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January 2, 1965
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Western Ad Lib
LOS ANGELES, Calif. San Francisco, playoff champion of the Western Hockey League the last two seasons may be ready to make its move up from near the cellar this season. After being unable to win as many as two games in a row in the first third of the season, the Seals recently won three straight. Coach Bud Poile’s team put on an impressive display of strength when it scored seven goals in the third period to topple visiting Vancouver 8-5. Dispossessed coach Nick Mickoski, who is playing enormously well under uncomfortable circumstances, scored two of those goals. Another veteran who has been going well is Len Haley, who has scored a goal or an assist in each of his last 12 games, a total of seven goals and 18 assists…
GUNZO’S
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PASSING THE PUCK
• DANNY GALLIVAN, English play-by-play announcer of the Montreal Canadiens, will share announcing duties with Jerry Trudell on the 10 road games Canadiens will televise this season on closed circuit TV…The entire game will be telecast…Four games will emanate from Chicago and two each from New York, Boston and Detroit…Paul Chandler, who covered the Red Wings for the Detroit News from 1946 to 1952, died of a heart attack in Detroit the other day. He was only 45…According to the current issue of Sports magazine, Ranger coach Red Sullivan calls Toronto’s Bob Pulford “the best centre in hockey”…An awful lot of Jean Beliveau fans should be interested in seeing how Sully justifies his selection…Dick Duff tells intimates he was never happy in New York and was extremely pleased to be…
FAN FORUM
NHL Should Drop Silly Icing Rule Hockey News Editor: The new rule that a goalie can’t freeze the puck is senseless. When the goalie doesn’t freeze the puck the enemy team could score. The rule that should be dropped in my estimation is the icing rule of icing the puck. This takes a small amount of time and hockey time counts. SCOTT MERCER,Merlin, Ont. Comparaison Standing Suggested By Reader Hockey News Editor: Having a keen interest in things statistical as regards the National Hockey League, and being an avid reader of “THE HOCKEY NEWS”, I would like to suggest that the team standings on the corresponding date last year be included as a regular feature in each issue of your fine paper. “How They Stood A Year Ago” is the heading I would re-commend for this new…