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February 19, 1966
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Hornets’ Gardner Rated Top Rookie Award Hope
PITTSBURGH. Pa. One down and one to go. That’s what the count is for Pittsburgh Hornet goalie George Gardner. He has tied one shutout mark and is closing in on another one. His 7-0 blanking of the high-scoring Rochester Americans was the 23-year old Gardner’s seventh shutout of the season. This ties him for the team mark in that department. Alfie Moore in 193738 and Baz Bastien, the present Hornet General Manager, in 1946-47 are the co-holders of the record. The league standard of nine shutouts in one campaign is held by Gordie Bell. Bell turned the trick in the 1942-43 season while playing with Buffalo. Gardner took a giant step toward the AHL Rookie of the Year award when he whitewashed Rochester. It marked the first time all season, a stretch of 46 games,…
Barons’ Winning Surge Recalls Club’s Calder Cup Glory Days
CLEVELAND. Ohio. — In many respects the recent winning surge by the Cleveland Barons that has carried them, at this writing, to five straight victories and eight wins in their last nine games, is reminiscent of the spurt that took them through to the Calder Cup championship in 1963-64. It has been marked by an all-out drive on the part of the entire team, stout defense with the accent on terrific goaltending by Les Binkley, intense spirit engendered by Coach Fred Glover, production by all three forward lines — and Joe Szura. Szura is a part of all the other good things that have been happening to the Barons but he has been a little more than that. He has, in fact, been like the Szura that paced the Barons to their nine…
Bears’ Pivot Mike Nykoluk Overdue For Berth On League All-Star Team
HERSHEY, Pa. One of these years the press, radio and TV crowd in the American Hockey League will give Mike Nykoluk his long overdue justice — a spot on the circuit’s all-star team. But let’s hope the Fourth Estate cuts the hard-working Hershey Bears’ centre a break while he can still smell the roses. What must a man do to earn an all-star berth? In Nykoluk’s case it’s been a traversty of justice. Examine the 30-year-old pivotman’s credentials or as Al Smith used to say, “Let’s look at the record, fellows.” In three years, counting this campaign, the Toronto native has centered for just about everyone except the ice making machine operator. Two years ago, the Bears’ captain finished as the club’s top scorer with 72 points on nine goals and 63 assists; last year he…
Boucher’s Advice To Blues, Get A Few ‘Henri Richards’
NEW YORK, N. Y. The Ranger royalty, which once ruled hockey’s domain on Garden ice, convened at Toots Shore’s. There was Frank Boucher, Bill Cook, Murray Murdoch, Neil Colville, and Phil Watson, all of whom drank champagne out of the Stanley Cup. They had come with more than 300 hockey men to honor Jack Adams, first recipient of the Lester Patrick Trophy. Some of them had viewed last Sunday night’s Ranger-Montreal game which Rangers lost, 4-0, and must have felt depressed over the battered Blues. Some 25 years have gone by since the Rangers last won the Stanley Cup. Boucher coached that club (1939-40) and was the architect ot the last successful Ranger system that produced the Bathgates, Fontinatos, Worsleys and Guildolins. “If the present club had three stand-out players like Henri Richard, Jean…
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