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April 30, 1966
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Bathgate Regained Scoring Touch On Wing
“you like 7up likes you” “you like 7up likes you” DETROIT, Mich,— Hockey’s biggest flop this season? Andy Bathgate, without a doubt. He was the key figure last summer in a big trade the Red Wings made with Leafs. Sid Abel, Redbirds’ coach and general manager, gave up four good players to get him from Toronto and must have wondered why all winter. Bathgate started impressively, then went 36 games without scoring and contributed only four goals during the schedule’s critical second half. That’s all changed now, Bathgate is Wings’ hottest shooter, as they engage the heavily favored Canadiens in the Stanley Cup final. Bathgate got five goals in the six semi-final games it took Detroit to eliminate Chicago Black Hawks. All five Bathgate scores were off right wing on Detroit’s improved power play. Wings totalled 10…
Another Jacaues Plante Arrives-And He’s A Netminder, Too
QUEBEC CITY, Que. The name Jacques Plante, to most hockey fans, reminds them of the colorful sin time winner of the Vezina Trophy who used to goal for the Montreal. Canadiens and the New York Rangers. In Quebec City, however, when hockey fans today hear the name Jacques Plante they think of the hot prospect playing junior hockey for Quebec West, in the Quebec District Junior Hockey League. Believe it or not this new Jacques Plante is also a net-minder. It is not his name that has made him well known in Quebec but rather his own standout goaling that he has demonstrated this year, his first in Junior hockey. Quebec West is under the farm system of the Quebec Aces of the American Hockey League. According to Paul Dumont, director of the Aces’ farm…
Connie Madigan Named WHL’s Best Defenseman
SEATTLE, Wash. Connie Madigan of Portland has been named winner of the Outstanding Defenseman Award and Guyle Fielder of Seattle has been named winner of the Fred J. Hume Trophy as the player who best combined gentlemanly conduct with skilled performance in the Western League for the regular 1965-66 The official awards, which inseason. The official awards, which include $300 cash prizes, were voted by the circuit’s players on a 5-3-1 point basis. The 31-year-old Madigan, a five-year pro, nosed out Fred Hucul of Victoria, 231 points to’224 in the voting, which was done on a 5-3-1 basis. Hucul was the winner of a similar, but unofficial honor in recent voting by the league’s six coaches. Third in the official voting was Vancouver’s Larry Cahan with 191 points. From there it was a…
Oklahoma City Breezes To First CPHL Title Knocking Off St. Louis, Tulsa In Nine Games
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. — Oklahoma City Blazers, rolling through the Central Pro Hockey League playoffs like a runaway locomotive, captured their first league championship at the expense of the Tulsa Oilers. The Blazers swept the allOklahoma final from Tulsa in a best-of-seven series winning 4-0 to take the Jack Adams Trophy, won last season by Minnesota Rangers. Coach Harry Sinden had the Blazers, a Boston Bruin farm club, in high gear throughout the playoffs. The team was hardly extended in the semifinals as they ousted St. Louis Braves in five games. In all the Blazers needed only nine games to annex the playoff championship and climax a big year for Sinden and his hard-skating Oklahoma City team. Ron Buchanan, Keith Wright. Brian Bradley, Skip Krake, Pete Panagabko, Terry Crisp, Jean Paul Parise, Goalie Gerry…
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