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December 14, 1963
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New Haven Restores Armstrong To Net; Player Shortage Hobbles Long Island
NEW HAVEN, Conn.— The New Haven Blades have done an about-face and restored 20-year-old Jim Armstrong to the goalie position in their Eastern Hockey League competition. Armstrong started the campaign and was sailing along with a 3.22 goals allowed average along with two shutouts when he was relieved of his job by the Blades. The position was given to Gaetan Dessureault, the veteran goalie for the Blades, who had told the club he was retiring in the fall. Coach Fred Creighton naturally figured Dessureault, one of the best in the league for six years, would be able to do the job well. However, the Blades, who were 6-7-1 with Armstrong in the cage, then lost four out of five games with Dessureault as the goalie and decided to go back to Armstrong. Dessureault…
Reds’ ‘BOM’ Line Blasts Off, Mazur’s Showing Surprising
PROVIDENCE, R.I.— A third line in hockey is used almost exclusively as a checking unit, but that’s not entirely the whole situation with the third wave of Ferny Flaman’s Rhode Island Reds. A few weeks ago Flaman, general manager and coach, constructed a checking line composed of veterans Bob Beckett and Ed Mazur, along with sophomore Harry Ottenbriet. All three are top defensive artists and it was expected the line would lend some needed support to the Reds backline. The defensive job has been done to perfection, but moreover the line of Beckett-Ottenbriet-Mazur has developed into a dangerous attacking unit which has supplied some key goals in recent games. The BOM line, as it is called, operating since October 27th, has done a remarkable job at picking up the scoring slack when one of…
Eddie Johnston Making Big Saves Proves Stickout For Lowly Bruins
BOSTON, Mass.— The Bruins’ long search for a ‘Steady Eddie’ in their goal may have been ended by Ed Johnston. Since the start of the season the question mark which was Johnston’s ability has been changing shape. It is now beginning to resemble an exclamation point. And hockey experts, who once devoted their sympathy to the Bruins and their goalkeeping plight, can now spread it around — to Chicago, where Glenn Hall is now an alternate with Denis DeJordy, to Montreal, where Charley Hodge may have replaced Gump Worsley, to New York, where Jacques Plante has Gilles Villemure breathing down his neck. As the Bruins began the heavy part of their December schedule, no goalkeeper in the National League had been more steady than Steady Eddie — and the Bruins’ defensive record was their best…
Little Andre Gill ‘Mr. Big’ In Bears Goal
HERSHEY, Pa— Andre Gill, the smallest goalie in American Hockey League ranks, has suddenly become “Mr. Big” for the Hershey Bears. The 5-6, 155-pound cage cop came on in relief of veteran Ed Chadwick, who pulled a hamstring muscle of the right leg in the third period of a game against Springfield Nov. 13. Gill, a Sorel, Que.r product went through the final six minutes and ten seconds of the game without permitting a score, then proceeded to back stop the club to four wins in the next half-dozen games. In the span from Nov. 13 to Dec. 3, the Bears finally climbed over the.500 mark (11-10-1) to take over first place in the Eastern Division race. The quiet easy-going Frenchman permitted only 19 goals in the short stretch which saw him turn aside 180…
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