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December 21, 1963
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PASSING THE PUCK
• THE ROOF fell in for Gil Villemure, rookie goalkeeper of the New York Rangers last week. The tiny twine-tender allowed six goals a game on two successive nights… 2,000 shares of Maple Leaf Gardens stock (at $45 a share) was offered for sale through Toronto financial circles recently… The Ranger Fan Club contributed to the Heart Fund in memory of the late Gladys Goodding, long-time organist at Madison Square Garden… Boston Bruins have become one of the hottest teams in the NHL during the last three weeks. The Bruins are determined to garner a playoff berth this season… Pit Martin, 20-year-old forward recently summoned to Detroit from Pittsburgh, has made an auspicious NHL start and will be hard to disloge from the Red Wings lineup … There’s a fine…
Imlach Often Plays Hunches In Selecting Leaf Netminder
TORONTO, Ont.— Don Simmons and Johnny Bower. It’s a great team, one that may go into history alongside Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello, Olsen and Johnson. Only comedy’s not their game. But puck-stopping is. They’re goaltenders and the way they split Toronto Maple Leafs’ netminding job is one of the marvels of the current National Hockey League era. Take the most recent development as an example. On Dec. 4, a day Leafs were scheduled to play Montreal Canadiens, Bower developed a severe case of influenza. So Simmons was notified to be ready. He merely stopped 26 shots in recording Toronto’s first shutout of the cording Toronto’s first shutout of the season. Three nights later, he kicked out 23 Chicago attempts in making it two goose eggs in succession. And against Detroit the following evening,…
NHL Levies $5,000 In Fines To Curb Brawling
MONTREAL, Que.— The National Hockey League — in one of its most drastic moves — has levied a total of $5,000 in fines in a determined effort to stamp out player brawling that is leaving a stig-ma on league games. The announcement of the whopping fines was made by NHL President Clarence Campbell who said that the league would stop for good fighting and brawling of the nature that punctuated the Chicago-Toronto game of Dec. 7 before a nationwide television audience. Campbell said he hoped the fines would serve as a deterrent for both coaches and players in the future. “We will not tolerate this sort of thing again. If pur warning is not heeded, then more drastic measures can be employed,” he said. Big losers in the Toronto Maple Leafs Gardens’ fisticuffs, called…
Picked For Fourth, Blades Near Top
LOS ANGELES, Cat— Los Angeles and Denver have been kicking the slats out of every other team in the Western Hockey League of late, and nobody can figure out why. The two clubs were picked for no better than fourth place in the six-team WHL in pre-season prognostications, and, yet, they have been running one-two in the standings for the last month. And when you really take a penetrating look into the ranks, it isn’t hard, after all, to figure why the sudden emergence. Herewith an analysis of these two clubs, Los Angeles this week and Denver next, the chief contributing aspects listed in order of importance : COACH ALF PIKE — The form-er Calgary and New York mentor more than anything else has given Los Angeles stability. Where last season the club was experimenting…
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