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October 24, 1964
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Habs ‘20-Goal Club’ Shootina For Bia Year
-MONTREAL Que A quartet who scored 20 goals or more for Canadiens last year are looking forward to a repeal performance this season. Jean Beliveau, Bobby Rous seau, Dave Baion and Gilles Tremblay are the Hab sharp shooters who will be out to make life miserable for opposing net minders. Between them, they racked up 99 goals last year, accounting for almost fifty percent of the team’s production. Beliveau led the parade with 2f counters, followed by Rousseau (25. Balon (24) and Tremblay (22). The retired Bernard Geoffrion was also a member of the select circle with 21 goals in 55 games. Without doubt, the most surprising member of the ‘20-goal club” was Dave Balon, a hardworking forward who was rated a good checker, but no great shakes as a scorer. He’s amassed…
Western Ad Lib
LOS ANGELES, Calif.— As population patterns vary over the years, expansion in major sports leagues has been and will continue to be inevitable. However, the shifting of franchises is a poor substitute for expansion and provides an instability which is threatening public loyalty to and faith in these leagues. Baseball provides an excellent example with Milwaukee, Cleveland and Kansas City in real danger of joining cities which have lost their franchises. Milwaukee has held and Cleveland still holds the season attendance records in their respective leagues. Milwaukee and Kansas City have had their franchises for only limited periods. one wonders why league officials and owners prefer to blame the cities for attendance failures rather than their products or the way they package them? There was one franchise shift in the Western Hockey…
Vancouver, LA. Lead In Player Changes
SEATTLE. Wash- The six teams of the Western Hockey League are sporting a total of 30 new faces this season — that is, faces that were not with any one of the teams when the season ended last spring, of the 34 new names that have appear with the teams in the first week of play, only 14 are new of the League. The remaining slayers have experienced West-ern League action either with he team that now employs them >r with one of the other five dubs. The Los Angeles Blades like Vancouver Canucks, lead the way in this department as no less than six players were added over the summer months. Two >f the six, however, were not too new to Blades fans. Lloyd Haddon was very familiar sight in Los…
Stanley Continues To Astound Critics Finding New Stamina For 17th Season
— TORONTO, Ont. Defenseman Allan Stanley would be concerned about his hockey future if he didn’t hear that annual refrain, “Stanley’s all washed up. He won’t be back in the fall, because he’s too old and too slow.” That chant usually begins late April and hits a peak in early September when the boys gather for training camp, so Allan just ignores the pessimists and turns up season after season as good or better than ever. One of his relatives recently remarked-with a wry smile: “You know, they’ve been saying that about Allan for years and now he’s starting his 17th NHL campaign.” The guessers will be right one of these years, but this isn’t going to be their lucky season because the 38-year-old Stanley turned up at Toronto’s training site in…
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