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July 1, 1964
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Geoffrion Through As Player, Eyes Calder Cup, New Career In Becoming Quebec Aces Coach
QUEBEC. P.Q. — Bernard’Boom Boom’ Geoffrion, hockey’s third highest goal scorer of all time, has embarked on a new hockey life. The Boomer has become the coach of the Quebec Aces of the American Hockey League bringing down the curtain on one of modern day hockey’s great ice careers. With 371 goals to his credit in regular NHL play after 13 seasons as a top right winger with the Canadiens, Geoffrion steps out of the big time where he ranked only behind Gordie Howe of Detroit with 566 goals and retired Maurice Richard with 544 among the NHL’s greatest goal-scoring exponents. He will succeed Floyd Curry at the helm of the Aces and his major task appears to be to win the Calder Cup after five years of reaching for the brass ring and…
Wings Lost Vet Cooler On’Gamble’
DETROIT. Mich. — The Detroit Red Wings boldly gambled on Terry Sawchuk in the NHL draft and lost. This was confirmed by Red Wing great Gordie Howe during a stopover in Moncton. N.B., on his cross Canada tour, when he said the Wings gambled that nobody would grab the veteran goalkeeper if he were left unprotected in the NHL draft. Toronto’ Leafs made the Wings the losers by picking up the 34-year-old Sawchuk for the draft price of $20,000. Howe said Punch Imlach, Leafs’ general manager-coach pulled “a real bombshell” bypicking Sawchuk and Dickie Moore from Montreal. “Sawchuk was happy in Detroit and the Red Wings were happy with him. but we wanted to protect other players and gambled by leaving him unprotected.” He added: “What’s Imlach going to do with Sawchuk? He has a great…
Big Hockey Names Absent From Draft Lists
MONTREAL, Que. — Several of professional hockey’s better-known names Including goaltender “Gump” Worsley and forward Don Mar shall were among those left unprotected and ignored — during the 1964 NHL league draft. Worsley, Marshall and others like Detroit’s Parker MacDonald and Andre Pronovost were left off the original lists filed by the teams. After the drafting session was launched, however, others joined them in the unprotected status. Prominent among these was Junior Langlois, the former Canadiens and New York defenceman. Canadiens protected all of the men who finished the season with the team last year with one exception, Jim Roberts was left open. Newcomers protected were Ted Harris, a defenceman. and Gary Peters, of the Omaha team. Claude Larose also was protected, as was Ernie Wakely, a goaltender. The Boston Bruins went along without protecting…
CPHL Teams To Provide Test For Canada’s National Squad
— MONTREAL, Que. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association announced that the Central Professional Hockey League will supply training competition for CAHA’s National Team that will compete in the world championship and in the 1968 Olympic Games. The National team this year will train at Winnipeg, starting possibly around Sept. 10. Agreement for the CPHL to aid in training was reached at a meeting with the National Hockey League, whose clubs operate farms in the CPHL. Gordon Juckes, secretary-manager of the CAHA, said one difficulty in the past has been suitable training opposition and that the new plan will provide a continuing program. Juckes said that sources of players for the CAHA’s National team training camp will. be from the Winnipeg area, those available from the 1964 squad and new players from other sources in addition…
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