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September 1, 1964
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Fontinato Returns To Hockey As Junior ’C’ League Coach
GUELPH, Ont.— Lou Fontinato, the big, rugged National Hockey League defenseman whose major league career was sadly ended by a broken neck, is back in hockey as a coach. The former NHL ’bad man’ will. return to the game this season as coach of the Orangeville entry in the OHA Junior ’C’ division. Fontinato’s colorful playing career ended abruptly on March 9, 1963, when he incurred a broken neck, after being hit into the boards in a Montreal-New York game. An eight hour operation, to fuse the damaged verterbrae was followed by months of convalescence. Except for a stiff neck Fontinato has fully recovered from the ordeal and successfully operates his own farm on the outskirts of Guelph. Fontinato has been in demand as an after dinner speaker this past year but otherwise has been…
Super Stars Big Factor For 4th Cup
TORONTO, Ont. The Toronto Maple Leafs are still hockey’s most potent professional team and for seven good reasons — Brewer, B a u n, Horton, Mahovlich, K e o n, Pulford and Bathgate. No other National Hockey League team can match the three-time Stanley Cup champions in the matter of super stars and it is usually the club with the most big guns that shoots down the rest of the N.H.L. and the Leafs fit the description perfectly. Leafs and the other six teams have only broken from their training camp barriers across the East and already there are rumblings that both the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks will surpass the wondrous Leafs this seasons. Fact of the matter is neither the Canadiens nor Hawks come close to Punch Imlach’s ageless crew in…
Bears’ Goalie Headed For Buffalo
HERSHEY, Pa.— The Hershey Bears have sold their No. 1 netminder, Ed Chadwick, but he will remain in the American Hockey League with another club — the Buffalo Bisons. General-Manager Sam Pollock of the Montreal Canadiens announced that Hershey sold Chadwick in order to get one of Montreal’s netminders. “We have a goalie Hershey would like to have very much,” Pniinrk said “Rut in order tomake room for him on their team, they had to trade Chadwick. It’s as simple as that.” Hershey is a farm team of the Canadiens. The Bears announced earlier in Hershey they had sold the veteran 31-year-old Chadwick to the NHL Chicago Black Hawks. Pollock said it was a straight one-player deal with Chicago. No terms were announced. The Hawks will on turn assign Chadwick to Buffalo. “We will loan two…
Clippers Introduce Seven New Faces Crawford Starts Camp At Winnipeg
BALTIMORE. Md. — Seven new faces were among 23 candidates who reported to coach Johnny Crawford of the Baltimore Clippers when the local skaters opened training camp at Winnipeg. Manitoba September 14. Donning the Orange and Black livery of the Clippers for the first time in their careers were Lou Angotti, center and Ed Lawson, left winger, acquired this summer from Rochester; winger Ray Brunel, one of last year’s stars of the Calder Cup champion Cleveland Barons; winger Bob Kabel. from Vancouver; rookie center Jimmy Johnson from St. Paul; and defensemen Ron Ingram, with Detroit and New York last winter, and Les Hunt of Vancouver. Returnees from last year’s squad who figure to serve as Coach Crawford’s nucleus include left wingers. Mel Pearson and George Konik; right wingers Ken Schinkel, Dick Meissner and…
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