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Hornets’ Gardner Rated Top Rookie Award Hope

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,…

February 19, 1966

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