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December 29, 1962
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Imlach Figures Leafs Can’t Miss With Ton Offense And Best Defense
TORONTO, Ont.— How can the Maple Leafs miss? With 40 per cent of the 196263 schedule gone, they were the National Hockey League’s highest scoring team. And, according to coach Punch Imlach, their defence is the best in the business. Which is about all it takes to win more games than anybody else. Imlach figures Leafs will do that, too. At the two-fifths mark in the campaign, they were two points off the NHL lead. “Our big move will come in February,” Imlach says, “when we play seven games at home and three on the road. All we have to do is keep our heads above water until then and we’ll be set.” Leafs, led by Frank Mahovlich’s 17 goals, scored 93 in their first 28 games, by far the league’s best. “You’d never know our defence…
Bucyk Aiming To Join Super Star Ranks Acquires More Consistency In Ice Play
BOSTON, Mass.— Since 1955, when he first came out of the West, Johnny Bucyk has been promising to attain National Hockey League stardom. This may be the season in which ‘The Chief’ from Edmonton fulfills the promise. In past seasons the difference between his being a SuperChief and one of lesser rank has centered in Bucyk’s lack of consistency. But at the age of 27 the hefty left wing seems to have acquired the missing ingredient. As the Bruins moved into the holiday portion of their NHL schedule, Bucyk was leading them in scoring, challenging for the league lead and delighting his bosses here with a reversal of his past record. “At this time other years he used to fall off in his scoring and all-around play,” said Milt Schmidt, the Bruins’ coach. “This year he seemed…
Leaf Rookie Scores First Time On Ice
TORONTO, Ont.— Norman (Red) Armstrong, 200-pound redheaded rookie from Sudbury of the EPHL, made an auspicious big league hockey debut. The burly defenseman-forward scored his initial NHL goal the first time he touched the puck in the Maple Leafs’ 8-2 romp over the Boston Bruins. Armstrong counted less than 30 seconds after he hit the ice, coming close to a record held by Gus Bodnar, who scored after only 15 seconds in his NHL debut. The ironic part about the young Irishman, is that the Leafs sent him home after he played two exhibition games in training camp.…
NHL Expansion Seen Coming But Eastern Cities Likely To Get Nod Before West Coast
(As Seen In Montreal Forum Magazine) MONTREAL, Que.— At least a half dozen times a season the cry is heard—generaly emanating from the West Coast—that NHL hockey must follow the lead of North America’s other major sports, and expand its operation. After one fairly recent comment of this type, one NHL governor was quoted as saying that in good time hockey would expand (for the NHL was definitely interested in growth) but probably not to the West Coast. At least not first, for there happen to be some good hockey cities in the East (now in the AHL) which would rate prior consideration. Despite the fact that many of the NHL’s critics feel the League has no desire or intent to ever expand, this is not the case. There is gold in the…