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October 27, 1962

The Hockey News October 27, 1962

<div class="byline">By JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01416/2001700-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">RED KELLY&hellip;Hockey Playing MP</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Politics, of all things, could exert a powerful influence on the outcome of this season&rsquo;s National Hockey League schedule.Red Kelly, key centre for Toronto Maple Leafs, also is the Liberal Member of Parliament for York West, a Toronto constituency. Normally, there&rsquo;d be few problems involved: Kelly would attend to his regular business, which is playing Leaf games and attending their workouts, and would slip down to Ottawa for the occasional House of Commons session. Statesmanathletes like Bucko McDonald and Howie Meeker hadn&rsquo;t found this difficult.Two factors make this an entirely different situation:First, no party in the Commons has a clear majority of votes and therefore, each sitting is vital because it may bring on the ballot which unseats the Progressive Conservative government. Therefore, Kelly&rsquo;s presence is required daily. The Liberals need the vote of every member they have in the House. Kelly can&rsquo;t have any time off.Secondly, Kelly is deadly serious about his political career and wants to do a good job for his constituents. He promised them during the June campaign that he&rsquo;d quit hockey if he found trouble fulfilling his commitments as an M.P. He may have to.The schedule he follows is fantastic. On a typical day, when Leafs practice at 11 a.m., he rushes from Maple Leaf Gardens to Malton airport where he catches an afternoon plane which gets him to Ottawa in time for the 2.30 Commons session. He flies back to Toronto that same night. For midweek trips out-of-town, he generally joins his teammates at the last possible minute.He&rsquo;s in the clear for most weekend doubleheaders, since Parliament doesn&rsquo;t sit then.&ldquo;If the Liberals and Social Credit could just get together and defeat the Tories, this would be all solved&rdquo;, Punch Imlach, the coach and general manager, was told recently.&ldquo;No, it wouldn&rsquo;t&rdquo;, Imlach said, &ldquo;That would make matters worse because he&rsquo;d have to start in campaigning right away. He&rsquo;d be busier than ever then.&rdquo;Imlach has another, more optimistic theory: &ldquo;This tough sched ule will make Kelly an even better hockey player than ever, because he&rsquo;s that kind of a person. He&rsquo;ll work all the harder at both jobs.&rdquo;What does Kelly think?&ldquo;It won&rsquo;t be easy but it can be done&rdquo;, Kelly says. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;ll work out eventually, so I can do a good job of both things. There&rsquo;s a lot of work involved in politics and I don&rsquo;t want to neglect hockey, either.&rdquo;<h2>Missed Exhibitions</h2>Kelly had to miss part of Leafs&rsquo; pre-season exhibition tour to rush back to Ottawa for an important vote. When he rejoined the club, he was short on condition and missed one game through sickness, another because he felt woozy as a result of a stiff body-check from Boston&rsquo;s Johnny Bucyk.Fellows were catching up to Kelly that shouldn&rsquo;t have been getting close to him.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not really sharp yet&rdquo;, Kelly admitted. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little behind the rest. But I&rsquo;ll catch up.&rdquo;Obviously, the difficulty of his situation was beginning to make itself apparent to Kelly. How he can keep it up is puzzle. It&rsquo;s murderous schedule.As centre for Frank Mahovlich and Bob Nevin, Kelly is vital cog in the Toronto machine, and key performer in their defence of the Stanley Cup. Billy Harris is fine replacement but, without him or with sub-par Kelly, Leafs will be in trouble.What makes matters worse is the fact Kelly isn&rsquo;t the type who&rsquo;ll let himself goof off now and then.His election campaign was typical. It was day and night project, necessary because he was trying to defeat man who&rsquo;d won the previous vote in that riding by nearly 19,000. Kelly beat him soundly and it was undoubtedly the result of toil, added to Kelly&rsquo;s own solid reputation.He had scored 22 goals and 27 assists in 58 games during the 1961-62 schedule, as well as 10 more points in 12 playoff games.How can he possibly match those two achievements?Punch Imlach might be satisfied with less. So might Kelly&rsquo;s political boss, Lester Pearson. But the redhead himself wouldn&rsquo;t be.And that&rsquo;s the problem. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Can Kelly Keep Up Exhausting Dual Political-Hockey Roles?

Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY<h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>(Standings On Mon., Oct. 22)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01466/2003381-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="586" height="139"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed., Oct. 17Syracuse 2, Sudbury 1Kingston 5, Hull-Ottawa 3Fri., Oct. 19Hull-Ottawa 5, Kingston 1Sudbury 3, Syracuse 1Sat., Oct. 20Kingston 4, Syracuse 3Sun., Oct. 21Hull-Ottawa 2, Sudbury 1 &#9632;

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EASTERN PRO LEAGUE

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings have not cracked up yet after two weeks of National Hockey League action and for them, this comes under the heading of a moral victory<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02213/2003767-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="261" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>Selected by the experts to finish in fifth place again this season in the 1962-63 NHL race, Sid Abel&rsquo;s Wings have confounded the hockey set by winning four and tieing one of their first five games.It was a remarkable start for the Wings since they achieved the feat by scoring only 13 goals and giving up six as compared to the Montreal Canadiens, who were breathing down their necks after running in 21 goals in one more game and allowing 19 goals against them.What was the Red Wings&rsquo; secret to their climb to the top when they should be lounging in the second division?There were many reasons advanced for the club&rsquo;s upsurge but it was generally attributed to the Detroit defense, led by veteran goalkeeper Terry Sawchuk.It was a nice feeling for Abel, even though the vultures were waiting to pick up the pieces. &#9632;

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Wings Surprise By Climbing To Top Of NHL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06240/2002000-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CESARE MANIAGO&hellip;He&rsquo;s Even Wearing Plante&rsquo;s Mask</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Bobby Rousseau, last year&rsquo;s top rookie in the NHL, was the first serious casualty of the new season for the Montreal Canadiens.The fleet winger limped off the ice after he was body-checked by Toronto&rsquo;s hard-hitting new rookie defenseman, Kent Douglas. Rousseau suffered a pulled ligament in his right knee and is expected to miss at least three games with the Canadiens. &#9632;

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Douglas Bumps Rousseau To Sidelines

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01314/2003736-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY BAUN&hellip;Big Start With Three Goals</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The beleaguered National Hockey League defensemen were taking their cue from the topsy turvy team race this past week.With Detroit first, when they should be fifth, and Boston second for a time, when they should have been last the muscular NHL backline brigade took advantage of the irregular situation to break out in a goalscoring rash.As a classic example, we cite the case of Toronto&rsquo;s Bobby Baun, who scored a total of four goals in the past two NHL seasons. After five games this year, Baun already has three, the same number as the team&rsquo;s big scorer, Frank Mahovlich.Then there was big Doug Mohns, normally a good scoring rearguard, who jumped the new season by scoring three times and assisting on two others in the first three games for five points and a temporary hold on the NHL scoring lead.Irv Spencer, the transplanted defenseman who is now a centre with the Boston Bruins, has shown he likes the move by scoring twice in six games.Then there were backliners like Langlois, Howie Young, Kent Douglas, with his first NHL goal, and Pierre Pilote with a single each. Both Langlois and Pilote had waited until the season was well underway last year before connecting. Each finished with seven. &#9632;

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‘Blueline Boys’ Off On Early Scoring Kick

Gordon &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Berenson is one of the refreshing new faces to come into the National Hockey League since late last year and his presence in the big time has been a major boost for American college hockey from which he graduated.How big a jump is it for a young player when he steps off a college rink and starts matching strides with the world&rsquo;s best and fastest performers? Pat Curran, the Montreal correspondent of THE HOCKEY NEWS, will tell Berenson&rsquo;s success story in next week&rsquo;s issue. It should make interesting reading for all hockey fans.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02398/2001731-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="263" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Berenson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Read It Next Week In The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m goin&rsquo; out and buy me a suit of armor.&rdquo;This was Gump Worsley orating last June after the NHL draft meeting. Worsley was wondering about his health since his chief bodyguard, Doug Harvey had announced his retirement at the time.Well, it&rsquo;s October now, Harvey&rsquo;s back but Gump still could use that armor. The bombardment has been something awful.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03360/2001769-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="282" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Worsley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04275/2001762-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="282" height="384"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Balon</figcaption></div>According to custom, Rangers were outshot in their first three games and Gump looked like a shooting gallery duck, bobbing up and down as Detroit, Montreal and Toronto sprayed him with flak. He blocked 72 shots for an average of 34 per game.He was superb in defeat (Detroit and Montreal) and something better than that when the Blues conked Toronto, 5-3 for their first win of the season.Judging by Worsley&rsquo;s comportment and the Rangers generally, this much can be ascertained from early games.The Gumper is capable of keeping the Rangers in a contest for the first half of the game; or as long as it takes his forwards to score.If the forwards come through, Rangers can win. If not, well, there&rsquo;s just so much the stubby goalkeeper can do.This was evident in the Detroit and Toronto games. Against Wings, Worsley blocked ridiculously certain goals, held a one goal lead as long as humanly possible and, finally, capitulated, 2-1.He was down 1-0 against Toronto. (It should have been 5-0). Kicked, sprawled and snatched pucks off sticks, until his comrades finally got around to scoring a few. Result: Ranger win.Just how long he can withstand the bombardment is uncertain. But the Gump never has been known to let a little shelling ruffle what appears to be the strongest set of nerves in the Goalkeepers Union.As long as that continues Rangers have a chance for fourth place.RANGERABILIA: Dave Balon, successful centre last year, doesn&rsquo;t care for the switch to left wing on a line with Jean Ratelle and Rod Gilbert. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like left wing,&rdquo; Dave confessed. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s my worst position. But if I HAVE to play there I have to play there. And that&rsquo;s that.&rdquo; Balon prefers centre&hellip;Johnny Bower, who may be as much as 45 years old, looked like the Bower of old. He stopped the toughies and let a few easy ones go in&hellip;Frank Mahovlich was perturbed about a stiff check handed him by Vic Hadfield. On return play he threw a devastating elbow at Ken Schinkel, who plays on Hadfield&rsquo;s line. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I get,&rdquo; said Schink for looking so much like Vic.&rdquo;&hellip;Punch Imlach calls Kent Douglas his best defenseman&hellip;Douglas, imported from Springfield, says his former teammate, Boh McCord, also belongs in the NHL. &#9632;

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Gump Calls For Armor After Early Shelling

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05197/2001800-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg"></div>COACH & GENERAL MANAGER Murray &ldquo;Muzz&rdquo; Patrick &#9632;

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New York Rangers 1962-63 Roster

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01415/2001831-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; rookie centre ALEX FAULKNER holds telegram with 4,000 names of Newfoundlanders on it he received before he played his first NHL game this season. Faulkner, striving to become the first from his province to make good in the big time, responded with a goal in his opening game.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It seems that all of Newfoundland has been watching Alex Faulkner in his bid to become the first native of Canada&rsquo;s newest province to make the grade in the National Hockey League.The opening Red Wing game was broadcast live to the island. The first home game was tape recorded and flown back to Newfoundland.&ldquo;It puts a lot of pressure on a guy,&rdquo; Faulkner said as he wound up a single telegram containing more than 4,000 names of well-wishers, &ldquo;you&rsquo;re trying to make good not only for yourself but the whole province.&rdquo;Alex has one thing to be thankful for&mdash;his first goal came in the third game. Last year, playing with Rochester in the American League, he didn&rsquo;t score until the 12th game.Alex was called up as a spare for one game last year by Toronto. The game was in Montreal and Alex received 700 congratulatory and well-wishing telegrams from Newfoundland.<h2>Newfoundland Pulling For First NHL Native &#9632;</h2>

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4,000 Well Wishers Send Telegram To Hail Rookie’s Big League Bow

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02336/2001862-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALEX FAULKNER&hellip;Makes Grade With Wings</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;King Clancy, in his many years in hockey as player, coach, referee, general manager, arbitrator, negotiator and raconteur has been called many things but one that probably escaped him was Santa Claus.The doughty Irishman did play Santa Claus, however, two years ago, and as a result Alex Faulkner got the chance to become the first Newfoundland native to play in the National Hockey League.Faulkner was bom in Bishop&rsquo;s Falls, 50 miles from Gander, and now lives in St. John&rsquo;s.For all of King&rsquo;s St. Nicholas qualities, however, the big opportunity is with the Red Wings, not the Maple Leafs, although Faulkner did get called up for one game with Toronto last year.Faulkner, 26-year-old, 5-foot-8, 165-pound center of the Wings&rsquo; &ldquo;Kid Line&rdquo;&mdash;his wings are 22-year-old Larry Jeffrey and 21-year-old Bruce MacGregor&mdash;explained how it happened.&ldquo;King came up for a coaches&rsquo; clinic in December, 1960, and Howie Meeker put in a word for me. (Meeker, the ex-Leaf, is a St. John&rsquo;s broadcaster-telecaster.)&ldquo;The Leafs offered to send me down to Rochester for a five-game pro tryout. It was around Christmas and it was an all-expense paid trip so I went.&ldquo;I scored a goal in the second or third game of the tryout so they gave me a pro contract and I played out the season with Rochester.&rdquo;The Amerks had their lines set so Alex worked mainly in a utility role and finished with five goals and 13 assists in 41 games.At camp the next fall, his chances of making the Leafs depended on beating out Bob Pulford.&ldquo;Bobby had had a poor season but it didn&rsquo;t figure that they&rsquo;d take me over him. After all,&rdquo; said Faulkner smiling and understating a little, &ldquo;he had a little more experience than I did.&rdquo;Faulkner went back to the Amerks and worked with Gerry Ehman and Dick Gamble. It was a 19-29-39 line&hellip;Faulkner had 19 goals, Ehman 29 and Gamble 39. Alex also had 54 assists for 73 total points.&ldquo;I should have had 20 goals, they gave Gerry one that was mine.&rdquo; But Faulkner wasn&rsquo;t complaining about it.Alex gives the impression of being a little embarrassed about the publicity given him as the first Newfoundlander in the NHL. Newspapers from the province came down especially to cover the Wings&rsquo; first three games of the season and devoted columns to him.A St. John&rsquo;s radio station sent back the play-by-play of the Wings&rsquo; opener from New York.Alex feels there will be a number of Newfoundlanders in the NHL in the future.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t get our first artificial rink in central Newfoundland until 1947 and we didn&rsquo;t get professional coaching until the 1950s,&rdquo; Alex said.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had players who have the same talent at 20 as others in Canada who are 17 or 18. The difference is that at 17 or 18, they&rsquo;ve got several years of Junior A competition to go and at 20, you&rsquo;re finished with Junior A.&ldquo;But now, with the professional coaching and more rinks, I think we&rsquo;ll be catching up. It&rsquo;s starting now&mdash;the boys who had the coaching in Pee Wee are reaching the junior age. The Red Wings have a Newfoundlander in their junior system now, Bob Dean, a center from Botwood.&rdquo;Alex didn&rsquo;t have to worry about a lack of teammates in his youth&mdash;he has five brothers plus two sisters. George, the second oldest played pro at Shawinigan Falls.Faulkner&rsquo;s work in Rochester was known around the NHL Through the player grapevine, he had heard that three clubs were interested in drafting him but ironically, he didn&rsquo;t know he had been scouted by the Red Wings.Jimmie Skinner, chief Red Wing talent hunter, watched Faulkner in six games from a high perch.&ldquo;You could sense the way he was going to develop the play before it happened,&rdquo; Skinner said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a thinking centerman and you don&rsquo;t find many of them. I think he&rsquo;s going to help us.&rdquo;The Wings plunked down $20,000 for Faulkner in the June draft.While Faulkner realizes his job is to set up his linemates&hellip;those were the orders at Rochester where Gamble and Ehman were proficient shooters&hellip;he&rsquo;d still like to score a few goals himself.&ldquo;A benter should score more goals than I have,&rdquo; Faulkner said. And then, seeming a little awed by it, he said &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a lot to learn.&rdquo;Alex didn&rsquo;t show a proclivity for scoring in the Wings&rsquo; nine exhibition games&mdash;he had only one goal&mdash;but he did show his playmaking ability&mdash;he had eight assists.If he keeps it up, the Wings will be happy. &#9632;

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King Set Alex Faulkner Up For Major League Shot With Detroit Red Wings

DETROIT, Mich&mdash;Alex Faulkner&rsquo;s first National Hockey League goal was a fluke but the 26-year-old center says he&rsquo;d be happy to take 25 like it.Faulkner, the first Newfoundlander to play in the NHL, scored in his first game&hellip;and it was against the league champs, the Montreal Canadiens.The Red Wings, playing their home opener before 11,346 fans&mdash;largest home opener in Detroit history, were leading 1-0 late in the second period when Faulkner got the puck behind the Hab net.Faulkner centered it and it hit goalie Cesare Maniago&rsquo;s skate and caromed into the net. It wound up as the winner in Detroit&rsquo;s 3-1 victory. &#9632;

First NHL Goal Fluke, Alex Happy To Get It

Founded October 1st, 1947Published weekly, except monthly May through September byKen-Will Publishing Co. Ltd., 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Ken McKenzie, President and PublisherWill V. Cote, Vice-Pres, and Gen. Mgr.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.0U in Canada and the British Commonwealth;$4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y.Authorized as second class moil, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash.Printed in CanadaVol. 16 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 27, 1962 No. 4 &#9632;

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01479/2001969-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="365" height="384"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02445/2001962-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="512" height="74"></div>&bull; BOB PERREAULT, the rookie Boston goalkeeper is 31. This makes him old as rookies go but actually Perreault is the second youngest netminder in the circuit. He&rsquo;s about 10 months older than Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall. The others are all older. Gump Worsley, Terry Sawchuk and Jacques Plante are all 33, and Johnny Bower of the Leafs admits to being 38&hellip;It would appear that goalkeepers hang around longer than players in other positions&hellip;Conn Smythe, who inherited Tim Daly, the trainer, when he bought the Toronto St Patrick&rsquo;s franchise in the NHL back in 1926, gave the retired Daly his replica of the Stanley Cup following the All-Star dinner earlier this month&hellip;Boston Bruins got off to their best start in years&hellip;Undefeated after their first three games, the Bruins had one win and two ties for four points out of a possible six&hellip;Last season they had to play 10 games before they ac cumulated four points&hellip;The Bruins hope Leo Boivin, their hard-checking defenseman, will be back in action soon&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Billy Harris should score his 100th NHL goal shortly&hellip;Billy started the present season with 91 NHL goals&hellip;Guy Gendron of the Bruins is another player who should reach the Century Mark this term. Gendron finished last season with 87 National League goals&hellip;Terry Sawchuk has 89 shutouts during regular scheduled games (78 with Detroit and 11 with Boston) which is more than any goalie active today&hellip;The late George Hainsworth holds the all-time record with 94 shutouts&hellip;Nice to see Billy McNeill back in the NHL with Detroit. Hope he sticks this time.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03369/2001955-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="273" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Harris</figcaption></div>&bull; HOCKEY NEWS readers living in the United States are urged to take advantage of the $4.00 subscription rate&hellip;Save a dollar by sending in your subscription before the end of October&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs plan to use the airlines almost exclusively this season barring bad weather&hellip;Food poisoning is being blamed for sidelining Red Kelly and not the flu which was first reported&hellip;Onetime hockey great Harvey Jackson is back in the hospital in his native Toronto&hellip;Cesare Maniago has played brilliantly for Canadiens and Jacques Plante will have his job cut out for him to replace Maniago in the Montreal nets&hellip;Bob Perreault&rsquo;s shutout against Canadiens in the opening game of the NHL season was the first for Boston over Canadiens since Don Simmons turned the trick on Nov. 23, 1958&hellip;That was 54 Montreal games ago&hellip;If you haven&rsquo;t already done so, be sure to order your copy of the 1962-63 NHL Press and Radio Guide&hellip;This is the finest hockey guide published and a must for all National Hockey League fans whether you attend the games in person or watch them over television&hellip;Pro baseballer Jimmy Piersall attends the Bruins&rsquo; games when at his home near Boston&hellip;When Detroit defeated New York 2-1 in their curtain raiser it marked the first time since 1956 that the Red Wings had won an opener.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04311/2001948-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="277" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption></div>&bull; DON McKENNEY should score his 200th NHL goal this season. The clever Boston center started the season with 181 goals. When McKenney scores Goal No. 200 he will become the 36th player in NHL history to record this achievement&hellip;McKenney has scored 20 or more goals in all but one of his previous eight NHL seasons. His greatest output was in 1958-59 when he scored 32 goals&hellip;The alternate NHL captains this year are: New York, Doug Harvey, Harry Howell and Albert Langlois; Toronto, Allan Stanley, Dick Duff and Bob Pulford; Montreal, Tom Johnson, Bernie Geoffrion and Dickie Moore; Chicago, Jack Evans, Ron Murphy and Bill Hay; Boston, Doug Mohns, Warren Godfrey and Johnny Bucyk; and Detroit, Marcel Pronovost and Norm Ullman. A third alternate has not been designated as yet for Detroit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05282/2001941-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="265" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don McKenney</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By PAT CURRAN</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Goal was the last place where anyone expected the Canadiens to have trouble this season.Didn&rsquo;t Jacques Plante enjoy the greatest performances of his nine-year National Hockey League career last season?Didn&rsquo;t he win the Vezina Trophy for the sixth time and the Hart Trophy and was an almost unanimous choice for the first all-star team?And didn&rsquo;t Jacques demonstrate in training that he was ready for another brilliant campaign?The answers are in the record but who could have foreseen that the sick parade would be marching against Canadiens right at the start of the season?Plante, often accused of being a hypochonderiac, complained of feeling ill just before the Habs entrained for the schedule opener at Boston. As a precautionary measure, young Ernie Wakely of the Hull-Ottawa farm team was brought along in case Plante couldn&rsquo;t play.However, much to the ire of Coach Toe Blake after the game, Plante insisted that he could play. The answer was a 5-0 defeat by the Bruins who scored at least two easy goals against the masked netminder.Jacques said after the game: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll never go into the nets again in that condition.&rdquo; And Blake retiterated: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the last time I&rsquo;ll ever be talked into using a player when he&rsquo;s sick.&rdquo;The goalie&rsquo;s ailment was diagnosed as an infectious allergy, probably related to a previous asthmatic condition.On his return to Montreal and after treatment, Plante appeared much improved and ready to play in the Habs&rsquo; home opener against the Rangers.However Jacques phoned to say that he wasn&rsquo;t well enough to play. Wakely was rushed back from Hull-Ottawa to goal against the Rangers. The 22-year-old native of Winnipeg was nervous at the start but settled down to help Canadiens beat New York 6-3.Then the call went out to Spokane for Cesare Maniago who was flown in from the West Coast to join the Habs against Detroit. Maniago was brilliant but couldn&rsquo;t stem the Wings&rsquo; tide of 44 shots as the Habs went down to a 3-1 defeat.Next day, the club physician announced that Plante had been ordered to the sidelines for at least a week to undergo treatment. Maniago, No. 1 goalie in the Montreal farm system, was to take over the Habs&rsquo; cage for at least three games against Toronto, Boston and New York.However General Manager Frank Selke appeared to be taking a different stand on Plante.Selke was quoted:&ldquo;Plante will have to win his job back. I can&rsquo;t understand why a man is alright on a Friday, as Plante was, and then turns up sick on a Saturday. He&rsquo;s got to show me that he deserves to be in the nets for this club. He&rsquo;s got to show me that his attitude is right.&rdquo;Two years ago when Plante had a mediocre season and was sent to the minors, while little Charlie Hodge ably filled the Montreal goal, some blame for Jacques&rsquo; comedown was placed on his &ldquo;attitude&rdquo; by the club brass.Only Plante himself knows whether &ldquo;attitude&rdquo; is another word for &ldquo;sick&rdquo;. &#9632;

Plante Falls III, Habs Fall Flat, But He’ll Have To Win Job Back

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02402/2002055-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PARKER MACDONALD</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;On Sept. 24 in Calgary when Parker MacDonald reported to the Red Wing dressing room, manager-coach Sid Abel dropped him in on left wing on the first line.&ldquo;I got two goals that night,&rdquo; MacDonald recalled.He&rsquo;s been clicking since.In the final six games of the exhibition season, MacDonald accounted for nine goals finishing with a hat trick against Pittsburgh.Parker didn&rsquo;t stop scoring when the season opened&mdash;he scored the winner in the Wings&rsquo; 2-1 victory over New York in the opener and then collected two in Detroit&rsquo;s 3-1 decision over Montreal in the Olympia opener.&ldquo;Two years ago I played with Fats (Alex Delvecchio) and Norm Ullman and our line started fast. Fats got about 10 goals right off the bat.&ldquo;But then the lines were switched. For awhile, I played with Gordie Howe and Murray Oliver,&rdquo; MacDonald said.Later, Oliver was traded for Vic Stasiuk and there was more switching. Parker finished with 14 goals.Last year, MacDonald just made the team due to a lastminute injury to Ullman. After the ninth game, he was sent to Sudbury but refused to report to the Eastern Pro League, went home to Sydney, Nova Scotia, and was suspended. He returned when assigned to Hershey.He came up for one game at mid-season and finally came back to the Wings in the 49th game and got five goals the rest of the way.Until his promotion in Calgary, MacDonald had been working on a line with Eddie Joyal and Howie Glover, both now in the minors. Earl Balfour had the prime left wing spot. They traded places and Balfour also is back in the minors.MacDonald isn&rsquo;t the only returnee responsible for the Wings&rsquo; early success&mdash;two victories and a tie in their first three games for their best start in three seasons.Howie Young, the Wings&rsquo; strong-arm man, kept the opposition loose and scored a goal and assisted on one as well.Young, who was up and down in favor like a yo-yo last year, didn&rsquo;t turn into a Lord Fauntleroy&mdash;he had four penalties in the first three games&mdash;but he did restore some of the zest that was missing from the Wings last season.Young&rsquo;s first goal, on a passout from Delvecchio, tied the game in New York at 1-1 at 6.04 of the third period and MacDonald scored the winner at 11.09.It was Young&rsquo;s first goal in regular season NHL play although he had a pair in the 1961 playoffs.An astounding part of the Wing success was that two of the first three games were on the road where they won only six all last year and gained only 19 of a possible 70 points away from home.&ldquo;The whole club has been hustling,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Young and Doug Barkley have been standouts and our kid line is moving.&rdquo;Abel&rsquo;s kid line is left wing Larry Jeffrey, center Alex Faulkner and right wing Bruce MacGregor. They&rsquo;re the Detroit version of the Los Angeles Dodgers&rsquo; &ldquo;Swift Set.&rdquo;An added starter to that line is Billy McNeill, brought back from Edmonton and part-time hockey. McNeill spelled MacGregor, one of the Wing penalty killers, in the Montreal game.Billy quit hockey Feb. 4, 1960, after balking at being traded to the New York Rangers. He was coaxed to play part-time with Edmonton the past two seasons. &#9632;

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Parker MacDonald Getting Second Wind As Wings Scorer

<div class="byline">&#x2014;Pat Curran</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Bill Durnan, perennial allstar of another era with Canadians, found out happily that Forum fans haven&rsquo;t forgotten him.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01436/2002086-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="272" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Durnan</figcaption></div>A little grey and a lot heavier than when he was winning the Vezina Trophy six years in seven seasons with the Habs, Durnan was given a loud and lengthy ovation when introduced at centre ice between periods of the Montreal season opener.Bill was on hand to present the Vezina Trophy to Jacques Plante who tied Durnan&rsquo;s record as a six-time winner last season. The irony of the presentation was that Plante was home sick and Bernard Geoffrion accepted the award on his behalf.Two other Montreal stars of another era also were recognized by the crowd. Sylvio Mantha got an ovation when he presented the Hart Trophy (to Geoffrion also on Plante&rsquo;s behalf). Oldtimer Newsy Lalonde was cheered when he handed over the Calder Trophy to Bobby Rousseau as the top rookie in 1961-62.Trustee Cooper Smeaton presented the Prince of Wales Trophy to Jean Beliveau, the team captain, for Canadiens&rsquo; league championship victory last season. &#9632;

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Durnan Discovers He’s Not Forgotten By Montreal Fans

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Detroit Red Wing Souvenirs

<div class="byline">&#x2014;JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Goalkeeper Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s sensational play in the early Detroit games this season appears to be the result of wearing a mask.The 33-year-old netminder, who is playing his 13th year in the National Hockey League, has been a big factor in the Wings&rsquo; quick getaway. Sawchuk allowed only two goals in three games and had a shutout string of 130 minutes, four seconds, interrupted by Montreal&rsquo;s Claude Provost on a deflection.Sawchuk rang up his 99th career shutout&mdash;including playoff games of course&mdash;in the 0-0 game at Chicago.The seasoned Detroit goaler this year turned to the face mask made popular by Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Plante, during the club&rsquo;s training camp period. Detroit trainer Lefty Wilson designed the face protector for Sawchuk and the Wing puckstopper was completely sold on the idea.&ldquo;It will probably add a few more years on to my career,&rdquo; he was quoted as saying when training ended.Sawchuk said he would give the mask a good try in regular league play and it appears the move has been a significant one for him.He has been playing like a rookie trying to make the club rather than a 33-year-old goalie with more than 721 big league games behind him.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03327/2002155-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="284" height="473"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Face Mask Paying Off for Sawchuck

DETROIT, Mich&mdash;Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; indestructible right winger Gordie Howe will become hockey&rsquo;s all-time great scorer in time and the most asked hockey question these days, is invariably, &ldquo;how many goals does he need to set the record?&rdquo;The 34-year-old Red Wing great started the current campaign with a career of 502 in 16 seasons. He has counted once this year giving him 503, just 42 away from eclipsing the mark held by the famed Maurice Richard, who is now re tired. Richard counted 544 times in 18 years.Howe isn&rsquo;t likely to surpass the Rocket&rsquo;s record this season during the 70-game schedule, although nothing seems impossible for the swarthy winger. However, if he matches his 33-goal performance of last season, he will be ripe tc set a new record early in the 1963 64 campaign, which would be his 18th in the NHL.Richard fans, who are certain to become a little sad the day it happens, have one consolation Howe isn&rsquo;t likely to topple the Rocket&rsquo;s all time league and play off goal-scoring mark. Richarc counted 626 goals. Howe has only 543, an insurmountable edge ever the great Gordie Howe would have trouble overcoming.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01506/2002186-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="571" height="591"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Magic Number 42 For Gordie Howe To Top ‘Rocket’

<div class="byline">By HARRY MOLTER</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Over the years the Chicago Black Hawks have had four winners of the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League rookie-of-the-year.The four were goalie Mike Karakas in 1936, and forwards Cully Dahlstrom in 1938, Ed Litzenberger in 1955 and Red Hay in 1960.This year the Black Hawks have another player who has the potential to challenge for league rookie honors. His name is Chico Maki.Maki is strictly a product of the Chicago farm system, moving up from Simcoe, Ont., Gunners in Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; to St. Catherines Tee-Pees in Ontario Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; and finally the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League the past two years. His first season in the AHL he won rookie-of-the-year honors in 1961.That same season he saw action in two Stanley Cup playoff games for the parent Black Hawks. And while Chico is a right winger all the way it is typical of his adaptability that he filled in at that time as a center for veteran Tod Sloan.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d never played center before,&rdquo; recalls Maki. &ldquo;I spelled Sloan a few times to give him some rest in the finals against Detroit.&rdquo;Last season Maki was called up for 15 games during the season at his regular right wing slot, to fill in for injured Murray Balfour on the &ldquo;Million Dollar Line&rdquo; with Red Hay at center and Bobby Hull on left wing.Thrown in right away against some of the top lines in the league, Maki handled himself with extreme poise for a youngster and contributed 4 goals and 6 assists along the way.&ldquo;He impressed us with his play,&rdquo; frankly admits Chicago Coach Rudy Pilous. &ldquo;We had a tough choice this year in training camp to choose between John McKenzie, Jerry Melnyk and Maki. We like Maki&rsquo;s willingness to play any position, his speed, his scoring potential and his guts. He&rsquo;s got a lot of scrap.&rdquo;Maki didn&rsquo;t know until two days before the NHL season started that he had made the Black Hawk squad.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02386/2002217-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="555" height="959"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHICO MAKI</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Chicago had all experienced skaters and I didn&rsquo;t think they would have room for a rookie,&rdquo; said Maki after playing his first game for the Black Hawks. &ldquo;I actually didn&rsquo;t have a good training camp. I had my hand in a cast the first week of training camp and had the flu part of the time. I broke a bone in my hand a week or so before camp started. It&rsquo;s still a little weak.&rdquo;Home for Ronald Patrick Maki is a farm in Simcoe, Ont., his wife&rsquo;s hometown. During the past summer Chico built a wooden net in the yard and took turns with 17-year-old brother Wayne playing goalie and shooting a bucket of pucks at the improvised net.Although Maki does not have a regular spot on one of the three Black Hawk forward lines, he is expected to see plenty of action this year. For example, in the opening game of the season he speled off injured All-Star center Stan Mikita on the &ldquo;Scooter Line&rdquo; with Ab McDonald and Ken Wharram.To show his quick adaptability, he started the play that led to Chicago&rsquo;s lone goal in the opening game 3-1 defeat to Toronto, picking up an assist, along with Mc Donald, on a score by Wharram.In Chicago&rsquo;s next game, with Wharram also sidelined by an ankle injury, Maki shifted to his familiar right wing spot while Reg Fleming and Bob Turner alternated at center for the still-sidelined Mikita. That game ended in a scoreless tie with Detroit, but the next night Maki scored one of the Chicago goals in a 2-2 tie at Boston&mdash;thus giving him a hand in two of Chicago&rsquo;s first three goals of the yonng season.Maki is slim at 155 pounds and 5 ft. 10 inches. He is 23. At Buffalo he scored 30 goals two years ago and 21 goals last season. &#9632;

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Hawks See Maki As Top Candidate For NHL’s Rookie-Of-Year Honors

CHICAGO, III&mdash;It wasn&rsquo;t the Black Hawks&rsquo; &lsquo;Million Dollar&rsquo; line or some of the other holdover stars who sparked the team to its first NHL victory of the season.It was the &lsquo;unknowns&rsquo; like rookie Chico Maki, pick-up forward Len Lunde and third-string centre Ron Murphy who did all the damage as the Chihawks ripped the Rangers 5-1 for their first victory of the new season.Maki was credited with the winning goal&mdash;his second of the year Lunde bagged the first one and Murphy counted once and picked up two assists. &#9632;

Maki Nets Deciding Goal As Hawks Get First Win

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01457/2002272-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Boston Bruins are planning to alternate their two new net-minders this season in the NHL. BOB PERREAULT, 31, left, and EDDIE JOHNSTON, who is 27, will share the club&rsquo;s puckstopping duties. Perreault got off to a fast start. Johnston was still waiting for his chance to play.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;It was too early for Indian Summer, and as a matter of fact the New England countryside was just recovering from a steady diet of springlike rains.There was desultory interest in the playoff series which the baseball people like to refer to as &ldquo;The World Series,&rdquo; with New York and San Francisco representing the world.The big college football teams in this area were in the process of losing their big games as usual, and it was too early for the mighty Celtics to start defense of their professional basketball championship.It was during this relative lull in the world of sports that Robert Michel Perreault (pronounced PEHR-o) burst into prominence.Who&rsquo;s Perreault? He&rsquo;s a &lsquo;Five By Five&rsquo; with a golden smile, a deft catching hand, a quick stick, nimble feet and a sense of humor. He&rsquo;s the Bruins&rsquo; new goalkeeper.When Perreault, the oldest rookie regular in Bruins&rsquo; history, shephered his team through its first three games undefeated, shutting out the Montreal Canadiens in the first, he made people sit up and take notice. Take notice of the Bruins, that is. He also prompted a number of comments, among which were these:DON McKENNEY, Bruins&rsquo; captain&mdash;&rdquo;Having a fellow like him in the nets makes a tremendous difference in a team. It&rsquo;s possible for us to go out and press for goals as we did in that game with Chicago which we were losing (20) when he know he&rsquo;s behind us. They may score on him, but he doesn&rsquo;t let the easy ones in.&rdquo;JERRY TOPPAZZINI, veteran forward&mdash;&rdquo;He was good the game he shut out Montreal but he wasn&rsquo;t at his best. He was nervous and jittery. It was his first game. He&rsquo;ll play better games than that, wait and see. And don&rsquo;t think he doesn&rsquo;t make a big, big difference in this team.&rdquo;TOMMY IVAN, Chicago manager&mdash;&rdquo;Perreault will do a good job in goal for Boston. He has been a good goalkeeper all through his career. Only Gil Mayer when he was younger had a minor league record as good or better than his. There&rsquo;s a lot of the season left but I think he&rsquo;ll be a good man for the Bruins.&rdquo;PHIL WATSON, Bruin&rsquo;s coach&mdash;&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good goalkeeper on the ice and a good man in the dressing room. He keeps everyone loose with his humor and he takes the bad breaks with the good without complaining. If we can give him good support he&rsquo;ll do right by us. He told me last spring he would if we got him.&rdquo;DOUG MOHNS, Bruin&rsquo;s crack defenseman&mdash;&rdquo;He has already showed me some of the best saves I&rsquo;ve ever seen. One thing about him, he&rsquo;s always in the game. When he comes up with that big save, he makes you want to work just that much harder to help him.&rdquo;There were other comments, many more, as Perreault led the Bruins in their bid for the National Hockey League&rsquo;s October championship, at least.Boston Garden was mobbed for the game in which he shut out Montreal, and the thousands brought tears streaming down his face as they applauded him off the ice afterward.Two nights later he was struck on the chin by the stick of Ted Green, one of his own defensemen, as the Bruins played to a tie in Toronto. But &lsquo;Kid Flamingo&rsquo; (his old boxing name) stayed on his feet despite a severely cut tongue and he was voted the game&rsquo;s outstanding player.The next night he gave Chicago two goals in the game mentioned by McKenney, making more fascinating saves with glove, stick, pads and skates.While New England buzzed about the new boy in town, &lsquo;Mr. Five by Five&rsquo; (5&rsquo;5&rdquo;, 176) sailed through interview after interview, picture after picture, radio tape after radio tape, his smile beaming steadily.Did he mind the adjectives used to describe him? Adjectives? Yes, the words like chubby, roly-poly, balding, etc.&ldquo;Non, I do not mind what dey call me. Dey cal me one thing in one place, another thing some place else. It is all right (shrug) with me. I know dey do no do me any harm.&rdquo;Did he like the vociferous&hellip;pardon, noisy&hellip;crowds which are the rule at Bruins&rsquo; games here?&ldquo;Oh, yes, I like de noise very much. After I make a save dey make a lot of noise and that peps me up. Maybe though (grinning) I won&rsquo;t like all de noises dey make, eh?&rdquo; &#9632;

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Bob Perreault Lifts Bruins With Brilliant Goal Tending And Dressing Room Humor

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Bob Perreault of the Bruins may be the oldest potential candidate for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the National League&rsquo;s rookie of the year, but he is the league&rsquo;s second-youngest goalkeeper.Perreault, 31, was born January 28, 1931, approximately eight months before Chicago&rsquo;s Glenn Hall, bom October 3, 1931. Jacques Plante of Montreal, Gump Worsley of New York, Terry Sawchuk of Detroit and Johnny Bower of Toronto are all older than Perreault. &#9632;

Bruin Goaler Young At 31 Compared To Others In NHI

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02422/2002327-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg"></div>GENERAL MANAGER Lynn Patrick &#9632;

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Boston Bruins 1962-63 Roster

The 1962-63 N.H.L. Press and Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who In Hockey, and is the finest Hockey Guide published. 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 Leagues.All This For Only$1.00PER COPY (Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04257/2002365-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="275" height="382"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03339/2002358-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1097" height="605"></div> &#9632;

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The Best Hockey Guide Published

&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;<h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>(Standings On Mon., Oct. 22)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01491/2002417-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="578" height="192"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed., Oct. 17Chicago 5, Rangers 1Thurs., Oct. 18Toronto 2, Canadiens 4Boston 3, Detroit 5Sat., Oct. 20Boston 3, Canadiens 7Chicago 1, Toronto 3Sun., Oct. 21Canadiens 3, Rangers 3Toronto 6, Boston 4Chicago 1, Detroit 3<h2>Point Race</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Oct. 21)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02424/2002410-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="625" height="2347"></div><h3>RECORD OF GOALKEEPERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03342/2002403-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="576" height="345"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04269/2002396-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="573" height="162"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;What&rsquo;s happened to hockey&rsquo;s big scoring guns of last season?After two weeks of play in the National Hockey League, very few of the league&rsquo;s top ten point men of the 1961-62 season have found the range to date.In fact if you were to put last year&rsquo;s first 10 scorers against the top 10 this season, you would only to have to include the names of Alex Delvecchio and Claude Provost.Where are the Hulls, Howes, Bathgates and Mahovlichs?Hull has one goal in six games, Howe and Bathgate one each in five games while Mahovlich got hot on the weekend and shot his first three after being blanked in four starts.The leaders are Henri Richard of Canadiens and Boston&rsquo;s Cliff Pennington, each with nine points. &#9632;

Big Guns Sputtering In Early Point Race

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-13" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1352/2002559-1-eng-US/f0008-132.jpg"></div>Henri Richard of the Canadiens has watched his goal production sink lower in the last three years, but the &ldquo;Pocket Rocket&rdquo; appears to have regained his touch this season in the National Hockey League.After two weeks of league play, the 26-year-old centre of the Habs has scored five times in six games and if he keeps his present gait, he could finish up with the greatest season of his eight-year big league career.The Pocket&rsquo;s NHL goal high was attained in 1959-60 when he shot 30 goals in 70 games. The following year he slipped to 24 and last season went down to 21.Showing no ill effects of the broken wrist that kept him out of the last 16 games of the schedule last year, the fastskating Canadiens&rsquo; pivot has the big jump this season with five goals and four assists in the team&rsquo;s six games.Last week, Richard banged in a single goal as the Habs topped the Maple Leafs 4-2 and pounted two goals two nights later as the Habitants riddled the Boston Bruins 7-3.More of a playmaker than a scorer since he came into the NHL, Richard now heads the league in goals and his strong play in the two games for Montreal has won him the honor of being named Player&rsquo;s &ldquo;Player-of-the-week&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1261/2002552-1-eng-US/f0008-122.jpg" title="f0008-12" width="269" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Henri Richerd</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Player

<h2>Wednesday, Oct. 17 CHICAGO 5 AT NEW YORK 1</h2>NEW YORK&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defence: Hervey, Langlois; centre: Ingarfield; wings: Bathgate, Prentice; subs.: Howell, Cahan, Horvath, Gilbert, Baton, Hadfield, Hebenton, Ratelie, Neilson, Henry, Schinkkel, Hampson.CHICAGO&mdash;Goal-Hall; defence: Pilote, Vasko; centre: Hay; wings: Hull, Balfou; subs.: Turner, Evans, Fleming, Lunde, Murphy, McDonald, Maki, Nesterenko, Wharram, MacNeil, Hillman.Referee: McArthur; linesmen: Pavelich, Wicks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05210/2002521-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="562" height="322"></div><h2>Thursday, Oct. 18 TORONTO 2 AT CANADIENS 4</h2>CANADIENS&mdash;Goal: Maniago; defence: J. 0 Tremblay, Fontinato; centre: Richard; wings Moore, Provost; subs.: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Back strom, Hicke, Gauthier, Rousseau, Talbot, Beren son, G. Tremblay, Goyette, Marshall.TORONTO&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence; Horton Douglas; centre: Harris; wings: Novin, Mahovlich subs: Brewer, Duff, Armstrong, Stewart, Keen Mikol, Pulford. Baun, Shack, Litzenberger, StanleyReferee: Powers: linesmen; Wicks, Pavebch.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06172/2002514-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="571" height="447"></div><h2>BOSTON 3 AT DETROIT 5</h2>DETROIT&mdash;Goal; Sawchuk; defence: Young, Gadsbv; centre: Delvecchio; wings: Howe, MacDonald; subs.; M. Pronovost, Barkley, Ullman, Smith, Stasiuk, Faulkner, McNeil, McGregor, Fon teyne, Jeffrey.BOSTON&mdash;Goat: Perreault; defence: Green, Mohns; centre: Oliver; wings: Connelly, Bucyksubs.: Burns, Stapelton, Williams, Hicks, A. Pronovost, McKenny, Toppazzini, Spencer, Gendron, Godfrey.Referee: Ashley; linesmen: Hays, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07144/2002507-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="574" height="455"></div><h2>Saturday, Oct. 20 BOSTON 3 AT MONTREAL 7</h2>CANADIENS&mdash;Goal: Maniago; defence: J. C. Tremblay, Fontinato; centre: Richard; wings: Moore, Provost; subs.: Beliveau, Geoffrion, Back strom, Hicke, Johnson, Gauthier, Talbot, Berenson, Goyette, G. Tremblay, Marshall.BOSTON&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defence: Green, Mohns; centre: Pennington; wings: Hicks, Spen cer; subs.: Stapleton, Connelly, Bucyk, Burns, Williams, Pronovost, Oliver, McKenney, Toppazzini, Gendron, Godfrey.Referee: Buffev: linesmen; Armstrong. Hayes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08124/2002500-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="571" height="529"></div><h2>CHICAGO 1 AT TORONTO 3</h2>Toronto&mdash;Goal: Bower; defence: Brewer, Baun-. centre: Harris; wings.: Mahovlich, Nevin; usbs:Horton, Duff, Armstrong, Stewart, Keon, Mikol, Douglas, fulford, Shack, litzenberger, Stanley.CHICAGO&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Pilote, Vasko: centre: Hay; wings.: Hull, Balfour; subs.: Turner, Evans, Fleming, Lunde, Murphy, McDonald, Maki, Nesterenko, MacNeil, Hillman.Referee: Udvari; linesmen: Morrison, Wicks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-09104/2002493-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="576" height="451"></div><h2>Sunday, Oct. 21 MONTREAL 3 AT NEW YORK 3</h2>NEW YORK&mdash; Goal: Worsley; defence: Harvey Langlois; centre: Ingarfield; wings.: Bathgate. Prentice; subs.: Howell, Cahan, Horvath, Gilbert. Balon, Hadfield, Hebenton, Ratelle, Neilson, Hen ry, Schinkel, Hampson.Canadiens&mdash;Goal: Maniago; defence: Fontinato. J. C. Tremolay; centre: Beliveau; wings: Geoffrion, G. Tremblay; subs.: Backstrom, Hicke, Johnson, Gauthier, Moore, Provost, Richard, Tal bot, Berenson, Goyette, Marshall.Referee: Ashley; linesmen: Hayes, Atanas.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1090/2002486-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="580" height="468"></div><h2>CHICAGO 1 AT DETROIT 3</h2>DETROIT&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk; defence: Young, Gadsby; centre; Ullman; wings: Smith, Stasiuk; subs; Pronovost, Barkley, Howe, Delvecchio, Faulkner, McNeil, MacGregor, Fonteyne, Goegan, MacDonald, Jeffrey.CHICAGO&mdash;Goal: Hall; defence: Pilote, Vasko; centre: Lunde; wings: Murphy, Nesterenko; aubs: Turner, Evans, Fleming, Hull, Balfour, Hay, MacDonald, Maki, MacNeil, Hillman.Referee: Udvari; linemen: Wicks, Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1178/2002479-1-eng-US/f0008-112.jpg" title="f0008-11" width="581" height="423"></div><h2>TORONTO 6 AT BOSTON 4</h2>BOSTON&mdash;Goal: Perreault; defence: Green, Mohns; centre: Oliver; wings: Bucyk, Connelly; subs.: McKenney, Pronovost, Gendron, Pennington, Hicks, Spencer, Williams, Toppanini, Burns, Stapleton, Godfrey.TORONTO&mdash;Gola: Bower; defence; Douglas Horton; centre: Pulford; wings: Shack, Stewart; subs.: Mahovlich, Nevin, Baun, Brewer, Keon, Litzenberger, Mikol, Stanley, Armstrong, Duff.Referee: Skov; linesmen: Frampton, Armstrong<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01476/2002472-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="587" height="567"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;It&rsquo;s always fun when Toronto Maple Leafs come to town in the Fall because you&rsquo;re guaranteed a laugh when the Leafs make their annual &ldquo;pitch&rdquo; for Dean Prentice, the Ranger left wing.Of course, half the fun is guessing where the pitch came from, or if it came at all. The other half comes in the denial.With Bert Olmstead &ldquo;retired&rdquo; and some of the Leafs admitting privately they miss old Bertie, word got around&mdash;as it ALWAYS does&mdash;that Toronto g.m. Punch Imlach would like to get his hands on Prentice.&ldquo;Sure I would,&rdquo; admitted Punch during a disasterous (he lost) Sunday in New York. &ldquo;Prentice could do us some good. But I haven&rsquo;t made a bid to Muzz (Patrick).&rdquo;From press row, where deals are made and broken at the drop of a puck, the suggested trade was Prentice for Ron Stewart, Billy Harris and Ed Litzenberger.This drew a big nix from Ranger president Bill Jennings.&ldquo;Prentice is not up for trade,&rdquo; Jennings told the HOCKEY NEWS, &ldquo;unless Imlach wants to give us Frank Mahavlich. Then, maybe we&rsquo;d throw in another player.&rdquo;The basis for any trade talk between Leafs and Rangers is self-help. Minus Olmstead, the Leafs are hurting spiritually and qualitatively. To challenge for first they need a left wing of Prentice&rsquo;s ability.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03397/2002621-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="554" height="1112"><figcaption class="caption-body">DEAN PRENTICE</figcaption></div>Rangers, on the other hand, are short on depth, especially at center, where Harris would be a beaut, and left wing, where Olmstead&rsquo;s non appearance has hurt.But at this stage, managers are reluctant to act hastily, hopeful that present personnel will turn out to be adequate.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not thinking of trades now,&rdquo; said Jennings.&ldquo;Nothing yet,&rdquo; added Imlach. &ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t been approached. Besides, I don&rsquo;t know what they want. The reporter who says I&rsquo;m making a trade for Prentice must be taking opium again.&rdquo;Imlach appeared to be suffering a mild case of shock following the Rangers 5-3 defeat of his troops in their New York premiere. After the game, Punch sat glued to his seat for several minutes after the game ended while his players marched into the dressing room.When Imlach came to, he retreated to Leaf quarters, dusted off the ouija board and said he envisioned six months of hard work.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be a rough season,&rdquo; the coach of the Stanley Cup champions warned. Then, in one of those managerial paradoxes: &ldquo;But I like it that way.&rdquo;Pressed for more prophesy, Imlach said the NHL likely would split up in two divisions (top three&mdash;Toronto, Montreal and Chicago) (bottom three&mdash;New York, Boston and Detroit) but he made no guarantees about the finish. &#9632;

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GORDONS DRY GIN Perfect with any mixGORDONS DRY GIN Makes a Martini Perfect<h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>(Standings On Mon., Oct. 22) Eastern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01490/2002721-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="582" height="163"></div><h3>Western Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02421/2002714-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="582" height="137"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Oct. 16Quebec 4, Springfield 3Wed., Oct. 17Hershey 3, Cleveland 2Sat., Oct. 20Springfield 7, Cleveland 0Buffalo 4, Hershey 2Baltimore 5, Pittsburgh 1Sun., Oct. 21Buffalo 4, Baltimore 1Providence 6, Hershey 3Quebec 6, Cleveland 4Pittsburgh 5, Rochester 2<h2>Point Race</h2>(Including Games Of Sun., Oct. 21)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03353/2002707-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="582" height="295"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;Gerry McNamara and Jerry Cheevers spent four weeks battling for the Rochester Americans&rsquo; goal tending berth, so who was between the pipes when the American Hockey League season opened? Dor Simmons, of course.McNamara, a real hard-luck guy if there ever was one, won the job five days before the October 12 opener here against Cleveland. Finally, after years of trying for steady employment with a prett&rsquo; fair hockey club from the very beginning of the season, Mac was to have an opportunity.But it just wasn&rsquo;t in the cards. On the morning, of Oct. 10, a scant two days before the firs game, teammate Lou Angotti collided with McNam are. It wasn&rsquo;t a particularly hard crash, but something popped in Gerry&rsquo;s right knee.Two visits to a doctor resulted in a cast on his right leg to help hasten improvement of torn ligaments. Now he&rsquo;s on the sidelines fo at least a month.Since Cheevers already had been assigned to Sudbury of the Eastern Pro League with the understanding he would start the season there, the Amerks Suddenly were up against it for a goalie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04267/2002752-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="258" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Simmons</figcaption></div>But the old pro, Simmons, was ready, willing and able to comet the rescue. Simmons himself had missed the entire training camp because of two broken toes suffered during his summer employment. In fact, Don had practiced only four times in Toronto before he was hustled into the Amerk lineup.Simmons bore out trainer Dan Canney&rsquo;s pre-game observation that he (Don) could get by on experience alone even though he was no in shape as he stopped the Cleveland Barons with a single goal in a 6-1 Rochester triumph. He had trouble in a 5-3 loss to the Barons in Cleveland the following night and then finished a strenuous three-games-in-three-nights opening weekend with a 3-2 conquest of Hershey here.Balanced marked Rochester&rsquo;s first three games with 10 players scoring the 12 goals. Only skater to boast more than a singleton was Bruce Draper, who tied for runner up honors in the rookie-of-the-year voting last spring.Bruce, who started fast a year ago with four goals in the first six games, collected three on the opening weekend this year. One each went to Dick Gamble, Gerry Ehman, Ed Lawson, Jim Pappin, John MacMillan, Larry Keenan, Gene Ubriaco, Stan Smrke and Arnie Brown.Lawson, who didn&rsquo;t dress for the first two games because the Amerks had too many players, made a smashing debut when he did get a chance. He took only one shot and made good on that to start the Americans on the way to the win over Hershey. He managed only one goal in 32 games with Pittsburgh last season, so has already matched his half-season output there.ICICLES&mdash;Attendance for the opener was 4,287&hellip;Defenseman Bob Armstrong, veteran of 584 National League regular-season and playoff games, is the new Amerk captain, with Gamble, Smrke and Al Arbour as assistants. &#9632;

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Don Simmons Comes To Rescue As injury Shelves McNamara

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Owner Eddie Shore of the Springfield Indians announced the completion of the Wayne Larkin deal, by which he had traded Dick Mattiussi to the Cleveland Barons for Larkin and Murray Davison.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05199/2002783-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="274" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murray Davison</figcaption></div>Mattiussi, who was acquire ed by the Indians as part of the multiple player swap that sent Kent Douglas to the Toronto Maple Leafs this summer, attended the Indians&rsquo; training camp then refused to sign a contract with a standard minor league clause in it. He returned to his home in Ontario.Looking for more scoring punch Shore was happy to trade Mattiussi for a seasoned right winger such as Larkin and a defenseman as well.The 23-year-old Larkin joined the Tribe in time for their first game and looked good in his two appearances on home ice. He is 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo; tall and weighs 178 pounds. He is left hand shot but plays right wing. Larkin has been with Cleveland for the past two seasons. Last year he scored 19 goals and 23 assists. He is a spirited, hustling forward who does not shy away from body contact. Although he is not in condition yet due to joining the Barons late, it is expected that when he is in shape he will add plenty of hustle to the right side.Davison, the other player acquired by the Indians, is a defenseman, Last year, his first season in pro hockey, he played with the Barons. He is 24 years old, 6&rsquo; tall wand weigh 190 pounds.Both Shore and Egan expressed delight with the trade as it gave them another established forward as well as a very good defense prospect. &#9632;

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Shore Gets Two In Swap For Mattiussi

<h2>Tuesday, Oct. 16 SPRINGFIELD 3 AT QUEBEC 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06160/2002870-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="579" height="379"></div><h3>Wednesday, Oct. 17 CLEVELAND 2 AT HERSHEY 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07121/2002863-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="578" height="457"></div><h3>Saturday, Oct. 20 BUFFALO 4 AT HERSHEY 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0895/2002856-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="578" height="537"></div><h3>BALTIMORE 5, PITTSBURGH 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0972/2002849-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="575" height="375"></div><h3>CLEVELAND 0, SPRINGFIELD 7</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1060/2002842-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="579" height="444"></div><h3>Sunday, Oct. 21 QUEBEC 6 CLEVELAND 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1150/2002835-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg" title="f0010-11" width="582" height="575"></div><h3>PROVIDENCE 6, HERSHEY 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1235/2002828-1-eng-US/f0010-122.jpg" title="f0010-12" width="579" height="428"></div><h3>BUFFALO 4. BALTIMORE 1</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1324/2002821-1-eng-US/f0010-132.jpg" title="f0010-13" width="588" height="539"></div><h3>PITTSBURGH 5 ROCHESTER 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1417/2002814-1-eng-US/f0010-142.jpg" title="f0010-14" width="581" height="429"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;It was a veteran-studded Rhode Island Reds hockey team that finally won its first American League encounter against the new Baltimore Clippers.The Reds, stacked with experience, made pre-season promises of great happenings to come, but dropped their first two games to Buffalo and Quebec before stopping the Clippers, 64.Worst of all, their second defeat, 4-2 to Quebec, was played on home ice, and the usually gleeful Rooster fans went home disgruntled after a noticeably poor performance by their favorites.Player-coach Ferny Flaman, veteran of all the Reds&rsquo; veterans, made this comment after his team&rsquo;s more impressive showing over the hustling Baltimore sextet: &ldquo;Our team is geared around a nucleus of veterans, several of them with more than 10-years experience. With players of this category, it takes time to work into shape. It takes games and more practice to jell a veteran club. As the season goes on, this. club will develop into a powerhouse. All we need now is time and more skating.&rdquo;The Reds&rsquo; nucleus to which the Reds coach refered included himself, 35-year-old veteran of 15 NHL wars; 34-year-old Harry Pidhirny, obtained from Montreal this summer; defenseman Steve Kraftcheck, 33, who was purchased from Toronto during the off-season; 33-year-old Ed &ldquo;Spider&rdquo; Mazur, bought from Cleveland in August; goaltender Gil Mayer, 32; and 32-year-old Zellio Toppazzini, who is now in his 11th season with the Reds.The nucleus, most impressive on paper, but slow to get started, showed sparks of great life in the Baltimore contest. Most noticeable were the return to form of Flaman as he pumped home a scorcher for the Reds first goal, then set winger Jimmy Bartlett up with a beauty in the second period. On defense he was the Flaman of old, belting and bashing every turn.<h2>Pidhirny Comes Through</h2>Moreover, Pidhirny, who hadn&rsquo;t found his legs until that contest, scored his first goal of the campaign. The vet of 13 AHL wars, spent mostly with the Springfield Indians, also gave his characteristicly. clever performance as a forechecker and penalty-killer.It must be said, however, that the finest and most consistant play of any vet since the opener in Buffalo came from the durable Mayer in goal. In each contest the seasoned netminder kept the Roosters going with brilliant puckstopping.Stocked, then, with some of hockey&rsquo;s most knowledgeable players, the Reds have built around them with 37-goal Pierre Brillant, Bartlett, George Ranieri, Bob Beckett, Larry Leach, Stan Baluik, Dan Poliziani, Bob Blackburn, Matt Ravlich, Serge Boudreault, Eddie Giacomin, and rookies Harry Ottenbriet and Jack McGeough.Already the rooks have cashed in. Ottenbriet, who totaled 101 points with Minneapolis last season, scored two in three games, while McGeough, a Providence native and product, assisted twice and shown brightly as a great defensive find.With the average age hitting exactly 28 on the Reds this season, the Roosters, counting on a pleasant mixture of experienced warriors and hustling young hopefuls figure to present a highly competitive club in the AHL this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03373/2002963-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="282" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fern Flaman</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Fans Grumble After Opening Losses But Coach Flaman Pleads For Time To Mould Veteran-Studded Reds

<div class="byline">By CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Jerry Melnyk figures to play a major role in the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; operations this winter, but Coach Billy Reay isn&rsquo;t quite sure where he will use the 28-year-old center.&ldquo;Jerry can do everything you can ask of a hockey player, and do them well,&rdquo; Reay said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s just the type of handy man every club is looking for, and I&rsquo;m mighty happy to have him.&rdquo;Now heading into his ninth season as a pro, Melnyk was sent to the Herd this fall after a full season with the parent Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League.Before going to Chicago, he was with the Detroit Red Wings for two seasons following five terms with the Wings&rsquo; Edmonton farm club of the Western League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04306/2002994-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="533" height="863"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN MCKENZIE&hellip;Big Hit With Fans</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I could fit Jerry into center ice with any of our present lines,&rdquo; Reay added, &ldquo;but I would prefer to shift him around for just a little bit.&ldquo;He can skate off penalties, and is a valuable man on the point in the power play. He&rsquo;ll get plenty of work with us, you can be sure of that.&rdquo;Melnyk hit the 30-goal mark twice with Edmonton. He had 10 and nine-goal seasons with Detroit, and collected five goals and 16 assists with the Hawks.Jerry trained with Chicago this fall, and suffered a slight shoulder separation in a pre-season game with the Bisons.He has been anxious to get back into action following a 10-day layoff, and was used in spots in the 3-0 opening-night win over Providence.&ldquo;I felt pretty good out there,&rdquo; Melnyk said. &ldquo;I can still feel a little twinge in the shoulder, but it&rsquo;s just about perfect again. This sitting around business isn&rsquo;t for me. I want to be in that lineup.&rdquo;Melnyk connected twice in the Bisons&rsquo; 5-3 triumph over Pittsburgh, and lost several other great scoring chances when Hank Bassen, the Hornets&rsquo; netminder, got in front of sizzling drives.ALONG THE BOARDS&mdash;John McKenzie, the perpetual motion right-winger who came to the Bisons this season from the Hershey Bears, is rapidly becoming a prime favorite here. His constant hustle and strong checking is much appreciated by the fans&hellip;Defenseman Aut Erickson, who missed four games as a holdout a year ago, came to terms after sitting out the opener. &#9632;

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Reay Looks To Melnyk For Big Role With Herd

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;The Hershey Bears, as usual came home to a rousing welcome with 6,800 fans pouring through the turnstiles to get a peek at the &lsquo;new look&rsquo; outfit in its American League season debut against the revamped Pittsburgh Hornets.The near capacity audience was the biggest opening night crowd in recent years, and from all indications pro hockey is, without question, the No. 1 sport in mid-state Pennsylvania, long noted for its football addicts.However, with the Bears drawing better than a million and a quarter fans in the last half-dozen years, all other sports have been shoved into the background.Coach Frank Mathers, who vowed last season to return for the 1962-63 campaign with new faces, iced nine new skaters, including seven rookies.Hershey edged the Hornets, who have 11 new men, 3-2 in a hard-fought, vicious checking cliffhanger that could have gone either way. Veteran Willie Marshall knocked in the game winner, while another seasoned pro, Les Duff and rookie Roger DeJordy each picked up a marker.Though one game doesn&rsquo;t make a season, the Bears appear to have a great deal more speed in the front lines, while the defense corps looks more like a fleet of moving vans. The six-man defense, with the exception of Howie (Mighty Mite) Yanosik, 5-10, 160, averages 6-0, 190, a heap of size. The biggest man is 6-4, 200-pound Dale Rolfe, former Western League product from Edmonton.Rolfe, who probably is the tallest backliner in pro hockey, says his size doesn&rsquo;t hamper him one bit.&ldquo;I think my height helps me, especially my long arms,&rdquo; he smiled. &ldquo;I can reach out pretty far to knock a puck loose from a forward&rsquo;s stick. And it doesn&rsquo;t hurt to have long arms when you have to pin a guy in the corner.&rdquo;Just before the Bears broke camp at Stamford, Ont., Mathers cut center Hec LaLande, defenseman Nick Polano and winger Ray Kinasewich. LaLande and Polano were shipped to Syracuse, while Kinasewich is ticketed for either San Francisco or Edmonton. Mathers is striving to trade both LaLande and Kinasewich, but so far no one&rsquo;s biting.Goalie Ed Chadwick, secured from Boston in an off-season trade which saw Bobby Perreault go to the Boston Bruins, claims he&rsquo;s &ldquo;real happy in Hershey&rdquo;. He looked it too in the opening game, giving it the old college try all the way.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02444/2002932-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="262" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Chadwick</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01488/2002925-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="1135" height="1940"><figcaption class="caption-body">OFF TO AUSTRIA: LARRY REGAN, former playingcoach of the Pittsburgh Hornets, waves goodbye as he boards Lufthansa Airlines plane which took him to Austria where he will coach and play for the Innsbruck hockey team. The 32-year-old Regan was replaced at the helm of the Hornets by Jack Stewart this season.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Mathers Keeps His Promise, Delights Fans By Showing Nine New Faces In Opener

Before you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; it never varies<h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>(Standings On Mon., Oct. 22) Northern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1053/2003046-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="591" height="137"></div><h3>Southern Division</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1147/2003039-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="593" height="136"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Oct. 16Vancouver 3, San francisco 2Los Angeles 4, Celgary 2Wed., Oct. 17Edmonton 3, Los Angeles 2Portland 3, San Francisco 1Thurs., Oct. 18Edmonton 7, Calgary 4Fri., Oct. 19Vancouver, 6, Los Angeles 2Edmonton 2, Calgary 1Sat., Oct. 20Seattle 4, Portland 2Spokane 4, San Francisco 3Sun., Oct. 21Portland 4, Los Angeles 2Seattle 2, Spokane 1<h2>Point Race</h2><h3>(Including Games Of Sat., Oct. 13)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1232/2003032-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="597" height="479"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1324/2003025-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="592" height="266"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;Another major league stride, just one of a series in the Western Hockey League over the past few seasons, came with the announcement from League President Al Leader of a players pension plan to go into effect during the 1962-63 season.The announcement came after an extended visit to each of the eight training camps by the president, where he met with the players to outline the proposed plan. In all cases the players greeted the pension proposal enthusiastically.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01473/2003077-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="250" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">Coley Hall</figcaption></div>The league directors had already approved the idea of a player pension plan at the annual meeting last May and had appointed a committee consisting of Leader, Portland Buckaroo Coach Hal Laycoe, and players representative Bill Macfarland of the Seattle Totems to study and recommend a model plan.The proposed plan calls for players to contribute two hundred and fifty dollars which amount will be equalled by the league, giving a total of five hundred dollars in pension contributions per player per season. With this amount contributed, each player will be able to look forward to a substantial pension income beginning at age sixty.League contributions to the pension fund will emanate from three sources. First, an additional twenty-five cent charge on all playoff tickets will go directly to the pension fund. Secondly, receipts from the annual All-Star Game, after expenses, will become part of the pension monies and, finally, all fines to players and management throughout each season will be immediately added to the players fund.In the first week of action Leader was called upon to take action of a disciplinary nature in no less than three cases.Coley Hall, San Francisco Seals&rsquo; owner, was assessed the mandatory one hundred dollar fine in each of the first two home games of the Seals for his actions in publicly ridiculing the game officials in both contests. Hall&rsquo;s two hundred dollars marked the first fine to supplement the newly inaugurated players pension plan.Edmonton Flyers&rsquo; rookie John Miszuk was fined fifty dollars as a result of his actions in shoving a linesman and being ejected from the game in Calgary on October 11.Bill Shvetz of the Spokane Comets was assessed the first spearing penalty of the young season in the Comets&rsquo; home-opener against Vancouver on October 13. The spearing penalty carries an automatic twenty-five dollar fine which will increase by ten dollars with each future spearing penalty. &#9632;

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WHL Lays Down Pension Scheme To Aid Players

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Rookie goalkeeper Gilles Villemure of the Vancouver Canucks made his Western Hockey League debut like a big leaguer.The new rookie sensation set a new League record by chalking up two successive shutouts in his first two games of professional hockey. More remarkable is the fact that Villemure shut out the Seattle Totems in the last scheduled exhibition game of the training season and played 180 minutes in Western League competition without having allowed even one goal. He entered the second week of play with the perfect 0.00 average and was followed by Los Angeles &lsquo;Blades&rsquo; Jack McCartan, who has a 1.50 goals against average, having allowed three goals in the two games played.San Francisco&rsquo;s Larry McNabb is living up to ris rough and tough reputation as he took over the penalty lead in league play. The rugged rearguard served 18 minutes in the cooler, and all of the minutes came in one contest against Portland when he was assessed 2 minors, a major and a misconduct.Outstanding performances on several fronts last week could have made the player of the week selection difficult had it not been for two super efforts by two players that rise above all other performances. The honors were shared by Vancouver goalkeeper Villemure and Seattle Totem rightwinger Jim Powers. Back-to-back shutouts in the first week of League play could not be denied any goalkeeper and the fact that Villemure is a rookie makes the player of the week honors just that much more deserving. Powers did what only five other players in league history have accomplished when he came up with a five-goal performance. Three goals in any game is considered a big night, and five goals makes the performance exceptional and certainly worthy of player of the week honors. Along with these two players, honorable mention was given to Vancouver&rsquo;s Phil Maloney, who played two outstanding games for the Canucks and Calgary&rsquo;s Norm Johnson, who scored the hat trick in hist first game of the new season and led the Stampeders to the top of the league with two big wins.Powers combined with centerman Guyle Fielder to score five goals in the Totems&rsquo; home-opener to take over the league lead in the goalscoring department after one week of play. In blinking the red light five times Powers now shares the record with five other players, the last being Tom McVie, who turned the trick last season.In the Seattle Totems homeopener, Fielder, who missed part of training camp to undergo a complete medical check-up, showed no signs of illness as he scored one goal and set up Powers four times. The four assists pushed Fielder above the 700 mark in career assists in the Western Hockey League. He now has 704 assists to go with 247 goals for an all-time League high of 950 points.Team mate Don Chiupka scored one goal in the Totems home-opener to up his total points to 299 in 452 games played in the Western League to date. He has 134 goals and 165 assists and will be looking for his 300th point.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0962/2003108-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="296" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Johnson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rookie Goalie Steals Spotlight Recording Back-To-Back Shutouts; Seattle Star Scores Five In Game

<h2>Wednesday, Oct. 10 PORTLAND 3, SAN FRANCISCO 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02390/2003181-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="585" height="602"></div><h2>Thursday, Oct. 11 EDMONTON 7 AT CALGARY 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03299/2003174-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="582" height="740"></div><h2>Friday, Oct. 12 PORTLAND 4, SAN FRANCISCO 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04214/2003167-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="585" height="643"></div><h2>SEATTLE 0 AT VANCOUVER 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05142/2003160-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="584" height="418"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES 4, EDMONTON 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06112/2003153-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="582" height="553"></div><h2>Saturday, Oct. 13 SAN FRANCISCO 6, SEATTLE 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0793/2003146-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="580" height="849"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES 1, CALGARY 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0877/2003139-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="582" height="551"></div> &#9632;

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WHL Summaries

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-14" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1418/2003212-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg"></div>ATTACH PRESENT LABEL HEREif you&rsquo;re moving, please let us know as soon as possible. Place address label here and print your new address below together with the date the change should take effect.Subscription Dept., Hockey News, P.O. Box 248, Montreal, Que. &#9632;

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Change of Address Coupon

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, Ohio.&mdash;Opening day of the American Hockey League season dawned in Cleveland with the Barons able to muster only 11 healthy bodies to face the Pittsburgh Hornets.Then things started happening.Before the day was over, four new players had arrived from Montreal Canadiens&mdash;defenseman Bob Olajos, center Joe Szurra, and wingers Terry Gray and Wayne Boddy.Holdout Wayne Larkin signed his contract.Right winger John Ferguson, idle for a week because of a minor operation, declared himself ready to play.When game time arrived, the Barons had more players than they knew what to do with.What the youngsters lacked in experience, in a chance to practice together, or in AHL reputations, they more than made up for in the old college<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01471/2003243-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="545" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK VAN IMPE&hellip;A Broken Nose try.</figcaption></div>The result was an opening night 32 triumph over the Hornets, with Terry Gray&rsquo;s two goals leading the way. After dropping a 6-1 road decision to Rochester two nights later, they snapped back to overwhelm Rochester the following night in Cleveland, 5-3, to get off to a fast start in defense of their Western Division championship.Part of the player crush was alleviated when Larkin and defenseman Murray Davison were traded to Springfield for defenseman Dick Mattiussi, who will lend some experience and beef to the Baron backliners. Mattiussi faced Rochester in Cleveland and turned in a stout performance.The Barons still are not up to full strength because of injuries to veterans Tommy Williams and Dick Van Impe, but their return to action will give the Cleveland sextet a solid look.Williams sustained a skate cut in the opener, Claude LaForge&rsquo;s skate inflicting a gash that penetrated to the ankle bone. Van Impe was guarding a badly broken nose and also was suffering from a stomach disorder.Gray has been teamed with Coach Fred Glover and Hank Ciesla on the first line and gives every indication of continuing his heavy scoring of late last season, when he performed for Kingston in the EPH.Two more EPHL imports, center Bill (Bat) Masterton and left winger Freddie Hilts, worked with Ferguson on the second unit.The third line, in early games, consisted of Szura at center, Boddy at left wing and amateur Pete Shearer at right wing.Outstanding in early games was the work of Les Binkley, the goalie and last season&rsquo;s rookie-of-the-year winner. Binkley was sensational in the opening victory over Pittsburgh.More help may be forthcoming soon. There still is a chance that left winger Jim Mikol may be returned by Toronto. Getting back this 80-point scorer of a year ago would do wonders for the Baron attack. &#9632;

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Last-Minute Replacements Overstock Cleveland Club But Eases Player Shortage

<div class="byline">By HOWIE NEWSTATE</div>PORT HURON, Mich.&mdash;Although the Port Huron Flags are entering their first year of competition in the International Hockey League, both General Manager Frank Gallagher and Coach &ldquo;Chirp&rdquo; Brenchley feel quite confident about their team&rsquo;s chances of success.&ldquo;One thing for sure,&rdquo; claimed Brenchley, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have a hustling hockey club, that&rsquo;ll be in shape.&ldquo;We have some guys that can put the puck in the net, along with a pretty good goaltender.&rdquo; The Flags&rsquo; number one draft choice, Lloyd Maxfield, along with other top picks, Sid Garant and Grant Morton, have indicated to G.M. Gallagher that they will not report to camp.&ldquo;It looks like Morton&rsquo;s going to retire. He has a good insurance job near Louisville and does not want to leave it,&rdquo; commented the former IHL Commissioner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02428/2003274-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="275" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Norm Jacques</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Garant wants to settle down in Western Canada, but there&rsquo;s still a chance of him coming to our camp. Maxfield&rsquo;s trouble is that he wants to play in Ft. Wayne, where he currently lives. He can play there, but the Komets will have to give me a real good player in return. I consider Maxfield valuable property.&rdquo;Port Huron and Minneapolis made a trade, with the Flags receiving speedy Billy LeCaine, in exchange for Detroit Red Wing farmhand, Larry Hale.Gallagher opined, &ldquo;This trade was made at the IHL meeting in Toronto, October 6. Hale belongs to Detroit and under our draft rights, belongs to Port Huron.&rdquo;The big problem now is getting LeCaine to report to training camp. LeCaine, it is reported, wants to play with Long Island of the Eastern League. If he does not report to Port Huron, Gallagher will be forced to suspend him.Coach Brenchley expects to have about 25 aspirants in camp. Heading the list of veteran IHL puck-chasers are forwards Ron Baryluk, Al Cleary, Ken Gribbon, Laurie Langrell and Gerry Moore, defensemen Marcel Goyette and Guy James and goalie Normand Jacques.Ronnie Yonosik, who fared well in the Hershey Bears camp, and a former member of the Troy Bruins and Ft. Wayne Komets, has been added to the rearguard brigade.The Cleveland Barons have sent winger John Asselin and center John Hall to the Flags for further seasoning, while the Red Wings farmed out Owen Connelly and Doug Dilts. All four are overage Juniors.Earl Curtis, the Toledo, Ohio youngster, who filled the nets on a part-time basis last year for the now defunct Mercs, will back up Jacques and be th&eacute; trainer for the Flags. Curtis tried to win a berth with the Eastern League Johnstown Jets this fall.IHL NOTES&hellip;NHL teams, with the exception of Toronto, will have working agreements with IHL clubs this season&hellip;Detroit with Port Huron, Boston and Minneapolis, Chicago and St. Paul, New York and Ft. Wayne, with Montreal supplying talent for Omaha and Muskegon.The league will employ three-full-time officials&hellip;Lou Maschio (Guelph, Ont.), Morley Meyers (Winnipeg) and Bruce Hood (Milton, Ont.)&hellip;Al Paradice (Winnipeg) and Fred Blackburn (Sandwich West, Ontario) will work most of the week-end dates, because of other jobs&hellip;Maschio and Paradice are rated as two of the top referees in Canadian Senior and Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuits&hellip;Meyers and Hood, both in their 20&rsquo;s, are future NHL material. &#9632;

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Gallagher, Brenchley Confident Port Huron Will Be Title Threat

Most Valuable Player Awards&bull; OVER 2000 HOCKEY TROPHIES AWARDED ANNUALLY TO CANADIAN YOUNGSTERS, 7 to 14, WITH ALLROUND ATHLETIC AND SCHOLASTIC ABILITIES&bull; SEE &ldquo;HOW TO SCORE MORE GOALS&rdquo;, A 24-MINUTE SOUND MOVIESTARRING GORDIE HOWE, DETROIT&rsquo;S GREAT RIGHT WINGER&bull; FOR TROPHY DETAILS AND FILM RESERVATIONS, WRITE ROBIN HOOD SPORTS PROGRAM, BOX 8505, MONTREAL, CANADARobin Hood Flour Mills Limited<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05303/2003312-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="334" height="517"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06263/2003305-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="84" height="116"></div> &#9632;</div>

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CCM SKATES ARE PRO OK’d

<h2>Wednesday, Oct. 17 HULL-OTTAWA 3, KINGSTON 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02373/2003440-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="578" height="438"></div><h2>Friday, Oct. 19 KINGSTON 1, HULL-OTTAWA 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03283/2003433-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="570" height="404"></div><h2>SUDBURY 3, SYRACUSE 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04215/2003426-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="582" height="352"></div><h2>Saturday, Oct. 20 KINGSTON 4 SYRACUSE 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05165/2003419-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="580" height="407"></div><h2>Sunday Oct. 21 HULL-OTTAWA 2, SUDBURY 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06138/2003412-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="571" height="268"></div> &#9632;

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SUMMARIES FOR EPHL

OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;Billy Carter has always been looked upon as a leader type among hockey players and the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens substantiated the claim by naming the likeable, first-line centre an assistant coach.General manager Sam Pollock made the announcement elevating the 25-year-old Cornwall, Ont., native to the role of coach and player. He will assist Pollock and his top aide, Scotty Bowman, in operating the EPHL club.Carter, who has been a member of the team for the past four years, went out and celebrated his new promotion by scoring two goals to help the Canadiens topple the Kingston Frontenacs 5-1 in a league encounter last week.The news wasn&rsquo;t all good for the two time league champions. Rookie defenceman Jacques Laperriere has a calcium deposit on his ankle and he will be forced to undergo surgery meaning he will be lost to the team for at least six weeks.The return of Goalie Ernie Wakely from the parent Montreal Canadiens was also welcomed by the Habs, who had been going with Claude Dufour while the young netminder was up with the parent NHL Canadiens pinch-hitting for the ailing Jacques Plante and standing by for Plante&rsquo;s replacement, Cesare Maniago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07102/2003471-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="520" height="539"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Carter</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Habs Boost Carter To Coaching Aide

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01443/2003502-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div><h2>SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Pictured Ranger forward.6&mdash;Cliff Pennington was born under this Zodiac sign.8&mdash;Remuneration for players.10&mdash;Dick Duff injured one last season.11&mdash;Another name for Marvin Wentworth, ex-NHL star.12&mdash;Initials of Larkin of Cleveland.13&mdash;Pictured star wears one (abbr.)14&mdash;Allan Stanley played with this NHL club in 1954-55 (abor.)15&mdash;Native province of 2 down, (abbr.)16&mdash;Wing played by 1 down (abbr.)17&mdash;This player scored 30 goals for Buffalo last season.19&mdash;Initials of Reaume of Hershey Bears.20&mdash;Boston failed to do this in their first game last season.21&mdash;Arbour&rsquo;s initiale.22&mdash;Dick Duff was one last April 2225&mdash;Mrs. Sid Abel.28&mdash;Pictured star collected 68 of these last season (abbr.)30&mdash;Short for given name of Baliuk of Providence.31&mdash;Splatter.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Detroit&rsquo;s assistant coach.2&mdash;An AHL coach.3&mdash;Native province of pictured player (abbr.)4&mdash;Otherwise.5&mdash;Number worn by 1 down.7&mdash;Baltimore&rsquo;s coach.9&mdash;Initials of a Chicago forward.11&mdash;Some Leaf players quibbled over these recently.12&mdash;Initials of Hicke of Montreal.13&mdash;Mrs. Eddie Shack.14&mdash;Sask, birthplace of Gerry Ehman.18&mdash;Initials of Iverson, ex-Chicago coach.22&mdash;Initials of Glover of Detroit.23&mdash;Initials of Laprade, mormer N.Y. center star.24&mdash;Pittsburgh veteran forward.26&mdash;Sloth.27&mdash;Small insect.29&mdash;16th & 19th letters of the alphabet.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Duff4&mdash;CF.6&mdash;Italian10&mdash;Len.12&mdash;Ralph13&mdash;Van Impe14&mdash;Ere15&mdash;Ten17&mdash;M.D.18&mdash;C.C.21&mdash;Hay22&mdash;Gee23&mdash;In24&mdash;Detroit28&mdash;Gordon29&mdash;Aug.30&mdash;Al.31&mdash;Assists<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;Delvecchio2&mdash;Finney3&mdash;Ft.4&mdash;Clap5&mdash;Filet Mignon7&mdash;Arm8&mdash;A.P.9&mdash;N.H.11&mdash;Ear16&mdash;Ed.19&mdash;Can.20&mdash;Seattle24&mdash;Dogs25&mdash;E.R.26&mdash;TD.27&mdash;Robt28&mdash;Bus.29&mdash;A.A. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;An all-new League-wide three star selection contest has been put into effect with the start of the 1962-63 Western Hockey League season.The three outstanding players in each game, chosen from among the players of both teams, will be selected in a manner decided upon by the team management in each League city, and will remain on the ice to be introduced as first, second or third star immediately upon completion of each game. In at least some of the cities, the privilege of selecting the three outstanding players in each game will be granted to the hockey writers, broadcasters and television men on a rotating basis.A league award to be presented to the player who leads the three star selection at season&rsquo;s end is presently under consideration by the league directors. Statistics on the league-wide contest will be recorded by the league office, with first, second and third place positions receiving five, three and one point respectively. &#9632;

Western League Establishes New Plan To Select Three-Star Game Performers

<div class="byline">By JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;The same six teams&hellip;Montreal, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Guelph and Peterborough&hellip;started the season in the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league.However there are two new coaches and one new team name.The name change is St. Catharines which operated under &ldquo;Teepees&rdquo; for 15 years but has now swung over to &ldquo;Black Hawks&rdquo; in keeping with the gradual trend of junior teams using the name of their National Hockey League sponsors.The rookie coaches are at Guelph and Peterborough.Frank Bathgate, brother of New York Ranger Captain Andy Bathgate, succeeded Emile (The Cat) Francis in Guelph after the latter stepped up as assistant coach with the parent New York team. Bathgate formerly played junior in Guelph and has had considerable experience in Ontario senior hockey since that time.In Peterborough, Frank Mario, a former Boston Bruin forward, is saddled with the task of moving the Petes out of last place in the six-team league. Neil Burke handled Peterborough last year.Returning coaches are Hap Emms in Niagara Falls; Claude Ruel in Montreal; Eddie Bush in Hamilton; and Ken Campbell in St. Catharines.As far as team personnel is concerned the majority of the teams are faced with a fairly extensive rebuilding program due to their outstanding players going over age or turning professional.St. Catharines Black Hawks for instance lost 11 players from their club which placed third last year and Hamilton Red Wings lost their entire defence corps.The Hawks have come up with some sound replacements such as Ken Laildlaw from Toronto and junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; graduates Don Snider and Art Graham but their major problem is finding a goaltender to take over for Roger Crozier, who was a league allstar the past three years.The Red Wings, defending Memorial Cup champions, still have Buddy Blom in the nets, but he may have a busy season with defencemen such as Bob Wall, Ron Harris, Larry Zilliotto and Roger LaFreniere gone. The Wings will also miss high scoring Lowell MacDonald but his skating partner Pit Martin is back for his fourth season of &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02388/2003557-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="274" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mario</figcaption></div>Montreal Canadiens lost all-star defenceman Jacques Laperriere to professional ranks. However they still have four 20-goal men in Andre Boudrias, Bill Inglis, Norm Dennis and Germain Gagnon. At the present time it would seem that the Canucks could be the class of the league.Niagara Falls has a dozen players returning including one complete forward line of Ron Schock, Gary Dornhoefer and Wayne Maxner. Also back on the forward lines are Don Awrey, Billy Glasham, Terry Crisp, Gary Harmer and Jack Nairn. They lost one of their top offensive players though through the graduation of Howie Dietrich.Tom Teather, Dick Morin and Ron Hergott are back at defence posts but the Falls could have a problem in goal. So far 19-year-old George Gardner from Victoriaville, Quebec, seems to have the inside track on that position.Guelph Royals, who missed the final playoff position by an eyelash to the Falls last season have two defence regulars back from 1961-62, husky Bob Plager and Terry Pembroke.They&rsquo;ll definitely miss Mike McMahon who played three outstanding years on their rearguard. Up front Duke Harris and Don Diberardino are two whose absence will be felt but Coach Bathgate has last year&rsquo;s top rookie line of Leo Martel, Sandy Fitzpatrick and John Makins back and they should be the team leaders in the upcoming campaign.In last place last spring, Peterborough could have a more rewarding schedule ahead.The bulk of their players are returning including both goaltenders Chuck Goddard and Jerry Randall, defencemen Brian Watson and Bob Jamieson, forwards Keith Wright, Lorne O&rsquo;Donnell and Vern St. Onge.Bill Plager, brother of Guelph&rsquo;s Bob Plager and the third member of the family to play in the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league, should be a valued addition on defence.With two wins over Guelph in pre-season games the TPT Petes seem to be headed for a reasonably good year.In the over-all picture the league should be better balanced than in 1961-62. &#9632;

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Player Turnover Big Among Clubs; Mario, Bathgate Coaches In Loop

OCTOBER ISSUE Now At YOUR NEWSSTANDWORLD&rsquo;S OFFICIAL HOCKEY MAGAZINEStan Mikita&rsquo;s Big Test In NHLALSO&bull; What Makes The Pocket Go, Go, Go?&bull; Harry Howell Has The Last Laugh&bull; Canada&rsquo;s Hockey Playing MP&mdash;Red Kelly&bull; Red Wings Look To The Future<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03338/2003595-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="485" height="596"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04263/2003588-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="1121" height="694"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By BOB GIORDANO</div>KELOWNA, B.C.&mdash;The Allan Cup champion Trail Smoke Eaters are a hockey club without a league at the moment.The Smokies were left high and dry along with the Kimberley Dynamiters when the Western International Hockey League decided that two teams weren&rsquo;t enough to form a league and voted to cease operations, ending 60 years of play.The decision to fold the league came after Rossland backed out of the remaining three-team set-up because of the difficulties of obtaining a playing coach and other troubles. Nelson Maple Leafs had dropped out earlier.At one time the league embraced teams from as far away as Lethbridge, Alta., and Los Angeles.In 1936, Kimberley won the World Hockey Championship. Trail, representing Canada in this year&rsquo;s competition, won the world title in 1939 and 1960.The Dynamiters and Smokies will play exhibition games with each other and teams from other leagues according to tenative plans.Bobby Kromm, coach and manager of the Smoke Eaters, said Rossland&rsquo;s late withdrawal was inexcusable.&ldquo;The writing has been on the wall for the last month. It would have been better if they had bowed out at the beginning of the season. I believe that if they had, Nelson would have stayed in.&rdquo;Kromm has failed to let internal league problems damper any of his plans for this forthcoming season. Kromm realizes there is much to be concerned about as he prepares his club for the 196-63 campaign.The Smokies have a big date awaiting them. Come February they will be off to the World hockey playdowns in Sweden. With this in mind Kromm knows he must mould together a top-notch senior hockey club to meet the European competition.For weeks now the Western International League has been teedering. Nelson Maple Leafs, a name known throughout senior hockey circles for many many years, called it quits. League meetings, local civic leaders, and the city&rsquo;s diehard fans failed in their efforts to keep the Leafs alive. &#9632;

Trail Smoke Eaters Left Without Competition As Rossland, Nelson Quit Forcing Loop To Fold

<div class="byline">By HUGH TOWNSEND</div>NEW GLASGOW, N.S.&mdash;There&rsquo;ll be plenty of new faces and two newly named teams but for the most part the 1962-63 setup of the Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League will be the same as last year.The league was threatened with the withdrawal of two of last year&rsquo;s five teams but when the smoke cleared from an October 14 meeting, a five-club setup was ready to go again.Halifax Wolverines came to the end of the trail when sponsor Jimmie MacDonald, a veteran hockey promoter, called it quits. Windsor Maple Leafs announced they were withdrawing if Halifax failed to ice a team.It&rsquo;s been a long time since Halifax didn&rsquo;t have a senior hockey club and this winter wasn&rsquo;t going to be any different. A group headed by Seymour Offman said they would ice a club and the circuit accepted their application with open arms.The new club will fly the banner of the Halifax Tartans.Moncton Beavers, a new club in the loop last year, are back but will campaign under the famous &ldquo;Moncton Hawks&rdquo; tag this time.The Windsor entry, ready to play after learning the Halifax decision, New Glasgow Rangers and defending champion Amherst Ramblers make up the rest of the circuit picture.With the uncertainty of the league&rsquo;s future, few plans were laid out by the individual clubs. Now that the groundwork is in place, executives will be working overtime to line up players for the forthcoming campaign.Although no names have been announced it is expected there will be a big changeover of personnel throughout the circuit.John C. Mullane, Halifax barrister, has been returned as president of the league and is looking forward to another fine season in the country&rsquo;s most easterly circuit. Harry Trainor of New Glasgow was elected vice-president while Halifax&rsquo;s Judge J. Elliott Hudson was returned to the post of secretary-treasurer for another term.The league will once again play two home and two away games for each team per week. Import limit was set at three, with reinstated professionals classed as &ldquo;imports&rdquo;. &#9632;

Nova Scotia League Set With Five Teams

<div class="byline">By JACK THOMSON</div>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;The Port Arthur Bearcats, senior hockey champions of the Thunder Bay last year, have announced the signing of Joe Lund as their playing coach for 1962-63. Lund, a Port Arthur junior product, played last season with the St. Paul Saints in the International Hockey League and was the captain of the club. Lund takes over from former National Hockey League star, Lee Fogolin, who has retired after two years at the helm of the seniors&hellip;Red Rock Royals of the North Shore Intermediate Hockey League have indicated to Lakehead senior officials that they may turn their club senior this year and play a schedule with the Bearcats and Fort Williams Beavers&hellip;Beavers by the way have informed their players of last year that they are going to operate a club this season although they have not said who will coach the club this time round&hellip;Joey Bamford, Fort William goaltender who played junior hockey last year with the Guelph Biltmores, has returned home from training camp of the Baltimore Clippers. He has been assigned to the Long Island Ducks in the Eastern League, but has not decided whether to keep working at his trade locally or go away to play this season&hellip;Norval &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Olsen, Port Arthur Bearcats&rsquo; defenceman of last season, is negotiating with the Finnish Ice Hockey Association about coaching over there this year. If he does get the job, he will be third coach from the Lakehead to go to Finland this year. Already there are Joe Wirkkunen, who coaches the national club and Henry Akerval&hellip;Bobby McCammon, last year with the North Bay Trappers, has joined the Ranks of the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens of the Eastern Pro loop&hellip;For the first time in years the three Lakehead junior clubs are selling season tickets&hellip;Fred Page, vice-president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, has turned down a chance to go overseas again this year on the senior hockey tour&hellip;Thunder Bay operating with the two referee system this year&hellip;Ontario-Minnesota League will go with three clubs this season, Fort Frances Canadians, who were expected to go senior, did not enter a team at the Thunder Bay Hockey Association semi annual meeting so they are out of luck for the season anyway.<h2>Comes Home</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-01138/2003674-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="546" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE LUND</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Lund New Coach Of Port Arthur Senior Bearcats

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