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October 31, 1964
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Ex-Pros Tessier, Earl Balfour Back In Amateur Puck Ranks
GALT, Ont. — Earl Balfour, former National Hockey League player, has signed with Galt Hornets of the Senior Ontario Hockey Association. Balfour, 31, Toronto native, has been reinstated as an amateur after sitting out last season. The six-foot-one left winger, a member of the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Black Hawks in 1960-61, scored 30 goals in 288 NHL games. Balfour was the second former professional in the East to recently return to amateur ranks. Orval Tessier, a long-time minor professional with Montreal Royals, Kingston, and Portland, failed to make the Quebec Aces of the AHL during training camp and decided to seek his amateur reinstatement. Tessier, who has been up and down the hockey ladder for the better part of 10 years, will line-up with the Clinton Comets of the Eastern Hockey League once…
Barons Again Produce Top Net ‘Sub’ As Stand-In Gagnon Proves Sensation
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It was a little less than a year ago, when an amateur goalie named Ron Salter filled in briefly for Les Binkley, that the late Jim Ellery remarked to a representative of the Cleveland Barons, “How do you guys always manage to come up with these young goaltending sensations?” Salter was not the first. Nor, as it turned out, was he the last. The latest is a 21-year-old youngster named Andre Gagnon, who was forced into service in the first period played by the Barons this season and who has remained in the Cleveland nets throughout the first several games of the 1964-65 schedule. Like Binkley, who stepped in for Gil Mayer in 1960-61; Al Cullen, who subbed capably for Binkley in 1961-62 and 1962-63; Salter, who performed briefly last season,…
Player of the week
Jerry Melnyk … … Buffalo Bisons You won’t find the name of Jerry Melnyk in the top 10 scorers in the American Hockey League but the journeyman hockey player came up with some pretty valuable goal scoring just the same for the Buffalo Bisons last weekend. The one-time National Hockey Leaguer scored three times for the Bisons in two games this past week with two of his goals coming in the final stages of a game with Springfield and the score tied at 4-4. Melnyk shoved the puck into the net twice to break the deadlock and send the Bisons winging to their third victory of the year, 6-4. Players like Melnyk, now a 30-year-old performer with better than 10 years in professional hockey under his belt, are not big scorers around the…
Schmidt Becomes First Coach To Blast Refereeing This Year
TORONTO, Ont.— Milt Schmidt, the Boston Bruins’ coach, ran the risk of a possible $500 fine when he levelled a blast at the officiating turned in by Referee John Ashley during the Bruins’ 2-2 tie with the Leafs here Oct. 22. Milt’s outburst was the first of the season by an NHL coach and it almost overshadowed the two goals scored by Reg Fleming of the Bruins, both with the Leafs shorthanded. Sir Reginald (he with the halo now that he has reformed), had scored twice in a game on several other occasions in the NHL but it was the first time Fleming had blasted two with his team shorthanded. Schmidt didn’t waste words telling all within earshot that Ashley’s calls didn’t meet with his approval. He even went so far as to say…
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