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December 1, 1962
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Barons ‘Brass’ Seek Solution For AHL Skid
CLEVELAND, Ohio— One third of the team’s entire 36-game road schedule completed without a single victory away from home—that was the bare fact confronting the Cleveland Barons as they limped home from their second extensive losing road trip of the season. Obviously, unless the tables can be turned, the Barons cannot dream of the Calder Cup playoffs with that kind of a record. It will be up to General Manager Jack Gordon and Coach Fred Glover to do something about it. As they came home in mid-November from a 12-game loss streak away from home, the Barons contemplated resuming activities on their own ice with the greatest of pleasure. In their first six games in Cleveland, they at least had turned in respectable performances. Somewhere, there is an answer to the Barons’ problems. It may…
But Will It Be Solution To Bruin Ills? Asks Press
BOSTON, Mass.— Here are comments in Boston daily papers about Phil Watson’s removal as coach of the Bruins and Milt Schmidt’s return. Arthur Siegel, Boston Evening Globe: Milt Schmidt has been handed the hockey hot potato by Lynn Patrick in an attempt to reorganize the Bruins after the shambles created by Phil Watson. This is the second time around for Schmidt, whose first attempt at coaching was far below his performance as a player. Milt’s trouble the first time was that he expected his players to be as intense about winning as he was. The signing of Watson was a mistake and giving him a three-year contract was even greater folly. He is one voice that spoke up at the time, saying that Watson didn’t rate a three-year contract off his form sheet…
the Playingfield
Back in the 1920s there was a play called “The Patsy,” which was a Broadway success. If they ever get around to reviving it, the casting director should consider Phil Watson for the leading role, as Phil has been playing that part in real life for so many years now that he’d need little or no direction. A "patsy”is a“fall guy,” a fellow who takes the rap for something that isn’t his fault, and it must be more than coincidence that there was another Broadway play called “The Fall Guy.” It’s a situation that seems to attract the dramatists. Phil was canned as coach of the Boston Bruins, a move that surprised virtually no one. The club, as it stands, simply doesn’t belong in the league. The smartest hockey mind extant wouldn’t…
Sweeney, Cline Showing Way In Individual AHL Point Race
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Springfield’s high scoring duo of Bill Sweeney and Bruce Cline continued to set the pace in all offensive departments of the American Hockey League. Sweeney, the smooth passing center who makes the plays, led in points with 33 which included the league leading figure of 22 assists to which he added 11 goals. Cline, his right wing linemate was third in points with 27 and he had the advantage of Sweeney’s playmaking to score 15 goals for that top mark. Sweeney scored four points last week in quest of this third straight scoring title. Willie Marshall of Hershey was second in scoring with 29 points, followed by Wally Boyer of Springfield with 26 and Pat Hannigan of Baltimore with 25. Jacques Caron of Springfield, who had been the AHL’s top netminder…
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