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January 12, 1963
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Buckaroos Respond By Setting League Pace
PORTLAND, Ore.— This city’s citizens are still apparently very much in love with their Buckaroos who continue to lead the southern division of the Western Hockey League. The Bucks, with a lot of new faces trying to retain the league championship, are sailing along alone in first place and appear to be settled in that position for the rest of the season. Every time somebody gets close to Portland, Hal Laycoe’s crew turns around end thumps ’em. After 15 home games this season, the Bucks have attracted 118,456 paid customers for a game average of 7,897 per contest. Last year at the same time they had drawn 113,072 for an average of 7,538. After a shaky start, Portland jelled and played the soundest hockey of either division but, at the same time, the Los…
Hornets Set Sights On Second Place As Odrowski Leads Team In Upsurge
PITTSBURGH, Pa.— The Pittsburgh Hornets, disappointing during almost the first third of the season, set their sights on second place in the Western Division of the American Hockey League a couple of weeks ago. For a time it seemed like they would make it, too. They picked up 13 of a possible 18 points. They knocked off the Buffalo Bisons, division leaders, twice in a row — once at Buffalo. And then they ran into that exHornet great, Frank Mathers, and his Hershey Bears over in Chocolatetown, and Jack Stewart’s previously hard-hitting team looked pretty humble. The general improvement in the Hornet squad, prior to the Hershey debacle, came with an eight-player trade negotiated by Manager Baz Bastien and Detroit’s boss, Sid Abel. Bastien and Stewart sent Jack McIntyre and Ray Ross, forwards, and Jack Price…
Fontinato Still Puts Fear In Rivals But Wins Raves For Defensive Play
MONTREAL, Que.— While the current penalty-count points otherwise, Lou Fontinato doesn’t think he’s playing much differently than he did last year with the Canadiens or in his previous six and a half NHL seasons as the hard rock of the Rangers. Since Fontinato has been making smarter moves with the puck behind the blueline and has been penalized considerably less than he was last season, it has been suggested that he’s a changed defenseman. He’s still throwing quite a few hard checks at the opposition, still diving headlong into shots in front of Jacques Plante’s goal and still making the forwards look up when they wheel into the Montreal zone. However in the first 34 games of the schedule he drew only 71 minutes in penalties, compared to well over 100 at the…
McKenzie Proves He’s No Homer, Tallies 13 0116 Goals On Road To Draw Praise From Coach Reay
RUFFALO. N.Y.— John McKenzie is a prime example of the long-accepted theory that the true yardstick of a hockey player’s scoring ability is what he does on the road. The Buffalo Bisons’ leading goal-getter with 16 as this edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS went to press, the perpetual-motion right-winger had collected 13 of them away from home. The average player reverses that percentage. How does McKenzie explain his record, since he works just as hard in Buffalo’s Memorial Auditorium? “I really don’t know how to answer that one,” he said. “As a matter of fact, I hadn’t realized I was scoring that much on the road. I knew I had 15, but I thought I had more of them here.” Coach Billy Reay has the answer. “Most hockey players get a lift playing in front of…
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