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December 14, 1963
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Leafs’ ‘Hot’ Club In Tightening Race
Champs Take Four In Row Pass Canucks TORONTO, Ont. — The Toronto Maple Leafs came up ‘hot’ last week in the National Hockey League race winning four straight games to fulfil Punch Imlach’s planned ‘crusade’ against the runaway Chicago Black Hawks. Imlach felt the Leafs had an obligation to the rest of the league to clip the Hawks’ feathers before they made a shambles of the team race. “They’ve got just a little bit too much power for this league,” said Punch. “I think we are the team that must give them a run for their money. We haven’t conceded them a thing,” added Imlach. Imlach figured the time to start knocking the Hawks down to size was the occasion of Chicago’s visit to Toronto Dec. 7 and the Leafs went out and made a…
Habs Fight To Stay Near Top As Injury Toll Still. Mounts, Ferguson Latest On Sidelines
MONTREAL, Que.— The Montreal Canadiens must be starting to wonder, by now, whether the day will ever arrive when they can ice a full and healthy squad of hockey players. Few, if any teams, have had a more appalling list of injuries to key players than the Habs, this season. By the time a scant 21 games had been played, nearly half the regular forwards on the team had been knocked out of action. Bernie Geoffrion, Gilles Tremblay and Billy Hicke had missed seven of the first 21 contests. Henri Richard had been out for four, and John Ferguson was slated for a long stay on the sidelines with a badly gashed thumb. Gump Worsley had played just 7% games for Habs, before injury overtook him. The wonder of it all is, that…
Ace Startles Gardens’ Crowd By Showing Up For NHL Game
TORONTO, Ont.— Former NHL hockey star Ace Bailey tossed the sports world and the people around Maple Leaf Gardens for a loop the night of Dec. 4 when he walked into the big hockey rink, very much ‘alive’. Hockey officials and fans alike couldn’t believe their eyes when Ace showed up in the Gardens to take his regular position as penalty time-keeper one night after he had been reported dead. But Ace had been mistaken for Harold Bailie, a 64-year-old city parks employee, who died of a heart attack as he inspected damage to his car following a minor traffic accident. Harold Baillie was known to his fellow workers as “Ace” — and when some confusion as to identity arose at the hospital, It led to the erroneous report. Thirty years ago this month the…
Former Great Bouchard Predicts NHL Stardom For Young Hab
MONTREAL, Que.— Take it from former defense great ‘Butch’ Bouchard, young Jacques Laperriere of the Canadiens will be an all-star within two years. Bouchard, now a successful Montreal restaurateur at age 43, has been highly impressed with Laperriere’s play this season. “Jacques Laperriere right now is the best prospect in the league,” says Bouchard, who played in nearly 900 league and playoff games during his 15-year NHL career. “He’s intelligent, reacts well, shoots hard and is a strong skater,” adds Bouchard in his appraisal of Laperriere. Says big Butch, himself a four-time NHL all-star defenseman, “barring the unforseen, I think Jacques will be an all-star within the next two years.”…
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