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December 22, 1962
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Bruins Boast Three U.S. Players
MONTREAL, Que.— Pick the name of a National Hockey League player at random. Chances are better than 60-40 he’s from Ontario or Quebec. A survey of the six NHL teams shows there are 104 players who could be classified as regulars, and 63 of them come from the two central provinces. Ontario leads with 36, and Quebec follows with 27. Five players were born outside Canada, three of them in the United States, and all three are with the Boston Bruins. They are Charlie Burns (Detroit), Tom Williams (Duluth, Minn.) and Wayne Hicks (Aberdeen, Wash.). Two members of the Chicago Black Hawks, Jack Evans from Garnant, Wales, and Stan Mikita, from Soholce, Czechoslovakia, round out the foreign players.…


MILT DUNNELL speaking on SPORT
(As Seen In The Toronto Star) Old Pro Gets Urge Of Amateurism Almost any instant now, you’ll hear a scream about the pros preventing that stout-hearted farmer, Bert Olmstead, from lending an elbow to the Canadian team that’s going to Stockholm for the world series of amateur shinny. It’s unfair, unethical, unpatriotic. Don’t sign any petitions or lend your overalls to any group that wants to hang somebody in effigy. When the team takes off, Bert will be home — clipping his coupons. In a way, it would be fun to turn him loose against the Swedes, who think that Canadians play hockey like the barroom brawl from Gunsmoke. Once they survived Olmstead, digging for the puck along the boards, the Swedes would be able to appreciate all those nice Canadian gentlemen whom…


Player Of The Week
Hockey netminders are probably the most overlooked performers in the swirling pro ice game today but it would be extremely difficult to ignore the weekend performance of grity little Lorne (Gump) Worsley of the New York Rangers. The 33-year-old Gumper, who seems to thrive on work despite his roundish figure and plump middle, rose to great heights for the Rangers in their weekend NHL sweep. Worsley handled a phenomenal total Lorne Worsley of 91 shots and only permitted four goals to get by him as the Blues came out of their lethargy to beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 and upset the Detroit Red Wings 5-2. Worsley, who has never been considered for all-star honors during his 10-year NHL career, sprawled, kicked and lunged at pucks to keep both the Canadiens and Red Wings…


Rangers Could Go Higher With Ice Leader
NEW YORK, N.Y.— The disturbing inability of the New York Rangers to haul them selves out of fifth place has aroused some deep thinking in and out of the Madison Square Garden dressing room. The thinking centers around the questions—are the Rangers that bad? Are they the playoff club they were last year? And, if so, why aren’t they in or above fourth place? At this time last season, the Rangers were marauding along in third place fortified with 29 points in 26 games (11-8-7-29). A solid seven points ahead of Chicago, the stimulating New Yorkers had dreams of overtaking second and possibly first place. After all, they were only two points behind second-place Toronto and six behind first-place Montreal. Today, however, in the not-so-ecstatic Gotham, the Rangers will be quite content to finish the…