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Hull Discards Nice Guy’ Tag To Flatten Red Wings

CHICAGO, Ill. Hard as it is to believe, some good may have come out of the Black Hawks’ two-game disaster against the Red Wings in the playoffs. In fact, the 6-3 defeat by the Wings in the second game may be marked as the game in which Hawk star Bobby Hull finally got over his “nice guy” complex and began to fight back. For most of his eight years as a Hawk, Hull has endured a star’s share of punishment from opposing players. Except for a few explosions, he chose to suffer the hooks, trips, high sticks, elbows, and cross-checks without retaliating. This, despite the fact that several well-respected former stars regularly warned him that he was cutting down his effectiveness by failing to “punish” offenders. Angered, perhaps, by well-publicized reports that the Wings planned…

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Armstrong Man Who Keeps Club Morale High

TORONTO, Ont.— During the National Hockey League season just past, two of Toronto Maple Leafs’ players decided they could no longer function as linemates. Convinced their talents simply would not merge, they were becoming discouraged. The problem was solved by George Armstrong who, as team captain, has played a much more important role in Leafs’ recent successes than any outsider probably realizes. Armstrong’s achievements are in the record book for anybody to see; he produces when production is needed. But the fact is that he is not one of the major cogs in the Leaf machine. What he is, though, is the oil that makes that mighty engine run so smoothly. Bob Pulford is Leafs’ player representative and, as such, has been instrumental in smoothing out many of their economic difficulties. He is the…