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December 17, 1966
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Kitchener Smash On Ice, At Box Office
KITCHENER, Ont— The surprise club of the nine-team Ontario Hockey Association Junior circuit continues to be the Kitchener Rangers. Unheralded before the season started, the Rangers won six consecutive games to open up a two-point first place lead over St. Catharines Black Hawks and Toronto Marlboros. It was the first time a Kitchener team had been in first place in more than a decade and average attendance at the large Memorial Auditorium is now over 5,000. Ranger manager Brent Madill said Kitchener fans were really getting behind the club and the young Rangers were responding. Although not blessed with outstanding players, the Rangers have balance and have been paced by sophomore Jack McCreary, second in points only to Derek Sanderson of the Niagara Falls Flyers and rookie Tim Ecclestone who ranks fourth in total…
How They Stand
ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE (Standings on Tues. Doc. 13) (NHL Affiliation: 1 Montreal; 2 Toronto; 3 Chicago; 4 Detroit; 5 Boston; 6 New York.) GAMES COMPLETED Tues. Dec. 6 Kitchener 4 at London 7 Thurs. Dec. 8 Kitchener 2 at Hamilton 3 Toronto 7 at Peterborough 4 Fri. Dec. 9 Oshawa 1 at Niagara Falls 4 Sat. Dec. 10 London 1 at Oshawa 0 Sun. Dec. 11 London 6 at Montreal 1 Niagara Falls 4 at St. Catharines 4 Kitchener 8 at Toronto 5 GAMES TO COME Tues. Dec. 13 St. Catharines at London Thurs. Dec. 15 Montreal at Hamilton St. Catharines at Peterborough Fri. Dec. 16 Toronto at Niagara Falls Montreal at Kitchener Hamilton at London Sat. Dec. 17 Peterborough at Oshawa Sun. Dec. 18 Kitchener at St. Catharines Hamilton at Montreal London at Toronto LEADING SCORERS (Including games of Sun., Dec. 4)…
Too Many Road Games Hurt Club As Record Hits Disastrous 0-12
DETROIT, Mich.— Brian F. O’Neill is the culprit behind the Detroit Red Wings cellar dive. Never heard of Brian F. O’Neill … or heard the name but can’t place it? That’s understandable. O’Neill is a relatively new name to the National Hockey League. He was hired a year ago to work under president Clarence S. Campbell and his title is Director of Administration. One of O’Neill’s first tasks was drawing up the 1966-67 schedule, a feat previously handled by Campbell. The Campbell schedules followed much the same pattern from year to year and worked well with no large beefs. The O’Neill schedule is different. For instance, Detroit and New York met only twice, once on each other’s ice, the first six weeks of the season. But during that time, the Wings played Chicago five times and Boston…
News Man Heads NY Puck Scribes
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Stan Fischler, New York correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS, was voted president of the Metropolitan New York Hockey Writers Association for the 1966-67 season. Gerald Eskenazi of the New York Times was named vice president and Harold Bock of the Associated Press was picked secretary-treasurer. A hockey writer for more than a decade, Fischler worked for The New York Journal-American until its demise last April. He now writes for The Suffolk (Long Island) Sun.…
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