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February 5, 1966
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Watson’s Needling Of NHL Rivals Pays Off In Goals For Red Wings
DETROIT, Mich.— By any casual appraisal, Bryan Watson is a fringe player. He’s obviously not a goal scorer and he’s really not big enough to be a major league defenseman. Look at the Red Wing utilityman stripped and you wonder “This guy is playing against 180, 190, 200-pounders?” He’s not only playing against them, he’s outsmarting a lot of them. Watson has more nicknames than he has missing teeth and the latest is Turn-the-Other-Cheek. Chippy and an expert needier, the stretched-out 5-foot-10, 170-pounder (with pocket weights?), pulled seven penalties in a recent five game stretch for the Red Wings. Now that’s a pretty good performance but making it even more impressive is that Watson suckered rivals into fouling him five times while he was out killing a Detroit penalty, thus erasing an opposition power play. And the whipped…
National Hockey League Summaries
Wed., Jan. 26 DETROIT 3 at NEW YORK 4 DETROIT — Goal: Crozier, Bassen; defense: Barkley. Bergman B. Marshall, Gadsby, Watson; forwards: Bathgate. McDonald, Smith, Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Murphy, MacDonald, MacGregor, Henderson. NEW YORK — Goal: Giacomin, Simmons: defense: Howell, Brown, Hillman, McMahon, Neilson; forwards: Fleming, Ratelie, Hadfield, Robinson, Nevin, Hicke, Seiling, Cullen, Goyette, Peters, D. Marshall. Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Sopp, Armstrong. CHICAGO 4 at MONTREAL 2 CHICAGO — Goal, Hall, Dryden; defense: Vasko, Ravlich, Stapleton, McNeil, Jarrett: forwards: Mohns, Stratton, Angotti, Hull, Esposito, Maki, Hay, Nesterenko, Wharram, Lunde. MONTREAL — Goal: Hodge, Worsley; defense: Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Harper, Talbot: forwards: Beliveau, Duff, Rousseau, Richard, G. Tremblay, Provost, Backstrom, Larose, Baton, Cournoyer, Roberts, Ferguson. Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: D’Amico, Pavelich. Thurs., Jan. 27 CHICAGO 3 at BOSTON 5 CHICAGO — Goal: Hall, Dryden: defense: Vasko, Ravlich, Stapleton, MacNeil, Jarrett: forwards:…
Williams Says Aggressiveness Not In His Hockey Make-up; But Bruins Want Him To Hit
BOSTON, Mass. The Bruins are fighting a losing battle in their bid to get Tommy Williams to be more aggressive. It’s just not “in” the slippery Boston forward. He has no desire to hit and doesn’t think he can change. As Tommy explained it: “I think you have to be in a certain frame of mind to be aggresssive. You have to be able to get mad. And that’s just not part of my makeup. I can’t get mad at anybody. I’m serious. That’s the way I am. I can’t get mean period! “Perhaps there are two reasons for this,” the National Hockey League’s lone player born and bred in the United States. “First is the fact that I look upon hockey as a game, in the real sense, something I enjoy doing. And, secondly,…
Habs Can‘t Beat ‘Big Teams’, Win One Game In Eight Starts During Grim January Schedule
“You like 7up 7up likes You” “You like 7up 7up likes You” MONTREAL. Que.— The month of January is not likely to rank among the distinguished periods in the history of the Canadiens. Though they beat clubs in the lower echelons of the standings with regularity, they fared poorly against the stiffer opposition of Detroit, Chicago and Toronto. So poorly, in fact, that they could claim only one win in eight outings against upper-bracket teams. That was a 4-2 triumph over Chicago on January 5th. It was the first and last time that Canadiens actually defeated a ranking team throughout the course of the month. They did have one tie against the Hawks in Chicago on the 23rd. Some of the Habs’ most difficult moments were spent in the company of the Detroit Red Wings.…
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