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December 26, 1964
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Rangers Blow $250 Bonus Money Each By Lethargic Ice Play
NEW YORK, N.Y.— It cost the Rangers $250 apiece to learn that a hockey team, unlike a jockey, doesn’t make money sitting down on the job. That’s the amount the club would have given each player if the Rangers had collected at least 26 points in their first 25 games. Blue brass had gotten the approval of NHL prexy Clarence Campbell to distribute the dough and they’d even made provisions to pay $50 for every point over the required minimum. The Rangers wound up with a 9-10-6 mark and missed the plateau by two points. They have no one to blame but themselves and their stubborn insistence on trying to regulate the pressure when they’re in front. When it comes to sitting on a lead the Rangers have about as much success as a…
Johnson Unseats Fielder As WHL’s Leading Scorer With 7-Point Week
SEATTLE, Wash.— Seven and six point weeks by two red-hot centremen has brought about a sudden change in the individual scoring race. Los Angeles Blades’ pivot Norm Johnson fired three goals and added four assists in four games to move into the number one spot in the individual race. Johnson now has a record that stands at 14 goals and 30 assists for 44 points in 27 games. Vancouver’s Billy McNeill rifled a goal and set up five others to take over the number two spot. McNeill now has 16 goals and 25 assists for 41 points in 28 games. Seattle’s Guyle Fielder was pushed back into third place as he was able to pick up only two points, both assists, in two games played by the Totems. He now has 6…
Hawks, Canucks Blast Paille From N.Y. Net
NEW YORK, N. Y. A 6-1 loss to Chicago, Dec. 9, followed by a 7-1 defeat at Montreal, Dec. 12, ended Marcel Paille’s latest tenure as Ranger goalie. The blocky backstop, who missed 10 games because of an injured ankle, replaced Jacques Plante in Boston on Dec. 2 and played the next four games. Plante, however, subbed for Paille the night after the Montreal debacle and Jacques had a 3-2 victory torn from him by Toronto in the final second of play. The Leafs tied the game, 3-3, when Ron Ellis caromed the rolling rubber off Plante’s pads at 19: 59 of a game that 15,092 Madison Square Garden spectators thought had ended six seconds before. Toronto pulled goalie Johnny Bower to utilize six skaters in the final minute and they peppered Plante until…
They’ve Pardoned Ex-NHL Star Olmstead
(As Seen In The Toronto Star) TORONTO, Ont. TWO FULL SEASONS and part of a third have gone by since; Bert Olmstead quit hockey and much of the bitterness that surrounded his departure has been forgotten. It was a disillusioning episode. Leafs had just won their first Stanley Cup championship since 1951 and much of the credit was-being given to Olmstead, a gnarled old campaigner who’d taught many of the younger players just what is involved in being a bigleague professional athlete. He was their leader and their advisor and when he said “jump”, they said “how high?” That might have been part of the reason Leafs decided to let him go; he was becoming so important. The official explanation hardly made sense. Leafs dropped him from their reserved list to make room, they…
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