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November 16, 1963
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PASSING THE PUCK
• DAVE BALONhas been playing great hockey for Canadiens. I He might be the real sleeper in last summer’s Canadiens-Rangers controversial trade… He scored two goals in a game three times this season and shared the goal scoring leadership of the NHL last week… He has been a most effective performer for Canadiens every time he’s been on the ice… Montreal Canadiens now have two entrances to their penalty box. The lettering on one door read Canadiens. Good guys. The other door was lettered visitors: Bad guys. Ruby Pastor, owner of the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL, and his wife Bernice, became grandparents for the first time recently when their daughter, Mrs. Donald Altman, gave birth to a daughter … Baltimore Clippers of the art, averaged more than 5,000 a…
Reay Says Scoring Ace Bobby Hull “Combination Of Howe And Richard”
CHICAGO, III.— Bobby Hull, regarded by many as hockey’s most exciting player, is a “combination of Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe". So says Billy Reay, new head coach of Hull’s team, the Chicago Black Hawks. Reay played with Richard at Montreal, against Detroit’s Howe and now coaches Chicago’s Hull. Reay made his remarks at his first public speaking appearance since being named Chicago coach last summer. The somewhat unusual “platform” was the weekly luncheon meeting of Chicago’s American football “Quarterback Club". “Richard was the most explosive scorer,” said Reay in answer to a question to compare the three. “He was a great clutch player… the greatest. His play-off scoring records attest that.” Howe is the greatest all-around player I’ve seen. He’s a leader, a great shooter, playmaker and team man,” continued the former Montreal forward. “Hull…
“HEADLINE HOCKEY”
The Ryerson Press. 132 pp. $3.50 In “HEADLINE HOCKEY”Andy O’Brien has taken on the difficult task of giving a very condensed and informal history of the game’s most significant events. He has handled it well—. choosing carefully from a wide selection of material that—stretches back to before the turn of the century, and finishes up in 1963. O’Brien, however, has skillfully avoided the pitfall of attempting to write an overly-weighty book; and has come up instead, with a brief and entertaining volume in which there is something for everyone. Oldtimers will chuckle over the hilarious recounting of the challenge for the Stanley Cup by the Klondikers, in 1905, when they took on the Ottawa Silver Seven. The middle-aged will relive the days when the meteoric Howie Morenz made people forget the depression. And, the…
Head Yanked From Net In Favor Of Junior Recruit
PORTLAND, Ore.- Don Head, unanimous All Star goaltender in the Western League last season, was pulled from the nets midway of a Portland home game the other night in a move so sudden and decisive that the only person in the arena who wasn’t stunned was the man who yanked him, Buckaroo coach Hal Laycoe. It was midway of—the second period in a game with the San Francisco Seals, and the Bucks were down 2-0 when Laycoe called Head to the bench, and sent in Dave Kelly, a 20-year-old rookie out of the Ontario junior ranks who was virtually unknown in Portland. The fans gasped. Pulling Head was considered something tantamount to sheer heresy, but Laycoe yanked him, and may have been justified in doing so. The kid showed plenty of poise for…
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