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December 11, 1965

The Hockey News December 11, 1965

<p>Here is a breakdown of Gordie Howe&rsquo;s 600 NHL Goals: TOT&mdash;Total Goals; H&mdash;Goals Scored at Home, A&mdash;Goals Scored.wav from Home).</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02544/2435313-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="604" height="183"></div><h2><b>BREAKDOWN OF GOAL CLASSIFICATIONS</b></h2><p><b>TOTALS Boston Chicago Montreal New York Toronto</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03434/2435306-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="612" height="275"></div><h2><b>BREAKDOWN BY GOALKEEPERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04295/2435299-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="598" height="435"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Gordie Howe’s 600 Goals

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03220/2436926-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="612" height="860"></div><p><b>Solution in next week&rsquo;s issue</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Pictured Chicago rookie.</p><p>5. Initials of Montreal&rsquo;s announcer.</p><p>7. Hart Trophy winner of 1949-50.</p><p>8. Native country of Carl Voss (abbr.)</p><p>10. Victim of Geoffrion&rsquo;s 50th goal in 1960-61 (abbr.)</p><p>12. Claude Provost celebrates birthday in this month (abbr.)</p><p>13. Scored 39 goals for Quebec Aces last season.</p><p>14. Upon.</p><p>15. Initials of Reaume, ex-Leaf rearguard.</p><p>17. Initials of O&rsquo;Ree of Los Angeles.</p><p>18. Number of shutouts Plante collected last season.</p><p>19. Native province of pictured star (abbr.)</p><p>20. Lou Angotti&rsquo;s wing (abbr.)</p><p>21. This Hawk has a college degree.</p><p>23. A Canadien winger.</p><p>26. Ells English (abbr.)</p><p>27. Nickname of Tulsa&rsquo;s team (sing.)</p><p>29. Ex-Red Wing, nicknamed Rags.</p><p>31. Rochester defenseman.</p><p>32. Name given 13 across.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. Eddie Shack bought one recently in Toronto.</p><p>2. This player collected 31 points for Hershey last season.</p><p>3. Initials of Aidcorn, ex-NHL player.</p><p>4. Andre Champagne injured one at training camp.</p><p>5. Bobby Rousseau scored five goals against this team last winter.</p><p>6. What hockey fans often do When their team loses.</p><p>9. Selenium (Sym.)</p><p>11. Railway (abbr.)</p><p>15. Bobby Rousseau&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>16. Pete Goegan&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>17. Former goaltending great.</p><p>21. Portland&rsquo;s coach answers to this.</p><p>22. Yes (old form)</p><p>24. Mahovlich went to Europe on one last summer.</p><p>25. An attacking unit.</p><p>28. One of the Conachers.</p><p>30. Initials of Young, last season with Springfield.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo; SOLUTION</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1. McDonald</p><p>6. Team</p><p>8. Cecil</p><p>12. Kitchener</p><p>14. Apr.</p><p>15. L.J.</p><p>17. Day</p><p>19. A.H.</p><p>21. Two</p><p>24. William</p><p>28. Reardon</p><p>29. Woit</p><p>30. Eddie</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1. Mackell</p><p>2. Docto</p><p>3. At</p><p>4. Leonard</p><p>5. D.A.</p><p>7. Murray</p><p>9. E.I.</p><p>10. I.C.</p><p>11. L.H.</p><p>13. E.P</p><p>16. Jaw</p><p>18. Al.</p><p>20. Howard</p><p>21. Three</p><p>22. Minor</p><p>23. Smith</p><p>25. Ir.</p><p>26. L.D.</p><p>27. Low<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01570/2435065-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="268" height="307"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLENN HALL&hellip;Goaling Incredible</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Those prophets of gloom and doom who predicted that the Black Hawks would lose valuable ground in their battle with Montreal for the league title while Bobby Hull rested his touchy left knee reckoned without considering a quiet, unassuming veteran who wears the hero&rsquo;s mantle with considerable discomfort.</p><p>To be sure, the Hawk attack suffered during the first four games they played after Hull&rsquo;s departure. But Goalie Glenn Hall emerged from the Golden Jet&rsquo;s huge shadow and saw to it personally that they lost only one of those four contests.</p><p>In each victory, Glenn had to protect a one-goal margin through most of the final period and the lone loss was a 2-1 effort against the Canadiens.</p><p>Glenn began his stand, by holding off the Red Wings, in Detroit, 3-2, despite the fact that Sid Abel&rsquo;s crew practically set up camp in Hawk ice during the final period in&rsquo; an effort to get the tying marker.</p><p>Two nights later in Chicago, Glenn again had to protect a 2-1 lead over the Wings from the midway point of the third period until the 19:46 mark when Stan Mikita dumped the puck into an empty net.</p><p>But Glenn&rsquo;s ordeal was far from over. Two days after that, in Madison Square Garden, he turned aside 47 Ranger shots during a 1-0 victory gained in the 14th minute of the final period on Ken Wharram&rsquo;s powerplay goal.</p><p>The loss came the following night in Chicago and Hall was in no way responsible for the two Canadiens shots that found their way past him.</p><p>&ldquo;It was just an incredible stretch of goal-tending,&rdquo; said Coach Billy Reay. &ldquo;He singlehandedly won three games for us and you can&rsquo;t ask any more than that of anybody.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite the fact that his charges had taken six out of a possible eight points with Hull on the sidelines, Reay was considerably irked by the loss to Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;I really shouldn&rsquo;t be complaining, I realize,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;But it seems that we build up to the games we have to win against the Canadiens, then blow them. It happened all too often last year and cost us first place. And I sure don&rsquo;t want it to become a habit again this season.&rdquo;</p><p>The defeat by the Canadiens pretty well proved that without Hull the Hawks can&rsquo;t come close to flying wing to wing with Toe Blake&rsquo;s Frenchmen.</p><p>&ldquo;They have too much for us when we can&rsquo;t counter with Hull,&rdquo; Billy admitted. &ldquo;He makes up for an awful lot because he forces them to change defensive tactics and seems to perk up all of our skaters.</p><p>&ldquo;And we just don&rsquo;t have the bench to match the Canadiens when Hull isn&rsquo;t with us.&rdquo;</p><p>This is why Reay and Manager Tommy Ivan were extremely cautious about getting Bobby back into action. They wanted to make sure the risk of his re-injuring the knee had been reduced to absolute minimum before letting him resume his left wing duties with Centre Phil Esposito and Right Wing Chico Maki.</p><p>Another problem was added while Hull was sidelined when veteran defenseman Elmer Vasko suffered a broken toe during the victory over the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s in a bad spot, right at the joint,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;So we can&rsquo;t figure on Moose for at least a couple of weeks.&rdquo;</p><p>As his replacement, the Hawks called Pat Stapleton from their St. Louis team in the Central League. He made his Hawk debut against the Canadiens and handled himself capably against the league&rsquo;s toughest skaters.</p><p>&ldquo;I was pretty impressed with the way Pat worked,&rdquo; said Reay, who used the youngster as Pierre Pilote&rsquo;s running mate. &ldquo;He handled the puck well in our end of the ice and did a good job of checking.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hull Limps Out, Hall Steps In To Spark Hawks

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01429/2437033-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Veteran Toronto goalie JOHNNY BOWER has been having his troubles along with the rest of the Leafs this season. Bower, playing his 21st season of professional hockey, has been in the nets for only three victories this season in 10 games. Here he makes stop on ex-Leaf BOB NEVIN (8), now with Rangers.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.</p><p>George &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan became the first coaching casualty of of the 1965-66 National Hockey League season when the Rangers fired him in an attempt to stop the Blues&rsquo; skid to the bottom of the NHL.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02311/2437040-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="147" height="222"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 147px"><b>Red Sullivan</b></figcaption></div><p>Club general manager Emile Francis, who announced that Sullivan had been let out as coach, said he would take over the reins of the club making him the league&rsquo;s third dual manager-coach. Detroit&rsquo;s Sid Abel and Toronto&rsquo;s Punch Imlach are the others.</p><p>Francis said the coaching change was necessary before the I Rangers found themselves in deep trouble. The Blues have faded badly in recent weeks after a fast start. In their last 10 games, they won only once and had slipped to the brink of the NHL cellar.</p><p>Francis said he was taking over the team because it needed &ldquo;someone who knows our personnel.&rdquo; He said no one is being considered as Sullivan&rsquo;s replacement. The Rangers&rsquo; GM said Sully will stay on with the Blues as co-ordinator of player personnel and as a scout.</p></div><div style="clear: both;"><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></div>

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GM Francis Takes Over New Yorkers

<p>CHICAGO, Ill.</p><p>Three-goal performances in a National Hockey League are somewhat rare according to league history but Stan Mikita posted two of them last weekend and in successive nights, too.</p><p>The brilliant Chicago centre, who is the NHL&rsquo;s point scoring champion for the past two years, turned out to be the hottest player of the week as he shot a &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; in both games as the Hawks lowered the boom on Boston 10-1 and the Rangers 6-2.</p><p>Mikita&rsquo;s three-goal blasts pushed him to the top of the individual NHL race with 29 points as he removed Bobby Rousseau, the leader the last few weeks, from first place. Mikita now has scored 14 goals in 19 games this season, a pace exceeded only by his starry teammate, Bobby Hull, who has 17 an 15 games.</p><p>With a career total of 164 goals, Mikita is now starting to push the NHL&rsquo;s choice 200goal club and if he makes it this season, he will have the distinction of turning the trick in the least amount of games of any National Leaguer.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Stan Mikita Proving ‘Hottest’ Thing On Ice

<p>Following are the latest player movements in hockey:</p><h2><b>NATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>BOSTON&mdash;Ed Johnston, goalkeeper, sent to Los Angeles of WHL on loan. Ron Schock, forward, assigned to San Francisco of WHL. John Arbour, defenseman, returned Ito Niagara Falls of Junior OHA. Paul Popiel, defenseman, returned to Hershey of AHL. Barry Ashbee, defenseman, recalled from Hershey. Skip Krake and Bill Golds-worthy, forwards, and Dallas Smith, defenseman, recalled from Oklahoma City of CPHL.</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Jean Gauthier, defenseman, recalled from Houston of CPHL on emergency basis and returned.</p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Brian Conacher, forward, returned to Rochester of AHL.</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Camille Henry, forward, sent to St. Louis of CPHL subject to recall</p><h2><b>AMERICAN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>ROCHESTER&mdash;Don Cherry, defenseman, recalled from Tulsa of CPHL. Andre Champagne, forward, returned to Tulsa.</p><h2><b>WESTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>SAN FRANCISCO&mdash;Larry Lund, forward, traded to Seattle of WHL in exchange for minor league rights to Bob Thomas, forward, and Bob Gray, goalkeeper.</p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;Gerry Kell, forward, sent to Houston of CPHL.</p><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Doug Favell, goalkeeper, returned to Oklahoma City of CPHL.</p><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>FORT WAYNE&mdash;Ron Hindson, defenseman, released. Norm Waslawskl, forward, quit team.</p><p>DAYTON&mdash;Cliff Bristow, forward, left team.</p><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p>CHARLOTTE&mdash;Chuck Goddard, goalkeeper, and Mike Fischer, defenseman, traded to Jacksonville of EHL in exchange for Ernie Dyda, forward.</p><p>JOHNSTOWN&mdash;Ken Thompson, forward, sent to Toledo of IHL.</p><p>NASHVILLE&mdash;Gerry Maney, forward, returned to Woodstock of Senior OHA on orders from EHL.</p><p>JACKSONVILLE&mdash;Chris; Finnerty, forward, released.</p><p>NEW HAVEN&mdash;Dwight Winters and Jacques Mercier, forwards, added to roster.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Movement Of Players

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02545/2435120-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="163" height="236"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Hay</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO. III.</p><p>Bill (Red) Hay is one man who belies the gossip around the National Hockey League that the Black Hawks are a team of two o: three individuals and when they aren&rsquo;t going the Hawks are in trouble.</p><p>Hay, a college grad who spends his summers working for an old company as a geologist, spends his winters playing hockey ai though his life depended on it. The six foo three inch redhead looks like a bank executive in his street clothes.</p><p>When the whistle blows Hay doesn&rsquo;t lool back. He&rsquo;s going all out and usually is pitted against the biggest man on the opposition. For instance, Coach Billy Reay always puts Hay against the great Gordie Howe and in the past two years he has held up his end pretty well. Howe scores now and then but usually it is on the power play when he gets free in the melee around the net.</p><p>Hay came up to the Hawks in 1959-60 and won the Caldei Trophy as the rookie of the year when he scored 18 goals. He was centering for Bobby Hull, another youngster at the time and along with Murray Balfour his line became the &ldquo;Million Dollar Babies.&rsquo; Hay many times said that if he and Balfour and Hull were worth a million, Hull must be worth $900,000 of it. But he was really being modest because it was his passing and play making that got Hull started toward stardom.</p><p>In the last few years, Hay has been teamed with Eric Nesterenko on penalty killing and the two are possibly the best in the league. Nester scored six goals short handed last year and Hay two, helping toward a total of 14 for the Hawks, a new league record. Tuesday night Hay popped home another one which stood up as the difference in the 3-2 win over Detroit.</p><p>Hay admits he isn&rsquo;t the league&rsquo;s strongest skater, but he makes up for it in sheer work and hustle, which is rubbing off on some of the younger players.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hay All Business When He’s On Ice

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01570/2435158-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Canadiens&rsquo; HENRI RICHARD is always a threat around the net as Leafs&rsquo; JOHNNY BOWER readily knows.</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>You often hear it said that the day of the little man in hockey is ending&hellip;that to succeed, today, a player must have size to go with his overall ability.</p><p>The theory is strengthened when it&rsquo;s remembered that the two top superstars in the NHL&mdash;Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull&mdash;are both endowed with plenty of brawn to go with their talent. Howe, a six-footer, packs some 200 lbs., on his frame, while Hull tips the beam at 193. Then there is Big Jean Beliveau of Canadiens and Frank Mahovlich of the Leafs, both of whom rank among the big men in the game.</p><p>Undoubtedly, size does help a man if he&rsquo;s sufficiently gifted with hockey ability. Yet, there are in this league, a group of men whose lack of stature hasn&rsquo;t pievented them from becoming great stars in their own right. Stan Mikita, for instance, is no giant yet he&rsquo;s been the leading scorer in the NHL for the past two years. He&rsquo;s also well up in the scoring parade this year. So, of course, is Bobby Rousseau, who has led the scoring race through much of the current season. These are shining examples of what smaller types can do, if they set their minds to it, and they deserve much credit for their efforts. Yet, if there&rsquo;s one man in hockey, to day, who typifies the little man possessed of giant talent. That man is Henri &ldquo;Pocket Rocket&rsquo; Richard. He, perhaps more than anyone in recent years, has proven that great talent is sometimes contained in a very small package.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02460/2435151-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="586" height="636"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mrs. Richard&rsquo;s job is to keep a well-balanced diet for her famous hockey-playing husband, one of the NHL&rsquo;s great little players.</b></figcaption></div><p>At 5&rsquo; 7&rdquo; and 160 lbs., Richard is&mdash;and always has been&mdash;one of the smallest players in the National League. Yet, he is still going strong in this, his 11th season with the Montreal Canadiens, and over the years he has compiled an enviable record. His speed, his playmaking ability and his almost fantastic puck-control, have combined to earn him rave notices in almost every rink on the circuit. And, though he, himself, says &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a natural goal-scorer,&rdquo; he went into this season with 221 goals to his credit, an average of some 22 markers a year.</p><p>When Henri came into the NHL in 1955, he had two thoughts in mind, (a) to play alongside his brother, the Rocket and (b) to become a carbon copy of the super-charged Maurice. The first of these ideas worked out fine, for Henri was eventually put at centre on a line with the Rocket and Dickie Moore. His efforts were such that the Rocket, himself, said that Henri helped to prolong his career by a few seasons. The second of these ideas, however,&mdash;the one about imitating Maurice&mdash;caused Henri&rsquo;s career to sputter a bit in its early stages.</p><p>&ldquo;I tried to do exactly as he did,&rdquo; recalls Henri, &ldquo;and it didn&rsquo;t work out at all. Maurice could go from the blueline to the net almost in a straight line, if he had to, carrying everybody with him. And, he&rsquo;d always score. If I tried that, I&rsquo;d usually wind up getting knocked down and losing the puck. But, I wanted to be like him, so I spent my first couple of seasons trying to copy his style. After that, I played my own style.&rdquo;</p><p>The result of the switch to his own style, can be seen by looking back to Henri&rsquo;s early scoring records. In his first two seasons, when he was busy watching the Rocket, Henri&rsquo;s production totalled 19 and 18 goals, respectively. His assists, in those first two seasons, were 21 and thirty-six. From there, he zoomed to 28 goals and 52 assists in the 1957-58 campaign. Since then, he has netted more than 20 goals a season in every one but 1963-64. His assists have also kept pace.</p><p>Henri has said that after he stopped trying to copy the Rocket too closely, he reverted to a skating and stick-handling type of game. It&rsquo;s the kind of play at which he excels, and which has made him one of the most dazzling centres in the league.</p><p>&ldquo;I picked up a lot of tips from watching other centres,&rdquo; says Henri, &ldquo;not only after I came into the NHL, but as a kid on the way up. I&rsquo;d say that there were three guys who impressed me the most as fine centre-ice players. One was Ted Kennedy, who used to play for Toronto Maple Leafs. Another was Sid Abel, of Detroit. And Elmer Lach, who used to play centre on the Punch Line with Toe Blake and my brother.&rdquo;</p><p>When a hockey player is as small as Henri, he has to make some conscious adjustments in his playing, if he&rsquo;s to get somewhere in this league. Richard has known this for a long time, and he has made the necessary adjustments. What are they?</p><p>&ldquo;Well, for sure, a smaller man has to keep his head up,&rdquo; says Henri. &ldquo;That applies to all hockey players, actually, but even more to the smaller type of guy. If not, it&rsquo;ll be too bad for him. Then, I would say he has to concentrate on speed&hellip;he has to skate faster than the bigger guys, and usually he can. Ii a guy is small,&rdquo; says Richard &ldquo;he&rsquo;s almost sure to be fast and that&rsquo;s where he can get the advantage. Also, he has to deke more&hellip;to be able to change direction fast, and go &lsquo;round these bigger guys. To be a good skater is perhaps one of the most important things for a smaller player.&rdquo;</p><p>Obviously, Richard qualifies on all the above points, and his stick-handling ability is almost in the wizard class. He is, in short, one of the real greats of the game and over the years has provided hockey of topnotch calibre. If, as he says, little men must be fast, shifty and tricky on the ice, then it is to the little men we can look for many of the finer points of the game. Hockey has room for its smaller men,&mdash;particularly if they can play like Richard.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Habs’ Henri Richard Proof ‘Little Men’ Belona In NHL

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he top goalkeeper outside the National Hockey League was the tribute Rangers&rsquo; GM Emile Francis paid New York&rsquo;s new rookie goalkeeper, ED GIACOMIN, when he traded off four of his players to pry Giacomin loose from Providence of the American League. The Rangers had to bid high and move fast to grab their freshman netminder. It seems three other teams were waiting with cash in hand to pluck Giacomin before Rangers made the big pitch for him. Giacomin is an agile, stand-up type goaler with quick hands and a versatile fellow with the stick. He is also a good skate which allows him to move about his net more than most NHL goalies. A native of Sudbury, Ont., Giacomin is not young compared to other rookies. He&rsquo;s 26 and has the distinction of stopping better than 90 per cent of the shots fired at him in the past five years, a remarkable feat, especially in the wide-open AHL. Rangers are impressed with this 5&rsquo;11&rdquo; puck stopper, who could become the leading candidate for rookie honors this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01633/2435189-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="358" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED GIACOMIN&hellip;N.Y. Rangers</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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MEET THE ROOKIES

<p>WINNIPEG, Man.</p><p>Canada&rsquo;s National hockey team, which has been cleaning up on minor professional clubs in exhibition games, will open the 1966 world hockey championships against the United States in Yugoslavia.</p><p>Officials of the International Ice Hockey Federation announced the dates and outlined that Canada and the U.S.A, will clash on opening day March 3, 1966. 19 countries have designated their intention of competing in the championships March 3 to 13.</p><p>The schedule for the tournament was drawn up by the committee under the chairmanship of J. F. Ahearne.</p><p>Canada meets defending champion Russia March 11.</p><p>The matches of group &ldquo;A&rdquo; will take place in a new stadium at Ljubljana while group &ldquo;B&rdquo; will play in Zagreb and group &ldquo;C&rdquo; in Jesenica.</p><p>Following is the schedule for group &ldquo;A&rdquo;:</p><p>Thursday, March 3&mdash;Russia vs. Poland, Czechoslovakia vs East Germany, Sweden vs Finland and the United States vs. Canada.</p><p>Friday, March 4&mdash;Free day Saturday March 5&mdash;Canadj vs. Poland, Czechoslovakia vs Finland, Sweden vs. East Germany, Russia vs. the United States.</p><p>Sunday, March 6&mdash;CzechoSlovakia vs. Poland, Canada vs Finland, Sweden vs. the United States, East Germany vs. Russia</p><p>Monday, March 7&mdash;Free day Tuesday, March 8&mdash;Swedei vs. Poland, Russia vs. Finland Czechoslovakia vs. the United States, Canada vs. East Germany.</p><p>Wednesday, March 9&mdash;Finland vs. United States, Poland vs. East Germany.</p><p>Thursday, March 10&mdash;Czechoslovakia vs. Canada, Russia vs. Sweden.</p><p>Italy, France and Rumania will meet in Bucharest and the winner will enter group &ldquo;B&rdquo; playing at Zagreb. Those placed second and third will join group &ldquo;C&rdquo;.</p><p>Other countries in group &ldquo;B&rdquo; are Austria, Britain, Hungary, Norway, Switzerland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. South Africa will play in group &ldquo;C&rdquo; at Jesenice.</p><p>The 1967 championships will be held in Vienna and the 1968 tournament will be held as part of the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Canadians To Oppose U.S. In Start Of World Hockey

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Ed Giacomin, the meandering Ranger goalkeeper, has provoked considerable debate with his unusual habit of wandering far from his cage to field shots and dispatch the puck to offense-minded teammates.</p><p>So unusual is Giacomin&rsquo;s technique that Toronto veteran goalie Johnny Bower marvelled at it after a recent game in which the Leafs defeated the Rangers, 4-2.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen plenty of goalies in my day,&rdquo; says the 41-year-old Bower, &ldquo;but there aren&rsquo;t many who move that puck out of their zone the way that kid does.&rdquo;</p><p>Giacomin&rsquo;s theory is to skate behind, to the side or far in front of his net for the puck if a team mate is not readily available to reach it. While by its very nature a daring manoeuver, it also has built-in hazards.</p><p>Last Wednesday, for example, Boston defenseman Bob Woytowich, streamrollered into Giacomin when the goalie scooted behind his net to field the puck. Giacomin was able to return to the nets in time but was visibly shaken by the blow.</p><p>With Rangers leading Toronto 2-0 in the second period on Sunday, Giacomin snared a loose puck in front of his net&mdash;after some faulty clearing by his forwards&mdash;and attempted to clear the puck down ice. However, the shot was intercepted by the Maple Leafs and converted into the first and tide-turning score for Toronto.</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t fault him on that play,&rdquo; says Ranger g.m. Emile Francis. &ldquo;There was a cross-up. Ed thought Donnie Marshall would be turning for the pass but Donnie wasn&rsquo;t. It was just one of those things.&rdquo;</p><p>Giacomin has played all the games for the Rangers so far with mixed results, while alternate goalie, Don Simmons, has vegetated on the bench. A capable veteran, Simmons is expected to spell Giacomin very shortly.</p><p>&ldquo;At one time or another a goalie needs a rest,&rdquo; says Francis. &ldquo;It more than likely will happen with Giacomin. But we&rsquo;re not pointing a finger at Eddie for any of our losses.&rdquo;</p><p>However, Bower, who has studied the Giacomin style, has a suggestion.</p><p>&ldquo;If he&rsquo;s going to shoot the puck up ice,&rdquo; says Bower, he&rsquo;d better make sure he&rsquo;s got an opening, otherwise he&rsquo;ll be giving up a goal.&rdquo;</p><p>Which was exactly the problem against the Leafs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Giacomins Wanderings Backfire But Rookie Draws Bower’s Praise

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Sid Abel figures&hellip;he hopes&hellip;the Red Wings&rsquo; Wayward Bus trip is over.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01590/2435268-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="143" height="232"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 143px"><b>Andy Bathgate</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re around the corner now,&rdquo; Abel said after the Wings wound up their big first half road swing with five points in five games and came out of a Montreal bus-truck collision with nothing more than bruises.</p><p>&ldquo;The spirit is good and I&rsquo;m sure that they&rsquo;re going to score goals.&rdquo;</p><p>Abel based his optimism on a number of things:</p><p>&mdash;The return of left wing Ron Murphy who missed seven games with a knee injury.</p><p>&mdash;Improvement by big Ab McDonald.</p><p>&mdash;Goals from Andy Bathgate even though he&rsquo;s been shifted all over.</p><p>&mdash;Gordie Howe getting that 600th goal&hellip;pressure was beginning to build and Howe&rsquo;s teammates were looking for him instead of shooting.</p><p>&mdash;The poise and steady play of big rookie defenseman Bert Marshall.</p><p>&ldquo;When we started that trip (an ice show took over Olympia for two weeks) we were four points behind New York and everyone was saying New York was the hot club.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, when we finished the trip, and after floundering around from the start of the season, we were only two points behind the Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;Now, if we can put together three or four victories&hellip;&rdquo; Abel let the sentence hang.</p><p>He&rsquo;s got a point. Even though the Wings haven&rsquo;t looked like the defending league champions, they certainly haven&rsquo;t looked like a second division club.</p><p>They&rsquo;d play well most of a game but a couple of defensive lapses would kill them in each start. In their first 16 games the oposition scored the first goal 12 times. Unless you&rsquo;ve got a pack of Silky Sullivans, that&rsquo;s no conducive to success.</p><p>Abel&rsquo;s constant line juggling incurred some raised eyebrows among Wing watchers, especially the switching of righthanders to left wing and then the elevation of Norm Ullman to pivot for Howe and Alex Delvecchio.</p><p>In the past, when asked why he didn&rsquo;t put Ullman in the slot for Howe and Delvecchio, Abel explained that both Ullman and Howe are puck-carriers and that it would be a waste of the talents of whichever one didn&rsquo;t have the puck.</p><p>But with the club not scoring goals&mdash;the only team Detroit managed to score more than three goals against was Boston&mdash;Abel put his big scoring eggs tn one basket.</p><p>It resulted in a goal by Ullman against Boston but one of the new makeshift lines&mdash;Don McKenney, Bathgate and Floyd Smith&mdash;was the big one with Smith scoring twice.</p><p>McKenney, picked up from Toronto on waivers last June, is beginning to fit into the Wing pattern after recovering from a tendon injury in his foot that caused him to miss four games.</p><p>If McKenney, Murphy and McDonald&mdash;the Wings&rsquo; MSquad,&mdash;can make that &ldquo;M&rdquo; mean &ldquo;moving&rdquo; too, Abel&rsquo;s nagging left wing problem will be solved.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Abel Optimistic Red Wings To Start Scoring, Winning With All-Round Improvement

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>ince Gordie Howe&rsquo;s first NHL goal, in his first game in the league (Oct. 16, 1946, against Bio Toronto and Turk Broda at Detroit in a 3-3 tie). 80 players have reaped 907 assists on goals by Howe, who has beaten 38 different goaltenders during his 20 seasons in the NHL. Another 50 of Howe&rsquo;s 600 goals have been unassisted.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05192/2435344-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="157" height="235"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>Ted Lindsay leads with the most assists on Howe goals, 147, while Alex Delvecchio, current Red Wing captain, is next with 118. Sid Abel, now Detroit general manager-coach, centre Howe and Lindsay for the first six seasons Howe was in the league and Abel garnered 65 assists on Howe goals. Red Kelly, a defenseman with Detroit and now a forward with Toronto, collected 84 of his 497 NHL assists on Howe goals. Norm Ullman, who is often on the ice now with Howe during power-plays, ranks fourth in assists from Howe goals with 70.</p><p>In his first season in the NHL, 1946-47, Howe scored seven goals, his seventh in his team&rsquo;s 48th game of a 60-game schedule on Feb. 22 at Detroit against Canadiens and Bill Durnan in a 7-3 Red Wing victory. That was his last goal wearing sweater number 17.</p><p>On Oct. 29, 1947, Howe was given sweater Number 9 by Jack Adams after Roy Conacher, who wore that number in 1946-47, was traded to Chicago. Since then, of course, Number 9 has become synonymous with hockey&rsquo;s two big scorer kings. Maurice Richard, who held the old record of 544 goals, set during 18 seasons with Montreal Canadiens, also wore Number 9.</p><p>Of the 38 goaltenders Howe has scored against, Lome (Gump) Worsley has been his most frequent victim. Worsley, who was beaten in Montreal last Saturday when Howe scored his 600th goal in his 1,274th game, has been scored against 62 times by Howe, 58 while Worsley was with Rangers and four since the Gumper joined Canadiens prior to the 1963-64 season.</p><p>Harry Lumley, who played for Detroit during his first six NHL seasons and then played for Chicago, Toronto and Boston, had 60 goals scored against him by Howe. Al Rollins, who played for Toronto and Chicago, was beaten 53 times by Howe.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Worsley, Lumley Targets For Sharp-Shooting Howe In 600-Goal NHL Career

<p><b>Founded October 1st, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published weekly except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 St. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Kenneth William McKenzie,</b> President and Publisher</p><p><b>Will V. Cote,</b> Vice-Pres. and Gen Mgr.</p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $4.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth $5.00 in the U.S.A, and $7.00 in Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Postage paid at Rouses Point, N.Y. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Printed in Canada.</p><p><b>Vol. 19 MONTREAL. DECEMBER 11, 1965 No. 9</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01660/2435420-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="223" height="241"></div><p>&bull; <b>NEW YORK</b> is interested in getting the services of Johnny Bucyk of the Boston Bruins. Bucyk is in the Boston doghouse at the moment&hellip;Emile Francis and Hap Emms have been huddling for sometime now but can&rsquo;t seem to get together on who to give up etc&hellip;. Bernie Parent, Bruins&rsquo; rookie netminder, signs his name: &ldquo;Bernard Parent I&rdquo;. When a writer said, &ldquo;You&rsquo;re number is 30, not 1. What does this mean?&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s not my number,&rdquo; he answered. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Bernard Parent, the First.&rdquo;&hellip;Rangers&rsquo; management are worrying about the way the team is blowing substantial leads. This is happening all too often lately and a few changes may be made shortly&hellip;When you see a veteran like Don Marshall skate in alone and miss an open net, you know we&rsquo;re pressing. The answer is in shooting practice,&rdquo; said General Manager Emile Francis&hellip;The present day &ldquo;hex&rdquo; in hockey is held by Detroit Red Wings over the Boston Bruins&hellip;in the last 37 games played in Detroit the Bruins have won but four and tied two while losing 31 games to the Red Wings&hellip;In 37 games played in Boston between these teams, the Bruins have won only 12&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks are very interested in Noel Picard, Houston defenseman. Noel played very well for Canadiens last season in the late stages&hellip;Bill Head, physiotherapist at the Montreal Forum for 23 years, surprised hockey people by quitting that job to move over to the MAAA, a downtown athletic club, as head of their expanding health clinic.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02532/2435413-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="158" height="239"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Bucyk</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>&ldquo;THE INCREDIBLE LIFE</b> of Eddie Shore&rdquo; is a full-length feature flashback in the December issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL and is one of the finest profiles ever written on hockey&rsquo;s legendary defenseman&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks claim the sauna bath recently installed in the Chicago Stadium has aided their conditioning program this season&hellip;New York hockey fans have never had it so good since Stan Fischler&rsquo;s coverage in the Journal-American&hellip;Stan has a story a day in the J-A on the Rangers and NHL happenings&hellip;Scotty Morrison, NHL referee-in-chief, feels a ref would be blowing his whistle all night if he went strictly by the rule book. &ldquo;A referee must have good judgment. He does his best to call the penalties he thinks are most important and lets the minor ones go, stated Morrison&hellip;Arnie Patterson, well-known in Maritime hockey circles and general manager of Moose Head Brewery Ltd., in Dartmouth, N. S., ad dressed a Scottish gathering in New Glasgow, N S.. the other night wearing a Scottish kilt no less&hellip;Johnstown Jets of the Eastern League have banned horns at their games. They interfere with official whistles and besides, are a pain in the head&hellip;Only three players on the current edition of the Rangers were with the club before Emile Francis took over as general manager. They are Harry Howell, Rod Gilbert and Jim Neilson&hellip;Bob Wimmer is responsible for the marvellous four-color cover of Howe and Gadsby in the December HOCKEY PICTORIAL.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03405/2435406-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="151" height="227"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Scotty Morrison</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>CHICAGO OFFICIALS</b> mighty sore at the Montreal Canadiens for arriving late and holding up a recent Sunday night game by over, 30 minutes. Canadiens travel by train and the arrival time for their Sunday dates in Chicago does not allow them too much to spare if there should be any sort of a delay&hellip;Jim Pappin can&rsquo;t understand why he wasn&rsquo;t given more of a chance to show what he could do with the Leafs before being sent to Rochester&hellip;Carl Johnson puts out one of the finest programs in hockey with his Long Island Ducks EHL program. Carl is one of the most efficient and capable promotion men on the hockey scene&hellip;Don Murphy, publicity director of the Chicago Black Hawks, has done a great job this year with the Black Hawks Year Book&hellip;People are already talking about the NHL being divided into two divisions this season, Montreal and Chicago in one division and the four other teams in the other&hellip;Allan Stanley is being touted as first half All-Star around Toronto&hellip;The 39-year-old defenseman has been one of the top rearguards in the NHL this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04286/2435399-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="156" height="238"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Pappin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05238/2435451-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="550" height="144"></div><h2><b>Teams Should Be Able To Protect 3 Goalies</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I would like to comment on the summer drafts. I think with the new two-goalie system, each team should be allowed to protect three goalies. This problem has turned up every year.</p><p>In the draft of 1964, Toronto drafted Terry Sawchuk from Detroit. In the draft of 1965, Boston drafted Gerry Cheevers from Toronto, New York drafted Simmons from Toronto, and Montreal drafted Wetzel from Detroit.</p><p>At this time I would also like to announce the formation of the &ldquo;Rod Gilbert Fan Club.&rdquo; Anyone interested in joining should write to me. The members are planning to see the afternoon matinees at the Garden. We will sit together with a big banner. For further details write to me.</p><p><b>Salvatore Miro,</b> East Meadow, New York.</p><h2><b>NHL Game Officials Only Human Says Fan</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I think we all should remember something,&mdash;and that is that game officials are human and can make honest mistakes just like anyone else.</p><p>Too often in the reports of games in the daily press, radio and television, referees, linesmen and goal judges are credited with less than average vision. Let&rsquo;s face a fact,&mdash;if hockey was as slow as chess then there could be reasonable doubt about an official&rsquo;s competence,&mdash;but with the speed hockey is played&mdash;let us give officials some benefit of the doubt. Your publication has been fair&mdash;not because I think you&rsquo;re afraid to take a stand&mdash;but rather in the appreciation of what the officials have to do. When sportswriters, TV and radio broadcasters start admitting some of their own errors, then I&rsquo;ll start taking their word as gospel.</p><p><b>Frank Robinson</b> Oakville, Ontario.</p><h2><b>Canadiens Good Team Without Schedule Aid</b></h2><p>Hockey News Editor:</p><p>I would very much appreciate it if you could do a story on Dave Balon. In this atrea he is everybody&rsquo;s favorite.</p><p>I would like to take exception to Mr. Pauch&rsquo;s letter about the Habs being favored tn the schedule. I don&rsquo;t believe any team is really favored. I am sure when the schedule is set-up it must be approved by the executive of each of the teams and if there was any favoritism I&rsquo;m sure the screams could be heard all over the world. Let&rsquo;s face it, the reason for Canadiens being good is because of their ability. Every team has 70 games to play,&mdash;not only Rangers and Boston.</p><p><b>E. Kusch,</b> Domremy, Sask.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>if there&rsquo;s a secret to the success of the Montreal Canadiens, it has to be their ability to come through in the face of adversity.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01612/2435482-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="146" height="218"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 146px"><b>J. C. Tremblay</b></figcaption></div><p>This trend has been apparent for years, actually, for the Habs have won league titles and Stanley Cups while some of their greatest stars were hobbled by injuries. Perhaps the most notable example of this occurred back in 1959-60. when Habs finished first and then took the Stanley Cup in eight straight games, despite injuries to some of their top stars including Rocket Richard. So tremendous an effort did they come up with that time, that Toe Blake called the 1959-60 team &ldquo;the greatest I ever coached.&rdquo;</p><p>Last spring they fought their way to another Cup victory, with a team that was generally bereft of superstar material. Further, they did it despite the loss of brilliant defenceman Jacques Laperriere, who missed the finals with a cracked ankle. On that occasion, it was a man named J. C. Tremblay who rose to the heights and became the defensive leader through the series against Chicago.</p><p>The trend appears to be holding up again this season, for Habs entered this month of December in a first-place tie with Chicago, despite the loss of J. C. Tremblay on defence. The Canadians rearguard was sidelined following what may charitably be termed a collision with Gordie Howe. Tremblay suffered broken cheekbones as the result of the encounter, which occurred only minutes after Howe had scored his 600th goal on Nov. 27th. Much has been written about that unfortunate incident between Howe and Tremblay, but one thing could be added and it&rsquo;s this: The game was nearly over when it happened, and it&rsquo;s a good thing that it was. Had there been more time remaining, it&rsquo;s almost a sure bet that the game would&rsquo;ve wound-up in an all-out brawl. Fourteen seconds after the Howe-Tremblay incident, Hab defenseman Jacques Laperriere and Detroit&rsquo;s Bruce MacGregor clashed in a brief but fierce encounter on the boards. Laperriere high-sticked and MacGregor slashed. It was a sign of things to come, except for the fact that the final siren sounded just one minute and ten seconds later.</p><p>The point is, however, that Canadiens went into Chicago on the following night, and trimmed the Hawks 2-1 with a display of defensive strength that was termed topnotch by all who saw it. The quartette of Harris and Harper, Laperriere and Talbot, drew special praise for their all-out efforts on the blueline. In coming up with what has been called their best defensive display of the season. Canadiens once again proved that when they lose a star the rest of the team inevitably picks up the slack.</p><p>Meanwhile, Canadiens found a way to get around the December 1st cutdown in players, and still keep their Stanley Cup squad intact.</p><p>As of December 1st, teams are required to reduce their personnel to 16, exclusive of goaltenders. Prior to December 1st, they may carry 18 players, plus goalies. Rather than send anyone to the minors this year, however, Canucks will sit out a couple of men on a game-to-game basis. Thus, the men who are regarded as &ldquo;fringe&rdquo; players on the squad, obtain a new lease on life.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Canadiens’ Ability To Win Despite Injuries Key To Success

<div class="byline">BY JOE GORDON</div><p>PITTSBURGH. Pa</p><p>It is more, than just a coincidence that upon Pit Martin&rsquo;s arrival the Pittsburgh Hornets embarked on a six game winning streak that still was intact as of the deadline date for this issue of the Hockey News.</p><p>Martin joined the Hornets for their game with the Providence Reds on November 17th. It didn&rsquo;t take him long to find the scoring range. With the contest tied at 1-1 in the first period, he tallied his initial goal which sparked the Wasps to an easy 6-1 victory. He later scored again.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02561/2435513-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="157" height="242"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pit Martin</b></figcaption></div><p>Five more wins in succession have followed that triumph and the Wasps, who had been floundering in losing five of their six previous games, now find themselves in the midst of a six game winning streak and a seven game unbeaten skein.</p><p>These marks equal the best a Pittsburgh club has been able to establish since reentering the AHL in 1961. The 1963-64 Western Division championship team also compiled similar streaks.</p><p>Playing both center and right wing. Martin has rounded out the third line and now gives Pittsburgh a trio of solid front line units.</p><p>It hasn&rsquo;t been all Martin, but the moment he stepped on the ice the club took on a new life and the transformation was on.</p><p>All of a sudden the team jelled.</p><p>Goalie George Gardner, who had been having his difficulties, began showing the form he exhibited in training camp. During the stretch he has three shutouts. including back to back jobs against Hershey and Portland respectively, and now leads the league in this department.</p><p>Andre Pronovost. who hadn&rsquo;t scored a goal against an AHL team, came up with three big tallies.</p><p>Duke Harris had been blanked in seven games. He scored a goal a game in three straight games.</p><p>Murray Hall and Norm Beaudin, who have been the team&rsquo;s most consistent point-makers, continued their steady pace. Both. tallied three times in the six. games. Hall also chipped in with. a robust eight assists to stay in contention for the league scoring lead.</p><p>Don&rsquo;t forget the defense either. Veterans Pete Goegan and Bob McCord are as tough a combination as there is in the AHL. Bobby Wall and rookie Gary Doak aren&rsquo;t far behind.</p><p>These rearguards along with goalie Gardner have held the opposition well in check with a meager five goals in the six games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ex-National Leaguer Pit Martin Puttina Stina In Hornets’ Attack

<p>(1) Only one Toronto player has won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in two successive seasons Name him.</p><p>(2) <b>Max Bentley, Gordie Howe, Stan Mikita Sweeney Schriner an Charlie Conacher, all have something in common. What is it?</b></p><p>(3) There&rsquo;s a pugnacious fellow around the NHL today who has his name in the record book as the player who amassed the most penalties in minutes in a single game. He did the trick back in October, 1960 Do you know who he is?</p><p>(4) <b>This one shouldn&rsquo;t be particularly difficult if you have a retentive memory for statistics. Which team can boast of having had the most Hart Trophy winners on its roster?</b></p><p>(5) And on the same theme here&rsquo;s another angle to consider. Name the club whose players have won the Hart Trophy the fewest number of times.</p><p>(6) <b>The late George Hains-worth has always been rated as one of the greatest netminders in hockey. How many time was he named to an All-Star team?</b></p><p>(7) Who was captain of th Detroit Red Wings during the 1956-57 season Was it:</p><p>Red Kelly Alex Del veechio Marty Pavelich.</p><p>(8) <b>We just don&rsquo;t seem able to get away from the subject of All-Star teams this week. Bob Goldham was usually referred to as an alternate goalie or a netminder&rsquo;s best friend. Was he ever selected on the first All-Star team?</b></p><p>(9) Ralph Backstrom, Wayne Hillman and Dick Duff all share the same birth-place. Name their home town.</p><p>(10) <b>How many times has Montreal&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau been on the first All-Star team? Is it: 4 9 6 7</b></p><p>(Answers Next Week)</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</b></h2><p>(1) Lynn Patrick.</p><p>(2) Three times.</p><p>(3) All have worn Detroit uniforms.</p><p>(4) All are natives of Winnipeg, Manitoba.</p><p>(5) 22.</p><p>(6) Yes.</p><p>(7) 17.</p><p>(8) Ted Green.</p><p>(9) Ulf Sterner.</p><p>(10) They are cousins.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

HOCKEY…Quiz

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It seems incredible now to even think about it but when the Toronto Maple Leafs obtained defenceman Allan Stanley in 1958, the word around the National Hockey league was that he was finished.</p><p>Silent Sam, who&rsquo;ll be 40 next March, is into his eighth season with Leafs since that judgment was made. During that time, he has been a key figure in three Stanley Cup victories and has been a second-string all-star&mdash;one of the NHL&rsquo;s four best, in other words&mdash;twice. There is nothing in his present deportment to indicate he&rsquo;s any closer to the end and it is not out of the question that he&rsquo;ll play next season, and the one after, to join Dit Clapper, Gordie Howe and Bill Gadsby as the only men to last 20 seasons in the NHL.</p><p>When Sam took a regular shift in Leafs&rsquo; 4-2 victory over New York Rangers Nov. 28, it was his 1,121st NHL match, a total surpassed by only three players, Gordie Howe, teammate Red Kelly and Gadsby.</p><p>Last June, Stanley was omitted from the list of players Leafs were protecting in the NHL draft.</p><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t surprised,&rdquo; Stanley says. &ldquo;Punch Imlach had to keep his younger guys.&rdquo;</p><p>It was a sensible gamble, anyhow, for even Stanley admits he would be a poor investment at the $30,000 draft price. Figure him for a $20,000 contract and that would mean the purchasing team had sunk $50,000 in a 39-year-old defenceman whose future was extremely limited.,</p><p>&ldquo;Yet what happened gave me incentive to prove that I could still win a place on the team,&rdquo; Stanley says. &ldquo;At my age, you&rsquo;ve got to report to training camp in good shape, which I did, and I&rsquo;ve actually been getting stronger as I go along.&rdquo;</p><p>It is understood Leafs tried to arrange a dignified retirement for Stanley last spring. They wanted him to become playing coach of their Western League farm team at Victoria, B.C. Stanley rejected the idea flatly. He preferred to continue as an NHL player.</p><p>Now, of course, Leafs are delighted that he did. The unexpected retirement of Carl Brewer threw defensive plans out of gear and made Stanley a much more valuable workman than anybody had expected.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01645/2435568-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="269" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALLAN STANLEY&hellip;Rejected Coaching Offer</b></figcaption></div><p>Stanley was the most widely publicized minor-league hockey player when New York Rangers obtained him from Providence Reds in 1949. The package Rangers gave up to get him was priced at $70,000</p><p>New York fans didn&rsquo;t dig Stanley&rsquo;s deliberate style of play, especially his habit of retreating to safety behind his own goal while waiting for his offensive patterns to take shape. Today, that&rsquo;s accepted practice for a defenceman but in those days it drew loud catcalls from Madison Square Garden fans.</p><p>Rangers dealt him, along with Nick Mickowski and Dick Lamoureux, to Chicago Black Hawks in 1954 for Bill Gadsby and Pete Conacher. Two years later, he was sold to Boston Bruins, who gave up on him in 1958.</p><p>Imlach, just starting out as Leaf general manager, was seeking defensive experience and swapped Jim Morrison to Boston for Stanley. As far as Imlach was concerned, it was a stop gap move. Stanley, he thought, might do the job for a year or two but would have to be replaced quickly.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Maple Leafs Happy Stanley Resisted Retirement Talk With Brewer Away

<div class="byline">&#x2014;BERRY</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.</p><p>Red Wing business manager Lincoln Cavalieri says that the club is moving ahead steadily toward its own television network.</p><p>The Wings are marketing a 13-week, one-hour taped series of Detroit games that are scheduled to run from Jan. 8 to April 2 with options on the Stanley Cup playoffs if the Wings make them.</p><p>Cavalieri said he expects the show to be in 90 cities from coast-to-coast including nonhockey towns like West Palm Beach, Fla., New Orleans, Phoenix, Birmingham and cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Omaha, Dallas, Fort Worth, Memphis, Portland, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Washington, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Minneapolis St. Paul.</p><p>The shows will all be Red Wing games, edited down to a one hour package and Cavalieri said that most stations will show them on weekends, primarily in the 2-5 p.m. Saturday time slot.</p><p>Chicagoan Walter Schwimmer, who produces the highly successful World Series of Golf and a number of bowling shows, and Peter DeMet of Chicago will help on the-editing end.</p><p>Progress also is being made in the Olympia expansion program with the old north wall that featured a huge, painted American flag, being knocked out to make room for more than 1,000 new seats at the end of the arena.</p><p>New side hangars in the balcony have been completed as is a hangar of private boxes. When the project is finished&mdash;they&rsquo;re aiming now for mid-January&mdash;Olympia&rsquo;s capacity including standees will be 16,375.</p><p>After Detroit built a rare 5-0 lead in a game against Boston the Bruins fought back with three goals and Wing manager-coach Sid Abel quipped later about the defensive laxity: &ldquo;They were shocked at being ahead.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Detroit Red Wings Nearing Own Television Network

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02565/2435630-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="327" height="376"></div><p>&ldquo;It feels right!&rdquo; That&rsquo;s why in &lsquo;64-&rsquo;65, eight of the NHL&rsquo;s nine top scorers used Northland Pro sticks. Olympic teams and outstanding teams around the world share their opinion&mdash;Northland&rsquo;s 100%! Extra care in all operations plus painstaking final sanding is what makes Northland balance so great.</p><p>Of course materials count, too. Northland blades of tough, stringy rock elm resist splitting better than those of any other wood. The stiffness of northern white ash in Northland Pro handles means they flex to whip the puck with extra kick and accuracy.</p><p><i>Why don&rsquo;t you give yourself the same chance in practice or in play, with a Northland stick?</i></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03471/2435623-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="250" height="145"></div><p><b>NORTHLAND SKI MFG. CO.</b></p><p>2325 Endicott Street</p><p>St. Paul, Minn. 55114 &bull; Laconia, N. H., Dept</p><p><b><i>Recognized as the world's finest stick wherever hockey is played</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NORTHLAND BALANCE

<div class="byline">BY BOB GATES</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>If Bruins&rsquo; rivals soon have to do some finger-walking through the yellow pages in search of an exterminator who can skate, it won&rsquo;t be for fumigating purposes.</p><p>True, in other years there has been a need to clear the air after some pretty inept Boston performances. But this season the Bruins have been spraying some pretty apt arguments for quitting the NHL cellar&mdash;thanks lately to an unlikely trio which club president Weston W. Adams have accurately termed &ldquo;The Bug Line.&rdquo;</p><p>Individually, Reg Fleming, Forbes Kennedy, and Tommy Williams do not pack an excitable amount of hockey talent. But since Coach Milt Schmidt let them out of his battered mix-master in late November they&rsquo;ve been the Bruins&rsquo; most-productive line. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re always &ldquo;bugging somebody,&rdquo; an ecstatic Adams declared.</p><p>In games at Boston Garden during Thanksgiving weekend, the trio drew an ovation every time they stepped on the ice.</p><p>And well they might. As November turned into December they had accounted for nine goals in five games, in addition to running the opposition ragged.</p><p>&ldquo;If everybody else hustled like they do and had as much success forechecking, we&rsquo;d be a lot better off,&rdquo; Schmidt reckoned.</p><p>&ldquo;Actually,&rdquo; the coach continued, &ldquo;my other two lines should be supplying the offensive strength. And yet Fleming, Kennedy, and Williams have been doing most of it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We want to play regularly,&rdquo; explained Fleming. &ldquo;So we work hard every second we&rsquo;re on the ice. When you work hard, you make your own breaks.</p><p>Williams agreed: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not super stars, so we have to work and skate. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re getting to know each other by playing together, so we move the puck around and hustle.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We talk to each other a lot out there to let the other fellow know where we are and when we&rsquo;ll break,&rdquo; Kennedy added. &ldquo;Like the other fellows said &lsquo;we&rsquo;re working&rsquo;.&rdquo;</p><p>Williams, the slightly-built blond speedester from Duluth, Minn., who is the only American-born-and-bred skater in the NHL, had a spurt of five goals in five games. Fleming had three and Kennedy one in the same stretch.</p><p>One of Reggie&rsquo;s trio was the winner in a 2-1 decision over the Leafs at Toronto.</p><p>Strangely, the Bruins were playing better on the road than they were on home ice&mdash;&ldquo;another encouraging sign,&rdquo; says Schmidt. In their first six &ldquo;away&rdquo; games, Boston had a 2-2-2 record. At home through November they were just 3-6.</p><p>&ldquo;If you can win on the road,&rdquo; Milt insists, &ldquo;that&rsquo;s half the battle. We may be pressing too much in front of our home crowd. But we&rsquo;ll come around.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01629/2435661-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="277" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>REG FLEMING&hellip; Scored Game-Winner</b></figcaption></div><p>A heavy road schedule between Dec. 1 and Jan. 13 had the Bruins down for 13 away games as compared to just six home contests.</p><p>More than a few eyebrows were raised over the way the Boston hockey club responded to the sudden loss of three regular defensemen on the eve of a four games in five nights stretch. When the Bruins first lost top rear-guard Ted Green (hospitalized with a virus condition) and then Al Langlois and Capt. Leo Billy Boivin through injuries, it was thought Schmidt would be in for a long, all-lost holiday weekend.</p><p>But as it turned out, Boston won two of four, even gained a 24-hour reprieve from the league cellar.</p><p>Filling in during the emergency, and doing themselves quite proud, were callups Barry Ashbee and Paul Popiel from Hershey and young John Arbour, a junior from Niagara Falls. The latter pair have both been returned, but Ashbee, 26, a brawny 6-foot, 195-pounder who showed particularly well, was expected to stick.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruins’ Ecstatic Over Performance Of New ‘BUG’ Line

<div class="byline">Gates</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Hall of Famer Milt Schmidt, coach and assistant general manager of the Boston hockey club, revealed recently that he came very close to quitting the Bruins after last season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02595/2435692-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="159" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Milt Schmidt</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I was never more serious about anything in my life,&rdquo; Schmidt told Will McDonough of the Boston Globe.</p><p>The situation stemmed from the hiring of Leighton (Hap) Emms to replace Lynn Patrick as general manager. Schmidt and Patrick had been close friends for over a decade, and Milt had heard a lot about Emms&rsquo; reputation in hockey as being a hard man with whom to deal.</p><p>Schmidt, reportedly, was dead set at first against Weston Adams&rsquo; request that he stay on as coach under Emms. But at the Bruins president&rsquo;s urging, he went to Emms&rsquo; base of operations at Niagara Falls, Ont., to talk things out.</p><p>&ldquo;I simply asked Hap if I was the man he wanted to be his coach in Boston. He said yes I was, and that was all I wanted to know. Of course, if he hadn&rsquo;t wanted me, I wouldn&rsquo;t have stayed.</p><p>&ldquo;Actually, as it has worked out,&rdquo; Schmidt explained, &ldquo;Hap has been a tremendous help to me.</p><p>&ldquo;When you talk to players for 70 games and as many practice sessions, what you say tends to go in one ear and out the other. This is where Hap helps out. There are times when he talks to the players and helps me at getting my points across, He is a tough man&hellip;but fair&hellip;always fair.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Milt Reveals Almost Quit Boston Post

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.</p><p>Like it or not, the Rangers must face up to the fact that December is make-or-break month for them.</p><p>The special significance of December is dramatized by history, late Ranger history, circa 1964.</p><p>As November rolled to a close last season, the Blues were rollicking along in third place astonishing critics with such amazing feats as routing the Maple Leafs on Madison Square Garden ice Thanksgiving Eve and performing other notable accomplishments.</p><p>The future was as bright as a Ranger jersey. And then December came.</p><p>By the time the month was over, the Blues had slumped to fifth place, a position from which they never recovered.</p><p>So, when the Blues knocked off Boston on Thanksgiving Eve, this year nobody cared to recall the events of a year previous&mdash;until the following night when Rangers journeyed to Boston and were soundly trounced by the Bruins.</p><p>This was followed by a heartrendering 1-0 loss to Chicago on Saturday afternoon in New York and another difficult loss (4-2) to Toronto the following night at MSG.</p><p>In each of the three losses the Rangers outshot and, for the most part, outplayed the opposition. But, somewhere along the line they failed.</p><p>At Boston, it was Doug Robinson and Jean Ratelle who missed breakaways on Bernie Parent. At home, it was Donnie Marshall and Phil Goyette who blew wide open nets against Toronto and Chicago. Add to that a let-down.</p><p>&ldquo;We quit for six minutes against Toronto,&rdquo; said coach Red Sullivan, &ldquo;and that was the game.&rdquo;</p><p>So, in a matter of three games, the Rangers suddenly found themselves in a tie for fourth place, with the cellar looming ominously not far behind.</p><p>Can the Rangers recover and avert another bleak December?</p><p>Unlike last season the club has more spirit, more youth and, in a few spots, more experience than in the past.</p><p>But they have lacked the big shooter of the Howe, Hull, Mahovlich genre; and they have lacked the sock to back up the smaller men and they have lacked overall balance on defense.</p><p>Add to that the problem of an increased threat from Boston and an expected threat from Detroit and you have a sum total of difficulty for the Blues. Which does not, incidentally, faze g.m. Emile Francis.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to work to succeed in this game,&rdquo; says Francis, &ldquo;and you can bet this club will be working its head off.&rdquo;</p><p>The feeling in Rangerville is that the Blues are inherently better than the Bruins and have an edge over Detroit.</p><p>As one Ranger official put it, &ldquo;if we don&rsquo;t beat the Red Wings we don&rsquo;t deserve to make the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>December should tell the tale.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

December Seen Tell-Tale Month For Rangers’ NHL Playoff Hopes

<p>(Standings on Wed., Dec. 8)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03481/2435785-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="310" height="106"></div><h2><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h2><p><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></p><p>Toronto 2 at New York 2</p><p>Boston 2 at Chicago 4</p><p><b>Thurs,, Dec. 2</b></p><p>Boston 2 at Detroit 10</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></p><p>New York 3 at Montreal 4</p><p>Detroit 5 at Toronto 3</p><p>Chicago 10 at Boston 1</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Montreal 4 at Boston 4</p><p>Toronto 1 at Detroit 5</p><p>Chicago 6 at New York 2</p><p><b>GAMES TO COME Wed., Dec. 8</b></p><p>Boston at Montreal</p><p>New York at Chicago</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 9</b></p><p>New York at Detroit</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 11</b></p><p>Chicago at Montreal</p><p>Boston at Toronto</p><p>Detroit at New York</p><p>(afternoon game)</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 12</b></p><p>Montreal at Chicago</p><p>Toronto at New York</p><p>Detroit at Boston</p><p><b>Wed., Dec. 15,</b></p><p>Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Boston at Chicago</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 16</b></p><p>Toronto at Montreal</p><p>Boston at Detroit</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 18</b></p><p>Boston at Montreal</p><p>New York at Toronto</p><p>Chicago at Detroit</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 19</b></p><p>Montreal at New York</p><p>Toronto at Boston</p><p>Detroit at Chicago<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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How They Stand

<p>OVERALL WON AND LOST RECORDS THIS SEASON</p><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, December 5)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04373/2435823-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="620" height="180"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05279/2435816-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="618" height="183"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How NHL Teams Compare

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>tan Mikita may not be one of the NHL&rsquo;s overpowering giants but when it comes to putting the puck in the net, the dynamic little Chicago centre stands six feet tall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06219/2435854-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="160" height="238"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Mikita</b></figcaption></div><p>Mikita, the National League&rsquo;s point scoring champion the past two years, made a big push this past week and the impact left the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers reeling and sent the crafty Chicago pivot into first place in the individual scoring race.</p><p>Mikita not only scored one &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; but two in the same week and they came on successive nights as the Hawks lowered the boom on Boston Bruins 10-1 and Rangers 6-2. Mikita shot three goals in each game and added two assists to produce an eight-point week to jump into first place ahead of teammate Bobby Hull and Canadiens&rsquo; Bob Rousseau, who has been the leader for the past few weeks.</p><p>Mikita has scored 14 times in 19 games and his brilliant play has helped the Hawks to six victories in their last seven games, a pace which propelled them into the league lead ahead of Montreal.</p><p>Mikita&rsquo;s double &lsquo;hat also pushed his all-time NHL; record to 164 goals and he still has 51 games remaining to play this season.</p><p>Simon&rsquo;s Cigarillos is pleased to salute Stan Mikita as the player-of-the-week in the NHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Player Of The Week

<h2><b>(Including Games of Sun., Dec. 5)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01642/2435899-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="328" height="1120"></div><h2><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Records</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02593/2435892-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="312" height="511"></div><h2><b>Penalties in Minutes by Clubs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03516/2435885-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="311" height="135"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL Point Race

<h2><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></h2><h3><b>BOSTON 2 at CHICAGO 4</b></h3><p class="dropcap"><b><span>B</span>OSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Parent, Cheevers; defense: Woytowich, Westfall, Ashbee, Smith, Boivin, Awrey; forwards: Stewart, Krake, MacDonald, Bucyk, Williams, Kennedy, Oliver, Prentice, Fleming, Dillabough.</p><p><b>CHICAGO</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall, Dryden; defense: Pilote, Ravlich, MacNeil, Jarrett, Stapleton; forwards: Mohns, Wharram, Mikita, Stanfield, Esposito, R. Hull, D. Hull, Hay, Hodge, Nestpronkn. Maki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04431/2435986-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="308" height="321"></div><h3><b>TORONTO 2 at NEW YORK 2</b></h3><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower, Shawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Horton, Douglas, Baun, Stanley; forwards: Ellis, Keon. Mahovlich, Armstrong, Selby, Stemkowski, Walton, Fulford, Jeffrey, Shack, Kurtenbach.</p><p><b>NEW YORK</b>&mdash;Goal: Giacomin, Simmons; defense: Howell, Brown, Hillman, McMahon, Neilson; forwards: Gilbert, Ratelie, Robinson, Nevin, Ingarfield, Hadfield, McKenzie, Angotti, Goyette, Peters, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05363/2435979-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="306" height="294"></div><h2><b>Thurs., Dec. 2</b></h2><h3><b>BOSTON 2 at DETROIT 10</b></h3><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Parent, Cheevers; defense: Woytowich, Ashbee, Awrey, D. Smith; forwards: Stewart, Bucyk, Williams, Oliver, Prentice, Westfall, Fleming, MacDonald, Dillabough, Krake.</p><p><b>DETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier, Bassen; defense: Godfrey, Marshall, Barkley, Watson, Bergman; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Murphy, Harris, MacGregor, F. Smith, Henderson, McKenney, Bathgate.</p><p>Referee: Skov. Linesmen: Arm strong, D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06323/2435972-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="307" height="491"></div><h2><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></h2><h3><b>NEW YORK 3 at MONTREAL 4</b></h3><p><b>NEW YORK</b>&mdash;Goal: Giacomin, Simmons; defense: Hillman, Neilson, Howell, Brown, McMahon; forwards: Peters. Hadfield, McKenzie, Robinson, Gilbert, Nevin, Ingarfield, Angotti. Ratelle, Goyette, Marshall.</p><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley, Hodge; defense: Laperriere, Harris, Talbot, Harper; forwards: Richard, Provost, IG. Tremblay, Backstrom, Larose, Cournoyer, Rousseau, Balon, Ferguson, Beliveau, Berenson, Roberts.</p><p>Referee: Ashley. Linesmen: Sopp, Frampton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07294/2435965-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="306" height="339"></div><h3><b>CHICAGO 10 at BOSTON 1</b></h3><p><b>CHICAGO</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall, Dryden: defense: Pilote, Ravlich, Stapleton, MacNeil, Jarrett; forwards: Mohns, Wharram, Mikita, Esposito, R. Hull, Nesterenko, Stanfield, D. Hull, Hay, Hodge, Maki.</p><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Parent, Cheevers; defense: Langlois, Woytowich, Boivin, Ashbee, Awrey; forwards: Stewart, Williams, MacDonald, Bucyk, Oliver, Prentice, Westfall, Fleming, Dillabough. Goldsworthy.</p><p>Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Atanas, Pavelich.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08280/2435958-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="308" height="463"></div><h3><b>DETROIT 5 at TORONTO 3</b></h3><p><b>DETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier, Bassen; defense; Godfrey, Marshall, Barkley. Watson. Bergman; forwards; Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Murphy, Harris, MacGregor, Smith, Henderson, McKenney, Bathgate, McDonald.</p><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Bower, Sawchuk: defense: Pronovost, Horton, Douglas, Baun, Stanley; forwards: Kelly, EUis, Armstrong, Selby, Stemkowski, Keon, Pulford, Jeffrey, Shack, Kurtenbach, Mahovlich.</p><p>Referee; Buffey. Linesmen; Armstrong. d&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09268/2435951-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="309" height="308"></div><h2><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></h2><h3><b>MONTREAL 4 at BOSTON 4</b></h3><p><b>MONTREAL</b>&mdash;Goal: Worsley, Hodge; defense: Laperriere, Harris, Talbot, Harper; forwards: Backstrom, Larose, Ferguson, Rousseau, Beliveau, Balon, Cournoyer, Provost, Richard, G. Tremblay, Berenson, Roberts.</p><p><b>BOSTON</b>&mdash;Goal: Cheevers, Parent; defense: Boivin, Ashbee, Langlois, Woytowich, Awrey; forwards: Westfall, Fleming, Dillabough, Stewart,</p><p>Bucyk, Williams, Prentice, Oliver, MacDonald, Goldsworthy.</p><p>Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Pavelich, Atanas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10245/2435944-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="308" height="376"></div><h3><b>TORONTO 1 at DETROIT 5</b></h3><p><b>TORONTO</b>&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk, Bower; defense: Pronovost, Horton, Douglas, Baun, Stanley; forwards: Kelly, Ellis, Armstrong, Selby. Stemkowski, Keon, Pulford, Jeffrey, Shack, Kurtenbach, Mahovlich.</p><p><b>DETROIT</b>&mdash;Goal: Crozier, Bassen; defense: Godfrey, Marshall, Barkley, Watson, Bergman; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Harris, MacGregor, Smith, Henderson, McKenney, Bathgate, McDonald.</p><p>Referee: Friday. Linesmen: Armstrong. D&rsquo;Amico.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11219/2435937-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="308" height="300"></div><h3><b>CHICAGO 6 at NEW YORK 2</b></h3><p><b>CHICAGO</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall, Dryden, defense: Pilote, Ravlich, Jarrett, MacNeil, Stapleton; forwards: Esposito, Maki, Mohns, Stanfield, D. Hull, B. Hull, Hay, Hodge, Nesterenko, Wharram, Mikita.</p><p><b>NEW YORK</b>&mdash;Goal: Giacomin, Simmons; defense: Howell, Brown, Neilson, Hillman, McMahon; forwards: Nevin, Marshall, Goyette. Ratelle, Gilbert. Robinson. McKenzie, Peters, Hadfield, Ingarfield, Angotti.</p><p>Referee: Ashley. Linesmen; Sopp, Frampton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12200/2435930-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="309" height="367"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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National Hockey League Summeries

<h2><b><i>WALLY</i></b></h2><p><b>NORTHERN PRO</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY STICKS</b></p><h2><b><i>WALLY</i></b></h2><p><b>POOL TABLES</b></p><p><b>TABLE TENNIS</b></p><p><b>CROQUET SETS</b></p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues., Dec. 7)</b></p><h3><b>EASTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1277/2436024-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="291" height="81"></div><h3><b>WESTERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1366/2436017-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="290" height="112"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 30</b></p><p>Portland 2 at Quebec 2</p><p>Springfield 3 at Vancouver 4</p><p><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></p><p>Hershey 6 at Cleveland 4</p><p>Springfield 3 at Victoria 8</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 2</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at Quebec 4</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></p><p>Portland 1 at Hershey 0</p><p>Cleveland 6 at Pittsburgh 2</p><p>Buffalo 2 at Rochester 5</p><p>Vancouver 3 at Springfield 4</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Baltimore 4 at Buffalo 1</p><p>Vancouver 2 at Providence 5</p><p>Rochester 3 at Quebec 5</p><p>Portland 2 at Springfield 2</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Dec. 7</b></p><p>Providence at Baltimore</p><p>Rochester at Quebec</p><p><b>Wed., Dec. 8</b></p><p>Providence at Pittsburgh</p><p>Hershey at San Francisco</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 10</b></p><p>Vancouver at Buffalo</p><p>Pittsburgh at Cleveland</p><p>Rochester at Providence</p><p>Hershey at Los Angeles</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 11</b></p><p>Pittsburgh at Baltimore</p><p>Vancouver at Cleveland</p><p>Rochester at Springfield</p><p>Hershey at Victoria</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 12</b></p><p>Springfield at Buffalo</p><p>Cleveland at Pittsburgh</p><p>Baltimore at Providence</p><p>Vancouver at Rochester<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-12

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div><p>ROCHESTER, N. Y.</p><p>If the Rochester Americans didn&rsquo;t have quite so many veterans, they could be known as &ldquo;The Komeback Kids&rdquo;, but as it is, they&rsquo;ll have to be called &ldquo;The Rallying Rochesters&rdquo;.</p><p>In fact, if the Amerks continue their present manner of winning hockey matches, spectators may have to submit to a cardiogram test to make sure their hearts can stand it before they&rsquo;re allowed inside the War Memorial here.</p><p>Rochester, at this writing, has not been beaten in its last 13 games&mdash;having taken 12 victories and tied the other. And the Amerks&rsquo; overall season record of 13-2-1 certainly is impressive.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01613/2436055-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="141" height="229"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 141px"><b>Eddie Joyal</b></figcaption></div><p>But the way the Americans have been winning is making general manager coach Joe Crozier an old man before his time.</p><p>In no fewer than eight of their 13 triumphs and in the tie, the Amerks have trailed at one time or another. And they&rsquo;ve been behind in eight of the games which make up their current 13game undefeated streak.</p><p>This all started in the second game of the season when Dick Gamble scored the tying goal with 15 seconds remaining to force an overtime in Springfield. The Amerks won that on Mike Walton&rsquo;s extra-session goal at 8.09.</p><p>Against Buffalo here on Oct. 29, the Bisons enjoyed a 2-1 lead after two periods before falling to a four-goal third period assault by the Amerks. It was the same story here two nights later when Hershey held a 2-1 edge after two periods, then lost a 3-2 decision.</p><p>Rochester traveled to Buffalo Saturday, Nov. 6, and spotted the Bisons the first two goals before bouncing back for a 5-3 triumph. In Hershey on Nov. 10, the Amerks trailed 1-0, then roared back for a 6-4 nod.</p><p>The Nov. 13 game in Pittsburgh was another cardiac finish. The Hornets once led 3-1. Rochester narrowed it to 3-2 and finally pulled off a tie with exactly three seconds remaining in regulation time when Jim Pappin shoved the puck home. This time the Amerks had to settle for a tie as the teams battled through a scoreless overtime.</p><p>ICICLES&mdash;Pappin finally saw his sensational goal-scoring streak come to an end Nov. 28 against Portland. Jim had scored at least once in each of the seven games he had played since coming down from Toronto and had an amazing 11 goals for the seven outings. For his first eight games as an Amerk this season, Jim had 11 goals and seven assists for 18 points&hellip;The Americans have won 29 of their 32 regular season home games going back to last Christmas.</p><p>Eddie Joyal made an impressive debut with Rochester after being sent here by Toronto. He scored goals in each of his first two games here&hellip;Rookie goaltending star Gary Smith has been shelved, at this writing, by either a virus or mononucleosis.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Amerk’s Comeback Wins Hard On Heart Sufferers

<h2><b>Tues., Nov. 30</b></h2><h3><b>PORTLAND 2 at QUEBEC 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02523/2436149-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="289" height="322"></div><h3><b>SPRINGFIELD 3 at VANCOUVER 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03406/2436142-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="290" height="319"></div><h2><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></h2><h3><b>HERSHEY 6 at CLEVELAND 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04299/2436135-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="289" height="369"></div><h3><b>SPRINGFIELD 3 at VICTORIA 8</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05216/2436128-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="283" height="416"></div><h2><b>Thurs., Dec. 2</b></h2><h3><b>VANCOUVER 1 at QUEBEC 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06174/2436121-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="287" height="262"></div><h2><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></h2><h3><b>VANCOUVER 3 at SPRINGFIELD 4</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07150/2436114-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="288" height="345"></div><h3><b>CLEVELAND 6 at PITTSBURGH 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08132/2436107-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="286" height="338"></div><h3><b>BUFFALO 2 at ROCHESTER 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09114/2436100-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="289" height="381"></div><h3><b>PORTLAND 1 at HERSHEY 0</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-10102/2436093-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="291" height="203"></div><h2><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></h2><h3><b>ROCHESTER 3 at QUEBEC 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1194/2436086-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="289" height="420"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-02

American Hockey League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY GEORGE TAYLOR</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02562/2436180-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="889" height="634"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>American League President JACK RILEY presents Red Garrett Memorial Trophy to Clippers&rsquo; RAY CULLEN as rookie of the year in the AHL last season. Cullen won his award as a member of the Buffalo Bisons.</b></figcaption></div><p>BALTIMORE, Md.</p><p>The Baltimore Clippers early success in the American Hockey League this season can be attributed to Coach Johnny Crawford&rsquo;s confidence in &ldquo;kids&rdquo;.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01606/2436187-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="161" height="227"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Stephanson</b></figcaption></div><p>At a time when some coaches might have walked off the job rather than buck AHL competition with such inexperienced players, Crawford believed in his youngsters. And it is paying off. Crawford said:</p><p>&ldquo;Too many hockey officials go on records alone. They won&rsquo;t take a chance on a newcomer. I&rsquo;d like to think I had something to do with bringing some of the young Clippers along. But that&rsquo;s not the case. The truth is that they&rsquo;ve never before been given a chance to prove themselves.&rdquo;</p><p>Particularly surprising is what Crawford has gotten away with on defense. His only experienced blueliners are Doug Harvey and Ron Ingram.</p><p>The others are all 23-year-olds playing AHL defense for the first time.</p><p>And, Crawford, evidently, doesn&rsquo;t believe in giving his youngsters parttime assignments while breaking them in. He&rsquo;s never used more than four defensemen in any game. This means that Harvey and Ingram have been teamed with rookies the entire route.</p><p>Although Ken Stephanson has not been tampered with as a defenseman, Crawford has alternated at inserting Mike Corbett and Peter Ford for wing duty, rather than use them for swing duty as the &ldquo;fifth&rdquo; defenseman.</p><p>Then, when 23-year-old Duncan MacDonald reported to Crawford with a swollen knee, due to an off-season operation, the Clipper Coach didn&rsquo;t send him to a lower league to play himself back into condition. Instead, he carried MacDonald on the squad until his knee mended, then assigned him to a regular left wing post. MacDonald responded by scoring goals in his first three starts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Crawford’s Faith In Kids’ Paying Off

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio</p><p>Fred Glover whistled softly under his breath as he studied the lineup of the Quebec Aces just before his Cleveland Barons prepared to take the ice for the first time this year against the rampaging Canucks from the north country.</p><p>The names were impressive. Their records were impressive. Nine of the first 12 scorers in the league wore Quebec spangles.</p><p>&ldquo;Guess we&rsquo;ll just have to go out and check &lsquo;em,&rdquo; muttered Glover.</p><p>Check &lsquo;em is just what the Barons did as they skated off the ice after the game with a 2-1 victory and their most impressive performance of the season.</p><p>The victory was important, not so much for the two points it added to the Barons&rsquo; total but for the lift it gave the club and for the confidence it brought that the Barons can play tight defensive hockey when they want to.</p><p>Prior to this game, there had been some doubts about the defense, both the blueliners and the back-checking ability of the forwards. The defense, justifiably, had come in for its share of raps.</p><p>What the defense did against Quebec is proof of what it can do when it has the desire.</p><p>From the start, the forwards checked and the defensemen hit. They covered well for goalie Les Binkley. They cleared the puck well and they protected the area in front of the cage. The only goal Quebec managed to score came on a long slap from the boards by Terry Gray.</p><p>A continuation of this type of play will put the Barons in the playoffs. As this is written, they are above the.500 mark.</p><p>One of the big guns in the defensive showing was tough Larry Zeidel, who never has lost the desire to excel.</p><p>Zeidel&rsquo;s play has been steady and he has kept his temper remarkably well in check. He fires the defense, he plays position, he doesn&rsquo;t panic and he is avoiding many of the senseless penalties that marred his record.</p><h2><b>Point Race</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sun., Dec. 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03523/2436225-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="296" height="193"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04481/2436218-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="295" height="164"></div><h3><b>PENALTY LEADERS</b></h3><p>Most Penalized Player: G. Labossiere, Quebec, 50 minutes.</p><p>Most Penalized Team: Quebec, 277 mlnutoc<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0013-03

Barons Given Big Lift After Upset Over Aces

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.</p><p>Just when it appeared the Hershey Bears were on the verge of closing in on the pacesetting Quebec Aces in the Eastern Division race, the bubble burst.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05400/2436256-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="149" height="237"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 149px"><b>Bobby Leiter</b></figcaption></div><p>From Nov. 13 through the 20th, Hershey racked up four straight wins&mdash;its best season stretch&mdash;to vault from fourth to second, just 11 points off the Aces and with three games in hand to its credit.</p><p>Then the offense, which had been clicking at a rate of five goals a game in the short win skein, suddenly faded into near obscurity.</p><p>In a span of four days, Nov. 24-27, the Bears dropped three straight, including a pair to Pittsburgh. Hershey showed three goals for; seven against.</p><p>Added to this the Boston Bruins, racked with injuries on defense, recalled Barry Ashbee, cutting Hershey&rsquo;s backline corps to four men. The first defenseman on hand, Ralph Keller, was forced to sit out the entire month of November with a broken wrist.</p><p>Still ailing is first line goalie Claude Dufour who has a ligament injury of the right knee.</p><p>However, standby Andre GUI has done an outstanding relief job in the first 10 games he&rsquo;s; filled in for Dufour. He&rsquo;s allowed only 26 goals in 650 minutes and; turned in 286 saves while registering one shutout.</p><p>The addition of Bob Leiter to the lineup may prove a boost to the club&rsquo;s recent weak attack. He scored one goal in his first three games and appears to have fully recovered from a broken arm, suffered last year with Boston and which required offseason surgery. How long he will remain with Hershey once he hits full stride is unknown, but chances are he&rsquo;ll be with the Bruins by mid-January.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

f0013-05

Bears’ Bid To Top Aces Falls Flat

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div><p>BUFFALO, N. Y.</p><p>The goals-against column is hockey&rsquo;s most vital statistic, and the Buffalo Bisons, who gave up only three goals while winning three of their last four games, finally appeared headed for better things.</p><p>Ed Chadwick and Roy Edwards, who have shared the Buffalo goaltending duties this season, have both played exceptionally well, and are hardly to blame for the club&rsquo;s position at the bottom of the Western Division.</p><p>Over the four-game span, Chadwick posted two straight shutouts over Providence and Cleveland by identical 4-0 scores.</p><p>In the opener, Edwards steered the club to a 5-1 win over the Portland Buckaroos here. The following night, Chadwick blanked the Reds, and two nights later, Edwards dropped a tough 2-1 decision in Baltimore. Chadwick followed with a 4-0 win over the Cleveland Barons in Buffalo.</p><p>&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t afford any passengers on this hockey club, and lately we haven&rsquo;t had any,&rdquo; said Coach Phil Watson.</p><p>&ldquo;To get as good a team defensive effort as we&rsquo;ve been getting, everybody has to work hard. The goalies have been fine, and the boys are skating both ways.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Buffalo’s Two-Goalie Plan Brightens Picture For Herd

f0014-01

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03380/2436356-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="278" height="622"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB BARLOW&hellip;Hit With Victoria</b></figcaption></div><p>VICTORIA, B.C.</p><p>Bob Barlow is proving something in this his seventh full year as a professional at the age of 30. Until he left the American League, where he had performed for Cleveland and Quebec, Barlow was a good, but no great scorer, who had years of 28 and 27 goals. In three seasons in the Western League on a line with Golden Guyle Fielder at Seattle, Bob scored 47, 35 and 30 goals. When he left Fielder and went to Victoria this season, many felt he would fall back.</p><p>Instead. Barlow fired 15 goals in the first 18 games to take the Western League lead in that department. He has the most game-winning goals with five and the most hat-tricks with two. He even has 10 assists and is a strong second in scoring to linemate Milan Marcetta, who has 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points.</p><p>Barlow is a very modest guy, who gives his teammates a major share of the credit for his success. &ldquo;Playing with Guyle Fielder and Jimmy Powers was the making of me in Seattle,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Guyle is the greatest centre I&rsquo;ve ever seen. He can carry the puck in, pull the goalie out and put you right in on the nets with a perfect pass time and time again. Everyone who plays with him scores.</p><p>&ldquo;If I&rsquo;m still scoring in Victoria, it&rsquo;s because I have two other strong partners in Milan Marcetta and Andy Hebenton. Marcetta is a fine playmaker and Hebenton is a great digger. I wouldn&rsquo;t be scoring if it wasn&rsquo;t for them. Hockey is a team game and guys have to work together.&rdquo;</p><p>Which is all true of course. Throw in Hebenton&rsquo;s six goals and Victoria&rsquo;s first line has 35 goals in the first seven weeks of the season. Marcetta has the most first-goals in the league, four, and the most game-winning assists, four. But it is a new line, which has never played together, and its success is a tribute to the skill of all its members, not the least of which is Bob Barlow.</p><p>Barlow is just 5-10 and 165 pounds. He admits that he is not robust and is a poor skater, which is why he has never had a shot at the majors. He is not a flashy playmaker and he does not get many assists. But he has a tremendous shot.</p><p>&ldquo;I practice shooting more than most guys, maybe,&rdquo; he admits. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all I&rsquo;ve got. I practice shooting from difficult angles and when I&rsquo;m off balance. My first rule is to shoot on the net. If you do that, you&rsquo;ve got a chance. After that. I try to shoot as quick as possible so the defense and goalie can&rsquo;t set up. I try to know the goalies and I aim for spots and corners when I can.&rdquo;</p><p>It has all paid off. And it has helped Victoria take the league lead as expected. Bob&rsquo;s dad. Hugh, was a fine senior amateur player for Hamilton, and his brother, Hugh Jr., was an outstanding junior who helped Brian and Barry Cullen to total 360 points on a fabulous line at St. Catharine&rsquo;s, but who quit when he did not get a major league chance.</p><p>NHL chance or no. Bob is carrying on the family hockey tradition. His wife, Marilyn Mutrie, is a figure-skating queen, who is teaching their two young daughters to be the same. Poppa can&rsquo;t skate, but he can shoot holes in goalies and that&rsquo;s what puts bread on the table.</p><p>Portland&rsquo;s Cliff Schmautz ranks third in goals-scored out west with 13. Portland&rsquo;s Art Jones, who has 10 goals, and Vancouver&rsquo;s Billy McNeill, who has six, are tied with Barlow for second in points with 25. Guyle Fielder, who finally got his first goal, leads in assists with 23.</p><p>Jake Hendrickson of L.A. leads defensemen scoring with four goals and 17 assists for 21 points. Although injured. Fred Hucul of Victoria is second best with three goals and 14 assists. Hucul now has 525 points in his 655-game WHL career to tie Vancouver&rsquo;s Ron Matthews for the all-time points lead among WHL defenseman and now that aging Matthews is only a parttimer. should finish the season as No. 1.</p><p>On the other side of the scoring ledger, San Francisco has been having its troubles, but Seal goalie Jack McCartan has taken the league lead with the lowest goals-against average, 1.72. Portland&rsquo;s Don Head hit a slump and slid to 2.90. Seattle newcomer Ernie Wakely was actually best at 2.50, but had played only six games.</p><h2><b>How They Stand</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed., Dec. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1187/2436349-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="296" height="96"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Nov.</b></p><p>Portland 2 at Quebec 2</p><p>Springfield 3 at Vancouver, 4</p><p><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></p><p>Seattle 2 at San Francisco 5</p><p>Springfield 3 at Victoria 8</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 2</b></p><p>Seattle 5 at Los Angeles 2</p><p>Vancouver 1 at Quebec 4</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 3</b></p><p>Los Angeles 2 at San Francisco 1</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></p><p>San Francisco 0 at Los Angeles 3</p><p>Portland 1 at Hershey 0</p><p>Vancouver 3 at Springfield 4</p><p>Seattle 2 at Victoria 6</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Portland 2 at Springfield 2</p><p>Victoria 3 at Seattle 2</p><p>Vancouver 2 at Providence 5</p><h3><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h3><p><b>Wed., Dec. 8</b></p><p>Hershey at San Francisco</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 10</b></p><p>Hershey at Los Angeles</p><p>Vancouver at Buffalo</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 11</b></p><p>Los Angeles at San Francisco</p><p>Vancouver at Cleveland</p><p>Hershey at Victoria</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 12</b></p><p>Los Angeles at Portland</p><p>Victoria at Seattle</p><p>Vancouver at Rochester<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-03

Barlow Ranks As WHL’s Hottest Goal Scorer

<h2><b>Tues., Nov. 23</b></h2><h3><b>LOS ANGELES 5 at VICTORIA 9</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04292/2436436-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="294" height="509"></div><h2><b>Wed., Nov. 24</b></h2><h3><b>VANCOUVER 3 at SAN FRANCISCO 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05225/2436429-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="293" height="264"></div><h3><b>LOS ANGELES 2 at SEATTLE 5</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06188/2436422-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="294" height="316"></div><h2><b>Thurs., Nov. 25</b></h2><h3><b>VANCOUVER 3 at L. ANGELES 1</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07147/2436415-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="285" height="219"></div><h2><b>Fri., Nov. 26</b></h2><h3><b>VICTORIA 4 at S. FRANCISCO 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-08124/2436408-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="294" height="329"></div><h2><b>Sat., Nov. 27</b></h2><h3><b>VICTORIA 1 at LOS ANGELES 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-09111/2436401-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="293" height="260"></div><h3><b>VANCOUVER 3 at SEATTLE 3</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1097/2436394-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="293" height="339"></div><div class="sidebar"><h2><b>Interlocking Scoreboard</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1278/2436387-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="573" height="90"></div><p><b>(Including Games Sunday, December 5)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

f0014-04

Western League Summaries

<div class="byline">&#x2014;By Bill Libby</div><h2><b>Jones Wins New Plaudits</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>I</span>T WOULD BE DIFFICULT</b> for a player to get better tributes from his rivals than is regularly paid Art Jones, Portland&rsquo;s small, but skillful center. The latest comes from Vancouver&rsquo;s Max McNab. &ldquo;The fact that Portland has not slipped much despite the loss of Pat Stapleton and Andy Hebenton is added proof that Jones is the real heart of that club,&rdquo; McNab says. &ldquo;He does more things well than any player in the league. He is the rare athlete who has the gift of imagination. He sees the whole play forming and reshapes it, both on offense and defense. I tell my players he is the one man in this league they shouldn&rsquo;t try to fool. Poss around him, don&rsquo;t try to skate around him. He&rsquo;s deceptive and will beat you every time. He&rsquo;s fantastic.&rdquo;</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01578/2436481-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="134" height="231"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 134px"><b>Art Jones</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Coming from McNab, who played with and against Jones and has coached against him, and was a center, himself, that is a real compliment,&rdquo; Jones&rsquo; own coach, Hal Laycoe, says. Laycoe considers publicly singling out individuals for praise or criticism a crime, but always makes an exception in Jones case. He is great, game after game, and at his greatest when it counts the most. It is a shame he has never been first all-star, much less MVP. We gave the vote to the players, which is where it belongs, but they have abused the privilege. Why one player voted for Howie Young for the sportsmanship award last season, which shows you the sense of responsibility some fellows have.&rdquo;</p><p>Gaunt, crew-cut Jones, sitting in the Portland dressing room in his long-johns, looked about as much like a hockey player as your neighborhood delivery boy. &ldquo;I only went into hockey because I had nothing better to do after I got kicked out of school and was bumming around. I&rsquo;m only staying in it because I&rsquo;ve got nothing better to do and have no ambition,&rdquo; he said with a sly grin. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a terrible skater and I can&rsquo;t check or take a check. I can&rsquo;t outplay anyone, so I try to outguess &lsquo;em. I figure out what the other guy&rsquo;s gonna&rsquo; do. Lots of times I guess wrong and he beats the heck out of me.</p></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2><b>Poile Levels Fines At Seols</b></h2><p><b>AFTER EIGHT PRIOR SEASONS</b>, in which he has averaged 32 goals a. season and scored 100 points once, Jones pretends to shrug off the fact that he is always overlooked when they pass out the hardware and never had so much as a one-game trial in the big leagues. &ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;m not good enough,&rdquo; he smiles. But it is a sad smile. And he admits, wistfully, &ldquo;It hurts&hellip;a lot.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02519/2436474-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="154" height="239"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wayne Maxner</b></figcaption></div><p>Seattle&rsquo;s high-scoring Bob Barlow is this kind of guy: When we cornered him in an L.A. hotel room and asked him the secret of his success, he credited his linemates&mdash;Guyle Fielder and Jim Powers at Seattle arid Andy</p><p>Hebenton and Milan Marcetta now at Victoria. We talked about many things, but he kept coming back to his current mates and to Fielder. We had left him and were in the elevator, when he came rushing up breathlessly, held the elevator door and inquired concernedly, &ldquo;I did mention Jim Powers, didn&rsquo;t I? I wouldn&rsquo;t want to leave him out.&rdquo;</p><p>In fining his Seal players for their inept home performances, San Francisco general manager Bud Poile exempted only new playercoach Charley Burns. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s unfortunate guys who were putting out like Jack McCartan and one or two others had to be fined, but they&rsquo;ll have to take it like the others.&rdquo; As you can see, hustle pays off. Poile admitted, &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t even consult with Burns,&rdquo; which is a fine way to start off a new partnership. Burns put the players through a one.hour skating drill of stops and starts, which delighted Poile. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the worst thing you can do to a club. It was rough,&rdquo; he beamed.</p><p>Poile was particularly unhappy with forwards George Swarbrick and Wayne Maxner. He was still interested in obtaining Howie Young from L.A. Lynn Patrick gave him permission to talk to Young, but Bud, who had Howie at Edmonton and thought he knew him, came away shaking his head and saying, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s something else.&rdquo; Young and the Blades are together again for the moment. Howie came off suspension without getting the raise from $10,000 to $13,000 he sought. The Blades may still trade him, if he doesn&rsquo;t trade them first.</p><h2><b>Victoria Players Rap Pilous</b></h2><p><b>VICTORIA PLAYERS ADMIT</b> privately they were very unhappy with coach Rudy Pilous last season and say they are very happy with new coach Frank Mario this season. &ldquo;Unlike Rudy, Frank treats us like men and lets us play our game,&rdquo; one explains. &ldquo;It got so bad last season, we didn&rsquo;t care if we won or lost. This season, we&rsquo;ve got our spirit back and are raring to go.&rdquo;&hellip;Many of the Leafs are impressed with the way Bert Olmstead has brought Vancouver along and think when the Canucks regain good health they&rsquo;ll come on to beat out Portland for second place&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03441/2436467-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="165" height="236"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Bionda</b></figcaption></div><p>When L. A. extended a losing streak, the Blades moaned about their schedule of 10 games in 15 days, which knocked them out of rest and practice&hellip;When Portland lost three straight in the West, coach Hal Laycoe said he never did like the idea of an interlocking schedule with the AHL.</p><p>When defenseman Jack Bionda lofted a puck from his own blue line and it skipped crazily past startled Al Millar into the Victoria net for a new long-distance Portland record, Big Jack, Canada&rsquo;s greatest lacrosse player said, &ldquo;It was an old lacrosse shot&mdash;one bounce and into the corner.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Western Ad Lib

<p>PORTLAND, Ore&mdash;</p><p>The defending Western Hockey League champion Portland Buckaroos, apparently less weakened than expected as they opened this season with a rash of victories, mostly at home, went into a nosedive as they took their Eastern tour of American League cities.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04338/2436512-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="147" height="230"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 147px"><b>Eddie Johnston</b></figcaption></div><p>The Bucks lost to two of the weaker AHL clubs. Buffalo, 5-1, and Portland, 5-0. They then had their remarkable string of 23 consecutive overtime games without a loss snapped in Rochester, 4-3, before battling to a 2-2 overtime tie with Quebec.</p><p>The hard-hitting, close-checking game which has been Portland&rsquo;s trademark during coach Hal Laycoe&rsquo;s administration was conspicuously lacking at the outset of the tour and Laycoe was quite upset, but the Bucks bounced back a bit in the close games with the AHL&rsquo;s two powerhouses.</p><p>Springfield of the AHL was having similar bad going in its Western swing, losing three straight in San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver and the inter-league warfare remains even at 10-10-1.</p><p>WHL-leading Victoria had its winning streak snapped in a big upset in Los Angeles, but won two out of three to open a four-point bulge on Portland. Vancouver won three and tied one to close within three points of Portland.</p><p><b>WESTERN NOTES</b>&mdash;The San Francisco Seals traded promising, but disappointing center Larry Lund, 25, to Seattle for the minor-league rights to two amateurs, who will not report immediately&mdash;right wing, Bob Thomas, 21, the International Hockey League &ldquo;rookie of the year&rdquo; last season, and goalie Bob Gray, 26, who impressed in five WHL games with Seattle last season. Both are in the IHL.</p><p>The Seals also obtained center Ron Schock, 23, who scored five goals for Boston in the NHL last season and whose presence frees playing-coach Burns to act as a &ldquo;swing man.&rdquo;</p><p>The L.A. Blades acquired goalie Ed Johnston, 30, a standout for Spokane in the 1962 WHL season, the regular Boston goalie in the NHL the last two seasons, but inactive since being injured Oct. 30 this season. Johnston will share the post with veteran Marcel Pelletier. Rookie Doug Favell was returned to Oklahoma City of the CPHL without having seen Western action. The Blades also reinstated suspended defenseman Howie Young.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Buckaroos Jolted By AHL Teams; Bruins Send Johnston To Blades

<p><b>(Scoring records as of Nov. 29)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05255/2436543-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="298" height="252"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WHL Point Race

<p><b>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say</b></p><p><b>HAIG & HAIG</b></p><p><b>SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><p><b>Don&rsquo;t be vague&hellip;say</b></p><p><b>HAIG & HAIG</b></p><p><b>SCOTCH WHISKY</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

CENTRAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div><p>TULSA, Okla.</p><p>Andre Champagne, Nick Harbaruk, in their second year with the Oilers and Lowell MacDonald, formerly with the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; organization, kept up their scoring pace</p><p>to pull Rudy Migay&rsquo;s crew into first place in the Central Professional Hockey League after the first month of the schedule.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01422/2436598-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="155" height="230"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Nick Harbaruk</b></figcaption></div><p>The trio triggered 21 goals in amassing 400 scoring points and Migay also has been pleased with the way Bill Flett had been going.</p><p>In 39 games last season, used mostly as a defenseman, Flett counted eight goals for the Oilers but when given an opportunity to play up front this year, he triggered five goals in 12 contests.</p><p>Migay is notably pleased with the play of goalie Bruce Gamble who came out of a year&rsquo;s retirement from the game and chalked up one shutout and posted a classy 2.58 goals-against mark in the Oilers&rsquo; first dozen engagements.</p><p>Gamble took his time at training camp getting his timing back and admits himself that &ldquo;I still can play better&rdquo; but as the Oilers hold on to the top rung, Migay is satisfied.</p><p>Champagne and defenseman Don Cherry had trips to Rochester to help the AHL club when they were hit by injuries but general manager Ray Miron hopes they will be with Oilers&rsquo; for the full season.</p><p>Ray Dupont, who had a five-game tryout with the Oilers last season, before going to Knoxville of the Eastern League rejoined the Oilers when Cherry was recalled to Rochester.</p><p><b>HOUSTON</b>&mdash;Bill McCreary&rsquo;s Apollos had only four of their first 15 games on home ice at the Sam Houston Coliseum but still were able to stay up in the battle for first place.</p><p>McCreary expressed pleasure with his line on which he plays one wing, Bill Inglis plays centre and Bill Staub works the other side.</p><p>Norm Dennis, Andre Boudrias and Bob Charlebois are keeping up the pace of last season while goalie Carl Wetzel with two shutouts in his first 10 games has been impressive in the nets.</p><p><b>MINNESOTA</b>&mdash;The Rangers are finding the league a little tougher than last season but Paul Andrea is leading their offence firing eight goals and assisting on a like number in their first 10 outings.</p><p>Wayne Rutledge has been giving them steady netminding posting a 2.50 goals-against mark.</p><p>Bob Stoyko, recovered from a broken foot bone, is back in the lineup and the former North Dakota University star is handling a berth up front.</p><p>The Jim Johnson Jim Baird Paul Andrea line was the most consistent unit for the Rangers in their first 10 contests.</p><p><b>OKLAHOMA CITY</b>&mdash;Harry Sinden, playing coach of the Blazers, sees his young club improving after a shaky start noting, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re still making a lot of sloppy passes and we&rsquo;re slow following up on rebounds but we&rsquo;ll keep shooting and more goals are bound to come.&rdquo;</p><p>Skip Krake, with seven goals and seven assists in their first 11 games, paced the attack and Ron Buchanan, the 50-goal sniper with Oshawa in the O.H.A. Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks last season, has been showing improvement since given a regular forward-line berth.</p><p><b>ST. LOUIS</b>&mdash;Gus Gyle&rsquo;s Braves are steadily making their way back into contention with Art Stratten, Dick Meissner and Oscar Gaudet leading their scoring parade.</p><p>The trio counted 56 scoring points in the Braves first 12 outings.</p><p>Gary Kilpatrick is working his way into shape after suffering a shoulder dislocation and Dave Green, a 20-year-old, 174-pound right winger who started the season with Buffalo of the A. H. L., has joined the club. Kyle was impressed with his work over his first five games.</p><p><b>MEMPHIS</b>&mdash;Vic Stasiuk dropped his retirement plans quickly when the Wings went into a spin and notched three goals in his first two outings as a playing coach.</p><p>Detroit Red Wings recalled Gary Bergman and still held on to Warren Godfrey leaving the club weak on defense.</p><p>Max Mestinsek is the top pointmaker for the Wings firing six goals and assisting on four in their first 10 games in which the Wings only won four.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘Hot’ Tulsa Trio Triggers 21 Goals To Snark Oilers Into First Place

<p><b>(Standings on Wed., Dec. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02352/2436636-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="295" height="99"></div><p>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 2. Montreal; 3. Chicago; 4. Detroit; 5. New Yorw; 6. Boston).</p><h2><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h2><p><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></p><p>Tulsa 1 at St. Louis 3</p><p>Memphis 3 at Houston 2</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 3</b></p><p>Tulsa 1 at Minnesota 4</p><p>Oklahoma City 4 at St. Louis 4</p><p>Houston 8 at Memphis 2</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></p><p>Memphis 4 at Tulsa 3</p><p>Oklahoma City 1 at Houston 3</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Memphis 4 at St. Louis 4</p><p>Minnesota 5 at Tulsa 2</p><h2><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h2><p><b>Wed., Dec. 8</b></p><p>Minnesota at Houston</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 10</b></p><p>St. Louis at Minnesota</p><p>Oklahoma City at Memphis</p><p>Houston at Tulsa</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 11</b></p><p>Tulsa at Memphis</p><p>Oklahoma City at St. Louis</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 12</b></p><p>Oklahoma City at Minnesota</p><p>Memphis at St. Louis</p><p>Tulsa at Houston</p><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., Nov. 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03273/2436629-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="293" height="230"></div><p>Most Penalties in Minutes: Bob Plager, Minnesota, 65 minutes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Looking at CPHL Race

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn.</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t often that you can get two rival coaches to agree in the Eastern Hockey League&rsquo;s Southern Division, but skippers Ron Spong of Greensboro and Doug Bentley of Knoxville do concur on one subject&mdash;that Knoxville is the team to beat for the Southern Division crown.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07111/2436667-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="149" height="225"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 149px"><b>Doug Bentley</b></figcaption></div><p>Bentley has been claiming all along that a little help in a couple of spots is all his Knights need to fight the pack the rest of the season. He was seconded in his belief by Spong who believes the Knoxville crew is much stronger than defending division king Nashville.</p><p>&ldquo;The Flyers seem nowhere as strong,&rdquo; Spong said after he had seen all of his division rivals. &ldquo;Knoxville has some strong boys including some from the old New York Rovers. If Bentley can solve the problems surrounding his defense, the Knights will be even tougher.&rdquo;</p><p>Spong also lauded the &ldquo;good skating forwards of Knoxville&rdquo; such as Chuck Stuart and Glen Cressman, and indicated that his club will have to improve to battle the Knights on even terms.</p><p>Bentley thought his defensive problems were solved when he acquired Ray DuPont, but his recall by Tulsa dampened the enthusiasm. However, the other backliners are trying to offset the loss of last year&rsquo;s rookie of the year.</p><p>Right now the Knights have the schedule in their favor. They are in the midst of a log that shows 11 home games in 14 starts between</p><p>Nov. 26 and Jan. 1. This is the time for the Knights to make their bid for the lead spot and to pull away from the field since the schedule will toughen thereafter. In that stretch to the new year, Knoxville&rsquo;s three road games are in the south too to make things even easier.</p><p><b>LONG ISLAND</b>: Wayne Kitchen bagged the hat trick in a romp over Johnstown to break out of a slump. Russ McClenaghan sank a 65-footer in the same game. Coach John Muckier says Barry Zobach can &ldquo;get off one of the quickest shots I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo; John Brophy is well in front of his mates in the penalty department. Moe Bartoli and Bob Sabourin had hat tricks vs. New Haven.</p><p><b>JOHNSTOWN</b>: The Jets have shown more checking among their forwards than any time in recent years. Club lost 7 of 8 to dip in northern race. Dennis Rathwell back with club and was scheduled to play defense but injury to Claude Bernard caused switch in Dave Lucas&rsquo; plans. Bernard&rsquo;s eye injury resulted from an accidental knock by Reggie Meserve&rsquo;s stick. Ken Thompson sent to Toledo.</p><p><b>NASHVILLE</b>: Marv Edwards will continue wearing face mask. He Said a shot by Chuck Stuarl that went off his mask would &ldquo;have cost me 30 stitches otherwise.&rdquo; Flyers have beaten Jacksonville 16 straight times. Rookie Gilles St. Jacques learned not to lose his shirt in fight with Rockets&rsquo; Don Newman. Latter pum meled St. Jacques at will after pulling the Flyer&rsquo;s shirt over his arms. Gerry Maney returned to Woodstock.</p><p><b>NEW HAVEN</b>: Blades brought in Dwight Winters, a winger front Fort William, and Jacques Mercier, a winger from Moncton who was recommended by Jerry DeLise of Muskegon. Coach Jackie LeClair plans even more changes. Eno Kraft had a tiff with Moe Bartoli. New Haven fans showered Clinton players with coffee. Pete Wright injured shoulder. Blades erupted for 11 goals against Jersey after tongue lashing from LeClair over 11 goals allowed the previous night vs. Clinton.</p><p><b>CHARLOTTE</b>: Fred Creighton said he&rsquo;d like to have Flo Pilote but wouldn&rsquo;t give up Moe Savard or Jim McNulty, his veteran centers. Claude Ouimet has rib injury which sidelined him for spell. Earlier his hat trick had topped Greensboro in Ricky Charron&rsquo;s first game in the cage. Creighton finally solved the goalie situation by trading Chuck Goddard to Jacksonville.</p><p><b>CLINTON</b>: Pat Kelly nursing wrist injury and Jack Kane a cut ear. Comets played exhibition against Eastern Olympic H. C. in Braintree, Mass. GM Wren Blair zisited dressing room after two periods in game with Jersey, &ldquo;omets then rallied in last period to wipe out 2-0 deficit and win 1-2. Jim Jago injured at Johnstown and sat out several games.</p><p><b>GREENSBORO</b>: Ron Quenville back in action after a month&rsquo;s idleness with broken thumb. The Gens won their second start at Jacksonville after losing their first and becoming Rockets only victim in 19 starts at this point. John Murray hurt in crash into boards, Pat Draper&rsquo;s center work bas aided cause.</p><p><b>JERSEY</b>: Devils were down to 10 men in game at Clinton. Reggie Meserve missed game and Hec Lalande, Wayne Caufield and Ted Sydlowski hurt. Big crowd saw Norm DeFelice beat his old Comet mates here<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Spong Rates Knoxville Team To Beat In South

<h2><b>EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Tues., Dec. 7)</b></p><h3><b>NORTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01342/2436733-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="299" height="83"></div><h3><b>SOUTHERN DIVISION</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02293/2436726-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="300" height="82"></div><p>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 4. Detroit; 5. New York; 6. Boston).</p><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Tues., Nov. 30</b></p><p>New Jersey 3 at Johnstown 7</p><p><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></p><p>Long Island 5 at New Haven 1</p><p>Nashville 4 at Knoxville 1</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 2</b></p><p>Charlotte 3 at Nashville 2</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 3</b></p><p>Johnstown 0 at Clinton 6</p><p>New Haven 6 at New Jersey 5</p><p>Nashville 6 at Greensboro 2</p><p>Charlotte 5 at Jacksonville 6</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></p><p>New Jersey 0 at Clinton 2</p><p>New Haven 2 at Johnstown 7</p><p>Long Island 3 at Greensboro 2</p><p>Jacksonville 1 at Charlotte 9</p><p>Knoxville 1 at Nashville 4</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Johnstown 8 at New Haven 10</p><p>New Jersey 1 at Long Island 5</p><h3><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h3><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., Nov. 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03234/2436719-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="299" height="151"></div><h3><b>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon., Dec. 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04180/2436712-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="299" height="81"></div><h3><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h3><p><b>Fri., Dec. 3</b></p><p>Galt 1 at Woodstock 6</p><p>Oakville 2 at Guelph 6</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></p><p>Oakville 2 at Galt 1</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Woodstock 2 at Oakville 1</p><h3><b>WESTERN CANADA SENIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon., Dec. 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05141/2436705-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="297" height="95"></div><h3><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h3><p><b>(Standings on Mon., Nov. 22)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06120/2436698-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="298" height="122"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0017-01

Hockey Races

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>FORT WAYNE, Ind.&mdash;</p><p>Norm Wasawski, the Komets&rsquo; third lighest goal scorer and the highest in average goals for game for this season, surprised the Hub when he announced hat he was quitting hockey.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01348/2436764-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="145" height="236"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 145px"><b>Norm Waslawski</b></figcaption></div><p>The move apparently brought an end to a period of indecision on the part of the quick-shooting right winger, who did not play in the Komets&rsquo; first three games and did not make a trip to Des Moines just before he left the team. There was still some speculation that he might return, in view of his wavering in the past.</p><p>Waslawski&rsquo;s decision was surprising in that he had shown great form after his early season holdout, giving the Komets a big lift by hitting for ten goals in nine games. He had 40 goals and 46 assists last year, in which he missed some games late in the season during the illness and loss of a newly born baby.</p><p>The Dayton Gems also lost a regular when Cliff Bristow, 27-year-old center purchased from Des Moines before the start of the season, informed Coach Warren Back that he was quitting hockey and returning to his home in Calgary. Back said he did not try to pursuade Bristow to stay. &ldquo;He was unhappy away from his family,&rdquo; said Back. Bristow had 21 goals and 30 assists for the Oak Leafs last season.</p><p><b>PORT HURON</b>&mdash;The Flags chalked up their 20th game on home ice without a defeat, going back to the closing games of last year&rsquo;s regular schedule&hellip;Garry Ross set a club record by notching two goals in 15 seconds&hellip;Frank St. Marseille had <i>e</i> hat trick against Des Moines&hellip;Defenseman Lou Kazowski underwent surgery for a shoulder injury and was expected to be out for two weeks or more&hellip;</p><p><b>FORT WAYNE</b>&mdash;A crowd of 7,472 for a Port Huron game brought the Komets total for seven games to 40,758, an average of 5,823&hellip;Goalie Gerry Randall had 56 saves in a 5-4 loss to Port Huron&hellip;The Komets were down to three defensemen when Roger Galipeau was given the weekend off to get married and often to two when Cal Purinton spent 13 minutes in the penalty box in one game&hellip;Roger Maisonneuve was reactivated to help out when Waslawski decided to quit&hellip;General Manager Ken Ullyot left to head a 12-day tour of Europe by a U.S. Hockey League team.</p><p><b>TOLEDO</b>&mdash;The Blades broke a seven-game winless streak with an overtime victory over Muskegon&hellip;Greg Jablonski netted the winning goal, his third of the game and his second hat trick&hellip;Coach Ken Wilson protested a loss to Dayton, claiming the Gems did not have a player out of Juniors in the lineup&hellip;Ken Thompson, center out of the Red Wings system, joined the Blades&hellip;Wilson fined Defenseman Ron Reid $15 for poor play&hellip;Goalie Glenn Ramsay had 48 saves in a 4-2 loss at Fort Wayne.</p><p><b>DAYTON</b>&mdash;General Manager Lefty McFadden threatened extensive player changes during a Gems&rsquo; losing streak.,. The Gems walloped Des Moines, 110, for their first shutout in 86 games in the IHL&hellip;Three players had hat tricks, Pat Donnelly, Guy Trottier and Bob Bailey&hellip;The Gems had an average of 3,000 for seven home games.</p><p><b>MUSKEGON</b>&mdash;A standing room crowd of 5,334, including Commissioner Andy Mulligan, saw the Mohawks and Des Moines renew their feud, but it was a quiet affair&hellip;The Mohawks had 4,403 for their Thanksgiving night game&hellip;The Mohawks had a winning streak of eight broken in an overtime loss at Toledo&hellip;Joe Kastelic got back into action and scored his first goal against Dayton&hellip;The Hawks have exceeded last year&rsquo;s top attendance of 3,397 five times.</p><p><b>DES MOINES</b>&mdash;The Oak Leafs broke a nine-game losing streak with two straight wins over Port Huron and Fott Wayne&hellip;Barry Jakeman had a hat trick against the Komets&hellip;The Leafs asked waivers on goalie Ludger Doucet and forwards Ken Coombs and Carl Forster.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Waslawski, Bristow Hang Up Skates; Port Huron Home Ice Streak Hits 20

<div class="byline">BY BOB BRISCOE</div><p>REGINA, Sask.</p><p>The success of Brandon Wheat Kings continued to amaze the so-called &ldquo;experts&rdquo; of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League as the eight-team loop rounded the one-third post of a 60-game schedule on the last weekend in November.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02262/2436795-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="148" height="237"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 148px"><b>Ed Dorohoy</b></figcaption></div><p>After 22 games Wheat Kings, in what was termed as a rebuilding year, found themselves in a tie with Weyburn Red Wings for top spot in the league. Each team had won 15 games and tied two for 32 points.</p><p>Coached and managed by Ed Dorohoy, the former Western Hockey League scoring star, Wheat Kings had not lost a game at home by the end of the month and were receiving great scoring from a line composed of three of the five holdovers from last season&rsquo;s club.</p><p>Statistics released by statistician Jack Stewart after 19 games showed the line of Juha Widing, Erv Ziemer and Bill Fairbairn had counted for 61 of 102 goals I scored by the Wheaties.</p><p>Widing, the Swede sensation who scored 22 goals in his first season, including eight in his last six games, was setting the pace in the 1965-66 scoring derby with 50 points on 30 goals and 20 assists.</p><p>Ziemer was third in scoring with 14 goals and 30 assists and Fairbairn, who led the club as a rookie last season with 28 goals and 31 assists, was sixth with 17 goals and 22 assists.</p><p>The swift-skating Weyburn crew continued to stay on the top run due to the scoring of centre Dave Lee and the great goal-tending of Don Caley. Lee was second in the scoring race with 23 goals and 25 assists and Caley was fourth in goalkeeping having allowed 61 goals in the 19 games. He was the only goalkeeper in the league to have played all of his team&rsquo;s games.</p><p>Brian Shaw&rsquo;s rejuvenated Moose Jaw Canucks and Scotty Munro&rsquo;s Estevan Bruins continued to keep the pressure on the two front-runners at the end of the month.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Ed Dorohoy’s Brandon Wheat Kings ‘Surprise Of Early-Season Race

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Wed., Dec. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03173/2436826-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="288" height="97"></div><p>(NHL Affiliations: 2. Montreal: 3. Chicago; 6. Boston).</p><h2><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h2><p><b>Tues., Nov. 30</b></p><p>Toledo 3 at Des Moines 3</p><p>Port Huron 2 at Dayton 3</p><p><b>Wed., Dec. 1</b></p><p>Muskegon 3 at Fort Wayne 5</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 2</b></p><p>Toledo 4 at Des Moines 1</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 3</b></p><p>Fort Wayne 2 at Port Huron 9</p><p>Dayton 5 at Toledo 0</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 4</b></p><p>Port Huron 1 at Fort Wayne 6</p><p>Dayton 3 at Muskegon 9</p><p>Des Moines 6 at Toledo 1</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Des Moines 2 at Port Huron 5</p><h2><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h2><p><b>Wed., Dec. 8</b></p><p>Toledo at Fort Wayne</p><p>Dayton at Des Moines</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 10</b></p><p>Fort Wayne at Muskegon</p><p>Port Huron at Toledo</p><p><b>Sat., Dec. 11</b></p><p>Dayton at Fort Wayne</p><p>Muskegon at Des Moines</p><p>Toledo at Port Huron</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 12</b></p><p>Toledo at Dayton</p><p>Fort Wayne at Port Huron</p><p>Muskegon at Des Moines<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., Not. 38)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04130/2436857-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="286" height="173"></div><h2><b>LEAGUE LEADERS</b></h2><p>Most Goals: Guy Trottier. Dayton 15.</p><p>Most Assists: Chick Chalmers, Toledo 19.</p><p>Best Goals-Against Average: Bob Sneddon, Port Huron 2.94.</p><p>Most Shutouts: Bob Sneddon, Port Huron 3.</p><p>Most Penalties in Minutes: Ivan Prediger. Des Moines. 87 minutes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Point Race

<p><b>(Standings on Tues., Dec. 7)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01325/2436895-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="301" height="139"></div><p>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 2 Montreal; 3. Chicago; 4. Detroit; 5 New York; 6. Boston).</p><h2><b>GAMES COMPLETED</b></h2><p><b>Tues., Nov. 30</b></p><p>Peterborough 3 at London 2</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 2</b></p><p>St. Catharines 3 at Hamilton 7</p><p>Niagara Falls 2 al Peterborough 6</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 3</b></p><p>London 2 at Niagara Falls 14</p><p>Hamilton 2 at Kitchener 4</p><p>Montreal 2 at Toronto 4</p><p><b>Sun., Dec. 5</b></p><p>Oshawa 3 at Montreal 4</p><p>Niagara Falls 2 at Kitchener 2</p><p>Peterborough 3 at St. Catharines 3</p><p>London 4 at Toronto 4</p><h2><b>GAMES TO COME</b></h2><p><b>Tues., Dec. 7</b></p><p>Hamilton at London</p><p>Toronto at St. Catharines</p><p><b>Thurs., Dec. 9</b></p><p>Kitchener at Hamilton</p><p>Toronto at Peterborough</p><p><b>Fri., Dec. 10</b></p><p>London at Kitchener</p><p>Oshawa at Niagara Falls</p><h2><b>LEADING SCORERS</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sun., Nov. 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02273/2436888-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="296" height="150"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Looking At The OHA Race

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div><p>NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.</p><p>The nine-team Ontario Hockey Association junior A league could be accurately described this season as a promoter&rsquo;s dream.</p><p>With more than one-quarter of the 216-game schedule completed the clubs are packed tighter than fans at the CNE Stadium on Grey Cup day.</p><p>For a time it appeared as if the defending Memorial Cup champion Niagara Falls Flyers might make a shambles of the group.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04190/2436957-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="151" height="216"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gilles Marotte</b></figcaption></div><p>They failed to lose a game in their first 13 starts, winning 11 and playing two ties.</p><p>However, that No. 13 apparently proved to be a jinx for the club which is being operated this season by Bill Long and Paul Emms in the absence of owner Leigton A. (Hap) Emms who moved to Boston in an attempt to help improve the fortunes of the Bruins in the National Hockey League.</p><p>The Bruins are indeed improving with Emms as general manager but the Flyers have had their problems after springing into an early lead.</p><p>Toronto Marlboros, gradually getting back to full strength after a rash of early-season injuries, handed Niagara Falls their first loss of the season by a 3-1 score before more than 10,000 fans in Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>Hamilton Red Wings spotted the Flyers a 5-3 lead at the Hamilton Forum, then came back with three goals to emerge with a 6-5 decision and the following night Montreal Canadiens made it three losses in succession when they edged the Flyers 3-2 right in Niagara Falls.</p><p>Although Niagara Falls is not dependent on one individual player, there&rsquo;s little doubt that the loss of rugged defenseman Gilles Marotte through a leg injury, hampered them in their three consecutive defeats.</p><p>Marotte is expected back within a week but his stay in Niagara Falls may be short.</p><p>Hap Emms indicated during a brief stop in the Falls (he watched the Flyers lose to Montreal) that Marotte may be called up to the parent Bruins before the season is much older.</p><p>Now 20 years of age and in his third season of Junior A hockey, Marotte has been a major factor in the two Ontario and one Canadian championships won by Niagara Falls and should be a decided asset to the beleaguered Boston defense corps.</p><p>With a strong and accurate shot, the 5 ft. 10 in., 190 pound native of Verdun has been described by Montreal sports writer Andy O&rsquo;Brien as a &ldquo;possible future Bobby Hull.&rdquo;.</p><p>He scored 108 points the past two years in Niagara Falls and is definitely eager to turn; professional.</p><p>Also a fine catcher in baseball, he turned down a $5,000 bonus offer from Philadelphia Phillies of the National League because, as he said &ldquo;my future is in hockey, not baseball.&rdquo;</p><p>He was signed by Boston chief scout Harold (Baldy) Cotton while playing with the Verdun Police Juvenile hockey team and, along with Bobby Orr of Oshawa Generals (also a future Bostonian) he ranks as the best defenseman in junior A hockey since Doug Jarrett left St. Catharines two years ago to join the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>While the Flyers&rsquo; torrid early spurt was cooling out, Oshawa Generals continued their consistent play and, with Orr leading the way, forged into first place, a point ahead of the Flyers.</p><p>Still just 17 years of age, Orr scored twice as the Generals thumped the Montreal Canadiens 9-6 before a capacity crowd of 3,500 in Oshawa.</p><p>He was injured late in the game against Montreal but returned to the lineup in Maple Leaf Gardens less than 24 hours later to score two more goals and help his club tie the Marlboros 6-6.</p><p>In the individual scoring race, Orr maintained his two-point edge over teammate and centre Danny O&rsquo;Shea.</p><p>The Oshawa defenseman scored nine points during the week, lifting his total to 41 on 15 goals, 26 assists.</p><p>O&rsquo;Shea is second with 39 points on 16 goals, 23 assists while Peterborough centre Andre Lacroix is third with 13 goals, 25 assists for 38 points.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Niagara Falls Plunges Into Tailspin After Marotte Sidelined With Injury

<div class="byline">BY BILL GUY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03102/2436988-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="259" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY ADDUONO&hellip;Plucked From Twin City</b></figcaption></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01193/2437002-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="109" height="93"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02127/2436995-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="113" height="86"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ORT ARTHUR, Ont.&mdash;Four years ago the Port Arthur Marr&rsquo;s Juniors hockey team dipped into the Fort William minor hockey ranks to pluck an untried 15-year old. Puck fans in that city have been moaning ever since.</p><p>A hot rivalry has always existed between the Lakehead&rsquo;s Twin Cities and neither likes to see the other pilfer an outstanding athlete in any sport. In this case the Ports smuggled out Ray Adduono, a centre who promises to set all-time scoring records in the Thunder Bay Junior Hockey league.</p><p>Ray, in his fourth year with the Hill City skaters has already won just about every honor in sight and still has another year of junior eligibility remaining. In his first season he won the loop&rsquo;s rookie award. He followed this up with the scoring title in 1962-63. Last season he missed the point crown by two points but was named as the league&rsquo;s most valuable player and top centreman.</p><p>Ray&rsquo;s point production in the four-team circuit has gone up each season. In 1961-62 he had 11 goals and 21 assists for 32 points over the 28-game schedule. The following season he collected 25 goals and 15 assists for 40 points. He jumped to 27 goals and 29 assists in 1963-64 for a 56-point total.</p><p>This season Ray is away to a torrid start which poses a serious threat to the league&rsquo;s all-time point mark. This was set by Stan Baluik of Fort William Canadiens back in 1953-54 when he amassed 85 points. In his first 13 games of this season&rsquo;s 28-game slate Adduono has already scored 13 goals and added 33 assists for 46 points.</p><p>The play-making Adduono is waging a battle for scoring honors with his left wing, Tim McCormack, which may carry McCormack to a new league goal-scoring record. Thanks largely to Adduono&rsquo;s setups, Tim has 25 goals and 16 assists. Pepi Gvora, a teammate of Stan Baluik&rsquo;s in 1953-54, scored 45 goals that season to establish the record.</p><p>Adduono&rsquo;s sizzling pace has been instrumental in getting his team away to an equally impressive start. They had a 9-3-1 record at this writing and a sevenpoint bulge atop the standings.</p></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><p>Last season the club wound up in second place. With Adduono playing a big part they sidelined both Fort Frances Royals and Canadiens in the local playoffs before losing to Winnipeg Braves in the western semifinal. In a marathon best-of-nine league final which went 10 games Adduono scored 10 goals and assisted on eight others. He had four goals and five assists against Braves in a losing five-game series.</p><p>This didn&rsquo;t finish Adduono&rsquo;s hockey for the season, however. He was picked up by Warroad Lakers and saw considerable action for them in the western Canada Senior final against Nelson Maple Leafs.</p><p>Adduono is on the slight side at 5-9 and 160 but is a strong and deceptive skater and doesn&rsquo;t hurt easily. Despite being used on power plays, killing penalties and playing more than a regular shift he&rsquo;s never been on the injured list.</p><p>&ldquo;Besides being our best hockey player Ray&rsquo;s a real gentleman on and off the ice,&rdquo; says his coach, Albert Cava. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s always in top shape, never misses a practise and is our team leader.&rdquo; &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the guy we stick out there when we&rsquo;re in trouble. Ray&rsquo;s not too big and takes a lot of abuse. Somebody&rsquo;s always going after him. But despite the fact he&rsquo;s on the ice so much he&rsquo;s never missed a game for us through injury yet. I&rsquo;ve seen him play with sore knees and other ailments though.&rdquo;</p><p>A good student, Ray is now in grade 12. He&rsquo;s been offered a hockey scholarship at the University of North Dakota and is still pondering it. To remain eligible for it he can&rsquo;t play junior hockey after his birthday, Jan. 21. Port Arthur fans hope he&rsquo;ll finish out his junior career. But while Ray hopes to carve himself out a career in professional hockey (he&rsquo;s on Boston&rsquo;s list) he also wants an education.</p><p>Ray also sparkles in ball. Along with three other ambitious youngsters, he helped form a team of teenagers known as the Lakehead Admirals, which made a 19game tour of the U.S. in the summer of 1964.</p><p>&lsquo;Vith Adduono leading the way the Port Arthur junior are taking dead aim at no worse than a berth in the Western Canada final this season. The way they&rsquo;re going don&rsquo;t bet against it. And if they do it will just make those Fort William fans grieve a little more.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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