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February 8, 1964
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Palyer of the week
Bobby Rousseau … Montreal Canadiens Few players in the National Hockey League have been able to achieve the feat of scoring five or more goals in one game. This past week little Bobby Rousseau turned the trick with a scintillating performance against the Detroit Red Wings and became the third member of the Canadiens’ to count five times in one game. Rousseau’s outburst equalled that of Bernord Geoff non set in 1955 when the Canadiens trimmed the New York Rangers 10-2. The great Maurice (Rocket) Richard did it in a Stanley Cup playoff game on March 23, 1944 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Canadiens won the game 5-1 and Rocket got all five goals. Thus, little 23-year-old Bobby Rousseau, player-of-the-week in the NHL, joins some pretty select company as the result of his…
Imlach Revises PredictionsCalls Canucks ‘Team To Beat’
TORONTO, Ont. Punch Imlach, the noted prognosticator who is coach and general manager of Toronto Maple Leafs, now concedes Monteal Canadiens have become the team to beat for the 1963-64 National Hockey League championship. He admitted it after Canadiens stormed into Toronto Jan. 22 and whipped Leafs, 3-0. That moved them into a first-place tie, five points in front of Leafs and even with Chicago. “They’re the team we have to worry about,” Imlach said, ’’because they are up there and they have the easiest schedule from here to the end of the season. They get extra home games, spaced out nicely, and they meet teams they’ve been beating. “Here’s the thing about Canadiens. They don’t muff their scoring chances. They put them in. They’re also working harder this year because - - let’s…
PASSING THE PUCK
• TORONTO — BOB PULFORD, Bob Nevin and Billy Harris were the three stars we selected over the television network here on Saturday night as the Leafs downed the Bruins, 5-1. .. Playing as a line these three performed brilliantly for the Stanley Cup champs and Punch Imlach may have assembled a forward unit that could lift the Leafs to the too soot during the remaining weeks of the championship schedule. . We sat next to Bill Hewitt in the gondola high above ice surface and it is really quite a spot to watch a hockey game … Bill is the son of the venerable Foster Hewitt and does the play by play of all Leaf games, although Foster still airs the home games over radio … The younger Hewitt…
Hamiltons ‘Seven-Man’ Hockey Loop Referee ’S Innovation
HAMILTON, Ont. Seven-man hockey has returned to Hamilton after an absence of many years. But the extra man is not a rover, his name is never listed in the scoring summary and he never touches the puck. This is the unique situation in the Westinghouse Old Boys’ Hockey League where the coaches of the cherub teams don skates and join their young charges to give instruction during weekly scheduled games at the Hamilton Forum. The league is the brainchild of Bill Buckley, a 36-year-old former junior A, intermediate and senior player and presently an Ontario Hockey Association referee. Comprised of 12 teams of sons of Westinghouse employees between seven and 12 years of age, the schedule has now passed the halfway mark. And Buckley and his hard-working committee of five says it has met with unqualified…
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