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May 14, 1966

May 14, 1966

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Barons’ 15-Game Mark For Most Playoff Wins May Never Be Erased

CLEVELAND, Ohio Whether they win or lose in the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup championship playoff, the Cleveland Barons will be able to look back on 1965-66 as the year they set a record that stands a good chance never of being beaten. When they lost the opener of their final series to the Rochester Americans on Toronto ice, an end came to their consecutive victory streak of 15 games in playoff competition. The streak was achieved by winning nine straight in 1963-64 over Rochester, Hershey and Quebec, then by adding six more wins this spring over Pittsburgh and Springfield. Just how remarkable is this record? In the 30-year history of the AHL, the longest winning streak (without ties) any club has been able to achieve in regular season play is 11 victories, a…

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS 1. Pictured Red Wing player. 7. Initials of Conacher of Rochester. 9. Native province of pictured star. 11. Initials of Springfield’s coach in 1964-65. 12. This NHL team won only 18 games in 196566. (abbr.) 14. 2nd& 24th letters of the alphabet. 15. Glenn Hall collected two of these in season just ended (sing.) 16. Pictured player began skating when one. 17. Initials of a Black Hawk. 18. Complete initials of Sid Abel. 20. Initials of Sly of Rochester Americans. 22. Ocean (abbr.) 23. Number of goals Rod Gilbert scored in 196566 season. 24. What doctors do to broken legs. 25. Pictured player has been one since 1946-47 (abbr.) 26. Initials of one of the Glover brothers. 27. Pictured star’s given name. 30. Wing played by Gi11e Tremblay (abbr.) 32. Denotes numeral worn by Ralph Backstrom. 33. Initials of Nighbor, old time star. 34. Scout who discovered Backstrom for Canadiens. 37.…

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Hoekstra Scores Winning Goal As Barons Deadlock Cup Final

CLEVELAND, Ohio— The Cleveland Barons refused to roll over and play dead for the favorite Rochester Americans in the second game of the Calder Cup finals. With Dec Hoekstra banging in the winning goal with less than two minutes to play in the game, the Barons came back from a first-game defeat to edge the Americans 2-1 and knot their best-of-seven final series at 1-1. The teams play the third game also here before moving to Buffalo for the fourth game. Fights and skirmishes on the ice delayed the game for more than 30 minutes as tempers flared between the teams. Tom McCarthy, who was set up by Hoesktra for the first Cleveland goal, also aided in the winning score. McCarthy’s goal 47 seconds into the second period opened the scoring in the penalty-filled game.…