pat Ginnell and Terry Burns dented the nets in the first and third period respectively, while second period St. Paul markers were tapped in by John Bailey and Paul Masnick.</p><p>With defenseman Moe Collins leading the way with two goals, the Knights sped to a 6-2 triumph. Omaha scored three times in the first and two in the second, before Jean Paul Denis broke Glenn Ramsay&rsquo;s bid for a shutout at 1:38 of the third session.</p><p>Collins broke a 2-2 deadlock in the fourth game, when he tallied at 17:29 of the last stanza, on relays from Minnie Menard and Paul Josephson. Gregg Jablonski &ldquo;&lsquo;closed-the-door&rsquo;&rsquo; a minute-and-forty seconds later, giving the Knights a 4-2 win and evening the series to two all.</p><p><b>IHL NOTES&hellip;</b>Commissioner Frank Gallagher has suspended St. Paul&rsquo;s Ted Hodgson for the balance of the season for slashing at Omaha&rsquo;s Bill Swarbrick and receiving a match penalty in the second game of Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;&hellip;Gallagher sent a notice to the four competing clubs after the St. Paul-Omaha &ldquo;match-episode&rdquo; of March 20, stating &ldquo;Any player who receives a match penalty for stick-swinging, etc. would be fined $250 and be suspended indefinitely.&rdquo;</p><p>Minneapolis&rsquo; Des Maroney has not played in the playoffs so far because of a broken hand&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02735/3446808-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="300" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Hodgson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-02

Muskegon Grabs 2 Game Lead Over Minneapolis

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div><p>NEW GLASGOW. N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Amherst Ramblers&rsquo; quick exit from the 1962 Allan Cup playoffs, a bitter disappointment to hockey followers in the Maritimes, brought to the forefront the speculation that the seaside provinces may never again possess the battered mug that has been the target of senior hockey clubs for more than half a century.</p><p>Ramblers, considered stronger than the Amherst team that went to the Eastern Canada finals a year ago before losing to the Galt Terriors, were badly outclassed in Maurice Richard arena in Montreal as the Olympics hustled to a 31 series victory.</p><p>Bolstered by three star Matritimers, the Ramblers none the less provided little opposition for their conquerors. They won the opener of the series in a second overtime period but were widely outplayed in the game. Olympics then went on to take three games in a row.</p><p>The Maritimes haven&rsquo;t had an Allan Cup winner since Halifax Wolverines turned the trick in the 1934-35 season.</p><p>Possibilities of the trophy returning this way are extremely remote.</p><p>Biggest reason is the lack of financial backing to build a team powerful enough to overcome all opposition in Quebec and Ontario. Ramblers weren&rsquo;t of Allan Cup calibre and still lost so much money that the team executive had to resign weeks before the team bowed out on the ice.</p><p>There&rsquo;s a good chance that Amherst won&rsquo;t even have a team next year&mdash;&bull; an expensive price to pay for a Maritime championship. But Amherst wasn&rsquo;t the only loser. Every team in the Nova Scotia Hockey League lost financially, some so bad that the circuit may be a thing of the past.</p><p>The Ramblers added New Glasgow&rsquo;s Leo Amadio and Daryl MacMillan and Charlottetown&rsquo;s Angie Carroll to the roster in hopes of making a serious challenge for the Canadian senior championship.</p><p>The Montreal series turned out to be a bitter disappointment. Star players just weren&rsquo;t coming through. Biggest disappointment was Alain Caron, a 76-goal scorer in regular schedule competition who added another 17 goals in Amherst&rsquo;s march to their third Maritime crown. He garnered only one goal against the Olympics&mdash;in the final game when the series was all but mathematically lost.</p><p>With the shelving of the Ramblers, Maritime hockey closed another chapter of its up and down story.</p><p>What the future holds is anybody&rsquo;s guess and it probably won&rsquo;t be known until late next fall what lies in store for the Maritime hockey picture for the 1962-63 season.</p><h2>Flopped</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01198/3446839-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="585" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alain Caron</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

C4-01

Amherst Defeat A Bitter Blow For Their Fans

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Hamilton Red Wings, who finished in 2nd place during the regular 50-game schedule, are the 1961-62 Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; champions.</p><p>Since losing the first game of the semi-finals to St. Catharines Teepees, the Detroit farm hands were undefeated in their next nine straight starts.</p><p>They eliminated the Teeps four games to one with one game tied, then cruised to four straight victories over Niagara Falls Flyers.</p><p>The Flyers had earlier pulled the major upset of the season when they ousted the pennant-winning Montreal Canadiens four games to two.</p><p>Eddie Bush, a former National Hockey League defenceman now coaching the Wings, will lead his club into the all-Ontario finals against the champions of the newly-formed Toronto Metro junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league.</p><p>The survivor of this round will represent Ontario in the Memorial Cup playoffs.</p><p>It has been a long and sometimes frustrating battle for Ken Sobel, owner of the Hamilton franchise, before the 1961-62 success.</p><p>The Wings, at that time known as the Tiger-Cubs, entered the OHA league in 1953-54, replacing the former Detroit farm club the Windsor Spitfires.</p><p>In four of the nine years they missed the playoffs and their second place finish this season was the highest in the club&rsquo;s history.</p><p>Many feel that this year they could go all the way to the Memorial Cup. the most coveted trophy in Canadian amateur hockey.</p><p>If they do, Sobel feels that the long years of effort have not been in vain.</p><p>Meanwhile, three members of the second place Hamilton Red Wings and two players from the pennant-winning Montreal Canadiens are included on the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; allstar team as selected by the coaches of the six clubs.</p><p>Jacques LaPerriere, towering Montreal defenceman was the unanimous choice of five coaches (a coach can not vote for his own players) while Mike McMahon of Guelph Royals and Ron Harris of Hamilton were tied for the second defence post.</p><p>At centre it was Pit Martin of Hamilton; left wing Lowell MacDonald, also of Hamilton; right wing, Rejean Richer of Montreal.</p><p>The goaltender for the third straight year on the junior &ldquo;dream team&rsquo;&rsquo; is Roger Crozier of St. Catharines Teepees.</p><p>Oddly enough Crozier, who graduates this season, has never won the goals-against average but is generally credited with bringing</p><p>St. Catherines a Memorial Cup in his first year (1959-60) and making them genuine contenders in his other two seasons.</p><p>Buddy Blom of Hamilton was voted the goaltending position with the second team while John Gravel of Montreal and Bob Wall of Hamilton are on defence; Phil Esposito of St. Catharines at centre; Andre Boudrias, of Montreal, the league&rsquo;s scoring champion at right wing and Howie Dietrich of Niagara Falls left wing.</p><h2>Top Choice</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-02174/3446870-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="538" height="861"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roger Crozier</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

Search for your favorite player or team

April 7, 1962

Happy Birthday to you

Dickie Moore Montreal Canadiens

Maurice‘The Rocket’Richard says:

Port Arthur, Brandon To Meet In Junior Cup Hunt