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February 5, 1966

The Hockey News February 5, 1966

WALLY NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STYCKWALLY POOL TABLES TABLE CROQUET SETS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1660/2644111-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="479" height="575"><figcaption class="caption-body">MOE MANTHA &hellip; Secured On Loon</figcaption></div><h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standings on Tues., Feb. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1746/2644104-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="558" height="363"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 2. Montreal: 3. Chicago; 4. Detroit; 5. New York: 6. Boston, x-indepedent).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 25Baltimore 5 at Quebec 7Wed., Jan. 26Providence 3 at Buffalo 5Seattle 5 at Hershey 3Thurs., Jan. 27Baltimore 1 at Quebec 7Fri., Jan. 28Hershey 3 at Cleveland 5Buffalo 3 at Rochester 2Pittsburgh 0 at Springfield 4Sat., Jan. 29Rochester 1 at Cleveland 3Providence 5 at Hershey 4Buffalo 3 at Pittsburgh 5Baltimore 2 at Springfield 7Sun., Jan. 20Hershey 3 at Buffalo 5Cleveland 4 at Pittsburgh 1Baltimore 4 at Providence 1Rochester 3 at Quebec 4GAMES TO COME<h3>Tues., Feb. 1</h3>Springfield at BaltimoreRochester at QuebecWed., Feb. 2Springfield at HersheyFri., Feb. 4Buffalo at BaltimoreSan Francisco at RochesterQuebec at SpringfieldSat., Feb. 5San Francisco at ClevelandBuffalo at HersheyRochester at PittsburghQuebec at SpringgfieldSun., Feb. 6San Francisco at BuffaloBaltimore at ClevelandHershey at ProvidencePittsburgh at Rochester &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div>MEMPHIS, Tenn. &mdash;Memphis Wings climbed into top spot in the Central Professional Hockey League but found that fan attendance had dropped from last winter when they spent the major portion of the schedule in the second division and failed to land a playoff berth.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01487/2644779-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="297" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pete Panagabko</figcaption></div>Although they had been in first place for over a month, their average attendance for 17 home appearances was 2,843 and last season through their first 17 engagements, the average per game was 4,691.Vince Thillen of the Commercial Appeal sports staff noted that many persons last year were curious about the game and the new Mid-South Coliseum last year, and satisfied themselves on both counts and now are staying at home.In December there was a &ldquo;special ladies night&rdquo; that drew 6,215 and a crowd of 9,305 jammed the building for a second &ldquo;ladies night&rdquo; in January but it must be remembered that many of the fans on these occasions did not pay the regular price.Back in Detroit, Sid Abel, general manager of the parent NHL Detroit Red Wings was optimistic noting that this season seven of the first 12 home games were played on Friday nights competing against high school sport attractions. This was not the case last season.Abel believed the attendance would level off but said that he would like to see more people w&rsquo;atching the game of hockey in Memphis.The contract with the Memphis Coliseum and the Wings extends through the 1966-67 season.In comparison this season, Tulsa Oilers averaged 3,770 in their first 14 games, Oklahoma City Blazers showed 3,660 through 13 games; St. Louis Braves, 3,222 through 17 contests; Houston Apollos, 3,000 through 11 games and Minnesota (St. Paul) 2,300 through 15 home engagements.Detroit-born Doug Roberts continued to lead Memphis in the scoring column with 14 goals and 28 assists for 42 points in 36 games.Gerry Abel, son of the general manager-coach of the Detroit club, suffered his third bad &ldquo;break&rdquo; of his rookie season. After injuring his wrist at training camp, then a finger at practice, he followed with another wrist injury that would sideline him for the remainder of the season.Bryan Campbell and Butch Paul, star-studded forwards trailed Roberts in the scoring parade at the season&rsquo;s halfway mark with 36 points apiece.OKLAHOMA CITY &mdash; The Blazers, lowest scoring team of the circuit over the first 36 games with only 94 goals, appeared to be headed to a new mark for ties in the circuit. They had chalked up seven, two shv of the mark set by the Omaha Knights in the 1963-64 campaign.A fine of $100 was levied on playing-coach Harry Sinden while Bill Goldsworthy, Murray Davison and Jean Paul Parise were each assessed $50 by league president Jack Adams following a protest regarding the use of abusive language toward hockey fans when the Blazers played a game at Tulsa.With Glen Sather out with a bruised shoulder, Duncan Rousseau stepped in as a replacement doing a creditable job.Pete Panagabko took over the team scoring leadership at the 35-game mark with 14 goals and 20 assists for 34 points.MINNESOTA &mdash; Wayne Rutledge continued his strong performances in goal for the Rangers keeping his goals-against average under the 2.90 mark.Rangers lost Rod Seiling to the parent NHL Rangers but in return received Larry Mickey who fired three goals in his first four games.Bill Collins had a two-game stint with the NHL club but was returned to Minnesota to help in their drive for first place.Paul Andrea continues to pace the Rangers in scoring and had 45 points after his first 35 games on 19 goals and 26 assists.ST. LOUIS &mdash; With Dennis Hull on the sidelines with a strained knee, coach Gus Kyle had Roger Bellerive back in action.Art Stratton, Lou Angotti and Camille Henry as a unit sparked the Braves but Oscar Gaudet was their top sniper with 21 goals in 34 games. Then the Hawks needed help and called Stratton and Angotti up to the NHL when injuries hit the club.TULSA &mdash; Tulsa Oilers, battling their way back into contention after a siege of injuries saw Lowell MacDonald and Eddie Joyal team up to pace the offensive.MacDonald had been out with a shoulder injury and Joyal was on loan from Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League. Joyal scored at least one goal in six straight games.Les Duff also came in from Rochester when Rollie Wilcox was recalled by Victoria of the Western League and was expected to be gone for two weeks.To help out on defense, Larry Johnston, the CPHL&rsquo;s most-penalized player last season as a member of the Oilers, was loaned to Tulsa by Springfield of the AHL.Andre Champagne retained the club&rsquo;s front-running scoring position with 11 goals and 23 assists in his first 33 outings.HOUSTON &mdash; Apollos are finding it tough to keep up a consistent winning pace but Bill Inglis is staying in the scoring race leading the team with 19 goals and 17 assists for 36 points in the first 34 contests.Andre Boudrias is next in line with 13 goals and 19 assists for 32 points over the same number of games.Although goalie Carl Wetzel was the first netminder to rack up three shutouts, the Apollos did not shine with their defensive support and they had given up 118 goals, more than any other team in the circuit, after the first 34 games. &#9632;

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Memphis Ahead In Race, Behind At Gate

Next week at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, some 13 applicants will present their bank books and blue books to the National Hockey League&rsquo;s board of governors.And that 13 is far from an unlucky number &mdash; they want to get in on the bonanza that big league hockey is these days.&ldquo;Attendance is up 5.07 percent this season,&rdquo; president Clarence Campbell said proudly. &ldquo;Last year was our best ever. We had six buildings filled to 93.77 percent capacity for the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02588/2643479-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="282" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Clarence Campbell</figcaption></div>&ldquo;What makes it even more striking is that Boston, which has finished in last place for five straight years and is in last place this season, has shown attendance and gate receipt increases every year.&ldquo;New York, which has made the playoffs only once in the last seven years, has shown eight consecutive increases in attendance and gate receipts,&rdquo; Campbell said.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the spectacle that sells it,&rdquo; Campbell said.He&rsquo;s right. There are only six teams in the NHL now but the athletic management and/or business handling of nearly all leave something to be desired. They just don&rsquo;t compare with major league football and baseball.&ldquo;A lot of people say it&rsquo;s got to be a great game to be abused so much and still be so successful,&rdquo; Campbell said, smiling. Successful? Does Lyndon Johnston have an accent? Does Jerry Cavanagh want to be senator? Bonanza? Like Fort Knox.<h2>NHL BIDDERS SOLID FELLOWS</h2>And this, friends, is without television money. Campbell weeps a bit that there aren&rsquo;t enough franchises to match the good, solid bidder. The league will open up six franchises for a complete new division that is hoped to get into play in 1967-68.Four cities &mdash; Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland, Vancouver and St. Louis &mdash; have been named acceptable as to size of building and city. But no owners have been named. That&rsquo;s expected to be accomplished in New York.&ldquo;Some of the bidders are so good that I wish they lived some place else,&rdquo; Campbell said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a pity to have them go to waste where they are.&rdquo;Los Angeles would fit that description. Several groups are vying for the lucrative LA market.Campbell doesn&rsquo;t buy the refrain that there aren&rsquo;t enough players to go around now. When this is raised, Boston and New York always are exhibits A and B.Campbell also said that he isn&rsquo;t in favor of a trophy for the league&rsquo;s top scorer, a suggestion made several weeks ago by Chicago president Jim Norris, who obviously had Bobby Hull in mind.Hull scored the most goals two years ago but Stan Mikita won the scoring championship. It hapened to Norm Ullman last season, with Mikita again taking the scoring trophy.&ldquo;I think it would be terribly dangerous to have a trophy for that,&rdquo; Campbell said.Campbell&rsquo;s feeling is that it might take the teamwork out of the game and that everyone would turn into a gunner.Campbell often has been painted as a tyrant, sometimes as a doddering old man (he&rsquo;s 61), but each time I see him I come away with a greater appreciation for the man and the job he&rsquo;s doing.(As seen in The Detroit Free Press) &#9632;

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NHL Is Rolling In Greenbacks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01666/2644492-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"></div>Teams Records Against Each Other(Including Games Of Sunday, January 23)<h2>HOME GAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02558/2644485-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="547" height="254"></div><h2>AWAY GAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03425/2644478-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="554" height="253"></div> &#9632;

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How WHL Teams Compare

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Reg Fleming will think twice about swinging his stick again in a National Hockey League game unless he lkes to part with his hard-earned green backs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01137/2645506-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg" title="f0001-01" width="273" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reg Fleming</figcaption></div>NHL President Clarence Campbell slapped a $200 fine on the hard-rock New York Ranger right winger for raising his stick against Boston&rsquo;s rugged Ted Green in a Jan. 22 game in Reggie&rsquo;s old stamping grounds &mdash; the Boston Garden.Fleming thus shelled out a total of $275 for pursuing Green when the two went to the penalty box. He took a swipe at the Boston player, missed and clipped linesman Brian Sopp over the eye for five stitches. Campbell said the incident was purely accidental but, nevertheless, he had to go by the book and sock tempestuous Reggie the automatic $200. The other $75 was a carry over from the actual game misconduct penalty.Fleming appeared in front of Campbell here at NHL headquarters but the hearing was only routine and the Ranger forward wasn&rsquo;t reprimanded.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02110/2645499-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="1626" height="1761"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Boston Bruins have been winning more than losing in recent games and much of the credit belongs to the club&rsquo;s veteran performers like RON STEWART, here shown with Canadiens&rsquo; goalie CHARLIE HODGE. Stewart&rsquo;s defensive play has been an inspiration to the younger Bruins.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Fleming gets $200 Fine For Flareup

CHICAGO, III.The big question hockey buffs are asking these days, is can Bobby Hull do it in 50 games?Hull himself doesn&rsquo;t even suggest that he will perform the feat of scoring 50 times in 50 NHL games and thus become the first man to achieve that number of goals in a like number of games since Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard turned the trick back in 1944 - 45.But everyone from the top brass of the Hawks down to the Madison Avenue newsy is expecting Hull to make it in 50 games.The Hawks Golden Jet is fast zeroing in on the mark having scored 42 times in 40 games narrowing the magic number to eight in the next 10 games to equal Richard&rsquo;s feat and nine to pass both him and Bernard Geoffrion. who also scored 50 goals but in a 70-game schedule in 1960-01. The Boomer got his 50th in game No. 68.Hull was the last NHL performer to hit the half century mark. He did it in 1961-62 in the final game and barring injury appears certain to establish a new single season goal mark of 50-plus for future NHL shooters to aim at.Hockey fans everywhere are watching and waiting for Bobby Hull to score goal No. 50 in his 50th game. &#9632;

Hawks’ Star Closing In On Richard

MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;Bobby Hull walked off with the lion&rsquo;s share of the awards money allotted by the National Hockey League for best first half performances and it was a justifiable tribute to the Black Hawks&rsquo; star, who was the most spectacular player over the first 35 games of the season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01633/2643114-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="265" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Hull</figcaption></div>Hull emerged with a stranglehold on the Hart Trophy in voting among sportswriters and broadcasters in the six NHL cities with points based on a 5-3-1 system to raise his halfway bonus take to $1,250. Other first half winners included Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Laperriere, who was the best defenseman and took the lead in the Norris Trophy voting; Brit Selby of the Maple Leafs, judged the best rookie and leader of the Calder Trophy selections; and easy-going Alex Delvecchio, the veteran Detroiter who led the Byng Trophy voting as the most gentlemanly and sportsmanlike performer who displayed the most skill.Only &lsquo;defender&rsquo; from last season to get a jump on his rivals for a trophy this campaign is Hull who took the 1964-65 Hart as the league&rsquo;s MVP. He was displaced in Lady Byng voting by Delvecchio while Chicago&rsquo;s Pierre Pilote was unseated by Laperriere in the Norris.Hull, an unanimous choice for his all-star berth, was 11 shy in Hart tabulations with 79 of a possible 90 points. That was good enough for a whopping 58-point cushion over his nearest rival, teammate Glenn Hall. Hull added $250 to his first half harvest of league dollars on this ballot. He has already reaped $500 for his placing on the all-star team and matched that amount by emerging scoring leader for the first 35 games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02604/2643107-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="540" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIT SELBY &hellip; Leading Rookie</figcaption></div>Laperriere, prime choice for a defensive berth on the mid-way All Stars, was a predictable leader in balloting for the Norris Trophy &mdash; holding a 62-42 point spread over last year&rsquo;s winner, Pilote, who also placed behind Laperriere in the all-star votes.Laperri&egrave;re&rsquo;s appeal to the voting bloc put him into the $750 bonus class, netting $250 in Norris standing plus his $500 as a first team all star.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03508/2643100-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="485" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES LAPERRIERE &hellip; Best Defenseman</figcaption></div>The Lady Byng list is the most diversified among the four awards, with 14 players interesting those who mark ballots. Delvecchio, who previously won the trophy in 1958-59, has a 22-point lead over Montreal&rsquo;s Bobby Rousseau who, in turn, is nine ahead of New York&rsquo;s Donnie Marshall.While this isn&rsquo;t considered a vintage year for rookies in the NHL, voting in the Calder was Selby attracting 59 points, 10 closer than last season with more than Detroit&rsquo;s defenseman Bert Marshall. Boston&rsquo;s flashy young goaler, Bernie Parent, trails in third place with 35 to make it still a three-way scramble.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04363/2643093-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="492" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALEX DELVECCHIO &hellip; Leads Byng Voting</figcaption></div>Last year, one big turnabout took place in balloting between the first and final tabulations. That was in the Norris where the order was Laperri&egrave;re-Pilote-at the half and the Chicago defenseman overtaking and passing the rangy Hab at the end.With the mid-season voting now complete, here is the list of players who received award money for either leading in trophy awards or being named to the First or Second All-Star teams: Bobby Hull, $1,250 (first all-star team, scoring leader, Hart Trophy leader); Jacques Laperriere, $750 (first all-star team, Norris Trophy leader); Glenn Hall, $750 (first all-star team, Vezina Trophy leader); Norm Ullman, $750 (first all-star team, runner-up in scoring); Pierre Pilote, $500 (first all-star team); Gordie Howe. $500 (first all-star team); Brit Selby, $250 (Calder Trophy leader); Alex Delvecchio, $250 (Lady Byng Trophy leader); and the following players who each receive $250 as members of the second all-star team, Roger Crozier, Doug Barkley, Allan Stanley, Stan Mikita, Bobby Rousseau, Doug Mohns. &#9632;

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Hull Leads Halfway Bonus Stakes, Pockets $1,250 After Hart Voting

<h2>HART MEMORIAL TROPHY</h2>Bobby Hull, Chicago, 79 points; Glenn Hall, Chicago, 21; Norm Ullman, Detroit, 14; Gord Howe, Detroit, 13; Bob Pulford, Toronto, 10; Roger Crozier, Detroit, 8; Bob Nevin, New York, 4; Jacques Laperriere, Montreal, 3; Henri Richard, Montreal, 3; Jean Beliveau, Montreal, 3; Bobby Rousseau, Montreal, 2; Doug Barkley, Detroit, 1; Harry Howell, New York, 1.<h2>CALDER MEMORIAL TROPHY</h2>Brit Selby, Toronto, 59 points; Bert Marshall, Detroit, 49; Bernie Parent, Boston, 35; Garry Peters, New York, 7; Gilles Marotte, Boston, 5; Mike McMahon, New York, 3; Ken Hodge, Chicago, 3; Wally Boyer, Toronto, 1.<h2>LADY BYNG MEMORIAL TROPHY</h2>Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, 52 points; Bobby Rousseau, Montreal, 30; Don Marshall, New York, 21; Bob Nevin, New York, 19; Dave Keon, Toronto, 12; Bobby Hull, Chicago, 8; Bill Hay, Chicago, 5; Bob Pulford, Toronto, 5; Doug Mohns, Chicago, 3; Ralph Backstrom, Montreal, 3; Norm Ullman, Detroit, 1; Henri Richard, Montreal, 1; Bruce MacGregor, Detroit, 1; Jean Beliveau, Montreal, 1.<h2>JAMES NORRIS MEMORIAL TROPHY</h2>Jacques Laperriere, Montreal, 62 points; Pierre Pilote, Chicago, 42; Doug Barkley, Detroit, 30; Harry Howell, New York, 9; Matt Ravlich, Chicago, 6; Tim Horton, Toronto, 4; Marcel Prono-vost, Toronto, 3; Ted Green, Boston, 3; Allan Stanley, Toronto 2; Jean-Guy Talbot, Montreal, 1. &#9632;

How Selectors Voted

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>MONTREAL &mdash; Dave Baton, forward, assigned to Houston of CPHL. Danny Grant, forward, called up from Peterborough of Junior OHA on five-game pro tryout basis.CHICAGO &mdash; Lou Angotti and Art Stratton, forwards, recalled from St. Louis of CPHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Bob Blackburn, defenseman, traded to Vancouver of WHL in exchange for Wayne Muloin, defenseman, and Ron Hutchinson, forward. Wayne Larkin, forward, assigned to Vancouver in exchange for loan of Moe Mantha, defenseman. Keith Walsh, defenseman, and Bill Staub, forward, secured from Houston of CPHL in return for Butch Barber, defenseman, and Doug Senior, forward. Senior was assigned to Quebec of AHL by Montreal of NHL who owns his contract.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>SAN FRANCISCO&mdash;Owen Mailley, forward, called up from Calgary juniors on five-game pro tryout basis.LOS ANGELES &mdash; Jim Baird, forward, secured from Minnesota of CPHL.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>TOLEDO &mdash; Jim Armstrong, goalkeeper, secured on loan from Seattle of WHL. &#9632;

Movement Of Players

MONTREAL, Que.When Bobby Rousseau was a youngster he had two loves. Hockey and golf. Oddly, he was proficient at both in his early days and it was a hard decision to decide on what career he wanted.As it turned out Bobby chose professional hockey where today he stands as one of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s top stars with a blazing shot that has spelled doom for many opposing NHL netminders.Bobby&rsquo;s great bullet drive is the result of summers spent swinging a golf club. He is also an outstanding player on the links and serves as a club professional in Joliette, outside Montreal.Rousseau has played in and won many golf championships and has even performed in the Canadian Open, Canada&rsquo;s profesional tournament.But Bobby&rsquo;s heart belongs in hockey and he has proved that despite his size &mdash; 5&rsquo;10&rdquo; and 165 pounds &mdash; a player can succeed if he has the determination. &#9632;

Bobby Chose Hockey Career Over Golf

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01635/2643200-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="340" height="411"></div>MONTREAL Que.The career of Bobby Rousseau has been something filled with the promise of better things to come.From the time he was a kid, playing his hockey on the frozen ponds of Quebec, he was marked as a star of the future. It&rsquo;s common knowledge now in the hockey world, that Canadiens once purchased the rights to an entire juvenile team in order to bring Rousseau into the Montreal fold. That event occurred some years ago when Rousseau was playing hockey for a kid team in St. Johns, Quebec, region. The team in question belonged to the Detroit Red Wings and Canadiens bought it for a very sizeable sum. They did it for several reasons, of course, but one of the main ones was to obtain undisputed rights to Rousseau. For a while the move looked to be a master stroke on the part of the Montreal organization.As a junior Rousseau was outstanding, and as a pro in the old Eastern Professional Hockey League, he wasn&rsquo;t bad either. He once scored 34 goals in 38 games with Hull-Ottawa Canadiens. That was in 1960-61 and the feat impressed the Montreal brass to the point that they hauled him up to the parent Canadiens for a 15-game trial. He wasn&rsquo;t exactly overwhelming during that sojourn but he did pick up a goal and two assists before being returned to Hull-Ottawa. He then turned in a tremendous performance in the EPHL playoffs, by rifling 12 goals plus seven assists in 14 games.In 1961-62, Rousseau came to Canadiens permanently and he was a man with a mission &hellip; in fact, several of them. One, of course, was to live up to the promise he&rsquo;d shown as a junior star. Another was to bring honor to the family name by succeeding with Canadiens, which was something a couple of his brothers hadn&rsquo;t quite accomplished during brief trials in previous years. Bobby is the third Rousseau to make Canadiens, but the only one to stick. Brother Rollie had a two-game tryout back in 1952-53 and was dropped. The same thing happened to brother Guy, who came up for two games in 1954-55 and again in 1956-57. He wound up in the AHL with Quebec Aces and retired this season.The main rap against Rousseau&rsquo;s brothers was that they were too small to play in the NHL. Guy, for instance, was only 5&rsquo;5&frac12;&rdquo; tall and weighed around 140. But perhaps another reason for their rejection by Canadiens was that the team was loaded with stars when the earlier Rousseaus came up. In any event they weren&rsquo;t around long, and it was a circumstance that miffed the Rousseau family no end. So much so, in fact, that Bobby was advised to seek his future with another team where the chances might be better. That he didn&rsquo;t do so was entirely his own decision, for Bobby had his mind up to succeed with Les Canadiens, or bust.Bobby got off to a good start in this league by winning the Calder Cup in his rookie year. It was only the fourth time in the history of the club that a member of Canadiens had won that award, and it looked as though Rousseau was launched on a starry course. He had 21 goals, plus 24 assists in his rookie season and it stamped him as an outstanding newcomer. Much was expected of him in the playoffs that year, but he shook his followers by failing to notch a goal in the post-season games. Then followed seasons of 19 and 25 goals, the latter including a five-goal outburst in a game against Detroit, whose property he initially had been. He continued to be a disappointment in playoffs, however, having exactly one goal to his credit after three years. Then, last season, he posted an unimpressive goals in 66 games and people began to wonder out loud about whether he&rsquo;d ever achieve his real potential. They began to say that he couldn&rsquo;t stand up under sustained pressure and, in particular, they pointed to his shabby playoff record as a telltale sign. To what extent Rousseau was aware of this criticism is unknown, but he went into last spring&rsquo;s playoffs with a new and determined air. He scored five goals and eight assists in 13 games and when it was over Rousseau had achieved new stature as a playoff performer.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02518/2643193-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1647" height="1404"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s BOBBY ROUSSEAU of Conadiens tussling with Boston&rsquo;s rookie netminder BERNIE PARENT for puck in NHL game. Rousseau with deadly slap shot, ranks fifth among league point men, highest of his big league career.</figcaption></div>This season, Bobby has flashed the kind of form that can make a genuine star out of him by the time the schedule ends. His first-half performance was not only impressive, but in terms of goals and assists it was the best on the Canadiens team. He had 16 goals, plus 26 assists at the midway mark of the schedule and, for the first time in his career, was named to an all-star squad. He made the right-wing spot on the second team, earning 56 points in the voting out of a possible ninety. That put him 24 points behind No. 1 right-winger Gordie Howe, but it also gave him a 34 point lead over New York&rsquo;s Bob Nevin who finished third in the balloting.If he avoids injuries, there&rsquo;s no reason why Rousseau can&rsquo;t finish up as a genuine star, this season. He ought to be near the peak of his powers, now, at 25 years of age and with a little more than four full seasons of NHL experience behind him. He&rsquo;s among the fastest skaters on the Canadiens team, and the possessor of a hair-raising slapshot that has gained considerable accuracy since he first unveiled it.There&rsquo;s another thing going for Rousseau, too, and it&rsquo;s a circumstance his brothers would&rsquo;ve appreciated when they were members of the Habs &hellip; namely, there are no young superstars on Canadiens to contend with, today. It&rsquo;s no rap against Bobby to say that if the Roeket and Geoffrion were still around and contending for right-wing berths on the team, he&rsquo;d be lucky to ever see action. But that&rsquo;s not the case, and the opportunity is there for Rousseau to make the most of. He did pretty well in that direction in the first part of the season. If he repeats his performance in the latter half, he&rsquo;ll be a full-fledged star of the team. &#9632;

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Rousseau Close To Stardom

1. The Montreal Canadiens hold the record for the most ties in one season. They established this in 1962-63. How many did they have? Was it:16 23 19 282. Last season a certain rambunctuous fellow was given 8 misconduct penalties, more than any of his rivals or teammates. Who was the culprit?3. Fans have been agitating for more penalty shots to add excitement to an already exhilarating sport. How many were called in 1964-65?4. A veteran and a rookie shared honours last season as Toronto&rsquo;s most prolific goal scorers. Name them.5. Doug Barkley, who is one of Detroit&rsquo;s stalwarts on the blueline, was not groomed in the Red Wings farm system nor were the Wings his first NHL team. Which club did he formerly belong to?6. One of the players listed below does not belong in the group. Why?Syl Apps.Dit ClapperMilt SchmidtBill MosienkoToe Blake7. The late Nels Stewart set a record, which still stands, for scoring the fastest two goals. He sank those goals on Jan. 3, 1931. How many seconds did it take him? Was it:8 12 4 5 68. What has John Andersen, Les Stout and John Halligan got in common? It&rsquo;s a pretty important task and if you&rsquo;re a hockey fan you should know.9. A Boston player hasn&rsquo;t graced the first All-Star team since Fleming Mackell grabbed the centre spot in 1952-53. Who was the last Bruin to make the alternate team and in which year did it happen?10. True or False. Syl Apps is a former NHL scoring champion?(Answers Next Week)LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION1. Carl Brewer2. Syd Howe of Detroit3. They are brothers4. True5. Bobby Hull and Normie Ullman6. Don Johns7. Yes8. Doug & Max Bentley9. Cyclone Taylor10. Johnny Gottselig<h2>SPORTS PHOTOS!</h2>Thousands of different 8x 10 glossy photos. Ideal for your bar, den or clubroom 5 for $3.00 Write for FREE new and enlarged illustrated catalog. Send 10&cent; (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.Fortunately, Bobby Hill is scoring at a pace which almost assures him topping the 50 - goal records he shares with Rocket Richard and Boom Boom Geoffrion.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01697/2643286-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="280" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Angotti</figcaption></div>But if an injury or similar disaster should result in Bobby&rsquo;s falling short by a goal or two, events on the nights of Dec. 5, 1965 and Jan. 23, 1966 will take on tremendous significance.For on both those nights, Bobby fired a shot into a rival&rsquo;s net without credited with a goal.On Dec. 5, a blast by Hull streaked past New York&rsquo;s Ed Giacomin and bounced back into play after striking the center net post. The Madison Square Garden goal judge failed to flash the red light and Referee John Ashley turned back all Hawk arguments by insisting he simply didn&rsquo;t see the play.Yet, re-play of the television tape clearly showed the puck bouncing out of the goal and back into play.The Jan. 23 booboo was committed by Chicago&rsquo;s official scorer, who failed to see Hull deflect Pat Stapleton&rsquo;s long shot behind Montreal&rsquo;s Gump Worsley and credited Stapleton with the tally, despite complaints of all the press box inhabitants who were directly above the net.Bobby complained bitterly for several weeks after the New York incident but refused to make an issue of the goal against Montreal because it would involve loss of credit for a goal to a teammate.Bobby&rsquo;s only public comment was:&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the difference how the puck got in the net as long as it went in? Pat made a good shot &mdash; that&rsquo;s all that matters.&rdquo;Hawk Coach Billy Reay isn&rsquo;t willing to let the matter drop, however.&ldquo;I plan to take up the situation with the league office in Montreal,&rdquo; said Billy. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t know what good it will do. They really can stop you cold up there. I went in to beef about the goal Bobby lost in New York and was told:&ldquo; &lsquo;You&rsquo;re absolutely right, Bill. It was a goal and there&rsquo;s no doubt about it. But we can&rsquo;t do a thing to help.&rsquo;&ldquo;What could I say after that? Well, you just have to keep trying&rdquo;.That&rsquo;s a philosophy Billy has had to employ frequently of late. Problems began to set in Jan. 9 when Captain Pierre Pilote went out of action for at least five weeks with a broken thumb and there&rsquo;s been a steady succession of disasters ever since.The latest casualty is Stan Mikita, whose left knee was put out of whack by a strong check from Montreal&rsquo;s Terry Harper. Stan remained in the game and managed to score a goal but barely was able to walk the day after the game.Fortunately, the Hawks had called Lou Angotti from St. Louis in time for him to take over for Mikita as middleman for Ken Wharram and Doug Mohns on the Scooter Line.Angotti, who was acquired a month ago from the Rangers in exchange for cash and any claims the Hawks might have had on Larry Mickey, earned his promotion from the Central league team by scoring 10 goals and 8 assists in nine games.&ldquo;Mikita&rsquo;s injury had nothing to do with our bringing Angotti up.&rdquo; said Reay. We were down to 10 forwards anyway. We just thought Lou might be able to help us. He certainly sparked St. Louis. They took over the lead in the Central league while he was there.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d planned to use Lou as a fourth center and work him occasionally between Eric Nesterenko and Bill Hay. But now I guess he&rsquo;ll have to go in Mikita&rsquo;s place between Ken Wharram and Doug Mohns.&rdquo;Reay doesn&rsquo;t expect much from Angotti beyond an honest effort, which is a bit more than he&rsquo;s been getting from at least one of his present collection of centers.&ldquo;Lou isn&rsquo;t a real polished hockey player,&rdquo; said Reay. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s a willing worker and our guys always found him tough to play against. And we sure can use a solid checker at center.&rdquo;Reay did a considerable amount of line juggling in an effort to get his charges back on the track offensively after the Hawks gave up 12 goals over a recent weekend. But after three games he was back to his original units.The biggest change had Mikita center for Hull and Chico Maki in place of Phil Esposito, who was dropped back on a unit with Wharram and Ken Hodge. Hay then took over the center spot for Nesterenko and Mohns.&ldquo;I just wasn&rsquo;t satisfied,&rdquo; said Billy, who then moved Maki into centre for Hull and Hodge, restored the Scooter Line of Mohns - Mikita - and Wharram, and put Esposito between Hay and Nesterenko.&ldquo;The big problem there was that it was unfair to ask Hodge to go with Maki and Hull. He&rsquo;s just not up to it, yet. Those two guys go at top speed all night long and there aren&rsquo;t many kids who can do that.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05415/2643279-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="528" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT STAPLETON &hellip; A Fine Shot</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hull Even Scoring Goals Not Credited To Black Hawks’ Exciting Puck Star

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02648/2643331-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg"></div>OVERALL WON AND LOST RECORDS THIS SEASON(Including Games of Sunday, January 30)<h2>HOME GAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03553/2643324-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="528" height="270"></div><h2>AWAY GAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04481/2643317-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="534" height="278"></div> &#9632;

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How NHL Teams Compare

<div class="byline">BY BOB GATES</div>BOSTON, Mass.The Bruins are fighting a losing battle in their bid to get Tommy Williams to be more aggressive.It&rsquo;s just not &ldquo;in&rdquo; the slippery Boston forward. He has no desire to hit and doesn&rsquo;t think he can change.As Tommy explained it:&ldquo;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&rsquo;s just not part of my makeup. I can&rsquo;t get mad at anybody. I&rsquo;m serious. That&rsquo;s the way I am. I can&rsquo;t get mean period!&ldquo;Perhaps there are two reasons for this,&rdquo; the National Hockey League&rsquo;s lone player born and bred in the United States. &ldquo;First is the fact that I look upon hockey as a game, in the real sense, something I enjoy doing. And, secondly, I&rsquo;ve always been taught to skate, stickhandle, and shoot &mdash; and leave the rough stuff to the others.&ldquo;My Dad (a knowledgeable hockey man who has been the driving force and counselor behind Tommy&rsquo;s hockey career) advised me from the beginning to forget about trying to body check. He always said I wasn&rsquo;t built for it, and in the long haul it would detract from my effectiveness. I&rsquo;d have to say he is right.&rdquo;Williams. 25. who deals principally in speed and elusiveness, stands 5 ft. 11 in., and levels the scale at 185 &mdash; not too slight as hockey players go. But the Duluth. Minn., native says these figures &ldquo;are deceiving&rdquo;.&ldquo;Most of my weight,&rdquo; he points out, &ldquo;is in my thighs. There&rsquo;s not much to my arms and shoulders. Now you take Eddie Westfall (another Bruins forward). He and I weigh about the same. But he&rsquo;s bigger through the shoulders and has strong arms. And that&rsquo;s where I&rsquo;m the weakest.&rdquo;We wondered aloud why Tommy, now in his fourth full year with the Bruins, had never built himself up, added a few more muscles during the off-season. It would seem he might be a more effective performer with a little more strength.&ldquo;I started out to do that a couple years back,&rdquo; Williams replied. I had special weights built and I used to use them about a half hour a day. But not too much happened. I guess maybe they were doing some good. But I couldn&rsquo;t notice the results. Maybe I should have given it a longer try. But the thought was that it might throw mv skating and stickhandling off.&rdquo;The latter two departments are the blond swifty&rsquo;s strong suits, of course. Yet the Bruins management has been putting the reins on Williams this season &mdash; and probably for a good reason, although young Tommy doesn&rsquo;t readily concur.&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t want me to carry the puck,&rdquo; said Williams. &ldquo;Thinking is, I guess, that I try to do too much on my own, that I&rsquo;m too much of an individual out there and lose some effectiveness by not using my line mates enough.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01650/2643362-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="517" height="871"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY WILLIAMS &hellip; Can&rsquo;t Get Mean</figcaption></div>&ldquo;But, of course, I love carrying the puck, storming in with it. I feel it&rsquo;s one of the best ways to really shake up an opponent. For if I beat one man that means another man will have to leave his man. And that can really screw up a defense. But, of course, it doesn&rsquo;t always work.The counter thinking is that if some of the &ldquo;individual&rdquo; can be taken out of this former Gold Medal Olympian, perhaps more of a team-effort, offense-defense balance could be injected. At present, Williams is 90 percent offense, and some estimates run even higher.&ldquo;Tommy doesn&rsquo;t need to go around knocking people down,&rdquo; said one Boston player. &ldquo;But if he&rsquo;d just get in somebody&rsquo;s way. His idea of a forecheck is to take a swipe at the puck and keep on going. If he&rsquo;d only make contact, any sort of contact &mdash; just bump into the puckcarrier. That&rsquo;s all we really need. Just to throw the play off stride.&rdquo;Tommy resolves he&rsquo;s &ldquo;got the picture&rdquo; and will &ldquo;get with it.&rdquo;But last place is paved with good intentions. &#9632;

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Williams Says Aggressiveness Not In His Hockey Make-up; But Bruins Want Him To Hit

BOSTON, Mass.Tommy Williams&rsquo; wife, Emmy, would like to see her husband be more aggressive on the ice. But, in the hard analysis, she&rsquo;d rather he didn&rsquo;t fight nor switch.&ldquo;On the rare occasions I have taken a run at somebody or knocked somebody down, she enjoyed it,&rdquo; the speedy Bruins forward revealed. &ldquo;She knows the fans would like me to hit. And, of course, she enjoys the good response, as much as I do.&ldquo;But, too, she realizes that&rsquo;s not my style, and says as much.&rdquo; While toddling their three youngsters off to bed, Emmy turned, smiled and said, &ldquo;Tell him, honey, you&rsquo;re a lover not a fighter&rdquo;. &#9632;

Wife Wants ‘No Change’

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N. Y.Dave Richardson has been with nine different teams in less than four years as a professional, and the rugged little left-winger is hoping his assignment to the Buffalo Bisons will bring some semblance of permanency with it.The 25-year-old Richardson, acquired last summer by the Chicago Black Hawks from the New York Rangers, opened the season with the St. Louis Braves of the Central Pro League. For some inexplicable reason, he wasn&rsquo;t used after Oct. 31 by the Braves, and was brought up by the Black Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02591/2643417-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="272" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave Richardson</figcaption></div>In three weeks with the Black Hawks, he was off the bench for three minutes. The Hawks shipped him here after center Eric Sutcliffe of the Bisons suffered a season-ending broken ankle.Richardson is certain to get plenty of work with the talent-short Herd. Coach Phil Watson assigned him to his &ldquo;wrong&rdquo; wing, working with center Jerry Melnyk and left-winger Billy Dea, and Richardson scored his first goal in his third game with the club.&ldquo;This guy will help us,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;He is short of conditioning, but we&rsquo;ll get him into shape in a hurry. He is a hard worker, and wants to play.&ldquo;I know he tends to take too many penalties, but we may be able to curb that. Anyway, this club of ours needs the kind of muscle Dave can give us.&rdquo;With the acquisition of Richardson, Watson sent Pat Hannigan, a right-winger, to center ice between Jack Stanfield and Gerry Ouellette. &#9632;

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Buffalo Latest Hockey Stop For ‘Traveller’ Richardson

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01724/2643448-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="382" height="419"></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 Rates: $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, FEBRUARY 5, 1966 No. 17Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s column, Passing The Puck, will not appear in this week&rsquo;s issue. He is presently on a business trip in California and will resume writing upon his return. &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03443/2643510-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="991" height="250"></div><h2>NHL All-Star Game Format Needs Change</h2>Hockey News Editor,I would like to make two suggestions concerning the All-Star game. I think the All-Star team should not play the Stanley Cup champions, but rather play the team that comes in first place. The team that wins the Stanley Cup does not mean that is the best team in the NHL. In 1954 the Cleveland Indians won a record 111 games, yet they lost the World Series to the New York Giants in four straight games. This does not mean that the Giants were a better team just because they won the series. I think that this proves that the All-Stars deserve to play the best, not the second best.Another suggestion is that the All-Star game should be at a different place every year. In New York we haven&rsquo;t seen an All-Star game in decades, and we don&rsquo;t plan on seeing one for quite a few years to come. The NBA doesn&rsquo;t play its All-Star game in Boston, home of the champion Celtics. There is no reason why the NHL plays the All-Star games at the home of the Stanley Cup champions. I am sure people would appreciate seeing an NHL All-Star game in New York and Boston.Andrew RothBrooklyn, N.Y.<h2>Hails Reader&rsquo;s Advice To The Hockey News</h2>Hockey News Editor,Three cheers for Mr. David Cooper. His letter expressed exactly, the way I have felt for years about THE HOCKEY NEWS. I too, am tired of reading that everybody is a good guy and that teams like Boston and New York have a slim chance of getting into the playoffs when everybody knows that the season is over for these two teams even before Christmas time.Many instances occur during the season that call for a comment or an opinion and the sooner THE HOCKEY NEWS changes to this course of writing a better Hockey News it will be.Jim Crowdell,Staten Island, N.Y.<h2>Gump Better All-Star Than Roger Crozier</h2>Hockey News Editor,The recent NHL All-Star balloting for the first half of the season has shown how poor the judgment of the voters is and how illogical a system the AllStars are chosen by. A case in point is Gump Worsley, I may seem prejudice, because I am president of the Gump Worsley Fan Club, but I speak for all our members and many who aren&rsquo;t members in stating that Gump was a better goalie in the first half than Roger Crozier and deserved to be the 2nd team goaler.On December 26 Gump&rsquo;s goals against average was 2.36 Crozier&rsquo;s was 2.80 and had been higher. So for the first two-thirds of the voting period Worsley was by far the superior goalie. Then Crozier got hot and Gump slipped a little for the last third of the first half. Crozier did have 5 shutouts but until the beginning of the new year he was not the same he had been last season. Had the voters remembered how Crozier and Detroit floundered in the early going and how Gump had played go well until the start of the New Year instead of how Crozier had been so good recently and how Gump had slipped, it might have been a different story.The only solution to this is to change the voting system; possibly having voting as is done in selecting top college football and basketball teams.Maybe someone else can come up with a method. Worsley has been cheated by the voters. Something must be done!Stu HackelFords, N.J. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

HOCKEY NEWS this week asked Western League officials and players this question:Are hockey fights legitimate? Why do they happen more than in other sports? Do you like them? Who&rsquo;s the best fighter you ever saw?LYNN PATRICK, L.A. GM-Coach: You better believe hockey fights are for real. Put a stick in the hands of anyone who&rsquo;s moving fast in any game and you&rsquo;re going to provoke fights. They&rsquo;re part of the game. In the old days, Bill Cook of the Rangers was the best fighter I ever saw. In modern times, Ted Green and Orland Kurtenbach of the Bruins and Gordie Howe of the Wings have been about as good fighters as any.LLOYD GILMOUR, Western League referee: I never saw a hockey fight that wasn&rsquo;t legitimate and I get to see them close up. I&rsquo;ve seen guys take worse punishment in hockey fights than anything in those TV boxing matches out of the Garden in New York. The body-contact and the sticks cutting people up are a combination you don&rsquo;t find in other sports, and it&rsquo;s too hard to take punishment without fighting back sometimes. The best fighter? Orland Kurtenbach.LEN HALEY, Seattle veteran: &ldquo;Sure, they&rsquo;re for real. When a guy gives you a little dirt in a fast body-contact game like this, you&rsquo;re gonna&rsquo; get even. The best fighter I ever saw? Gordie Howe. Who else? One second thought. I think Black Jack Stewart was the best. Jimmy Orlando and John Mariucci were very tough. The best fight I ever saw was between Larry Zeidell and Jack Evans. They started with sticks, went to their fists, then finished off with sticks again. I&rsquo;ll give Evans the win, but it was awful bloody close. My best fights? I&rsquo;ll say Ed Litzenberger and Frank Mahovlich. They&rsquo;re the two biggest guys I can think of, offhand.JERRY TOPPAZZINI, veteran NHL player now with L.A.: You bet they&rsquo;re legitimate. Actually, they&rsquo;re usually the result of something that happened several plays before, or even several games before. Unlike most sports, the guys play against each other quite a few times each season and they carry grudges. It&rsquo;s a contact sport and it&rsquo;s considered part of the game to fight. In football, you know you&rsquo;re going to be thrown out, so you don&rsquo;t fight. Some fellows think they&rsquo;re inspirational leaders when they fight. Some take pride in winning fights even when they lose games. It&rsquo;s silly. If I fight Bobby Hull and take him to the penalty box with me. I&rsquo;m accomplishing something, but if I take a nobody in, I&rsquo;m hurting my team. Fighting on ice is different than fighting anywhere else.ANDY HEBENTON, now of Victoria, winner of the &ldquo;most gentlemanly player&rdquo; awards in both the NHL and WHL: I think hockey fights are legitimate. It&rsquo;s a body contact game, with sticks. Some nights you don&rsquo;t feel good, someone gives you a dirty one and away you go. Actually, I used to get in fights. It gets a little sickening when you get beat up all the time, so I quit. There&rsquo;s not much use to fighting, actually. Gordie Howe is the best fighter around today. Lou Fontinato had the most guts. He was a good battler. &#9632;

IN THE CORRIDOR

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Gordie Howe, Norm Ullman and other offensive members of the NHL scoring fraternity have been tormenting a Ranger defense that lately appears to be playing by proxy.But the real troublemaker for the Blues&rsquo; bueliners is licking his chops in St. Paul just waiting to get his fists on one of the defensive spots soon to open up.That man is Bob Plager, 5-11, 200 pounds worth of anarchy on ice. From the start of the season Garden fans have chanted &ldquo;We Want Plager&rdquo; and very soon, they&rsquo;ll get him. The Rangers will promote him momentarily.A back injury has delayed Plager&rsquo;s NHL return &mdash; he played 10 games last year &mdash; but Bob&rsquo;s willing to bust out of a hospital to get back to Manhattan.&ldquo;Oh, I&rsquo;d love to be up there,&rdquo; Plager said on the phone from the emergency room at St. Luke&rsquo;s Hospital in St. Paul, where he was being treated for a partially paralyzed back.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01676/2643565-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="491" height="648"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB PLAGER &hellip; Ready To Help</figcaption></div>Despite his injury, Plager has missed only three games for the Central Pro League Minnesota Rangers. He has six goals, nine assists in 35 games and has displayed a turbulence that would cause even The Batman to wince.&ldquo;He challenged the whole Memphis team to fight him the other day,&rdquo; said a Ranger official, &ldquo;but they wouldn&rsquo;t take him on.&rdquo; In a calmer moment Bob reportedly tossed a bench at some needlers.As a result he&rsquo;s leading the CPHL in penalties and also playing some acceptable hockey. In fact, if you ask Plager he&rsquo;ll unbashedly tell you he belongs in the NHL.&ldquo;I know some of the guys who&rsquo;ve gone up to Rangers from here this year,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ll tell you, I could help New York.&rdquo;Garden fans, who have an acute memory for explosions, recall Plager&rsquo;s delight in bashing Bobby Hull last season. They yearn for more of those delightful eruptions. And Plager yearns for those fans.&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll see me back in New York,&rdquo; he said assuredly. Bob was reminded that he was talking from the hospital&rsquo;s emergency room. Wouldn&rsquo;t his injury stop him?&ldquo;If New York wants me,&rdquo; he replied, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be healthy.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Ranger Fans Chanting, “We Want Plager”, May Soon See Fiery Rearguard In NHL

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;&rsquo;A whistle blows, an unpopular call is made and a program flutters to the ice. It&rsquo;s all part of hockey, but it&rsquo;s a bad part, a part which someway, somehow should be erased<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02613/2643596-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="298" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Lebrun</figcaption></div>Just ask Jack McMaster &hellip; or Jim Davidson &hellip; or Rod Gilbert &hellip; or Al Lebrun.The McMaster story has been told before, but not in recent years.At 8 p.m. on Dec. 5, 1958, Jack McMaster was a 20-year-old left winger with a brilliant hockey futurs. He already had turned down offers to turn pro from both the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens and was competing with the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen in an Ontario Hovkey Association Senior A game on Sudbury.Some three hours later on that Dec. 5, Jack McMaster was close to death in a Sudbury hospital. His hockey career &hellip; and possibly even his life &hellip; had come to a crashing and against the boards in the Sudbury arena solely as the result of stepping on a piece of paper thrown onto the ice by a spectator.Of course McMaster didn&rsquo;t realize it as he hoverd near death, but the doctors already were agreeing that even if were fortunate enough to recover from a broken neck and damage to his spine, he never would skate again, and maybe never walk.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been seven years now since it happened,&rdquo; McMaster said recently via telephone from his Black Creek. Ont., home, but I remember it as though it happened last week.&ldquo;It was skating down the left side when my skate ran over a popcorn box which had been tossed on the ice. Skates don&rsquo;t cut into paper, and as the paper skids, you lose your balance. That&rsquo;s what happened to me. I sort of somersaulted head first into the boards. I must have been suffering from shock, but I wasn&rsquo;t unconscious until they carried me out.&ldquo;I spent five days in the hospital in Sudbury,&rdquo; McMaster continued, &ldquo;was moved to a Toronto hospital for three months and finally spent three more months in a rehabilitation center in Toronto before I could go home. For three months I had to lie rigid with an ice tong-like gadget stuck in holes drilled in the side of my head and held with seven-pound weights so I couldn&rsquo;t move my head.&ldquo;I had the very same operation as Roy Campanella, only apparently his injuries were more serious than mine. Everything was almost the same though &mdash; crushed seventh vertebra, part of the broken neck pressuring the spinal cord and removal of part of the hip bone to help fix up the neck.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still partially paralyzed,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have any movement in my right foot and walk with a pronounced limp. I needed a wheel chair, crutches and a cane for about a year and a half after I finally got out of the hospital.&ldquo;You know. I never realized how much playing hockey meant to me until I found out I was finished. I&rsquo;ve been coaching a B team in Fort Erie and am trying to get a franchise for St. Peterburgh, Fla., in the Eastern Amateur League. Because of the dampness here and how it affects me. I have to spend a couple of months in Florida anyway.&rdquo;McMaster, who owns a souvenir and gift shop in Niagara Falls, Ont., naturally feels strongly about any so-caller &ldquo;fan&rdquo; who tosses rubbish on the ice.The wire story from New York City recently said: &ldquo;New York Ranger star right winger Rod Gilbert will be sidelined for the remainder of the National Hockey League season. He will enter a New York hospital Jan. 24 and will undergo spinal surgery Feb. 1. The recovery period is expected to be at least six months. The 24-year-old Montreal-native aggravated an old injury last summer and has been playing while wearing a steel back brace.&rdquo;What the story neglected to mention for the &ldquo;old injury&rdquo;. Gilbert suffered a broken fifth vertebra after tripping over a piece of debris tossed onto the ice during his final game as a Junior with Guelph in April, 1961.Al Lebrun isn&rsquo;t as well known as Gilbert, but he too was a highly-rated New York Ranger prospect while playing defense for Guelph. Al was skating backwards when he hit a popcorn box and fell. Spinal fusion was necessary in his case, too, only Lebrun never did come back with the same ability he had shown before.(As Seen In Rochester Democrat-Chronicle) &#9632;

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Injured Hockey Star Jack McMaster Recalls Fatal Day His Career Ended

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich. &mdash;Sid Abel looked at the All-Star team and pretty well agreed with all the selections &hellip; except his own Doug Barkley&rsquo;s spot on the second team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01710/2643634-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="275" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m disappointed,&rdquo; the Red Wings chief said. &ldquo;I thought Doug would be on the first team. He deserves to be there.&rdquo;Abel contends that some players are given consideration because of their name and not their performance. Since Barkley never made the team before Abel felt his key play, bulwark of the shaky Detroit defense in the first half, was overlooked.The Wings did get two places on both the first and second units, Norm Ullman and Gordie Howe on the first and Roger Crozier and Barkley on the second.If the voting had been held at the end of 40 games instead of the halfway mark 35, Crozier doubtless would have been No. 1, too with his hot hand accounting for five shutouts in a dozen games and a league high of eight for the season, two more than he had last year when he led the league.The Wings had their jerseys, valued at nearly $20 each, stolen out of the Montreal Forum on a Friday night and the next night Crozier did some swiping of his own, stealing Canadiens blind in a 3-0 victory.And, as far as Barkley missing the top defense spot, the Wings blew one themselves, realizing too late that Paul Henderson had credentials to pick up some All-Star team votes.The superswift Henderson was converted to left wing and at the halfway mark had scored a dozen goals and six of them were game winners, making him No. 1 in the NHL in that department.Henderson kept up the hot streak, popping in two more game winners in the next five games.But Henderson gathered only two points in the voting and even trailed his center, Ullman, who was given three points on left wing despite an NHL advisory, that came with the ballots, that Ullman should be considered a center.Gerry Abel, the boss&rsquo; lanky 21-year-old son, has had a lot of luck this season &mdash; all bad.Gerry, assigned to the Memphis Wings after turning pro last summer, broke his wrist in training camp, then broke a finger just when he was ready to return to the club, got in four games finaly and rebroke his wrist, knocking him out for the year.Experiencing the longestslump of his career is Andy Bathgate who, through Detroit&rsquo;s 40th game, had gone 15 straight without a goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03514/2643627-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="452" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE &hellip; Made First Team</figcaption></div>To show what kind of luck Bathgate&rsquo;s had, he drilled a perfect shot over Ed Giacomin&rsquo;s shoulder into the upper corner of the New York net &hellip; and the play was whistled down for being offside. &#9632;

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Barkley Deserved First All Star Team – Abel

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;By any casual appraisal, Bryan Watson is a fringe player.He&rsquo;s obviously not a goal scorer and he&rsquo;s really not big enough to be a major league defenseman.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02625/2643665-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="270" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bryan Watson</figcaption></div>Look at the Red Wing utilityman stripped and you wonder &ldquo;This guy is playing against 180, 190, 200-pounders?&rdquo;He&rsquo;s not only playing against them, he&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 cream on that statistic is that the Wings in turn scored three goals thanks to the penalties Watson pulled.Not too long ago Red Wing manager-coach Sid Abel often was hesitant about sending Watson out with Vai Fonteyne, his other regular penalty killer, in tight situations because Watson was likely to get a penalty himself.Now he&rsquo;s turning the cheek and even though he scored only one goal and assisted on just two in the Wings&rsquo; first 40 games, he made himself a valuable addition to the club.Drafted from Chicago, which had him only overnight after obtaining him from Montreal, Watson impressed Abel immediately in training camp with his hustle and the 23-year-old Bancroft, Ont., native also quickly became the club comic.Among his nicknames are &ldquo;Gummy&rdquo; because he lost, a half dozen front teeth in an exhibition game when a shot hit him flush as he was falling to the ice and &ldquo;Blinky Jr.&rdquo; because he&rsquo;s a hero worshipper of Gordie Howe.Watson&rsquo;s other big hero is Doug Harvey whom he played with last season while with the Quebec Aces and one of the Wings clipped a picture of Harvey and taped it above Watson&rsquo;s bench in the Red Wing dressing room.Watson&rsquo;s story is typical of the Wings with everyone contributing to the club&rsquo;s climb from the cellar to a run at a second straight league championship.Defenseman Bill Gadsby, since returning from the operation that removed a growth from behind his knee in early December, has been All-Star caliber, the Wings&rsquo; second goalie.The growth seriously hampered Gadsby&rsquo;s play and his frame of mind in the first half &mdash; he had a growth there, didn&rsquo;t know what it was. It was the size of a plum and it was nonmalign ant.Now he&rsquo;s the Gadsby of old.Take a game against Montreal. The 20-year-old-was out with rookie Bert Marshall while Marshall&rsquo;s regular partner, Doug Barkley, took a breather. Barkley worked through a Gadsby shift when Old Bill was nicked in the mouth and needed first aid.Marshall was trapped by the Montreal blue line and the Canadiens broke out, three-on-one and what a threesome: Bobby Rousseau, Dick Duff and Jean Beliveau.On a three-on-one situation on Gadsby&rsquo;s rule of thumb is look for a pass and that&rsquo;s what Rousseau tried to do &hellip; and Gadsby broke it up, moved the puck ahead and Gordie Howe sped the other way.He passed to Gadsby who missed it, got it in the corner and centered to Howe who beat Charlie Hodge and instead of Montreal pulling into a 2-2 tie, the Wings took a 3-1 lead and went on to win, 5-2.The goal came early in the third period and changed the tenor of the game. Later in the period, just after exiting from the penalty box, Gadsby acted as a decoy on an Alex Delvec-chio-Howe maneuver, helping Hood the Montreal zone and Howe scored again. &#9632;

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Watson’s Needling Of NHL Rivals Pays Off In Goals For Red Wings

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO. Ont.It must be embarrassing for the men who operate the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers down there in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s second division when they contemplate Larry Hillman&rsquo;s excellence with the Leafs.Hillman was not on the Toronto club&rsquo;s reserved list at the NHL player draft last June, meaning that any other team could Aave taken him in a compulsory purchase for $30,000.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01691/2643696-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="275" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Hillman</figcaption></div>You may take it as official that Hillman is a big-league defenceman. He&rsquo;s proven that since moving up to Leafs more than a month ago to plug the gap created by Bobby Baun&rsquo;s knee injury. Hilman&rsquo;s work has had a great deal to do with their climb into contention for NHL leadership. They went seven games without losing after Hillman arrived and won 10 of the first 16 he played.When Baun is able to resume work, Leafs will be required to return a defenceman to Rochester Americans, their American league affiliate. Coach Punch Imlach will have to decide between Hillman and Kent Douglas and, at this writing, it seemed Hillman held an edge.However, Douglas is an important feature of Leafs&rsquo; power play because he shoots quickly and accurately from the point. For that reason, he might be retained instead of Hillman.However, Leafs wouldn&rsquo;t dare make Hillman available for 30 G&rsquo;s again next summer. He&rsquo;d surely be taken.Three Hilman boys from Kirkland Lake made it in professional hockey. The first was Floyd, better known as Bud, the next was Larry and now there&rsquo;s Wayne, a first-string defenceman with New York Rangers.Despite the fact success usually comes to the team he plays for, Hilman has ben bounced around professional hockey ever since 1955 when he turned professional at 18. He&rsquo;s been the property of Detroit, Chicago and Boston and has made the following minor league stops: Buffalo, Edmonton, Providence, Rochester and Springfield. With his 29th birthday coming up Feb. 5. he seems finally to have arrived.Red Wings won the Stanley Cup that first spring Hillman was with them. Black Hawks drafted him from Detroit but let him go on waivers to Boston before the 1957-58 season began. The following year, Bruins moved up to second place.Hillman spent the 1959-60 season at Providence and was the American league&rsquo;s top defenceman. On that basis, Leafs drafted him from the Boston organization.Hillman spent the entire 1960-61 season with Leafs and seemed to be improving rapidly. But a shoulder injury ruined the following year for him. He was loaned to Springfield for the 1962-63 season and seemed to learn a great deal about playing defence from the old master himself, Eddie Shore.He started out the 1963-64 schedule in Rochester but returned to Toronto late in the winter and helped Leafs win the Stanley Cup. Last season, he was an all-star defenceman with Rochester and helped Amerks win the schedule and playoff championships.Even so, he couldn&rsquo;t crack the Leaf defence, with its regular pairings, Allan Stanley and Tim Horton, Carl Brewer and Bobby Baun, with Douglas in reserve. To complicate matters, Marcel Pronovost was obtained from Detroit in a summertime deal. That meant that Brewer&rsquo;s surprise retirement in October didn&rsquo;t help Hillman at all.It took Baun&rsquo;s injury to do that.&ldquo;Sure, it gets discouraging at times,&rsquo;&rsquo; Hillman agrees, &ldquo;but you have to keep working hard and your opportunity is sure to come. In the meantime, I make a good living doing something I enjoy.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Larry Hillman Proving Blues, Bruins Goofed In Not Grabbing Him

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Quebec&rsquo;s Old Timers hockey team proved conclusively that their 6-5 victory over Detroit Jan. 21 in Montreal was no fluke.They turned around a week later here in the Motor City and handed the collection of ex-Detroit hockey stars another beating 5-2 in the return game at the Olympia.A crowd of 12,394 yelled with delight as the Old Timers made their appearance on the ice where they have carved their niche as Red Wings and with various other NHL teams.Dickie Moore, one year removed from the National League wars, and hard-nose Ken Mosdell, provided the impetus for the Quebec victory.Moore scored the opening goal and assisted on markers by Floyd Curry and Butch Bouchard. while Mosdell assisted on all three of those goals.The victory gave Quebec Oldtimers a sweep of a home-and-home series, the first between the alumni of the National Hockey League.Although the players&rsquo; ages stretched from the upper 30s to 62-year-old Johnny Sorrell, who played for Detroit in the early 1930s, they went at it with the abandonment of youth.Referee Red Storey, another personality in retirement from the NHL, had to caution both clubs about rough play in the middle of the second period.The most combative was Detroit Ted Lindsay, now 40, who would be playing in the NHL if his planned comeback this season hadn&rsquo;t been vetoed by New York Rangers.But neither Lindsay nor Maurice (Rocket) Richard, the two most famous names of the game, could get on the score sheet.Moore and Marcel Bonin scored in the first period against Normie Smith, a mid-1930s Detroit goalie. Dollard St. Laurent beat Harry Lumley in the second period and Curry made it 4-0 against Wing trainer Lefty Wilson before Hal Jackson scored for Detroit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02641/2643727-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="523" height="636"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICKIE MOORE &hellip; Started Ball Rolling</figcaption></div>During the second intermission, after he had scored his goal, the 48-year-old Jackson learned that he had become a grandfather for the first time.Bouchard scored for Quebec and Marty Pavelich for Detroit in the final period. &#9632;

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‘Oldtimers’ Moore, Mosdell Provide Spark As Quebecers Beat Detroit ‘Vets’ Again

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>&ldquo;You like 7up 7up likes You&rdquo;&ldquo;You like 7up 7up likes You&rdquo;MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;The month of January is not likely to rank among the distinguished periods in the history of the Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01710/2643758-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="287" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Ferguson</figcaption></div>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&rsquo; most difficult moments were spent in the company of the Detroit Red Wings. They lost three in a row to the Motor City crew, including a 3-0 whitewash in the Forum. Their worst experience, however, came appropriately on the 13th of the month when they were walloped 6-0 by the Toronto Maple Leafs in Montreal.The result of all this, not surprisingly, was to bring rumblings of discontent from the team&rsquo;s kindly and benign old coach, Toe Blake. It also brought about a rare shuffling of personnel on the various lines, as Toe sought vainly to come up with a winning combination. Particularly in the losing contests against Detroit and Chicago in the last part of the month, did Blake switch his men around.In the Detroit game on January 22nd, for instance, he experimented with three rightwingers to go with Beliveau and Duff. Rousseau started out at that position, which is his regular spot on the team. As the game progressed, he was replaced by Yvan Cournoyer who subsequently gave way to Claude Larose. Meanwhile, Rousseau was put on the right side of the Richard-Gilles Tremblay combine, and Provost wound up on a line with Backstrom and Baton &hellip; the latter filling in for a hospitalized Ferguson. Nothing worked, however, and though Canadiens outshot the Wings 3128, including a 13-8 margin in the final period, they tost 3-0.A few nights later they were in third place, following a 4-2 defeat by Chicago on Canadiens&rsquo; home ice. The toss was particularly galling to Toe Blake, in view of the fact that Hawks went into the game without the services of Stan Mikita and Pierre Pilote. Said Blake, afterwards: &ldquo;Chicago was shaky in the first period and if we could&rsquo;ve scored the first goal they might&rsquo;ve come apart. All we had to do was shovel one puck into the net early in the game and that would&rsquo;ve been it. We didn&rsquo;t do it, though.&rdquo;Instead, it was Chicago who shovelled pucks into the Montreal cage, amassing a 3-0 lead by the early part of the second period. J. C. Tremblay got Canadiens back into the game with a goal midway through the period, but Phil Esposito soon put it out of reach again with his second goal of the night. Claude Provost&rsquo;s counter in the final period was an anticlimax.But, while January wasn&rsquo;t too happy a month from Canadiens&rsquo; point of view, there were saving graces. They&rsquo;d had good individual performances from several members of the team &hellip;notably Laperriere, Rousseau and Cournoyer &hellip; and there were two highly important breaks. The latter involved upset victories scored by New York and Boston over Detroit and Chicago, respectively, in the very late stages of the month. The effect of this was to keep Canadiens within very close striking distance of first place, despite their shaky record. &#9632;

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Habs Can‘t Beat ‘Big Teams’, Win One Game In Eight Starts During Grim January Schedule

It isn&rsquo;t too often that a National Hockey League player scores four goals in a game. Such feats are normally reserved for the NHL&rsquo;s super stars like Bobby Hull (who has done it twice this year) but this past week a rather obscure big leaguer turned the trick.Diminutive Pit Martin of the Boston Bruins, back in the NHL by virtue of a player trade with Detroit for Parker MacDonald, scored four times against Chicago in the Bruins&rsquo; Jan. 27 game in Boston as they won 5-3. Martin&rsquo;s performance was hailed by Boston fans as something special since Beantown patrons don&rsquo;t get too much to cheer about.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02622/2643789-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="287" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pit Martin</figcaption></div>Martin had scored only 17 goals in his first 109 NHL games so his outburst in a single game had to rate among the highlights of the current season to date.No NHL player was able to turn in a four-goal game at all last season and the last to score four or more before this season was Bobby Rousseau two years ago for the Canadiens.Martin&rsquo;s goal flurry has climaxed a fine performance by the tiny but speedy centre who has counted 10 times in 14 game since coming to Boston from the Red Wings, who had shunted him to the Pittsburgh Hornets after the season started.It would seem Martin is back in the NHL to stay after a goal-scoring display like the one he turned in with the mighty Black Hawks providing the opposition.Simon&rsquo;s is pleased to salute Pit Martin of Boston as the player-of-the-week in the NHL. &#9632;

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The Player Of The Week

(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 31)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03522/2643848-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="556" height="668"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04404/2643841-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="551" height="694"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05307/2643834-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="551" height="690"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06238/2643827-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="544" height="417"></div><h2>Penalties in Minutes by Clubs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07175/2643820-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="550" height="245"></div> &#9632;

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Looking At The National League Point Race

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Recently, during one of Chicago&rsquo;s three straight Thursday night visits to Boston Garden, Bruins&rsquo; defenseman Bob Woytowich recaptured for a fleeting moment a glimpse of his early 1965 self.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01702/2643879-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="284" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Woytowich</figcaption></div>He intercepted a pass deep within the Boston zone, spurted out over his own blue line, darted past a Black Hawk defenseman at mid-ice, and let fly with a booming blur which resounded off the Chicago goal pipe.Woytowich didn&rsquo;t score. But he turned the clock back, and for a few seconds looked like the potential-unlimited defenseman who drew raves around the circuit late last season.When he checked in from Hershey as a rookie last February, the Bruins began to perk up. The 6-foot, 190-pound Winnipeg native looked like a natural. He was a cool, heady rearguard who made slick clearing passes and rushed the puck out of his own end like a skate-shod Gale Sayers.This season he has been a large disappointment chiefly because he had stopped carrying the puck.&ldquo;I know what the problem is, and I&rsquo;m trying to correct it, &rdquo; the soft-spoken sophomore declared. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been afraid of making a mistake, and it has effected my confidence. I&rsquo;ve been thinking with the puck, wanting to make the good pass, instead of going with it, skating it out.&ldquo;Milt (Schmidt, the Bruins&rsquo; coach) and Hap (Emms, the general - manager) have both been after me on this. I know I can do it. I just have to stop hesitating.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Woytowich Flashes Old Time Form Again

<h2>Wed., Jan. 26</h2>DETROIT 3 at NEW YORK 4DETROIT &mdash; Goal: Crozier, Bassen; defense: Barkley. Bergman B. Marshall, Gadsby, Watson; forwards: Bathgate. McDonald, Smith, Ullman, Howe, Delvecchio, Fonteyne, Murphy, MacDonald, MacGregor, Henderson.NEW YORK &mdash; 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.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02650/2643980-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="543" height="603"></div>CHICAGO 4 at MONTREAL 2CHICAGO &mdash; Goal, Hall, Dryden; defense: Vasko, Ravlich, Stapleton, McNeil, Jarrett: forwards: Mohns, Stratton, Angotti, Hull, Esposito, Maki, Hay, Nesterenko, Wharram, Lunde.MONTREAL &mdash; 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&rsquo;Amico, Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03558/2643973-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="541" height="578"></div><h2>Thurs., Jan. 27</h2>CHICAGO 3 at BOSTON 5CHICAGO &mdash; Goal: Hall, Dryden: defense: Vasko, Ravlich, Stapleton, MacNeil, Jarrett: forwards: Esposito, Hull, Maki, Mohns, Angotti, Stratton, Hay, Nesterenko, Wharram, Lunde.BOSTON &mdash; Goal: Johnson; defense: Green, Boivin, Dillabough, Langlois, Woytowich, Marotte, Awrey; forwards: Williams, Westfall, Prentice, Martin, Bucyk, Stewart, Kennedy, Oliver, McKenzie.Referee: Ashley. Linesmen: Armstrong. Sopp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04470/2643966-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="540" height="639"></div><h2>Sat., Jan. 29</h2>DETROIT 4 at CHICAGO 4DETROIT &mdash; Goal: Crozier, Bassen; defense: Gadsby, Barkley, Bergman, Marshall, Watson: forwards: Howe, Delvecchio, MacDonald, McDonald, Ullman, Fonteyne, Murphy, MacGregor, Smith, Henderson, Bathgate.CHICAGO &mdash; Goal: Hall, Dryden; defense: Vasko, Ravlich, Stapleton, MacNeil, Jarrett: forwards: Nesterenko, Angotti, Hay, Esposito, Hull, Hodge, Maki, Wharram, Lunde, Mikita, Mohns.Referee: Udvari. Linesmen: Pavelich, D&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05394/2643959-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="547" height="498"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06350/2643952-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="545" height="264"></div>BOSTON 3 at TORONTO 6BOSTON &mdash; Goal: Parent, Johnston; defense: Langlois, Woytowich, Marotte, Boivin, Awrey; forwards: Martin, Bucyk, Williams, Stewart, Kennedy, Oliver, Prentice, Westfall, McKenzie. Dillabough.TORONTO &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Horton, Hillman, Douglas, Stanley; forwards: Kelly, Ellis, Armstrong, Selby, Stemkowski, Keon, Boyer, Pulford, Shack, Kurtenbach, Mahovlich.Referee: Buffey. Linesmen: Casselman. Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08303/2643945-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="543" height="738"></div>NEW YORK 2 at MONTREAL 6NEW YORK &mdash; Goal: Giacomin, Maniago. Defense: Hillman, Neilson, Howell, Brown, McMahon, Forwards: Nevin, Goyette, Marshall, Robinson, Fleming, Ingarfield, Hicke, Cullen, Ratelie, Peters, Hadfield.MONTREAL&mdash;Goal: Worsley, Hodge. Defense: Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Talbot, Harper. Forwards: Beliveau, Provost, G. Tremblay, Backstrom, Duff, Larose, Rousseau, Richard, Ferguson, Roberts, Grant.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09291/2643938-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="547" height="838"></div><h2>Sun., Jan. 30</h2>CHICAGO 5 at DETROIT 1CHICAGO: Goal &mdash; Dryden, Hall. Defense &mdash; Miszuk, Ravlich, Stapleton, MacNeil, Jarrett. Forwards &mdash; Nesterenko, Angotti, Hay, Esposito, Hull, Hodge, Maki, Wharram, Lunde, Mikita, Mohns.DETROIT: Goal &mdash; Crozier, Bassen. Defense &mdash; Gadsby, Godfrey, Barkley, Bergman, Marshall, Watson. Forwards &mdash; Howe, Delvecchio, MacDonald, McDonald, Ullman, Fonteyne, MacGregor, Smith, Henderson, Bathgate.Referee: Buffey. Linesmen, Pavelich, D&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10264/2643931-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="535" height="129"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11237/2643924-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="554" height="546"></div>MONTREAL 3 at BOSTON 1MONTREAL: Goal &mdash; Worsley, Hodge. Defense &mdash; Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Talbot, Harper. Forwards &mdash; Beliveau, Provost, G. Tremblay, Backstrom, Duff, Larose, Rousseau, Richard, Ferguson, Roberts, Grant.BOSTON: Goal &mdash; Johnston, Parent. Defense &mdash; Langlois, Boivin, Woytowich, Marotte, Awrey. Forwards &mdash; Martin, Bucyk, Stewart, Westfall, Williams, Prentice, Oliver, McKenzie, Dillabough, Kennedy.Referee: Friday. Linesmen, Atanas, Sopp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12214/2643917-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="545" height="428"></div>TORONTO 4 at NEW YORK 8TORONTO: Goal &mdash; Sawchuk, Bower. Defense &mdash; Pronovost, Horton, Stanley, L. Hillman, Douglas. Forwards &mdash; Shack, Pulford, Kelly, Ellis, Keon, Mahovlich, Selby, Stemkowski, Armstrong, Boyer, Kurtenbach.NEW YORK: Goal &mdash; Giacomin, Maniago. Defense &mdash; Howell, Brown, Neilson, W. Hillman. Forwards &mdash; Nevin, Goyette, Marshall, Fleming, Ratelle, Hadfield, Hicke, Cullen, Robinson, Peters, Ingarfield, Selling.Referee &mdash; Ashley. Linesmen, Armstrong, Maslow.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-14133/2643910-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="541" height="921"></div> &#9632;

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National Hockey League Summaries

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07318/2644011-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg"></div>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

(Standings on Wed., Feb. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-13173/2644042-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="551" height="186"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETE</h2>Wed., Jan. 26Chicago 4 at Montreal 2Detroit 3 at New York 4Thurs. Jan. 27Chicago 3 at Boston 5Sat., Jan. 29New York 2 at Montreal 6Boston 3 at Toronto 6Detroit 4 at Chicago 4Sun., Jan. 30Montreal 3 at Boston 1Toronto 4 at New York 8Chicago 5 at Detroit 1<h2>GAMES TO COME</h2>Wed., Feb. 2New York at ChicagoThurs., Feb. 3Toronto at MontrealDetroit at BostonSat., Feb. 5Detroit at MontrealChicago at TorontoNew York at BostonSun., Feb. 6Montreal at New YorkToronto at ChicagoBoston at DetroitWed., Feb. 9New York at TorontoDetroit at ChicagoThurs., Feb. 10Montreal at BostonNew York at DetroitSat., Feb. 12Montreal at ChicagoDetroit at TorontoBoston at New York (afternoon game)Sun., Feb. 13Montreal at DetroitToronto at BostonNew York at Chicago &#9632;

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How They Stand

<div class="byline">BY BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.Continuing concentrated efforts to streng - then their club for a strong finish during the final two months of the American Hockey League race, the Rhode<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01678/2644073-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="270" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Muloin</figcaption></div>Island Reds traded suspended defenseman Bob Blackburn to Vancouver Canucks as part of a five-player deal with the Western Hockey League club.The last-place Reds revealed Blackburn has been traded to Vancouver in a two-for-one deal, involving the permanent acquisition of defenseman Wayne Muloin and veteran left-winger Ron Hutchinson.Mudoin, only 24,, has been playing for the Reds the past three weeks on loan from the New York Rangers. The talented youngster, drafted by New York from Detroit for $20,000 two years ago, now becomes property of the Reds.In addition, the Reds announced that winger Wayne Larkin, owned by the Montreal Canadiens, has been sent to Vancouver on loan for the season in exchange for the loan of veteran defenseman Moe Mantha, formerly of the Cleveland Barons and Quebec Aces of the AHL.General Manager Ferny Flaman, who suspended Blackburn on Jan. 14th for &ldquo;indifferent attitude and insubordination,&rdquo; said the Vancouver deal, in which the Reds obtained three players for two, &ldquo;was by far the best of a number of offers&rdquo; for the 27-year-old defenseman. who played seven years with the Reds.The 5-player transaction with Vancouver was the second major deal pulled off by the determined Reds&rsquo; management.Earlier they acquired from the Montreal Canadiens veteran defenseman Keith Walsh and rookie center Bill Staub.Walsh, 25, and Staub, 24, came to the Reds from Houston of the Central Pro League in exchange for center Doug Senior and defenseman Bob &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Barber, both of whom have been with the Roosters all season. Senior joined Quebec of the AHL, while Barber was slated to play at Houston.Sorely in need of more experience on their defense and also of a solid centerman, the last-place Reds said they feel both Walsh and Staub &ldquo;will help our club immeasuraby,&rdquo; as Flaman put it.&ldquo;Walsh, especially, has the necessary experience and ability to help our defense,&rdquo; Flaman said. &ldquo;Staub, though only in his first year as a pro, is a good skater and hard worker and should add spark to our offense!&rdquo; &#9632;

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Reds Deal ‘Bad Boy’ Blackburn To Vancouver, Flaman Adds Five New Faces In Club Shake-up

<h2>Tues., Jan. 25</h2>BALTIMORE 5 at QUEBEC 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02584/2644261-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="558" height="877"></div><h2>Wed., Jan. 26</h2>SEATTLE 5 at HERSHEY 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03458/2644254-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="549" height="652"></div>PROVIDENCE 3 at BUFFALO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04339/2644247-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="540" height="621"></div><h2>Thurs., Jan. 27</h2>BALTIMORE 1 at QUEBEC 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05252/2644240-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="335" height="58"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06205/2644233-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="541" height="635"></div><h2>Fri., Jan. 28</h2>HERSHEY 3 at CLEVELAND 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07181/2644226-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="546" height="670"></div>BUFFALO 3 at ROCHESTER 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08158/2644219-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="547" height="587"></div>PITTSBURGH 0 at SPRINGFIELD 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09133/2644212-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="546" height="398"></div><h2>Sat., Jan. 29</h2>BUFFALO 3 at PITTSBURGH 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-10119/2644205-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="543" height="660"></div>PROVIDENCE 5 at HERSHEY 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-11110/2644198-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="552" height="775"></div>ROCHESTER 1 at CLEVELAND 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1293/2644191-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="547" height="498"></div>BALTIMORE 2 at SPRINGFIELD 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1382/2644184-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="546" height="336"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1475/2644177-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="544" height="324"></div><h2>Sun., Jan. 30</h2>BALTIMORE 4 at PROVIDENCE I<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1569/2644170-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="547" height="473"></div>CLEVELAND 4 at PITTSBURGH 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05436/2644163-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="542" height="496"></div>ROCHESTER 3 at QUEBEC 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06371/2644156-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="546" height="335"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07342/2644149-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="539" height="273"></div>HERSHEY 3 at BUFFALO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08322/2644142-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="537" height="596"></div> &#9632;

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American League Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y. &mdash;Even the most critical efficiency expert couldn&rsquo;t find too much fault with the Rochester Americans&rsquo; Production Line this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01669/2644306-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="286" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mike Walton</figcaption></div>The combination of 37 - year-old left wing Dick Gamble, 26-year-old right wing Jim Pappin and 21-year-old center Mike Walton has blended into one of the most feared lines in American Hockey League history.All three already have passed the 20-goal mark, and, by the time this reaches print, Gamble may even have soared past No. 30.It will be recalled the Amerks&rsquo; outstanding line en route to the Calder Cup championship last spring was the trio of Gamble, Pappin and Billy Harris. They got together for 21 goals in the 10 games Rochester required to collect the hardware.But Rochester general manager-coach Joe Crozier had no hope of re-uniting the line again this season. Harris was traded to Detroit during the summer, and Pappin was expected to make it big with the parent To ronto Maple Leafs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02624/2644299-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="477" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK GAMBLE &hellip; Still Popping Goals</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03580/2644292-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="529" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM PAPPIN &hellip; Spice For Line</figcaption></div>&ldquo;When Pappin came back to us on Nov. 7 this season, it didn&rsquo;t take me long to put him back with Gamble,&rdquo; Crozier explained. &ldquo;I figured Walton, who had a great year in Tulsa last season, would be a capable replacement for Harris between them.&rdquo;How right he was.Since its formation Nov. 10 in Pappin&rsquo;s second game after coming down from the Leafs, the Production Line has piled up 60 goals in 30 games through Jan. 27. Gamble has clicked for 26 of his 28, Pappin for 20 of his 21 and Walton for 16 of his 20.This unit easily could sweep the All-Star first team berths, just as the famed WHAM Line of Billy Hicke, Rudy Migay and Gary Aidcorn did when they played for Rochester in 1958-59.ICICLES &mdash; Gamble has been held pointless in just six of his first 40 games. Only once &mdash; Oct. 29 against Buffalo &mdash; has Dick failed to score a point during a game here. He&rsquo;s been stopped five times on the road. Gamble scored the 350th goal and 650th point of his length AHL career against Seatile here Friday, Jan. 21.Rookie goalie Gary Smith registered his second shutout of the season when Rochester blanked Seattle here. &#9632;

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Americans’ New ‘Production Line’ Most Feared By Opposing AHL Teams

<div class="byline">BY JOE GORDON</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;When Gary Jarrett was a member of the Toronto Marlboros Juniors, he used to pick up the mail and deliver it to the varsity, the Toronto Maple Leafs. A member of the Maple Leafs at the time was the smooth-skating Billy Harris.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04530/2644337-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="294" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Jarrett</figcaption></div>Now quite a bit later, Jarrett finds himself a teammate of Harris&rsquo;. And better yet he is playing the left wing on a line centered by the 10-year NHL veteran. Another former Toronto standout, Don McKenney, rounds out the unit which has been the Hornets&rsquo; most consistent two-way line in recent weeks.Since being teamed with Harris and McKenney, the 23year old Jarrett has been a different hockey player. His play has been much more consistent and aggressive.Earlier in the season Jarrett seemed to be having trouble finding himself. But now he looks as though he belongs and is carrying his share of the load.His first eight games with the veterans showed him producing four goals and seven assists. In 30 games prior to that he had tallied seven goals and seven assists.During this span the Hornets lost just one game, a one goal decision to Quebec.Ironically, the formation of this new forward line brings together three players who performed in the Toronto organization last season. The trio came to the Detroit Red Wings in the off-season.Along with Andy Bathgate, Harris and Jarrett were acquired in the multi-player deal which sent Marcel Pronovost, Larry Jeffrey, Ed Joyal, Lowell MacDonald and Aut Erickson to the Maple Leafs. MacDonald and Erickson played the entire 1964-65 campaign with Pittsburgh while Joyal was with the Hornets for six games.McKenney, a 229-goal man in the NHL, arrived via the draftJarrett has been with the Hornets all season. Harris and McKenney both came after Christmas.How does he explain the improvement? &ldquo;I just feel more confident playing with those two guys. Sometimes they amaze me with what they can do out there. I can make a mistake and not get burned so easily,&rdquo; Jarrett said in explaining his new-found success.Now in his fourth season of pro hockey, Jarrett had his best campaign in the 1964-65 season when he played for Tulsa in the Central League. He scored 27 goals and had 29 assists and then fired in eight more goals in the playoffs. &#9632;

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One-time ‘Mail Boy’ For Maple Leafs, Gary Jarrett Delivers For Hornets

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears best bets for all-star recognition this season is Gene Ubriaco, a pint-sized forward who packs the punch of a howitzer in his stick.The 5-8, 160-pound left winger is headed for his greatest AHL season, one which could see the Sault Ste. Marie native top the 30-goal mark.At the campaign&rsquo;s halfway point, Ubriaco had 18 goals, three more than he scored in the 63 games he played for Hershey last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09306/2644368-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="279" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gene Ubriaco</figcaption></div>A shoulder injury in the 1964-65 season sidelined him for nine games.Ubriaco is on a line with center Mike Nykoluk, the Bears&rsquo; captain and Bruce Cline.For the first ten games in January, the trio averaged 3.4 points a game with 14 goals and 20 assists.Ubriaco, a fast, shifty skater, has scored at least once against every AHL team except the Pittsburgh Hornets. He has two game winning tallies.&ldquo;From the very first day of training camp,&rdquo; said coach Frank Mathers, &ldquo;Ubriaco has been hustling. He works well with Nykoluk and Cline. And the little guy is not shy about going into the corners after the puck against players much bigger than him.&rdquo;Ubriaco paces the club&rsquo;s scoring with 32 points, having chipped in with 14 assists.Another Hershey forward who also has made his presence felt is winger Roger DeJordy. He popped in six goals in ten January matches, one less than he scored for the first three months. His 13 tallies is the second best mark among the forwards. One tally behind him is Bruce Draper, converted from wing to center.Defenseman Barry Ashbee, who suffered a disc injury of the neck, was released from the hospital after a two-week stay and Mathers is hoping the hard-hitting backliner will be ready for action soon.Hershey, currently riding an eight game unbeaten streak on home ice, continues to pack in the fans. At the 20 game mark, the Bears had pulled 115,651, some 5,000 better than last season at the same stage. &#9632;

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Little Bear Ubriaco Seen Club’s Big Hope For All-Star Honors

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, Ohio. &mdash;Is it just a coincidence that the Cleveland Barons got off an almost exclusive diet of Quebec and Rochester, Coach Fred Glover returned to action, the Barons fielded a full squad for the first time in two years &mdash; and the team started to win hockey games once again?Is it just a coincidence that in Fred&rsquo;s first game back, Howie Glover scored his first goal of the season, with an assist to his older brother?Is it just a coincidence that as soon as the club could put its three forward units back together again, as Glover intended them to be, the Barons deluged opposing goalies under an avalanche of shots?Some time ago, we wrote that the Barons needed Glover&rsquo;s inspired leadership on the ice. We wrote that there was nothing particularly wrong with the Barons that a return to full strengh might not correct. We wrote that the Barons were as good as any club in the league, with the exception of Quebec and Rochester.All this has been borne out by the facts.Currently, they are sporting a modest three-game winning streak. While they do not threaten Rochester nor are even pressing second-place Pittsburgh too closely, they have pulled comfortably ahead of last-place Buffalo and seem well on their way to a playoff berth in the American Hockey League.Glover donned skates again as the Barons met Baltimore on January 16 in a Sunday afternoon game. The Barons won, 3-2. This was followed by a 4-2 win over Pittsburgh and a 6-1 conquest of Seattle.The Barons&rsquo; coach worked with brother Howie on a line with Ron Attwell. Joe Szura continued to center for Bob Ellett and Bob Courcy. Cecil Haekstra and Gordon Wilkie took turns centering for Tom McCarthy and Keith McCreary. Wayne Schultz was used in reserve.For the first time this season, Cleveland was able to mount a continuous offensive that had three well-balanced lines carrying the load. &#9632;

Coach Fred Glover’s Return Ignites Spark In Cleveland

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES. Calif.The dark-horse contender for the Los Angeles franchise in the expansion division of the National Hockey League is Tony Owen, an ex - newspaperman turned television producer, who fronts a very impressive syndicate of members, which includes such wealthy men as Donald Douglas Jr., movieman Mervyn LeRoy. attorney Greg Bautzer, builder Paul Truesdale and possibily eomedian Bob Hope.The front-runner remains the syndicate headed up by L. A. Ram owner Dan Reeves and businessman Clarence Martin, who run the incumbant Blades of the Eastern Hockey League Tiie second prime contender is Jack Kent Cooke, the exCanadian who purchased the L.A Lakers of the National Basketball Assn, this year.The outsiders are Metromedia, a large TV and radio outfit, and Ralph Welson, who owns the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League and lives in Detroit, but says he will move to L.A. if he lands the ice spot.So there are five &mdash; count&rsquo;em, five &mdash; bidders for the NHL berth in L.A., which is not surprising when you consider the potential financial rewards of a big league hockey club, especially in an area as deep in people, money and sports interest as Southern California.Of the leading contenders, the least publicized has been Owen. But he is mounting an impressive attack. &ldquo;I have two big things going for me,&rdquo; he said in his Columbia Pictures studio office. &ldquo;If I get the franchise, hockey will be my only interest. And I have the television experience and contacts to be very helpful to the league in their efforts to obtain really lucrative national TV contracts.&rdquo;The gruff - on - the - outside, warm - on - the - inside Owen, fiftyish, aggressive, owned one-interest in the Detroit Lions fourth and controlled a majority from 1939 to 1941, when Dan Reeves was operating the Rams in Cleveland. He has made a fabulous long-running &lsquo;T&rsquo; success of &ldquo;The Donna Reed Show&rdquo; starring his actress wife, accumulated considerable money and friends in the industry, and is hungry to return to sports.He discounts all rivals to the franchise, except Reeves. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think Jack Cooke&rsquo;s popularity in Canada is particularly high, so I don&rsquo;t think his Canadian background will help him,&rdquo; Owen said. &ldquo;And I think its a strike against both him and Reeves that they already own clubs in other sports. And the fact that the Blades have done so poorly in L.A. in every respect has to weigh against Reeves.&ldquo;I love, worship, respect and am crazy about Dan Reeves. But his firs love and real interest is the Rams and he&rsquo;s got his hands full just trying to straighten them out. You can&rsquo;t serve two Gods.&rdquo;&ldquo;He brought in Martin, who may be a fine man and a successful politician, but has no background in sports. He has Bob Reynolds in with him, but Reynolds is a main owner of the baseball Angels, so that just brings another sport and an added division of interest.&ldquo;If I get the hockey franchise, I&rsquo;m going to concentrate all my attention on it. I have to hope that will carry tremendous weight with the NHL people. After all, they stand to gain or lose a great deal by the decisions they make. They&rsquo;re committed to hockey, it&rsquo;s their life and they must want to bring into their family people who are willing to commit their lives to the sport, too.&rdquo;For obvious reasons, Owen regards his associates in the venture as prime assets. &ldquo;Douglas, Bautzer and Truesdale are not only the highest types of individuals, but have great financial resources,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;LeRoy not only has been a success in the movie industry, but a success at running the fabulously successful Hollywood Park. He has been re-elected president time and time again, which is quite a tribute to his ability. Hope wants to come in with us, too, I think, and he may.&rdquo;&ldquo;But I want to emphasize that we are not going to merge our bid with that of Reeves or anyone else. We are in this on our own and we are prepared to go all the way. A lot has been said about the high cost of getting a new big league franchise off the ground. I think the price as quoted is cheap. The future of hockey in L.A. is absolutely unlimited. So is the future of hockey on TV. I think I could help the NHL to a TV setup which would be tremendous.&ldquo;Frankly, if I get the chance to do so, I plan to spend a lot more money than anyone has mentioned to give L.A. and the NHL not only a team, but a top-flight team, which will be competitive in a hurry, attractive to everyone and an asset to the league.&ldquo;I have a pretty ambious program in mind, which I cannot discuss publicly right now, but which I will present to the owners. I&rsquo;ve made two trips around the league, but I haven&rsquo;t met everyone I should meet yet. I hope to do so.&rdquo;With this, Owen flew off to Florida to fish and rest before moving to New York to try for the big catch at the NHL meeting there Feb. 7-9. &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ve got a chance. I hope I&rsquo;ve got a chance. But I just don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;I do know I&rsquo;ve never wanted anything much more.&rdquo;Unless the NHL takes further delaying action at the meeting, the zero hour is approaching, and as it does, the bidders are growing edgy.Previously, we did stories on the Reeves - Martin and Cooke bids. Recently, Martin admitted to us, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re very disappointed with the Blades. I came into the picture too late to do much this season, but I promise you I&rsquo;m prepared to work and spend with everything I have to make things better. The Blades pioneered hockey in this town. We want the NHL franchise very, very badly.&rdquo;And Cooke said, &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ll get the franchise because I want it more than anyone else.&rdquo;Clearly, the wanting is easier than the getting. &#9632;

TV Producer Tony Owen Among Five Bidders Seeking LA. Franchise In Expansion Of NHL

Before you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;DEWARS&rdquo; it never variesBefore you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;DEWARS&rdquo; it never varies<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standings on Tues., Feb. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04321/2644447-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="558" height="175"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 5. New York; 6. Boston).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 25San Francisco 2 at Vancouver 1Wed., Jan. 2Vancouver 8 at Los Angeles 4San Francisco 3 at Portland 4Seattle 5 at Hershey 3Fri., Jan. 28Vancouver 5 at San Francisco 2Victoria 3 at Seattle 2Sat., Jan. 29Vancouver 3 at Los Angeles 3Portland 2 at Victoria 6Sun., Jan. 30Vancouver 0 at San Francisco 3Victoria 1 at Portland 2Los Angeles 3 at Seattle 4<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Tues., Feb. 1San Francisco at SeattleLos Angeles at VancouverWed., Feb. 2Los Angeles at PortlandSan Francisco at VictoriaThurs., Feb. 3Victoria at Los AngelesFri., Feb. 4Portland at VancouverSan Francisco at Rochester &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<h2>Wed., Jan. 19</h2>PORTLAND 6 at S. FRANCISCO 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05248/2644579-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="546" height="617"></div>VANCOUVER 2 at VICTORIA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06210/2644572-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="542" height="624"></div><h2>Thurs., Jan. 20</h2>PORTLAND 4 at LOS ANGELES 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07168/2644565-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="552" height="777"></div><h2>Fri., Jan. 21</h2>LOS ANGELES 1 at VANCOUVER 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-08143/2644558-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="535" height="425"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-09130/2644551-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="555" height="272"></div><h2>Sat., Jan. 22</h2>LOS ANGELES 2 at VICTORIA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-10114/2644544-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="544" height="438"></div><h2>Sun., Jan. 23</h2>PORTLAND 5 at S. FRANCISCO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-11103/2644537-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="544" height="438"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1292/2644530-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="555" height="375"></div>VICTORIA 3 at VANCOUVER 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1375/2644523-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="555" height="950"></div> &#9632;

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Western Hockey League Summaries

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-14" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1456/2644610-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg"></div>Including Games of Wednesday, January 26) &#9632;

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Interlocking Scoreboard:

(Includinr Games of Son., Jan. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02576/2644679-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="550" height="516"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03488/2644672-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="550" height="307"></div>Most minutes in penalties: Howie Young, L.A., 148.Most shutouts: Don Head, Port, and Gilles Villemnure, Van., 4. &#9632;

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WHL Point Race

SEATTLE, Wash.Five of the top ten scorers of all time in Western League play are still active and at least three of the five are still scoring at an above-average clip.Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder is the all-time leader with an over-all total that will likely never be topped in years to come in the league. His 46 points scored so far this season give him a grand total of 1,282 points in 920 games played. At the start of this season Victoria&rsquo;s Steve Witiuk placed sixth in the all-time scoring race with 700 points in 814 games played. Being used mostly in a penalty-killing role this season Witiuk has only been able to add 10 points to that total and, as a result, has slipped to eighth in the all-time point race.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04376/2644710-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="277" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guyle Fielder</figcaption></div>Vancouver&rsquo;s Phil Maloney started the season in eighth place on 685 points in 528 games and, in 41 games this season, has been able to add 39 more points to take over the number six spot. He now has 724 points in 569 games played up to and including last Sunday&rsquo;s game. Portland&rsquo;s Art Jones held the number nine position in all-time scoring as he started the 1965-66 season but has since jumped to the number seven and is pressing Maloney for sixth place. The 48 points scored by Jones so far this season has enabled the Portland pivot to by-pass retired Colin Kilburn and Witiuk and has upped his totals to 703 points in 582 games played.Seattle winger Bill MacFarland holds down the number ten spot in the all-time scoring derby and is still in that spot despite having added 28 points to his totals in 42 games played this season. He now has 654 points in 665 games played. &#9632;

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Fielder Raises Lifetime Record

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><h2>Portland Conceded Edge</h2>&ldquo;Victoria has the best players, but Portland has the best team.&rdquo; One of the Western League coaches said it, and when we passed it on, most other coaches and players around the circuit agreed. While we picked Victoria and still expect the Leafs to finish on top, a league poll would show a slight edge for Portland right now. Portland coach Hal Laycoe has had years developing a team, but the very promising rookie coach in Victoria, Frank Mario, has had only this year, and that might be the difference.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05281/2644748-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="289" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Swarbrick</figcaption></div>Most of the coaches and players in the league regard Laycoe as something special. &ldquo;He has a system. So he can win with stars or without stars,&rdquo; Seattle coach Bobby Kromm says, reflecting the general feeling. Portland trainer Berlyn Hodges says, &ldquo;To play on our team, a fellow must play the whole game, not just score. I can name you a dozen stars in this league that couldn&rsquo;t play for Laycoe.&rdquo; Portland&rsquo;s kindly defenseman Connie Madigan said, &ldquo;You think we won&rsquo;t finish ahead of Portland? You&rsquo;ll wind up eating that newspaper of yours.&rdquo;The Portland players are tough, united, proud, confident to the point of cockiness. Laycoe says, &ldquo;I hope they&rsquo;re confident, but I don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;re cocky.&rdquo; Laycoe himself is tough and proud, a cynical cuss, tightmouthed. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll talk to you about coaching, but I&rsquo;ll be evasive,&rdquo; he told us. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t even write a book about coaching, not while I&rsquo;m still coaching. I don&rsquo;t want to give away any secrets. Why should I?&rdquo; Yet, Laycoe and L.A.&rsquo;s Lynn Patrick did have some interesting things to say about coaching when we got them together for an interview for a future issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL.It was more funny than revealing, but while agreeing that if you can&rsquo;t get two men who see eye to eye on almost everything, it is best for one man to be both the coach and general manager, as both Laycoe and Patrick are, Laycoe said, &ldquo;My general manager and coach get along very well with each other,&rdquo; but Patrick, stuck in last place, mourned, &ldquo;Mine don&rsquo;t get along at all.&rdquo;<h2>Kromm&rsquo;s Coaching Job Tops</h2>Earlier this season, San Francisco general manager Bud Poile fined all of his Seals for indifferent play at home. Recently, owner Mel Swig suspended, then un-suspended George Swarbrick, who didn&rsquo;t miss a game. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the best kind of suspension,&rdquo; Laycoe smiles. &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t miss a game and played very well against us &hellip; I hate to say this, but I will. I&rsquo;ve seen players I thought were really abused with fines or suspensions &mdash; mass fines, for example, but it seems to get results. I&rsquo;ve never done any of it. I&rsquo;d hate to think I had to. But I&rsquo;ll admit it often seems to work.&rdquo;One of the most impressive coaching jobs in hockey this season has been done by Seattle&rsquo;s rookie mentor Kromm. A success in the amateur ranks, Kromm moved up to the pros with a club that had been depleted in the off-season. He and General Manager Keith Allen have made a series of deals during the season and every one has proven helpful. The club has been rebuilt on the fly, pulled together and now looks like it may be the surprise team to make the playoffs.Kromm is a pleasant, thoughtful, intelligent fellow. He replays every game in his mind over and over again. He can tell you the tiny incident which he feels determined a game played months ago. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve lost a lot of close games this year,&rdquo; he said the other afternoon. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have many goal-scorers on this club, so we can&rsquo;t afford to make mistakes. Little mistakes decide most games. At first we had a number of young players. We dropped some that weren&rsquo;t ready. They made mistakes. They didn&rsquo;t give the game everything they had. They weren&rsquo;t aggressive.&ldquo;When we&rsquo;re hitting, we&rsquo;re winning. That&rsquo;s true of most clubs. That&rsquo;s why it&rsquo;s so hard to judge players. It&rsquo;s not talent alone that counts. More than anything else, it&rsquo;s moxie. You get a player of ordinary talent, who is aggressive, who has moxie, and he&rsquo;ll do more for you than more naturally gifted guys.&rdquo;<h2>Bucks&rsquo; Goyer Ideal Player</h2>Gerry Goyer of Portland has averaged a point a game for his six seasons in the WHL. Coach Laycoe says, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a lot of slogans pasted around the dressing room to try to convince the guys that hard work pays off. I think I&rsquo;ll tear them down and just point to Gerry. He&rsquo;s a dedicated player who has improved in every way since he joined us. Every practice he works just as hard as he can.&rdquo; &hellip; L.A. coach Patrick says I don&rsquo;t know why some players find it so hard to get up for every game. The coaches are even up for practices.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06232/2644741-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="288" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry Goyer</figcaption></div>Patrick and veteran Jerry Toppazzini spent a few minutes recently debating whether Providence or Vancouver has the worst rink they&rsquo;ve ever seen &hellip; At 135 pounds, the smallest pro, Portland&rsquo;s Arnie Schmautz has now played 700 WHL games &hellip; Portland&rsquo;s Cltff Schmautz pulled L.A. players off the back of his roommate Fred Hiltz when Fred had a brawl with &mdash; of all people &mdash; a third Schmautz brother, L. A.&rsquo;s Bobby. Cliff must like Bucks better than brothers &hellip; Ex-Buck Pat Stapleton and ex-Seal Forbes Kennedy had a bloody brawl which netted them 37 minutes in penalties in a Chicago-Boston NHL game recently &hellip; Seattle&rsquo;s little Jimmy McLeod tied a WHL record by making 57 saves in a 6-0 loss in Cleveland. Marcel Pelletier and Bev Bentley share the mark.Bing Crosby may buy controlling interest in the Seals and merge his syndicate with the present owners in NHL franchise manoeuvering &hellip; It looks like L.A. and S.F. may miss the WHL playoffs for a second straight season, which would be a sad situation &hellip; Portland&rsquo;s lovable Connie Madigan pulled a cutie the other night in L.A. With the Bucks down by a goal in the last minute, the immovable defenseman stationed himself in the L.A. crease and hand-wrestled goalie Marcel Pelletier. Marcei couldn&rsquo;t have handled a shot, but got lucky on one that hit a post. &#9632;

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Western Ad Lib

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,At this writing, as the Western League has just moved into its 16th of the season&rsquo;s 26 weeks, one of the clubs in trouble was San Francisco. The Seals won in Vancouver 2-1 to open the week, but it came on the heels of four straight losses and was their first win over the Canucks in five games.General Manager Bud Poile is not taking the Seals&rsquo; depressions lightly. After signing amateur Stan Gilbertson to a Seal contract, he called up Owen Mailley, a 23-year-old rightwing from the Red Wing Rustlers of the Central Alberta League for a tryout.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01641/2644641-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="304" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howie Young</figcaption></div>&ldquo;No sense fooling around with the old guys if they&rsquo;re not putting out and winning,&rdquo; Poile said. &ldquo;Alter all, we&rsquo;ve got to rebuild.&rdquo;He flew in to L. A. to offer the Blades $30,000 for Howie Young. &ldquo;I want Young,&rsquo;&rsquo; Bud said. &ldquo;If we get him, I feel he&rsquo;ll put some life into our club. Our owner, Mel Swig, gave me the go-ahead to bid the cash.&rdquo; But the Blades turned the offer down. They&rsquo;re unhappy with the erratic Young, but want players, not money. They almost got Gerry Odrowski for Young earlier and may reconsider.The Seals had a soft schedule of only four games in 16 days, including only three games &mdash; and all at home &mdash; in two weeks, but lost them all. The nagging back injury which has kept playing coach Charley Burns on the sidelines most of the last month has hurt more than any other single thing. A dreadful 19-35 deficit in power-play goals hasn&rsquo;t helped. The Seals gave up only 122 goals in the first half of their season, but scored only 100, by 23 goals the fewest in the League. Trying to pump some life into George Swarbrick, the Seals suspended him for a couple of days, but he didn&rsquo;t miss a game.Their road record was 4-10-2, as they moved into stretch of 10 road games in 13 outings, including their six-game AHL tour of the East, which will be partly over by the time this reaches print. &ldquo;I have never doubted that we could make the playoffs, but this is it and they better believe it,&rdquo; Poile said. Burns said, &ldquo;We have to win about six in a row.&rdquo;The Seals have fallen behind third-place Vancouver and fourth-place Seattle, but have quite a few more games left to play than those clubs do and the standings are thus deceptive.AROUND THE LEAGUE &mdash; Vancouver spurted to the 500 level, then fell back in the loss in San Francisco, but it was their first loss to a California club after they had won four from San Francisco and six from L.A. The Canucks had lost seven straight to Victoria when they exploded with a 10-3 thrashing of the league-leaders. Billy McNeill scored two goals and four assists to tie Cliff Schmautz of Portland for the league scoring lead with 56 points. Howie Hughes recorded his second &ldquo;hat-trick&rdquo; of the season.That seventh straight for Victoria over Vancouver was 3-2 with Andy Hebenton assisting on the first two, then scoring the winner at 3:22 of overtime &hellip; Now part-timers, veterans Phil Maloney and Larry Popein scored the two Canucks goals. Portland was pressing Victoria for the league lead, but was having trouble in one-goal games, having played the most, 11, and lost most, nine, in the league. All five losses in the Bucks&rsquo; last 19 games have come by one goal, Cliff Schmautz continued to shine and had a new team record of having scored a point or more in 17 straight fames at last count. &#9632;

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Blades Reject $30,000 From Desperate Seals To Land Howie Young

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., Feb. 2)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1544/2644810-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="559" height="175"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 2. Montreal; 3. Chicago; 4. Detroit; 5. New York; 6. Boston.<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 25Oklahoma City 3 at Houston 5Wed., Jan. 26Memphis 1 at St. Louis 6Minnesota 3 at Oklahoma City 2Thurs., Jan. 27Minnesota 1 at Tulsa 3Fri., Jan. 28Oklahoma City 5 at Memphis 2Sat., Jan. 29Minnesota 0 at St. Louis 5Houston 3 at Tulsa 3Sun., Jan. 30Minnesota 3 at Memphis 3St. Louis 3 at Oklahoma City 5Tulsa 4 at Houston 6<h3>GAMES TO COME</h3>Wed., Feb. 2Minnesota at HoustonMemphis at Oklahoma CityThurs., Feb. 3Memphis at TulsaFri., Feb. 4Minnesota at Oklahoma CityHouston at MemphisSat., Feb. 5Minnesota at HoustonMemphis at St. LouisOklahoma City at TulsaSun., Feb. 6Minnesota at TulsaSt. Louis at MemphisHouston at Oklahoma City &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<h2>Wed., Jan. 12</h2>TULSA 6 at ST. LOUIS 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02415/2644925-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="547" height="713"></div>HOUSTON 2 at OKLAHOMA C. 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03328/2644918-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="548" height="399"></div>MEMPHIS 3 at MINNESOTA 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04261/2644911-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="548" height="872"></div><h2>Fri., Jan. 14</h2>ST. LOUIS 4 at TULSA 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05192/2644904-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="534" height="83"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06156/2644897-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="545" height="540"></div>HOUSTON 1 at MEMPHIS 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07143/2644890-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="542" height="611"></div>MINNESOTA 2 at OKLAHOMA CITY 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08131/2644883-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="549" height="474"></div><h2>Sat., Jan. 15</h2>OKLAHOMA CITY 1 at TULSA 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09111/2644876-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="540" height="357"></div>MINNESOTA 3 at MEMPHIS 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1093/2644869-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="313" height="59"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1180/2644862-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="549" height="376"></div>HOUSTON 4 at ST. LOUIS 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1265/2644855-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="545" height="731"></div><h2>Sun., Jan. 16</h2>HOUSTON 1 at MINNESOTA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1355/2644848-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="545" height="508"></div>OKLAHOMA C. 3 at ST. LOUIS 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1450/2644841-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="543" height="509"></div> &#9632;

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Central Hockey League Summaries

<h2>EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01402/2645012-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="557" height="364"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 25Long Island 2 at Jacksonville 4Wed., Jan. 26Charlotte 5 at New Haven 6Johnstown 2 at New Jersey 2Long Island 6 at Jacksonville 3Thurs., Jan. 27Knoxville 1 at Nashville 4Fri., Jan. 28New Haven 1 at Clinton 6Jacksonville 1 at Long Island 1New Jersey 4 at Johnstown 5Nashville 3 at Greensboro 2Knoxville 5 at Charlotte 3Sat., Jan. 29Jacksonville 3 at Clinton 4New Haven 2 at New Jersey 8Long Island 4 at Johnstown 2Nashville at Charlotte (Postponed Snow)Greensboro at Knoxville (Postponed Snow)Sun., Jan. 30Johnstown 3 at New Haven 4Jacksonville 2 at Long Island 7Knoxville 2 at Greensboro 2Clinton at New Jersey (Postponed Snow)Charlotte at Nashville (Postponed Snow)<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02353/2645005-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="549" height="281"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03290/2644998-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="554" height="335"></div>Most penalties. Ball, New Haven, 194 minutes.<h2>ONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 31.)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04228/2644991-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="547" height="154"></div>(x-plays four-points games except against Oakville).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed., Jan. 26Woodstock 3 at Oakville 6Sat., Jan. 29Woodstock 4 at Galt 6Sun., Jan. 30Guelph 6 at Oakville 4Woodstock 4 at Kingston 7<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05184/2644984-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="548" height="434"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06155/2644977-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="548" height="181"></div><h2>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 31)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07140/2644970-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="551" height="133"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3>(Including games of Sun., Jan. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-08109/2644963-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="550" height="451"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0997/2644956-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="545" height="182"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Races

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>NASHVILLE, Tenn. &mdash;In the waning minutes of a college game when the verdict is evident, the winning side&rsquo;s students chant, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all over&rdquo; and that&rsquo;s about what the Nashville Dixie Flyers are chortling about the Southern Division race in the Eastern Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1088/2645050-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="285" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Zorica</figcaption></div>Although there is a little over a month to go in the regular race, the Flyers have zoomed to an eight point edge. Furthermore at this writing their nearest rivals are seven and 11 games back, respectively, in the all-important loss column.Thus it would appear that the Flyers of John McLellan virtually would have to collapse to avoid winning their second straight divisional crown. Last year the Flyers won in a runaway once they took command at the turn of the year. This year the final figures may not be as wide but they should be very convincing.McLellan has a foolproof system of beating off any aspiring challengers. For a time Charlotte looked like a dangerous foe, once even taking over the league lead due to an advantage in games played. So the Flyers invaded the Checkers rink and beat them, 4-2 to so upset the Checkers that they only won two out of their next eight games. To make sure the Checkers knew who was the boss, the Flyers blasted them, 11-0, a week after their triumph on the Charlotte ice.Greensboro then figured it was the team to catch the Flyers. That was before the Gens invaded the Nashville rink for a weekend series. They left with a split and a feeling that no one would catch the Flyers.&ldquo;Marvelous Marv&rdquo; Edwards, the league&rsquo;s top goalie, served as the key figure during a seven game Nashville win streak that broke the race wide open. Marv posted three successive shutouts over Knoxville, Jacksonville and Charlotte to match a feat he achieved last year. Last year Marv had a scoreless streak of 222 minutes 53 seconds. This year&rsquo;s total lasted 199 minutes 12 seconds before Rich Hextali of Knoxville scored.LONG ISLAND: Ducks decided to keep Gordie Dibley at goal and chose to send Jim Armstrong to Toledo on loan. Jim was suspended when he refused to go. Gordie Stratton&rsquo;s overtime goal nipped New Haven. Russ McClenaghan posted hat trick in same game. Don Nolin has broken bone in hand and Bob Sabourin bothered by pulled hamstring muscle. Clock didn&rsquo;t work here for Greensboro game, so contest was timed via stopwatch. Ducks are 18-2-1 at home.JERSEY: Bobby Boucher finally decided to join Devils after being secured a few weeks previously from Knoxville. Club dropped Harvey Turnbull to make room for him and then sent Wally Sprange to Nashville when Billy Armour returned to duty. Norm DeFelice&rsquo;s cast was removed from his leg and he got back in the lineup. Benny Woit also back on duty after injured shoulder sidelined him.CLINTON: Goalie Ed Babiuk still talking about assist he received on Pat Kell&rsquo;s goal vs Jersey, Stan Gilbertson lost to San Francisco who took him for keeps after 5-game trial. Comets have won 16th straight at home. Borden Smith is club scoring leader to make coach Pat Kelly&rsquo;s prediction materialize. The exDevil is by far the club&rsquo;s best goalmaker.JACKSONVILLE: Club won 7 out of 9 on their home ice to make their record more respectable. Closest team had to a road victory came in a scoreless duel at Greensboro. Art Chiupka&rsquo;s four goals made him second Rocket to turn in hat trick. Chris Finnerty bothered by leg injury. Club signed 15-year-old Quebec lad as scout after receiving heartwarming letter from him.GREENSBORO: Dom DiBerardino posted a 5-goal game for the second time in three weeks. Club had bad northern trip and ex-mate Don Davidson&rsquo;s two goals for Clinton caused one of the setbacks. Goalie Jacques Monette posted assist vs. Jersey. Ron Pyke back in action after being out with head injury, but John Murray is out with foot mishap. Monette&rsquo;s first shutout came vs. Charlotte.NASHVILLE: Norm Ryder is back in action after missing nine games with shoulder injury. The 20-game home attendance figures were 58,520. Wayne Clairmont and Joe Zorica posted hat tricks vs. Charlotte. Zorica has regained club scoring lead from Ted McCaskill. Coach John McLellan said &ldquo;The Flyers three periods against Charlotte (11-0 win) were the best in the history of the club.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1173/2645043-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="515" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOM DiBERARDINO &hellip; Second 5-Goal Game</figcaption></div>JOHNSTOWN: Jets acquired defenseman Bob Howard and placed John Gofton on disabled list after latter accidentally scalded his foot. Club has won 14 straight at home. Dick Roberge has narrowed gap between him and league scoring leader Ron Hergott of New Haven. Win at New Haven snapped eightgame road losing skein. Dennis Rathwell and Danny Patrick had hat tricks vs. Jersey.NEW HAVEN: Blades game at Long Island was halted by fight after 90 seconds and cancelled when pilot Jackie Leclair refused to return to ice. Club picked up wing John McMillan from Knoxville and sent defenseman Jim McCarthy to Jacksonville on loan. LeClair had four goals vs. Johnstown. Brian Perry bothered by bad ankle. Ron Hergott is pacing loop in goals, points and hat tricks.KNOXVILLE: Doug Bentley thinks his Knights can catch Charlotte, but his plea for four wins in a five-game stretch ended in a 2-3 record instead. He also said about the Knights rink:: &ldquo;Every goalie that comes here seems to be red hot. It must be that our lighting is better than other rinks.&rdquo; Goalie Wayne Doll sprained ankle and Bev Bentley, Doug&rsquo;s nephew, was the sub.CHARLOTTE: Checkers bus slid off snowy highway near Ashville, N.C. and delayed team&rsquo;s arrival two hours at Knoxville. Defenseman Ted Baylis jumped team to attend police school at Toronto. Fred Creighton said, &ldquo;losing Moe Savard hurts us more than anyone except our goalie. &ldquo;Art Hart subbed at goal when Ricky Charron suffered concussion at Jersey. George Hill&rsquo;s overtime goal beat New Haven. &#9632;

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Nashville Pulling Away In Southern Race; Clinton Wins 16th Straight On Home Ice

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2>(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1264/2645081-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="546" height="411"></div><h2>LEAGUE LEADERS</h2>Most goals: Gaudet, St. Louis, 23.Most assists: Stratton, St. Louis, 40. Penalties in minutes: Bob Plager, Minn., 129.Leading goalie: Wayne Rutledge, Minn., 2.85 average.Most shoutouts: Carl Wetzel, Houston; Bruce Gamble, Tulsa and Rutledge, Minnesota, 3. &#9632;

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Point Race

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div>MUSKEGON, Mich.Home ice and the ability to win the close ones &mdash; at home or away &mdash; are the factors that are keeping the Muskegon Mohawks in the one - two spots in the International Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01408/2645112-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="297" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lionel Repka</figcaption></div>The Mohawks were maintaining their dizzy pace at L. C. Walker Arena and up to January 28 they had gone 20 games with out defeat, with still a chance to equal or break the IHL record of 26 set by the old Cincinnati Mohawks.That was the big item in the Mohawks&rsquo; success but almost equally important was their ability to win one-goal decisions. In 16 one-goal engagements, the Mohawks were victorious in 12.They needed these to continue their home string. They won seven of their last home games by one goal and one of those was an overtime. They won four straight, two at home and two abroad, by identical 4-3 scores.The Mohawks&rsquo; home record of 18-0-2 was, of course, best in the IHL. But they also boasted the best mark on the road, 7-11-1. Four of their seven road wins were achieved in Des Moines.FORT WAYNE &mdash; Graham Longmuir, rookie who had a trial with Toledo, turned on the Blades with a winning goal in overtime &hellip; Merv Dubchak was blanked in three successive games but was ahead in goals-per-game with 42 in 41 contests &hellip; Lionel Repka netted his sixth goal and 40th point to lead all IHL defensemen &hellip; Defenseman Roger Galipeau hit his first goal of the season &hellip; The Komets&rsquo; first Sunday matinee drew 6,469 fans.TOLEDO &mdash; The Blades had 12 straight losses and nine defeats by one-goal margins &hellip; They were within 16 seconds of victory over the Komets when defenseman Lionel Repka scored a tieing goal on a long shot &mdash; The Blades added veteran goalie Jim Armstrong from Seattle of the Western League and two players from the Eastern League, Eno Kraft from New Haven and Harvey Turnbull of New Jersey.DAYTON &mdash; Guy Trottier, leading Gem goal scorer, was expected to be out two weeks with injuries received in a crash against the goal pipes &hellip; Cliff Bristow, recovering from a shoulder injury, got back into action &hellip; Bob Regis had his second hat trick &hellip; Rich Brown, whose right arm was broken on Nov. 7, had the cast taken off &hellip; With 20 wins, the Gems were only three short of last year&rsquo;s total.PORT HURON &mdash; Commissioner Andy Mulligan withdrew the suspension of defenseman Larry Mavety &hellip; Gary Simmons, reserve goalie, was sent to the Toledo Blades &hellip; Norm Jacques will serve as emergency goalie in home games &hellip; The Flags&rsquo; newly organized Booster Club signed up 134 families.MUSKEGON &mdash; With 53 points, the Mohawks were already far ahead of last season&rsquo;s total, when they finished with 47 &hellip; Gary Schall was 26 goals and 10 assists ahead of last season&rsquo;s half-way pace &hellip; Gil LaPalme was out indefinitely with the back injury received on New Year&rsquo;s Eve.DES MOINES&mdash;The Oak Leafs have asked waivers on veteran center Joe Connors &hellip; Ray Mikulan was the second goalie to pick up two assists &hellip; Barry Merrill became the fourth IHL player to chalk up five assists in one game. &#9632;

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Home Ice Run Keeps Muskegon Mohawks Flying

<div class="byline">BY AL BRENNAN</div>NORTH BAY, Ont. &mdash;Although North Bay Trappers&rsquo; high - scoring trio of Marty Reynolds, Len Burman and Randy Prior have received most of the credit for the club&rsquo;s lofty standing to date, one rival coach has directed his opinion in a different direction.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02321/2645143-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="285" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alec McConnell</figcaption></div>&ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned that McConnell is the main reason the Trappers are in first place,&rdquo; remarked Espanola coach Red McCarthy after a recent visit by his Eagles to Memorial Gardens.The McConnell referred to by McCarthy was husky Alec McConnell, a 6&rsquo;&frac12;&rdquo;, 190-pounder from Kapuskasing, who joined the club after the season got under way and quickly emerged as one of the league&rsquo;s outstanding rearguards. Not only has the soft spoken Kapuskasing product strengthened the Trappers&rsquo; blueline brigade considerably, but it only took him a few games to become the club&rsquo;s police-man.&ldquo;Alec is certainly a great guy to have around,&rdquo; agreed Trapper coach Howie Parker. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s all business out there and it hasn&rsquo;t taken players on the other teams long to find out they can&rsquo;t take any liberties when he&rsquo;s on the ice.&rdquo;McConnell played all his minor hockey in Kapuskasing and was a member of the Kap junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Maroons last year before moving to the Trappers. The Maroons were defeated in the NOHA finals last spring by Garson-Falcon-bridge Native Sons.In his final season of junior hockey, he has no plans for the pro ranks and is currently working on a hockey scholarship in the United States. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m trying to use my hockey to further my schooling, but after that, well you never can tell,&rdquo; he says.Whether the Reynolds&rsquo; line, or McConnell, deserve the credit, one thing is certain, the Trappers are headed for a second-straight first place finish unless they collapse completely. At the moment they lead the second place Sault Greyhounds by seven points and have won 11 of their last 12 starts to run their season&rsquo;s record to 19 victories, five losses and a tie. They also hold two games in hand over the Greyhounds.Sparked by the work of new goalie Matt Thorpe, Sudbury Wolves are holding onto third place with 25 points, one more than fourth-place Espanola. Gar-son-Falconbridge Combines are still last and out of the picture with only two wins in 23 league appearances.Thorpe, a student at Sudbury&rsquo;s Laurentian University joined the Wolves against the Greyhounds and led his mates to a 5-4 overtime decision. Facing the Trappers in his next start, he turned in a brilliant display to snap the Trappers&rsquo; 10 - game winning streak.The 20-year-old netminder also halted 10-game scoring streaks by Prior and Burman, beating both players from close range on a couple of occasions.Reynolds, who will miss the next two games of the schedule due to a shoulder injury suffered against the Sault, still holds the scoring lead with 36-goals and 34-assists for 70 points. This leaves the shifty Trapper pivot five points ahead of Sault&rsquo;s Bobby Smith. Smith has clicked for 30 goals and 35 assists for 65 points.Prior and Bob Tombari of the Greyhounds are tied for third place with 52 points each, while a pair of veteran Espanola forwards, Ike Piche and Randy McArthur used Sunday&rsquo;s action when they clicked for five points each, to move into a tie for fourth, each with 50. &#9632;

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Rearguard Ace McConnell Keeps Trappers Rolling

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues., Feb. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03229/2645174-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="562" height="233"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 2. Montreal; 3. Chicago; 6. Boston, x-independent).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 25Muskegon 4 at Toledo 3Wed., Jan. 26Des Moines 4 at Fort Wayne 2Thurs., Jan. 27Toledo 3 at Dayton 9Fri., Jan. 28Des Moines 3 at Muskegon 7Sat., Jan. 29Dayton 4 at Fort Wayne 10Port Huron 6 at Muskegon 7Des Moines 1 at Toledo 3Sun., Jan. 30Des Moines 7 at Dayton 11Fort Wayne 2 at Port Huron 4 &#9632;

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(Including: Gaines of Sun., Jan. 16)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04179/2645226-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="546" height="1416"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05130/2645219-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="549" height="915"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-06108/2645212-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="550" height="619"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0794/2645205-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="548" height="282"></div> &#9632;

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Complete IHL Scoring Records

<h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tues., Feb. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01385/2645257-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="555" height="259"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 2. Montreal; 3. Chicago; 4. Detroit; 5. New York; 6. Boston).<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tues., Jan. 25Niagara Falls 4 at London 1Thurs., Jan. 27St. Catharines 1 at Montreal 5Oshawa 4 at Hamilton 5Niagara Falls 2 at Peterborough 3Fri., Jan. 28Kitchener 1 at Niagara Falls 7St. Catharines 1 at Toronto 4Sat., Jan. 29London 7 at Oshawa 4Sun., Jan. 30Hamilton 2 at St. Catharines 2Niagara Falls 2 at Toronto 4Oshawa 4 at Kitchener 2London 1 at Montreal 6 &#9632;

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<h2>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 24)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02333/2645323-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="548" height="222"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03270/2645316-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="545" height="457"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</h2>(Standing on Mon., Jan. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04232/2645309-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="540" height="157"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05193/2645302-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="546" height="352"></div><h2>NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2>(Standings on Mon., Jan. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06150/2645295-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="548" height="147"></div><h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07130/2645288-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="548" height="334"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY JACK GATECLIFF</div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.A so-called &ldquo;Super Canadian Junior A Hockey League, &rdquo; long discussed but never acted upon, may become reality if a 45-year-old Edmonton sportsman has his way.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-08116/2645354-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="303" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andr&eacute; Lacroix</figcaption></div>Bill Hunter, president of an Edmonton trust company but better known in Western Canada as a controversial football and hockey executive, is convinced that an entry by the Edmonton Oil Kings in the Ontario Hockey Association junior A league is feasible.And he foresees the day when a league ranging from Quebec City to Vancouver and New Westminster will be operating.Hunter is attempting to prove his point this year by inviting Ontario teams to play in Edmonton.In November the Hamilton Red Wings attracted more than 4,000 fans to a game in the Edmonton Gardens for an exhibition game despite the fact that football was the chief topic in Western Canada at the time.In mid-January St. Catharines Black Hawks followed the Red Wings to Edmonton. Approximately 4,500 turned out in 40 degree below zero weather.The Oil Kings, Western Canada junior champions the past six years, defeated Hamilton 5-2 and repeated with a 7-3 win over St. Catharines.However more important to Hunter was that he broke even on both trips.Cost of transportation, hotel facilities and meals for the Ontario teams was $4,500. an apparently astronomical figure by junior hockey standards.Hunter, though thinks he has the method of paying the expenses with no teams being hurt.&ldquo;My plan is to have each of the nine Ontario teams play two games on a weekend in Edmonton,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We (the Edmonton team) would pay for all expenses and by the interest shown here for the two exhibition games, we&rsquo;d end up a few dollars ahead.&ldquo;In return we&rsquo;d play two games in each of the Ontario arenas.&rdquo;The Ontario teams would be expected to pay Edmonton $500 for each game in their province. This is not excessive when you consider the additional fans who would be attracted to the games by the glamor of the Oil King name.&ldquo;We&rsquo;d have a slight deficit from our trips to Ontario but should make it up by the profit realized in Edmonton,&rdquo; he said.Hunter isn&rsquo;t going to sit back and wait.He&rsquo;s already made overtures to appear at a junior A council meeting in the spring and hopes to gain support for a trial run during the 1966-67 season.In fact he&rsquo;s so enthused that he&rsquo;s already planning to bring the Toronto Marlboros into Edmonton before the end of the regular OHA junior A schedule.&ldquo;I know I can make it work,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All I want is a chance.&rdquo;Edmonton, without a junior league in which to play, is currently in the Alberta Senior Hockey League. They rank second in the four-team group.A torrid race continues in the nine-team junior A league as the schedule reaches the three-quarter mark.Although losing back-to-back games in Oshawa (5-2) and in St. Catharines (5-4) Peterborough Petes retained first place by a three-point margin over Niagara Falls Flyers and the Oshawa Generals.The win by St. Catharines over Peterborough was the first in 14 league games between the two clubs.At the other end of the league, St. Catharines, Kitchener and London continued their battle for the last two playoff spots.St. Catharines split their two games, losing by a goal to Hamilton and winning by a goal over Peterborough.London upset Niagara Falls right in the Falls (5-4) after losing on home ice to the Toronto Marlboros while Kitchener tied Peterborough (3-3) and Montreal Canadiens (4-4) before losing 5-4 to the Marlboros.Only two points separated the lower three clubs.It was the same type of race in the centre of the group, with just two points dividing Hamilton, Montreal and Toronto.Andre Lacroix, brilliant Peterborough centre, only picked up four points during the week but retained his long lead over his closest rival and teammate, Danny Grant.Lacroix has 26 goals and 68 assists for 94 points, a 20-point margin over Grant. Grant leads in actual goals scored with 37 and has the same number of assists.Oshawa defenceman Bobby Orr remained in third position with 73 points on 29 goals and 44 assists while Mickey Redmond of Peterborough is fourth with 70 points on 32 goals and 38 assists.Among the regular goaltenders, Bobby Ring of Niagara Falls had a slight edge over Brian Caley of Peterborough and Ian Young of Oshawa.Ring had a goal against average of 3:15, Caley has 3:16 and Young 3.38. &#9632;

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‘Super’ Junior League May Become Reality

(Including Games of Sun., Jan. 23)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0999/2645385-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="544" height="288"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1085/2645416-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg"></div>SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S ISSUE<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Boston player shown in centre.3. Initials of Montreal&rsquo;s top scorer of last season.5. Second name of 12 down.6. Former Canadien left winger.10. Teams like to have this down the centre.11. Initials of Sutherland of Quebec.13. Initials of a Black Hawk.14. League in which Gus Bodnar now coaches (abbr.)16. Name given Gardner, ex-NHL centre.17. Given name of a Ranger forward.18. 21st & 12th letters of the alphabet.19. Initials of Lewicki, exLeaf.20. Initials of 6 across.21. The man who introduced hockey&rsquo;s red line.24. Number of NHL clubs with which pictured star has played.25. Requisite for canoeing.26. Birthplace of Vern Buffey.29. Given name of pictured player.30. Initials of a Leaf defenseman.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Stanley&rsquo;s initial NHL goal was scored against this netminder.2. In 1946-47 this man took over an NHL post.3. A former AHL coach.4. Goaltenders wear large ones.5. Initials of former player often called &ldquo;Wild Bill.&rdquo;7. Initials of an NHL manager.8. Street (abbr.)9 Initials of a Montreal player.12. One of the Baltimore Clippers.13 Second name of pictured player.15. Exclamation.19. Pictured player&rsquo;s first NHL club (abbr.)20. Name given 6 across.21. Last season &mdash; Hulls played with Chicago.22. Many hockeyists can do this.23. Ken Hodge broke one as a junior.27. Upon.28. Initials of player the Leafs call Kurt.<h2>Last Week&rsquo;s Solution</h2><h3>Across</h3>1. Marotte7. One8. E.E.9. M.S.10. Gendron13. Cain15. Ten16. Chi.17. Nil19. Aug.20. M.D.21. Al.22. D.H.23. Cameras27. E.C.28. None30. Sheik33. Nor34. Iced<h3>Down</h3>1. Moncton2. An3. Reginald4. Ten5. Ted6. Jennings9. M.O.11. E.N.12. Richardson14. A.E.18. Imlach21. Aces24. Eric25. A.N.26. Herb.29. No.31. E.I.32. KE. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<div class="byline">BY PETE HANDLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-03131/2645454-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="290" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Randy Prior</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01232/2645468-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="208" height="180"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02162/2645461-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="218" height="166"></div>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;Through the mid forties a lean. Hawk visaged centre with an uncanny puck hand ling ability bedevilled goaltenders in the National Hockey League, and now, twenty years later, hockey experts feel his son has a good chance to hit the &lsquo;big top&rsquo;.North Bay&rsquo;s Ab DeMarco was credited with almost a point a game during his tenure in the NHL with five teams and &ldquo;The Count&rdquo;, as tlie clever stylist was known, went on to set a number of records in the American Hockey League. His 1-year-old son, Ab Junior, is a member of the defense corps of the North Bay Trappers in the NOHA Junior A League, and in the opinion of hockey prognosticators, he has the best chance of any boy now playing in the city of making the National Hockey League.The six-foot, 155 pound youngster broke into junior A hockey late in the 1965-65 season and soon demonstrated he was able to handle himself with icy effectiveness. No less an authority than Trapper owner Pete Palangio, a former NHL star himself says. &hellip; He&rsquo;s one of the coolest kids under fire I&rsquo;ve ever seen. He takes his man out well, has a good shot and could go all the way.&rdquo; Palangio points out, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s tall enough, he put on ten pounds over the past summer and no doubt will get heavier &hellip; He has three more years of junior hockey ahead of him, and once he&rsquo;s had that experience and added a bit more aggressiveness he should have quite a future in hockey.&rdquo;Father Pat Machan of Scollard Hall, convenor of the District NOSS A Hockey League adds &hellip; &ldquo;He&rsquo;s young, has the good moves and with a bit more weight has a chance to be very good indeed.&rdquo; Larry Lewis, president of the local midget hockey league feels the same way.Young Ab has played all of his hockey in North Bay, moving through the city&rsquo;s excellent minor leagues where he starred in midget interscholastic competition. When Scollard Golden Bears were eliminated in playdowns DeMarco moved up to the Trappers on a tryout basis &mdash; and struck. The midget club has been unbeatable up to that time, but without the young rearguard the team collapsed and was knocked out in the first round of local playoffs. This season he&rsquo;s been with the Trappers since the opening whistle and is improving each time out&rsquo;.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-04100/2645447-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="1042" height="833"><figcaption class="caption-body">Former NHL and AHL star AB DeMARCO gives his son, Ab Jr., a few pointers on how to play the game. Young DeMarco is rated a top prospect for pro hockey.</figcaption></div>The greying Ab senior has mixed emotions about his son&rsquo;s possible future in hockey. &ldquo;If it was a choice between turning pro and getting a hockey scholarship I&rsquo;d hope he would go to university since education is so important&rdquo; he muses. &ldquo;As far as going into professional hockey is concerned, I think if he gets some experience against really good competition, develops a better shot from the point and cultivates a bit more drive, he has a definite chance.Trapper coach Howie Parker, who lost two time defense all star Sheldon Kannegieser and Burly rearguard John Barber to the OHA&rsquo;s Kitchener Rangers, and two other players from last year&rsquo;s team to University via scholarships, feels DeMarco definitely has a chance &hellip; but he is high on the club&rsquo;s clever centre. Marty Reynolds. The bespectacled Reynolds was the league&rsquo;s most valuable player and top pointman last season &mdash; setting or tying five league records &mdash; and he makes moves that leave fans and opposing players with mouths agape. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s as shifty and tricky with a puck as anyone I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo; says Parker and that sentiment is echoed by Palangio. &ldquo;You won&rsquo;t see smarter moves anywhere.&rdquo; remarks the silver thached hockey veteran. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a bit small, and this is his last year of junior hockey but he can do whatever he makes up his mind to do&rdquo;.Another player prominently mentioned is buzz bomb winger Randy Prior who set a scoring record of 63 goals last season and who is by far the fastest skater in the league. He had a hand in five records in the 6465 season. Still another Trapper rated a chance is young Bruce Bothwell who is only 14 and playing his first season in junior A company. &#9632;

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