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April 9, 1966

The Hockey News April 9, 1966

The editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS have selected a letter submitted to the FAN FORUM by Miss Thelma Hardacker of Truro, N.S., as the best fan letter for the month of March.Miss Hardacker, who wrote that &ldquo;Goalies Own Average Should Decide Vezina Trophy,&rdquo; will receive a free one years&rsquo; subscription to HOCKEY PICTORIAL, the world&rsquo;s official hockey magazine, with our good wishes.The Editors,HOCKEY NEWS &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Maritime Reader Wins Fan Award

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02570/2455921-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="481" height="649"></div>Not so long ago every time one opened a newspaper Maurice Richard&rsquo;s name was making headlines. He&rsquo;s been absent from the NHL for only a few seasons so the following ten questions should let you know whether or not you have a retentive memory.(1) The Rocket was a deadly marksman often credited with being the best ever from the blueline in. His position was:a. Left wing.b. Centre.c. Right wing.(2) As a flamboyant performer Maurice was the pride of French Canada, especially when he was scoring goals in the Forum. He was born in:a. Lachine, Quebec.b. Montreal, Quebec.c. Ottawa, Ontario.(3) He was the first NHL player to accomplish which of the fallowing:a. Score 50 goals in one season.b. Win the Norris Trophy.c. Set a record for penalties.(4) Good as he was, the Rocket failed to do one important thing and that was:a. Help win a Stanley Cup.b. Set a playoff scoring record.c. Win the NHL scoring championship.(5) This colorful player was a member of which outstanding forward line?a. The Kraut Line.b. The Punch Line.c. The Kid Line.(6) The Rocket retired from NHL competition in the season of:a. 1959-60.b. 1957-58.c. 1961-62.(7) In his illustrious career Richard only won one individual trophy. It was:a. The Lady Byng Trophy.b. The Art Ross Trophy.c. The Hart Trophy.(8) The Rocket&rsquo;s goal scoring prowess dominated the sports pages and the minds of All-Star team selectors. The number of times he made the first All-Star squad was:a. 10b. 6c. 9(9) This famed forward turned pro with the Montreal Canadiens in the season of:a. 1942-43.b. 1944-45.c. 1940-41.(10 Lots of men influenced him during his long career, but his first NHL coach was:a. Tommy Gorman.b. Dick Irvin.c. Frank Selke.<h2>HOCKEY QUIZ SOLUTION</h2>(1) C.(2) B.(3) A.(4) C.(5) B.(6 A.(7) C.(8) C.(9) A.(10) B.<h2>HOCKEY QUIZ SOLUTION</h2>(1) C.(2) B.(3) A.(4) C.(5) B.(6 A.(7) C.(8) C.(9) A.(10) B. &#9632;

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HOCKEY QUIZ

<div class="byline">BY DONNA ODEAN</div>SPOKANE, Wash.The Spokane Jets captured the Western International Hockey League championship title this month at the finish of the regular playing season that showed hockey fans throughout the league plenty of tough and strongly competitive action.In the 1965-66 season, the W.I.H.L. roster was composed of six teams, five from British Columbia and one American team. The teams, in the order of their standing at the end of the season, were &mdash; the Spokane Jets, Nelson Maple Leafs, Kimberley Dynamiters, Rossland Warriors, Trail Smoke Eaters and the Cranbrook Royals.In the semi-final playoffs that followed, first-place Spokane faced the fourth-place Rossland team and second-place Nelson battled Kimberley, who had come in third. In this best-of-seven series, Spokane defeated Rossland four games to one and Kimberley beat Nelson, four games to two.With the semi-finals over, interest is now focused on the outcome of the best-of-seven game competition being waged for the Dinah Shore-George Montgomery Trophy and the British Columbia Savage Cup.The final playoffs between Spokane and Kimberley will decide who will bring home the coveted B.C. championship &mdash; the title that will help the winner take the first, big step in the direction of the Allan Cup, the trophy emblematic of the senior amateur hockey championship of Canada. &#9632;

Spokane Win Capped Big WIHL Year

1965-66 SEASONFinal Standings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02572/2456170-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="570" height="189"></div>1964-65 SEASONFinal Standings<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03487/2456163-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="570" height="185"></div>GAMES COMPLETEDTues., Mar. 29Boston 2 at Chicago 4Wed., Mar. 30Montreal 3 at Toronto 1Thurs., Mar. 31New York 3 at Detroit 5Toronto 1 at Boston 3Sat., Apr. 2Chicago 3 at Montreal 8New York 3 at Toronto 3Sun., Apr. 3Montreal 4 at New York 1Chicago 2 at Boston 4Toronto 3 at Detroit 3 &#9632;

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How They Stand

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01129/2457863-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Montreal Canadiens have wrapped up their eighth league championship in the last 11 years and the man who played a major role in their victory this season was netminder LORNE WORSLEY. The Montreal goalie, who had been a chronic loser in the NHL&rsquo;s Vezina Trophy race during his 12-year big league career, finally realized his life ambition when he and Charlie Hodge captured the coveted goalkeeping award this season. For Worsley, the long wait has ended.</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The National Hockey League will get nation wide television coverage both in Canada and the United States this year as the result of an announcement by NBC that it will telecast up to five Sunday afternoon Stanley Cup playoff games.This will be the first time a U.S. network has telecast playoff games of the NHL and it will mark a milestone for the league in as much it will be the first afternoon playoff games in the history of the NHL.It will also mean that Toronto and Montreal, predominately a Saturday night hockey attraction, will be seen on Sunday afternoon television, also a first for the NHL.The first two nationally televised Stanley Cup playoff games will be beamed out of Chicago on Sunday April 10 and 17. Both will be afternoon contests.Technical problems still have to be worked out to allow for color television of the playoff games. Other dates reserved for NBC TV are April 24 and May 1 and 8, providing the playoffs run that long. &#9632;

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Afternoon Playoffs NHL First

MONTREAL, Que.The characters are the same and the plot is unchanged. Only the time will be different as the 1966 Stanley Cup playoff show stages a &lsquo;replay&rsquo; of last year&rsquo;s semi-final playoff series.It will be the same four teams meeting in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and if the experts are right, the result could be conceivably be unchanged from last spring.The Montreal Canadiens, as NHL league champions, square off against third-place Toronto just as they did one year ago. Chicago Black Hawks, as second-place finishers, clash with fourthplace Detroit, again the same setup as last season.Last year, the Canadiens toppled the Maple Leafs and the Hawks disposed of the Red Wings. Hockey men figure it will likely happen that way again this year.Off this past season&rsquo;s performance against one another, the Leafs should be favored to beat Montreal. They own a 7-5-2 record with the Habs but the Canadiens are the power club in the NHL this season!Chicago should only have to skate on the ice to dispose of the Red Wings. Over the regular season, the Hawks merely toyed with the Wings winning 11 times and tieing twice in 14 starts. &#9632;

Same Lineup Faces Teams As In 1965

Following are the latest player movements in hockey:<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>BOSTON&mdash;Gary Dornhoefer, forward, recalled from Hershey of AHL. Wayne Rivers, forward, sent back to Hershey.NEW YORK&mdash;Al Lebrun, defenseman, returned to Minnesota of CPHL. Larry Mickey, forward, recalled from Minnesota.DETROIT &mdash; Jimmy Peters, and Doug Roberts, forwords, recalled from Memphis of CP HL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Dave Lucas, defenseman, called up from; Johnstown of EHL.BALTIMORE&mdash;Andy Brown, goalkeeper, recalled from: Johnstown of EHL.PROVIDENCE&mdash;Eddie Burr, defenseman, called up from Knoxville of EHL. Brian Perry forward, recalled from New Haven of EHL.HERSHEY&mdash;Ted Snell, forward, called up from Niagara Falls of Junior OHA for pro tryout.ROCHESTER&mdash;Darryl Edestrand, defenseman, called up from London of Junior OHA land signed to pro contract.<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Larry Holmes, goalkeeper, and Paul Trebenche, forward, called up from &lsquo;St. Catharines of Junior OHA Ifor pro tryout.MEMPHIS&mdash;Jim Eagle, defenseman, called up from Edmonton Oil Kings of Alberta Junior League for pro tryout. Nick Lebitt, Sandy Snow and Gary Marsh, forwards, called lup from Hamilton of Junior tOHA for pro tryouts. &#9632;

Movement Of Players

<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;One of the most persistent rumors in the Toronto hockey world, and indeed everywhere in the National Hockey League, is that Punch Imlach won&rsquo;t last much longer as coach and general manager of the Maple Leafs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01576/2455352-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="280" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div>Imlach has one more year &mdash; the 1966-67 season &mdash; to go in his contract.Two things combined to produce this whisper. One was the obvious friction between Imlach and various members of the Leaf executive back last fall when the team was going badly. The other was the admission of six new teams into the NHL club. Imlach is an obvious choice to help form one of these clubs, especially if he&rsquo;s no longer content in Toronto. Those new outfits will begin operations in the 1967-68 season; Imlach could be free then.Imlach refuses to comment beyond saying that if the price were right he&rsquo;d have to consider any offer. He insists that his mind is completely occupied with current business, which is getting Leafs as high as possible in the NHL standings, then winning the Stanley Cup, if possible.But when the team was in a serious slump last fall, there was a subtle front office campaign to undermine Imlach. He stopped it himself by getting the club back on the rails. But this was a clear indication the organization is willing to let him go, even though he&rsquo;s won the Cup three times since moving to Toronto in 1958.And any new owner who studies the hockey situation can&rsquo;t help but notice the reconstruction job Imlach has done on the Leaf farm system which had dwindled to almost nothing in 1958. That&rsquo;s the kind of building project than one of the new entries will have to carry on.As of now, however, the whole thing is strictly a rumor without conformation.Meanwhile, Imlach isn&rsquo;t the only NHL coach whose future is clouded. The Boston Bruins are reportedly considering move in Milt Schmidt into a frontoffice assignment and bringing in a new coach.Despite the fact the Bruins escaped the NHL cellar this season for the first time since 1961, Schmidt&rsquo;s future as a coach seems near its conclusion.The Boston wolf pack, which has driven many a good performer from the Garden Ice, is howling again and Invariably it means someone has to go. The betting is that it won&rsquo;t be general manager Hap Emms. &#9632;

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Will Imlach Move Into NHL Expansion? Rumors Persist Leafs, Punch To Part

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HOCKEY’S TOP SCORERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02551/2455428-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"></div>OVERALL WON AND LOST RECORDS THIS SEASONHOME GAMES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03473/2455421-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="758" height="283"></div>AWAY GAMES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04349/2455414-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="332" height="267"></div> &#9632;

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How NHL Teams Compare

<div class="byline">BY BOB HARRIS</div>MONTREAL. Que.Hockey fans showed a certain amount of sentiment in picking this year&rsquo;s 19th annual HOCKEY NEWS allstar teams.They brought back two of the old favorites &mdash; Goalie Glenn Hall and right wing Gordie Howe &mdash; after an absence of one year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01576/2455494-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="278" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Brit Selby</figcaption></div>Results of the annual poll conducted among the fans showed that of the six players named to the first all-star team, three were repeaters and three are new but still old faces in picking the NHL&rsquo;s best performers of the year.Returning from last year&rsquo;s team were defense pair Pierre Pilote of Chicago and Montreal&rsquo;s Jacques Laperriere along with Black Hawks&rsquo; left wing Bobby Hull, who also came up with the most valuable player award for a second successive year.Making the first all-star team as &lsquo;new faces&rsquo; were Stan Mikita of the Hawks, who was on the second team last year and moved up this season, Hall in goal and Howe at right wing.Picked on the second team by the fans were Lorne Worsley of Montreal, goal, Pat Stapleton of Chicago and Allan Stanley of Toronto, defense; Detroit&rsquo;s Norm Ullman, centre, and Bobby Rousseau, also of Montreal, right wing and Frank Mahovlich of the Leafs, left wing.For Worsley, Stapleton and Rousseau, it was their first allstar appearance in the fans&rsquo; poll although Stanley had been named in previous years. Ullman was on the first team last year and slipped back while Mahovlich was a second-team repeater.Individual fan poll awards went to Hull as most valuable player and Toronto&rsquo;s Brit Selby as the outstanding rookie of the year. Selby won over Detroit&rsquo;s Bert Marshall and Gilles Marotte of Boston, who were both close behind the Leafs&rsquo; freshman star.Missing from last year&rsquo;s allstar teams were such illustrious hockey names as Roger Crozier, Claude Provost, Charlie Hodge, Ted Green, Tim Horton and Rod Gilbert.Hull, who was the runaway winner of the MVP selection, also had the distinction of compiling the most points from the fans&rsquo; ballots receiving a record 18.338. a total of 426 more than Crozier, who Set the points pact in last year&rsquo;s poll with 18,412.The blond Black Hawks star almost doubled the number of points Mahovlich received for the second-team left wing berth. Mahovlich collected 10,034 points.Laperriere was second highest point getter with 16,623 to beat out Pilote, who had 13,342, Stanley, who had 11,135 and Stapleton, who received 11,133.Howe ran up 14,453 points to Rousseau&rsquo;s 11,152 for the right wing berth while Mikita edged Ullman in the closest voting for the six all-star positions. Mikita had 13,354 points to Ullman&rsquo;s 12,262.Hall just got down in front of Worsley for the netminding job with 14,429 points to the Montrealer&rsquo;s 12.237.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03309/2455487-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="344" height="406"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04187/2455480-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="472" height="547"><figcaption class="caption-body">GLENN HALL Chicago &hellip; Goal</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05118/2455473-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="478" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES LAPERRIERE Montreal&hellip; Defense</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0678/2455466-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="469" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body">PIERRE PILOTE Chicago &hellip; Defense</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0754/2455459-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="442" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE Detroit&hellip; R. Wing</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Hall, Howe Return To ‘Dream’ Teams, Hull Named MVP, Selby Best Rookie

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02465/2455525-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">STAN MIKITA Chicago &hellip; CentreBOBBY HULL Chicago &hellip; L. Wing</figcaption></div><h2>FIRST ALL-STAR TEAM</h2>Goal &mdash; GLENN HALL, Chicago Black Hawks*Defense&mdash;PIERRE PILOTE, Chicago Black Hawks*Defense&mdash;JACQUES LAPERRIERE, Montreal Canadiens*Center&mdash;STAN MIKITA, Chicago Black HawksR. Wing&mdash;GORDIE HOWE, Detroit Red Wings*L. Wing&mdash;BOBBY HULL, Chicago Black Hawks<h2>SECOND ALL-STAR TEAM</h2>Goal&mdash;LORNE WORSLEY, Montreal CanadiensDefense&mdash;PAT STAPLETON. Chicago Black HawksDefense&mdash;ALLAN STANLEY, Toronto Maple Leafs*Center&mdash;NORM ULLMAN, Detroit Red WingsR. Wing&mdash;BOBBY ROUSSEAU, Montreal Canadiens*L. Wing&mdash;FRANK MAHOVLICH, Toronto Maple LeafsMOST VALUABLE PLAYERBOBBY HULL, Chicago Black HawksOUTSTANDING ROOKIEBRIT SELBY, Toronto Maple Leafs(*&mdash;Repeaters From Last Year&rsquo;s Teams) &#9632;

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How Fans Picked Them

<h2>SERIES &lsquo;A&rsquo;</h2>Toronto vs. Montreal(Best of seven)Thursday, April 7, Toronto at Montreal, 8 p.m. EST.Saturday, April 9, Toronto at Montreal, 8 p.m. EST.Tuesday, April 12, Montreal at Toronto, 8 p.m. EST.Thursday, April 14, Montreal at Toronto, 8 p.m. EST.Saturday, April 16, Toronto at Montreal, 8 p.m. EST. (if necessary).Tuesday, April 19, Montreal at Toronto, 8 p.m. EST. (if necessary).Thursday, April 21, Toronto at Montreal, 8 p.m. EST (if necessary).<h2>SERIES &lsquo;B&rsquo;</h2>Detroit vs. Chicago(Best of seven)Thursday, April 7, Detroit at Chicago, 8.30 p.m. EST.Sunday, April 10, Detroit at Chicago, 2.30 p.m. EST.Tuesday, April 12, Chicago at Detroit, 8 p.m. EST.Thursday, April 14, Chicago at Detroit, 8 p.m. EST.Sunday, April 17, Detroit at Chicago, 2.30 p.m. EST. (if necessary).Tuesday, April 19, Chicago at Detroit, 8 p.m. EST. (if necessary).Thursday, April 21, Detroit at Chicago, 8.30 p.m. EST. (if necessary). &#9632;

STANLEY CUP DATES

<h2>MONTREAL</h2>REGULARSGoalCharlie HodgeGump WorsleyDefenseJ. C. TremblayJacques LaperriereTerry HarperJean-Guy TalbotNoel PriceTed HarrisForwardsRalph BackstromJohn FergusonClaude LaroseJean BeliveauHenri RichardClaude ProvostDick DuffBobby RousseauJim RobertsYvan CournoyerGilles TremblayDave BalonSTANDBYSGoalGary BaumanDefenseJean GauthierNoel PicardDon JohnsSerge SavardForwardsRed BerensonNorm DennisKeith McCrearyLeon RochefortJoe SzuraAndre BoudriasBilly InglisGord LaBossiere<h2>CHICAGO</h2>REGULARSGoalGlenn HallDave DrydenDefensePierre PiloteElmer VaskoAl MacNeilDoug JarrettMatt RavlichPat StapletonForwardsDoug MohnsBobby HullStan IVIikitaFred StanfieldLou AngottiChico MakiPhil EspositoKen HodgeBill HayKenny WharramEric NesterenkoSTANDBYSGoalDenis DeJordyDefenseTracy PrattJohn MiszukEd Van ImpeForwardsAlain CaronOscar GaudetLen LundeJerry MelnykJack StanfieldArt StrattonDennis HullDick MeissnerDick RichardsonCamille Henry<h3>TORONTO</h3>REGULARSGoalJohnny BowerTerry SawchukBruce GambleDefenseBobby BaunTim HortonLarry HillmanAllan StanleyKent DouglasMarcel PronovostForwardsWally BoyerDave KeonRed KellyFrank MahovlichOrland KurtenbachEddie ShackGeorge ArmstrongPeter StemkowskiRon EllisBob PulfordBrit SelbySTANDBYSGoalNone.DefenseAl ArbourMarc ReaumeDuane RuppForwardsEddie JoyalDick GambleGerry EhmanNick HarbarukLarry JeffreyAndy HebentonJim PappinMike Walton<h3>DETROIT</h3>REGULARSGoalRoger CrozierHank BassenDefenseBill GadsbyBert MarshallGary BergmanBryan WatsonPete GoeganLeo BoivinForwardsGordie HoweNorm UllmanAlex DelvecchioAndy BathgateDean PrenticeParker MacDonaldPaul HendersonBruce MacGregorVel FonteyneFloyd SmithSTANDBYSGoalGeorge GardnerDefensePat QuinnWarren GodfreyIrv SpencerBob McCordBob WallForwardsDoug RobertsAb McDonaldMurray HallJimmy PetersTerry GrayBryan CampbellMax MestinsekBilly Harris &#9632;

Stanley Cup Playoff Eligibles

<div class="byline">BY GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The coach of the Montreal Canadiens is considering a switch of centres, as his team heads into the semi final playoff round.What Blake has in mind is a move that would reunite Henri Richard with wingers Bobby Rousseau and Dick Duff, while Ralph Backstrom would go back to pivoting John Ferguson and Claude Larose, or possibly Ferguson and Jim Roberts. The line of Jean Beliveau-Claude Provost and Gilles Tremblay figures to remain intact.If Toe puts the Pocket Rocket back between Rousseau and Duff, he&rsquo;ll be realigning a combination that was together for much of the past campaign. It was broken up late last month when a rash of injuries struck the Canadiens in a home and home series against the Boston Bruins. The first to get hurt was Backstrom, who twisted his knee when he locked skates with Boston defenceman Al Langlois. He left the game and was replaced by Jim Roberts late in the first period of a Saturday night encounter in Montreal. Normally, Backstrom would&rsquo;ve remained out of action for the balance of the game, but his injury was quickly followed by one to Henri Richard. As a result, Backstrom returned to action and centered a combination of Rousseau and Duff. The move paid off in spectacular fashion when Backstrom scored two goals and set up another by Rousseau as Canadiens won the contest. The next night in Boston, Backstrom and Rousseau scored two of Canadiens three goals in a 3-1 victory.It was by no means the first time that a &ldquo;new line&rdquo; has made it big in the scoring columns. One of the peculiarities of hockey is the fact that a hastily-formed trio can often produce an instant scoring punch. This defies logic, in a way, for you&rsquo;d think that a line would be ineffective until players get used to each other. Instead, the very reverse is true, for a newly-formed trio often clicks at the start and then flattens out later. Says Toe Blake: &ldquo;I remember once when I was playing on the Punch Line and got hurt. Ray Getliffe took my place alongside the Rocket and Elmer Lach. Nobody knew just what to expect, but Getliffe went out and scored five goals in the space of a couple of games. Then the line went flat. You just can&rsquo;t find an explanation for these things &hellip;they just happen that way.&rdquo;Actually, Blake has plenty of material to choose from in his quest to put together high-scoring combinations. His three centres, Beliveau, Richard and Backstrom all finished the season with more than 20 goals apiece. Winger Bobby Rousseau hit the 30-goal plateau for the first time in his NHL career. Gilles Tremblay, Dick Duff and Claude Provost all did well, especially Tremblay who regained his confidence and his scoring touch this season. &#9632;

Canadiens May Reunite Pocket Rocket With Old Linemates For Cup Playoffs

NEW YORK, N.Y.Captain Bob Nevin has received the West Side Association of Commerce&rsquo;s Most Valuable Ranger Award. But that&rsquo;s not the only honor the industrious right wing will receive.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01596/2455635-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="272" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Marshall</figcaption></div>Nevin won&rsquo;t get any trophy for it but he&rsquo;ll have the satisfaction of knowing lie&rsquo;s the only Ranger immune from that great, great &ldquo;Guillotine Day.&rdquo; The head-cutting affair is sure to arrive soon after the playoffs when the Blues initiate a mass trade campaign for a contender.A month ago Ranger GM-coach Emile Francis listed Nevin, Vic Hadfield, Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelie as his &ldquo;untouchables.&rdquo; Now, however, with the Rangers breaking their all-time loss record (41) all but Nevin must be removed from the list.With two losses and only a tie in their last three games &mdash; the Blues further disgraced themselves by finishing with less points than they achieved (52) during the last dismal season. They ended with 47 in last place.That, in part, explains why none of the present Rangers, but Nevin can claim immunity from the shake-up, especially such members of the (ahem) &ldquo;New Look&rdquo; Blues as Arnie Brown, Doug Robinson. Garry Peters, Bill Hicke and Ed Giacomin.Superficially at least it would appear some will be spared. One might think Wayne Hillman and Don Marshall, co-winners of the Players&rsquo; Player Award, might have an &ldquo;in&rdquo; but realities dictate another policy.But Marshall, with 26 goals, 28 assists and 54 points for the highest by-far total in his life, is prime trade material and at his age (34) it may never happen again.Of course there are Rangers who would give their right arms to be traded, guys who don&rsquo;t know what it&rsquo;s like to feel playoff money. Defenseman Neilson, who earlier this season, sounded less than enthusiastic, has played four full NHL years without the thrill of a single playoff game. In five backbreaking campaigns Vic Hadfield, a prime trade prospect, enjoyed one brief playoff series.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02550/2455628-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="2230" height="1129"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rangers captain BOB NEVIN takes time off from the ice wars to exchange greetings with two of the team&rsquo;s most loyal hockey fans, PAUL GARDELLA, left, and SY ADELSON. The two have been watching Rangers perform for the past 13 years without missing a game.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Nevin Listed As Lone Ranger ‘Untouchable’

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;After sitting behind the press box for 13 consecutive seasons, Ranger fans Sy Adelson of Forest Hills and Paul Gardella of The Bronx recently moved down a row and accompanied the working press during a 2-1 Blue loss to the Red Wings.Rather than bore you with the hoary bromides of the Ranger room, we thout it would be refreshing to have a couple of fans analyze the Blues. Adelson, a man&rsquo;s clothing buyer, and Gardella, a senior court officer in State Supreme Court, have several creative ideas.&ldquo;If I was manager,&rdquo; says 37-year-old Gardella, &ldquo;the first thing I&rsquo;d do is burn the Ranger blue uniforms. A whole generation of kids have grown up thinking these uniforms mean lose. I&rsquo;d come out with green uniforms and a new name. Maybe that&rsquo;ll start a winning tradition.&rdquo;Neither Gardella nor Adelson had any expectations the Rangers would win.&ldquo;This team has some born lasers,&rdquo; Adelson says. &ldquo;You listen to other benches, you hear rah-rah and an &lsquo;esprit de corps&rsquo;. The Ranger bench is dead.&rdquo;Actually, the Rangers had a good chance to win. They took a 1-0 lead on Jim Neilson&rsquo;s first period goal and were playing against a Detroit team armed With only one formidable defenseman and second-string goalie, Hank Bassen who often nearly knocked the puck into his own cage.&ldquo;Naturally,&rdquo; notes Gardella, &ldquo;it takes real talent to blow a game like this, but the Rangers have that talent.&rdquo;Gordie Howe, whom Gardella labels &ldquo;The Divinity,&rdquo; set up Bob Wall&rsquo;s tying goal in the second period and Gordie scored the winner at 7:27 of the third, the puck deflecting off his leg.&ldquo;This game is like a script to us,&rdquo; comments Gardella, who is several degrees more cyical than his buddy. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve seen this game played 77 times. If the Rangers just keep up the good work, they just might finish last.&rdquo;Both observers spoke kindly about Bob Nevin, Don Marshall, Jean Ratelle, Vic Hadfield, Reg Fleming, Cesare Maniago, Harry Howell, Jim Neilson and Bab Plager.&ldquo;But,&rdquo; Adelson points out, &ldquo;the club is lacking a leader like a Howe or a Hull or a Stan Mikita.&rdquo;&ldquo;Y&rsquo;now, Sy, this club has made you a conditioned loser.&rdquo;What&rsquo;s wrong with the Rangers? Plenty, they say, from the distant practice arena to lack of two centres and a good defenseman to too many passes.&ldquo;It started with the previous administration,&rdquo; says Gardella. &ldquo;Emil Francis has done a lot with nothing. If Bill Jennings (Rangers&rsquo; President) leaves him alone we&rsquo;ll be okay.&rdquo;Ranger fans are like old Brooklyn Dodger fans. They wait for next year; a next year that never comes.&ldquo;The future?&rdquo; says Adelson, mulling over a question. &ldquo;I can see improvement &mdash; but no hope.&rdquo;Who can blame them?On the other hand, despite the critics, both are loyal fans.&ldquo;The last game I missed was on December 31, 1952,&rdquo; Gardella recalls.&ldquo;I missed a game this season because my nephew was going to be Bar Mitzvahed,&rdquo; adds Adelson.The two men occupy Section 204, Row A Seat 8-9 on the mezzanine, a row that is immediately above the press box section usually peopled by the out-of-town hockey writers.Because of the affability and keen knowledge of hockey, writers and officials have become confidantes of the two. It&rsquo;s not unusual when the Maple Leafs are at the Garden, to see Toronto&rsquo;s Assistant General Manager King Clancy huddling with Gardella and Adelson.Has the chronic Ranger inaptitude caused them to consider giving up their season tickets?&ldquo;Not a chance,&rdquo; says Adelson speaking for the two. &ldquo;As desperate as we are for a winner, we&rsquo;ll never consider giving up. We love the game too much.&rdquo;Gardella is one of the funnyiest men in or out of any press box. He sponstaneously nicknames Rangers after popular characters and other known personalities. &ldquo;I call Jim Neilson &ldquo;Nanook of the North&rdquo; and Wayne Hillman &ldquo;Dudley Do Right.&rdquo;The boys have their regrets.&ldquo;The trade that hurt me the most was Don McKenney for Dean Prentice,&rdquo; says Adelson. &ldquo;They gave up a good two-way left wing for a one-way left wing.&rdquo; &#9632;

Garden Duo Agrees Blues Need ‘A Leader’ On Ice

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01666/2455690-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1st, 1947Published weekly except monthly May throuxh September by Ken-WHI Publishing: Co. Ltd.1434 St. Catherine Street West,Montreal 25. Que.Kenneth William McKenzie, Will V Cote.President and Publisher Vice-Pres. and Gen MgrYearly Subscription Rates: $4.60 in Canada and the British Commonwealth $5.00 in the U.S.A, and $1.00 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 cashPrinted In Canada.Vol. 19 MONTREAL, APRIL 9, 1966 No. 26<h2>Oakland Better Suited For NHL Team Says Fan</h2>Hockey News Editor:One can sympathize with reader Bitties&rsquo; (Fan Forum, March 12, 1966) chagrin at the forthcoming move of our San Francisco Seals from their present Daly City home to the new Oakland site. But after the initial disappointment has subsided, the outlook is really not so grim.For many San Franciscans, the trip to the Oakland rink may be made in less time than to the Cow Palace rink. Furthermore, the Oakland rink is reached by freeway and will have adequate public transportation to the door, which is not the case for the Cow Palace.By locating the Seals in Oakland, nearer the population center of the area, the rink will be readily accessible to more fans than is presently the case. Added to this fact we must recognize that the Cow Palace is not of major league caliber. Moreover, there are no plans for a new i auditorium in San Francisco that would be suitable for hockey. As a result, the decision to play in Oakland was clear-cut and logical.Finally, I cannot agree with Mr. Bitties provincial attitude that the Seals somehow exclusively belong to San Francisco. The support given the Seals in the past, present, and future is from the Northern California area at large. We attend eight to ten games each year, frequently bringing four to ten fans with us. We drive over 100 miles round trip to the games, but many fans attend from even greater distances. Hockey is too grand a sport to belong to any one city, hockey belongs to all who enjoy it.Joseph Wujek, Jr.Livermore. Calif.<h2>Predicts Boston Bruins Will Be Team Of Future</h2>Hockey News Editor:I want to make a prediction for the near future. Next year (and no chuckles) the Boston Bruins are going to finally shake up the final standings of the last three clubs and that&rsquo;s not all. within two years the Bruins are going to be the team to beat.I base this wild prediction on two rookies by the names of Gilles Marotte and Bobby Orr. Marotte has already proved himself worthy to do battle in the N.H.L. and within two years he should be an All-Star. Bobby Orr the only unanimous All-Star selection, in his last year of the O.H.A. will fit very nicely in the Bruins comeback. That&rsquo;s not all, the Bruins farm system is finally coming into its own. The whole second All-Star line consisted of future Bruins. Not bad for a last place club. Well time will tell.Jack CollinsReading, Mass. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02538/2455773-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="409" height="424"></div>&bull;THE WORD is out that Milt Schmidt will not be back as coach of the Boston Bruins next season. Hap Emms, general manager of the Bruins, has been talking to several candidates for the job and an announcement on next year&rsquo;s coach will be announced shortly &hellip; Schmidt hopes to remain with the Boston&rsquo;s organization in a front office capacity &hellip; Hap Emms moved the Bruins out of the cellar in his first year on the job. Last time the Bruins vacated last place in 1959-60 &hellip; Stan Mikita and his Jill became parents (for the second time when Mrs. M. gave birth to a baby boy last week &hellip; Glenn Hall&rsquo;s wife broke her arm the other day in a house accident &hellip; Boston defenseman Teddy Green will undergo an exhaustive examination on his injured knee at the Mayo Clinic this week &hellip; Rudy Pilous is said to have turned down a $30,000 per year contract as general manager-coach of the California Seals i the San Francisco-Oakland entry) &hellip; Pilous would be lucky to earn one third of that amount coaching a junior team in Canada &hellip; A famed concession company is weighing offers to sell to a nationally-known organization listed on the Stock Exchange &hellip; Punch Imilach chewed out Goalie Johnny Bower after he allowed three Montreal goals in a key game last week which had a lot to do in deciding the final positions of the NHL race &hellip; All three goals came in the third period which gave Canadiens a 3-1 win &hellip; Marv Albert, sports director of Station WHN, New York, has an excellent story in the April-May issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL titled: &ldquo;Are Those &lsquo;Back-Up&rsquo; Goalies Really Frustrated?&rdquo; &hellip; Vern Buffey, top NHL referee, is also profiled in this issue of the PICTORIAL: &ldquo;Fans Just Can&rsquo;t Buffet Buffey&rdquo; &hellip; George Kenesky of Hamilton, the 88-year-old gentleman who makes pads for all of the NHL goalkeepers I makes some very interesting observations in a story in this same issue.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03411/2455766-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="262" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Green</figcaption></div>&bull;ANY ONE building a hew hockey arena and in the market for the finest in sport timing equipment should contact Devenish Display Products of Cooksville, Ont., maker of the famous Rotomatic Sportstimer &hellip; Not much chance of Kenny Reardon catching on as a general manager of a National League club. He is trying to buy into a business in Montreal &hellip; The Rangers Fan Club voted Harry Howell the most popular Ranger and presented him with a trophy at the annual dinner - dance last month &hellip; Matt Pavelich, veteran NHL linesman, became a father for the first time recently. Matt met his wife on a holiday trip to Yugoslavia a few years ago &hellip; This will be the sixth summer that Milt Schmidt has acted as Head Coach at the Byrnell Manor Boys&rsquo; Camp, a resident summer hockey school &hellip; Quote from Sid Abel: &ldquo;In our last few games the club is coming back and playing good hockey. Barring injuries we should give a good account of ourselves in the playoffs.&rdquo; &hellip; When Hap Emms pulled Gilles Marotte up from the Niagara Falls Juniors to Boston it cost him in the vicinity of $20,000 personally &hellip; The Niagara Falls team was drawing very well when Marotte was in the lineup but after he left the club showed a shrinkage at the gate of $20,000 and Emms owns the team &hellip; Note to A. L. K., Brooklyn; No, Sammy Pollock of Canadiens is not Jewish. He is a Scottish Presbyterian &hellip; Scotty Morrison has done an excellent job in his first year as NHL referee in chief &hellip; Hockey fans wishing to get all the information on the Stanley Cup, its background, records, outstanding winners through the years, along with some of the finest hockey pictures ever taken appear in The Stanley Cup Issue of HOCKEY WORLD.&hellip; Buy a copy on your newsstand or order one through us &hellip; The names of all of the players on these Stanley Cup winning teams appear as a special bonus &hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04292/2455759-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="274" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hap Emms</figcaption></div>&bull;FRANK MAHOVLICH was one of the most productive players in the NHL during the second half of the schedule. In fact the talented left winger of the Maple Leafs has seldom played better. &ldquo;I feel good. Much stronger than I did at this time last year. I&rsquo;m really looking forward to the playoffs,&rdquo; stated the Big M during the final week of the schedule &hellip; Jacques Beauchamp, sports editor of Montreal Matin, has missed but five Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; games in the last 17 years. He makes every road trip with Canadiens &hellip; John Halligan. New York Rangers publicity director, advises that two of the Rangers have most unusual summer occupations. Bob Plager is a beer taster (Halligan swears it) at Kapus-kasing, Ont&mdash;While Garry Peters is a janitor at the Regina City Jail &hellip; All Detroit Red Wings home games will be telecast into the State Fairgrounds Coliseum via closed-circuit television during the 1966 Stanley Cup playoffs. It will allow an estimated 6,000 extra fans an opportunity to see the game since the Olympia is sold out and only standing room tickets remain &hellip; Ted Lindsay, 14-season star with the Red Wings, will handle the color for the telecasts while Barry DeChant of WKBD-TV will do the play by play &hellip; There will be no home television of Red Wing games during the playoffs but road games will be carried by WKBD-TV, Channel 50 in Detroit &hellip; Dusty Graham is a key man for Canada in two sports. He&rsquo;s an international hockey referee and an accredited figure skater &hellip; President Tito of Yugoslavia became an enthusiastic hockey fan during the recent World Championships held in his country. He was quoted as saying it was a better game than soccer and promised increased state support &hellip; Russia, Sweden and Czechoslovakia have agreed to participate in Canada centennial hockey tournament to be held in January, 1967.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05243/2455752-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="264" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mahovlich</figcaption></div>&bull;A NUMBER OF NHL players had exceptionally fine seasons in 1965-66 but their exploits weren&rsquo;t accorded the space they deserved as one player, Bobby Hull, of Chicago, hogged the headlines more than any individual player has in any single season. Hull&rsquo;s historymaking feats overshadowed the tremendous play of such performers as New York&rsquo;s BobNevin and Don Marshall Boston&rsquo;s Johnny Bucyk and Murray Oliver; Toronto&rsquo;s Frank Mahovlich and Bob Pulford; Canadiens&rsquo; Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard and Bobby Rousseau; and Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe, Norm Ullman and Alex Delvecchio &hellip; Hull&rsquo;s teammates Stan Mikita and Phil Esposito also came through with fine seasons &hellip; Three members of the Red Wings, Howe, Ullman and Delvecchio headed into the final two games of the schedule each with 29 goals &hellip; Jim Neilson has played four full seasons with Rangers and is still waiting to pick up his first playoff money &hellip; Don&rsquo;t despair, Jim, another pretty good defenseman by the name of Bill Gadsby waited quite a while before he started to pick up his playoff bonuses &hellip; Bill didn&rsquo;t make his first Stanley Cup playoff until his seventh season with Chicago, back in 1952-53 &hellip; The NHL schedule will be increased from 70 to 74 games starting in 1967-68 when the extra six teams are ready for action &hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Albert Langlois is called &ldquo;Whitey&rdquo; by his teammates due to his pallid complexion &hellip; Glory fades fast: A group of youngsters wait outside the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room after every game, waiting for autographs &hellip; One youngster happened to mention &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard &hellip; Who&rsquo;s &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard,&rdquo; asked affother youth &hellip; &ldquo;Why&rdquo;, said a fresh-faced youngster, &ldquo;he&rsquo;s Henri Richard&rsquo;s brother.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06179/2455745-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="292" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Neilson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

THE HOCKEY NEWS this week, asked fans and officials in New York and Springfield the following question:Do you think that the perennial also rans in the NHL, the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers, should have to donate players to the new expansion clubs in 1967-68?WARREN CERNY. Administrator and former player coach in Swiss Hockey League: They should have to make some donations, but in a lesser quantity than the four teams that regularly finish ahead of them. They have enough problems now &mdash; and should not have to suffer through any additional hardships.JOE SPENDLEY, Foreign Exchange Trader: No, I do not believe that New York and Boston should give any players to the new teams. In fact, I would go one step farther and allow them first crack in a special draft, prior to that held to staff the new teams. The N.H.L. once before had a &ldquo;Help the Hawks&rdquo; campaign when Chicago was a perennial cellar team &mdash; and look at the Hawks now.MIKE PALMER. Radio Producer: They should be given some break, perhaps by being forced to donate fewer players. These players should be of the same caliber as those donated by the top teams. The new teams shouldn&rsquo;t be made as strong as the Rangers and Bruins who are industriously building themselves up. It wouldn&rsquo;t seem fair to hurt them just as they are seeing the light.STAN FISCHLER: Hockey Correspondent, N.Y. Journal American and the HOCKEY NEWS: Yes, they should contribute equally because by the time the expansion draft comes around New York and Boston could very well be among the better clubs in the NHL. If the league is going to start playing favorites from year to year you will eventually have the same bush situation as you had when the infamous &ldquo;Help the Hawks&rdquo; campaign was at its peak.R. H. COE, Salesman Laboratory Supplies: Emile Francis and Hap Emms are trying to rebuild. They are developing their own young players. Why should the newcomers get the fruits of their hard work? I do not believe that the Bruins and Rangers should have to make equal draft donations. Also, I don&rsquo;t believe that any team should be able to tie up two NHL caliber goaltenders when the loop expands.JOHN HALLIGAN, Ranger Publicist: Sure, they should have to contribute equally. New York and Boston have as many top prospects in their farm systems as do the top four teams. It has to be an equal proposition in order to be fair competitively.WIN ELLIOTT: WPIX Sportscaster: Tradition has been that they must, even if it hurts. Baseball and football did it this way. The sad thing from a Ranger and Bruin standpoint about the expansion is that New York and Boston will stay in the big division of established teams &mdash; and still may not make the playoffs. You must assume that the top clubs will be weakened, but so will N.Y. and Boston and the status will remain quo.LILLIAN GREENBERG, Retail sales literary: No, I do not think that they should have to give up anything. Why should teams already in trouble give up any players? &#9632;

IN THE CORRIDOR

<div class="byline">BY JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich. &mdash;What the Red Wings have hated to think of they must face now: Bill Gadsby&rsquo;s career is rapidly nearing the end.No longer does Old Man River keep rolling along.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01618/2455828-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="265" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Gadsby</figcaption></div>The 38-year-old defenseman has played in the National Hockey League 20 years, a feat achieved only by teammate Gordie Howe and long-retired Dit Clapper.But now it is obvious that Gadsby&rsquo;s legs won&rsquo;t go where his head tells them and manager coach Sid Abel, looking ahead to the Stanley Cup playoffs, talked of trying to spot Gadsby as the fifth defenseman and to use his savvy as a penalty-killer.Not too many weeks ago Abel talked of the Wings&rsquo; defense problems in terms of it not being so much the forwards&rsquo; failure to back-check but of the defensemen not getting back into the corners fast enough to field the puck.Gadsby has had this trouble. If he doesn&rsquo;t nail his man at the blue line he doesn&rsquo;t have the speed to beat the man to the corner.Ironically, that&rsquo;s all the Wings hoped to get from Gadsby when they picked him at a bargain basement price from the New York Rangers five seasons ago &mdash; a fifth defenseman.Instead he surprised everyone and returned to his old All-Star form.Gadsby had a slow start this season, due mainly to a growth behind his knee. It was removed in an operation and after he returned, Gadsby showed much of his previous zest.But he slowed rapidly then and that, coupled with the loss of Doug Barkley, was a blow that sent the Wings reeling from first to fourth place.Their defense isn&rsquo;t in the kind of shape that makes their most rabid fans predict a Stanley Cup. It&rsquo;s in the poorest shape of the four blue line corps going into the playoffs and even with a pair of late vacations for Roger Crozier, he&rsquo;d have to measure exactly four feet by six feet, the size of the net, to make Detroit chances look enticing.Roger doesn&rsquo;t measure four feet by six feet.Returning to Gadsby, there&rsquo;s another problem which will arise during the summer should Gadsby decide to retire.Gadsby often has said he&rsquo;d like to coach but only at the NHL level. Abel has mentioned occasionally that the stomach-churning job of running the club from the bench sometimes gets to him.Abel has listed Gadsby and Howe, both assistant coaches, and team captain Alex Delvecchio as coaching material. Howe and Delvecchio still have several years of active play left, however.Gadsby says he has a going insurance business at home in Edmonton and that if he didn&rsquo;t get an NHL coaching job, he would turn to full-time insurance work.It should be an interesting summer.ICE CHIPS: Red Wing business manager Lincoln Cavalieri said the negotiations for the colorcast of Sunday playoff games was &ldquo;an education.&rdquo;&ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s just as well that we didn&rsquo;t have a lot of time to get it organized. If we&rsquo;d had too much time people would of thought of too many objections,&rdquo; Cavalieri laughed. &lsquo;As it was the negotiators had almost as many problems as the United Nations. Toronto and Montreal were fearful that Canadian fans would regard agreement to Sunday matinees a &ldquo;sellout&rdquo; to American television.&ldquo;We must have worked out 99 schedules before coming up with one agreeable to all parties,&rdquo; Cavalieri said. &#9632;

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Wings Fear Gadsby Near End Of Trail 20-Year Vet May See Playoff Spot Duty

DETROIT, Mich.Violence wasn&rsquo;t a stranger to Butch Paul.Paul, killed this past week in a tragic auto accident, was from the rugged-named town of Rocky Mountain House, Alta. He used to follow me rodeo circuit in the summer but never suffered a serious injury.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02567/2455859-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="268" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Butch Paul</figcaption></div>But during a horseplay ball game the summer of 1964 he cracked his wrist and turned up at training camp with the arm in a brace.Despite that, and the fact that he hadn&rsquo;t turned pro yet, Paul was one of the eye-catchers in camp, a deft stick-handler and playmaker. He did so well that the Red Wings assigned him to their Pittsburgh farm club in the American Hockey League.The Hornets opened on the road and before they got home, Paul was out of action. He went around a big defenseman to score a goal and the rearguard, a little unhappy, tripped Paul later in the game, a fight began and it finished with the big defenseman falling on. and breaking, Paul&rsquo;s leg.The 5-foot-10, 160-pounder went back to Edmonton, his off-season home, to recuperate, returned at mid-season, played several games and broke the leg again.Paul played only 30 games in 1964-65 but still scored at nearly a point a game pace on seven goals and 16 assistsSent to Memphis this season in the fast-moving Central League, Paul developed into one of the league&rsquo;s finest playmakers and the Red Wings regarded him as a leading prospect. He tied Doug Roberts for the club scoring leadership with 13 goals and 47 assists and was voted the team&rsquo;s most valuable player.It was a posthumous honor.The slight centre was killed, his chest crushed, a few hours after the 1-1 tie with Tulsa iA&rsquo; Memphis&rsquo; third last game, the game that ended their chances of making the playoffs.He was two blocks from home in Memphis when a 19-year-old girl sideswiped another car, caromed off and hurdled a median strip right into Paul. She hit him head-on and both were killed.&ldquo;What can you say,&rdquo; said Red Wing manager-coach Sid Abel, shaken by the news. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a terrible tragedy.&rdquo;&mdash; BERRY &#9632;

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Red Wing Prospect, Butch Paul Killed

<div class="byline">BY TOM MONAHAN</div>BOSTON, Mass.When Leighton &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms took command of the Bruins as general manager last May, he had high hopes of changing the club&rsquo;s almost perennial role of holding up the rest of the National Hockey League from the cellar.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01651/2455890-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="276" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bernie Parent</figcaption></div>Fresh from a series of successful Junior A hockey seasons at Niagara Falls, Emms&rsquo; enthusiasm for his new job was understandable. His enthusiasm still has not waned, despite admitted disappointment at an inability to realize his goal of clinching at least fifth place at this stage of the season.Yet, the season has not been all dissatisfaction as far as Emms is concerned. The element of consolation stems from a feeling of confidence that there has been marked progress in rebuilding the Bruins for the future.&ldquo;The standings don&rsquo;t tell a complete story by any means,&rdquo; says Emms. &ldquo;Naturally I am not satisfied with the standings. But I wouldn&rsquo;t be satisfied even if we won the Stanley Cup.&ldquo;I never have been willing to sit still even with a winning team. There is no place for smugness in this game.&ldquo;Once an owner, general manager or coach is satisfied you can be sure he&rsquo;s on the way down. There is only one way to stay at the top and that is by making changes.&ldquo;So, I say that when we finally do get up there and regain I the Stanley Cup, I still will be looking to make changes.&rdquo;Emms does not attempt to predict when that day will come for the faithful Bruins fans but he willingly promises the day is not in the far distant future.&ldquo;This has been a very profitable season for us in several respects,&rdquo; says Emms.&ldquo;First, I believe we made a couple of trades that have helped us. Certainly getting Pit Martin, I John McKenzie and Gary Doak has not hurt our club.&ldquo;Then we brought up a few youngsters who have shown they can play in this league.&ldquo;Bernie Parent and Gilles Marotte broke in under difficult circumstances and have made the jump from Junior quite satisfactorily.&ldquo;We also have learned something about many of our other youngsters.&rdquo;When Emms instituted the Bruins shuttle system between Boston, and Niagara Falls, Oklahoma City, Hershey and San Francisco some quarters were critical.The argument was that no one could expect to build teamwork, unity and harmony with the constant shuffling of players.Since the start of the season, the Bruins have employed a total of 39 players on a roster that is limited to 16 players and two goalkeepers &mdash; an imposing picture of constant change.Emms shrugged off the criticism, however, stuck to his own conception of what was right and best for the B&rsquo;s and now feels he can go into next year with a much sounder knowledge of what to expect in the future.&ldquo;For example, we know we have two solid goalies now with Johnston and Parent,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;We also know that if we have Teddy Green healthy in another year with Bob Woytowich, Marotte, Doak, Al Langlois and the improvement of Don Awrey our defense should be tighter.&ldquo;We also know that some of the kids like Bill Goldsworthy Gary Dornhoefer and Don Marcotte are not too far away from helping us. &#9632;

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Bruins Progressed This Season Says Emms - Sees Future Bright

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;Rod Gilbert, the gifted young Ranger right I wing, insists today he&rsquo;ll return to the Blues next Fall to lead a playoff crusade despite the fears he&rsquo;d never play hockey again because of a twice broken back.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03474/2455952-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="262" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rod Gilbert</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Right now it feels as if I have a brand new back,&rdquo; says Gilbert who less than two months ago lay suffering in St. Clare&rsquo;s Hospital believing he&rsquo;d never wear the Ranger blue again. That was after his second back operation.Matinee idol among the local&rsquo; hockey buffs, the 24-year-old flew down from his Montreal home for an end-of-season party with his teammates. Then he spent the rest of this week at Grossinger in Liberty, N.Y.Gilbert disclosed his improved condition and outlined his plans to get in shape.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m at a point now,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;where I could get on the dance floor and do a fox trot. Later on, I&rsquo;ll think about doing The Monkey. My big problem in the next month will be losing weight.&rdquo;Always muscular, Rod has added some suet and appears about ten pounds overweight. A week of Jennie Grossinger&rsquo;s mushroom - and - barley soups, steaks and gefulte fish won&rsquo;t help his dieting.&ldquo;The doctor (Dr. Kazuo Yanigasawa) gave me a diet,&rdquo; says Rod, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ll wait until next week to start. &lsquo;Yama&rsquo; wants me to come back to New York for a checkup in August. By that time I figure I&rsquo;ll be able to start skating.&rdquo;&ldquo;I still have to wear the brace now,&rdquo; says Rod, hockey&rsquo;s most eligible bachelor who visited Grossinger&rsquo;s on &ldquo;Singles Week.&rdquo;&ldquo;He looks good enough to step into the lineup right now,&rdquo; adds Grossinger&rsquo;s Winter Sports Director and former Olympic Gold Medalist, Irv Jaffee. &#9632;

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Rod Gilbert Confident He’ll Play Next Year After Back Surgery

<h2>Tues., March 29</h2>BOSTON 2 at CHICAGO 4BOSTON &mdash; Goal: Parent, Johnston; defense: Woytowich, Marotte, Langlois, Doak. Awrey: forwards: Leiter, Williams, Westfall, Martin, Bucyk, Stewart, Kennedy, Oliver, McKenzie, Dillabough, Schock.CHICAGO &mdash; Goal: Hall, Dryden; defense: Ravlich, Jarrett, Pilote, Vasko, Stapleton; forwards: Mohns, Mikita, Wharram, Angotti, Esposito, Hull, Hay, Hodge, Nesterenko, Maki, Stanfield.Referee: Friday. Linesmen: D&rsquo;Amico, Sopp.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01635/2456046-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="572" height="683"></div><h2>Wed.. March 30</h2>MONTREAL 3 at TORONTO 1MONTREAL &mdash; Goal: Worsley, Hodge; defense: J. C. Tremblay, Harris, Talbot, Harper, Price, Roberts; forwards: Beliveau, Backstrom, Duff, Cournoyer, Provost, Rousseau, Richard, Balon, G. Tremblay, Ferguson.TORONTO &mdash; Goal: Bower, Sawchuk; defense: Pronovost, Horton, Hillman, Douglas, Baun; forwards: Kelly, Ellis, Armstrong, Selby, Stem-kowski, Keon, Boyer, Pulford, Shack, Kurtenbach, Mahovlich.Referee: Udvari, Linesmen: Armstrong, Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02600/2456039-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="566" height="557"></div><h2>Thurs.. March 31</h2>NEW YORK 3 at DETROIT 5NEW YORK &mdash; Goal: Maniago, Giacomin; defense: Howell, Plager, Brown, Neilson, Hillman; forwards: Fleming, Goyette, Nevin, Robinson, Ingarfield, Hadfield, Seiling, Hicke, G. Peters, D. Marshall, Mickey.DETROIT &mdash; Goal: Bassen, Crozier; defense: Goegan, Boivin, B. Marshall, Bergman, Watson; forwards: Prentice, Delvecchio, Howe. P. MacDonald, Ullman, Roberts, A. McDonald, MacGregor, Bathgate, J. Peters.Referee: Skov, Linesmen: Sopp. D&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03525/2456032-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="556" height="457"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04448/2456025-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="566" height="329"></div>TORONTO 1 at BOSTON 3TORONTO &mdash; Goal: Bower, Shawchuk; defense: Horton, Pronovost, Hillman, Douglas, Baun; forwards: Armstrong, Keon, Mahovlich, Kelly, Ellis, Selby, Stemkowski, Boyer, Pulford, Shack, Kurtenbach.BOSTON &mdash; Goal: Parent, Johnston; defense: Awrey, Doak, Marotte, Langlois; forwards: Oliver, Stewart, Bucyk, Williams, Westfall, Leiter, Martin, McKenzie, Shock, Kennedy.Referee: Buffey, Linesmen: Armstrong, Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05355/2456018-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="560" height="575"></div><h2>Sat., April 2</h2>CHICAGO 3 at MONTREAL 8CHICAGO: Goal &mdash; Hall, Dryden, Defense &mdash; Pilote, Vasko, Ravlich, Jarrett, Stapleton, Forwards &mdash; Hull, Esposito, Maki, Mikita, Mohns, Wharram, Angotti, Hay, Hodge, Stanfield, Nesterenko.MONTREAL: Goal&mdash;Worsley, Hodge. Defense &mdash; J. C. Tremblay, Harns, Harper, Talbot, Price. Forwards &mdash; Beliveau, Provost, G. Tremblay, Richard, Rousseau, Duff, Backstrom, Ferguson, Roberts, Balon, Cournoyer.Referee &mdash; Ashley. Linesmen &mdash; D&rsquo;Amico, Armstrong.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06304/2456011-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="560" height="905"></div>NEW YORK 3 at TORONTO 3NEW YORK: Goal &mdash; Maniago. Giacomin, Defense &mdash; Plager. W. Hillman. Howell, Brown, Forwards &mdash; Robinson, Nevin, Fleming, Ingarfield. Hadfield. Seiling, Hicke, Goyette, Peters, Marshall.TORONTO: Goal &mdash; Bower, Sawchuk. Gamble Defense &mdash; Pronovost, Horton, L. Hillman, Douglas, Baun, Forwards &mdash; Kelly, Ellis, Armstrong, Selby, Stemkowski, Keon, Boyer, Pulford, Shack, Kurtenbach.Referee &mdash; Buffey. Linesmen &mdash; Sopp, Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07269/2456004-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="562" height="687"></div><h2>Sun., April 3</h2>MONTREAL 4 at NEW YORK 1MONTREAL: Goal &mdash; Hodge, Worsley. Defense &mdash; J. C. Tremblay, Price, Talbot, Harper, Harris, Forwards &mdash; Rousseau, Beliveau, G. Tremblay, Provost, Richard, Balon, Roberts, Backstrom, Ferguson, Cournoyer, Duff.NEW YORK: Goal &mdash; Maniago, Giacomin. Defense &mdash; Howell, Plager, Hillman, Brown, Forwards &mdash; Nevin, Goyette, Fleming, Mickey, Marshall. Hadfield, Hicke, Ingarfield, Seiling, Peters, Robinson.Referee &mdash; Skov, Linesmen&mdash;Frampton, D&rsquo;Amico.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08249/2455997-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="550" height="659"></div>TORONTO 3 at DETROIT 3TORONTO: Goal &mdash; Bower, Sawchuk, Defense &mdash; Pronovost, Horton, Hillman, Baun, Douglas, Forwards &mdash; Selby, Boyer, Ellis, Kelly Pulford. Shack, Kurtenbach, Keon, Armstrong, Stemkowski.DETROIT: Goal &mdash; Crozier, Bassen, Defense &mdash; Goegan, Gadsby, Marshall, Bergman, Boivin, Forwards &mdash; Fonteyne, MacGregor, Henderson, Prentice. Delvecchio, Howe, P. MacDonald, Ullman, Smith, Bathgate, Watson.Referee &mdash; Ashley, Linesmen&mdash;Sopp, Pavelich.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10222/2455990-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="560" height="667"></div>CHICAGO 2 at BOSTON 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11193/2455983-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="570" height="703"></div> &#9632;

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National Hockey League Summaries

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How NHL Goalers Rate

The NHL had more players scoring 20 or more goals this season than ever before. A total of 28 players are listed ant six of those scored at least 30 goals. The previous high for 20-goal men was 24 in 1962-63.Three players shared the lead in assists with 48 each&mdash;Bobby Rousseau. Stan Mikita and Jean Beliveau&mdash;while Frank Mahovlich of Toronto was runner-up to Hull in goals with 32.Bobby Hull, of rourse, led left wingers with 97 points, Mikita was the leader among centres with 78 and Rousseau topped right wingers, also with 78. &#9632;

20-Goal Men Mark For NHL

Lorne (Gump) Worsley has waited a long time to get his name on hockey&rsquo;s most cherished goalkeeping award &mdash; the Vezina Trophy.The Gumper has been in the NHL 12 years and success finally came to the rotund Montreal netminder in his 654th big league game as the Canadiens overpowered the Black Hawksl 8-3. It was Worsley&rsquo;s last appearance of the season with the schedule windup the following night. Habs sent Charlie Hodge in to mop up in the season finale and he, too, came back with a victory.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-08129/2456201-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="295" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Worsley</figcaption></div>Worsley and Hodge will share the Vezina Trophy. Both their names will appear on it and they are to share the $1,250 that goes with being the best goaling team of the season. They permitted the fewest goals-against and boasted the best average to lead all NHL puck stoppers.Worsley was the kingpin, appearing in 51 games as compared to 26 for Hodge. The Canadiens came to rely on the diminutive netminder and he showed over the season that he is one of the NHL&#817;s best clutch goalkeepers.El Producto is pleased to salute Lorne Worsley of Canadiens as the NHL&rsquo;s player-of-the-week. &#9632;

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The Player Of The Week

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04378/2456253-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="564" height="839"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05282/2456246-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="566" height="837"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06222/2456239-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="570" height="835"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07166/2456232-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="574" height="829"></div> &#9632;

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Looking At The National League Point Race

&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;&ldquo;you like 7up 7up likes you&rdquo;MONTREAL, Que. &mdash;Bobby Hull&rsquo;s recordbreaking scoring achievements earned the Chicago Black Hawk left winger $ 2,000 in award money from the National Hockey League for the 1965-66 season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01651/2456132-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="280" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>Hull, who established records for most goals in a season (54), most points (97) and most power-play goals (22), finished 19 points ahead of his nearest rivals, teammate Stan Mikita and Montreal Canadien right winger Bobby Rousseau. Mikita and Rousseau finished the regular season tied for the runner-up honors with 78 points, including 30 goals each.Hull earns $1,000 as scoring champion and receives the Art Ross Trophy. He also picks up another $1,000 as leader in each half of the season. There is a $500 award for each half. Hull had 55 points in the Hawks&rsquo; first 35 games and 42 points in the last 35 games. Jean Beliveau of Montreal actually tied Hull in points during the second half but because Hull outscored Beliveau 22-17 during the half, the Chicago player receives the $500 award. Beliveau receives $250 as runner-up in the second half.Because Mikita and Rousseau were tied in goals as well as points over the season, each will receive $500, the award which goes to the runner-up in scoring.Norm Ullman cf Detroit was the runner-up in the first half of the season and received $250.The league will pay an extra $500 in the Vezina Trophy award, also. Montreal&rsquo;s Lome Worsley and Charlie Hodge combined to win the over-all award with 173 goals against and they also led in the second half. That means they will share $1,000 as official co-winners of the Vezina Trophy plus another $250 as leaders in the second half.Because Toronto and Chicago tied for over - all runner - up honors, with 187 goals against each, each club will receive $500 to be spread among its goaltenders. Glenn Hall and Dave Dryden were the Chicago netminders during the season while Toronto used five goalkeepers &mdash; Johnny Bower, Terry Sawchuk, Bruce Gamble, Gary Smith and Al Smith. Hall and Dryden also receive a total of $250 as leaders in the first half of the season.Montreal Canadiens blasted Chicago 8-3 April 2nd to clinch their 15th NHL championship and seventh in nine seasons. The Canadiens finished with 90 points, eight more than second-place Chicago and, as a result, win 21 units of $2,250 each and the Prince of Wales Trophy.Chicago&rsquo;s second-place finish means 21 units of $1,250 each. Toronto Maple Leafs, who finished third with 79 points, receive 21 units of $750 each and Detroit Red Wings, fourth with 74 points, are awarded 21 units of $250 each.Boston Bruins escaped last place in the final standings for the first time in six seasons as they finished fifth with 48 points, one more than New York Rangers.Beliveau placed fourth in the final standing of the scoring race with 77 points, two more than fifth-place Gord Howe of Detroit. Ullman was sixth with 72 points, teammate Alex Delvecchio seventh with 69 and Bob Nevin of Rangers eighth with 62. Henri Richard of Montreal finished ninth with 61 points and Murray Oliver of Boston, who led all point collectors in the final week of the season with six points, moved into 10th place with 60 points. &#9632;

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Bobby Hull Pockets $2,000 As NHL Scoring King

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01648/2456347-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div>ROCHESTER N.Y.The American Hockey League walked off with honors as the first interlocking EastWest schedule came to a close this past week.Teams from the AHL won 38, lost 32 and tied two in 72 games with the Western Hockey League. The AHL teams outscored the WHL 267-235 over the season.Home ice proved a decided factor for both leagues. AHL teams outclassed their WHL rivals 28-6 with two ties in games played in the East. When the AHL clubs went West, WHL clubs held a commanding 26-10 edge.Because WHL teams played more EastWest games than their AHL counterparts, Victoria, Portland and Vancouver won the most games. Victoria and Portland ended tied with 14 points each to top the overall standing and the Western teams. Quebec Aces had the best Eastern record.Following are the complete interlocking schedule records:<h2>OVERALL PICTURE BETWEEN LEAGUES</h2><h2>HOW LEAGUES FARED PLAYING IN EASTERN CITIES</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02599/2456340-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1591" height="163"></div><h2>HOW LEAGUES FARED PLAYING IN WESTERN CITIES</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03522/2456333-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1603" height="178"></div><h2>AHL TEAMS RECORD</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04437/2456326-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1036" height="355"></div><h2>WHL TEAMS RECORD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05369/2456319-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="493" height="268"></div><h2>TEAMS RECORDS AGAINST EACH OTHER DURING SEASON PLAY</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06329/2456312-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="1588" height="655"></div>(*Portland played tie games with Quebec and Springfield)<h2>SCORES OF INTERLOCKING GAMES PLAYED THIS SEASON</h2>Game no.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07300/2456305-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="392" height="681"></div>Game no.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08286/2456298-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="400" height="681"></div>Game no.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09274/2456291-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="398" height="669"></div>Game no.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10251/2456284-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="396" height="671"></div> &#9632;

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American League Maintains Edge Over WHL As Interlocking Ends

<div class="byline">BY JOE GORDON</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.When the Pittsburgh Hornets and the Cleveland Barons square off in the opening round of the Calder Cup playoffs next week, the Hornets will be attempting to do something four previous Pittsburgh playoff entries have failed to do.For that is the number of times these two bitter rivals have met in post-season competition and the Hornets are still looking for their first series victory over the blue-shirted Ohioans.Twice the Barons have beaten Pittsburgh in the final round. These setbacks came two years apart in 1951 and 1953 and both times the Hornets were edged, four games to three.Two other times the Barons have taken the measure of the Hornets in the semi-final round. These losses occurred in 1946 and 1956.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11225/2456378-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="292" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Bush</figcaption></div>The most heart-breaking setback the Wasps had to swallow was in the 1953 final. Having brought the Calder Cup to Pittsburgh for the first time the previous season, Coach King Clancy was after a rare double.At the time, present Hornet General Manager Baz Bastien was with the club as the Business Manager.Each team had won three games apiece as the series moved back to Cleveland for the finale. In typical Cleveland-Pittsburgh fashion the game was rough and close as the teams battled through two scoreless periods and late in the third period it looked as though they would go into sudden-death overtime to decide the championship.With little more than a minute remaining in the third stanza, Cleveland defenseman Bob Chrystal flipped the puck from mid-ice into the Pittsburgh end as the Barons were changing lines. The discilanded in front of Hornet goaltender Gil Mayer and bounced crazily past him into the cage, giving the Barons the game and the Calder Cup.In all, Pittsburgh and Cleveland have played 21 playoff games. The Barons have won 13 with the Hornets taking eight decisions.This will be the Hornets third playoff appearance since returning to the AHL for the 1961-62 season and it will also be their third straight year of post-season play. It will also mark the club&rsquo;s 17th time in the playoffs.In their previous two recent attempts at the Cup, the Hornets have been knocked out in the first round.After winning the Western Division championship in the 1963-64 campaign, the Wasps bowed to Quebec four games to one and then last year Buffalo squashed any Hornet playoff aspirations by winning three games while losing just once.So when Coach Eddie Bush leads his skaters against Cleveland they will have dual goals which can be accomplished with a singular effort. By defeating the Barons, they can break the club&rsquo;s Cleveland jinx and at the same time get past the first round. &#9632;

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Hornets Seeking First Calder Cup Series Win Over Cleveland Barons.

<h2>WALLY</h2>NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STICKS<h2>WALLY</h2>POOL TABLES TABLE TENNIS CROQUET SETS<h2>How They Stand</h2>(Standing&rsquo;s on Tues., Apr. 5)EASTERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2120/2456416-1-eng-US/f0012-212.jpg" title="f0012-21" width="568" height="166"></div>WESTERN DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2214/2456409-1-eng-US/f0012-222.jpg" title="f0012-22" width="562" height="131"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; 2. Montreal; 3. Chicago; 4. Detroit; 3. New York; 6. Boston; x-idependent.)GAMES COMPSLETEDTues.. Mar. 29Providence 2 at Quebec 3Wed.. Mar. 30Rochester 5 at Hershey 4Springfield 2 at Pittsburgh 0Buffalo 2 at Victoria 4Thurs., Mar. 31Providence 1 at Quebec 6Fri., Apr. 1Hershey 2 at Baltimore 6Buffalo 4 at Cleveland 5Pittsburgh 6 at Providence 3Springfield 2 at Rochester 6Sat.. Apr. 2Rochester 4 at Buffalo 2Baltimore 2 at Cleveland 5Pittsburgh 3 at Hershey 5Quebec 5 at Springfield 5Sun., Apr. 3Quebec 7 at Buffalo 4Hershey 3 at Pittsburgh 2Cleveland 7 at Providence 0Baltimore 3 at Rochester 4 &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY CHARLEY BARTON</div>BUFFALO, N. Y. &mdash;Interest in the Buffalo Bisons centered on Aiain (Boom Boom) Caron&rsquo;s effort to hit the 50-goal mark after the Herd was mathematically eliminated from reaching the Calder playoffs while on a West Coast tour.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01619/2456447-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="290" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alain Caron</figcaption></div>With six games remaining. Caron had collected 33 goals, including 21 on the road. The Bisons, as this was written, had three games to play at home, two in Cleveland and one in Victoria.Nobody, Including Coach Phil Watson, expected the Boomer to approach the 50-goal plateau this season, despite his incredible scoring feats in the lower minors.&ldquo;This guy really put the puck in the net, and he looks like he could do it anywhere he plays,&rdquo; Watson said. &ldquo;Maybe he isn&rsquo;t the best defensive hockey player in the world, but he can check if he wants to.&ldquo;They say he can&rsquo;t skate. Well, he has two bad knees, yet he can move if he has to, and he&rsquo;s real quick getting to the puck.&ldquo;There may be guys who can shoot as hard, but nobody, I mean nobody, shoots them any harder.&rdquo;Caron invariably is one of the first out of the dressing, room, win or lose. His English has improved immeasurably in recent years, but he prefers to let others talk to sports writers.&ldquo;I have two good linemates again (Mel Pearsons and Billy Carter) and I&rsquo;ve been lucky,&rdquo; Caron said. &ldquo;I guess I shoot pretty good.&rdquo;Pat Hannigan, a time-tested veteran not given to idle praise, has the apt description for Caron.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been around a bit, and I&rsquo;ve never seen anybody who puts that puck in the net like he does,&rdquo; Hannigan said.&ldquo;Some guys have the gift, and Caron really has it. It seems he&rsquo;s always in position, he&rsquo;s smart, and can really rifle that rubber.&rdquo;The Boomer has taken a physical beating this winter in a planned campaign of intimidation, yet hasn&rsquo;t missed a game.Len Lunde set the Buffalo club record of 51 goals for one season a year ago. Carl Liscombe and Sid Smith share the league record of 55.Caron has fired 10 winning goals, three short of the AHL record of 13 established by Hershey&rsquo;s Dune Fisher in 1953-54. &#9632;

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Bisons Pulling For Caron To Hit 50 Goals, Scoring Ability Wins Praise From Watson

<h2>Tues., March 29</h2>PROVIDENCE 2 at QUEBEC 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02529/2456604-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="560" height="553"></div><h2>Wed., March 30</h2>SPRINGFIELD 2 at PITTSBURGH 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03412/2456597-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="554" height="353"></div>ROCHESTER 5 at HERSHEY 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04305/2456590-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="570" height="767"></div>BUFFALO 2 at VICTORIA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05222/2456583-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="560" height="495"></div><h2>Thurs., March 31</h2>PROVIDENCE 1 at QUEBEC 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-06180/2456576-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="558" height="665"></div><h2>Fri., April 1</h2>HERSHEY 2 at BALTIMORE 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-07156/2456569-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="558" height="745"></div><h2>Fri., April 1</h2>BUFFALO 4 at CLEVELAND 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-08137/2456562-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="566" height="739"></div>SPRINGFIELD 2 at ROCHESTER 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-09119/2456555-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="548" height="601"></div>PITTSBURGH 6 at PROVIDENCE 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-10107/2456548-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="552" height="751"></div><h2>Sat., April 2</h2>BALTIMORE 2 at CLEVELAND 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1199/2456541-1-eng-US/f0012-112.jpg" title="f0012-11" width="550" height="627"></div>QUEBEC 5 at SPRINGFIELD 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1282/2456534-1-eng-US/f0012-122.jpg" title="f0012-12" width="554" height="261"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1371/2456527-1-eng-US/f0012-132.jpg" title="f0012-13" width="560" height="563"></div>PITTSBURGH 3 at HERSHEY 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1464/2456520-1-eng-US/f0012-142.jpg" title="f0012-14" width="558" height="671"></div>ROCHESTER 4 at BUFFALO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1558/2456513-1-eng-US/f0012-152.jpg" title="f0012-15" width="564" height="615"></div><h2>Sun.. April 3</h2>HERSHEY 3 at PITTSBURGH 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1650/2456506-1-eng-US/f0012-162.jpg" title="f0012-16" width="558" height="439"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1740/2456499-1-eng-US/f0012-172.jpg" title="f0012-17" width="554" height="139"></div>CLEVELAND 7 at PROVIDENCE 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1836/2456492-1-eng-US/f0012-182.jpg" title="f0012-18" width="552" height="707"></div>QUEBEC 7 at BUFFALO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1931/2456485-1-eng-US/f0012-192.jpg" title="f0012-19" width="558" height="851"></div>BALTIMORE 3 at ROCHESTER 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-2027/2456478-1-eng-US/f0012-202.jpg" title="f0012-20" width="550" height="619"></div> &#9632;

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American League, Interlocking Games Summaries

<div class="byline">BY HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y. &mdash;&ldquo;Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.&rdquo;Old Willie Shakespeare scribbled that line in his King Henry IV, but it certainly is applicable to Joe Crozier I, too.Joe Crozier is the not-so-happy general manager and coach of the Rochester Americans, who will open defense of their American Hockey League Calder Cup championship next Wednesday either in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens or in Quebec City&rsquo;s Coliseum.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01612/2456635-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="277" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mike Walton</figcaption></div>Why is the head, wearing the crown uneasy?Because the Quebec Aces have handled the Amerks pretty easily this season, a far cry from last season when the clubs again won their respective divisions.After taking a 7-4 licking here in the first meeting last season, the Americans rolled to 7-1, 10-1, 9-1 and 6-1 romps over the Aces in Rochester. And in Quebec City, the Americans won two of the four games.The playoffs went the same way, with Rochester taking the first two of the best-of-seven set in Rochester, losing the third in Quebec, but taking the fourth there before pouring it on to end the series in the fifth game here.But 1965-66 has been an entirely different &hellip; and unhappy &hellip; story.The Amerks have dropped all Hicke had 97 with the 1958-59 four in Quebec City and could manage only a split at home &mdash; winning 5-2 and 6-1 and losing 6-3 and 7-4. So, with just two wins I in eight tries, it&rsquo;s not surprising I the Americans feel a bit uneasy about facing the Aces right off the bat in the playoffs.ICICLES &mdash; Rookie Mike Walton hurtled past the 30-goal mark with the three-goal hat trick in a 7-4 loss to Quebec in Toronto March 27. The goals were Walton&rsquo;s 29th. 30th and 31st. Walton needs nine points in Rochester&rsquo;s seven remaining games to be the third highest scoring rookie in AHL history. He has 75 points at this writing. Only Billy Hicke and Don Marshall had more than 83 points in their first seasons. Rochester club, while Marshall had 94 with Buffalo in 1953-54.Gerry Ehman scored back-to-back hat tricks in Maple Leaf Gardens when he clicked for three goals against Pittsburgh March 20 and the same number against Hershey in the Amerks next start on the 25th. Oddly, the veteran right wing had three hat trick in the last 11 home games last season &hellip; The Amerks have added young Darryl Edestrand to their roster after he was turned pro by Toronto. Edestrand. who had filled in and performed capably for the Amerks earlier in the season, played with London, Ont., of the OHA Junior A circuit this season. &#9632;

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Americans Inability To Handle Aces Causing Crozier Concern For Playoffs

<div class="byline">BY SHEL FULLERTON</div>CLEVELAND, OhioYou are the coach of an American Hockey League club locked in a do-or-die struggle for second place in the league&rsquo;s Western Division. Your team is playing the team you must beat out to have a good chance of attaining your goal. It is a game you must win.You have two goalies. One is an outstanding regular who has played in 59 of your club&rsquo;s 64 games. He leads the league in shutouts. He is a condidate for the outstanding rookie of the year. He has just returned from the National Hockey League, where he has played well in a short stint.The other goalie has been on the bench much of the season. But only three nights before, filling in for your regular, he has beaten the club you are facing tonight. It was only the third victory your club had attained over its bitter rival in seven games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02568/2456666-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="283" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Les Binkley</figcaption></div>Your regular goalie had lost four of six games to the same team. Whereas his season&rsquo;s goals-against record was 3.02, against this particular club, he had only a 4.50 mark. The other team had scored six goals against him once, eight goals another time.Which goalie do you use in this all-important game? Your outstanding regular, with a poor record against your rival? Or your substitute, who had beaten the rival team handily in his only appearance against it only three nights before?This was the decision facing Eddie Bush, Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; coach, when his team stacked up against the Cleveland Barons as the two teams came down the stretch in the AHL campaign, both battling for second place.No matter which goalie Bush chose, he had to win the game to look good. Because, if the Hornets lost, regardless of which goalie he chose, Bush would be wrong. If the Barons beat the substitute, Bob Cbampoux, Bush would be blamed for using less than his best. If the Barons beat the regular, George Gardner, Bush would be blamed for using the goalie that had been less effective against Cleveland.It was a big decision. Bush chose Gardner and Pittsburgh lost, enabling the Barons to tie the Hornets and make a big stride toward a second place finish.Good as Gardner has been this season, he has held little fear for the Barons. In his defense, it must be added that against Cleveland, at least, he has not had particularly good protection. The Hornets&rsquo; defense, against the Barons, has looked exceedingly shaky at times. &#9632;

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Gardner ‘Victim’ As Barons Upset Hornets’ Strategy

Including games of Sun., Apr. 3)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03529/2456704-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="564" height="401"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04487/2456697-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="558" height="283"></div><h2>PENALTY LEADERS</h2>Most penalized player: Aldo Guidolin, Providence, 155 minutes.Most penalized team: Rochester. 938 minutes. &#9632;

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Looking At AHL Point Race

<div class="byline">BY JOHN TRAVERS</div><h2>Ubriaco Still Rolling As Big Scoring Bear; Team Eyeing Playoffs</h2>HERSHEY, Pa.Gene (The Jet) Ubriaco continues to set a blistering pace for the Hershey Bears who have clinched a Calder Cup playoff spot for the sixth straight year under coach Frank Mathers.At the 65-game mark, the 5-8, 160-pound Ubriaco had tallied 37 goals and a like number of assists for 74 points to lead the club&rsquo;s scorers by a wide margin.He scored his first three goal &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; of the campaign on March 27 at Cleveland, however, the Bears dropped a 6-4 decision as Tom McCarthy, one-time Hershey hand, also nailed the &ldquo;Hat.&rdquo;Since the Bears locked up second place in the Eastern Division, Mathers has the club aiming now to finish with more points than Cleveland and Pittsburgh in an effort to get the home ice edge in the event Hershey gains the Cup semi-finals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06343/2456735-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="278" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gene Ubriaco</figcaption></div>As of March 28, the three clubs were all deadlocked in points with 71 each. The Bears, however, have played two less games than Cleveland and one less than Pittsburgh.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to win those games in hand,&rdquo; said Mathers. &ldquo;Those games could prove to be the margin of difference in beating out Cleveland and Pittsburgh.&rdquo;Hershey has been red hot on home ice. running off a streak of nine wins, dating back to Feb. 5.Meanwhile, the Boston Bruins recalled winger Wayne Rivers, only a few weeks after tapping center Bob Leiter. The pair are not expected to return to Hershey until playoff time. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY BUSTER CLEGG</div>PROVIDENCE, R. I. &mdash;The Rhode Island Reds feel they&rsquo;ve found themselves a leftwinger in Tony Goegan.The 22-year-old rookie, younger brother of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s hardrock, Pete Goegan, has been making a hit at left wing ever since moving there from defense several weeks ago. He&rsquo;s been doing to well in fact, that the Reds plan to keep him there permanently.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05403/2456766-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="280" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Goegan</figcaption></div>General manager-Ferny Flaman and coach Ivan Irwin are in complete accord in their complimentary appraisal of Goegan as a wing, stating they feel Tony has what it takes to become a solid performer on the forward line.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s really surprised us all,&rdquo; Flaman said recently. &ldquo;Tony&rsquo;s working hard, skating both ways. He&rsquo;s a strong skater and has beaten a number of opposing defensemen on sheer speed. Yet he alsoconcentrates on his back-checking, which is so important.&rdquo;Coach Irwin echoed these sentiments, adding: &ldquo;Tony already can be considered a good defensive forward. He doesn&rsquo;t get caught up ice, and in the attacking zone he throws a pretty good check.When he finally gets the knack of scoring, which I expect will come with experience, he&rsquo;ll be a fine wingman.&rdquo;Goegan, one of the best skaters on the club, was scouted and signed as a defenseman out of the Eastern League, where he played for New Heaven last yeat. &#9632;

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Rookie Tony Goegan Big Hit in Switch To Left Wing Spot

Before you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; it never variesBefore you say SCOTCH say &ldquo;DEWAR&rsquo;S&rdquo; it never varies<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01608/2456818-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="535" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILLY McNEILL&hellip; Wins Double Honor</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02506/2456811-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="472" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRED HUCUL &hellip;Best Defenseman</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03386/2456804-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="487" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLIFF SCHMAUTZ &hellip;All-Star RW</figcaption></div><h2>Point Race</h2>(Including games of Sun., Mar. 27)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04298/2456797-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="572" height="283"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div>LOS ANGELES, Calif.Vancouver centre Billy McNeill has edged out Victoria defenseman Fred Hucul as the outstanding player in the Western Hockey League for the 1965-66 season in a poll of the circuit&rsquo;s six coaches conducted by THE HOCKEY NEWS. Hucul was named as the outstanding defenseman in the league by a slim margin over Larry Cahan of Vancouver and Connie Madigan of Portland, who tied for the other defense spot on the first all-star team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1283/2456856-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="286" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Orban</figcaption></div>McNeill is flanked on the first all-star group by Bill MacFarland of Seattle on left wing and Cliff Schmautz of Portland on right wing. The voting at forward was very close with Wayne Connelly of San Francisco and Bob Barlow and Andy Hebenton of Victoria nosed out by the top pair. Milan Marcetta of Victoria was named the second-best centre.In an oddity, the two top centres in the voting came from one club, Portland, with veteran Don Head nosing out young Dave Kelly, with whom he split the regular duties this season. They are also the top two in low gols-against averages in the WHL this season.Winger Bill Orban of L.A. nosed out another L.A. forward, Bobby Schmautz. Cliff&rsquo;s younger brother, and Seattle winger Earl Heiskela for rookie-of-the-year honors in the circuit.Orban is a smooth 6-foot, 180-pound 21-year-old, who skated his left wing position effectively, scoring fairly well despite a history, of broken wrists, and earning recognition as the best young defensive forward to enter the circuit in many seasons.Hal Laycoe of pennant-bound Portland was a runaway choice of his fellow mentors as &ldquo;coach of the year.&rdquo;Although McNeill edged out Hucul by a narrow margin in the separate &ldquo;player of the year&rdquo; voting Hucul collected the most points of any player in the allstar balloting, with Head, McNeill, Cahan and Madigan a single point behind him.Fred&rsquo;s brother Alex &ldquo;Sandy&rdquo; Hucul, was named to a second all-star berth.Portland&rsquo;s Cliff Schmautz and Victoria&rsquo;s Andy Hebenton were the most prominent vote-getters in the &ldquo;player of the year&rdquo; vote behind McNeill and Hucul.Schmautz, who is 27, is the only player on the first unit who is below 30 years of age. Hucul is the oldest player at 34 and has had the most experience, 15 pro seasons. MacFarland is 33.McNeill is 30 and is completing his 11th season. Chosen as the official &ldquo;Most Valuable Player&rdquo; in the circuit last season by his fellow players, the 5-10, 185-pound blonde is an exceptional skater, am excellent play-maker and shooter and may gain league point-gathering honors this season.The much-improved Schmautz is an outstanding shooter who has led the league in goals most of the season and is over the 40-goal mark. MacFarland, who led the league with 46 goals and was league MVP back in 1962, did not score as well as he has in the past, but is an outstanding all-around performer who had a consistently good campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1367/2456849-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="517" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL MacFARLAND &hellip; All-Star LW</figcaption></div>Hucul is an offensive-minded defenseman, a superb puckhandler, and passer with a strong shot who takes more shots than any single player in the circuit. Madigan and Cahan are big, strong, rough defensemen, but both also skate and shoot well. Head, who had some trouble with and old knee injury and gave way to Kelly around mid-season, and is injured again now, is a steady net-minder.This is the unofficial all-star squad. The official league team, as picked by the players, will be announced some time later. &#9632;

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WHL Coaches Sweet On McNeill Name Ace Best Player, Centre

<h2>Wed., March 23</h2>VANCOUVER 2 at VICTORIA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05231/2456929-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="566" height="589"></div><h2>Fri., March 25</h2>SEATTLE 4 at SAN FRANCISCO 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06194/2456922-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="552" height="411"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07153/2456915-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="562" height="207"></div>PORTLAND 2 at VANCOUVER 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-08130/2456908-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="566" height="769"></div><h2>Sat., March 26</h2>SEATTLE 4 at LOS ANGELES 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-09117/2456901-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="544" height="87"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-10102/2456894-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="558" height="529"></div>PORTLAND 1 at VICTORIA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1192/2456887-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="560" height="627"></div> &#9632;

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Western League Summaries

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-14" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1450/2456960-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg"></div>FIRST TEAM(*&mdash;Tied).Outstanding Player &mdash; McNeillOutstanding Rookie &mdash; Bill Orban. Los AngelesOutstanding Coach &mdash; Hal Laycoe, Portland.<h2>SECOND TEAM</h2>BOB BARLOW, VictoriaWAYNE CONNELLY, S. F.MILAN MARCETTA, VictoriaSANDY HUCUL, VictoriaJAKE HENDRICKSON, L. A.DAVE KELLY, Portland<h2>THIRD TEAM</h2>W. ANDY HEBENTON, VictoriaW. LEO LABINE, L. A.C. ART JONES, PortlandD. LARRY HALE, SeattleD. JACK EVANS, VancouverG. AL MILLAR, Victoria<h2>HONORABLE MENTION</h2>Forwards &mdash; Fred Hilts and Gerry Goyer, Portland; Howie Hughes, Vancouver; Willie O&rsquo;Ree and Norm Johnson. L.A.; Guyle Fielder, Seattle; Lou Jankowski, Victoria.Defensemen &mdash; Gordy Sinclair, Seattle; Gerry Odrowski, S. F.; Autry Erickson, Victoria; Ray LaRose, L. A.Goalies &mdash; Jimmy McLeod Seattle; Gilles Villeinure, Vancouver; Marcel Pelletier, L. A.; Jack McCartan, S. F. &#9632;

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Coaches’ All-Star Teams

VICTORIA. B. C.In order to provide a balanced schedule of 36 games at home and 36 games on the road for the two circuits in their interlocking series, the nine American League teams had to take only four-game trips through the West as compared to six-game trips for each of the six Western League teams through the East. In the end, it appears that this less strenuous schedule is the only thing that separated the two leagues in a surprisingly close series.The American League, as expected, did win the series, 38-32-2, and is probably slightly the stronger league. However, its six-game edge simply was not as much as had been anticipated and is pretty much accounted for by the unusually-large advantage enjoyed by home teams. Home teams won 54, lost only 16 and tied two. Thus, home teams won 77.1 per cent of the games as compared to only 53.6 per cent for pro hockey as a general rule.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01584/2456991-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="289" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Del TopoIl</figcaption></div>The American League was 28-62 at home and 10-26-0 on the road. Reversing these figures, the Western League was 26-10-0 at home apd 6-28-2 on the road. Coaches and players in the two circuits find it difficult to account for these differences. They do not seem to feel that slightly different playing rules in the two cities weigh very strongly. Possibly, extreme unfamiliarity with rinks in which it does not usually play was the strongest factor.There were some striking contrasts. Victoria, top winner in the West, was 6-0 at home, but 1-5 on the road. Buffalo and Providence were 4-0 at home and 0-4 on the road, each. Quebec topped the AHL and was the most effective interlocking club in either league, going 5-2-1. Victoria won seven, but lost five.For a complete picture of the interlocking play please See page 11).Seattle was the only WHL team to win two games on the road. San Francisco was the only team to go winless on the road. The other four won once each. L. A. and Seattle, settling for 3-3 records at home, were the only WHL teams to fail to top .500 at home.Three AHL teams, Buffalo, Providence and Springfield, failed to win on the road. Springfield was the least effective team of all, going 2-5-1 overall.Hershey was the real oddball, going 2-2 at home, but 3-1 on the road.The series spiced up the schedules in both circuits considerably.AROUND THE LEAGUE &mdash; After the 24th of the season&rsquo;s 26 weeks, Portland appeared to have its second straight Western League pennant wrapped up, although Victoria had picked up steam and closed in a little. Victoria knocked off Portland 4-1 and Vancouver 4-2 and may have straightened itself out from its long slump. The Leafs could be a prime playoff factor. And they have seasonal edges over all their possible playoff rivals &mdash; 6-4-2 over Portland, 6-4 over Seattle and 8-3 over Vancouver.Recently we referred to San Francisco&rsquo;s playoff hopes as &ldquo;doomed,&rdquo; but the Seals are streaking now while fourth-place Seattle is about breaking even and the Seals could press Seattle to the wire. Boosted by Del Topoll&rsquo;s hat-trick, San Francisco knocked off Seattle in a big game recently, 5-4. The Seals have not lost a game, winning four and losing two, since Boston returned Wayne Maxner to them. Maxner was &ldquo;player of the week&rdquo; in the WHL last week, scoring two goals and setting up five in two games.Portland goalie Don Head, out with torn groin muscles, is now the only WHL goalie below 3.00. He&rsquo;s 2.84. Alternate Dave Kelly slipped to 3.09 &hellip; Jack McCartan strained ligaments in bis left knee and the Seals have no goalie. Doug Favell is back in Oklahoma City. Al Millar may be obtained &hellip; L.A.&rsquo;s Buddy Boone is out for the season and will require an operation on a double hernia.Vancouver&rsquo;s Billy McNeill has no goals and only two assists in his last four games and his lead in the scoring race has shrunk to a few points over Portland&rsquo;s Cliff Schmautz still leads in goals with Seattle&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder &hellip; Schmautz still leads in goals with 41, but 16 goals in the last 20 games has brought San Francisco&rsquo;s Wayne Connelly up to 39. Al Nicholson&rsquo;s three-goal game for San Francisco tied him with Schmautz for the most hat-tricks this season, three.Victoria&rsquo;s Milan Marcetta is now within one of tying the WHL record of 15 &hellip; game-winning assists &hellip; Victoria&rsquo;s Bob Barlow broke a WHL-leading tie with Schmautz by scoring his eighth game-winning goal &hellip; Portland&rsquo;s Jones hit the 30-goal mark for the sixth time in seven seasons. Fred Hilts hit the 20-goal mark in his 37th game &hellip; Lloyd Gilmour called a penalty-shot against Victoria when Sandy Hucul grabbed a puck and scooped it off the goalline. Phil Maloney took it for Vancouver and though he lost control of the puck briefly on his solo dash in, he wound up firing successfully past John Henderson. &#9632;

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WHL’s Showing Seen Better Than Expected In Interlocking Play

(Standings on Tues., Apr. 5)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02525/2457022-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="556" height="185"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto; New York; x-independent.)GAMES COMPLETEDWed., Mar. 30Buffalo 2 at Victoria 4Vancouver 7 at Los Angeles 4Thurs., Mar. 31Vancouver 2 at San Francisco 4Fri., Apr. 1Portland 6 at Seattle 1Sat., Apr. 2San Francisco 5 at Los Angeles 4Vancouver 1 at Portland 2Seattle 6 at Victoria 4Sun., Apr. 3Los Angeles 1 at Portland 13San Francisco 3 at Seattle 5GAMES TO COMETues. Apr. 5San Francisco at VancouverWed. Apr. 6San Francisco at PortlandLos Angeles at VictoriaFri, Apr. 8Los Angeles at San FranciscoVictoria at SeattlePortland at VancouverSat. Apr. 9San Francisco at Los AngelesPortland at SeattleVancouver at VictoriaSun. Apr. 10Seattle at Portland &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><h2>Hughes Proving Worth</h2>JUST RECOVERED FROM chicken pox, of all things, Vancouver&rsquo;s Howie Hughes skated out on the ice and caught a puck in the face and now he was standing in front of the dressing room with a face that looked like he&rsquo;d walked into a fan, but he was ready to go in and dress and go out and play, when it looked like he should have been in a hospital bed. We made the wild guess that he&rsquo;d caught chicken pox from a child of his. He grinned, wincing a little as the stitches stretched, and admitted it was so. He and his wife, the former Betty Williamson, have a boy, 8, and a girl, 6. &ldquo;My wife didn&rsquo;t catch it, but I did. It&rsquo;s a kid&rsquo;s disease and I felt silly, but there wasn&rsquo;t anything funny about it. I had spots all over the bloody place and I was in quarantine for 10 days. I had it bad.&rdquo; He lost 10 pounds.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03446/2457060-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="298" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howie Hughes</figcaption></div>Now, puck-mashed face and all Hughes, who turned 27 on April 4, is back in action and has run his season total of goals to 34. after the 1961 season, Jack Perrin folded his Winnipeg franchise and sold Hughes and three others to Vancouver for $10,000. The other are gone, but Hughes is worth a lot more than the $2,500 it cost to acquire him. He wasn&rsquo;t at first. He recalls, &ldquo;I had no idea where the goal was. One game, The Fox (Phil Maloney) put me in five times on breakaways. On four of them I missed the goal completely and on the fifth I hit the goal-post. But after a confident-building season with St. Paul in the Central League, scoring 30 goals, he returned to pot 24 for Vancouver last season, and has been sensational this season. &ldquo;Confidence is the biggest thing,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m shooting more. I practice shooting a lot, mostly wrist shots.&rdquo; Canuck manager Max McNab calls him &ldquo;a big league shooter and a big league skater!&rdquo; Although only 5-9 and 170 pounds, he&rsquo;s always been solid defensively. He&rsquo;s a cinch to move up in tlie expansion.<h2>Bucks Reacted To Adversity</h2>AT THE BEGINNING of the current Western League season, we picked the teams to finish in the following order: Victoria, Portland, Vancouver, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles. Although San Francisco could still toss a monkey wrench in things, it now appears that the clubs will finish in this order: Portland. Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. We don&rsquo;t feel we did too bad, though no medals are in order, Portland and Seattle did more than expected, Victoria and San Francisco less than expected, Vancouver and L.A. just about as expected.Portland reacted to adversity better than &lsquo; Victoria and thus upset the favored Leafs, The Bucks deserve special credit for the balanced team effort that paid off for them this season, because we do not believe they had the best material to begin with. Whatever strength a coach can provide was given by Hal Laycoe. We have strongly recommended his selection as this newspaper&rsquo;s &ldquo;coach of the year&rdquo; in all hockey.Pennant-winners do not always win playoffs, nor do we always pick them, but we have to pick Portland this season. They&rsquo;ve shown they can win the big games for some time now and they have the style and confidence to do well under playoff pressure. Portland feels our selection of them to finish second this season was the &ldquo;insult&rdquo; which fired them to the pennant. Let&rsquo;s see what they do now that we&rsquo;ve saddled them with the burden of being playoff favorites, but it could be a wild post-season session.<h2>Victoria Ending In Red</h2>IT SEEMS TO HAVE escaped notice that Shasta Corp., proprietors of the S.F. - Oakland club have swapped their Ice Follies and Fresno TV station KJEO for the majority interest in Subscription TV Inc., which is headed for a West Coast comeback. Pay TV could play a key role in NHL expansion plans. In L. A., disappointed NHL bidders Dan Reeves and Tony Owen have been meeting secretly to discuss a merger which would return Reeves&rsquo; Blades to the L.A. ice for one more season, strengthening their legal position, and setting up a final desperate effort to win back the NHL berth from Jack Kent Cooke.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04342/2457053-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="289" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buck Houle</figcaption></div>L. A. Sports Arena executive Bill Nicholas warns that if Cooke does pull his Lakers and new hockey team out of the building, &ldquo;our story is going to be told to the press and media so that the public will become informed. Then, I think pro hockey and pro basketball will receive such negative reaction that both sports will be damaged for some time&rdquo; &hellip; Anxious to receive better material than new L.A. or Oakland teams could provide, Bob Breitbard in San Diego is close to closing a deal for the Gulls to act as a Detroit farm in the WHL next season Losing Pittsburgh to the NHL in 1967, Detroit may shut down there a year ahead of schedule.Although Victoria has passed 106,000 in attendance and $200,000 in gross revenue for the first time, manager Buck Houle, working on a $250,000 budget, admits the club will still finish in the red. It still looks like the Toronto farm will wind up in Phoenix &hellip; Victoria defenseman Autry Erickson, a likely expansion promotee, lives with wife Carol and sons Curt and Jeff on a 1.200-acre green and cattle farm near Claresholm. Alberta, which he has owned for three years, but he hopes to settle in L. A. eventually. &ldquo;1 like the Southern California sunshine.&rdquo; he grins. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s really beautiful and obviously a fine place to live and raise kids.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Western Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY MATT DENNIS</div>Don&rsquo;t be vague &hellip; say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKYDon&rsquo;t be vague &hellip; say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKYST. PAUL, Minn. &mdash;Minnesota Rangers skated to their second straight Central Pro Hockey League championship making the windup week of the schedule a mere formality.The Rangers entered the closing week of the 70-game season with a nine point edge over the second-place Oklahoma City Blazers, who had four games remaining. Even if the Boston farmhands had won them all, they would have still fallen a point shy of the frontrunning Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01428/2457098-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="302" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fred Shero</figcaption></div>Meanwhile, Oklahoma City finished second behind the Rangers, with Tulsa Oilers third and St. Louis Braves fourth. Memphis and Houston missed the post-season playoff round.Minnesota Coach Fred Shero was pointing his Rangers to the forthcoming playoffs with pride.&ldquo;Our defense has been strong with Mike McMahon back in hitting form. When he first returned from New York, he wasn&rsquo;t getting too many men with the body but now he&rsquo;s demanding their respect when he gives them those 180 pounds at once. Bob Ash and Terry Ball have come along well as newcomers with Al Lebrun in front of goalie Wayne Rutledge and I&rsquo;m pleased with the way they&rsquo;ve performed,&rdquo; said Shero.&ldquo;George Konik was steady whether on offense or defense and when you have a goalie like Rutledge keeping his average under the 2.90 mark, you haven&rsquo;t too much to complain about,&rdquo; continued the coach who has guided his club into the playoffs for the third successive season in the CPHL.Lebrun was called up to the New York Rangers to help out on defense for a weekend when Jim Neilson and Bob Plager were on the injured list but returned for the late Minnesota drive.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1255/2457091-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="520" height="706"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED JOYAL&hellip; Scoring Again</figcaption></div>OKLAHOMA CITY &mdash; As the Blazers grabbed second place over the full schedule, playingcoach Harry Sinden was ready to go with his regular lineup for the playoffs.&ldquo;Goalie Gerry Chee vers is getting his timing back after that layoff with the injured shoulder and with Doug Favell back from loan to San Francisco, I think we&rsquo;ll be all right,&rdquo; said the popular coach.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have to improve on our road record when we hit the playoffs,&rdquo; said Sinden. In playoffs you have to win in the other team&rsquo;s rink too, or you&rsquo;re soon out of it and I don&rsquo;t want to hang them up too soon.&rdquo; I want to win that title.&rdquo;ST. LOUIS &mdash; Coach Gus Kyle was pleased with the manner his Braves kept battling in the late stretches of the schedule.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs last year but this year we wanted to so badly. Art Stratton has been scoring and setting up plays for us and Gaudet is the loop&rsquo;s scoring leader.&rdquo;Denis Dejordy battled Minnesota&rsquo;s Wayne Rutledge for the goal-tending honors with his goals-against mark under the 3.00 figure.&ldquo;We appear to be in quite good shape now with only Camille Henry having trouble with his elbow and I feel he will be going in high gear in the playoffs,&rdquo; added Kyle.TULSA &mdash; Once coach Rudy Migay had Lowell MacDonald and Ed Joyal back in condition, they started scoring, the Oilers surged past Memphis Wings to grab fourth position. The Oilers showed 10 successive victories on home ice in their late dash through the schedule.Migay singled out newcomers Barry Trapp a defenseman and Kenny Campbell, a centerman as part of the combination for the Oilers&rsquo; comeback.&ldquo;Due to working back home in Saskatchewan, he couldn&rsquo;t get away to play until we hit the halfway mark but he has helped shore up our defense. Campbell took a couple of games to get adjusted to our style of play and then started moving. Remember he wasn&rsquo;t getting too much work with Victoria in the Western League but he&rsquo;s moving now,&rdquo; said Migay.In defeating Oklahoma City 6-4 on home ice, the Oilers drew 4,029 fans through the turnstiles running their season&rsquo;s mark to 131,906 bettering last year&rsquo;s 128,651 figures and they had three home games remaining.MEMPHIS &mdash; Memphis hockey fans were saddened by the death of 22-year-old centerman Butch Paul in an auto accident. He had been voted the team&rsquo;s most valuable player with announcement scheduled for the Saturday following the fatal accident.Rightwinger Doug Roberts remained a candidate for the league&rsquo;s rookie of the year award showing 20 goals and 40 assists for 60 Doints.As the Wings faded from playoff contention, their attendance had failed to reach the 100,000 mark and with only three games remaining at home they only showed 92,022. Although they failed to win a playoff berth last season, they attracted 130.276 hockey fans in their first winter in the city. &#9632;

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Minnesota Wins League Title Again

<h2>FINAL STANDINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02358/2457129-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="568" height="178"></div>(NHL Affiliation: 1. Toronto: 2, Montreal; 3. Chicago; 4. Detroit; 5. New York; 6. Boston.)GAMES COMPLETEDTues.. Mar. 29Memphis 1 at Houston 6Wed.. Mar. 30St. Louis 1 at Oklahoma City 2Thurs., Mar. 31Oklahoma City 2 at Houston 2Sat.. Apr. 2Houston 3 at Minnesota 0Tulsa 3 at Oklahoma City 1 &#9632;

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<h2>Tues., March 15</h2>TULSA 6 at MEMPHIS 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03279/2457216-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="566" height="675"></div><h2>Wed., March 16</h2>ST. LOUIS 0 at MINNESOTA 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04229/2457209-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="560" height="409"></div><h2>Fri., March 18</h2>ST. LOUIS 3 at MEMPHIS 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05166/2457202-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="574" height="311"></div>(double minors) 2:14. Hughes 7:22. Kilpatrick 13:46. Watson 19:11. Attendance: 2,279.<h2>Sat., March 19</h2>ST. LOUIS 1 at TULSA 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06134/2457195-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="558" height="557"></div>OKLAHOMA CITY 2 at HOUSTON 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07122/2457188-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="562" height="377"></div><h2>Sun., March 20</h2>MEMPHIS 3 at MINNESOTA 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08111/2457181-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="570" height="429"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0995/2457174-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="554" height="295"></div>OKLAHOMA CITY 4 at TULSA 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1080/2457167-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="556" height="869"></div>ST. LOUIS 3 at HOUSTON 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1170/2457160-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="564" height="429"></div> &#9632;

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Central Hockey League Summaries

<h2>EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE</h2>Finals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01348/2457289-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="566" height="83"></div>(Nashville leads best-of-seven finals 2-0).GAMES COMPLETEDSat.. Apr. 2Nashville 4 at Long Island 2Sun., Apr. 3Nashville 1 at Long Island 0GAMES TO COMEThurs., Apr. 7Long Island at NashvilleSat., Apr. 9Long Island at NashvilleSun., Apr. 10Long Island at Nashville(if necessary)Tues.. Apr. 12Long Island at Nashville(if necessary)<h2>NORTHERN DIVISION</h2>Finals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02299/2457282-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="563" height="86"></div>(Long Island wins Northern uivision finals 4-1).GAMES COMPLETEDFri., Mar. 25Clinton 0 at Long Island 1Sun., Mar. 27Clinton 2 at Long Island 5Tues., Mar. 29Long Island 1 at Clinton 3Wed.. Mar. 30Long Island 5 at Clinton 4Fri.. Apr. 1Clinton 0 at Long Island 3SEMI-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03240/2457275-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="554" height="83"></div>(Long Island wins best-of-five division semi-finals 3-0).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04186/2457268-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="563" height="77"></div>(Clinton wins best-of-five division semi-finals 3-0).<h2>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h2>Finals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-05147/2457261-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="565" height="82"></div>(Nashville wins Southern Division finals 4-0).GAMES COMPLETEDFri.. Mar. 25Charlotte 2 at Nashville 4Sat.. Mar. 26Charlotte 1 at Nashville 3Sun.. Mar. 27Nashville 2 at Charlotte 1Tues., Mar. 29Nashville 6 at Charlotte 1SEMI-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-06126/2457254-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="568" height="80"></div>(Nashville wins best-of-five division semi-finals 3-0).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-07117/2457247-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="558" height="82"></div>(Charlotte wins best-of-five division semi-finals 3-2). &#9632;

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EHL Playoffs

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div>CLINTON, N.Y. &mdash;Often times after a trade is made, there are post mortems concerning what the deals did for their new clubs. As far as the Eastern League transaction between Clinton and Greensboro, in which Dom DiBerardino and Don Davidson exchanged uniforms, there is happiness on both sides.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-226/2457320-1-eng-US/f0017-222.jpg" title="f0017-22" width="274" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Davidson</figcaption></div>DiBerardino&rsquo;s fourth place finish in the scoring race made the Gens happy, but Davidson is also making life beautiful here for Pat Kelly&rsquo;s Comets. Due to his job in Ottawa, Don only agreed to play for the Comets on a partial basis during the season. That&rsquo;s why he performed in only 26 games during the regular season.But he demonstrated great effort in those game (42 points) and helped the Comets finish second in the division. In the playoffs, however, he is available for fulltime duty, and his value was never more evident than in the clinching double overtime triumph over Johnstown. He posted the hat trick in the 3-2 win and his clincher found him almost stampeded by his mates.Davidson decided last fall that he wouldn&rsquo;t return to Greensboro and that he&rsquo;d stay out of hockey. Wren Blair and Ed Stanley figured that perhaps Don might play if he was nearer his home. So the Comets obtained permission to talk with him, learned he would play at home and sometimes on the road, and then made the deal that returned DiBerardino to Greensboro for the lights to Davidson.The seasoned veteran tallied eight points in the Johnstown series to lead his club. His pilot, Pat Kelly, pinpointed Davidson as the man who could prove the key figure in the Long Island series.&ldquo;We had center ice trouble before we got Davidson. He had a good job and he was reluctant even to play part time. But when Jim Jago got hurt in December and was lost for the season, we had to secure a strong center. And as far as we are concerned, there&rsquo;s none better than Davidson,&rdquo; Kelly said.Don won the league scoring crown in 1963-64, and at one time played with New Haven where he was center for Gordie Stratton of the Ducks. If the Comets should get by the Ducks, Kelly might have a problem transporting Davidson to the south. But Pat says he&rsquo;ll worry about that problem when and if it arises.CLINTON: Borden Smith&rsquo;s hat trick at Johnstown won vital game for Comets. Don Davidson&rsquo;s goal with 59 seconds left sent clinching third game into overtime where he eventually won contest too. Ed Babiuk playing spectacularly in cage for Comets. Lorne O&rsquo;Donnell is checking aggressively in the playoffs. New York Rangers interested in Jack Kane and Smith. Pat Kelly bothered by flu. Kane, Davidson, Bill Glashan and Dave Armstrong hale again after injuries.LONG ISLAND: &ldquo;We seem to be at our best when we play the top clubs,&rdquo; says coach John Muckier. His strategy for Clinton was to put Butch Morris on Borden Smith and Bob Sabourin on Bill Bannerman. Gordie Dibley&rsquo;s goaltending at New Haven drew raves. Veteran Gene Achtymichuk welcomed rest between Blade and Comet series. Russ McClenaghan&rsquo;s nine points led Ducks against Blades.JERSEY: Reports here indicate that goalie Norm DeFelice may call it quits. The leg injuries he suffered this year with the Devils has caused the great netminder to lose some of his enthusiasm. Reports here also indicate that Benny Woit is not secure as the club&rsquo;s pilot for next season.NASHVILLE: Wayne Clairmont&rsquo;s overtime goal at Knoxville proved turning point of that series. Wayne incidentally is known as &ldquo;Weno&rdquo; to his mates. Marv Edwards had great series vs. Knights with 1.33 average and a shutout. George Standing reinjured leg ligament. Poll showed nine of 13 Flyers wear some kind of dental plate. Flyer fans contributed to pay fines of Edwards and Gilles St. Jacques for their antics at Johnstown.CHARLOTTE: Checkers won first playoff round for first time in three years, having lost three straight the last two campaigns. Moe Savard and Claude Ouimet slightly injured in crash with goal post. Checkers played golf in time off and coach Fred Creighton entertained bachelors Ernie Dyda, Tom Polonic, Andre Hinse and Jim Lane with grilled steaks. Ralph Winfield&rsquo;s goal in double overtime won deciding game with Greensboro. Goalie Ricky Charron had trouble with Don Carter, who knocked him unconscious and with a Gen&rsquo;s fan who hit him with a paper cup. Ouimet had hat trick to win one game.NEW HAVEN: Blades still talking about game lost to Long Island in which they outshot Ducks, 35 to 6. Jackie Leelair&rsquo;s problem for next season will be to shore up the defense for the offense was more than adequate. The club&rsquo;s 353 goals allowed was topped only by Jacksonville. LeClair&rsquo;s status as GM and coach for next season up in air.JOHNSTOWN: Dave Lucas called up by Pittsburgh when Jets were eliminated by Clinton. Goalie Andy Brown went to Baltimore and Ralph MacSweyn was set to go to Long Island to fill John Brophy&rsquo;s shoes but the league vetoed that move. ReggieTaschuk&rsquo;s 4 games with Memphis and the travel involved had him weary for the playoffs here. In one stretch he had 10 hours sleep in the previous 66. Dick Roberge is an assistant golf pro here in off-season. He suffered toe fracture in final game.GREENSBORO: Mike Draper&rsquo;s ankle injury which caused his absence in last three playoff games with Charlotte was deemed key factor in elimination by coach Ron Spong. Spong&rsquo;s knee also gave him trouble. Gens blanked Charlotte five straight times at home including two playoff tilts. Garry Sharp received trophy for his 300th goal as Gen. Jacques Monette made 56 saves in double overtime finale.KNOXVILLE: Eddie Bun-called up by Providence after its scouts had looked him over. Knights were beaten three straight in playoffs by Nashville for first such debacle in their history. Club blanked five times by Marv Edwards this year including finale. Coach Doug Bentley remained here after season&rsquo;s close to help on next year&rsquo;s season ticket sale, play some golf and tour the area. Don Labelle likely to be back next year.JACKSONVILLE: Pat Egan&rsquo;s status to be determined at a board of directors meeting. Rockets figure they will lose Chuck Goddard next year to Charlotte for they look for the Southern Division rookie of the year to be recalled. Club used more than 30 players this season. &#9632;

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Don Davidson Made Clinton Trade Look Good; Long Island, Nashville Set For Title Final

ALLAN CUPEASTONTARIO SENIOR LEAGUE<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0889/2457442-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="553" height="80"></div>(Guelph wns best-of-seven finals 4-n.GAMES COMPLETEDFri. Mar. 25Kingston 1 at Guelph 2Sat. Mar. 26Guelph 5 at Kingston 0Tues. Mar. 29Kingston 3 at Guelph 5Thurs. Mar. 31Guelph 3 at Kingston 4Fri. Apr. 1Kingston 2 at Guelph 4SEMI-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0978/2457435-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="564" height="79"></div>(Kingston wins best-of-seven semifinals 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1069/2457428-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="556" height="82"></div>(Guelph wins best-of-seven semifinals 4-3).ONTARIO SENIORSEMI-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1158/2457421-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="556" height="84"></div>(Collingwood leads best-of-seven Eastern semi-finals).ONTARIO - MARITIMESQUARTER-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1250/2457414-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="547" height="82"></div>(Morrisburg leads best-of-five Eastern quarter-finals 2-1).WESTALBERTA - SASKATCHEWAN<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1339/2457407-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="556" height="80"></div>(Drumheller wins best-of-five Western quarter-finals 3-0)..THUNDER BAY SENIOR<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1434/2457400-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="562" height="81"></div>(Best-of-seven finals tied 3-3).WESTERN INTERNATIONAL(Kimberley wins best - of - seven finals 4-1).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1529/2457393-1-eng-US/f0017-152.jpg" title="f0017-15" width="565" height="79"></div>(Kimberley wins best - of - seven finals 4-1).MANITOBA SENIORFINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1627/2457386-1-eng-US/f0017-162.jpg" title="f0017-16" width="553" height="84"></div>(Best-of-seven finals tied 3-3).MEMORIAL CUPEASTQUEBEC JUNIORFINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1721/2457379-1-eng-US/f0017-172.jpg" title="f0017-17" width="553" height="80"></div>(Shawinigan leads best-of-five Provincial finals 1-0).NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIORFinals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1815/2457372-1-eng-US/f0017-182.jpg" title="f0017-18" width="553" height="83"></div>(Best-of-seven finals tied 2-2).ONTARIO-MARITIME JUNIORQUARTER-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1911/2457365-1-eng-US/f0017-192.jpg" title="f0017-19" width="551" height="88"></div>(Halifax leads best-of-seven Eastern quarter-finals 2-1).WESTTHUNDER BAY-MANITOBA<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-208/2457358-1-eng-US/f0017-202.jpg" title="f0017-20" width="552" height="82"></div>(Fort William wins best-of-seven Western quarter-finals 4-0).SASKATCHEWAN JUNIORFinals<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-216/2457351-1-eng-US/f0017-212.jpg" title="f0017-21" width="550" height="81"></div>(Best-of-seven finals tied 3-3). &#9632;

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Looking At The Playoff Races

WATERLOO, la.Rochester&rsquo;s Mustangs picked up two points in their struggle for a berth in the United States Hockey League playoffs.They did it without even seeing ice, as USHL Commissioner Hal Trumble announced awarding of a forfeit to the Mustangs of the game with Fox Valley originally scheduled at Rochester on January 29.Bus trouble prevented the Astros from reaching the Minnesota city.UNITED STATES LEAGUE(Standings on Mon., Mar. 20)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-236/2457473-1-eng-US/f0017-232.jpg" title="f0017-23" width="555" height="184"></div>* &mdash; (Won four-point game from Marquette.) &#9632;

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Rochester Nears USHL Playoffs

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01354/2457504-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="532" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY RIVARD&hellip;Tops With 133 Points</figcaption></div>FORT WAYNE, Ind.The Muskegon Mohawks clinched the season championship of the International Hockey League early, finishing with a margin of 15 points, but the race for the various scoring titles carried right down to the final buzzer.Bobby Rivard, tireless little center of the Fort Wayne Komets, who was nosed out of the point title last season on the final day, reversed that ending and captured the honors in the final game, in which all three contenders participated.Rivard finished with 133 points. Bob Bailey and Guy Trottier, both of Dayton, were only one point behind. Rivard had 42 goals and 91 assists. Bailey had 45 goals and 87 assists, Trottier 68 and 64.Trottier and Rivard had 131 going into the final game, Bailey 130. The Komet center had a goal and an assist, Trottier scored once and Bailey twice. It was one of the few times that Bailey had failed to register an assist in a game.That was the point-scoring finish. The goal-scoring title was even more closely contested and finally wound up all even, with Merv Dubchak of the Komets and Gary Schall of the Mohawks having 71, both far over the previous league record of 63, set by Joe Kastelic in the 1962-63 season. Dubchak appeared an almost certain winner, with the Komets having another game to play after Muskegon had closed out its schedule but the hard shooting right winger was shut out while the Komets scored seven times, missing several efforts by mere inches.All kinds of other records were broken. The Komet line of Rivard, Dubchak and Johnny Goodwin scored 364 points, surpassing the previous record of 351, set by Ken Saunders, Moe Bartoli and the late Bruce Lea in 1962-63. The Dayton line of Trottier, Bailey and Bob Regis set a new goal record of 153.Trottier tied a league record with seven hat tricks for the season.The Mohawks set a new team goal record of 376. Dayton, with 347 also passed last year&rsquo;s goal record 344, set by the Komets.Len Thomson of the Komets and Joe Kastelic of Muskegon added to their already established career records for total points and goals, respectively. Thomson, first IHL player to reach 1,000 points, finished the regular season schedule with a total of 1,054.Rivard&rsquo;s 133 points were only one short of Chick Chalmers&rsquo; record 134, set in 1959-60 with Louisville. His 91 assists were short of Chalmers&rsquo; record.Attendance figures that were available showed that Fort Wayne again led the league with a whopping 180.273, for an average of 5,150. Dayton had 106,956, Des Moines 108,114 and Port Huron 85,413. Muskegon figures were not available but the Mohawks far exceeded last year&rsquo;s attendance. &#9632;

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Komets’ Rivard Wins Scoring Title; Muskegon Regular Season Champs

FORT WAYNE, Ind.The annual International Hockey League All-Star team was announced as the season ended and there was not a single repeater from last year. However, defenseman Lionel Repka of the Komets and left wing Bill LeCaine of Port Huron moved up from last year&rsquo;s second team to the first squad.(Muskegon and Fort Wayne dominated the teams picking up nine of the 14 positions).Following are the first and second All-Star teams for the 1965-66 season. Selection for all awards by the sports writers and sportscasters in the six representative cities based on the individual players&rsquo; performances over the current season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02268/2457549-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="289" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy LeCaine</figcaption></div><h2>FIRST TEAM</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03179/2457542-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="1120" height="271"></div><h2>SECOND TEAM</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04135/2457535-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="1122" height="269"></div>WINNER OF THE JAMES GATSCHENE MEMORIAL TROPHYGary Schall, Muskegon &mdash; Runner-Up, Len Thomson, Fort WayneLEADING ROOKIE FOR THE 1965-66 SEASONFrank Golembrosky, Port Huron Runner-up, Rene Drolet, MuskegonLEADING DEFENSEMAN FOR THE 1965-66 SEASONBob Lemieux, Muskegon &mdash; Runner-up, Lionel Repka, Fort Wayne &#9632;

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All New Faces Named To First ‘Dream’ Squad

INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0599/2457594-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="574" height="81"></div>(Port Huron wins best-of-seven semi-finals 4-0).GAMES COMPLETEDTues. Mar. 29Port Huron 4 at Muskegon 3Thurs., Mar. 31Muskegon 2 at Port Huron 6Sat., Apr. 2Port Huron 9 at Muskegon 2Sun., Apr. 3Muskegon 2 at Port Huron 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0685/2457587-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="580" height="81"></div>(Dayton leads best-of-seven semifinals 3-1).GAMES COMPLETEDTues., Mar. 29Dayton 6 at Fort Wayne 3Thurs.. Mar. 31Fort Wayne 4 at Dayton 5Sat., Apr. 2Dayton 4 at Fort Wayne 5&rsquo;Sun., Apr. 3Fort Wayne 1 at Dayton 7FINAL SCORING<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0774/2457580-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="565" height="470"></div> &#9632;

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Playoff Races

KITCHENER, Ont.The Kitchener Rangers are rapidly becoming junior hockey&rsquo;s &lsquo; Cinderella&rsquo; team and unless the Oshawa Generals can do something about stopping them, they should make the grade.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01331/2457625-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="304" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Jones</figcaption></div>Wally Kullman&rsquo;s brash Rangers have won a place in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association final playoffs against the Generals as the result of their stunning defeat of the Toronto Marlboros last weekend in the OHA semi-finals.The Rangers, who just managed to squeeze into seventh place in the nine-team junior circuit, started their playoff emergence by overpowering the Niagara Falls Flyers in the quarter-finals. The Flyers were last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup winners.Then came the semi-finals against the Marlboros. Hockey observers predicted it would be the end of the line for the Rangers once they met up with the Dukes. For a time it appeared they would be right. Toronto jumped off to a 2-1 lead in the series but the Kitchener kids never stopped fighting back.Rangers forced the best-of-seven series to eight games when they came back to win the seventh game with the Marlboros on top 3-2. The teams played one tie game in the round.Kullman was pleased with the showing of his underdog Rangers. &ldquo;Our boys never let up and it paid off for them,&rdquo; said Kullman, who once travelled the minor professional hockey trail as a player and later a coach.The Rangers dumped the Marlboros 3-1 in the deciding game and they got a big two-goal performance from Bob Jones, who has been playing sterling hockey in playoff games for Kitchener.Jim Krulicki scored what proved to be the winning goal for the Rangers, who are red hot going into the OHA final. Their opponents, the Oshawa Generals, have had an eight-day layoff since eliminating Montreal Canadiens in the semi-finals.Winners of the Kitchener-Oshawa final will advance into the Eastern Canada Memorial Cup finals for the right to oppose the West in the Canadian championship series. &#9632;

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Kitchener Upsets Marlies To Meet Oshawa For Title

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-08104/2457680-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg"></div>SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S ISSUE<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Pictured Boston player.3. Hat-trick scorers receive these.7. These brothers play for Victoria.8. L.A.&rsquo;s new NHL publicist.11. Railway (abbr.)12. An NHL linesman.14. Number of minutes Keon was penalized last season.15. Initials of a Hawk forward.17. Initials of an AHL manager-coach.18. Ed Litzenberger once captained this team (abbr.)20. Number worn by Jacques Laperriere.22. Billy Dea&rsquo;s birth month, (abbr.)24. Canadien defenseman and penalty killer.27. Buffalo&rsquo;s goalie answers to this.28. Initials of Lunde, exHawk.29. Given name of a Montreal centre.31. This Leaf will wed in May.34. Be.35. Bruce Gamble was one on March 5 against Chicago.37. Initials of Regan of Baltimore.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. This Canadien hails from Kirkland Lake, Ont.2. Ed Joyal&rsquo;s native province (abbr.)3. An AHL manager.4. Initials of Caron, parttime Bison last season.5. Former Hab defenseman, first name Bob.6. A Rochester player.7. Defensemen employ this in checking.9. Ed Johnston is of this descent.10. Initials of Mosdell, ex-NHL forward.13. Gary Smith&rsquo;s birthplace.16. Former Ranger, first name Jim.18. Hull&rsquo;s farm is stocked with these.19. Played goal for Detroit on Mar. 20.21. Detroit defense reinforcement.23. Marcel Pronovost&rsquo;s birthstone.25. Name given a Maple Leaf.26. Initials of Johnson, former Montreal defenseman.30. Each (abbr.)32. 12th & 19th letters of the alphabet.33. Initials of an NHL mentor.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S SOLUTION</h2><h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Plager6. B.L.8. Ran.9. Gerry10. Oct.11. A.A.12. YN.13. V.H.14. Indian16. Oil17. R.N.18. Sn.20. Ted.22. Nab24. Ron.25. Be26. Teacher30. P.E.I.32. Fault33. Sask.35. G.L.36. Towels<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Provost2. Laehine3. Ant4. Egan5. Read6. Bryan7. Lynn15. Irvin19. Robert21. Dentist23. Abel24. Raps27. A.F.28. Cage29. Hull31. Ea.34. K.O. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUESEMI-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02279/2457746-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="568" height="91"></div>(Oshawa wins best-of-seven semifinals 4-1).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03226/2457739-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="560" height="87"></div>(Kitchener wins best-of-seven semifinals 4-3, one tied).GAMES COMPLETEDSun., Mar. 20Kitchener 1 at Toronto 6Tues.. Mar. 22Toronto 3 at Kitchener 4Wed.. Mar. 23Kitchener 2 at Toronto 4Fri.. Mar. 25Toronto 4 at Kitchener 4Sun.. Mar. 27Kitchener 5 at Toronto 3Tues., Mar. 29Toronto 4 at Kitchener 0Thurs.. Mar. 31Kitchener 4 at Toronto 2Sat., Apr. 2Toronto 1 at Kitchener 3QUARTER-FINALS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04196/2457732-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="564" height="97"></div>(Kitchener wins best-of-seven quarter-finals 3-1, two ties)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05164/2457725-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="562" height="87"></div>(Oshawa wins best-of-seven quarter-finals 4-3).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06133/2457718-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="568" height="85"></div>(Montreal wins best-of-seven quarter-finals 3-0, two ties).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07116/2457711-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="558" height="87"></div>(Toronto wins best-of-seven quarter-finals 4-2). &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY JIM PROUDFOOT</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01199/2457777-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ORLAND KURTENBACH&hellip; Rather Score Goals</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;One of the reasons Toronto Maple Leafs didn&rsquo;t last long in the 1965 Stanlay Cup Playoffs was their lack of toughness, according to coach Punch Imlach.That&rsquo;s the reason Imlach asked particularly for one Orland Kurtenbach when he was arranging to give Boston Bruins Ron Stewart in an offseason trade. During Kurtenbach&rsquo;s two National Hockey league seasons, he had qualified as the undeclared heavyweight boxing champion of the sport and Imlach respected him for that skill.Kurtenbach also happened to be a sound, if unspectacular hockey player. &ldquo;He gave me a policeman for my bench, which we lacked last season,&rdquo; Imlach explained. &ldquo;I was right, too. I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s lost a fight all season. Any time anybody starts trouble with us he&rsquo;s got to look out for Kurtenbach.Kurt, known as Lurch to his teammates, recently proved that he also can do an effective job as a first-stringer.He was forced into regular left-wing duty when Brit Selby injured a foot and did a splendid job. In addition, he turned out to be a steady penalty killer when coach Imlach became disillusioned with the way Bob Pulford was handling that assignment and did it effectively, too.Now 29, Kurtenbach has been a professional since 1957, when he started out in New York Rangers&rsquo; organization.Boston Bruins drafted him in 1961 but it wasn&rsquo;t until 1963 that he caught on with that club. He got 18 goals in two full NHL seasons there before the Stewart trade cropped up.Kurtenbach, Andy Hebenton and Pat Stapleton became Leaf property in that transaction. Leafs failed to protect Stapleton in the draft and lost him to Chicago Black Hawks, with whom he&rsquo;s been a star.Kurtenbach, an articulate, thoughtful fellow, doesn&rsquo;t enjoy his reputation as a good fighter.&ldquo;I hate it,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d much rather be known for my ability to score goals or kill penalties. What&rsquo;s more, kids see it and they don&rsquo;t understand why it is that men have to fight sometimes.&ldquo;But there are some guys who are always looking for trouble and it becomes necessary too, shall we say, straighten them out. Somebody must do it.&rdquo;Imlach doesn&rsquo;t want the impression to get around that he thinks fighting is a must in hockey. But he regards it as a good sign.&ldquo;When they realize that what they&rsquo;re after is worth fighting for, then you&rsquo;re getting somewhere as a hockey team,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;And situations arise where fighting is the only solution. &#9632;

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Kurtenbach NHL’s Best Fighter

BOSTON, Mass.Johnny Bucyk, who has enjoyed a fine second half of the season to make this his most productive scoring season, has been voted the Elizabeth C. Dufresne Trophy for the second time &hellip; The trophy was awarded by Boston&rsquo;s hockey writers and broadcasters for outstanding performance in home games &hellip; Bucyk won the trophy in 1962-63 when he scored 27 goals &hellip; Previously Bucyk had been voted the gallery gods Eddie Shore award as the team&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player &hellip; Teddy Green went home, driving to Winnipeg. Green was unable to get his ailing leg back into shape to return to the lineup and Emms wouldn&rsquo;t permit him to take a chance on further injury. &#9632;

Bucyk Voted ‘Best’ Bruin

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Reg Fleming of New York became the National League&rsquo;s new &lsquo;bad man&rsquo; as he led the penalty parade with 166 minutes, including 53 minors, six majors, two 10 - minute misconducts and one game misconduct. He was assessed 124 minutes with New York and 42 minutes with Boston before being traded in mid-season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02131/2457832-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="259" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reg Fleming</figcaption></div>The Rangers were also team leaders in penalties with 894 minutes, total penalty minutes for the 210 games this season was 4.995, the lowest total in three seasons.Roger Crozier of Detroit led the shutout parade among goal-tenders for the second straight season as he recorded seven shutouts, one more than last season. Toronto however, led team totals in shutouts with eight, including four by Bruce Gamble. All eight Leafs shutouts were in the second half of the season. &#9632;

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April 9, 1966

Maritime Reader Wins Fan Award

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