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May 14, 1966
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HOCKEY FANS
HOCKEY ANNUAL’66 This 84-page book is filled with fulllength features about your favorite hockey players … biographical sketches of 96 National Leaguers and exciting action pictures of over 120 NHL stars …there is plenty of statistics, too, for the figure filberts … and a special birthday section … All at a glance. EXTRA SPECIAL: A complete section for the hockey TV fans with names and numbers of all six NHL teams as well as officials. SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY ! ONLY 50 CENTS (Postage Paid) NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE 1965-66 GUIDE This compact 276-page hockey book answers every question imaginable about the National Hockey League. There are also complete records on every player in all the pro leagues—NHL, AHL, WHL and CPHL. It also includes highlights of the 196465 NHL season and a more extensive…
Players Hand McNeill Most All-Star Votes In Picking WHL Teams
SEATTLE, Wash. Three teams divided the six positions on the first official Western League All-Star Team as selected by the players of the circuit. Pennant-winning Portland placed right-winger Cliff Schmautz and defenseman Connie Madigan. Runnerup Victoria placed left-winger Bob Barlow and defenseman Fred Hucul. Third-place Vancouver placed centre Billy McNeill and goalie Gilles Villemure. The second team included Portland goalie Don Head, Victoria’s defenseman Alex. (Sandy) Hucul and Vancouver’s defenseman Larry Cahan, as well as Seattle left-winger Bill Mac-Farland and center Guyle Fielder and San Francisco right-wing Wayne Connelly. Only last-place L.A. drew a blank on the two honor teams. Had a third-team been named, L.A. still would be blank. McNeill, earlier selected by the players as the league MVP. also led the voting with 358 points on a 5-3-1 basis. Next came…
Sherbrooke Stops Miners After Opening Loss
CALGARY, Alta.— Sherbrooke Beavers, with designs on another Allan Cup victory, found their skating legs in the second game of the finals after being jolted 6-3 in the opener by the Drumheller Miners. The Beavers came through with a 4-1 victory over the Western Canada senior titleholders with Sherbrooke coach Georges Roy, demanding a change in referees, holding the threat of pulling his team out of the series if his request wasn’t met by the CAHA. The best-of-seven final, which is being played in its entirety here, was deadlocked at 1-1 and the Beavers showed clearly in the second game that they would now have to be reckoned with as the ‘team to beat’ for the cup. Roy wanted Dutchy Van Deelan of Edmonton imported to replace John Kotmz of Yorkton as referee for…
FAN FORUM
‘Big M’ Making No. 27 Respected Around NHL Hockey News Editor: I hope you will print this letter and I sincerely hope it will help put an end to the campaign to get Frank Maholich to wear No. 9. Hurriedly I must add that the Big M is my favorite player and I’m behind him all the way in whatever he does. I realize the wonderful company he’d be in, if he wor No. 9 on his sweater. It’s the big number in the NHL. But he’d be just another super star wearing that number. Right now when you think of or see the number 27, you automatically think of Frank Mahovlich. He’s made No. 27 famous in the same way that Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, etc., have made No. 9…
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