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November 27, 1965
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What’s Keeping Jim Pappin Out Of NHL? Americans’ Star Burning Up League Again
ROCHESTER. N.Y.— Any resemblance between Jimmy Pappin and an American Hockey Leaguer is strictly coincidental. There’s no question but that the 26-year-old Rochester American right wing is a National Leaguer masquerading in an AHL uniform. For credentials, try these: This season—four goals in three games. 1964-65—14 goals in 22 regular season games and 11 goals in 10 playoff contests. 1963-64—10 goals in 16 games. That’s 29 goals in just 35 games last season and this year. For a 72-game schedule, that rate would produce 59 goals! So why isn’t Jim Pappin in the NHL today? He would like to know the answer, but can’t find out. Punch Imlach, Pappin’s No. 1 critic and the man responsible for his being with the Amerks, is more than a bit mystified himself. And Joe Crozier, who annually benefits the most from…
Shock Valuable Even On Bench – Pulford
TORONTO, Ont. Eddie Shack’s Toronto teammates hold him in pretty high regard it seems. “I thought Eddie was important to us even when he was on the bench most of the time last season,” says Leafs’ Bob Pulford. “The point was everybody knew he was there and, if things got out of hand, he’d be coming on to straighten out the situation. And the other thing was that he could step up the tempo of the game any time he was sent out.” Shack’s frequent mistakes and his unwise penalties made him a luxury in Punch Imlach’s view. When they were winning championships, he was pleasant to have around as comic relief. But this was something a struggling fourth-place club could not afford and that is the official explanation of his dismissal to Rochester. Another…
Pieri Demands Two-Referee System
PROVIDENCE, R. I. The stormy argument and official protest from the Rhode Island Reds resulting from Quebec’s disputed goal in the second period of Nov. 14th’s game has again led Reds’ owner Lou Pieri to advocate the need for the two referee system in the American Hockey League. “It’s absolutely ridiculous to assume that one referee can see everything that goes on out on the ice. He’s bound to miss a lot of things—some of them important,” said Pieri after he filed an official protest with AHL president Jack Riley concerning the controversial goal scored by the Aces’ Cleland Mortson at 7.59 of the second period. “Our league is one of the finest in the world and yet we’re still in the dark ages when it comes to our referee system,” Pieri went…
Knee Injury Stops Hull NHL Netminders Can’t
CHICAGO, Ill. National Hockey League goa1 keepers have been trying unsuccessfully to throttle Chicago’s Golden Jet. Bobby Hull, this season. Today they can breathe a little easier, at least for the next ten days. Hull, the NHL’s leading goal scorer, put himself out of the Chicago lineup after rattling home 15 goals in 12 games by twisting his left knee in a game here against Toronto Nov. 21. Preliminary diagnosis was that Hull had injured ligaments in the joint of his knee and would likely be sidelined for “a week or 10 days” according to his coach, Billy Reay. Hull, the eternal optimist, said he hoped to be back inside of a week. Hull, who has set out on a fantastic goal-scoring spree that undoubtedly would have carried him past the coveted 50-goal mark,…
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