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January 22, 1966
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In The Corridor
HOCKEY NEWS this week asked Buffalo fans this question: What is your reaction to the growing popularity of helmets among professional hockey players? Does it detract from the game, or does it in any way affect your enjoyment of the sport? Rex Harriott, Buffalo: The helmets sometimes make it a little difficult to identify the players, but not for long. You get used to seeing them wear helmets, and recognize them anyway. I play hockey at Nichols School in Buffalo, and we use helmets. The safety factor is important. Miss Joan Hoffman, Hamburg: The way hockey is played today, the helmets should be made compulsory. So many fellows are knocked into the boards, head-first, you wonder why there aren’t so many more serious injuries. I think all players should use them. Fred Hunt Jr.,…
Fort William’s Rugged John Schella Has Look Of Big Leaguer
FORT WILLIAM, Ont. John Schella is a big, rugged 185 pounder, six feet tall, playing defense for the Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League’s Fort William Canadiens. He’ll admit though that he’s not the best skater among the league’s defensemen but he’s only 18 and improving. And that’s what really counts. The raw material — size and ruggedness — is there, the makings of a big leaguer. And what’s more he also has the ambition. The grade 12 student at Port Arthur’s Hillcrest High School is not, however, overlooking the educational possibilities that hockey may open up for him. “If I pass I think I can get a scholarship at the University of North Dakota, I’ve been approached already by an official of the university’s team,” he told THE HOCKEY NEWS recently. A native of Port Arthur,…
Ellett Speer Showing Top Ice Form With Barons
CLEVELAND. Ohio — Left winger Bob Ellett skated over to the boards prior to the Cleveland - Quebec game of January 8 to receive the Player - of - the - Month Trophy from the Barons’ Booster Club for the month of December. He was the third player to be so honored. Tom McCarthy was awarded the trophy for October and Bill Speer for November. McCarthy couldn’t miss. The Barons played only one home game in October and Me Carthy registered a hat trick in that one. He was home free. But for Speer and Ellett to be the next two honored was quite a switch from the 1964-65 season, when neither exactly scintillated as the Cleveland icers experienced their worst season of all time. Speer, husky and willing, was a relatively green blue-liner when…
Hay, Nesterenko Providing Balance For Black Hawks’ Attack-Both Ways
CHICAGO, Ill. — Bill Hay and Eric Nesterenko aren’t about to join Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, or Jean Beliveau on the list of the National Hockey league’s most feared goal scorers. But the two veteran forwards are providing the Hawks’ attack with considerably more balance than it figured to have. In recent seasons, goal production came from Hull, Stan Mikita, Ken Wharram, and Phil Esposito or it didn’t come at all. Hay and Nester were valuable members of the team because of their solid defensive play and adroit penalty-killing. But neither could be counted upon to contribute more than 10 or 12 goals to the offensive cause. Last year, Hay came up with 11 markers and Nester 14 as the Hawks finished third. Hay was good for his major league high, 23, in 1963-64,…
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