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January 15, 1966

The Hockey News January 15, 1966

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>FORT WAYNE, Ind.The Fort Wayne Komets, perennial attendance leaders in the International Hockey League, set a new high mark in games here over the New Year&rsquo;s weekend.In two back-to-back games they drew a total of 14,326 paid admissions. For a New Year&rsquo;s Eve game with Dayton, 7,459 fans turned out and on New Year&rsquo;s night, 6,863 came out to see the Komets play Muskegon.These were all bona fide admissions, with no promotional angles &mdash; no horns, favors or souvenirs. It was the third time this season the Komets have hit over the 7,000 mark in attendance, although they have never quite reached the Memorial Coliseum capacity of 8.013.This season&rsquo;s total attendance for 15 games is 81,815, an average of 5,454. Last season the Komets had 179,000 for 35 regular season games.Len Thomson had a hat trick and two assists in the Muskegon game, and he needs only two points to hit the 1,000 point career mark, first in the IHL &hellip; John Goodwin, who couldn&rsquo;t buy a goal earlier in the season, hit for five in three games &hellip; Merv Dubchak was finally blanked but had 34 goals in 32 games &hellip; The Komets went back to their &ldquo;jet&rdquo; line of Bob Rivard, Goodwin and Dubchak &hellip; Rivard topped all scorers with 52 points.PORT HURON &mdash; Tom Clark had four goals in a 10-6 victory over Toledo &hellip; Bill LeCaine had a hat trick in the next meeting with the Blades &hellip; Gary Ross may be lost for the season with a back injury &hellip; After winning 11 straight at home, the Flags tied two and lost one in their next three home starts &hellip; The Flags gave away 948 pucks to youngsters at a game with Fort Wayne &hellip; LeCaine received a misconduct penalty for bumping into linesman Pete Glaab &hellip;MUSKEGON &mdash; The Mohawks drew 4,424 for their New Year&rsquo;s Eve game against Des Moines &hellip; Clem Labrecque had his first hat trick of the season in the 11-3 win &hellip; Gil LaPalme injured his back in sliding into the boards and was expected to miss several games &hellip; The Mohawks were six weeks ahead of their last season&rsquo;s pace, which landed them in last place.DAYTON &mdash; General Manager Lefty McFadden was fined $25 for &ldquo;questioning the integrity of a referee&rdquo; during a game with Fort Wayne &hellip; X-rays showed Guy Trottier had a braised elbow and not a break, as feared &hellip; Trottier had his second hat trick of the season and sixth in two years &hellip; The Gems were more than 3,000 over last year&rsquo;s attendance and eight wins ahead in the standings &hellip; Trottier, in this country on a permanent visa, was given a year&rsquo;s deferment by the U. S. Selective Service.TOLEDO &mdash; Moe Morissette, who had been in the hospital with a severed artery and concussion, scored the winning goal in overtime against Des Moines &hellip; The &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Fort Wayne Draws 14,325 Puck Fans To Weekend Games

(1) A certain NHL coach has been associated with his team for 27 consecutive years. Who is be?(2) On December 29, 1965, Toronto&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk assisted on a goal which gave him the greatest number of assists of the current NHL netminders. What did he boost his total to that night?(3) Prior to the aforementioned evening, Sawchuk was tied with another goaltender for assist honours. Name other player.(4) Maurice Richard was the first player to hit the coveted 50 goal mark, having since been followed by Bernie Geoffrion and Bobby Hull. Do you recall the season when the Rocket banged in all his goals?(5) Doug Harvey, currently with the Baltimore Clippers, was a dominant figure among NHL defensemen for years He also was a perennial AllStar. How many times was he selected on the first All-Star team?(6) Bill Moe, who was an outstanding AHL defenseman before joining the Rangers in the 1940&rsquo;s, was often given ink for something else. What made him somewhat unique in those days?(7) Only three of the current general managers in the NHL do not coach their teams. Do you know their names?(8) Now this should be a real cinch. Only two NHL managers ever played in the big league. Who are they?(9) Back to Terry Sawchuk again. He holds the record for the total number of NHL shutouts. He&rsquo;s been around quite a while, so he&rsquo;s racked up a fair number. How many does he have? Is it: 97 86 101 95(10) Finally, and this one should be a breeze. Who is the youngest coach in the NHL?<h2>ANSWERS NEXT WEEK</h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION(1) Sid Smith(2) 1946-47.(3) Dit Clapper.(4) Chicago.(5) The series was halted by influenza.(6) Two.(7) Conn Smythe.(8) Feb. 26, 1947, when Chicago played New York.(9) Emile Francis.(10) Conn Smythe.<h2>SPORTS PHOTOS !</h2>Thousands of different 8 x 10 glossy photos. Ideal for your bar, den or clubroom 5 for $3.00 Write for FREE new and enlarged illustrated catalog. Send 10c (stamps or coin) to cover postage and handling.ALL SPORTS PHOTOSBox 267-H Freeport, N.Y. &#9632;

HOCKEY … Quiz

<div class="byline">BY DAN MOULTON</div>CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;Judging solely from the National Hockey League schedule, the month of January should provide the Black Hawks with their most severe test of the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01535/2314770-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="271" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Dryden</figcaption></div>Nine of the month&rsquo;s 14 games are scheduled for foreign ice, a tough situation even for a team which has won 12 of its first 15 road games.But judging from the calibre of play the Hawks were displaying as they swing into the new year, January could turn out to be the most profitable month of the schedule.Bobby Hull was scoring at a pace of nearly a goal a game and displaying a fairly newfound facility for play-making that had him well on the way toward picking up his third league scoring title.Elmer Vasko was back on duty with Pierre Pilote after missing 12 games because of a broken toe and the veteran defensive duo was performing as well as it ever has in its nine years of existence.Glenn Hall was getting a bit of relief in the nets from Rookie Dave Dryden. The defense, notably Matt Ravlich and Pat Stapleton, has been tremendous for the Hawks.And the forwards were back-checking consistently for the first time this year.In fact, the only bleak spot in the picture was the fact that the Canadiens had won four of their first five games with the Hawks and were scheduled to face them four more times during the month.&ldquo;Sure, the Canadiens have been beating us because they can outskate us,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;The only way we can stop them is to try to stay close and hit them. Then, the problem of penalties arises and here&rsquo;s where we&rsquo;ve been having problems.&ldquo;I feel that the officiating has beaten us in a couple of games &mdash; but I can&rsquo;t find any-one of Chicago who&rsquo;ll agree with me.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02428/2314763-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1663" height="1696"><figcaption class="caption-body">During a recent visit to Montreal, BOBBY HULL, left, and STAN MIKITA of Hie Chicago Black Hawks were presented with Stetson Hats for scoring three-goal &lsquo;hat tricks&rsquo; in regular NHL games. When the Hawks&rsquo; stars dropped into the Henri Henri Limitee store at 255 St. Catherine Street East in Montreal, they were fitted with the Western-style chapeaus along with teammates PHIL ESPOSITO, second right, and CHICO MAKI, right. Hull and Mikita also took time out to pose with the store&rsquo;s happy executive in bottom picture. Left to right, ARMAND ROLLAND, office manager, Hull, MARIO DUMONT, Montreal salesman, Mikita and HENRI HENRI, the proud proprietor of the establishment, which is famous for its distribution of Stetson hats.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03282/2314756-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1657" height="998"></div>&ldquo;But I have a hunch things are going to start improving for us against Montreal. With Pat Stapleton operating as our fifth defenseman and Vasko back, our defense is stronger now then it was during the first couple of months and we&rsquo;re getting better defensive play out of our forwards.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not conceding anything to the Canadiens and I don&rsquo;t ever intend to.&rdquo;Len Lunde&rsquo;s return after missing 14 games with a broken thumb also brightened Reay&rsquo;s vista. The big wing was restored to duty on the left side of the Bill Hay-Eric Nesterenko line, after Dennis Hull and Freddie Stanfield were shipped to St. Louis, and promptly began contributing to the unit&rsquo;s offensive zip.&ldquo;Len adds plenty to those other hustlers,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;Hay and Nester are always hustling and Len has the knack for putting the puck in the net. And when those three are together, there&rsquo;s not a better line of stickhandlers in the league.&rdquo;Lunde&rsquo;s ability to stick, of course, depends mainly on his willingness to persevere in the rough going, the lack of which trait cost him several previous chances to draw big league paychecks.&ldquo;Len knows what the situation is,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve told him that I have plenty of faith in his skating and scoring ability but that he&rsquo;ll stay only if he learns to check and use his body. It&rsquo;s strictly up to him.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hull Nears One A Game Goal Pace

<h2>Mon., Dec. 27</h2>SAN FRANCISCO 4 at VANCOUVER 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05202/2316177-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="539" height="510"></div><h2>Wed., Dec. 24</h2>SAN FRANCISCO 5 at VICTORIA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06165/2316170-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="542" height="612"></div><h2>Fri., Dec. 31</h2>SAN FRANCISCO 2 at LOS ANGELES 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07124/2316163-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="547" height="236"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-08102/2316156-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="546" height="378"></div>PORTLAND & at SEATTLE 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0989/2316149-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="541" height="622"></div><h2>Sat., Jan. 1</h2>LOS ANGELES 1 at SAN FRANCISCO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1077/2316142-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="535" height="404"></div>SEATTLE 2 at PORTLAND 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1167/2316135-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="519" height="81"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1260/2316128-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="543" height="559"></div>VANCOUVER 1 at VICTORIA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1351/2316121-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="542" height="550"></div><h2>Sun., Jan. 2</h2>LOS ANGELES 0 at PORTLAND 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1437/2316114-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="544" height="458"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1532/2316107-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="544" height="262"></div>VICTORIA 5 at VANCOUVER 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1627/2316100-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="535" height="549"></div>SAN FRANCISCO 4 at SEATTLE 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1725/2316093-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="541" height="783"></div> &#9632;

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Western Hockey League Summaries

NEW YORK. N.Y.The New York Rangers&rsquo; search for a new &lsquo;ice cop&rsquo; may be at an end with the acquisition of rugged Reg Fleming from the Boston Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01113/2316921-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="268" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Req Fleming</figcaption></div>The Rangers picked up the muscular Fleming in a straight player trade with Boston, giving up right winger John McKenzie to the Bruins in exchange. No cash was involved.To quote Boston coach Milt Schmidt, &ldquo;we traded Fleming&rsquo;s muscle for McKenzie&rsquo;s hustle.&rdquo;Fleming. 29. was swapped to the Rangers less than a week after he had been ordered off the ice by Schmidt for failing to hustle in practice. The hard-rock forward-defenseman, who had become popular with Boston and Chicago fans (when he was a Black Hawk) for his willingness to mix it up. will be the latest candidate in the Rangers&rsquo; hunt for a &lsquo;policeman&rsquo; type player. The Blues haven&rsquo;t had one since Lou Fontinato was traded away. &#9632;

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Bruins Swap Reg Fleming To Rangers

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0290/2316952-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hockey observers expect JACQUES LAPERRIERE of Montreal Canadiens, shown checking Leafs&rsquo; DAVE KEON, left, will put a big crimp in the NHL first half voting for the Norris Trophy award as the league&rsquo;s outstanding defenseman.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;In a very short time National Hockey League selectors will sit down and mull over the first half awards&rsquo; winners and all-star teams following the completion of the NHL&rsquo;s 35th game by each of the six clubs.It seems certain that voting will be extremely close for three of the four individual trophy awards and most of the all-star berths as well.Selectors will be asked to pick halfw&rsquo;ay leaders for the Hart Trophy (MVP). Norris, (best defenseman), Byng (most gentlemanly player) and Calder (leading rookie) as well as a first and second all-star teams.Off his scorching first-half scoring binge, Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull appears headed for victory in the Hart Trophy voting although Detroit&rsquo;s Sid Abel is convinced his big defenseman, Doug Barkley, rates as a top prospect while Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Jacques Laperriere and Glenn Hall, also of the Hawks and Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe and Norm Ullman, are expected to figure in the voting.Abel is extremely proud of his rookie rearguard Bert Marshall whom he says stands out in his mind as the best among the 12-player freshman crop. Selectors are also likely to ogle Toronto&rsquo;s Brit Selby and Boston&rsquo;s Bernie Parent but it shapes up as a two-man race between Marshall and Selby at the moment.Detroit appears to have a justified claim in Alex Delvecchio for the Lady Byng Trophy. The veteran Red Wing performer is the least penalized player among the NHL&rsquo;s &lsquo;Big Ten&rsquo; and this is one of the major requisites for winning the Byng Trophy award. Others who will get a look from the voters are Bobby Rousseau of Canadiens, Rangers&rsquo; Don Marshall and Bob Nevin.Voting for the Norris Trophy is likely to be confined to Laperriere and Chicago&rsquo;s Pierre Pilote, who has a three-year hold on the award. Tim Horton and Allen Stanley of the Leafs and Barkley of the Wings will also be judged by the selection committee for their outstanding play.In the matter of all-star balloting, Hull is practically guaranteed of the left wing berth and Gordie Howe the right wing spot. Rousseau and Nevin appear to be Howe&rsquo;s chief competitors but the vote will more than likely swing to the big Detroit winger. Stan Mikita, Ullman and Jean Beliveau are the likely three centre-ice picks the selectors will dwell on.Glenn Hall of Chicago and Detroit&rsquo;s Roger Crozier are the two most talked about allstar goaling prospects.The defense could also present many problems for the selectors. Laperriere is certain to be named to one of the first-team berths but after that its wide open. &#9632;

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Hull To Get Most Attention From Selectors

<div class="byline">BY BOB GATES</div>BOSTON, Mass.One of the least understood players in the National Hockey League is Boston&rsquo;s fiery Ted Green.In the New York press this rock-hard Bruins&rsquo; defenseman is portrayed as some sort of &ldquo;animal,&rdquo; a vicious &ldquo;dirty player&rdquo; bent on inflicting personal injury.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01536/2314677-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="265" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Green</figcaption></div>Nothing could be further from the truth.Aggressive, yes. Vicious, no.True, there have been times when the stocky Hub blueliner has overstepped the bounds of what&rsquo;s acceptable in NHL warfare. There was a stick-swinging duel with Guy Gendron a few years back. And recently an accidental spearing of Phil Goyette, also in New York.But Ted vehemently denies ever going out to &ldquo;get&rdquo; an opposing player.&ldquo;Some players are slick, clever with the stick and fast. Others play it straight, give a little, take a little,&rdquo; Green said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m aggressive. That&rsquo;s my style and I won&rsquo;t change.&rdquo;Practically weaned on the bodycheck and clenched fist, this solid 5 ft. 10 In., 200-pound powderkeg admits to having a short fuse. And the main reason he is the most penalized player in the league this season is because he&rsquo;ll dish out a lot more hip and shoulder than he&rsquo;ll take.He&rsquo;s one of the game&rsquo;s fastest at dropping his gloves and squaring off.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the way I&rsquo;ve been taught,&rdquo; Ted explained. &ldquo;As far back as I can remember, it was what was expected of me &mdash; to hit hard and often. And in every new league I played my reputation as a fighter preceded me.&ldquo;Nobody enjoys fighting. I certainly don&rsquo;t. But I won&rsquo;t back down from anybody. And I won&rsquo;t take anything dirty.&rdquo;Green, 25, is also looked up to as the enforcer on the Bruins. Rivals generally respect his presence and think twice about taking undue liberties with less-aggressive Boston skaters. Many a time he has stepped between two would-be combatants to even the sides, or started a second tussle to bail out a teammate.However, with all his aggressiveness, Green, during his four and a half seasons in the NHL, has shown also that he knows a thing or two about playing solid defense.At this time a year ago Ted, in mid-season all-star balloting, was rated the third best rear-guard in the business. In addition to riding herd on enemy penetrations, he was clearing well with sharp, deliberate passes, skating it out, and even carrying the attack to frequent success.As his points total began to rise, people began to take notice.Critics reported his transformation from a brash, awkward, brawler to a forceful but intelligent defenseman.&ldquo;Sure I matured. Everyone does with experience,&rdquo; Ted declared. &ldquo;You said I mellowed. But it was more than that. I was playing 45 minutes a game &mdash; taking my regular turn, playing the point on the power play, and even killing penalties. I was just too tired to do any fighting.&rdquo;Since Tom Johnson&rsquo;s departure, Green has been carrying the puck less, but still continues to improve defensively.&ldquo;Honestly, I feel I&rsquo;m becoming a more &lsquo;heady&rsquo; player,&rdquo; Ted confided. &ldquo;I have more confidence and feel more sure of myself. I even give a little feint now and then,&rdquo; he laughed.Shortly the conversation got back to the recent incident in New York, where he allegedly pitch-forked Goyette.&ldquo;I was piecing it together the other night,&rdquo; Green said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been called up in front of Mr. Campbell (League President Clarence Campbell) four times. And each of those times it was because of run-ins at New York, You figure it out.&rdquo;It isn&rsquo;t any puzzle. The answer obvious.Teddy faces an untenable situation on each visit to Madison square Garden. Fans there boo him unmercifully. And it&rsquo;s likely to get worse before it gets any better. It&rsquo;s been bad since Green&rsquo;s first year in the league and appeared to reach new heights of ridiculousness when Bill Jennings, Rangers president, put a &ldquo;bounty&rdquo; on Green&rsquo;s hide.&ldquo;They really goad the guy,&rdquo; said one Bruins player. &ldquo;When 14,000 fans start chanting &lsquo;Get Green, Get Green&rsquo; they know something&rsquo;s got to give &mdash; and it isually does.&ldquo;The opposition takes the cue ind starts running at Ted, and laturally he&rsquo;s going to retaliate Nobody wants to get his head knocked off.&ldquo;It adds up to an unfair situation.&rdquo;But Green isn&rsquo;t complaining. Nor is he worried about any head-hunters in Manhattan.What does concern him, however, is that people may start believing some of the uncomplimentary things being said about him as a result of the incident in New York.&ldquo;When a guy starts giving you the high lumber, you&rsquo;ve got to protect yourself,&rdquo; says Teddy. &ldquo;Guys were coming at me all night &hellip; I would never have speared Goyette &hellip; I wheeled around &hellip; it was an accident &hellip; Goyette wouldn&rsquo;t hurt a guy in a million years &hellip; I&rsquo;m honestly sorry.&rdquo;Strong, brash, aggressive &mdash; this is Edward Joseph (Ted) Green. But under that rock-hard veneer of muscle he&rsquo;s not much different from you or me. He just works at a violent trade. &#9632;

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Green Admits Aggressive Play His Style, But Denies He’s Out To ‘Get’ NHL Rivals

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;The National Hockey League has warned the Boston Bruins it is the responsibility of the club to control its employees &mdash; notably &lsquo;Terrible Teddy&rsquo; Green.NHL President Clarence Campbell made his statement after the Boston &ldquo;strong boy&rsquo; allegedly speared New York&rsquo;s Phil Goyette putting the latter out of action for three weeks with internal injuries.&ldquo;The man who signs the pay cheque is the man best suited to control his player in a case like this,&rdquo; Campbell said.Campbell declined comment on statements attributed to Rangers President Bill Jennings in which the New York owner said he felt like &ldquo;putting a bounty on Green&rsquo;s head.&rdquo;Billy Reay, Chicago Black Hawks coach called for a crackdown by NHL officials on players deliberately using their sticks as spears. &#9632;

Bruins Must Control Green, Club Responsible Says NHL

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL &mdash; Don Johns, defenseman, recalled from Quebec of AHL and returned. Leon Rochefort, forward, called up from Quebec.CHICAGO &mdash; Dennis Hull, forward, optioned to St. Louis of CPHL.NEW YORK &mdash; Lou Angotti, forward, sold to Chicago of NHL. John McKenzie, forward. sold to Boston in exchange for Reg Fleming, forward.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>QUEBEC &mdash; Billy Staub, forward, returned to Houston of CPHL.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>SAN FRANCISCO &mdash; Del Topoll, forward, recalled from Tulsa of CPHL. Stan Gilbertson, forward, called up from Clinton of EHL on pro tryout basis.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>OKLAHOMA CITY &mdash; Andy Herrebout, forward, joined team for five-game pro tryout.TULSA &mdash; Jim Wilcox, defenseman, obtained on loan from Springfield of AHL.<h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2>GREENSBORO &mdash; Mike Draper, forward, rejoined team. Harvey Turnbull, forward, loaned to Jersey of EHL.NEW JERSEY &mdash; Jean Pierre Lafond, forward, secured from Jacksonville of EHL. Art Chiupka, forward, exchanged with Jacksonville for Bobby Boucher, forward.KNOXVILLE &mdash; Wayne Doll, goalkeeper, obtained from Clinton of EHL. Harrison Gray, goalkeeper, transferred to New Haven of EHL. Don Labelle, defenseman, rejoined team. &#9632;

Movement Of Players

CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;When Chico Maki recently scored a game - winning goal for the Black Hawks it touched off one of the strangest episodes of the season in the Stadium. A split second after he scored the goal, Maki found himself lying in a heap in the corner behind the Boston cage, the victim of a spear, apparently by Ron Stewart.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04170/2314801-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="223" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chico Maki</figcaption></div>As he lay there, being administered to by Assistant Trainer Don Uren, Chico was informed that upon recovery, he&rsquo;d have to spend Two minutes in the penalty box for having taken a swipe at Stewart with his stick as he was going down.No penalty was called against Stewart.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know who it was that got me,&rdquo; said Chico. &ldquo;But I saw a Boston sweater handy and took a swing. After Ashley told me about the penalty, I asked him if he&rsquo;d seen the spear. He said he was sorry but he&rsquo;d missed it.&ldquo;That was great, eh? I could have got killed out there and he missed it.&rdquo;Reay is beginning to wonder if perhaps his crew has been designated to serve as dummies for bayonet practice by the rest of the league.&ldquo;This is the second time one of our guys has been pitch-forked and little has been done about it. Eddie Shack just about put his stick through Mikita in Toronto Christmas night and only got two minutes.&ldquo;Now Stewart nearly runs his stick through Maki and nothing happens. I know every time I complain out loud about these things, I&rsquo;m called a cry-baby but I just can&rsquo;t sit by and watch things like this happen and keep my mouth shut.&rdquo;The shipping of Dennis Hull and Fred Stanfield to St. Louis wasn&rsquo;t entirely unexpected but the Hawks did pull a shocker by recalling Dave Richardson from the Braves in the same transaction.The 26-year-old left wing had not been dressing with St. Louis and, although he&rsquo;s been in uniform for all of the Hawks&rsquo; games since he joined them, he hadn&rsquo;t seen a second of ice time at this writing. &#9632;

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Maki Spear Unnoticed By Referee

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;It&rsquo;s not difficult to figure out how the Maple Leafs were able to skate through 10 games without losing, and move out of reach of the National Hockey league&rsquo;s second division teams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01598/2314856-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="293" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Fulford</figcaption></div>Nor is it any mystery that Eddie Shack has become a more prolific scorer than at any time during his tempestuous hockey career.Bob Pulford has had a great deal to do with both developments.Pulford is enjoying the finest season in his decade with the Toronto club. After 31 games, he had produced 15 goals and 15 assists.It&rsquo;s a tribute to Pulford&rsquo;s reputation for excellence that he&rsquo;s received very little publicity on his unprecedented success this winter. It&rsquo;s taken for granted, you see, that Pulford will play well. Thus it&rsquo;s not noticeable when he plays even better than usual.Pulford scored 23 goals during the 1958-59 season, 24 the year after, and he hasn&rsquo;t surpassed 20 since then. Barring injury, he&rsquo;s a cinch to beat that 20-goal career high this year, and to edge fairly close to the 200-goal plateau for lifetime output. He started the season with 157.Just now, he&rsquo;s centering Shack and left-winger Red Kelly on Leafs&rsquo; best forward line.Pulford wasn&rsquo;t always a centre. When he turned professional in 1956, after a splendid junior career with Marlboros, he was placed at left wing with Barry and Brian Cullen. Switching him to centre was one of the first moves Punch Imlach made after he became coach in that 1958-59 schedule.It was the turning point for Pulford and, perhaps, for Leafs since their strength at centre &mdash; Pulford, Keon and Kelly &mdash; was the key to their three consecutive Stanley Cup championships between 1962 and 1964.Pulford will be 30 on March 31 and there is no sign his skills are slipping. If anything, he&rsquo;s improving as he gathers experience. His own view always has been that he must retain speed and peak physical condition to succeed.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have a lot of style,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I have to hustle, beat the other guy to the puck, make the first move.&rdquo;However, as Pulford grows older, he can decrease the emphasis on speed simply because he knows more about hockey and about his opposition. He is a student of the game.Leafs&rsquo; 10-game unbeaten string, equalling a team record, was the result of improved team play, Pulford theorized. He was the first to admit, though, that the Shack-Pulford-Kelly line was going extremely well.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always considered Eddie a good hockey player,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;He can skate fast enough to be in the right places at all times.&ldquo;And we&rsquo;re fortunate to have Kelly on the left wing. He makes great plays.&rdquo;So it&rsquo;s the perfect combination, Pulford forechecking, Kelly setting things up, Shack the payoff man.&ldquo;But the reason the team has been winning is that it&rsquo;s skating,&rdquo; Pulford says. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re playing aggressive hockey, carrying the play to the other team. This means we control the puck and we keep the other guys in their zone.&rdquo;Pulford is the logical successor to George Armstrong as team captain. He may not get the job because of his obvious zest for quarrels with the front office. He has been known to hold out over a $25. difference, simply because he believes in his principles.Pulford holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McMaster University in Hamilton and is a daily visitor to the stock trading salons of Toronto&rsquo;s Bay Street. His investments are made only after careful study, as much a hobby as a business.He&rsquo;s married now and has a tiny son. His wife, Roz, is one of the finest lady curlers in Toronto. The Pulfords are residents of Thistletown, a suburb west of the city. &#9632;

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Pulford Enjoying Banner Hockey Season, Big Cog In Leafs’ 10-Game Unbeaten Run

TORONTO, Ont.Much of the Maple Leafs&rsquo; future success will hinge on Wayne Carleton&rsquo;s knees.Carleton, a large and talented left-winger, is the prize prospect in the entire Leaf organization. His career is threatened, though, by a pair of gimpy knees weakened by three operations within the past year.Carleton recently had a 2-game tryout with Leafs, helping set up one goal and generally playing for all the world like a big-leaguer. It was his first action after almost a year off.Punch Imlach, Leafs&rsquo; coach and general manager, said afterwards that Carleton would be returned to Marlboro juniors for the time being. He did not rule out the possibility of further big-league work for Carleton, though. He can play three more Leaf matches without losing his amateur eligibility.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02559/2314887-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="285" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Carleton</figcaption></div>Stafford Smythe, Leaf president, has called Carleton the finest junior prospect he&rsquo;s ever seen. That, of course, includes Frank Mahovlich. Carleton may deserve such praise, too. He is 6-foot-3, weights 225 and is well-coordinated. He skates well, shoots well and is an intelligent playmaker.Carleton is in good physical shape just now, after nearly a year of intensive training. Extensive surgical repairs were required to fix up knee damage caused in a baseball game. The knees are as sound now as they&rsquo;ll ever be, according to Leaf physicians.&ldquo;You never know, of course,&rdquo; Carlton says. &ldquo;I could last one shift or 10 years.&rdquo;On that basis, his two games with Leafs must have been encouraging.&mdash;PROUDFOOT &#9632;

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Carleton Rates High In Future Leaf Book

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT. Mich. &mdash;Tradition trampier Sid Abel is at it again.He&rsquo;s stumping for a defenseman for the Hart Trophy and he brought back a player he traded seven months ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01556/2314932-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="295" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Marshall</figcaption></div>Big Doug Barkley is Abel&rsquo;s Hart Trophy candidate and, good as Barkley has played, that&rsquo;s really crushing custom since a defenseman hasn&rsquo;t won the big cup for 22 years, going back to Toronto&rsquo;s Babe Pratt.And Parker MacDonald, as you know, is the old hand returned to the Olympia range.That move was just about enough to cause Abel&rsquo;s banishment from the coaches&rsquo; club.The old, unwritten rule is: Never break up a winning combination.So what did the Red Wing manager-coach do? He cracked the most awesome line iced in the National Hockey League this season &mdash; left wing Norm Ullman, center Alex Delvecchio and right wing Gordie Howe.In a 15-game run (12 victories, three defeats) the line scored 26 goals and had 66 scoring points.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02514/2314925-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1066" height="1339"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG BARKLEY &hellip; Wings&rsquo; Hart Trophy Hope</figcaption></div>That Abel even put Ullman, the All-Star center last season, on the line was indicative of Abel&rsquo;s disregard for tradition.&ldquo;They were terrific,&rdquo; Abel admitted, &ldquo;but it was a case of putting all our eggs in one basket.&ldquo;We tried everyone on left wing on that line but only Normie worked out. Parker always worked like hand-in-glove with Alex and Gordie and we hated to give him up in the first place.&rdquo;MacDonald was traded to Boston in May, a move that Abel said he made partially because MacDonald was booed in Detroit and that it was getting to him.MacDonald, 32-year-old left wing who came back to Detroit in exchange for 22-year-old center Pit Martin, was immediately reunited with Howe and Delvecchio and scored a goal in his second game back, drawing a standing ovation.The return of MacDonald enabled Ullman to move back to his regular job of pivoting the second line and he will be listed as a center for purposes of AllStar voting.Abel pitched for Ullman on the Star squad and for Howe &mdash; &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t trade Howe for Bob Nevin, Bobby Rousseau and several others thrown in&rdquo; &mdash; and for goalie Roger Crozier who racked up his fifth shutout before the Wings reached midseason.But he stumped most for Barkley, the sandy-haired, 6-foot-2, 195-pound, just turned-29-year-old rearguard.&ldquo;Ullman played two positions and gave us a big lift when we were floundering around,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;Howe? What more can you say about him? He&rsquo;s been great.&ldquo;But I would plug Barkley No. 1 for the Hart Trophy, the Norris Trophy and All-Star team. He&rsquo;s performed that well for us.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had serious injuries to Bill Gadsby and Warren Godfrey, both veteran defensemen, and Doug stepped right in.&ldquo;He worked mainly with rookies and one second-year man (Gary Bergman) and he killed penalties, played the point on the power play, took his regular shifts and was on at the start of each game and the ends of the periods.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03411/2314918-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="448" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body">PARKER MacDONALD&hellip; Back Among Friends</figcaption></div>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s played his best hockey since he&rsquo;s been in Detroit. And I might add that aside from one other fellow, Boston&rsquo;s Leo Boivin, he&rsquo;s the only player in the league right now who can really hurt a fellow with a bodycheck.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s not basically a body checker. But when he hits, body-for-body, they have to go out and get the other fellow. He really hurts &rsquo;em,&rdquo; Abel said.Thie Red Wing chief has another candidate, Unflappable Bert Marshall, the 6-3, 200-pound rookie who shares Barkley&rsquo;s bachelor quarters.&ldquo;We tried to get Arnie Brown from New York when we were having trouble with our defense. We tried to work a deal with Boston (supposedly for Boivin) and we brought up some players from our own system,&rdquo; Abel said.&ldquo;Then we were forced to try Bert. He&rsquo;s played like a veteran, is very poised and I think should be the rookie of the year.&rdquo;Abel usually has a &ldquo;find&rdquo; each season. This year it&rsquo;s Marshall, the second-year pro, a youngster Abel didn&rsquo;t care much for in training camp either last season or this and had to be sold on by Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Eddie Bush and Baz Bastien.He&rsquo;s some find. &#9632;

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Abel Boosts Barkley, Marshall For Awards

DETROIT, Mich.The Red Wings added a touch of class for the New Year.Plush, crimson carpeting, wall-to-wall, was laid in the NHL champions&rsquo; dressing room, completing a refurnishing program that included lowering the ceiling to make the quarters a little more intimate and adding a storage room.The carpeting isn&rsquo;t supposed to be affected by the players&rsquo; sharp skates and so far, it hasn&rsquo;t. &#9632;

Wings Get Red Carpet Treatment

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly May through September by Ken-Will Publishing Co. Ltd. 1434 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Kenneth William McKenzie, President and PublisherWill V. Cote, Vice-Pres. and Gen Mgr.Yearly Subscription Kates: $4.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth $5.00 in the U.S.A, and $7.00 in Foreign Countries.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.Vol. 19 MONTREAL. JANUARY 15. 1966 No. 14<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01625/2315008-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="407" height="433"></div>&bull; BOBBY HULL, Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito and Chico Maki are wearing new Western-style Stetson hats these days and causing quite a stir when the four of them are seen together. The players picked up these Stetsons on a recent trip to Montreal. The John B. Stetson Company (Canada) Limited gives a free Stetson to every NHL player scoring a Hat Trick this season or any goalie gaining a shutout. Effective January 1, 1966, the company policy is one hat per player. The way Hull was getting Hat Tricks and Hall and Crozier registering shutouts it wouldn&rsquo;t be long before they took over the hat business. That&rsquo;s why the Stetson people brought In the ruling of one hat per player &hellip; &ldquo;Score the goals &hellip; but leave us the factory&rdquo; said one Stetson official the other day &hellip; New Ranger Reg Fleming has gone on a strict diet in the hopes that a slimmer chassis will help him score more goals &hellip; Marcel Pronovost is happy Billy Harris decided not to retire from hockey and to report to Pittsburgh. Pronovost had been renting Billy&rsquo;s home in Toronto after he was traded to the Leafs by Detroit on a month-to-month basis &hellip; It is the growing opinion of more and more knowledgeable hockey people that the outstanding rookie in the NHL this season is Detroit&rsquo;s Bert Marshall. The rookie defenseman keeps getting better with every game and the Red Wing officials credit Marshall&rsquo;s excellent play with the team&rsquo;s fine showing of late &hellip; Sid Abel thinks Doug Barkley, his 28-year-old defenseman, is the top candidate to win the Hart Trophy as the loop&rsquo;s MVP for the first half of the season. If Barkley won the Hart Trophy this season he would be the first defenseman to do so since Babe Pratt won it with Toronto in 1943-44.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02497/2315001-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="261" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>&bull; IS PUNCH IMLACH Good For The Leafs? That&rsquo;s the title of the feature story in the January issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL. This revealing story delves into both sides of the controversial Toronto leader. Another fine story in the same issue on Frank Mahovlieh, titled: Puck Puzzler. Paul Rimstead, Toronto hockey writer goes way behind the scenes on this one and he calls The Big M &mdash; the Enigma of Hockey &hellip; Glenn Hall, Bernie Parent, Sammy Pollock and Jim Neilson are other NHL personalities profiled in this issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL &hellip; Margaret Scott has a special for the ladies in The Pictorial on Mrs. Marcel Pronovost &hellip; &ldquo;What It&rsquo;s Like to Be A Hockey Wife&rdquo; &hellip; Bobby Hull told us the other day he doesn&rsquo;t plan to play too many more years in the NHL &hellip; &ldquo;If I&rsquo;m set financially and everything is right I&rsquo;d like to quit in three or four more years,&rdquo; he reported. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not trying to set any records.&rdquo; &hellip; Hull is very proud of his expanding cattle ranch near Belleville, Ont. He has some of the finest bulls in Canada in his herd &hellip; An exhibition game has been scheduled for February 15 in Phoenix, Arizona between the Tulsa Oilers and the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Pro League. A new building seating a little over 10,000 has been erected in Phoenix and that city is anxious to land a Western League franchise soon &hellip; Ray Miron, GM of Tulsa, advises that his team is leading the CPHL in gate receipts. The Tulsa team drew 51,248 fans for the first 13 games played this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03371/2314994-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="249" height="385"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Miron</figcaption></div>&bull; MINOR HOCKEY WEEK IN CANADA has been set to start on January 22 &hellip; Alex Faulkner, late of the Detroit Red Wings and now with the Corner Brook, Newfoundland team, has had his troubles this season. He suffered a double fracture of the arm after colliding with a goal post and had an emergency appendectomy &hellip; Parker MacDonald was the original Most Happy Fella when he was traded back to Detroit and placed back on a forward unit with Howe and Delvecchio. Right now he&rsquo;s planning on how he will spend his playoff money &hellip; The current issue of Sport magazine names, guess who ? &mdash; Bobby Hull &mdash; Top Performer in Hockey for 1965. Sport also spotlights Bobby in a fine doublelength feature in the same issue &hellip; Jim Hunt, sports editor of the Toronto Star Weekly, is writing a book on Hull which is expected to hit the stands this April &hellip; It&rsquo;s figured out that Hull could score 68 goals this season if he maintains his current pace.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04256/2314987-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="277" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Faulkner</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05209/2315039-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="996" height="259"></div><h2>Top Goal Scorer Should Get Trophy</h2>Hockey News Editor:I have a gripe that I would like to express to other hockey fans. Being a hockey fan for a number of years I am still appalled at the fact that a man, Norm Ullman as an example can score 42 goals in one season and not be recognized by the league for the fact that he scored more goals in a season than anyone else did.I believe that it helped him at all-star time, etc., but that does not belie the fact that he scored more goals than anyone else. In checking back on past seasons I find many players scored more goals in a season than anyone else yet did not win the scoring title, or be awarded for being the leading goal getter.The man who hits the most home runs in a season in baseball is honored, why not the leading goal scorer in hockey? Scoring a goal in hockey is ten times as hard as hitting a home run in baseball which makes it even more important that the man should be honored.I would like to see a trophy donated to the leading goal scorer in honor of Jack Adams, who has done so much for hockey as a player, coach, manager and builder for many years.Harold B. BachmanDearborn Heights, Mich.<h2>Hockey Publications Gladden Soldiers&rsquo; Day</h2>Hockey News Editor:I am an ardent hockey fan and subscribe to the two greatest hockey publications in the world, The Hockey News and Hockey Pictorial. These two subscriptions mean more to me as I am stationed in France and coverage of hockey in this area is very poor. I recently saw the USA All-Stars beat a Franco-Canadian contingent 5-4. Do you plan to cover games played by various touring teams such as these?Many of the 93 men in this company follow hockey closely through your paper and a day that goes by without the Hockey News being &ldquo;stolen&rdquo; from our day room is rare. Do you know where we might be able to obtain any hockey films to show the men?From all the men of the 520th MP Company, thank you for keeping us informed and keep up the great work.Donald Chantemerle520th MP Company, APO. New York.(Ed. Note: In regards to hockey films, may we suggest you write the National Hockey League direct, Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, and outline your request.)<h2>Wants NHL Team To Play In Europe</h2>Hockey News Editor:I am hockey mad boy from Sweden, and I like to say a few words about Canadian hockey. Why doesn&rsquo;t an NHL team play a couple of games against the Russians and Swedes. I think that the Russians will give the NHL teams a pretty good fight. The teams that Canada is sending over to Europe are very bad. Even the Swedish club team outplays them.It&rsquo;s said that the NHL teams are best in the world, well why don&rsquo;t they prove it? Ulf Sterner proved last year that there is not so big a difference between the Canadian and the European players. My big wish is to one day come over and see a Stanley Cup game, then I see with my own eyes the difference, if there is any between the Canadians and the European hockey. I also like to thank you for a great paper to which I have subscribed for three years now.Anders PerssonJohanneshov, Sweden<h2>New Penalty Ruling Would Curb Roughness</h2>Hockey News Editor,I am a subscriber of the Hockey News and I also enjoy reading your paper. I would like to suggest that there should be a rule dealing with penalties.I think there should be a rule stating, if a player receives a certain amount of minutes in penalties in one game, he should be suspended for a game or two. I am sure this will cut down the roughness that Bostons&rsquo; Ted Green has put into the game.Andrew Roth,Brooklyn, N.Y.<h2>NHL Summary Confusing As To Who Played Goal</h2>Hockey News Editor,There is one distinct disadvantage to the way the National Hockey League Summaries appear this year. It involves the change from shots stopped by a goaltender to shots by the team itself. Since the game summaries list both goalies and the shots on goal do not indicate which goalie stopped them, fans outside of NHL cities have no way of knowing which goalie was in the nets unless a story about the game happens to mention it.I would suggest that as a service to its readers, THE HOCKEY NEWS devise a method whereby it could be shown which goalie was in the nets and which one was sitting on the bench. This could not help but add to the already excellent coverage you have.Bob Grose,Winnipeg, Man. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

HOCKEY NEWS this week asked Western Hockey fans this question:Who is the most exciting player in the Western League?SAM BEZONSKY, Los Angeles. office salesman: Charley Burns of San Francisco. He&rsquo;s fast, he&rsquo;s always digging, he&rsquo;s all over the ice. A guy doesn&rsquo;t have to be dirty to be exciting.A defenseman who throws some good bodychecks is exciting, but there aren&rsquo;t any of those around this league.BILL GEYER. L. A., highschool teacher: Charley Burns. He&rsquo;s a hustler, he&rsquo;s good both ways. Portland&rsquo;s Arnie Schmautz plays exciting against us. And old man Phil Maloney of Vancouver can still go.DONNA LEEDS, San Francisco office - worker: Willie O&rsquo;Ree of L A. He&rsquo;s the fastest hockey player I&rsquo;ve ever seen. He&rsquo;s always hustling and coming up with the puck.FRANCES METCALFE, age 13, Redondo Beach. Calif., student: Willie O&rsquo;Ree or Howie Young of L.A. O&rsquo;Ree because lie&rsquo;s so fast. Young because he&rsquo;s so colorful. I like his temper, especially.ED SMITH. Portland machinist: Larry McNabb of San Francisco because he&rsquo;s mean and rough and willing to fight. Mike Donaldson of Portland is tough, too. Howie Young of L.A. is mean and dirty, but he won&rsquo;t fight. He pretends he&rsquo;s willing, but has he had a fight with anyone anywhere in years?CHARLEY SCHOENDIENST, Torrance. Calif., salesman: Charley Burns. He&rsquo;s speedy, shifty, he&rsquo;s rough, very aggressive and he can shoot. MRS. (Ann) SCHOENDIENST: Burns is exciting. I like Jack Hendrickson of L.A. He looks like he&rsquo;s had skates on before. He&rsquo;s got all the moves.ANN OLIVER. Portland office-worker: Art Jones of Portland, Charley Burns of San Francisco and Willie O&rsquo;Ree of L. A. because they&rsquo;re all over the ice and always coming up with the puck.ELLEN ROLES, San Francisco model: Billy McNeill of Vancouver because he&rsquo;s a good player and so good-looking. I like the looks of our Larry McNabb. too, and he&rsquo;s rough, a real man. Charley Burns? No. He&rsquo;s a good player, but I don&rsquo;t know what he looks like under that helmet. &#9632;

In The Corridor

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01577/2315094-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hockey Hall Of Famers Join In ReunionIt isn&rsquo;t very often that four hockey greats of the past manage to get together in one place but here&rsquo;s four of the old time stars of the game &mdash; all members of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame, clasping hands at a Montreal reunion. They are, left to right, HARRY HYLAND, JOE MALONE, AUREL JOLIAT, and NEWSY LALONDE.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.He&rsquo;s not likely to make an allstar team and he won&rsquo;t win the Norris Trophy this year, but Ted Harris is putting quite a chunk of cement in the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; defense.In fact, if there was an award for the man who handed out the most devastating bodycheck in the first half of the season. Harris would be a serious contender for it. He could point to the night of January 5th, 1966, as the one which qualifies him for special mention in the hitting department. That was the night he caught Chicago&rsquo;s Bobby Hull with a smashing check that almost put the Golden Jet through the boards on the west side of the Forum rink. Hull, as everyone knows, is an exceptionally strong man and he was able to absorb that cheek and still stay in the game. But it was a beauty, nonetheless, and shook the Hawk superstar from head to foot.Harris, in fact, has been shaking incoming forwards pretty regularly since coming up to Canadiens. He&rsquo;s a hitter who was schooled in the &ldquo;rock &rsquo;em and sock &rsquo;em&rdquo; tradition by oldtime great. Eddie Shore. Shore, perennial all-star of the 1930&rsquo;s, was a formidable figure with the Boston Bruins of that era and as tough a customer as ever laced on skates. Oldtimers still like to tell of how Shore once took on the entire &ldquo;S-Line&rdquo; of the Montreal Maroons &mdash; Nels Stewart, Babe Siebert and Hooley Smith &mdash; and suffered all kinds of injuries, including a smashed nose and badly damaged ribs. He left the game briefly, was patched up, and returned in time for the third period to bedevil the S-Line again.Harris is no Shore in terms of all-round skill, but he spent long years being trained by the former Bruin great. Ted, in fact, spent six seasons in Springfield under Shore&rsquo;s direction. He was there long that people began wondering if he&rsquo;d ever finish his training and progress to the NHL. He finally left Springfield in 1963, but only to go to Cleveland where he spent the 1963-64 season. He won the Eddie Shore Award that season, as top defenseman in the American League. It got him a four-game trial with the Montreal Canadiens, and in 1964-65 he was invited to the Hab training camp and launched into his rookie year in the NHL. He was then 28 years old.When Harris first came to Canadiens, he created a curious impression in the minds of some people. All during the training camp that preceded the 1964-65 season, he never threw a check. While other defensemen were bashing forwards left and right, Harris carefully avoided body contact. If a forward tried to go past him. Harris would steer the man toward the boards. But, carefully. No rough stuff. This was at variance with both his size and appearance, for Harris is a big man and a toughlooking one. When he was asked about his gentlemanly conduct, Harris replied softly: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe in hitting men on my owa team.&rdquo; This led to the impression that Canadiens had yet another gentle giant in their midst, but the impression was short-lived When Harris got into action in regular games, he walloped opponents with enthusiasm. Not only did Ted deal out jolting bodychecks, but swung with his fists whenever he felt the occasion demanded it. Before his rookie year was over, he&rsquo;d collected 107 minutes in penalties and had traded bodychecks and punches with everyone from Ted Green to Frank Mahovlich.The result is that Harris new accepted as one of the strongest hitters on the Montreal team. As such lie&rsquo;s an asset to Habs, who, before the arrival of rearguards like himself, Terry Harper and of course, Jacques Laperriere, were somewhat bereft of hitters. &#9632;

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Harris Hands Out Knocks In Shore Tradition, Habs’ Rearguard Gives Club Defense New Respect

Les Canadiens&rsquo; Ralph Backstrom and Claude Provost are shown wearing these wonderful &ldquo;Kambern Originals.&rdquo; Ralph in an orange low button 4-hole golfer model and Claude in a blue cross over cardigan.&ldquo;Kambern Originals&rdquo; &hellip; sold for men of discriminating taste at all leading men&rsquo;s wear and department stores from coast to coast.The newest and most daring approach to sweaters. Style sets the pace and colour runs wild !Highland Knitting MillsMontreal, Canada &#9632;

OUR “HAT TRICK” FOR ’66

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01611/2315149-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div>(FIRST THIRD OF 1965-64 SEASON)SHOTS ON GOAL AVE. SHOTS ON GOAL PER GAME :<h2>CODE OF ABBREVIATIONS</h2>GP&mdash;Games Played; G&mdash;Goals; IG&mdash;Important Goals (First, Leading, Insurance & Proximate); PCTG&mdash;Percentage of Important Goals and Points; TP&mdash;Total Points; IP&mdash;Important Points. &#9632;

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NHL Team Records

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks shoot less but score more goals than any of their five rival National Hockey League teams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02539/2315180-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="263" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Yvan Cournoyer</figcaption></div>Statistics released by Ron Andrews for the NHL&rsquo;s first third of the 1965-66 season, show that Hawks fired 672 shots on enemy nets, an average of 29.2 shots per game, and scored but 92 goals, or 13.8 per cent of shots, during their first 23 games. Over the 70-game, 1964-65 schedule, Chicago scored on 10.7 per cent of its shots.Montreal Canadiens rank second in shooting accuracy, scoring 87 goals on 736 shots for 11.8 per cent in their first 23 games. Then came Detroit Red Wings (85 goals, 798 shots, 10.7 per cent, 24 games); New York Rangers (66 goals, 780 shots, 8.5 per cent, 24 games); Toronto Maple Leafs (61 goals, 738 shots, 8.1 per cent, 24 games; and Boston Bruins (56 goals, 726 shots, 7.7 per cent, 24 games).Chicago&rsquo;s concentrated scoring strength is shown in the statistics. Six players &mdash; Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Ken Wharram, Doug Mohns, Phil Esposito and Bill Hay &mdash; scored all but 16 of the 92 goals Hawks scored in the 23 games and they also took nearly two-thirds of the Hawks&rsquo; shots on opposition goals.While the Hawks, as a team, are the most accurate shooters, they do not have the individual leader. That honor, among players who scored five or more goals in the first 71 games of the schedule, belonged to little Yvan Cournoyer, the right winger most times on Montreal&rsquo;s power-play and heir-apparent to former New York Ranger and Chicago Black Hawk Camille Henry as power-play accuracy king.Cournoyer, who seldom sees action other than when Canadiens have a man advantage scored nine goals, all on the powerplay, on 29 shots for a scoring percentage of 31.0.Second in percentage was Toronto rookie Brit Selby with 23.1 &mdash; six goals on 26 shots, two other players scored on more than 20 per cent of their shots &mdash; Mohns with 10 goals on 46 shots for 21.7 per cent and Detroit&rsquo;s Floyd Smith with 10 goals on 48 shots for 20.8 per cent.Hull, who scored on 18.8 per cent of his shots, again led in shots fired. The All-Star left winger peppered opposition nets with 112 shots while scoring 21 times. Gordie Howe of Detroit took 94 shots, scored 13 goals for 13.8 per cent, a considerable increase over his record for last season when he took 341 shots for 29 goals and 8.5 percent, Compared to his first 24 games a year ago, Howe&rsquo;s accuracy more than quadrupled. In the first third of 1964-65, Howe scored only four goals but took 132 shots.Captain Bob Nevin led Ranger marksmen with a scoring percentage of 16.4 on 12 goals and 73 shots during New York&rsquo;s first 24 games while Murray Oliver was the Boston leader with 13.8 per cent on seven goals and 80 shots.Total shots for the first 71 games in the league were 4,450. Of these 447 were goals which produced an average scoring percentage of 10.0. The average shots per game for all six teams was 31.3.A shot on goal by NHL standards is when the puck reaches the crease and would enter the goal except for the intervention of a defending player, either the goaltender or a defenseman or forward who stops the puck in the crease.Also included in the statistical summary are important goals and points. The determination of an &ldquo;important&rdquo; goal or point is based on the state of the game at the time the goal was scored, regardless of any subsequent scoring. The categories adjudged important are: first goal of a game; a score-tying goal; a leading goal; an insurance goal and a proximate goal (which puts the losing team&rsquo;s score within one goal of the opposition).Chicago and Montreal share the lead for scoring the first goal of a game the most times. Each opened the scoring 14 times during their first 23 games. Chicago won nine of the games, lost three and tied two. Montreal also won nine, lost two and tied three. &#9632;

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NHL Survey Shows Hawks Shoot Less, Score More For First Third Of Year

GP&mdash;Games PlayedS&mdash;Shots On Goal.G&mdash;Goals Scored.Sc. PCTG.&mdash;Scoring Percentage of Shots.F&mdash;First Goal of Game.T&mdash;Tying Goal.L&mdash;Leading Goal.I&mdash;Insurance Goal.P&mdash;Proximate Goal.TOT&mdash;Total Important Goals.PCTG&mdash;Percentage of Important Goals.PTS&mdash;Points.PCTG&mdash;Percentage of Important Points.IP&mdash;Important Points. &#9632;

Code Of Abbreviations

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03450/2315270-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg"></div><h2>CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS</h2><h2>MONTREAL CANADIENS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04355/2315263-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="1669" height="570"></div><h2>DETROIT RED WINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05282/2315256-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1663" height="699"></div><h2>NEW YORK RANGERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06232/2315249-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="1663" height="589"></div><h2>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07187/2315242-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="1659" height="687"></div><h2>BOSTON BRUINS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-08153/2315235-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="1659" height="735"></div> &#9632;

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Individual Players’ Records

Today the story is about the Boston Bruins and the fact that some of them are disenchanted with Hap Emms, their new general manager.But it isn&rsquo;t a new story.In New York, you hear Lou Angotti spout off about his treatment by the Rangers and notice the team hasn&rsquo;t played so well for Emile Francis as it did for Red Sullivan, whom Francis fired.In Chicago, a player will saunter up the lobby of the Stadium and say that Billy Reay has favorites on the team.In Montreal a disgruntled player says he can&rsquo;t stand much more of Toe Blake&rsquo;s terrible temper.In Toronto, players sometimes wonder if Punch Imlach is human.The only place you never hear grumbling is Detroit, where Sid Abel has maintained complete harmony among his Red Wings.I dropped in to see Abel in his office at the Olympia to find out more about his theory of coaching and met Billy Harris in the lobby. Harris, a Leaf for 10 years before going to Detroit this season, was on his way to Pittsburgh demoted by Abel. Last season, when sent to Rc-Chester by the Leafs, Harris was bitter.&ldquo;Even though I&rsquo;m disappointed I haven&rsquo;t a thing to complain about,&rdquo; said Harris, &ldquo;Abel was good to me.&rdquo;Goaltender Roger Crozier stopped to say that in his two years as a Red Wing. Abel has never said an unkind word to him.On the wall of Abel&rsquo;s office is a plaque presented to him last year as the Lutheran Man of the Year in Detroit. On it is the inscription: &ldquo;Sidney Abel &mdash; Man of God. Man Among Men.&rsquo;<h2>Spirit for horses</h2>&ldquo;My theory?&rdquo; said Abel. &lsquo;Well, I believe that if you treat players right you&rsquo;ll get more out of them. I&rsquo;d rather have a happy hockey player than one who hates my guts.&rdquo;Those who ask how many Stanley Cups Abel has won with this theory. The answer is none. He has been coach for eight seasons and manager-coach for four. But Abel has never had a team that was supposed to win the cup.Last season, he finished first with a team that was supposed to be no better than third. Today he is second when many speculators picked him to be out of the playoffs.&ldquo;What we lack in horses we try to make up in spirit Most coaches believe you have to drive players to have them produce. I don&rsquo;t buy that.&rdquo;A lot has been written about Abel&rsquo;s system of using his veteran players as assistant coaches. Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio and Bill Gadsby, are his assistants now. Marcel Pronovost. the Leaf defenseman, was in that category when he was with Detroit.&ldquo;We decide things together,&rdquo; said Abel.&ldquo;For instance, I went to them before making the deal last week to get Parker MacDonald back from Boston Bruins. I told them I had a chance to make it and they I told me to go ahead, it was a good idea.&rdquo;There has been rumor the only reason Boston has never drafted Larry Hillman from Toronto is because Hillman once was a Bruin. Paying a draft price to get him back would be an admission of guilt on Bruins&rsquo; part that they made a mistake.Abel traded McDonald to Bruins in the off season along with Al Langlois then found he couldn&rsquo;t replace MacDonald on the line with Howe and Delvecchio.<h2>Cut down practice</h2>Instead of fooling around with various left-wingers Abel made the deal because he knew it would help the team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01595/2315308-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="461" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>&ldquo;On another line, Parker might be less than ordinary,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But the three of them together is a happy marriage. The only reason I let him go in the first place was because the fans were getting on his back. I just hope that doesn&rsquo;t start again.&rdquo;Abel had just returned from directing his team in practice.&ldquo;You won&rsquo;t believe this,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But that was the first time we have practiced in more than a month. We had 16 games in December and that was the only time we were on skates. But we weren&rsquo;t as sharp last week so we had a meeting and decided to practice three days in a row.&ldquo;When you&rsquo;re forced to put on your uniform every day of the week it gets to be a chore. I got this from playing under Jack Adams. In my last few years in the league, I practiced only when I felt I needed it.&rdquo;His team&rsquo;s record while not practicing in December was 14 wins in 17 games.&ldquo;Any goofball who would take advantage of this system by going out and drinking and not taking care of himself wouldn&rsquo;t stay around long. It would show up in his playing and he&rsquo;d take the next plane to the minors.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02567/2315301-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="463" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roger Crozier</figcaption></div><h2>Smartest move</h2>Last season Abel made one of the smartest moves in hockey but received little publicity for it. He Dut himself on the spot, giving up experienced goaltender Terry Sawchuck to Toronto to gamble on Roger Crozier, an unproved rookie.Other teams were alternating goaltenders and Abel, with the greenest goaltender, was going with one. In January, he noticed that the perils of goaltending and pressure of big league hockey were beginning to show on Crozier.&ldquo;We played in Chicago on a Sunday night and Monday morning Sid phoned me at home,&rdquo; remembers Crozier. &ldquo;He said the team was sending my wife and me to Florida for four days because the team had a week off. We went down and lay around in the sun and the team paid for everything &mdash; even the taxis we used. When I came back, it was like starting a new season.&rdquo;Crozier very nearly won the Vezina Trophy and Wings finished first.I hesitate to draw a comparison between Abel and Punch Imlach because I have been accused in the past of wanting to see Punch fired by the Leafs. This is untrue. Imlach&rsquo;s record speaks for itself. In addition to being a winner, he also has built the finest farm system in professional hockey. If the Leafs ever let him go, he will need to fight off the other club owners seeking his services.If I were to find fault with Imlach it would be only that he does not enjoy the harmony Abel has at Detroit because he no longer treats his players as individuals&ldquo;When Punch first came to Toronto he treated us as individuals.&rdquo; Billy Harris said. &ldquo;Then he changed and started driving the team as a unit.&rdquo;<h2>Take hat in hand</h2>&ldquo;Perhaps this is because he started by treating everyone as an individual and some of the players let him down. So he switched to driving the whole team.&ldquo;Maybe he found that by driving the whole team he could get a 75 per cent effort wbere he was getting only a 50 per cent effort the other way. I don&rsquo;t know.&rdquo;Harris has noticed, as have others, that Punch seems to be mellowing a little these days &mdash; as proved by the fact he has given the team two-day vacations twice in three weeks. Perhaps he has decided to return to his original system.It might help him and make life more enjoyable for everyone concerned. For instance, if the situation hasn&rsquo;t deteriorated beyond the point of no return. Punch could get Carl Brewer to return to the team and have Frank Mahovlich up with the 50-goal scorers.If he took hat in hand, visited Brewer&rsquo;s home some evening, and could convince him they could start a new relationship. Brewer would pick up his skates and give it a try.A heart-to-heart talk with Mahovlich might have surprising results.Veteran observers keep saying that today&rsquo;s hockey player has changed. Now they are young executives. If this is the case, perhaps Abel is the only coach who has changed with them.(As seen in the Toronto Globe and Mail) &#9632;

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Sid Abel Keeps Detroit Olympia Most Harmonious Home In Hockey

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Terry Sawchuk is the highest scoring goalkeeper in National Hockey League history.His assist, on George Armstrong&rsquo;s winning goal for Toronto Maple Leafs in a recent game, was the sixth of his 17-year career &mdash; and his third in 49 games with Leafs.Previously the 36-year-old Sawchuk was tied with Glenn Hall of Chicago Black Hawks who has earned five assists in 10 seasons. &#9632;

Sawchuk Highest Scoring Goaler

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div>&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;NEW YORK, N.Y.Cesare Maniago, who a teammate describes as &ldquo;a tall Jacques Plante,&rdquo; faces the biggest challenge of his life as he replaces Ed Giacomin in the Rangers&rsquo; goal.The demotion of Giacomin puts the onus on 6-2 Cesare who never quit in his drive to return to the National Hockey League. He will be sitting duck behind one of the most porous defenses in the NHL and one of the weakest checking teams.But there are those Rangers who believe that, with a half season to go, Maniago can somehow return the Blues to the winning track; something Giacomin could not do.&ldquo;When Minneapolis started falling apart last season Cesare held them together,&rdquo; says Ranger g.m.-coach Emile Francis, who was responsible for obtaining Maniago from Montreal last Spring and for dropping Giacomin.Maniago who&rsquo;s of Northern Italian descent, won the Central League&rsquo;s MVP and top goalie award last season. He had a 2.75 average.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01610/2315363-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="481" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body">CESARE MANIAGO&hellip; &lsquo;Tall Man&rsquo; Returns</figcaption></div>&ldquo;When I look at him I think I&rsquo;m looking at a tall Jacques Plante,&rdquo; says Ranger defenseman Harry Howell. &ldquo;He handles himself the way Jacques does.&rdquo;Maniago, who will be 27 on Jan. 13, is hockey&rsquo;s tallest goaltender, and one of the most colorful.&ldquo;He really spreads out when he makes a save,&rdquo; says Francis.&ldquo;And he&rsquo;s real quick for a big man. He&rsquo;s got quick hands and quick legs and he&rsquo;s a real holler guy.&rdquo;&ldquo;Naturally, I&rsquo;m happy to be back in the NHL,&rdquo; Maniago says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never given up on my chances, not last year and not in training camp this year.&rdquo;It was a toss-up in training camp between Giacomin, Maniago and Don Simmons. Giacomin, highly-touted because of the large expenditure of players needed to obtain him from Providence, got the nod but there are many who felt Maniago played as well, if not better.After a flamboyant and successful premiere, Giacomin&rsquo;s play deteriorated in the past month and there are Rangers who consider his goaltending partially responsible for the team&rsquo;s collapse.&ldquo;We were losing games we should have won because the other team had better goaltending,&rdquo; said one veteran forward. &ldquo;There was a game in Toronto when we were tied and should have come out with a tie but a little dribbler got by Ed and that was the game.&rdquo;Giacomin&rsquo;s &ldquo;coup de grace&rdquo; was supplied Sunday, Jan. 2, when he replaced Simmons after the first period. The Rangers were behind 3-0 but - Giacomin allowed two soft goals. Even after the Blues rallied with three goals in the second period, Giacomin fanned on a shot in the third period to kill any hopes for a rally.Maniago was sympathetic with the man he replaced.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s awfully tough for a goalkeeper to come in cold off the bench and play well,&rdquo; Cesare says.As Maniago soon will discover, playing goal for the Rangers under any conditions is tough. That&rsquo;s why he faces the biggest challenge of his life. &#9632;

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Maniago Facing Toughest Challenge of Career

(Standings on Thurs. Jan. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02531/2315394-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="551" height="230"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed., Jan. 5Chicago 4 at Montreal 2Thurs., Jan. 6Boston 3 at Detroit 5Sat., Jan. 8Boston 0 at Montreal 6Detroit 3 at Toronto 1Chicago 4 at New York 6Sun., Jan. 9Montreal 2 at Detroit 4Toronto 3 at Chicago 5Boston 3 at New York 1<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Thurs., Jan. 13Toronto at MontrealChicago at BostonSat., Jan. 15Chicago at MontrealBoston at TorontoNew York at Detroit(afternoon game)Sun., Jan. 16Montreal at BostonToronto at DetroitNew York at ChicagoWed., Jan. 19New York at TorontoThurs., Jan. 20Montreal at DetroitChicago at BostonSat., Jan. 22Detroit at MontrealChicago at TorontoNew York at Boston(afternoon game)Sun., Jan. 23Montreal at ChicagoToronto at BostonNew York at Detroit &#9632;

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Looking At NHL Race

The Detroit Red Wings are riding roughshod over their NHL rivals at the moment and much of the credit can be spread through the team&rsquo;s lineup.Roger Crozier has been sensational in goal. Bert Marshall and Doug Barkley have been a wall of strength on defense. Attackers like Norm Ullman, Paul Henderson, Bruce MacGregor and Floyd Smith have been putting the puck in the net with consistency. But what about Ron Murphy, the veteran forward who has missed 18 games this season through injuries.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03452/2315425-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="286" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Murphy</figcaption></div>Murphy, the 32-year-old left winger, came back to the Wings last week and promptly became the club&rsquo;s hottest goal-scorer. He also topped the NHL for the last seven days with four goals in Detroit&rsquo;s three games.Murphy, who has scored 172 goals in 13 NHL seasons, could give the Wings the extra offensive spark they need to catch the leading Black Hawks, and his performance last week certainly indicates Detroit can look for extra scoring punch from Murphy after his forced rest.El Producto is pleased to salute Ron Murphy of the Red Wings as Hie NHL&rsquo;s player of the week. &#9632;

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The Player Of The Week

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04350/2315470-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg"></div>OVERALL WON AND LOST RECORDS THIS SEASON(Including Games of Sunday, January 9)<h2>HOME GAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05261/2315463-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="557" height="261"></div><h2>AWAY GAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06204/2315456-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="557" height="258"></div> &#9632;

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How NHL Teams Compare

(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01607/2315508-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="579" height="2374"></div><h2>Penalties in Minutes by Clubs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02560/2315501-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="556" height="257"></div> &#9632;

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NHL Point Race

<h2>Wed., Jan. 5</h2>CHICAGO 4 at MONTREAL 2CHICAGO &mdash; Goal: Hall, Dryden; defense: Pilote, Vasko. Ravlich, Stapleton, Jarrett; forwards: Esposito, Hull, Maki, Mohns, Richardson. Hodge, Nesterenko, Wharram, Lunde. Mikita.MONTREAL &mdash; Goal: Worsley, Hodge; defense: Laperriere, Johns, Harris, Harper, Talbot; forwards: Richard, Provost, G. Tremblay, Beliveau, Rousseau. Duff, Balon, Larose, Ferguson, Roberts, Cournoyer.Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Sopp, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03484/2315609-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="549" height="622"></div><h2>Thurs., Jan. 6</h2>BOSTON 3 at DETROIT 5BOSTON &mdash; Goal: Johnston, Parent; defense: Boivin, Green, Langlois, Woytowich, Marotte. Awrey; forwards: Prentice, Oliver, Westfall. Martin, Dornhoefer, Stewart, Williams, Kennedy, Fleming, Dillabough.DETROIT &mdash; Goal: Bassen, Crozier: defense: Marshall, Barkley, Gadsby, Bergman, Watson; forwards: Henderson, Ullman, Smith. MacDonald, Delvecchio, Howe, McDonald, Bathgate, MacGregor, Murphy. Fonteyne.Referee: Ashley. Linesmen: Pavelich, D&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04400/2315602-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="541" height="639"></div><h2>Sat., Jan. 8</h2>BOSTON 0 at MONTREAL 6BOSTON &mdash; Goal: Johnston, Parent; defense: Langlois, Green, Woytowich, Marotte, Boivin, Awrey; forwards: Martin, Williams, Stewart. Kennedy, Oliver, Prentice, Westfall, Fleming, Dillabough, Dornhoefer.MONTREAL: Goal: Hodge. Worsley; defense: Laperriere. J. C. Tremblay, Harris, Harper, Talbot; forwards: Duff, Rousseau, Balon, Richard, Provost, G. Tremblay, Berenson, Larose, Ferguson, Cournoyer, Roberts.Referee: Friday. Linesmen: Sopp, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05333/2315595-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="551" height="502"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06298/2315588-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="541" height="141"></div>DETROIT 3 at TORONTO 1DETROIT &mdash; Goal: Crozier, Bassen, defense: Marshall, Gadsby, Barkley, Watson, Bergman; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Murphy, MacDonald, Smith, Henderson, Bathgate, MacGregor.TORONTO&mdash;Goal: Sawchuk, Bower, defense: Proilovost, Horton, Hillman, Douglas, Stanley: forwards: Kelly, Ellis, Armstrong. Selby, Stemkowski, Keon, Boyer, Pulford, Shack, Kurtenbach, Mahovlich.Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: D&rsquo;Amico, Pavlich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07270/2315581-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="551" height="553"></div>CHICAGO 4 at NEW YORK 6CHICAGO &mdash; Goal: Hall, Dryden, defense: Pilote. Vasko, Ravlich, Jarrett, Stapleton; forwards: Maki, Esposito, Hull, Wharram, Mikita, Mohns, Nesterenko, Hay, Lunde, Hodge, Richardson.NEW YORK &mdash; Goal: Maniago, Simmons; defense: Howell, McMahon, Brown, Neilson, Hillman; forwards: Nevin, Ingarfield. Marshall, Gilbert, Ratelie, Hadfield. Hicke, Peters, Tavlor, McKenzie, Johnson.Referee: Skov. Linesmen: Frampiton, Atanas.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08257/2315574-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="547" height="828"></div><h2>Sun., Jan. 9</h2>MONTREAL 2 at DETROIT 4MONTREAL&mdash;Goal: Hodge, Worsley; defense: Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Harris. Harper, Talbot; forwards: Duff, Rousseau, Balon, Richard, Provost, G. Tremblay, Roberts, Ferguson, Cournoyer, Berenson, Rochefort.DETROIT &mdash; Goal: Crozier, Bassen; defense: Marshall, Gadsby, Barkley, Watson, Bergman; forwards: Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Murphy, MacGregor. Smith. Henderson, Bathgate, MacDonald, McDonald.Referee: Skov. Linesmen: Sopp, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09245/2315567-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="542" height="351"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10222/2315560-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="550" height="301"></div>TORONTO 3 at CHICAGO 5TORONTO&mdash;Goal; Sawchuk, Bower; defense: Horton, Stanley, Pronovost, Hillman, Douglas; forwards; Kelly, Pulford, Shack, Ellis, Armstrong, Selby. Stemkowski. Keon, Boyer, Kurten-back, Mahovlich.CHICAGO &mdash; Goal; Hall, Dryden; defense: Pilote. Vasko, Ravlich. Stapleton. Jarrett; forwards: Mohns. Mikita. Wharram. Richardson, Esposito, Hull. Hay, Hodge, Nesterenko, Maki, Lunde.Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Pavelich, D&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11197/2315553-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="553" height="439"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12180/2315546-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="535" height="257"></div>BOSTON 3 at NEW YORK 1BOSTON &mdash; Goal: Parent, Johnston; defense: Green, Langlois, Woytowich, Awrey, Boivin, Marotte; forwards: Westfall, Prentice, Stewart, Martin, Williams, Kennedy, Oliver, Fleming, Dillabough, Dornhoefer.NEW YORK &mdash; Goal: Maniago, Simmons; defense: Howell, Neilson, McMahon, Hillman, Brown; forwards: Marshall, Peters, Nevin, Gilbert, Ratelie, Hadfield. Ingarfield, Hicke, McKenzie, Taylor. Johnson.Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Frampton, Atanas.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13153/2315539-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="538" height="511"></div> &#9632;

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National Hockey League Summaries

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-14" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-14122/2315640-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg"></div>(Including Games of Sunday. January 9th)A&mdash;When two goaltenders of one team play in same game, each is given half a credit for the final result.) &#9632;

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Goalkeepers’ Records

<div class="byline">BY BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I. &mdash;There&rsquo;s one thing about the 1965-66 edition of the Rhode Island Reds: get them in a one-goal game &hellip; and they&rsquo;re murder!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01578/2315671-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="271" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ivan Irwin</figcaption></div>The Reds, a neat mixture of veteran talent and speedy youth, currently are battling Baltimore, Springfield and Hershey for a playoff berth in the Eastern Division of the American Hockey League, and the reason they&rsquo;re up is because they have a knack of winning the close ones.At this writing, the Roosters had been involved in 10 one-goal decisions of which they had won 7 and lost only three. These 7 victories represented 58 percent of the 12 wins the team had achieved through Jan. 2nd.Coach Ivan Irwin, who has gotten a lot of milage out of what is basically an inexperienced team, calls his club &ldquo;a gritty bunch that just won&rsquo;t fold in the tough going.&rdquo;It all started with three straight overtime victories in the first three games of the season&mdash;all by 3-2 scores.&ldquo;When we&rsquo;re in a tight game, our boys just seem to buckle down and do the job.&rdquo; Irwin says. &ldquo;And get us into overtime, and we&rsquo;re really tough!&rdquo;The Reds, known around Rhode Island as &ldquo;Irwin&rsquo;s Overtime Kids,&rdquo; were yet to lose in six overtime outings, winning three and tieing three others for 9 of a possible 12 points.The biggest overtime ac-complishement came on New Year&rsquo;s Eve when trailing 5-2 in Rochester after two periods, the hustling Roosters rallied for three in the third period on goals by Willie Marshall, Eddie Kachur and rookie Tony Goegan to gain a 5-5 extra-session thrillerIn that game, too, big Dave Creighton, the most pleasant surprise of the season, notched two goals and two assists for four points&mdash;his biggest night since joining the Reds from Baltimore five weeks ago.Creighton, 35, has been the the pulse of the Reds attack in recent weeks, leading all the Roosters with 17 points in 17 games as a member of the club. The veteran center now has 10 goals. &#9632;

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Records Show Reds Like To Play It Cozy With Seven One-Goal Decisions This Year

<h2>Tues., Jan. 4</h2>CLEVELAND 1 at QUEBEC 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02488/2315800-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="554" height="429"></div><h2>Wed., Jan. 5</h2>HERSHEY 3 at PITTSBURGH 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03372/2315793-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="546" height="622"></div><h2>Fri., Jan. 7</h2>BUFFALO 1 at BALTIMORE S<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04268/2315786-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="547" height="521"></div>ROCHESTER 4 at PROVIDENCE 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05187/2315779-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="541" height="630"></div><h2>Sat., Jan. 8</h2>BALTIMORE 1 at SPRINGFIELD 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06145/2315772-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="541" height="434"></div>QUEBEC 2 at CLEVELAND 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07122/2315765-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="544" height="405"></div>ROCHESTER 5 at HERSHEY 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08104/2315758-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="547" height="874"></div>BUFFALO 0 at PITTSBURGH 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0986/2315751-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="544" height="499"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1076/2315744-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="500" height="63"></div><h2>Sun., Jan. 9</h2>PITTSBURGH 3 at PROVIDENCE 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1169/2315737-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="540" height="625"></div>QUEBEC 7 at BUFFALO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1252/2315730-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="543" height="721"></div>CLEVELAND 2 at ROCHESTER 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1343/2315723-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="534" height="511"></div>HERSHEY 7 at BALTIMORE 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1437/2315716-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="539" height="279"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1531/2315709-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="547" height="473"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1626/2315702-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="482" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK GAMBLE&hellip; Leading AHL Scorer</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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American Hockey League Summaries

WALLY NORTHERN pro HOCKEY STICKSWALLY POOL TABLES TABLE TENNIS CROQUET SETS<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1718/2315845-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="553" height="319"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 2. Montreal. 3. Chicago. 4. Detroit. 5. New York. 6 Boston, x-independent.<h3>GAMES COMPLETE</h3>Tues., Jan. 4Cleveland 1 at Quebec 2Wed., Jan. 5Hershey 3 at Pittsburgh 5Fri., Jan. 7Buffalo 1 at Baltimore 4Rochester 4 at Provindence 3Sat., Jan. 8Quebec 2 at Cleveland 0Rochester 5 at Hershey 7Buffalo 0 at Pittsburg 7Baltimore 1 at Springfield 3Sun., Jan. 9Hershey 7 at Baltimore 4Quebec 7 at Buffalo 3Pittsburgh 3 at Providence 2Cleveland 2 at Rochester 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues., Jan. 11Pittsburgh at QuebecProvidence at SeattleWed., Jan. 12Rochester at BuffaloCleveland at HersheyProvidence at PortlandThurs., Jan. 13Pittsburgh at QuebecFri., Jan. 14Providence at VancouverSat., Jan. 15Rochester at ClevelandBaltimore at HersheyQuebec at PittsburghBuffalo at SpringfieldProvidence at VictoriaSun., Jan. 16Pittsburgh at BuffaloBaltimore at ClevelandQuebec at RochesterHershey at Springfield<h2>AHL Point Race</h2>(Including games of Sunday Jan. 9)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1815/2315838-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="543" height="352"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1913/2315831-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="542" height="277"></div><h3>Penalty Leaders</h3>Most Penalized Player &mdash; Norm Armstrong, Rochester, 88 mts.Most Penalized Team &mdash; Rochester, 463 mts. &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N. Y.The year 1965 will be remembered as the year of the victory for the Rochester Americans &hellip; but 1966 just might surpass the spectacular year that was.During the calendar year 1965, the Amerks collected 55 triumphs while dropping only 19 games and tying three American Hockey League regular schedule and playoff games.Fans here enjoyed a most satisfying year as their heroes won an amazing 36 times in 46 tries. Only clubs to skate off the War Memorial ice with triumphs were Providence by a 4-2 score back on last Jan. 15. Baltimore by a 6-5 count on March 28 and Quebec by a 6-3 score in the 1965-66 opener here Oct. 23.The lone tie was quite a shock to local fandom It came in the year-ending tilt New Year&rsquo;s Eve against Providence. Not that a 5-5 deadlock with the Reds should be so shocking, but the fact that Rochester held leads of 3-0, 4-1 and 5-2 only to have to settle for a deadlock was a bit surprising to say the least.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01572/2315876-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="523" height="769"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY EHMAN&hellip; Gets 400th Point</figcaption></div>The Amerks finished the &lsquo;65 portion of their 1964-65 schedule with a 17-2 home ice record, won all six games here on route to the Calder Cup playoff championships, then raced to a 13-1-1 mark for the &lsquo;65 part of 1965-66.On the road, Coach Joe Crozier&rsquo;s skaters were 9-9-1 in the 1965 part of &lsquo;64 65, 2-2 in the playoffs and 8-5-1 this season for an overall 19-16-2 record.Two Western Division foes &mdash; Pittsburgh and Buffalo weren&rsquo;t able to come up with a single win over the Amerks during 1965. Quebec proved the most troublesome, taking five decisions from Rochester, while Hershey, Providence, Cleveland and Baltimore all managed three each and Springfield two. The ties came against Providence, Buffalo and Pittsburgh.ICICLES &mdash; Goalkeeper Bobby Perreault made his first appearance in the Rochester nets since Dec. 7 when he shutout Springfield in Springfield, 1-0, on New Year&rsquo;s Day. It was Perreault&rsquo;s 25th AHL whitewashing He&rsquo;s fifth on the alltime list&hellip; Gerry Ehman&rsquo;s assist on the final goal in the 6-2 win over Baltimore here Jan. 2 was his 400th regular season point in an Amerk sweater. He&rsquo;s Rochester&rsquo;s alltime leading goal-getter (181), alltime assist leader (219) as well as the alltime point scorer.Dick Gamble jumped into ninth place on the AHL&rsquo;s list of alltime point scorers with a brace of goals Jan. 2. They were his 638th and 639th American League points. Gamble, who piled up 48 goals last season, became the first Amerk to reach 20 this season with his pair Jan. 2. The final seven Rochester Sunday night games here are being televised back to the Toronto and Southern Ontario area over Channel 11 in Hamilton. This is being done to promote interest in the club before Rochester moves to Toronto for its final 10 regular season home games and the playoffs after being evicted from its rink here by the American Bowling Congress Championships. &#9632;

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Amerks Wind Up Productive ’65 Year But 1966 Could Prove Even Better

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.In his sixth season as a professional, and his fifth with the Buffalo Bisons, Ed Van Impe finally appears headed for the heights predicted for him when he turned pro with the Calgary Stampeders.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02529/2315907-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="287" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Van Impe</figcaption></div>At 25, Van Impe is playing with a minimum of defensive mistakes, and has established himself as one of the better rushing defensemen in the American Hockey League.His slap shot compares favorably with any, and he is rivaling the Rochester Americans&rsquo; Al Arbour as the top blocker.Ed Chadwick and Roy Edwards, the Bisons&rsquo; goaltenders, are playing well, and Van Impe is helping them with as many as a dozen stops a game.&ldquo;If I&rsquo;m blocking more shots, it must be because they&rsquo;re hitting me,&rdquo; Van Impe said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not doing anything differently. Maybe my experience is helping me.&rdquo;Van Impe has been overlooked in the all-star voting in the AHL in the past, but the press, radio and TV electorate is certain to pay attention to him this spring, and the big league scouts are following him now.Here is one player almost certain to move up in the expansion plan, if the parent Chicago Black Hawks don&rsquo;t reach in and keep him.At 5-10, and weighing 180, Van Impe is a rugged performer who revels in the heavy going. He is still spending too much time in the penalty box, but his all-around work more than makes up for his penalty time. &#9632;

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Van Impe Seen Likely To Get All-Star ‘Look’

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, Ohio&ldquo;This club has fine potential. It can go a long way in the American Hockey League race,&rdquo; Coach Fred Glover commented about his Cleveland Barons to the local television audience at the close of 1965.His remarks were made as he rested momentarily from a workout in which he started skating himself back into condition following his recent knee operation.&ldquo;Ours is a much sounder club than the one we had last season. I have been a little disappointed at our inability to score as many goals as I had hoped for but our defense has stood up well and before long I&rsquo;m sure that we&rsquo;ll put everything together and be tough tc beat,&rdquo; he added.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03491/2315938-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="274" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Schultz</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Rochester and Quebec have stood out so far. These clubs are sound from top to bottom. Whenever they lost a player, another one just as good or better arrives to take his place. We can&rsquo;t do that but we have the man-power to do a fine job if we can avoid any more serious injuries. We&rsquo;re as good as any other team in the league.&rdquo;Glover has no idea when doctors will let him resume playing. At least, he&rsquo;s beginning to get the feel of things once again.Keith McCreary has returned to action and Dick Mattiussi and Bill Speer, both nursing minor ailments, have managed to stay in the lineup even though they&rsquo;re not operating at peak efficiency.As this is written, the Barons face the unenviable task of meeting Quebec three times and Rochester once within the next eight days. Even with this outlook, the position of the Cleveland skaters is not too bad.With the Barons winning three and tying one in their last five starts, while Pittsburgh was dropping five straight, they have picked up seven points on the Hornets and are only four points out of second place in the Western Division. They have opened daylight between last place Buffalo and themselves.One of the reasons for the Barons&rsquo; surge, besides the constantly improving defensive showing, is the coming of age of the third line composed of Cecil Hoekstra, Gordon Wilkie and Wayne Schultz.The latter, a 24-year-old left winger who also is capable of playing defense, suddenly has blossomed into a fine performer. Outstanding with Minneapolis a year ago, where he sparkled as a blue-liner, Schultz did little of an offensive nature as a winger during the first party of the current season.Within the past two weeks, Schultz started to show that he is getting used to his new position and his new linemates. In the Barons&rsquo; last few games, he has tallied four goals as his entire line has indicated it is ready to start carrying its weight on the attack.Hoekstra and Wilkie, too, are clicking as they begin to take up more and more of the offensive slack to give the Barons three, instead of two, scoring lines. &#9632;

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Glover Expects Barons Will Start To Roll

BUFFALO, N.Y. &mdash;The seating capacity in Buffalo&rsquo;s city-owned Memorial Auditorium will be increased from 9,850 to 16,080 if Buffalo is included in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s proposed expansion plans.The alterations in the 25-year-old arena call for the elevation of the existing roof by 18 feet, erection of a new balcony and the installation of an escalation system for the entire building.Mayor Frank Sedita estimated the cost of the work at $2.5-million, and said he planned to Include the necessary funds in his 1966-67 capital expenditures budget.A group headed by the Knox brothers, Northrup and Seymour III, has made a strong bid for a Buffalo franchise in the NHL addition. Work on the Auditorium would begin in the spring of 1967, and would take an estimated six months to complete. Engineers have said it would take from 45 to 60 days to complete the roof&rsquo;s elevation.The new balcony would contain some 3,800 cushioned chairs. Additional seating would be obtained by raising the existing balcony, and by the erection of additional floor-level seats.Four cities have been granted conditional franchises in the planned second six-team division in the NHL. They are St. Louis, Oakland-San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver. In addition to Buffalo, other cities seeking franchises are Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Quebec, Philadelphia and Minneapolis-St. Paul.Seymour Knox said the expansion of the auditorium facilities would play a major role in Buffalo&rsquo;s hopes for the franchise. He also pointed out that the increased capacity would make the arena more attractive to convention groups.The Pastor brothers &mdash; Ruby, Sam and Al &mdash; operators of the Bison in the American Hockey League for the past 10 years, will have an interest in the proposed NHL club. &#9632;

Buffalo Plans Rink Seating Increase To 16,080 If Granted NHL Franchise

<div class="byline">BY JOE GORDON</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.One could say the Pittsburgh Hornets have had their ups and downs this season.It&rsquo;s been feast or famine for Eddie Bush and his hockey players.After the first 30 games of the campaign the Hornets have found themselves with two winning streaks and a like number of losing binges. Early in the season the Wasps lost four in succession, including three out of four on the West Coast.Then came a six game winning skein which Cleveland stopped only to see the Hornets go on another five game winning streak which pulled them to within four points of first place Rochester in the Western Division race.However, a loss to Buffalo ended that run of good fortune and then back-to-back setbacks to Rochester set the Hornets off on another streak in reverse. This one went to five in a row in the lost column and spanned more than two weeks before the Hornets nipped Buffalo, 2-1, in Buffalo on Norm Beaudin&rsquo;s two goals.This more recent set of reversals saw the Hornets losing three straight on their home ice. After going through the first twelve games of the home schedule with just two defeats, Rochester, Springfield and Baltimore dumped the Hornets in that order at the Civic Arena.Bush can&rsquo;t figure out his team&rsquo;s tendency to go on streaks. Most puzzling is the most recent when they dropped those five in a row. &ldquo;We played well in losing those two games to Rochester. I guess after that it was just a natural letdown after those two big defeats,&rdquo; groaned Bush. &#9632;

Hornets’ Up and Down Play Puzzling To Coach Ed Bush

Before you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; it never variesBefore you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; it never varies<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standines on Tues., Jan. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01567/2316031-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="547" height="180"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 5. New York. 6. Boston. x-independent.<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 4Los Angeles 2 at Vancouver 5Wed., Jan. 5San Francisco 1 at Victoria 6Thurs. Jan. 6Victoria 4 at Los Angeles 3Fri., Jan. 7Victoria 0 at San Francisco 6Seattle 2 at Vancouver 5Sat., Jan. 8Vancouver 2 at Portland 4Sun., Jan. 9San Francisco 2 at Los Angeles 4Victoria 0 at Portland 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues., Jan. 11Portland at VictoriaProvidence at SeattleWed., Jan. 12Providence at PortlandSeattle at Los AngelesFri., Jan. 11Seattle at San FranciscoThurs., Jan. 13Providence at VancouverSat., Jan. 15Providence at VictoriaSun., Jan 16Seattle at Los AngelesPortland at Vancouver<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Scoring records as of January 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02467/2316024-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="546" height="381"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03351/2316017-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="546" height="308"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>VICTORIA, B.C.On Wednesday night, Dec. 29th, the Victoria Maple Leafs hosted the San Francisco Seals and Victoria&rsquo;s Andy Hebenton played his 1,000th consecutive professional hockey game. Hebenton turned pro in 1949 and he had played 161 games when his string of consecutive games was begun on March 8. 1952 with the last six games of that season with another Victoria team in the old Pacific Coast League. He has not missed a game since.The winger from Winnipeg continued his string through three more PCHL seasons, nine seasons in the National League, last season with Portland and this season in the Western League. It is a truly remarkable record in a sport as rough as hockey. Hebenton is not a rough player. It has been 11 years since he has as many as 20 minutes in penalties in a season and he won the award as the most gentlemanly player in the NHL in 1952 and in the WHL last season. But he is a hard-working close-checker who does not spare himself and he has had to play with many minor injuries.When Hebenton went up to the majors after six long seasons in the minors, in 1956. He was 26. and it was considered late. But he played eight years with New York and one with Boston, scored 15 or more goals every year and 20 or more five years with a high of 33. He scored 46 goals for Victoria in 1955. and 34 goals for Portland last season, helping them to the pennant and playoff title.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04266/2316062-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="477" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY HEBENTON&hellip; Still Most Durable</figcaption></div>Reassigned to Victoria for this, his 16th season as a pro, hockey player. He&rsquo;s always been a poor skater and may have been responsible for more offsides than any player ever, but at 36 tie is still a digger, who plays both ends. He&rsquo;s not been shooting as sharply as usual this season and had only 11 goals after 31 games, but he had 23 assists, and his mates on the league&rsquo;s best line. Boh Barlow and Milan Marcetta, had 41 goals between them.Marcetta leads the league scoring race with 45 points on 20 goals and 25 assists. Portland&rsquo;s Cliff Schmautz is two points behind and leads the league in goals with 22. Barlow has 21 and Marcetta, L. A.&rsquo;s Leo LaBine, Vancouver&rsquo;s Howie Hughes and San Francisco&rsquo;s Wayne Connelly 20 each. L. A.&rsquo;s Norm Johnson and Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder are tops in assists with 31 each.Portland has not lost in its last six games as this is written and after 12 of the season&rsquo;s 26 weeks had crept within two points of first-place Victoria. Most recently, Portland extended its two-season winning streak over Seattle to a WHL record 14 in a row with a home-and-home sweep and put visiting L. A. to rout 9-0 as Cliff Schmautz scored the hat trick and goalie Dave Kelly made his season debut with a shutout. Schmautz scored five goals in three games and was named WHL &ldquo;player of the week.&rdquo;Victoria bounced back from a five-game winless string and its third straight loss to San Francisco to beat Vancouver liome-and-home and make it six straight over the Canucks this season. Streaks are the thing. Third-place Vancouver made it nine straight over California clubs with its fifth straight over L. A. and fourth straight over San Francisco.SHORT SHOTS &mdash; The loss of all-star sharpshooter Tommy McVie for eight weeks with a broken ankle is a bitter blow for Portland, but Detroit sent Fred Hilts, 26-year-old winger from Memphis, to fill in and he broke in impressively &hellip; Sau Francisco lost rough Ron Harris with a broken shoulder, recalled Del Topoll from Tulsa and brought in Stan Gilbertson from Clinton of the Eastern League for a trial &hellip; Vancouver lost defenseman Dune McCallum briefly when New York called him up to fill in for injured Wayne Hillman. &#9632;

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‘Iron Man’ Andy Hebenton Runs Streak Playing In 1,000th Straight Pro Game

LOS ANGELES, Calif.At 21, Jack Kent Cooke started out as a door-to-door salesman in Canada. He had $50 and a wife to support. Ten years later, he was described as &ldquo;Canada&rsquo;s youngest self-made millionaire.&rdquo; The aggressively commercial Cooke made his fortune reviving magazines and radio stations. Since becoming a U. S. citizen in 1960 and settling in Los Angeles, the Toronto tycoon has erected a new empire built around American Cablevision, which sells improved TV reception in fringe areas. Today at 53 his net worth is estimated in eight figures. He is a dynamic little dandy who lives in the grand style.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01544/2316208-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="291" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Reeves</figcaption></div>He has more deals going for him in a day than a blackjack operator in a Las Vegas casino. Sitting behind a desk the size of a ping-pong table in his Beverly Hills offices, he talks to a visitor, converses on the phone, makes notes with his right hand and shuffles through a pile of papers to find something with his left hand. He says his most important deal these days is trying to land the Los Angeles franchise in the new division of the National Hockey League. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very determined,&rdquo; he says.While he continues to acquire business properties and money, he claims these things are no longer his prime interest in life. He says he has regarded sports with a passion ever since he purchased the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team in 1952. Within a year he had taken a failing franchise and won a pennant and set a season attendance record. In a dozen years under his direction, the Leafs made the playoffs nine times, won four pennants and five times led the minor leagues at the gate. Along with other minor league teams, the Leafs were declining all around when he sold out.Cooke purchased 25 per cent of the Washington Redskins football team in 1960. The majority owner, George Preston Marshall, is in failing health. When he leaves the scene, Cooke plans to exercise options to buy control. Like most NFL teams, the Redskins are boffo at the box office, but they badly need rebuilding on the field. This season, Cooke purchased 100 per cent of enormously-successful Los Angeles Lakers basketball team for an astonishing $5,175,000.A partner with Branch Rickey, Bill Shea and others in the shortlived Continental League, which encouraged major league expansion, Cooke failed in his efforts to bring major league baseball to Canada. He lost a bid for the Detroit Tigers, but would be interested in bidding for the California Angels if the club is ever put up for sale. He is the underdog in the bidding for the NHL berth in L. A.Dan Reeves brought hockey back to L. A. with his Blades. With his new partner, Clarence Martin, they are the incumbents and must be favored. &ldquo;Incumbents can be unseated,&rdquo; Cooke smiles confidently.The wheeler-dealer cites several factors he feels favor his bid over that of his rivals. These include his Canadian background, hockey interest, acquaintanceship with most of the powerful men of the NHL who will award the franchise, and his success in putting the Toronto baseball operation in the black. He leans heavily on Blades&rsquo; failures on the ice and at the box-office after five years. &ldquo;I think the people in the NHL and in LA might be interested in a new owner for a new team,&rdquo; Cooke comments.Cooke&rsquo;s bid is not to be taken lightly and we are sure Reeves and Martin are not doing so. They are successful, powerful, wealthy businessmen and they are not blind to the attractions of major league hockey. They had the head start and they hold the lead as the contenders turn into the home stretch. &#9632;

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Cooke Makes Big Bid To Get LA. Franchise In Expansion of NHL

(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 2)<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02485/2316274-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="552" height="455"></div><h2>SAN FRANCISCO</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03406/2316267-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="550" height="455"></div><h2>PORTLAND</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04307/2316260-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="550" height="457"></div><h2>SEATTLE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05228/2316253-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="550" height="404"></div><h2>VANCOUVER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06191/2316246-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="552" height="451"></div><h2>VICTORIA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07172/2316239-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="550" height="401"></div> &#9632;

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WHL Point Race

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><h2>Laycoe Amazing Coach</h2>Hal Laycoe does an amazing job as coach with the Portland club. In five seasons, his teams have won three pennants and two playoffs and never finished lower than second. Some of these seasons he had much the best club, but not this season, yet he has his Buckaroos scaring the wits out of loaded Victoria. It was logical to write Portland ott when it lost its two best players, Pat Stapleton and Andy Hebenton. during the summer. Chuck Holmes and Len Ronson, who replace them, do not measure up to them. Yet, they kept winning. Now they&rsquo;ve lost their great little scorer. Tommy McVie, for eight weeks with a busted ankle. And they&rsquo;ve kept on winning.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08155/2316312-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="276" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Laycoe</figcaption></div>Laycoe&rsquo;s Bucks play a close-checking game that does not please everyone. But everyone&rsquo;s in condition on the club, everyone checks, everyone plays both ends of the ice, everyone helps everyone else out; it&rsquo;s really and truly a team which wins in spite of the comings or goings or the ups and downs of the individual stars. They play a tough brand of hockey and usually lead the league in penalties, but they kill them off effectively.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve heard Laycoe turned down the Boston Bruin coaching job. He&rsquo;ll be glad to tell you he&rsquo;s happy in Portland. He is not popular with everyone. He and San Francisco&rsquo;s Bud Poile, who has the best long-term coaching record in the league, would not speak to one another if they got stuck in a telephone booth together. But Hal belongs in the big league. There simply are not enough coaches of his calibre, especially young ones, to go around.<h2>Johnson Loses Touch</h2>L. A. veteran centre Norm Johnson is having unusual trouble finding the net this season. He scored only eight goals in the first half of the season. But he&rsquo;s tied for the league lead with 31 assists and has helped his winger, Leo LaBine to 20 goals. &ldquo;Our team has been going bad and when that happens things seem to come harder,&rdquo; Johnson says. &ldquo;I may be passing off a little too much, but actually I haven&rsquo;t had that many good shots. Leo&rsquo;s always a good player, but he&rsquo;s shooting quicker than usual and scoring more than usual.&rdquo; Johnson plays with a great conservation of energy, but he&rsquo;s an honest hockey player. So is the Impish Labine. Leo explains his splurge, thusly: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been catching the goalies with their eyes closed.&rdquo;One of the few other Blades doing a real job is Marc Boileau. In recent years, Marc has been one of the less likely players around to score a goal at any time, but he hustles, he&rsquo;s strong defensively and he and Gerry Leonard of Seattle are probably the best two penalty-killers in the league. &ldquo;Until I came to L.A. I always scored well,&rdquo; Boileau pointed out. &ldquo;I started thinking of myself as a defensive player and passing up my shots. When I took them I seemed to have lost my touch and I began to lose confidence. It&rsquo;s terrible to think you can get fouled up mentally like that. After 10 years as a pro in hockey, I should know better. But it&rsquo;s mental and I can&rsquo;t shake it.&rdquo;Marc&rsquo;s strong skating was slowed by a groin injury early this season, but he&rsquo;s coming around now. &ldquo;Aside from playing goal, killing penalties is the hardest job in hockey,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;You have to work real hard and if you make a mistake it costs you good. The big thing is anticipating the play the other guy wants to make. You can&rsquo;t commit yourself. You have to let him make the first move. But, he&rsquo;s taking his time and maybe getting lackadaisacal and that gives you a chance to rush reck out of him. You can&rsquo;t let up.&rdquo;<h2>Odrowski Penalty Killer</h2>Another fine penaltykiller is Gerry Odrowski of San Francisco. It is felt by the Seal brass that Gerry does not always play up to his high potential as a defender, but when he was brought in to repair the Seals&rsquo; shorthanded troubles, he responded with the sort of forechecking that you don&rsquo;t see very often. &ldquo;When Charley Burns took over as coach, he remembered that I&rsquo;d killed penalties in the NHL and put me to work at it,&rdquo; Gerry comments. &ldquo;I really like it. I can skate and I like to whip around real fast. It&rsquo;s a tough job. You have to anticipate their play and break it up as soon as possible. The key to the thing is getting to them in their own end, if possible, before they can get organized, and to keep applying pressure. As for my all-around play, I figure I&rsquo;m playing well, as well as ever. Sometimes people say nice things about you, sometimes they don&rsquo;t. I play my best and don&rsquo;t worry about it.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09144/2316305-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="293" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Odrowski</figcaption></div>One Seal who is worried is Ray Cyr, another who kills penalties well, but who has been doing little else lately. &ldquo;I feel terrible,&rdquo; the 32-year-old forward admits. &ldquo;This has been my worst year so far. It&rsquo;s kind of depressing when you start going bad. I can&rsquo;t seem to get on track. We&rsquo;ve had an unsettled club - players coming and going and a change in coaches. Maybe I&rsquo;ll wind up going somewhere else, which might not be the worst thing that could happen to me. I just don&rsquo;t know what my trouble is. Well, maybe I do. I haven&rsquo;t been playing regularly. You&rsquo;re pressing and you can&rsquo;t really get rolling when you play only in spots.&rdquo;Cyr has been enormously impressed by Vancouver&rsquo;s great 38-year-old veteran Phil Maloney. &ldquo;That guy works harder than any other player I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; Cyr says. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the best forechecking centre I&rsquo;ve ever seen. He&rsquo;s a great playmaker and a great shooter and he&rsquo;s always carrying kids along. He&rsquo;s playing especially well this year. After all this time, it&rsquo;s unbelievable how well he&rsquo;s playing.&rdquo; The gentlemanly Maloney even got into a fight with tough kid George Swarbrick the other night and actually came out even. So the secret is out. The fountain of youth is in Vancouver. Wait&rsquo;ll Bert Olmstead finds out about it. &#9632;

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Western Ad Lib

Don&rsquo;t be vague &hellip; say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKYDon&rsquo;t be vague &hellip; say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standings on Wed., Jan. 12)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01388/2316350-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="540" height="176"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 2. Montreal. 3. Chicago. 4. Detroit. 5. New York. 6. Boston).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed., Jan. 5Minnesota 4 at St. Louis 4Oklahoma City 1 at Memphis 5Tulsa 4 at Houston 3Thurs., Jan. 6St. Louis 3 at Minnesota 0Fri., Jan. 7Houston 6 at Memphis 3Oklahoma City 1 at Tulsa 4Sat., Jan. 8Oklahoma City 3 at Minnesota 2St. Louis 1 at Tulsa 2Sun.. Jan. 9Memphis 3 at St. Louis 6Tulsa 1 at Oklahoma City 1<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02318/2316343-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="542" height="354"></div><h3>LEAGUE LEADERS</h3>Most goals: Mestinsek, Memphis 18.Most assists: Paul, Memphis 26.Penalties in minutes: Bob Plager. Minnesota 111.Leading goalie: Wayne Rutledge, Minn.. 2.93 goals-against average.Most shutouts: Carl Wetzel, Houston 3. &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;Gus Kyles St. Louis Braves appear to be ready to make their big move with Art Stratton taking over as captain and as league and team scoring leader.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03241/2316388-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="285" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Joyal</figcaption></div>With 32 points in his first 22 outings, Stratton is reaching the form that made him the American Hockey League scoring champion last season.In order to give them minor league seasoning that they missed by jumping directly from the Ontario Hockey Association Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks to the National Hockey League, Tommy Ivan general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks assigned forwards Dennis Hull and Fred Stanfield to the Braves.Oscar Gaudet, pride of Moncton, New Brunswick, is the Braves&rsquo; team scoring leader triggering 16 goals in 25 games. In 71 contests with Buffalo of the AHL last winter, he only scored 22.MINNESOTA: As the Minnesota Rangers battled to retain a share of second place with St. Louis in the tight SPHL race, general manager Jake Milford spoke out enthusiastically of the play of leftwinger Jim Johnson, recently called up by New York Rangers.The Winnipeg-born 23-year-old forward, who turned pro with Sudbury Wolves in the now-disbanded Eastern Pro League in 1962, was spending his third season in the Central League.In his first campaign. Johnson had a mark of 54 scoring points with the Rangers. Last winter, he increased his output to 64 and had 30 this term after 24 games.Looking at his five-foot-nine, 184-pound forward, Milford noted that in an eight-game Minnesota winless streak, Johnson never stopped skating. He was called up by Rangers when the NHL club was hit by injuries.Meanwhile Milford was far from pleased with the play of a few members of the Rangers as the team was in its non-win skein.Over the first 24 games, the Rangers were one goal per game behind their average of last season that gave them first place, the league playoff championship and the Jack Adams Cup.HOUSTON &mdash; Coach Bill McCreary was bemoaning the lack of goals when his Apollos came through and scored seven one night against league - leading Memphis but the following night the Memphis crew returned the favor clipping Houston for eight.Bill Inglis paces the Apollos in the sniping department triggering 16 goals in his first 25 games and also&rsquo; taking time on the way to grab off 12 assists.TULSA &mdash; Eddie Joyal sparked the Oilers picking up nine scoring points in his first four games after joining the club from Rochester of the American League.Jim Wilcox, 24-year-old rearguard was obtained on loan by the Oilers from Springfield of the American League when defenseman Jack Chipchase was sideline with a chipped ankle bone.The Oilers drew 51,248 fans for their first 13 games averaging 3,942 best in the entire Central League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04195/2316381-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="513" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body">DENNIS HULL&hellip; Lands With Braves</figcaption></div>MEMPHIS &mdash; Vic Stasiuk, who has turned to a playing coach instead of a bench coach, likes the way his club performed after Jimmy Peters, the team&rsquo;s top point-getter was called up to the NHL Detroit Red Wings.Veterans like Danny Belisle staited to pick up the slack and younger players like Bryan Campbell. Doug Roberts and Max Mestinsek kept up the shooting barrage with Butch Paul sparkling with playmaking.OKLAHOMA CITY &mdash; The Blazers are finding their way to close-game triumphs and Pete Panagabko and Skip Krake have been leading their offensive. The duo combined for 51 scoring points over the first 24 games.With Gerry Cheevers in the nets sent down from Boston Bruins as Jack Norris headed for Los Angeles, the Blazers shone at pressure hockey nipping St. Louis, 3-2 and tying Minnesota 4-4. &#9632;

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St. Louis Making Big Pitch For League Lead, Must Hurdle Memphis, Minnesota To Step Up

<h2>Sat., Dec. 25</h2>MINNESOTA 3 at TULSA 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05136/2316461-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="538" height="666"></div>ST. LOUIS 2 at OKLAHOMA CITY 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06106/2316454-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="538" height="559"></div>MEMPHIS 2 at HOUSTON 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0795/2316447-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="541" height="661"></div><h2>Sun., Dec. 26</h2>TULSA 1 at ST. LOUIS 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0886/2316440-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="532" height="371"></div>HOUSTON 3 at MEMPHIS 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0971/2316433-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="535" height="544"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1059/2316426-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="536" height="228"></div>OKLAHOMA CITY 4 at MINNESOTA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1149/2316419-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="538" height="677"></div> &#9632;

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Central Hockey League Summaries

<h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Jan. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01309/2316562-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="556" height="151"></div>(x-plays four-point games)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri., Jan. 7Kingston 4 at Guelph 6Galt 5 at Woodstock 7Sat., Jan. 8Woodstock 6 at Galt 3Sun., Jan. 9Guelph 6 at Kingston 7Galt 2 at Oakville 8<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including Games of Thurs. Jan. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02262/2316555-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="554" height="354"></div><h2>ST. LAWRENCE SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Thurs. Jan. 6)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03204/2316548-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="554" height="179"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04150/2316541-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="556" height="407"></div><h2>WESTERN CANADA SENIOR</h2>(Standings on Fri., Jan. 7)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05114/2316534-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="555" height="175"></div><h2>MANITOBA SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues. Jan. 4)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0692/2316527-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="551" height="152"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0785/2316520-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="553" height="381"></div><h2>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Wed., Jan. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0859/2316513-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="554" height="157"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0948/2316506-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="546" height="380"></div><h2>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1040/2316499-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="552" height="225"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1134/2316492-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="551" height="478"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Races

<div class="byline">BY HARRY POLLACK</div>CHERRY HILL, N.J. &mdash;Of all the Eastern Hockey League teams, none has been more disappointing this season than the Jersey Devils.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1228/2316593-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="291" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Benny Woit</figcaption></div>In most pre - season reckoning the Devils were rated the team to beat and these were opinions not only of writers but also of coaches in the Northern Division in which the Devils operate. John Muckier, Long Island pilot, and Doug Bentley of Knoxville for two had been surprised by Jersey&rsquo;s lowly status in the division. They never thought that the Devils would be battling New Haven for the fourth playoff berth. Muckier figured the Devils would be dogging the Ducks heels in the fight for first place. &ldquo;Materialwise, they&rsquo;re great. I don&rsquo;t know what happened to them,&rdquo; said Bentley.This optimism was caused by the club&rsquo;s good showing at the tailend of the 1964-65 campaign and the big off-season deal that brought Norm DeFelice, the 15-shutout netminder, to them along with Benny Woit and others. But thing haven&rsquo;t panned out that way.General manager Len Gaudette has been threatening shakeups repeatedly but the first major action in this respect was the trading of Art Chiupka, the club&rsquo;s leading pointmaker, to Jacksonville for Bobby Boucher. Whether this deal will be the tonic needed to rejuvenate the rest of the personnel remains to be seen. Gaudette promised more transactions to strengthen the team in various other locales also.Woit has been working hard on defense in his club&rsquo;s drills. He&rsquo;s been stressing checking and picking up and sticking to the attacking player. The Devils generally do better in attendance the last half of the season and Woit hopes the club will match this rise on the ice. He believes second place is within reach of the Devils.JACKSONVILLE: Goalie Chuck Goddard&rsquo;s arm injury hurt club in 10-0 rout by Charlotte. Ron Willy and Butch Morris battling for club scoring lead. Team won two straight for only second time in history. Large turnout of 3,783 was attracted by club&rsquo;s improved performance. Rockets upset over slashing of Willy by Charlotte&rsquo;s Mike Kardash and protested to league.GREENSBORO: Crowd of 6,723 tied Coliseum mark to watch shutout at hands of Charlotte. Ron Muir&rsquo;s goal beat Checkers the next night. Mike Draper quit college to return to club and Harvey Turnbull sent to Jersey on loan. Don Carter continues as scoring packsetter. Ron Pyke has mild concussion and 15-stitch forehead cut. Defenseman John Murray back after sitting out month with chipped ankle bone.LONG ISLAND: Ducks bowed to Knoxville for first time since 1962-63 season, having won nine straight in the interim. Club had four sellouts in last five games. Gerry Rafter would like to add weight to his 150-pound frame but has been unable to do so. Moe Bartoli is lone Duck in scoring race. John Brophy has lost penalty lead to New Haven&rsquo;s Blake Ball.CHARLOTTE: Checkers took over division lead several times, but runnerup Nashville has played less games. Ricky Charron picked up two straight shutouts. Grant Warwick assessed penalty in Greensboro for tapping linesman with stick during dispute on goal. Ernie Dyda posted hat trick vs Jacksonville. Ten wins in 12 starts helped club rise to top. Youngsters Andre Hinse, George Hill and Warwick have bolstered club.NASHVILLE: Gilles St. Jacques fined for returning late from Canada from Xmas trip. Flyers won 13 of 16 at home. Norm Ryder picked up five points in win over Johnstown. Flyers waived &ldquo;no horn&rdquo; rule for fans for New Year&rsquo;s eve game with Long Island. Team gave prexy a luggage gift for Xmas. St. Jacques doesn&rsquo;t wear socks on the ice. Club drew 46,558 for first 16 home games, almost the same as last year.KNOXVILLE: Knights purchased rights of Wayne Doll from Clinton and sent Harrison Gray to New Haven. Don Labelle back with club after getting permission from boss to play in road games. Eddie Burr and Jim Murray shifted to line. Harley Hodgeson out with strained knee ligaments.CLINTON: Comets lost five straight in south. Howie Dietrich&rsquo;s knee injury sidelined him for stretch. Team playing with nine men due to injuries. Stan Gilbertson recalled by San Francisco. Borden Smith posted hat trick vs. Jets. Ian Anderson performing despite eye and leg mishaps. Jack Kane tops club in scoring.JOHNSTOWN: Jets unhappy over disputed goal at Jersey that cost them 4-3 decision. Neil Forth went home to North Bay, Ont. during wife&rsquo;s illness. Four straight road losses hurt upward climb. Dick Roberge is dividing his scoring perfectly between goals and assists, having 29 of each at the latest count.NEW HAVEN: Jackie Leclair finally switched goalies after threatening to do so for quite a stretch. He grabbed Harrison Gray from Knoxville and dropped Andre Daoust. Ray Carpentier&rsquo;s goal beat Jersey. Ron Kapitan and Blake Ball each did some fighting in penalty box with Jersey foes. &#9632;

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Jersey’s Low Status Proves Surprise Of Season Coach Woit. EHL Rivals Puzzled By Devils’ Plight

(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1322/2316624-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="553" height="281"></div> &#9632;

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EHL Point Race

(Standings on Tues., Jan. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1418/2316655-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="557" height="348"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 4. Detroit. 6. Boston, x-independent).<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Wed., Jan. 5Johnstown 2 at New Haven 7Nashville 5 at Jersey 6Knoxville 2 at Jacksonville 5Thurs., Jan. 6Nashville 1 at Long Island 7Greensboro 3 at Charlotte 8Fri., Jan. 7New Haven 2 at Clinton 11Long Island 8 at New Jersey 3Jacksonville 2 at Charlotte 5Greensboro 5 at Knoxville 4Sat., Jan. 8New Haven 2 at Clinton 3Long Island 2 at Johnstown 4Knoxville 3 at Greensboro 4Jacksonville 2 at Nashville 8Sun. Jan. 9Clinton 2 at New Haven 3New Jersey 2 at Long Island 8Johnstown 3 at Greensboro 5Nashville 4 at Charlotte 2Jacksonville 3 at Knoxville 6<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed., Jan. 12Johnstown at ClintonKnoxville at New JerseyNew Haven at GreensboroLong Island at JacksonvilleFri., Jan. 14Greensboro at New JerseyClinton at JohnstownNew Haven at CharlotteNashville at KnoxvilleLong Island at JacksonvilleSat., Jan. 15Greensboro at ClintonNew Jersey at JohnstownCharlotte at KnoxvilleJacksonville at NashvilleSun., Jan. 16Johnstown at New HavenGreensboro at Long IslandClinton at New JerseyCharlotte at Nashville &#9632;

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How They Stand

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE(Standings on Tues., Jan. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01315/2316717-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="549" height="173"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 2. Montreal. Chicago. 6. Boston, x-independent).<h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Tues., Jan. 4Des Moines 4 at Toledo 3Wed., Jan. 5Port Huron 6 at Fort Wayne 5Thurs., Jan. 6Toledo 3 at Muskegon 4Fort Wayne 1 at Dayton 8Fri., Jan. 7Des Moines 3 at Port Huron 4Sat., Jan. 8Port Huron 2 at Fort Wayne 4Dayton 4 at Muskegon 5Des Moines 3 at Toledo 2Sun., Jan. 9Toledo 3 at Dayton 13Des Moines 1* at Port Huron 4<h2>Point Race</h2>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02229/2316710-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="544" height="284"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03143/2316748-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Canadien player shown in centre.5. Initials of Sweeney of Springfield.7. Another term for a coach.9. Allan Stanley holidays on one during the off season.11. Initials of an NHL captain.12. This NHL manager hails from North Battleford, Sask.13. One of the Bruins answers to this.16. 9th & 12th letters of the alphabet.18. League in which Brit Selby played last season (abbr.)19. The Maple Leafs receive &mdash; uniforms for the playoffs.20. Initials of Iverson. exHawk coach.21. Boxing term, (abbr.)22. Initials of Aidcorn, retired NHL player.24. Name given a Leaf forward.26. One of the Canadiens&rsquo; answers to this.27. Val Fonteyene&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)28. Football term (abbr.)29. Initials of an NHL manager.30. Given name of Goldsworthy, former NHL star.32. Buller, ex-Ranger, answers to this.33. Once played for Canadiens on a line with Heffernan and O&rsquo;Connor.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Former NHL forward.2. Milt Schmidt once served in this branch of the armed forces (abbr.)3. 9th & 16th letters of the alphabet.4. Imlach likes to &mdash; his Leafs in the fall.5. Initials of O&rsquo;Ree of Los Angeles.6. Stan Mikita&rsquo;s nickname.8. Birthplace of Charlie Hodge.10. Initials of an AHL manager.14. Exclamation of surprise.15. One of the Boston Bruins.17. Given name of an NHL manager.21. Wears No. 4 for Toronto.23. Name given 1 dow&rsquo;n.24. Goals are announced over a &mdash; system (abbr.)25. Each (abbr.)26. Ranger fans usually &mdash; Ted Green.30. Behold.31. Initials of Ingram, ex-NHL player.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h3>Across</h3>1. Plante6. C.P.8. Apr.9. E.G.10. Ha.11. Manager14. Ross15. Noel16. VI17. Car18. Pea19. Arm20. CN21. Use22. Aug.23. NL.24. Dea26. Ft.27. KL.28. Leighton31. E.N.32. Skater<h3>Down</h3>1. Patrick2. L.P.3. Armstrong4 Ten5. Egan6. Cheevers7. Parliament12. A.S.13. Go18. Paul20. Cullen22. Ankle24. Dogs25. Alta.26. Fine29. HK30. O.T. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>HAMILTON, Ont.&mdash;Although they still aren&rsquo;t actually a threat for first place the success story in the Ontario Hockey Association junior A league as the schedule passed the midway point was being written in big bold letters by the Hamilton Red Wings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01291/2316786-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="292" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>For the previous two seasons the Wings were the doormats of the Ontario circuit.They finished last in the eightteam league in 1963-64 under Coach Eddie Bush and failed to improve their position in 1964-65 with Danny Lewicki coaching.It could have been said that things couldn&rsquo;t get worse. However, this would hardly have been true.This season a new entry was accepted, the London Nationals, sponsored by the Toronto Maple Leafs.Few would have been surprised had the Wings slipped into ninth spot &hellip; even behind London.Ken Soble, a successful Hamilton businessman who numbers among his assets Hamilton radio and television stations, the Hamilton Forum and the junior A franchise, was determined to do something about the low estate into which the Wings had fallen.He hired Rudy Pilous, a veteran coach and manager who had been instrumental in bringing St. Catharines two Memorial Cup championships and later coached Chicago Black Hawks to the Stanley Cup.Pilous, who makes his home in St. Catharines, had coached Denver in the Western Hockey League, then Victoria, the past two years and was anxious to move his winter headquarters closer to Ontario.His plans therefore fitted in well with Soble&rsquo;s as Hamilton is only a half-hour drive from St. Catharines.Terms of the contract which Pilous signed have not been released but it&rsquo;s safe to say that it&rsquo;s one of the best ever handed a coach-manager in Canadian junior hockey.Whatever the amount, he&rsquo;s been worth every cent.Pilous had no sooner accepted the position than he was given a jolt when the Detroit Red Wings turned promising defenseman Gary Doak professional with the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American League.Doak still had one season of junior eligibility left with Detroit&rsquo;s junor amateur team in Hamilton but the Wings &hellip; correctly as it turned out &hellip; felt that he would mature more rapidly in pro hockey.Hamilton started slowly and for the first six weeks of the schedule again flirted with last place.However, recently they have been the hottest team in the junior league.They opened the month of December with a loss to Kitchener, then went the next eight straight games without a defeat, winning six and playing two draws &hellip; including back-to-back one-goal decisions over the Toronto Marlboros.They then stretched their un-beaten record to 9 games with a 7-5 win early in January over Peterborough Petes right in Peterborough to climb into a fourth place tie with Montreal Canadiens and within a half dozen points of the defending Memorial Cup champion Niagara Falls Flyers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02242/2316779-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="487" height="754"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETER MAHOVLICH&hellip; Starting To Show Muscle</figcaption></div>One major reason for the improvement has been the play of a young man with a familiar name, Peter Mahovlich.At 6 ft. 3 inches and 200 pounds, is a shade bigger than his older brother Frank of the Toronto Maple Leafs and has all the earmarks of a future great in the Detroit organization.&ldquo;Peter&rsquo;s one big problem was that he wasn&rsquo;t tough enough,&rdquo; said Pilous. &ldquo;He was strong physically but just didn&rsquo;t want to use that strength. I told him he&rsquo;d never make a pro unless be got a little rougher. He listened and now I wouldn&rsquo;t trade him for any player in the league.&rdquo;Subjected to boos from the sometimes critical Hamilton fans in his first three seasons in Hamilton, Mahovlich is now a public hero and it would not be too surprising if he stepped right out of junior hockey into the NHL with Detroit.Detroit Coach Sid Abel gave Mahovlich his first shot at the major league in a game in Boston.Peter promptly responded by assisting on the only goal.as the Wings edged the Bruins 1-0. &#9632;

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Pilous Makes Hamilton Contender Again; Mahovlich’s Play Helps Lift Red Wings

<h2>CENTRAL ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standing&rsquo;s on Wed., Jan. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03193/2316852-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="557" height="281"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04168/2316845-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="557" height="289"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Sun., Jan. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05142/2316838-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="559" height="159"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06118/2316831-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="561" height="331"></div><h2>How They Stand</h2><h3>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</h3>(Standings on Tues., Jan. 11)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07106/2316824-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="559" height="253"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto. 2. Montreal. 3. Chicago. 4. Detroit. 5. New York. 6. Boston).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 4Kitchener 2 at London 3Thurs., Jan. 6London 7 at Hamilton 3Toronto 2 at Peterborough 5Fri., Jan. 7Oshawa 2 at Niagara Falls 3St. Catharines 2 at Kitchener 3Sat., Jan. 8Hamilton 5 at Oshawa 4Sun., Jan. 9Ktchener 1 at St. Catharines 11Peterborough 1 at Montral 1<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues., Jan. 11Oshawa at LondonToronto at Niagara FallsThurs., Jan. 13Niagara Falls at HamiltonMontreal at PeterboroughFri., Jan. 14Montreal at LondonToronto at KitchenerPeterborough at Niagara FallsSat., Jan. 15St. Catharines at OshawaSun., Jan. 16Peterborough at KitchenerOshawa at St. CatharinesHamilton at TorontoOshawa at St. CatharinesHamilton at TorontoNiagara Falls at Montreal<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including Games of Sun. Jan. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0898/2316817-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="553" height="284"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich. &mdash;At 5-feet, 11 - inches, Paul Henderson is an average - size hockey player but he felt like a midget during a game against Boston.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01176/2316890-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="286" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jimmy Peters</figcaption></div>Jimmy Peters Jr. centered Hendersons line and Peters is 6-teet. 3-inches. On the other side, called up from the Hamilton Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; team because Val Fonteyne had the flu, was 6-foot. 4-inch, 208-pound Peter Mahovlich. playing his first pro game.&ldquo;With his skates on, Mahovlich had to lower his head to get out the dressing room door,&rdquo; marvelled assistant GM Johnny Mitchell.Mahovlich, younger but bigger brother of Toronto&rsquo;s Frank, and Peters set up Henderson for the game&rsquo;s only goal.Mahovlich was returned to Hamilton and Peters was returned to the Wings&rsquo; Memphis farm of the Central League after a five game trial and Abel said he liked what he saw of each youngster.Actually, Peters&rsquo; handling of the pivot in his five games encouraged Abel so much that he traded Pit Martin to Boston to get Parker MacDonald back. Martin had been playing at Pittsburgh.Don McKenney, drafted from Toronto for $30,000, and Billy Harris, back after a short suspension, both were assigned to the Hornets.Harris balked at being sent to the minors before the holidays and went home to Toronto spent the holidays with his family, and then went to Pitts-burgh.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02114/2316883-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="478" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL HENDERSON&hellip; Felt Like Midget</figcaption></div>Harris and McKenney each had only one goal for the Wings.The Wings were swarmed by 4,500 young fans during their annual Open House and the smaller players, like goalie Roger Crozier and defensemanforward Bryan Watson, were almost lost in the mob.Watson, the People&rsquo;s Choice for his aggressiveness, stayed out the longest, signing autographs for more than an hour. Andy Bathgate, Ab McDonald, Doug Barkley, Bert Marshall and Jimmy Peters Jr., also set longevity records.At a luncheon announcing plans for the Red Wing Old-Timers game with the Montreal Old Boys, a home-and-home affair set for Jan. 21 in the Forum and Jan. 28 at Olympia, Jimmy-Peters Sr., chairman of the Detroit group, said that the Montrealers were going to use the proceeds of the Jan. 21 game to buy an ambulance.&ldquo;After looking at that lineup, I think they&rsquo;re going to use it to bring us home,&rdquo; cracked Red Wing manager-coach Sid Abel who will centre the old Production Line of Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe for the games.Lindsay continues to work out with the Wings daily and Abel said that if New York, which blocked Lindsay&rsquo;s return this season, would reconsider, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d still like to have Ted patrolling the left side for us.&rdquo;After racking up three shutouts in four games, Abel was asked if he was considering another Florida vacation for Roger Crozier. &ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; Abel answered, &ldquo;but for me, not Roger.&rdquo;Crozier spent three days in Miami Beach a year ago at this time and returned to spark the Wings&rsquo; pennant push. &#9632;

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