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April 22, 1967

The Hockey News April 22, 1967

SAN DIEGO, Calif.&mdash;A sports arena in a little &ldquo;navy town&rdquo; across the border from Tijuana?A hockey team in a city where the only ice available was for mixed drinks?A $6.5 milllion facility built in 365 days?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01611/2373822-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="288" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max McNab</figcaption></div>A major league basketball team for where?These are the typical remarks Robert Breitbard has heard in the 17 months from November, 1965 to March, 1967.If Breitbard was dismayed, he certainly didn&rsquo;t show it. In fact, he was darn right optimistic and when his San Diego Gulls team finished last in the Western Hockey League this season, he had the solace of drawing the biggest attendance in professional hockey&mdash;outside of the National Hockey League. His Gulls were last in the WHL race but first at the box office. They drew a record 315,021 for 37 home games, an average of 8,751 fans per game.It&rsquo;s not that people thought Breitbard was crazy, maybe a bit of an optimist, but not crazy. They just did not believe in San Diego the way Breitbard always has.Sure, he had found the city ready for the &ldquo;Breitbard Athletic Foundation,&rdquo; a non-profit organization established by the family in 1946 to boost sports.San Diego even took to the idea of a Hall of Champions in beautiful Balboa Park, known for its world-famous zoo rather than a sports establishment. The monthly awards to the outstanding athletes were fine with: A player of the year award in each prep sport; a star of the month in amateur and professional sports; the Hall of Champions to display the awards; a special Hall of Fame within the Hall of Champions to honor San Diego&rsquo;s greatest athletes; and an annual Parade of Champions sports banquet for the athletes to receive their laurels.Even the sponsorship of the annual San Diego All-Star College-Prep football game to benefit the Children&rsquo;s Dental Health Center, the Annual San Diego County vs. City college-prep baseball game and the sponsorship of the San Diego Invitational Track and Field Meet were reasonable projects.All are successes, especially the idea of the prep football clash that has swept through California like wildfire, since Breitbard&rsquo;s first one in 1949. But, is this enough to make a man think San Diego is ready for the whole ball of wax in the sports world?The answer from most would be &ldquo;no&rdquo;.That word is not in the vocabulary of Breitbard when it comes to his native city and sports. It was not even part of his speech when finances for the proposed arena were not to be found.It was there when the finances were ready, the plans for the arena complete and an acceptance as a franchise holder in the Western Hockey League were in hand. But only when a snicker or remark was made that &ldquo;he would never make it.&rdquo; No took on the tone, &ldquo;Oh, No?&rdquo;Ground was broken at the site of the $6.5 million San Diego International Sports Arena on November 18, 1965. Through the 365 days that followed Breitbard was told again and again that he would never make it. He did.On Thursday, November 17, 1966, a crowd of 11,692 fans were there to watch the San Diego Gulls meet the Seattle Totems in a Western Hockey League clash.The day before, Breitbard received a telephone call from Bruce Norris, owner of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Detroit Red Wings. Norris, like many others bet Breitbard the arena would never open on schedule. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re selling tickets out of a trailer and you don&rsquo;t have your offices in the arena. Surely you don&rsquo;t expect to collect the bet,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;The ice is ready, the scoreboard and air conditioning are working, the arena will be full with people and the game will be played on schedule,&rdquo; Breitbard replied. And that, in a nutshell, was the true reality of it.Breitbard&rsquo;s faith in San Diego had immediate justification, as big crowds kept pouring to the arena, despite the fact the Gulls had lost 10 of 13 road games before opening night at the Sports Arena.This was a tribute to the new Arena and to the type of hustling team built by Breitbard and general manager-coach Max McNab, a 20-year veteran of the ice sport, as a player, coach and general manager.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02582/2373815-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1154" height="1069"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dynamic, young BOB BREITBARD, had to convince the skeptics in San Diego that he could make hockey go over big. He succeeded, much to the amazement of the sports buffs.</figcaption></div>Between the two, they built a new team, without benefit of a draft, through wheeling, dealing d thousands of dollars in phone lls.In the midst of a losing streak that had produced two wins in 5 games, a sellout crowd of 13,089 ammed the Sports Arena to see he Gulls collide with the Seattle Totems on Saturday night, January 7.The sellout came less than a week after &ldquo;Holiday on Ice&rdquo; had 4 performances in the nine days between Christmas and Jan. 2. Pradically every performance in the run was played to a capacity crowd. Then the Gulls pulled in 3,363 April 2 in their final home game while beating California seals 11-2 to set a new WHL crowd nark.All of this brought more proof of Breitbard&rsquo;s faith and made it quite clear that San Diego Sports Enterprises, the organization he leads to operate the plush new Sports Arena, also was in full blossom.The proof was so positive that President Walter Kennedy, of the National Basketball Association flew from San Francisco to San Diego for the annual Parade of Champions Dinner, thrown by the Breitbard Athletic Foundation. There he made the announcement that San Diego, with Robert Breitbard as head of the group, would become the 12th member of the NBA for the 1967-68 season. To many, this would be the realization of the dream. To Robert Breitbard, it is only the quick eye relaxation between dreams.Now his future hopes are for championships in basketball and a National Hockey League franchise. After that, it will be for more championships, more attendance records and more sports for San Diego.Perhaps the best example of Robert Breitbard&rsquo;s character was shown in a parting remark one evening by Les Land, General Manager of the San Diego International Sports Arena.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m leaving, but I&rsquo;ll be back in an hour,&rdquo; Land said to Breitbard. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t buy any franchises until I get back.&rdquo; &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Bob Breitbard Never Doubted ‘His City’

Don&rsquo;t be vague &hellip; say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKYDon&rsquo;t be vague &hellip; say HAIG & HAIG SCOTCH WHISKY<h2>CPHL Playoffs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01404/2374584-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="622" height="1428"></div> &#9632;

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CENTRAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03388/2373535-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="295" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Emile Francis</figcaption></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04271/2373542-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="143" height="164"></div>&bull; NEW YORK &mdash;CANADIENS won their series in four straight but can anyone remember a series when a team that was eliminated so quickly was in every game right up to the end&hellip; In dropping the 2-1 overtime tilt to (Montreal which sidelined the Broadway Blueshirts for the season, Rangers displayed their finest hockey in years&hellip; No club could come closer to winning a game than they did &hellip; Most of the credit for the Rangers&rsquo; terrific showing this year goes to Emile Francis, the hardworking and popular General Manager-Coach &hellip; &ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned Francis was the team this year&rdquo;, stated Bill Jennings, president of the Rangers, after his team had been eliminated&hellip; Francis, a gentleman all the way, congratulated Toe Blake and the Montreal players after the series and stayed around to answer questions from newsmen and to praise his players for their all-out play in the final game &hellip; I&rsquo;m proud of the way they played all season to get into the playoffs and I&rsquo;m proud of the way they didn&rsquo;t quit or back down in the playoffs&rdquo;, Francis said&hellip; &ldquo;We had a lot of players making their first appearance in the playoffs. Next year these players will have this added experience and it will help them a great deal&rdquo;, he added &hellip; The fourth game of this series was the most emotion-charged hockey game played here in years and the New York fans were great as they stuck with the team and cheered them on through the entire season and playoffs. It&rsquo;s difficult to find better fans than those which follow the Rangers&hellip; John Ferguson, who has been something special for Canadiens this year, was deleriously-happy after scoring the game and series winner&hellip; Every player on both clubs gave a wonderful account of themselves. Rangers didn&rsquo;t lose face in bowing four straight. &#297;&#8851; fact they improved their image considerably..</div><div style="clear: both;"></div>&bull; FRANCIS will continue to coach the Rangers next season &hellip; He will scout players belonging to the Rangers, on Vancouver and Omaha in the Western and Central League playoffs respectively, for the next week or so&hellip; Sid Abel of Detroit and Milt Schmidt of Boston took in the final game here. These two NHL general managers are watching as many playoff games in the various pro and amateur leagues as possible in order to gain a better line on the better young players in the game&hellip; Abel will leave soon for a three week vacation in Florida&hellip; Bob Breitbard, owner-president of the fabulously-successful San Diego &iacute; Gulls, witnessed the final game&hellip; A most interested onlooker at the games here was Johnny Walker of Saskatoon. Johnny is a long-time Ranger scout and covers Northern Saskatchewan for them &hellip; Although he looks 10 years younger, Johnny is now 70 years old and this makes him the oldest active hockey scout in Canada&hellip; Jack Kent Cooke is anxious to buy Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Springfield team as a farm club for his Los Angeles Kings&hellip; Shore has received offers from almost every NHL club but his price has always been prohibitive&hellip; The CBS did a first-rate job in their first playoff telecast last Saturday. Both the camera work and the announcing was excellent. Jim Gordon did a splendid job on the play-by-play&hellip; Also having Gordie Howe along as a special commentator didn&rsquo;t hurt the broadcast any&hellip; Joe Filoseta, manager of the friendly Hotel Piccadilly in mid-town Manhattan, busy during playoff time welcoming his many hockey guests. The Hotel Piccadilly has been a home away from home for many hockey clubs, executives and fans over the years &hellip; Toe Blake prefers to have Canadiens meet Toronto in the finals&hellip; &ldquo;If we play Leafs we get home ice advantage and also we have a better record against them than we have against Chicago&rdquo;, Blake stated.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05224/2373528-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="299" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Breitbard</figcaption></div>&bull; THE NEW YORK RANGERS Fan Club is sending all unsold copies of HOCKEY PICTORIAL at Madison Square Garden to the American troops stationed in Viet Nam&hellip; Scott Bradley of Toronto produced the Bobby Hull documentary shown over CBS in the United States a couple of weeks ago &hellip; Yvan Cournoyer, Canadiens&rsquo; sharp-dressing forward, has played through the playoffs hampered by a severe cold&hellip; Larry Manuel of Cold Lake, Alberta thinks an appropriate name for the Balon, Richard and Rochefort line of Canadiens would be the BRR! Line &hellip; Olympia Stadium in Detroit started construction on a $100,000 floor for the ice surface. This will provide Olympia with an all-new network of ice pipes&hellip; What will expansion do to the AHL? is the title of a very provocative story in the April-May issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL&hellip; Another fine story complete with exceptionally-good pictures in the same issue of HOCKEY PICTORIAL is Bobby Hull: That Magnificent Man and his Scoring Machine&hellip; Can Toe Blake Pull Off His Greatest Trick? is another story in the same issue of Hockey&rsquo;s Most Exciting Publication&hellip; Toronto&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk who plans to retire at the end of this season says: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to leave it in good style anyway&rdquo;&hellip; Sawchuk has been the hero of the Leafs in the playoffs thus far&hellip; Since 1927 Canadiens have been in the Cup finals 18 times. The current issue of Sport Magazine presents a fine story on Chicago&rsquo;s Kenny Wharram titled, &ldquo;The Underrated Black Hawk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06168/2373521-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="274" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kenny Wharram</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01552/2373062-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Canadiens&rsquo; coach TOE BLAKE is hoisted to shoulders of players after his 7th cup victory last spring against Detroit.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;When this year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup semi-finals between Canadiens and Rangers opened on April 6th, the Habs were installed as 13-5 favorites. The odds brought an outraged cry from Montreal&rsquo;s kindly old coach Toe Blake, who felt that the price was &lsquo;way out of line&rsquo; in that it favored Canadiens too heavily.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s ridiculous to make us such heavy favorites,&rdquo; declared Blake. &ldquo;The Rangers are a good team and have played well against us during the season. The odds should have been closer to even money.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02445/2373055-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1140" height="1019"><figcaption class="caption-body">Two dominant figures in Habs&rsquo; early cup successes were JACQUES PLANTE, left, and great MAURICE (ROCKET) RICHARD.</figcaption></div>Blake&rsquo;s reaction was both familiar and understandable&hellip; familiar because he reacts the same way whenever Canadiens are made top-heavy choices to win anything, and understandable because he fears that complacency may settle on his players and dull their edge. It&rsquo;s a legitimate point of view as far as the coach is concerned, but you can hardly blame the oddsmakers for their choice. A good handicapper will look at past performances and when it comes to playoffs the Canadiens own the classiest record of them all.Going into this year&rsquo;s playoff rounds, the Habs owned a spate of records in Stanley Cup play. In the modern era of hockey, which dates from 1927, they&rsquo;d won the Stanley Cup 12 times; twice more than runner-up Toronto Maple Leafs. That included their famous five straight cup wins from 1956 to 1960 which, in itself, is a record that may never be broken as long as hockey is played. They also held the mark for most years in playoffs, 37, and most consecutive final series appearances, 10, from 1951 to 1960 inclusive; as well as numerous other records covering everything from goals to penalties.However, there is one record which, perhaps more than others, indicates the extent to which the Canadiens can and have dominated playoff action. It concerns the mark they set for consecutive playoff game victories several years ago. They racked up 11 straight wins in a streak that began on April 16, 1959, at Toronto with a 3-2 victory in the fourth game of a final series, won by Canadiens 4-1, and ended March 23, 1961, when Chicago beat them 4-3 in the second game of a semi-final game round. In other words, their streak included wins in three playoff years, commencing with a pair of victories over Toronto in 1959 which clinched a Stanley Cup, and extending without interruption through eight straight playoff wins in I960 on their way to another cup, and carrying on to the first game of the 1961 semi-final against Chicago. No wonder we used to hear the cry of &ldquo;Break up the Canadiens,&rdquo; as the Montreal squads ran roughshod over everyone in sight.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-04179/2373048-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="306" height="384"></div>The team that accounted for most of those wins was, of course the 1959-60 Montreal Canadiens. Toe Blake has called them the greatest team he ever coached and has pointed to their playoff record as one of the main reasons for his choice.&ldquo;They were the only team I&rsquo;ve coached that took the cup without losing a single game along the way,&rdquo; Blake said, &ldquo;and it required a tremendous effort to do it. Everybody contributed something in that series, and the result was the finest team effort I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo;Though only five members of that club are presently with Canadiens, it&rsquo;s significant that three of them hold down key spots, namely the center-ice positions: Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard and Ralph Backstrom are still pivoting the lines. The other two members are Claude Provost and Jean-Guy Talbot. In their sweep of the 1960 playoffs, Habs were paced by Richard who notched three goals and nine assists in the eight games. It was Henri&rsquo;s&rsquo; best showing in a playoff series to date and he wound up as scoring leader in playoffs that year, despite the fact that Bernard Geoffrion also notched 12 points. The Boomer&rsquo;s production consisted of two goals and ten assists, however, so that Richard&rsquo;s extra goal gave him the edge. But, while Richard played a big part in the team&rsquo;s stirring effort of 1960, others made sizeable contributions as well.There was, for instance, the occasion of the second game of the semi-final series against Chicago when Doug Harvey was the victim of a glaring error. It happened with barely more than a minute left in regulation time, as Canadiens fought to preserve a 3-2 lead. Harvey attempted to clear the puck out of his own zone, but the strategy backfired. His clearing pass was pounced on by Chicago&rsquo;s Red Hay, and, before Canadiens could recover, the puck was in the net. The time of the goal was 18:58 and made the score 3-3. It stayed that way till they went into overtime. However, as they battled through the first overtime period, a determined Harvey began to press toward the Chicago net. Once, he was in the clear, but Glenn Hall stopped his drive from just inside the blueline. Then, Harvey combined with Dickie Moore and Henri Richard to sweep in on the Hawk net. Taking Richard&rsquo;s pass, Harvey rifled a low shot past Hall for the game-winner at 8:38. It was the kind of comeback which only a player like Harvey could pull off.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01615/2373041-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="1159" height="1159"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN BELIVEAU &hellip; Has Played Big Cup Role</figcaption></div>That same series also saw the &ldquo;non stars&rdquo; on Canadiens come up &lsquo;with tremendous performances. It was the ability of the second-stringers to come through that impressed Toe Blake. One of the big efforts on the part of the lesser-lights came in the third Montreal-Chicago game. Habs won by a score of 4-0 and three of the goals came from players who were then far from star status. A line of Backstrom, Don Marshall and Billy Hicke made things tough for Chicago in that game, with Marshall and Hicke counting goals and then Backstrom and Marshall Setting up a goal by Jean-Guy Talbot. Geoffrion supplied the fourth marker.There were great performances in the finals against Toronto, too, notably by Jacques Plante who made sensational stops when Leafs were threatening dangerously. In the first game he robbed Bob Pulford and Red Kelly, as Habs posted a 4-2 win. He was brilliant in other games as well, making key stops on Frank Mahovlich who failed to get a single goal against him in four contests. Dickie Moore also came up with a big performance in that series, getting six goals, while Geoffrion was another potent force. The penalty-killing team of Claude Provost and Don Marshall were outstanding on many occasions, as was the defense of Harvey and Tom Johnson.And, 38-year-old Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, playing in what was to be his farewell Stanley Cup series closed out his fabulous scoring career with a goal against the Leafs. It came with less than ten minutes remaining in the third game of the series. The play began with Moore carrying the puck out of the Montreal zone and feeding it ahead to Henri Richard. He raced across the Leaf blueline with the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; a half-step behind. Sweeping wide around the defense, Henri slid a pass to the onrushing Maurice and the latter made no mistake. He whipped the puck past Johnny Bower for his first goal of the series and what proved to be the last of his career.When the Rocket left Canadiens in 1960 the Stanley Cup departed from its familiar surroundings of Montreal. After an absence of four years, Toe Blake&rsquo;s crew brought it back and held onto it last spring with victories over Toronto and Detroit. Now, it&rsquo;s up for grabs again and Canadiens are hoping that they&rsquo;ll dominate the playoff action this year &mdash;as they have so often in the past. &#9632;

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Canadiens ‘Titans’ Of Cup Play

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01415/2375157-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02298/2375150-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="524" height="430"></div>NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;What would a Stanley Cup final be like without the colorful Montreal Canadiens? It&rsquo;s hard to say, The Habs are rarely out of the &ldquo;show-down&rdquo; series.The Canadiens bounced into their 18th cup series last week by disposing of the New York Rangers in four straight games in the semifinals. The Habs did the same thing last season to the Toronto Leafs before going on to their 12th cup victory &mdash;a playoff record.As the result of their playoff mastery over the rest of the NHL, the Canadiens will venture into the finals rated as the team to win it all again and if they do, they&rsquo;ll likely turn the trick with a rookie netminder &mdash;Rogatien Vachon.Vachon played brilliantly through the semi-final round.While this will be Vachon&rsquo;s first cup final, it will be the team&rsquo;s 18th and only five times have they lost the title.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0442/2375143-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="290" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rogatien Vachon</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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CANADIENS HIT 18TH CUP FINAL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03121/2375188-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">COMPLETE STANLEY CUP STORY&ndash;On The Inside</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs &mdash;a team that couldn&rsquo;t win a game all season on Chicago ice &mdash;showed a complete disdain for the huge Stadium in the semifinal playoffs.The Leafs were on the verge of entering the Stanley Cup final playdowns against the Montreal Canadiens because of the fact they were able to move into Chicago in the semi-final series and come away surprisingly with two victories.Over the regular season, the Hawks completely dominated the Leafs in seven games played in Chicago. The Tribe won six and tied a seventh.Yet in the semi-final playoffs, the aroused Leafs posted wins in games two and five of the series and scored as many goals in the two contests as they tallied all year on Chicago ice. &#9632;

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Leafs Rout Chicago’s Ice ‘Hex’

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01552/2373010-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="290" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Neilson</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;The corpse of the Rangers still emanates warmth but for 1966-67, as Henri Richard would say, the &ldquo;Blues is dead&rdquo; and now it is time for an autopsy and answers to some prickly questions. Such as:&bull; Why did a team that owned a respectable 5-7 record with the Canadiens, bow out in four games in the Stanley Cup semi-final?&bull; Who were the chief culprits?&bull; What was the turning point?&bull; Was there ever hope?&bull; Were the Rangers as good a hockey team as the one that finished a high fourth and nearly finished first &mdash;and, at one time, nestled in first place. (Remember the &ldquo;we&rsquo;re number one&rdquo; chants?)These are a few of the questions and these are the answers from one who had the temerity to suggest the Rangers had a chance to win the Stanley Cup.The Canadiens eliminated New York primarily because Montreal is a better hockey club overall. But there is more.They routed New York because they were able to sustain the crescendo of wins they developed late in the regular schedule and because the Rangers were caught in the downdraft of a horrible decrescendo that began when they were humiliated 5-1 and 8-0 in the last two games of the season.They embarrassed the Rangers because key Blueshirts failed when they were most needed. Captain Bob Nevin skated as if in a continuous coma. Goalie Ed Giacomin, brilliant in many spots, was negligent in others. Big defensemen like Jim Neilson failed to hit the lighter Canadiens early in the series when it counted.&ldquo;I benched Neilson early in the second game (Montreals 3-1 win) because he wasn&rsquo;t using his weight enough,&rdquo; admits Ranger g.m.-coach Emile Francis. &ldquo;Those little guys on Montreal had to be hit hard before they could get started.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02528/2373003-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1126" height="1170"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ranger&rsquo; hope might have improved if key men like PHIL GOYETTE, left, and ROD GILBERT, hadn&rsquo;t been slowed down by injuries.</figcaption></div>Neilson was replaced in the second game by fifth defenseman Al MacNeil, who expended all his energy but lacked the foot to keep pace with the Canadiens. In Rangers&rsquo; 3-2 loss to Montreal in the third game on Madison Square Garden ice, MacNeil was trapped out of position on the first goal only 13 seconds after the opening faceoff and was on the ice for the second goal a few minutes later. That killed the Blues.Only the redoubtable Harry Howell and Wayne Hillman were consistently emphatic on the Ranger blue line. The rest were weak.Up front, the Rangers collectively were impotent, except on the power play, and that wasn&rsquo;t enough. Often, it seemed a great event for the Rangers to get to the Montreal blue Tine and dump the puck in the corner. And, too often, there were no Blues there to retrieve it. And, when they did, there was nobody in front of the net to put it where it belonged.I called the Rangers to win the series because I thought they&rsquo;d outhit Montreal early, capitalize on breaks and the Canadiens&rsquo; major weakness, young goalie Rogatien Vachon. I thought New York would grab a lead and then hold on to it with fierce checking in the opening game. Which brings us to the turning point, the death blow.All this happened in the first &mdash;and what emerges as the decisive &mdash;game in Montreal. Leading 4-1, with only 11 minutes left in the third period, Giacomin was injured, returned to the net, then permitted a soft goal by Claude Provost. It&rsquo;s now 4-2 Rangers.Still, there was a two-goal lead. But Giacomin&rsquo;s checkers disintegrated like a piece of burning paper. Montreal captured the tempo, tied and eventually won the game. The playoff momento swung to the Habs and that was that. C&rsquo;est fini!Yes, there still was hope for New York &mdash;in the second game at Montreal. The club didn&rsquo;t quit. It fought the Canadiens, came from behind to get a 1-1 tie, then faded away. Too much Habs, speed and power.No, this was not the same Ranger team that inspired &ldquo;we&rsquo;re number one&rdquo; cheers earlier in the year. The goaltending was looser, the defense weaker and the shooting &mdash;especially with Rod Gilbert troubled by back problems &mdash;and checking lacked zest.But, it was the Rangers&rsquo; first playoff since 1962 and for that New York fans can find some solace.Next year is but seven months away. &#9632;

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Blues’ Weak Defense, Poor Shooting Killed Chances

PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION BY<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-05114/2373131-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="386" height="513"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROGER CROZIERDetroit Red Wings</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0675/2373124-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="386" height="514"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON INGRAMBaltimore Clippers</figcaption></div>FIVE BIG WEEKS COMMENCING JULY 10 ENDING AUGUST 12Power skating taught by professional figure skater Ray Warden. Physical fitness instruction by high school phys. education teacher Garry Hammond.WE&rsquo;RE LOCATED ON BEAUTIFUL LAKE MUSKOKA, IN THE HEART OF CANADA&rsquo;S RESORT AREA.Boys From 8 to 18For information write to:MUSKOKA SUMMER HOCKEY SCHOOLc/o Doug Smith, Box 787,Bracebridge, Ontario. &#9632;

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MUSKOKA SUMMER HOCKEY SCHOOL

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Stanley Cup Scoreboard

Next week in THE HOCKEY NEWS, we will announce our annual awards for the 1966-67 season.Every year the editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS get together to select the top player, best coach and leading executive of the past year.Who will be the player of the year? Will it be Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, Stan Mikita, Bobby Orr or Harry Howell? And what coach turned in the most masterful job this season in the NHL? It&rsquo;s a toss-up between Emile Francis, Billy Reay and Toe Blake. Who will win the award as coach of the year?And will the executive of the year award go to a top minor league official again as in the past few seasons, or will some NHL figure win it?We will announce the winners in next week&rsquo;s issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS. Don&rsquo;t miss it. The results may surprise you. &#9632;

Hockey News Annual Awards

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TOPPS 1967 HOCKEY SET

HOCKEY SCHOOL JULY 17th to SEPTEMBER 2ndHELD ATDOUBLERINK ARENASJANE ST. & No. 7 HIGHWAYOn the outskirts of Toronto. Boarding and day students accepted.AGAIN FEATURINGProfessional Instruction by&bull; BILLY HARRIS&bull; DAVE KEON&bull; BOB PULFORD&bull; BOB NEVIN&bull; BOB HAGGERT<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02573/2373238-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="580" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILLY HARRIS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03488/2373231-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="491" height="391"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB NEVIN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04425/2373224-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="491" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVI KEON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05383/2373217-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="488" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB PULFORD</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06318/2373210-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="2405" height="535"></div> &#9632;

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BILLY HARRIS SUMMER 1967

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;To absolutely no one&rsquo;s surprise, Gordie Howe was voted the Red Wings&rsquo; most valuable player this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01573/2373290-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="531" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY BERGMAN &hellip; Best Defenseman</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02530/2373283-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="527" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED HAMPSON &hellip; Most Sportsmanlike</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03426/2373276-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="527" height="529"><figcaption class="caption-body">NORM ULLMAN &hellip; Leading Point Man</figcaption></div>Howe wound up his 21st National Hockey League season by tying Chicago&rsquo;s Ken Wharram for fourth place in the scoring race, the 18th consecutive season Howe has been in the top five, a fantastic feat.But several of Howe&rsquo;s teammates beat him out for some individual club honors. Norm Ullman was the Wings&rsquo; leading scorer with 70 points, five more than Howe.Bruce MacGregor had his best season ever and topped the club with 28 goals, 19 of them in the second half and only Bobby Hull popped more pucks into the net in the second half.The Wings&rsquo; annual Trophy Night also saw Gary Bergman selected as Detroit&rsquo;s best defenseman, center Ted Hampson the &ldquo;Unsung Hero&rdquo; and most sports manlike player and Paul Henderson the leader in the three-star selections at home games.While the Wings used a flock of new players in a futile effort to make the playoffs, no rookie stayed with the club long enough for consideration for the yearling award.The Wings&rsquo; early departure from the scene has enabled workmen to get right at installing a new floor with a $100,000 price tag.For years the Olympia ice sheet was regarded the best in the NHL but recently there&rsquo;ve been complaints. Breaks in the pipes caused several patching jobs during the summer and it was decided to rip out the floor that&rsquo;s been in use since Olympia was built in 1927.There&rsquo;ll be about 54,000 feet of new pipe, buried in six inches of concrete. Then an inch-deep concrete floor will laid on top of that.The new floor is another phase in the building&rsquo;s modernization program which saw some 2,000 seats added two years ago and padded theatre-type seats installed throughout the stadium.While work went on in the rink, general manager Sid Abel watched the farm teams&rsquo; playoff games and met with his aides to begin the long process of evaluating all the players in the system to get ready for the expansion draft.&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;m pretty close to knowing who we&rsquo;ll protect,&rdquo; Abel said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s probably a difference of opinion on one or two players. I would think we&rsquo;ll gamble on one or two young players.&rdquo;But, despite using George Gardnier quite extensively in the final weeks of the season, ABel said he &ldquo;leans toward&rdquo; protecting Roger Crozier.&ldquo;Roger had an in-and-out season. There were games he played like we expected him to and others where he wasn&rsquo;t the Roger we know. With expansion staring us in the face, we felt we had to find out just how good a goal tender Gardner is in the National League.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0928/2373269-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="574" height="618"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE &hellip; MVP, Who Else?</figcaption></div>Gardner and Memphis goalie Joe Daley will be prime draft bait for the new division. &#9632;

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Bergman Top Rearguard, Hampson Honored, Howe MVP Again As Wings Dole Out Awards

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04291/2373321-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="296" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Sid Abel will continue to handle the double duties of Red Wing general manager and coach next season.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve thought of giving up the coaching end real often but I believe I&rsquo;ll have to remain as coach until one of these other fellas is ready to take over and as it appears right now, they&rsquo;re not ready,&rdquo; Abel said.The &ldquo;other fellas&rdquo; of whom Abel speaks primarily are Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio but neither is ready for retirement from active duty.Abel has said several times that the dual roles are too much for one man so he leans on aides Jimmie Skinner, John Mitchell and Doug Barkley.&mdash;BERRY &#9632;

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Abel Continues Dual Team Role

It&rsquo;s easy to get lost in the shuffle when your teammates are Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita. But not Kenny Wharram. Learn why rivals and teammates alike call Wharram:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0845/2373352-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="488" height="544"></div>&ldquo;THE UNDERRATED BLACK HAWK&rdquo; in the May issue ofSPORT MagazineNow On Sale Everywhere! &#9632;

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KENNY WHARRAM

Get These Publications &ndash; NOW!NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE1966-67 GUIDEThis compact 292-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 &mdash;NHL, AHL, WHL and CPHL. It also includes highlights of the 1965-66 NHL season and a more extensive coverage on records than ever before.ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.25(Postage Paid)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05188/2373397-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="303" height="371"></div>COMPLETE 1917-1966 NHLRECORD BOOKThis is the most complete Record Book on Hockey ever published. It contains statistics and records unobtainable in any other publication. Hockey fans call this book a &ldquo;Hockey Masterpiece&rdquo;&hellip; Complete team standings and individual scoring records by seasons of every player to perform in the NHL from 1917 to 1966.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-06115/2373390-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="363" height="450"></div>IT&rsquo;S ALL YOURS TODAYFor Only $1.25 per copy<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0768/2373383-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="1090" height="838"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY FANS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01642/2373435-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY Founded October 1st, 1947 Published weekly except monthly June through September by Ken-Will 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: $4.00 in Canada and the British Commonwealth $5.00 in the U.S.A. and $7.00 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 cash. Printed in CanadaVol. 20 MONTREAL, APRIL 22, 1967 No. 28<h2>Records Show Mikita Outscored Hull, Howe</h2>Hockey News Editor,Over the past few seasons there have been many debates as to who is the better hockey player &mdash;Howe or Hull. While everybody has been focusing their attention on these two players I have come up with an interesting statistic.This includes the total points of the players, both in regular season and playoffs in the last 6 NHL seasons.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0790/2373428-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="374" height="121"></div>While almost everyone agrees Howe is the greatest all-round player and Hull the best goalscorer and most colorful player, where does this leave Mikita, who has outscored them both?I feel Mikita has finally stepped out of the shadows of Bobby Hull this season and has proven to everyone that he is just as good as both Hull or Howe.DAVID HOFFMAN,Sheho, Sask.<h2>Ex-Goalie, Bruin Fan Says Cheevers Underrated</h2>Hockey News Editor:Recent articles appearing in the sport pages of various Boston newspapers talked of the Bruins&rsquo; big dilemma as being which goalie should they protect, Eddie Johnston or Bernie Parent. Little mention was made of Gerry Cheevers except a recognition that he is property of the Bruins.Neither Bruin management nor the press has given Cheevers proper recognition. I do not have in my possession all the statistics necessary to properly compare the three goalies mentioned. However, I do know that Cheevers had the best goals against average this past season &mdash;3.33 for 22 games. This compares to Johnston&rsquo;s 3.70 for 34 games and Parent&rsquo;s 3.64 for 18 games. It would be interesting to look at and compare who played goal when Boston picked up its 44 points. Another interesting statistic to evaluate would be the total number of saves made by each.Being an avid Boston fan, I have had season tickets for quite a few seasons. I am a goalie myself and play amateur hockey. During NHL games, I devote substantial time observing and studying goaltenders. Cheevers impresses me as possessing an aggressiveness and sense of determination lacking in both Johnston and Parent. Of the three, he is the only one who has the innate ability to come up with the big save. Time and again this year I watched both Johnston and Parent give up a goal shortly after the team had scored. I fail to understand why the management sent Cheevers down shortly after he played an outstanding game in Montreal on January 14th, Boston winning 5-4.Lest I build him up unrealistically, he does have an obvious fault that needs to be corrected. He tends to come out of his net too far to cut down the angle on break-aways and partial breakaways. Emile Francis corrected a similar fault in Giacomin and I am sure this fault can be corrected in Cheevers.WILLIAM DAWBER,Dorchester, Mass. &#9632;

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FAN FORUM

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<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;There are any number of parallels between the situation facing Canadiens at present, and that which prevailed a year ago.For the second year in a row, they have eliminated their semifinal opposition in four straight games and face a layoff while waiting for a winner to emerge in the other series. They could be out of action for as much as ten days, if the Chicago-Toronto series goes the limit of seven games.Last year, Canadiens ousted the Leafs four straight and didn&rsquo;t get back into action until April 24th, &mdash;ten days after their series with Leafs had ended. They then dropped the first two games of their final against Detroit, partly as a result of staleness, but largely as the result of hot goalkeeping on the part of Roger Crozier. Habs recovered to take the next four games, and win the series four games to two.In blitzing Toronto in the semifinals last year, Canadiens outscored them by a count of 15-6. They didn&rsquo;t do quite that well against New York this year, but I wound up with a 14-8 margin in the scoring column.In going into their 18th Stanley Cup final since 1927, Habs may have an opportunity of tying the record for most final appearances by a team. The record is currently shared by Toronto and Detroit. If Toronto fails to make the finals this year, it&rsquo;ll be a three-way tie between themselves, Detroit and Montreal. However, if Leafs eliminate the Hawks, they&rsquo;ll stand alone in the matter of final appearances in Stanley Cup rounds, with a total of nineteen. &#9632;

Habs’ ‘Wait’ Similar Role To Last Year

<div class="byline">By TOM MONAHAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03444/2373611-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="295" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Favell</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;The 1966-67 National Hockey League ended on a dismal note for the Bruins but there still is a great deal of playoff interest in Beantown.The interest centers around the anticipation of a flurry of trade action when the Stanley Cup finally is decided.No one in the Bruins organization is talking with any degree of certainty. But there is an obvious expectation that once the playoffs have been decided all clubs will start thinking more seriously about the expansion draft that will balloon the league to 12 teams in June.With this in mind the Bruins&rsquo; front-office section has been following the playoffs in all leagues from Junior to NHL with even more than normal curiosity.Although they don&rsquo;t figure to lose more players than any other club &mdash;they can&rsquo;t lose more than 20 &mdash;the fact that they finished a distant sixth under the present structure of the league has the Bruins thinking much more in terms of bodies than the $100,000 they will get for each player going to the new clubs.Thus the Bruins are expected to be in the thick of any wheeling and dealing that may materialize before the May 15 deadline for freezing their roster.The B&rsquo;s already have admitted they are anxious to acquire a couple of big forwards. And they need help at center and left wing.In order to strengthen these two positions they may be willing to part with a goalie or a couple of defensemen before expansion.Right now the Bruins have four goalies they consider virtually equal &mdash;Eddie Johnston, Bernie Parent, Gerry Cheevers and Doug Favell.Since they can expect to lose two, they quite reasonably may put one out for bait.The team most likely to be in the market for a goalie seems to be Toronto. The Maple Leafs have been depending on veterans John Bower and Terry Sawchuk with minor leaguer Bruce Gamble as backup.If the Leafs are willing to part with a muscular forward a deal could be made with the Bruins readily.On defense the Bruins are faced with a surplus of young bodies.In adition to Bobby Orr who is untouchable in the draft, they used seven other defensemen.They had Gil Marotte, Teddy Green, Gary Doak, Bobby Woyto-wich, Dallas Smith and Don Awrey.Not only will they be unable to protect all of these men but they also have youngsters like Bob Heaney, Wayne Cashman and John Arbour at Oklahoma City.They will be eligible to the six new teams for the 18th round in the draft.Detroit was in a bad way for defensemen this season after finishing out of the playoffs and the Red Wings too may be interested in a deal for forwards.&ldquo;This is an easy thing to talk about,&rdquo; says assistant general manager Milt Schmidt.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s always easy to make a trade when you are just talking. When it comes down to matching things value for value it is a different matter.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll admit I am willing to make a trade. But I&rsquo;m not willing to make a trade just to change a face.The anticipation of this co-operation is keeping hockey very much alive as far as the Bruins are concerned.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01594/2373604-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="550" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED JOHNSTON&hellip;Will He Be Protected?</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02547/2373597-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="532" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE PARENT&hellip;And What Of Him?</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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One Of Bruins’ Four Goalies To Go Before Expansion In Possible Trade

BOYS&rsquo; CAMPLocated on beautiful Koshlong Lake, Haliburton, Ontario&bull; A high prestige Hockey Program plus a boy&rsquo;s full camp life.&bull; Top flight N.H.L. instructors.&bull; Hockey every day in the splendid new Haliburton Arena.&bull; Boys live in beautiful cabins surrounded by swaying birch trees.&bull; 1,000 ft. of golden sand beach like Hawaii for beautiful holiday swimming.&bull; Water skiing and water ski instruction.&bull; Play golf on two different courses.&bull; Organized camp tournaments in shuffleboard, horseshoes and golf.&bull; Touch Football, Soccer and Lacrosse on our beautiful new sports field.&bull; Canoe instruction and canoe trips.&bull; Cook-outs, camp fire, sing-songs.&bull; Go Kart rides on supervised Go Kart track.&bull; All meals diet supervised by expert chefs.&bull; HARRY SINDEN&mdash;new coach of the Boston Bruins has been added to our Hockey Staff.&ldquo;A Boy&rsquo;s Dream Holiday Come True"July 1st through September 2nd, 1967FOR MORE INFORMATION, BROCHURES AND PRICESWRITEHaliburton Hockey HavenBOYS&rsquo; CAMP4 Finch Ave. W., Suite 20, Willowdale, OntarioINSTRUCTORS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04331/2373684-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="377" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN HODGE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05234/2373677-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="380" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRIT SELBY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06175/2373670-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="373" height="404"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOBBY ORR</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1063/2373663-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="1296" height="161"></div>INSTRUCTORS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-07132/2373656-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="383" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">RED KELLY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-08106/2373649-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="381" height="392"><figcaption class="caption-body">RON ELLIS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0982/2373642-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="385" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE PARENT</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Haliburton Hockey Haven

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01628/2373715-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Here&rsquo;s goalie TERRY SAWCHUK displaying the Maple Leafs&rsquo; newly designed home uniforms. That&rsquo;s Sawchuk modelling the &rsquo;old&rsquo; Leafs&rsquo; sweater at left. On right, he is shown with the &rsquo;new look&rsquo; with triple arm and body bars replacing the old wider spaced double bands. Team put on new sweaters for first time in playoffs.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;For a guy who is supposed to be thinking about hanging up his skates unless he gets to play for Detroit next season, Terry Sawchuk is setting the hockey world buzzing with his playoff goaling wizardry.The Chicago Black Hawks, whom Sawchuk is victimizing at every opportunity, wished Terry had gone home before the playoffs the way he has been playing.&ldquo;What can you say?&rdquo; asked Chicago coach Billy Reay. &ldquo;The guy was fantastic, we couldn&rsquo;t beat him. We went at the Toronto net 68 times and 49 shots were on target in that fifth game.&rdquo;Sawchuk, &ldquo;Ukey&rdquo; to his Leaf teammates, made 37 saves &mdash;22 in the final period. He replaced Johnny Bower who made 10 stops and allowed the two goals.Even Toronto coach Punch Imlach, who is usually reticent after one player stands out, praised Sawchuk.&ldquo;He was fantastic. It&rsquo;s one of the best games I&rsquo;ve ever seen him play, some of the saves were almost unbelievable.&rdquo;But the first period was only a taste of the action to come in the last two. A crowd of 16,666 mostly in shirt-sleeves in the 71-degree temperature, sensed a battle when Sawchuk came into the nets.It was nearly a disaster. On the first play of the second period, Sawchuk was hit in the left shoulder by a sizzling slapshot from Bobby Hull. The Toronto netminder spun around and went down like a polled ox.&ldquo;I was afraid that I&rsquo;d hit him in the neck or throat,&rdquo; said Hull, who thought Sawchuk was seriously injured by the 20-foot shot.But Sawchuk, a veteran of 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, picked himself up after the shot and continued the game.After, Sawchuk was asked if he&rsquo;d seen the shot."Are you kidding? All you do is hope that it hits you. Especially when Bobby Hull is the guy at the other end. There&rsquo;s no skill to that.&rdquo;Sawchuk did everything. He leaped, sprawled, twisted, jumped, sprang, fell, kicked and probably prayed. &#9632;

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Veteran Sawchuk “Just Fantastic” Moans Billy Reay

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02552/2373753-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"></div>The story of nineteenth-Century Canadian Sport.<h2>Henry Roxborough.</h2>"Henry Roxborough portrays on a national background the story of nineteenth-century Canadian sport, the origin of games, early customs and rules, the rise and fall in their popularity, the beginnings of famous clubs and the stories of Canadian champions. The first chapter deals with sport in Confederation Year 1867.Highlighting the role played by early Indians, the original settlers, pioneer sportsmen, the book will interest sports enthusiasts of every age. $4.95Third Edition<h2>Henry Roxborough</h2>Completely revised to include 1966 Stanley Cup play-offs and champions, The Stanley Cup Story is an exciting account of hockey&rsquo;s development in Allan Stanley and John Canada, exploits of hockey &ldquo;greats&rdquo;, a history of the NHL teams and a complete record of Stanley Cup winners. Veteran sports writer Henry Roxborough has written his Canadian best-seller with humour, interest and fascinating behind-the-scene anecdotes.&ldquo;Full of hockey lore,&rdquo; Toronto Daily Star. &ldquo;Factual, complete&rdquo;, Winnipeg Free Press. Profusely illustrated with photographs. $4.50<h2>Scott Young</h2>Scott Young was there to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs grow from 98-pound weaklings to the giants of hockey. The metamorphosis took place with the arrival of Punch Imlach as new general manager and coach. The steady veterans, including Tim Horton and George Armstrong, came into their full maturity to go with such as Bert Olmstead, Allan Stanley and John Bower as the Leafs&rsquo; elder statesmen. At the same time the young ones &mdash;Pulford, Baun, Duff, Mahovlich&mdash;came of age and were joined by Brewer, Nevin and others to make a great team.$4.50*Available in U.S. through Follett Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03459/2373746-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1170" height="228"></div> &#9632;

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Great Sport Stories

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04360/2373784-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg"></div>Sundridge, OntarioLocated in beautiful Algonquin Park RegionSummer Camp life combined with the finest hockey instruction for boys 8 to 18.<h2>Our Philosophy</h2>Holiday Hockey Camp brings together for the first time the international approach under the guidance of Rev. Fr. David Bauer; the experience of the successful young players&rsquo; coach, Charlie Cerre, and professional coaching of seven N.H.L. and A.H.L. stars.<h2>Meet our N.H.L. Instructors</h2>Tim Horton &mdash;Maple LeafsKen Wharram &mdash;Black HawksPaul Henderson &mdash;Red WingsYvan Cournoyer &mdash;CanadiensThe camp is operated by two high school teachers/coaches who have devoted their lives to the training of young minds and bodies:Mr. Charlie Cerre, B.A., B.P.E.Mr. Carl Yakimoff, B.A., B.P.H.E.<h2>Camp Life</h2>&mdash;16 hours of ice time per week&mdash;Off-ice hockey lectures, films and land drills&mdash;Physical fitness programme&mdash;Swimming, boating, water skiing, fishing and sailing&mdash;Land sports: touch football, badminton, volleyball, soccer, borden ball&mdash;Weekly camp golf tournament&mdash;Wiener Roast once a week<h2>AHL Instructors</h2>Ron Attwell &mdash;ClevelandBruce Draper &mdash;HersheyMike Corbett &mdash;SpringfieldRoger Lafreniere &mdash;BuffaloGENERAL INFORMATIONHoliday Hockey Camp operates throughout July and AugustFees: Resident Campers &mdash;$100 per weekDay Campers &mdash;$ 50 per week8 &mdash;5:30 Lunch &#9632;

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HOLIDAY HOCKEY CAMP

SAN DIEGO, Calif.&mdash;In their first season back in professional hockey, owner Bob Breitbard&rsquo;s San Diego Gulls established a WHL and minor-league one-season attendance record of 315,021 for 37 home dates, an average of 8,751 fans per game, according to final figures released by publicity director Dick White. This is the top figure for the 1966-67 season in minor league hockey.The Gulls surpassed the old record set by Portland in 35 games with 290,000 after their 35th game. Manager-coach Max McNab&rsquo;s team, which ran last all season, drew a low of 4,138 on a foggy pro football &ldquo;Super Bowl&rdquo; Sunday and highs of 13,089 on Jan. 7 and 13,363 on the final Sunday, April 2.They drew 14 crowds of 10,000 or more. &#9632;

San Diego Best Outside Of NHL

"you like 7up 7up likes you""you like 7up 7up likes you"<h2>NHL Playoffs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01627/2373877-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="601" height="2477"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;John Ferguson, who has spent much of his career playing the role of villain, was enjoying being a hero as Habs moved into the Stanley Cup finals.Fergie&rsquo;s slow-motion goal at 6:28 of the first overtime, dashed the playoff hopes of N.Y. Rangers and qualified Montreal for the finals on the basis of four straight wins over the plucky Ranger crew. It marks the 18th time since 1927 that Canadiens have entered a Stanley Cup final round.Ferguson, a thorn in the side of Rangers all season with eight goals against them during the regular schedule, scored three times in the semi-final. Two of them were game-winners. His linemates, Ralph Backstrom and Claude Larose, were also big factors. They collected 10 points between them, with Backstrom getting 3-2 and Larose 1-4. All told, the trio accounted for 14 scoring points in the four-game series.It was a fortunate turn of events for Ferguson that he got the series winner against Rangers. His silly penalty for charging Harry Howell, late in the second period of the fourth game, paved the way for Phil Goyette&rsquo;s powerplay equalizer after J. C. Tremblay had given Habs a 1-0 lead. Goyette scored 18 seconds after Ferguson went into the box. Thus, Fergie turned potential goat horns into hero&rsquo;s laurels with his sudden-death overtime goal.Though his penalties are sometimes costly to his team, Ferguson is obviously at his best when playing a hitting-type game. He established a new team record for penalties this season, with 177 minutes, yet reached the 20-goal plateau for the first time in his NHL career. A fearless type, John is particularly effective on the road and the more hostile the rink, the more effective he&rsquo;s liable to be.Says Toe Blake: &ldquo;There are three rinks on the circuit where Ferguson seems to go very well. The first, of course, is Madison Sq. Garden in New York. He&rsquo;s really dangerous there. But, he also goes very well in Chicago Stadium and the Boston Gardens. Those are tough rinks to play in, but he seems to like them.&rdquo;A 28-year-old native of British Columbia, Ferguson is one of the few from that province who are currently in the NHL. The others are defensemen Bert Marshall and Joe Watson of Detroit and Boston, respectively, and back-up goalie Cesare Maniago of Rangers. Lack of artificial ice rinks in balmy B.C., during the time that Ferguson was growing up there, meant that he got an exceptionally late start on skates. He was 12 years old before he got on the blades at all, and another 13 years were to pass before he became a rookie with Canadiens. However, &#9632;

Ferguson Basks In Limelight As Habs Advance

TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;NHL referee-in-chief Scotty Morrison said his No. 1 referee, Vern Buffey, will be appropriately fined and disciplined for publicly criticizing president Bill Jennings of the New York Rangers.Morrison said the size of the fine and the nature of the reprimand will not be made public, however.&ldquo;The fine will not be imposed because of the content of Buffey&rsquo;s statement. It will be levied because the terms of his employment state he must not sound off in the manner he did.&rdquo;Buffey publicly defended the work of his colleague John Ashley after Jennings&rsquo; criticism of Ashley&rsquo;s work during the semifinal series between the Rangers and Montreal Canadiens.Ashley refereed the third game of the series, won 3-2 by Montreal, and Jennings said Ashley&rsquo;s errors in the game included the disallowing of a goal by Phil Goyette of New York.Jennings was quoted as calling Ashley a &ldquo;bush-leaguer&rdquo; and &ldquo;incompetent&rdquo;.In a published rebuttal, Buffey said:It is ridiculous that Jennings can rap officials like he does. How dare he brand and official such as Ashley a bush-leaguer and incompetent? Ashley has forgotten more about hockey than Jennings will ever learn.&rdquo;Morrison said he agreed with Buffey&rsquo;s remarks, but disagreed with the way he publicly presented them. &#9632;

Ref Buffey Faces Fine For Talking

Terry Sawchuk &hellip;&hellip; Toronto LeafsTerry Sawchuk has been around the NHL for 17 years and he has seen his share of playoff action during that time, but even now at age 37, he is playing like a rookie just breaking into the big time.Sawchuk has been utterly fantastic in the current semi-final playoff series for the Toronto Leafs against Chicago Black Hawks. His performance has been truly amazing when you stop to consider he was supposed to be washed up as an NHL netminder a few months ago with a bad back.The veteran NHL shutout king &mdash;he&rsquo;s the first man to reach 100 in league play &mdash;has stepped into the breach for the Leafs in the series with the Hawks and his play has throttled the Chicago club repeatedly.Chicago coach Billy Reay has been shaking his head at some of Sawchuk&rsquo;s puck-stopping moves. Terry&rsquo;s coach, Punch Imlach, has been lavish with his praise of the seasoned netminder.The Leafs are on the verge of reaching the cup finals for the first time in three years and if they make it, they J: can hand the accolades to Sawchuk. He has been the difference in the two teams through the series and the Hawks have had trouble getting the puck past him since the semi-finals began.Simon&rsquo;s is pleased to salute Terry Sawchuk of the Toronto Maple Leafs as the NH&rsquo;s player-of-the-week.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02548/2373956-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="298" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Player Of The Week

<h2>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h2><h3>Game Four</h3>Thurs April 13MONTREAL 2 at NEW YORK 1NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01624/2374008-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="294" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Ferguson</figcaption></div>John Ferguson, noted more for his ice antics than his goal &mdash;scoring assets in recent years, put the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup finals for the 18th time in the fourth game of semi - final playoff series against New York Rangers by scoring the winning goal in the sudden-death overtime period.Ferguson, a 20-goal man this year but also the NHL&rsquo;S leading penalty collector, knocked the Rangers out of the best-of-seven series in four straight games when he notched his overtime-period goal to give the Canadiens a 2-1 decision. The goal came at 6:28.Ferguson&rsquo;s third goal in four playoff games &mdash;it was his second winner of the series &mdash;followed J.C. Tremblay&rsquo;s first period goal and the equalizer by Rangers&rsquo; Phil Goyette in the second period.MONTREAL &mdash; Goal: Vachon, Worsley; defence: J. C. Tremblay, Harris, Harper, Laperriere. Talbot; forwards: Backstrom, Ferguson, Larose, Beliveau, Rousseau, G. Tremblay, Richard, Rochefort, Baion, Duff, Roberts, Cournoyer.NEW YORK &mdash; Goal: Giacomin, Maniago; defence: Howell, Brown, MacNeil, Hillman, Neilson, forwards: Goyette, Marshall, Nevin, Ingarfield, Geoffrion, Fleming, Gilbert, Ratelle, Hadfield, Schinkel, Berenson, Kurtenbach.FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Montreal, J. C. Tremblay (Richard) &hellip;&hellip; 10:46Penalties: Fleming 2:36, Rochefort, Fleming (majors) 5:50, Nevin &hellip;&hellip; 12:42.SECOND PERIOD2&mdash;New York, Goyette (Marshall, Nevin) &hellip;&hellip; 17:56Penalties: Gilbert, Hadfield 10:08, Backstrom (double minor) 12:28, Marshall 12:28, Ferguson 17:38, Richard 18:29.THIRD PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Gilbert 2:01, 1. C. Tremblay 3:11, Ingarfield 12:00, Brown, Beliveau 17:40.OVERTIME PERIOD3&mdash;Montreal, Ferguson (Backstrom, Larose) 6:28Penalties: Harris, Hadfield (majors) 4:41.SHOTS AGAINST:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02576/2374001-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="580" height="56"></div>Attendance: 15,935.<h3>Game Three</h3>Tues. April 11MONTREAL 3 at NEW YORK 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03500/2373994-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="272" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Giacomin</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens got to Ranger goalie Ed Giacomin early as they stopped the New Yorkers 3-2 to grab a commanding 30 lead in their best - of - seven semi-final playoff series.With the teams moving down here for games three and four, the Blues were on the verge of elimination as the result of the loss, their third straight.Claude Larose and Jean Beliveau drilled pucks past Giacomin before the game was barely three minutes old and the Blues never recovered from the blow.Jim Neilson got one of the goals back for Rangers late in the opening period but Bobby Rousseau raised the count to 3-1 at the outset of the second period. Earl Ingarfield closed the gap again for the Blues two and half minutes later and that&rsquo;s the way it finished.FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Montreal, Larose(Backstrom, Ferguson) &hellip;&hellip; 013.2&mdash;Montreal, Beliveau (Rousseau) &hellip;&hellip; 3:093&mdash;New York, Neilson (Fleming, Nevin) &hellip;&hellip; 16:51Penalties: Fleming 1:26, Harper 1:26, Beliveau 4:27, Rousseau 15:48.SECOND PERIOD4&mdash;Montreal, Rousseau(J. C Tremblay, Richard) &hellip;&hellip; 2:055&mdash;New York, Ingarfield (Fleming, Nevin) 4:34Penalties: Hillman 0:08, Berenson 7:13.THIRD PERIODNo scoring.Penalty: Howell 11:19.SHOTS AGAINST:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06311/2373987-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="579" height="53"></div>Attendance: 15,925. &#9632;

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<h2>Game Five</h2>Sat. April 15TORONTO 4 at CHICAGO 2CHICAGO, Ill. &mdash;Goalie Terry Sawchuk came up with another superb netminding performance to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to within One game of gaining a berth in the Stanley Cup finals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04416/2374088-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="293" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pete Stemkowski</figcaption></div>Sawchuk stopped the Chicago Black Hawks cold while his Maple Leaf teammates poured four goals past Denis DeJordy to take a 4-2 win and a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven semi-final series between the teams.With starting goalie Johnny Bower shaky, Sawchuk was rushed into the breach to stifle the Hawks for two and a half periods in the fifth game of the series.Backing up Sawchuk&rsquo;s fantastic goaling display &mdash;he handled 49 shots &mdash;Mike Walton, Frank Mahovlich, Pete Stemkowski and Jim Pappin scored single goals. Stemkowski&rsquo;s was the game winner.CHICACO: &mdash; Goal: Dejordy, Dryden; defence: Pilote, Jarrett, Van Impe, Miszuk, Stapleton; forwards: Wharram, Mohns, Angotti, Esposito, Hay, B. Hull, D. Hull, Hodge, Maki, Nesterenko, Stanfield.TORONTO &mdash; Goal: Bower, Sawchuk; defence: Horton, Stanley, Hillman, Pronovost, Baun; forwards: Keon, Conacher, Mahovlich, Kelly, Ellis, Stemkowski, Jeffrey, Walton, Pappin, Pulford, Shack, Erickson.Referee: Ashley; linesmen: Armstrong, Shetler.FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Toronto, Walton (Pappin, Stemkowski) 6:102&mdash;Chicago, Angotti (Pilote) &hellip;&hellip; 9:313&mdash;Chicago, B. Hull (Hay, Jarrett) &hellip;&hellip; 11:014&mdash;Toronto, Mahovlich (Keon, Walton) &hellip;&hellip; 14:14Penalties: Horton 2:36, 0. Hull 5:05, Stemkowski 9:30, Van Impe 9:09, Hodge 11:41, Hay 13:24, Pulford 15:48, 19:28, Nesterenko 19:28.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Stanley 3:19, Wharram 5:32, Pappin 7:10, Pappin 13:12, 0. Hull 17:03.THIRD PERIOD5&mdash;Toronto, Stemkowski (Pulford, Pappin) 2:116&mdash;Toronto, Pappin (Pulford, Horton) &hellip;&hellip; 17:14Penalties: Stemkowski 4:23, 10:13, Angotti 13:54, Pulford 19:28, Mikita 19:28.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05349/2374081-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1135" height="1635"><figcaption class="caption-body">While defenseman BOB BAUN keeps a watchful eye, Goalie TERRY SAWCHUK of the Leafs and STAN MIKITA of the Black Hawks move into close quarters during Stanley Cup semi-final playoffs.</figcaption></div>SHOTS AGAINST:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10233/2374074-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="583" height="56"></div>Attendance: 20,000.<h2>Game Four</h2>Thurs. April 13CHICAGO 4 at TORONTO 3TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07282/2374067-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="247" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div>Chicago Black Hawks pulled up on even terms with the Toronto Maple Leafs in their best-of-seven semi-final playoff series by beating them 4-3 on Toronto ice.With the series squared away at 2-2, the teams moved back to Chicago for game five with game six back here.The game was costly to both sides. Horton was clipped by Dennis Hull&rsquo;s stick and suffered a broken nose. Goalie Glenn Hall of the Hawks had his lower lip sliced open for 25 stitches on a shot fired by Jim Pappin and had to be replaced by Denis DeJordy.FIRIT PERIOD1&mdash;Chicago, Wharram (Mikita, Mohns) &hellip;&hellip; 0:092&mdash;Toronto, Keon (Conacher, Mahovlich) &hellip;&hellip; 3:423&mdash;Chicago, Pilote (Mohns, R. Hull) &hellip;&hellip; 8:324&mdash;Toronto, Horton (Mahovlich) &hellip;&hellip; 10:14Penalties: D. Hull 6:16, Jarrett 9:12, Walton 9:33, Van Impe 9:49, Stemkowski 11:25, Pronovost 16:46, Chicago (bench penalty served by Dea) 18:48.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Mohns, Jeffrey 5:23, Jeffrey 12:27, Conacher 15:43, Mohns 17:30.THIRD PERIOD5&mdash;Chicago, Nesterenko (D. Hull, Pilote) &hellip;&hellip; 2.3l6&mdash;Chicago, R. Hull (Pilote) &hellip;&hellip; 8:487&mdash;Toronto, Walton (Mahovlich, Hillman) &hellip;&hellip; 17:37Penalty: Jarrett 5:14.SHOTS AGAINST:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08268/2374060-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="581" height="56"></div><h2>Game Three</h2>Tues. April 11CHICAGO 1 at TORONTO 3TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09256/2374053-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="301" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Pappin</figcaption></div>The fired-up Toronto Maple Leafs continued their play-off comeback - against the Chicago Black Hawks here in the third game of the semi-final playoff as they won 3-1 to take 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.The victory was the second straight for the revitalized Leafs, who lost the opener then came on to take the next two.Ron Ellis, Frank Mahovlich and Jim Pappin scored for the Leafs against veteran Goalie Glenn Hall, who was inserted into the Chicago net after Denis DeJordy played the first two games of the series. Mahovlich and Pappin&rsquo;s goals were the second of the round.FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Toronto, Ellis (Kelly, Jeffrey) &hellip;&hellip; 11:10Penalties: Jarrett 0:24, Horton 3:25, 14:57, 0. Hull 18:43.SECOND PERIOD2&mdash;Toronto, Mahovlich (Walton, Pappin) &hellip;&hellip; 10:223&mdash;Toronto, Pappin (Stemkowski, Pulford) 19:15 Penalties: Hodge 9:42, Horton 12:50, Stanley 15:56.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Chicago, B. Hull (Angotti, Wharram) &hellip;&hellip; 16:30 Penalties: Pilote 12:16, Stemkowski 15:03.SHOTS AGAINST:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12190/2374046-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="582" height="62"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11208/2374039-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="554" height="1917"><figcaption class="caption-body">It might look like the Saturday night Conga line, but actually it&rsquo;s the Maple Leafs&rsquo; RON ELLIS, LARRY JEFFREY and RED KELLY, top to bottom, pursuing puck in semifinal playoffs.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leafs Step Away From Cup Berth As Sawchuk’s Goaling Stops Hawks

WALLY NORTHERN PRO HOCKEY STICKSWALLY POOL TABLES TABLE TENNIS CROQUET SETS<h2>AHL Playoffs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02505/2374119-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="585" height="1777"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By SHEL FULLERTON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01595/2374150-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="310" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ernie Wekely</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;Hockey teams that fight their way into the playoffs without one or two of its leading lights standing out head and shoulders above the other members are about as rare as giraffes at the North Pole.Usually, there are those one or two big guys, leading the way.The Cleveland team that made this spring&rsquo;s Calder Cup playoffs before bowing to Rochester is an exception. While sportswriters and sportscasters struggle with the job of picking an all-star American Hockey League team, those in the Lake Erie city would be hard-pressed even to pick the most valuable Baron.There simply was no outstanding star. The club was so remarkably well-balanced that two of the players topped the 30-goal mark, seven passed the 20-goal plateau and eight scored more than 50 points. Another just missed in two of those categories because injuries sidelined him for a considerable time.Tom McCarthy wound up with 36 goals and Bob Courcy with 32.Keith McCreary, Joe Szura, Fred Glover, Ron Attwell and Cecil Hoekstra each tallied more than 20 goals.Those seven players, plus defenseman Dick Mattiussi, scored more than 50 points.Howie Glover, with 18 goals and 44 points, was the one who missed because of injuries.Who was the most valuable?Was it Coach Fred Glover, with his 25 goals, 61 points and inspiring leadership, both on and off the ice? Was it top scorer Tom McCarthy, with his 36 goals and 74 points? Or Joe Szura, who led the club in scoring when he was sidelined with a late-season injury?Was it Bob Courcy, also among the team leaders when injured prior to the playoffs, or Keith McCreary, who did a splendid job no matter in what position he was worked?Was it the high-scoring Mattiussi, whose brilliant center ice play turned his line into a powerful scoring threat?Was it steady Bill Needham, voted by his teammates as the winner of the annual Glen Sonmor Award for showing the most heart and desire? Was it blueliner Jacques Lemieux, the club&rsquo;s top rookie?If it had to be settled by this writer, the pick would be goaltender Ernie Wakely, certainly the most improved player on the team over the season.As Wakely continually settled down after a shaky start, as he gained more poise and more confidence, that confidence seemed to rub off on his teammate who became progressively steadier defensively as the campaign wore on.The Wakely who finished the season doing brilliantly in the Barons&rsquo; net was a far cry from the wandering Wakely who started the season.He gets our vote. &#9632;

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News’ Scribe Leans To Goalie Ernie Wakely Cleveland

Sat. April 8<h2>ROCHESTER 3 at CLEVELAND 2</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Rochester, Blackburn (Joyal, Smrke) &hellip;&hellip; 16:40Penalties: Fuller 9:01, Lemieux 15:05, Cherry 17:53.SECOND PERIOD2&mdash;Rochester, Joyal (Smrke) &hellip;&hellip; 8:07Penalties: Cherry 2:45, 10:27, Duff, F. Glover 4:33, Carleton 9:53, H. Glover, Arbour 11:47, F. Glover, Blackburn 19:09.THIRD PERIOD3&mdash;Cleveland, Attwell (Needham) &hellip;&hellip; 8:394&mdash;Cleveland, H. Glover(McCarthy, Attwell) &hellip;&hellip; 19:22Penalties: Cherry 6:21, Attwell, Douglas 13:56.OVERTIME PERIOD5&mdash;Rochester, Gamble (Ehman, Arbour) &hellip;&hellip; 0:38Penalties: none.Shots against, Perreault 34, Wakely 29.Attendance: 5,612.(Cleveland leads best-of-seven quarter-finals 2-1)<h2>PITTSBURGH 3 at HERSHEY 2</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Hershey, Cline (Nykoluk, Keller) &hellip;&hellip; 0:412&mdash;Pittsburgh, Godfrey (Wall, Taylor) &hellip;&hellip; 4:223&mdash;Pittsburgh, Jarrett (Harris) &hellip;&hellip; 6:36Penalties: Taylor 2:11, Keller 2:55, Dornhoefer (major) 3:13, Rivers 8:12, Godfrey 11:19, Harvey 11:57, Mahoney 18:39.SECOND PERIOD4&mdash;Pittsburgh. Jarrett &hellip;&hellip; 2:415&mdash;Hershey, Stankiewicz(Dornhoefer, Harvey) &hellip;&hellip; 4:07Penalties: Godfrey 2:11, D. Harris 5:47, Popiel 10:34, McDonald, Awrey 15:42, Godfrey 16:05.THIRD PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: none.Shots against Bassen 39, Henderson 31.Attendance: 6,676.(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven semi-finals 3-0)Wed. April 12<h2>BALTIMORE 4 at HERSHEY 3</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Quebec, Rivard (Sutherland, Mortson) &hellip; 4:522&mdash;Quebec, Labossiere(Morrison, Sutherland) &hellip;&hellip; 10:553&mdash;Quebec, Sutherland(Labossiere, Gendron) &hellip;&hellip; 13:42Penalties: Collins 9:56, 12:05, Ingram 14:27, Labossiere 15:28.SECOND PERIOD4&mdash;Baltimore, Marshall (Hicke, Polano) &hellip; 3:175&mdash;Baltimore, Cossette (Collins, Ingram) &hellip; 5:20Penalties: Labossiere 2:41, 6:20, Lacroix 4:55, Polano 6:20, Guidolin 11:33.THIRD PERIOD6&mdash;Baltimore, Knibbs (Plager, Cossette) &hellip; 12:467&mdash;Baltimore, Hicke &hellip;&hellip; 14:45Penalties: Polano 2:18, Collins 9:10.Shots against, Bauman 25, Villemure 34.Attendance: 10,294.(Best-of-seven quarter-finals tied 2-2)<h2>PITTSBURGH 1 at HERSHEY 3</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Hershey, Ubriaco (Rivers, Kelly) &hellip;&hellip; 15:55Penalties: Awrey 4:51, Dornhoefer 9:19, Harris 12:06.SECOND PERIOD2&mdash;Hershey, Ubriaco (Yanosik) &hellip;&hellip; 1:443&mdash;Pittsburgh, Taylor(D. Harris, Fonte ne) &hellip;&hellip; 17:40Penalties: Yanosik 9:02, B. Harris 14:10.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Hershey, Mahoney (Rivers, Gilbert) &hellip;&hellip; 8:45Penalties: Rivers 3:24, B. Harris, Yanosik 13;38.Shots against, Bassen 38, Henderson 28.Attendance: 4,945.(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven semi-finals 3-1)<h2>CLEVELAND 1 at ROCHESTER 3</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Cleveland, Mattiussi (Zeidel, Butler) &hellip;&hellip; 1:522&mdash;Rochester, Joyal (Smrke, Rupp) &hellip;&hellip; 5:113&mdash;Rochester, Douglas (Horvath) &hellip;&hellip; 9:10Penalties: D. Gamble 6:21, Ellett 9:16, Szura 11:35.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: none.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Rochester, Douglas (Gamble) &hellip;&hellip; 10:12Penalties: Sly 2:07, 18:28.Shots against, Perreault 19, Wakely 33.Attendance: 6,664.(Rochester wins best-of-five quarter-finals 3-2)Fri. April 14<h2>QUEBEC 4 at BALTIMORE 5</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Baltimore, Marshall (Robinson, Hicke) 5:422&mdash;Quebec, Morrison (Rivard) &hellip;&hellip; 7:42Penalties: Ingram 3:24, Savard 11:05, Polano 12:23.SECOND PERIOD3&mdash;Baltimore, Ingram (Seiling, Robinson) 7:344&mdash;Baltimore, Cunningham(McGregor, Bartlett) &hellip;&hellip; 14:525&mdash;Quebec, Lacroix (Nolet) &hellip;&hellip; 15:33Penalties: Labossiere 6:29, Morrison 7:27, Hicke (minor, misconduct) 8:34.THIRD PERIOD6&mdash;Quebec, Mortson (Price, McMahon) &hellip;&hellip; 7:557&mdash;Baltimore, McGregor(Cunnigham, Bartlett) &hellip;&hellip; 8:498&mdash;Baltimore, Robinson (Marshall, Hicke) 9:389&mdash;Quebec, Labossiere (Hicks) &hellip;&hellip; 18:02Penalties: Bartlett 0:45, Gendron (misconduct) 2:35, Guidolin 13:43, Polano 17:47.Shots against, Bauman 36, Villemure 33.Attendance: 8,507.(Baltimore wins best-of-five quarter-finals 3-2)Sat. April 15<h2>HERSHEY 0 at PITTSBURGH 4</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Pittsburgh, Godfrey(D. Harris, Fonteyne) &hellip;&hellip; 2:212&mdash;Pittsburgh, A. McDonald(McKenney, Gray) &hellip;&hellip; 3:033&mdash;Pittsburgh, A. McDonald (McKenney) &hellip;&hellip; 6:36Penalties: Popiel 3:20, Taylor 16:21.SECOND PERIODScoring none.Penalties: Popiel 8:09, Fonteyne 13:34.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Pittsburgh, Wall(B. Harris, A. McDonald) &hellip;&hellip; 13:13Penalties: Awrey 3:49, Goegan 14:57.Shots against, Henderson 52, Bassen 22.(Pittsburgh wins best-of-seven semi-finals 4-2)Sun. April 16<h2>BALTIMORE 3 at ROCHESTER 4</h2>FIRST PERIOO1&mdash;Baltimore, Bartlett (Brinkworth) &hellip;&hellip; 3:522&mdash;Baltimore, Hicke (Polano) &hellip;&hellip; 17:22Penalties: MacQueen 7:20, Guidolin 11:25, Plager 16:29.SECOND PERIOD3&mdash;Rochester, Douglas (Ehman) &hellip;&hellip; 0:24Penalties: Blackburn 2:46, Ingram 14:35, Mac-Queen, D. Gamble 17:49.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Baltimore, Hicke (Robinson, Marshall) 7:445 Rochester, Joyal (Rupp, Ehman) &hellip;&hellip; 9:316&mdash;Rochester, Sly (Blackburn, Horvath) &hellip;&hellip; 14:32FIRST OVERTIME PERIOONo scoring.Penalties: noneSECOND OVERTIME PERIODNo scoring.Penalty: Arbour 14:58.THIRD OVERTIME PERIOD7&mdash;Rochester, Ehman (Douglas, Duff) &hellip;&hellip; 4:18Penalties: none.Shots against, Villemure 67, Perreault 58.Attendance: 6,449.(Rochester leads best-of-five semi-finals 1-0) &#9632;

Calder Cup Playoff Summaries

ROCHESTER, N.Y. &mdash;The Rochester Americans were back knocking at the door of the Calder Cup throne room with only two teams standing in their way at the moment &mdash;Baltimore Clippers and Pittsburgh Hornets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01589/2374205-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="286" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ab McDonald</figcaption></div>The Amerks, who have won the Calder Cup the past two seasons, ousted the Cleveland Barons 3-2 in a best-of-five semi-final series and then went on to topple Baltimore 4-3 in the first game of the best-of-five semi-finals.Pittsburgh Hornets were sitting idle waiting for the winner of the Rochester-Baltimore series to start the championship series that would determine the Calder Cup holder.The Hornets got into the finals by pushing the Hershey Bears to the sidelines in six games of their best-of-seven semi-final series. Gary Jarrett of the Hornets turned in an amazing performance in the series scoring three game-winning goals. In the wrap-up game, Ab McDonald scored twice and Hank Bassen hung a 4-0 shutout on the Bears.The Clippers reached the semi-final round by ousting Quebec Aces in a five-game playoff while the Americans moved up by virtue of three straight victories over Cleveland after the Barons surprised the AHL champions and grabbed the first two games of the best-of-five quarter-final playoff.But the Americans refused to become undaunted and came back fighting with three straight wins, two of which came on Cleveland ice.Baz Bastien&rsquo;s Hornets were in the Calder Cup finals for the first time since the 1955 playoffs and if they duplicate their showing of that particular year, it will be all right with Bastien. The Hornets went all the way that season to capture the playoff title. &#9632;

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Amerks, Clippers Locked In Semi-Final Series

<div class="byline">By JOHN TRAVERS</div>HERSHEY, Pa. &mdash;Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; winger Gary Jarret was a one-man wrecking crew against the Hershey Bears in the first three games of the best-of-seven semi-final Calder Cup playoffs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02546/2374236-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="296" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gary Jarrett</figcaption></div>The 25-year old forward banged in four goals, including three game winners to give the Western Division champion Hornets a big 3-0 lead in games before the Hornets went on to eliminate the Bears in five games and advance to the finals.&ldquo;When a guy catches a hot hand like that,&rdquo; said Bears coach Frank Mathers, &ldquo;there isn&rsquo;t much you can do about it.&rdquo;The league record for most game winners in a series (8 games) is five, set in 1950-51 by Wally Hergesheimer, of Cleveland.Hershey&rsquo;s Eastern Division champion club simply was unable to match the Hornets&rsquo; fire power as Pittsburgh out-scored and outshot them.&ldquo;It was a great team effort,&rdquo; said Pittsburgh coach Baz Bastien. &ldquo;Everyone was in there working.&rdquo;One of the standouts was Pittsburgh defenseman Bob McCord, who recently was chosen by the league coaches as the circuit&rsquo;s best blueliner. &#9632;

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Jarrett Puts Bears Out Of Playoffs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03508/2374281-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="601" height="2076"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04467/2374274-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="600" height="2084"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05390/2374267-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="601" height="2135"></div> &#9632;

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AHL’s Final Scoring Records

<div class="byline">By CHUCK SANTANIELLO</div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Sandy Wymers of Palmer, Mass., who is the president of the Springfield Indians Booster Club, reports that the American Hockey League booster clubs&rsquo; convention will be held this fall.The meeting will take place at the beautiful Ortega Inn in Cooperstown, New York which is the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dates for the convention are Friday thru Sunday, September 8 to 10. This meeting is an annual affair held by the booster clubs.Jack Button, AHL secretary, was guest speaker last season. This year&rsquo;s session will include a well-rounded social and business program. Wymers, who is president of the Springfield Indians Booster Club, will serve as chairman of the meeting.In order to participate in convention activities, all must be members of various booster clubs in the American Hockey League.The general rules and bylaws of the AHL booster clubs will be revived at the Cooperstown convention. There will also be a general election of officers which is held annually. A party and dance are planned after the convention business is completed on Saturday, Sept. 9.All club members may attend the annual convention who are in good standing with their own local club. Details and reservations for the annual convention may be arranged by writing Sandy Wymers, P. O. Box 322, Palmer, Massachusetts.Of course, Wymers represents the Indians&rsquo; booster club. May Spence is president of the Hershey Bears&rsquo; boosters and convention secretary. Jack Bauman is Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; boosters&rsquo; prexy and also convention president. Al Walter is convention treasurer and leader of the Buffalo boosters. Doug Archerbold is Cleveland Barons&rsquo; boosters president and vice president of the convention. &#9632;

‘Booster’ Clubs Plan Convention

Before you say SCOTCH say DEWAR&rsquo;S it never variesBefore you say SCOTCH say DEWAR&rsquo;S it never variesWHL Playoffs<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03366/2374336-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="607" height="1333"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

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Bucks Best Scoring Club

SEATTLE, Wash. &mdash;Larry &ldquo;Hank&rdquo; Cahan, veteran Vancouver defenseman has been named winner of the Hal Laycoc Cup, emblematic of the outstanding defenseman in the Western Hockey League for the 1966-67 season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04280/2374429-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="291" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Cahan</figcaption></div>The All-Stars and individual player awards arc voted by the players in the League, with no player permitted to vote for his teammate.Hank polled 458 of a possible 510 votes, which proves the esteem in which he was held by his opponents.The outstanding defenseman award was initiated in 1965 and was won that year by Pat Stapleton of Portland. Last season, 1966, it was won by Connie Madigan, also a Portland defenseman. Last summer the Directors voted to name the trophy after the outstanding Boston Bruin defenseman and later Portland Buckaroos coach, Hal Laycoe.In addition to the trophy the award carries $300 in cash.As well as his outstanding defense-play, Cahan led all defensemen in scoring with a total of 54 points on 18 goals and 36 assists.Cahan was followed in the balloting by last year&rsquo;s winner Connie Madigan with 311 votes.The following is the count of the complete vote: Larry Cahan, Vancouver 458; Connie Madigan, Portland 311; Jerry Odrowski, California 103; Aut Erickson, Victoria 60; Sandy Hucul, Victoria 26; Jean Gauthier, Seattle 23; Jack Evans, California 20; Noel Picard, Seattle 16; Larry Hale, Seattle 11; Al Langlois, Los Angeles 11; Doug Messier, Portland 8; Bob Lemieux, Seattle 6; Ken Block, Vancouver 4; Jim Watson, San Diego 2; Bob Blackburn, Vancouver 1; Jim Hay, Portland 1; John Hendrickson, Los Angeles 1. &#9632;

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Cahan Named Top WHL Defenseman

Wed. April 5<h2>VANCOUVER 2 at PORTLAND 1</h2>FIRST PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Van Impe 3:50, Pratt 18:28.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Donaldson 11:21, Cahan 17:50.THIRD PERIOD1&mdash;Portland, Van Impe(C. Schmautz, Donaldson) &hellip;&hellip; 7:282&mdash;Vancouver, R. Jones (Hextall, Block) &hellip;. 14:02 Penalties: Lunde (major, minor) 7:12, Watson (major, minor) 7:12.OVERTIME PERIOD3&mdash;Vancouver, 8oehm (Popein, Hextall) &hellip;. 4:12No penalties:Saves: Simmons 24, Head 35.Attendance: 5,640.(Vancouver leads best-of-semi-finals 10)<h2>CALIFORNIA 1 at SEATTLE 3</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Seattle, Dineen &hellip;&hellip; 4:342&mdash;Seattle, Powers (Lemieux, Fielder)&hellip;&hellip; 5:323&mdash;California, Hoekstra(Gilbertson, Swarbrick) &hellip;&hellip; 5:53Penalties: Harris 0:45, Lemieux 12:33, Harris 15:19, Picard 18:01.SECOHD PERIODNo scoring.Penalty: Lemieux 6:54.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Seattle, Chiz (Fielder, Holmes) &hellip;&hellip; 19:10Penalties: Hale 5:46, Kennedy 8:17, Harris, Ward 11:16.Saves: McCartan 30, McLeod 29.Attendance: 3,676.(Seattle leads best-of-seven semi-finals 1-0)Fri. April 7<h2>PORTLAND 2 at VANCOUVER 3</h2>FIRST PERIOd1&mdash;Portland, Madigan &hellip;&hellip; 0:102 Vancouver, Duke (Cahan, Maloney) &hellip;&hellip; 9:42Penalties: Jones 0:24, Messier 7:56, Goodwin 16:00, Popein 17:02, Messier 17:11, A. Schmautz 19:13.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Dufour 7:57, Hextall 11:39.THIRD PERIOD3&mdash;Vancouver, Vejprava (Hunt, Block) &hellip;&hellip; 15:514&mdash;Portland, C. Schmautz (Pratt) &hellip;&hellip; 17:22Penalties: Saunders, Blackburn 14:33.OVERTIME PERIOD5&mdash;Vancouver, Jones (Hextall, Block) &hellip;&hellip; 0:49Penalties: none.Saves: Head 21, Simmons 23.(Vancouver leads best-of-seven semi-finals 2-0)<h2>CALIFORNIA O at SEATTLE 4</h2>FIRST PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Picard 3:49, Harris 7:26.SECOND PERIOD1&mdash;Seattle, Fielder (Heiskala) &hellip;&hellip; 8:34Penalties: Thurlby 2:53, Burns 3:15, Heiskala 9:22, Gauthier 10:46, Picard 19:13.THIRD PERIOD2&mdash;Seattle, Holmes (Picard, Ward) &hellip;&hellip; 1:333&mdash;Seattle, Fielder (Heiskala, Lemieux) &hellip;&hellip; 3:424&mdash;Seattle, Hughes (Lund) &hellip;&hellip; 15:27Penalties: None.Saves: McCartan 29, McLeod 22.Attendance: 6,511.(Seattle leads best-of-seven semi-finals 2-0)Sun. April 9<h2>VANCOUVER 5 at PORTLAND 0</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Vancouver, R. Jones (Watson) &hellip;&hellip; 3:342&mdash;Vancouver, Maloney (Cahan, Vejprava) 5:083&mdash;Vancouver, Hextall (R. Jones, Duke) &hellip;&hellip; 13:53Penalties: Caron 4:50, A. Schmautz 5:59, R. Jones 5 59. Saunders (major) (major) 9:54, Hunt 9:54, Madigan 14:33, Blackburn 16:33, Madigan 19:37.SECOND PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Cahan 9:02, Pratt 12:33, C. Schmautz 18:40.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Vancouver, Popein &hellip;&hellip; 1545&mdash;Vancouver, Watson (Maloney, Mosdell) 8:16Penalties: none.Saves: Simmons-Smith 28, Charron-Head 21.Attendance: 7,738.(Vancouver leads best-of-seven semi-finals 3-0)<h2>SEATTLE 1 at CALIFORNIA 2</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;California, Kennedy (Maxner) &hellip;&hellip; 3:43Penalties: Harris 11:11, Lemieux 15:00.SECOND PERIOD2&mdash;Seattle, Gauthier (Fielder, Lemieux) &hellip;&hellip; 2:59Penalties: Odrowski 2:44, Harris 3:24, Leonard 3:24, Hughes 10:48, Heiskala 14:21, Evans 18:24.THIRD PERIOD3&mdash;California, Swarbrick &hellip;&hellip; l:44Penalties: Odrowski 8:49, Gauthier 10:48.Saves: McLeod 17, McCartan 23.(Seattle leads best-of-seven semi-finals 2-1)Mon. April 10<h2>PORTLAND 2 at VANCOUVER 3</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Vancouver, Watson (Dufour, Blackburn) 2:422&mdash;Vancouver, Dufour (Maloney) &hellip;&hellip; 8:29Penalties: Cahan 4:42, Madigan 13:11, Messier 16:19.SECOND PERIOD3&mdash;Portland, Madigan &hellip;&hellip; 0:454&mdash;Portland, C. Schmautz(Messier, Madigan) &hellip;&hellip; 12:34Penalties: Messier 3:2b, Blackburn, Goyer 11:11, Boehm 19:49.THIRD PERIOD5&mdash;Vancouver, Hunt (Vejprava, Brunel) 7:34Penalties: Goyer 5:04, Messier 8:23, Vejprava 10:59.Saves: Head 26, Smith 24.Attendance: 4,729.(Vancouver wins best-of-seven. semi-finals 4-0) &#9632;

WHL Playoff Summaries

<div class="byline">By BILL LIBBY</div>VANCOUVER, B.C. &mdash;The Vancouver Canucks, who couldn&rsquo;t beat the Portland Buckaroos in their first nine meetings this season, pulled the biggest playoff upset in Western Hockey League history by eliminating the league champion Bucks in four straight games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01584/2374367-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="298" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Jones</figcaption></div>It was the first time a regular-season champion had ever lost four in a row in the opening round of a WHL playoff series.The series opened with two overtime victories by the Canucks, 2-1 in Portland and 3-2 in Vancouver. The Canucks then won 5-0 in Portland and 3-2 at home.Portland lost three of the four by one goal. And the Buckaroos thus lost all seven of the last seven games they played decided by a single goal.Vancouver&rsquo;s four-in-a-row was not a fluke, Portland outshot the Canucks in only 2 of the 14 periods (including two overtimes) that were played in the short series.So tenacious was Vancouver checking that such noted playoff scorers as Art Jones, Gerry Goyer, Len Lunde, Bill Saunders and Alain (Boom Boom) Caron were held without a single point in the four games.Two Vancouver Canucks, meanwhile, have great starts toward setting playoff records.Rookie winger Bob Jones scored game-winning goals in two of Vancouver&rsquo;s four triumphs. He needs two more to tie the all-time mark of four for one season in the playoffs.And Bryan Hextall scored game-winning assists in Vancouver&rsquo;s first three victories in a row. He needs just one more to tie the all-time mark of four in one playoff season.So it&rsquo;ll be the Vancouver Canucks battling the Seattle Totems for the Lester Patrick Cup this month in the WHL final playoffs.PORTLAND &mdash; Manager-coach Hal Laycoc&rsquo;s Bucks finished first at 41-24-7. They set a team record for road wins and were the league&rsquo;s only club over 500 on the road at 17-16-3. Fading at the finish, Bucks were not as effective as usual in close games, going 11-9 in one-goal decisions and failing to win while going 0-4-7 in overtimes. Team was second in goals scored, 255, and fewest goals permitted, 209. Despite 912 minutes, Portland lost most-penalized fewest power-play goals permitted, 37. Arnie Schmautz and Larry Leach headed penalty-killing brigade. Art Jones led with 38 goals, 51 assists, 79 points. Alain Caron had 35 goals. Bill Saunders 34, Cliff Schmautz 27 and Len Lunde 26. Saunders had 70 points, Gerry Goyer 68. Con Madigan bulwarked defense. Con had 147 penalty minutes, Doug Messier 138. Con had 42 assists and 51 points. Regular Don Head was brilliant 2.73 netminder, while rookie sub Rick Charron was 3.11.SEATTLE &mdash; Rallying from mediocre start, manager-coach Bill MacFarland, in first season, was rewarded with a 39-26-7 record, an all-time team high of 85 points and a near-miss second-place finish. Totems were best in league at home at 25-7-4, but poor 14-19-3 on road. Totems led loop in one-goal decisions at 12-7, were 5-2-7 in overtimes. Totems scored only 228 goals, but permitted the fewest, 195. This despite leading league in penalties with 923 minutes, led by forward Earl Heiskala with 147 and rookie defense aces Noel Picard and Bob Lemieux with 135 and 117. Team permitted only 42 power-play goals. Larry Hale led big, bruising defense. Jim McLeod led league with 2.44 goals-against, while rookie Jim Armstrong was third with 2.93. Guyle Fielder led league with 71 assists and 91 points. Larry Lund had 34 goals. Bill Dineen 32, Jim Powers 28, Howie Hughes 26. Lund had 72 points, Hughes 71.VANCOUVER &mdash; Second most of the way, coach Bert Olmstead&rsquo;s Canucks settled for third at 38-322, but made most of their talent. It was Canucks most wins since 1960. They were fine 24-10-2 at home, but poor 14-22-0 away. They didn&rsquo;t score much, 228 goals, but were third-best, 215, defensively. Larry Cahan anchored defense in front of Don Simmons who went all the way at fine 2.97, with league-high seven shutouts. Bob Blackburn led with 122 penalty minutes, but Canucks were second-low in league with only 636 total and permitted fewest power-play goals, 30. Offensively, Gordy Vejprava led with 36 goals and 82 points, while Phil Maloney was high with 50 assists. Maloney had 67 points, Ray Brunel 25 goals. Cahan led league&rsquo;s defensemen with 18 goals and 54 points. Team took most shots in league, but lacked accuracy.OAKLAND &mdash; Rudy Pilous was manager-coach of California Seals, but Charley Burns coached most of the way and team lost only two of last eight to squeeze into fourth and last playoff slot with 32-30-10 mark, although out scored by focs, 228-242. Took second-fewest shots in league. Seals played close games. Had fine 12-8 in one-goal decisions and 8-4-10 in overtimes, winding up with unusually high total of 10 ties. Not too good at home at 18-15-3, but fair on road at 14-15-7. High point man, For-best Kennedy, was only 16th in league with 65. George SwarbricK had most goals, 31, including four which won overtimes. Wayne Maxner and Danny Belisle had 25 each. Maxner and Burns had 60 points each. Team scored fewest power-play goals, 32, in league. Gerry Odrowski and Jack Evans led defense. Odrowski totalled 35 points. Jack McCartan&rsquo;s goals-against, average 3.30.VICTORIA &mdash;A near-miss second-place finisher and playoff winner a year ago, coach Frank Mario and manager Buck Houle couldn&rsquo;t get Leafs untracked in: what may be their last season in this city. At 30-34-8, they finished: fifth, six points out of the playoffs, Though 18-13-5 at home, were poor 12-21-3 away, and were poor 6-10 in one-goal decisions. Injuries hurt &mdash;star Fred Hucul was out most of the way and experienced centers were missing, but still Leafs made little of the talent they had. Milan Marcetta led with 40 goals and 75 points. Bruce Carmichael had 30 goals, Andy Hebenton 60 points. Autry Erickson and Sandy Hucul were solid de: fensemen. Sandy led in penalty minutes with mere 87, as mild-mannered Leafs were low in league with only 613 total. Al Smith fine rookie with fair 3.26 goals-against mark.LOS ANGELES &mdash;Managercoach Fernie Flaman&rsquo;s Blades led league with most goals scored, 260, including league-high 53 on power-plays, but also in most allowed, 286, and finished sixth for third straight and probably their last season with 29-38-5 mark. Team was poor 5-8 in one-goal games and poor 1-5-5 in overtimes. While Jerry Toppazzini was voted MVP, Dick Meissner led with 39 goals and 81 points. Norm Johnson had 31 goals, 36 assists and 79 points, Mel Pearson 45 assists and 62 points and Willie O&rsquo;Ree 34 goals and 60 points. Goalies Jack Norris (3.88) and Dave Kelly (4.01) were much better than stats show. Only forward Bill Orban shone on defense. Al Langlois had most penalty minutes, 89.SAN DIEGO &mdash;Manager-coach Max McNab&rsquo;s makeshift new club figured to finish last and did, but 22-47-3 mark was better than expected, and 315,021 fans set all-time minor-league high. Team was OK at home, 15-20-1, but won only seven on road. Stars were Fred Hilts, who led league with 45 goals, and had 70 points, Warren Hynes with 53 assists and 78 points, and Len Ronson with 32 goals and 67 points, plus goalie Les Binkley, despite 3.56 goals-against mark. Defense lacked quality. Rookie Jim Watson led league with 74 minors and 158 minutes. Gulls took fewest shots in league, 1969, and gave up most power-play goals, 60. &#9632;

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Canucks Pull Stunning Playoff Upset Ousting Champion Bucks 4 Straight

SEATTLE, Wash. &mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01561/2374484-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="300" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim McLoed</figcaption></div>Fred Hilts of San Diego and Guyle Fielder of Seattle wound up with the major share of honors among Western League players for the just-completed regular season. Hilts, a slender, clever, 27-year-old left-winger tied a WHL record with his fifth hat-trick of the season on the final night to wind up with 45 goals. Fielder, the small, brilliant 36-year-old center, finished with 91 points, lowest total to lead the league since Fielder&rsquo;s 88 in 1954.Following Hilts were Milan Marcetta of Victoria with 40 goals, Dick Meissner of L.A. with 39. Art Jones of Portland with 38, Gordy Vejprava of Vancouver with 36, Alain Caron of Portland with 35, Larry Lund of Seattle, Bill Saunders of Portland and Willie O&rsquo;Rec of L.A. with 34 each, Len Ronson of San Diego and Bill Dineen of Seattle with 32 each and Norm Johnson of L.A. with 31.Most of the season, Art Jones led the league in total points and was leading Portland to a runaway pennant. In the late season, when Jones and Portland went a bit flat, Fielder ran wild and paced a Seattle surge that almost overhauled Portland. Scoring 54 points in the last half of the campaign, Fielder did pass Jones to win his ninth WHL points title. No other player in WHL history ever has won more than one.While Jones had 38 goals to Fielder&rsquo;s 20, Art had only 51 assists to Fielder&rsquo;s 71. However, Jones did miss seven games this season, while the remarkable Fielder played all 72. Trailing Fielder&rsquo;s 91 points were Jones with 89, Vejprava with 82, Meissner with 81, San Diego&rsquo;s Warren Hynes with 78, Johnson with 77 and Marcetta with 75.Hynes was second in assists with 53, while Jones had 51, and veteran Phil Maloney of Vancouver an even 50.Among defensemen, Vancouver&rsquo;s Larry Cahan led with 18 goals and 54 points, while Con Madigan had 42 assists.Jones and Cliff Schmautz of Portland tied Victoria&rsquo;s Marcetta and San Diego&rsquo;s Ronson for the most game-winning goals, eight each. Saunders of Portland, Ray Brunel of Vancouver and Lund and Hughes of Seattle had seven each. Jones was tops in power-play goals with 15. Fielder and Vejprava tied for the most gamewinning assists, 11 each. Bryan Hextall of Vancouver had nine. Vejprava had the most first-goals, 10.In single-game highs, Fielder and Vancouver&rsquo;s Bryan Hextall had six points, Fielder six assists and Marcetta five goals. In streaks, Vejprava had points in 17 straight games, Lund goals in eight and Johnson assists in 13.On the other side of the ledger, Seattle&rsquo;s Jimmy McLeod had the lowest goals-against record among goal-tenders with a 2.44 mark, second in WHL history only to Gump Worsley&rsquo;s 2.40. McLeod, who opened with a miserable 3.86 for his first seven games, closed with a remarkable 2.16 for his last 34. Jim Armstrong, who tended nets for 31 of Seattle&rsquo;s games, was third-best in the league with 2.93.Don Head of Portland finished second with a 2.73 mark for 44 games and moved ahead of Worslcy for the all-time WHL mark by the slimmest of margins, 2.817 to 2.82. Don Simmons of Vancouver was fourth at 2.97, but that was tops for full-timers &mdash;he played all but one period &mdash;and he led the league with seven shutouts, one shy of the all-time record.San Diego&rsquo;s young defenseman Jim Watson led the league in penalty minutes with 158, lowest high since 1954. He was tops with 74 minor penalties and most goals, 15, while he was in the penalty box. &#9632;

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Hilts, Fielder Dominate Season Scoring Honors; McLeod Tops Netminders

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02502/2374515-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="297" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Boehm</figcaption></div>Ron Boehm, 23 year old native of Allan, Saskatchewan has i been selected by the P1ayers of the Western Hockey League as the Best Rookie for the 1966-67 season. Ron, scrappy right winger of Vancouver is the sixth Canuck to win the Rookie Award; Larry Reardon in &rsquo;49, Orland Kurtenbach in &rsquo;58, Bruce Gamble in &rsquo;59, Jim Baird in &rsquo;62 and Gilles Villemure in &rsquo;63.Ron Boehm polled 376 of a possible 510 votes. The award carries a trophy and $300 in cash. Second place went to Seattle&rsquo;s defenseman Bob Lemieux with 237 votes and third place to Victoria Goalie Al Smith with 143.The following is the count for the complete vote: Ron Boehm, Vancouver 376; Bob Lemieux, Seattle 237; Al Smith, Victoria 143; Noel Picard, Seattle 95; Mike Laughton, Victoria 80; Rick Charron, Portland 60; Tracy Pratt, Portland 16; Gary Kilpatrick, Los Angeles 8; Jim Armstrong, Seattle 7; Bob Champoux, San Diego 7; Ken Gustafson, San Diego 6 ; Jim Paterson, Seattle 5; Jack Faulkner, San Diego 3; Barry Watson, Vancouver 2; Bob Jones, Vancouver 2; Dwight Carruthers, San Diego 2; Bob Cook, Vancouver 1; Tom Polanic, Victoria 1; Gary Veneruzzo, Victoria 1. &#9632;

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Canucks’ Boehm Selected WHÄ½s Rookie Of Year

<div class="byline">By Bill Libby</div><h2>Kelly L.A. Coach?</h2>As hinted here earlier, Red Kelly will be named the first coach of the Los Angeles Kings or we will be very much surprised. Larry Regan will be named manager &hellip; Although owner Jack Kent Cooke has said his new Forum will be ready by Dec. 31, he has signed a lease with the suburban Long Beach Arena for dates through Feb. 25 and has asked that other dates be held open for him through March and the end of next season. Cooke says it is only a precautionary measure. Presumably, if he is able to move into his new Forum, he will have to pay off any of the dates he has taken that are not used by someone else. Whether the contract binds him should an injunction force him out of town is something the courts might have to decide. Lou Mohs, Laker exec who may become Cooke&rsquo;s overall sports boss, negotiated. Long Beach has an attractive new building with 11,168 hockey capacity, but it is a bit out of the way for most Los Angeles people&hellip; Contrary to reports published elsewhere, Bill Gadsby will not be the new Minnesota coach. He is presently coaching Edmonton Junior Oil Kings &hellip; Los Angeles Blades trainer Jack Curran landed the job as trainer for Seattle&rsquo;s new pro basketball team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03423/2374553-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="329" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption></div>The Western Hockey League and the team involved are contemplating action against a player who reportedly said several times publicly that he was glad his team had lost out and its season was ending because he had a good off-season job waiting for him and he would lose money if his team&rsquo;s season was prolonged, extra dough or no extra dough&hellip; After one game of the disastrous road trip which ended the Los Angeles Blades&rsquo; playoff hopes, coach Fernie Flaman fined each member of the club $50. He also called a 4:30 a.m. Easter Sunday practice, which one player, Dick Meissner, missed, for which he was fined. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll get my ounce of blood,&rdquo; Flaman said bitterly. Noting that several scouts had been observing the club, Flaman added, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you, there&rsquo;s only one guy that anybody&rsquo;s interested in, and that&rsquo;s young Bill Orban &mdash;the only one. Some of the other guys think they have it made but they&rsquo;re really going to be surprised.&rdquo;<h2>Topper Sounds Off</h2>Earlier this season, Blade veteran Jerry Toppazzini was very effective playing on a line with Mel Pearson and Willie O&rsquo;Ree. Near season&rsquo;s end, he blasted many of the Blades for indifferent performances and told crack Long Beach sportswriter Rich Roberts, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell you one thing that hurt was when Flaman broke my lineup and put me with Dick Meissner. I said then that I wouldn&rsquo;t score another goal all season, and I haven&rsquo;t, have I? How can you score when a guy never passes the puck?&rdquo; In San Diego, sitting in the press box nursing an injured ankle and bruised ribs (with which he had played two nights earlier) Topper grinned wistfully and admitted to us, &ldquo;Some of the guys have been giving me the cold shoulder since that article, but if the shoe fits, let them wear it.&rdquo;The Southern California Sportswriters voted Topper MVP of the team this season. Meissner, Incidentally, led the club and was one of the leaders in the league with 38 goals. Norm Johnson was voted best offensive player on the club and Bill Orban best defensive player&hellip; There was a lot of unhappiness with the performance of defense veteran Al Langlois in the closing games of the season. Langlois wound up in the hospital in traction with a back ailment&hellip; Leo LaBine indicated that if an Eastern Canada distributorship for Carling&rsquo;s Brewery materializes, he is &ldquo;95 per cent certain&rdquo; that he will retire after 16 years as a pro, including 11 seasons with Boston and Detroit in the NHL and the last four seasons with L.A. in the WHL. After scoring 10 goals and 22 points in the 1964 playoffs and 33 goals last regular season, Leo scored only 19 goals this season &hellip; Dwight Carruthers, 20-year-old San Diego defenseman, had his left ear almost cut in half when it was sliced by L.A.&rsquo;s Tommy McVie&rsquo;s skate during a collision in a late-season game. Some 100 stitches were required to close the wound and plastic surgery may be necessary.<h2>McNab Experiments</h2>In four late-season games in San Diego, coach Max McNab of the last-place Gulls experimented by alternating goaltenders veteran Les Binkley and rookie Bob Champoux at approximately five-minute intervals. The Gulls won three of the games. &ldquo;I wanted to have a look at it,&rdquo; McNab explained. &ldquo;We&rdquo;ve had more shots taken at us than any other club and our goalies have been under quite a bit of pressure. It&rsquo;s been tried before. It seemed to work all right, although I don&rsquo;t think it proved anything and I don&rsquo;t particularly think I&rsquo;ll go further with it.&rdquo; Binkley said, &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t mind it. It seemed to work. It didn&rsquo;t keep me off balance as much as I thought it would. The hardest part of a game for a goalie is usually when he first goes in there, making that first save, and that is repeated pretty often under this alternating system, however. You kind of hope that first save isn&rsquo;t a breakaway.&rdquo; Champoux added, &ldquo;I think we both liked, it all right. Of course I liked it because it gave me more action than I had been getting.&rdquo; All three agreed it probably wouldn&rsquo;t work in colder rinks than San Diego&rsquo;s, such as in Vancouver, where the goalie might stiffen up during his idle periods. And all three agreed it might be embarrassing if one of the goalies gave up all four or five goals in his team&rsquo;s game one night.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04322/2374546-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="296" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Toppazzini</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Western Ad Lib

Wed. April 5<h2>MEMPHIS 3 at OMAHA 4</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Omaha, Ball(Sabourin, J. Johnson) &hellip;&hellip; 14:262&mdash;Omaha, Andrea (Mickey) &hellip;&hellip; 15:283&mdash;Omaha, Hamilton (Campbell, Mickey) &hellip;&hellip; 19:32Penalties: Peters 3:17, McCallum 7:20, Pronovost, Plager 8:44, Crashley 8:28, Pronovost 7:40.SECOND PERIOD4&mdash;Memphis, Libett (Billows, Anderson) &hellip;&hellip; 3:445&mdash;Memphis, Billows (Anderson, Libett) &hellip;&hellip; 17:00Penalties McCallum 2:51, Marcon (major) 5:23, Lemieux, Konik (majors) 6:16, McCallum 15:28.THIRD PERIOO6&mdash;Memphis, Beaudin (Faulkner, Spencer) &hellip;&hellip; 1:387&mdash;Omaha, Mestinsek(Campbell, J. Johnson) &hellip;&hellip; 18:23Penalty: Ash 7:02.Saves: Rutledge 39, Daley 29.Attendance: 2,720.(Omaha leads best-of-seven semi-finals 2-1)<h2>OKLAHOMA CITY 2 at HOUSTON 3</h2>FIRST PERIOO1&mdash;Houston, Redmond (Savard) &hellip;&hellip; 9:002&mdash;Oklahoma City, Irvine(Woodley, Crisp)&hellip;&hellip; 11:39Penalties: Savard 5:33, Parise 7:42, Lonsberry 13:44.SECOND PERIOD3&mdash;Houston, Redmond (Boudrias) &hellip;&hellip; 4:124&mdash;Houston, Grant (Plager) &hellip;&hellip; 4:47Penalties: Davison 4:58, Hodgson, Grant 9:03, Cherry 11:33, Sather, Plager 17:29.THIRD PERIOD5&mdash;Oklahoma City, Davison (Irvine, Crisp) 10:57 Penalties: Parise 3:46, Cherry 4:42, Lonsberry, Plager 9:04.Saves: Cheevers 24, Desjardins 21.Attendance: 2,720.(Oklahoma City leads best-of-seven semi-finals 2-1)Sat, April 8<h2>OKLAHOMA CITY 1 at HOUSTON 4</h2>FIRST PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Lonsberry 3:34, Savard 14:36, Cherry 15:39.SECOND PERIOD1&mdash;Oklahoma City, Bradley(Sather, Arbour) &hellip;&hellip; 3:502&mdash;Houston, Grant (Inglis) &hellip;&hellip; 8:213&mdash;Houston, McCreary &hellip;&hellip; 11:24Penalties: Cheevers (misconduct) 11:24, Savard (match) 14:28, Cashman 18:16.THIRD PERIOD4&mdash;Houston, Piper (McMahon, Gagnon) &hellip;&hellip; 7:215&mdash;Houston, Piper (Charlebois, Lemaire) &hellip;&hellip; 10:10Penalties: Buchanan 6:00, Cheevers 7:07, Parise (minor, misconduct, game misconduct) 10:04, Plager 11:47, Lonsherry (Iwn minors) and Boudrias 9:35, Davison 17:36, Smith 18.39.Saves; Desjardins 24, Cheevers 28.(Best-of-seven semi-finals tied 2-2)<h2>MEMPHIS 0 at OMAHA 3</h2>FIRST PERIODNo scoring.Penalties: Marcon (major) 3:35, Fitzpatrick 8:12, Anderson 10:52, Cardiff 12:42, Konik 17:22.SECOND PERIOD1&mdash;Omaha, Konik (J. Johnson, Plager) &hellip;&hellip; 17:49Penalties: Campbell 9:07, Cardiff 16:53.THIRD PERIOD2&mdash;Omaha, Hamilton (Andrea) &hellip;&hellip; 10.323&mdash;Omaha, Andrea (Mickey, Plager) &hellip;&hellip; 17:57Penalty: Cardiff (major) 5:01.Saves: Daley 30, Rutledge 21.Attendance: 4,711.(Omaha leads best-of-seven semi-finals 3-1)Mon. April 10<h2>HOUSTON 5 at OKLAHOMA CITY 6</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Houston, Gagnon (Dennis, Grant) &hellip;&hellip; 4:482&mdash;Houston, Grant (Dennis) &hellip;&hellip; 10:163&mdash;Houston, McCreary (Redmond, Inglis) &hellip;&hellip; 11:024&mdash;Oklahoma City, Irvine(Cashman, Cherry) &hellip;&hellip; 19:14Penalties: Heaney 2:45, Smith 3:45, Boudrias 7:10, Hodgson 9:30, Bradley 9:57, Barber 11:42, 14:44, McMahon, Pronovost 15:00, Charlebois 17:39.SECOND PERIOD5&mdash;Oklahoma City, Smith (Buchanan) &hellip;&hellip; 7:126&mdash;Oklahoma City, Irvine (Crisp) &hellip;&hellip; 18:177&mdash;Oklahoma City, Buchanan (Parise)&hellip;&hellip; 11:088&mdash;Houston, Grenier (Grant) &hellip;&hellip; 13:239&mdash;Oklahoma City, Pronovost &hellip;&hellip; 16:20Penalties: Sather 2:15, Barber 5:13. Plager 6:49, Houston (bench) 13:47, Woodley 16:39.THIRD PERIOD10&mdash;Houston, Inglis &hellip;&hellip; 10:2511&mdash;Oklahoma City, Irvine(Crisp, Cashman) &hellip;&hellip; 14:43Penalties: Bradley. McMahon 5:02, Bradley 9:29, Parise, Piper 16:55.Saves: Cheevers 15, Desjardins 26,Attendance: 3.705.(Oklahoma City leads hest of-seven semi-finals 3-2)<h2>OMAHA 1 at MEMPHIS 2</h2>FIRST PERIOD1&mdash;Memphis, Peters (Crashley, Daley) &hellip;&hellip; 14:35Penalties: Spencer 2:44, Marcon, Sabourin 5:56. Libett 8:51, Pronovost 10:16, Sabourin 13:59, Chipchase 15:07.SECOND PERIODNo Scoring.Penalties: McCallum 5:45. Omaha (bench) 7:48.THIRD PERIOD2&mdash;Omaha, Konik (Andrea. Mickey) &hellip;&hellip; 11:163&mdash;Memphis, Marsh (Hughes, Faulkner) &hellip;&hellip; 16:05Penalties: Marcon 18:11, Marsh 18:23, Memphis (bench) 19:26, 19:38. 19:57.Saves: Rutledge 36, Daley 29.Attendance: 1,856.(Omaha leads best-of-seven semi-finals 3-2) &#9632;

CPHL Playoff Summaries

<div class="byline">By MATT DENNIS</div>OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02334/2374639-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="302" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Buchanan</figcaption></div>Murray Davison&rsquo;s Oklahoma City Blazers, defending Central Professional Hockey League J. J. Jack Adams Cup playoff champions, made their way to the finals against Omaha Knights by edging out the Houston Apollos, 4-2 in their best-of-seven game seven-final set.&ldquo;The Apollos gave us a good fight all the way and we had to earn our victories. When we won the first two games (5-1 and 2-1) on our own ice we might have become a little overconfident and then we lost the first two games at Houston (3-2 and 4-1) but we were able to come back strong and stood up under pressure. This is the first pro playoff series for Wayne Cashman, Ross Lonsberry, Ted Hodgson, Bob Heaney, Dave Woodley, John Arbour and Jean Pronovost. They have learned a great deal about pressure play,&rdquo; said Davison, the rookie pro coach who was a member of last year&rsquo;s championship team.Jean Paul Parise, Gerry Cheevers, Glen Sather, Ted Irvine, Brian Bradley and Terry Crisp were with the Blazers last season while Dick Cherry re-entered the pro ranks again this season after a pro career spent mostly in the American League with Quebec. Springfield and Providence.The Blazers outscored the Apollos 21-18 in their six-game series."We weren&rsquo;t particular as to what team we met in the final. Memphis and Omaha both proved they had good clubs when they went all the way to seven games in their series. To be worthy champions, we have to beat them and I&rsquo;m confident my boys have enough to carry us through,&rdquo; said the optimistic Davison as the Blazers prepared to meet Omaha Knights, who ousted Memphis in their seven-game semi-final.Ron Buchanan finished as the Blazers&rsquo; top sniper over the season with 34 goals in 56 games while Terry Crisp was the team&rsquo;s top point-getter over the 70-game schedule with 31 goals and 42 assists for 73 points, four more than Buchanan.Wayne Cashman, the graduate of Omaha Generals, topped the rookies in the league in point production with 20 goals and 36 assists for 56 points playing in all 70 games.HOUSTON &mdash; Dogged by injuries from the outset of the series, the Apollos fought back strongly but coach Ray Kinasewich&rsquo;s crew couldn&rsquo;t come up with that extra goal when needed with three of their four defeats handed their way by a single-goal margin.Gerry Desjardins came back strong after suffering a leg injury in the opening game.They were further hindered when their star defenseman Serge Savard was sidelined for the fifth game of the series when he was suspended by league president Jack Adams after incurring a match penalty.With an attendance increase this term, the Apollos look ahead to next season when they will be given 16 Saturday dates by the Sam Houston Coliseum officials.Bill Inglis was the Apollos&rsquo; leading pointmaker over the season with 33 goals and 34 assists for 67 points, three more than teammate Andre Boudrias. Inglis&rsquo; 33 goals made him the team&rsquo;s top goal-getter.MEMPHIS &mdash; &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been playing our best hockey in the last month. We had to in order to pull into that last playoff spot and my crew has been coming along all the way. That&rsquo;s how we forced the series with Omaha to the limit. You know it&rsquo;s the first time that we have made the CPHL playoffs and my boys were really hungry,&rdquo; said Jimmy Peters, the popular former National Hockey League star, making his pro coaching debut with the Wings.Alex Faulkner finished the season as the Wings&rsquo; leading playmaker with 60 assists in 70 games. With his 28 goals he chalked up 88 points, two less than the loop&rsquo;s scoring champion Art Stratton of St. Louis.OMAHA &mdash; The Knights failed to overtake Oklahoma Blazers in the league race and found the fourth-place Memphis Wings mighty formidable competition in the semi-final playoffs forcing the series to seven games before they won out.Paul Andrea finished the season in third spot in the league&rsquo;s scoring race behind St. Louis&rsquo; Art Stratton, and Memphis&rsquo; Alex Faulkner firing 37 goals and cashing in with 46 assists for 83 points. The 83-point output was a new career mark for him since he entered the pro ranks in the fall of 1961. &#9632;

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Davison Confident Blazers Can Take Title In Championship Cup Final Against Omaha

SEAWARD, Neb. &mdash;Tragedy struck Larry Mickey here Sunday, April 16 when the Omaha Knights&rsquo; hockey star and his wife were involved in a head-on two-car collision.Mickey&rsquo;s 20-year-old wife was killed and the Omaha player sustained a broken left arm and multiple cuts and bruises.Mickey had scored in the second game of the CPHL finals as Omaha toppled Oklahoma City 4-3 to even the best-of-seven final series at 1-1. He was to join the team for the third game in Oklahoma City after visiting relatives in Utica, Neb. &#9632;

Mickey Hurt, Wife Killed In Crash

Serge Savard, 20-year-old defenseman of the Houston Apollos, has been named the Rookie-of-the-Year of the Central Professional Hockey League. Art Stratton, veteran forward of the St. Louis Braves was chosen most valuable player for the second successive season.Over the 1966-67 season, the six-foot-three, 200-pound rearguard Savard, played 68 games scoring seven goals and assisting on 25 for 32 points. He served 155 minutes in penalties.In the voting, Al Hamilton of the Omaha Knights and Wayne Cashman of the Oklahoma City Blazers tied for second place ahead of goalie Rogatien Vachon who played 32 games for Houston before being called up to Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League.Stratton, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a 31-ycar-old centerman, who had seen National Hockey League service with New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks. He won the CPHL scoring championship of the league for the second straight time.Bill McCreary of the Houston Apollos and Dick Cherry of the Oklahoma City Blazers followed Stratton in the voting by the coaches of the six CPHL clubs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03257/2374701-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="539" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body">SERGE SAVARD&hellip; Top Freshman</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04209/2374694-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="540" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">ART STRATTON&hellip;Becoming A Habit</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Savard Top CPHL Rookie; Stratton Named MVP Again

<div class="byline">By HARVEY POLLACK</div>NASHVILLE, Tenn.&mdash;The true test of a champion normally is recognized as the ability to repeat. If there was any doubt as to Nashville&rsquo;s status, it was dispelled by its decisive sweep for the second straight year to the Eastern Hockey League championship.The Dixie Flyers whipped the Jersey Devils, 4-1, in the finals to indisputably settle any doubts that they were the best club in the circuit both during the regular season and the playoffs. Their feats overshadowed the ouster of Doug Bentley as the pilot of Knoxville&rsquo;s Knights. Doug was the second coach to be evicted since the season ended. Jackie Leclair was given the axe at New Haven.Before the playoffs coach John McLellan of Nashville was fearful that his team might become too confident. He felt they might recall their 11-game sweep of last year and their easy route to the Southern Division title this year. He knew too that Nashville would be the target of all the other teams which is only natural since the Flyers were the defending champs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01325/2374753-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="535" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG BENTLEY&hellip; Dropped By Knights</figcaption></div><h2>EHL Playoffs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02278/2374746-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="594" height="2035"></div>McLellan became alarmed when Knoxville upset the Flyers in the first game of the playoffs. So he held a closed door session immediately after the game with his charges to get the situation squared away. That confab produced results, pleasant to McLellan but distasteful to all opposition.First off the Flyers routed Knoxville in three straight games, producing 15 goals to 2 for the Knights with goalie Marv Edwards registering his only playoff shutout. Then the challenging Charlotte Checkers moved into the picture and the Flyers quickly showed them who was boss. They won two straight here and then dropped a 5-1 verdict at Charlotte to give the Checkers hope since the next two games also were on Checkers ice. But it was a vain hope since the Flyers won the next two on the road to advance to the finals.Meantime Jersey had wriggled out of two precarious situations to nip Johnstown, 3-2, and upset regular season Northern king Clinton, 4-2. McLellan was concerned about the finals because of the few home dates available. He was forced to play the first three games on Jersey ice and if that wasn&rsquo;t a formidable challenge, there&rsquo;ll never be any. When the Devils won the first game, 4-2, McLellan privately wondered whether he had done the right thing in agreeing to such a log. But his team responded to his urging and then won four straight from the Devils, two away and the decisive ones at home.The final series was one of the best in recent years with all games being close contests that could have gone either way. Edwards was at his peak, allowing 10 goals in the set and only six in the last lour. George Standing tallied all four goals in the clincher to wind up an outstanding playoff series.So the new owners of the Flyers will have a championship team tc push in its off-season quest to boost attendance here. The gates for the final two games here were poor, and certainly provided Mark Parrish&rsquo;s group with some worry as to the procedures necessary to lift interest among the paying customers for next season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03220/2374739-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="537" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARV EDWARDS&hellip; Superb In Title Win</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04166/2374732-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="538" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE STANDING&hellip; Four-Goal Game</figcaption></div>Meantime over at Knoxville, Bentley was dismissed after he refused to quit at the urging of president Jim Dick. The prexy said, &ldquo;We had to make a clean sweep and start from scratch We&rsquo;ve had a couple of losing seasons so when business is failing, the only thing to do is to analyze it from top to bottom and side-ways. We have many applicants for the coaching job&rdquo;.Dick said Bentley, who replaced Don Labelle as coach in 1965, had not improved the situation toe much since his arrival here although there were many factors stacked against him. But Bentley pointed out that his club could have done better if it hadn&rsquo;t been forced to play a schedule that included 18 games with Nashville. Doug felt that a better balanced schedule for the Knights would have brought as high a finish as Charlotte or Greensboro.GREENSBORO: John Murray not expected back next year. He&rsquo;ll go to St. Louis training camp and if he fails, he&rsquo;ll become a jet pilot. John has almost enough flying hours already. Don Carter and Ron Muir have indicated they&rsquo;ll be back next season. Junior John Voss&rsquo; lack of experience at goal cited as contributing factor in club&rsquo;s quick playoff ouster. Coach Ron Spong searching for policeman type defenseman.JOHNSTOWN: Ralph MacSweyn as expected called up by Portland the day after he arrived home at Dalkeith, Ont. Ex-Jet Tony Bukovich named Green Bay&rsquo;s MVP in US League. He wed a local girl. Jets drew 95,893 in regular season and 5,500 in two playoffs for total of 101,393 for 38 home dates. Old club attendance record was 85,626 in 1958-59. Dennis Rathwell stayed here a month or so after season and he helped out at rehab center since immigration laws prevented him from working for pay.LONG ISLAND: Bobby Brown expected to go to American or Western League next year. So could Butch Morris and Les Calder. If junior rule is kept, Ducks need at least three new men. Gene Achtymichuk likely to engage in considerable housecleaning in effort to rejuvenate club. Ducks appearances at Nashville drew many fans and Flyers don&rsquo;t want their showings there sliced next year.CHARLOTTE: Andre Hinse, the club&rsquo;s MVP, likely will wind up at either Rochester or Tulsa next season. &rsquo;Former Charlotte GM Joe Crozier also may take a look at goalie Lynn Zimmerman whose 3.16 average was best ever for club. Clare Wakshinski hopes an early start next year will give him new life with Checkers. Coach Fred Creighton labeled Randy Murray the best fighter in the league because &ldquo;he lays back on his skates when he throws punches.&rdquo;CLINTON: Comets&rsquo; all-opponent team included defenseman Mike Draper and left wing Garry Sharp, of Greensboro; center Ted McCaskill and goalie Marv Edwards of Nashville; right wing Rosaire Paiement of Jersey and defensemen Ralph MacSweyn of Johnstown. Comets set to return for next season after a report showed 30 percent increase in season income. Tim Hook and Ian Anderson are only Comets residing here in the off-season.KNOXVILLE: Ted McCaskill of Nashville paid a high tribute to Dennis Hextall, claiming &ldquo;Dennis is a tough boy. I guess the reason we fight is that we&rsquo;re so much alike. Knoxville would really be tough if they had a dozen like him.&rdquo; Club will not have working agreement with New York Rangers next year but another team is interested. Two hundred season tickets sold for next season. Ted Baylis&rsquo; wrist shot from the point one of the league&rsquo;s best.JERSEY: Hec Lalande played well in the playoffs, scoring all four goals in team&rsquo;s lone win over Nashville after walking seven miles to the rink. Largest crowd (4,308) of year saw one of Flyers games. Marcel Pelletier at 39 played all but one of the Nashville games (including a 51-saver) and did well as Norm DeFelice&rsquo;s sub. The latter returned for the last game. &#9632;

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Nashville Flyers Topple Jersey To Keep EHL Title

Following are the winners of the Atlantic City Boardwalk Trophy as Eastern Hockey League playoff champions:1966-67&mdash;Nashville Dixie Flyers1965-66&mdash;Nashville Dixie Flyers1964-65&mdash;Long Island Ducks1963-64&mdash;Clinton Comets1962-63&mdash;Greensboro Generals1961-62&mdash;Johnstown Jets1960-61&mdash;Johnstown Jets1959-60&mdash;Johnstown Jets1958-59&mdash;Clinton Comets1957-58&mdash;Washington Presidents1956-57&mdash;Charlotte Checkers1955-56&mdash;New Haven Blades1954-55&mdash;Washington Lions &#9632;

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THE HOCKEY NEWS

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<div class="byline">By BOB REED</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03156/2374898-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="302" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guy Trottier</figcaption></div>TOLEDO, O.&mdash;Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Komets and the Toledo Blades were locked in the final series for the International Hockey League&rsquo;s Turner Cup and it appeared that the goalkeepers would continue to hold the key to the ultimate outcome.Toledo&rsquo;s Glenn Ramsay and Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Gerry Randall had been the big factors in their clubs&rsquo; victories in the semi-final series. Ramsay, backed up, of course, by sterling defense, held the high-scoring Dayton Gems to just nine goals as the Blades swept the set in four straight.Ramsay, finishing the series with a shutout, his fifth of the season, had a &ldquo;goals against&rdquo; average of 2.25, far better than even his league leading figure of 3.12 for the season. The Blades&rsquo; defense completely collared Dayton&rsquo;s Guy Trottier, who failed to net a goal after a brilliant season in which he hit for 71, only one short of the league record.Randall for the Komets came up with some sterling performances. He scored two shutouts in the seven games with Des Moines, the first time this had been accomplished in 11 years of IHL playoffs&rsquo;. He had a 6-0 game in the deciding tilt and carried on into the final period against Toledo to chalk up 5&iuml;x straight periods of scoreless hockey. He had the Blades blanked past the mid-way point in the final period when the Komets drew minor and major penalties that forced them to play short for seven straight minutes and the Blades scored twice.Randall&rsquo;s average for the first series was 2.71, compared to his 3.24 for the season.The final series between the Komets and Blades was hailed as a test of whether it is better for a team to get a good rest, at the risk of going stale, after the first series or whether it is better to I maintain the momentum of a hard-fought winning series, with the chance of being dead tired.The Blades, passing their first hurdle in the minimum number of games, finished up on Wednesday and had to wait around to the following Sunday to open their series with the Komets, who had t been forced to play three games in three nights, including a hurry-up trip out to Des Moines. But in the opening game the Komets were far sharper than the Blades.On top of their troubles In beating the Oak Leafs, the Komets ran into an arena problem. Forced out of their own building, where they had put in approximately 190,000 spectators during the season, they had to play the next three games in Toledo and were forced to yield the odd game, if necessary, to the Blades, in spite of finishing above them for the season.The Komets moved into the final series and got off to a winning start in that one, with the help of some of their unheralded players. While the opposition was concentrating on the Komet big line of Len Thomson, John Goodwin and Mery Dubchak, fellows like Ted Wright, Mike Rouleau, Doug Reid and Ted Demchuk came through with important goals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04115/2374891-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="541" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">GLENN RAMSAY&hellip; Blades&rsquo; Big Hope</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0585/2374884-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="543" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY RANDALL&hellip; Komets&rsquo; Net Ace</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Ramsay, Randall Key Men For Cup Play

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01308/2374929-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">SOLUTION NEXT WEEK</figcaption></div><h2>Hockey Crossword Puzzle</h2>ACROSS1&mdash;Plays goal for L.A.5&mdash;Initials of W.H.L. scoring champ.7&mdash;Gordie Howe is one. (abbr.)9&mdash;Birthplace o f Chicago&rsquo;s Van Impe.10&mdash;Harry Sinden never played in this League.11&mdash;Initials of a Montreal Defenseman.13&mdash;First name of 22 across.14&mdash;A former Maple Leaf coach.15&mdash;First name of one of the Bruins.16&mdash;14th and 7th letters of the alphabet.17&mdash;Initials of Ehman of Rochester.18&mdash;61-62 Lady Byng trophy winner.21&mdash;Initials of Edestrand of Rochester.22&mdash;An N.H.L. right winger.27&mdash;One of the Rangers answers to this.28&mdash;This ex-Hawk may return to the NHL next season.29&mdash;1941-42 Prince of Wales trophy winners (abbr.)DOWN1&mdash;Pictured Black Hawk hails from Manitoba.2&mdash;&ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Geoffrion won this trophy in 196061.3&mdash;An NHL General Manager.4&mdash;First name of goaler for Canada&rsquo;s National Team.6&mdash;Veteran NHL player.8&mdash;A team in the International League.12&mdash;63-64 Vezina trophy winner.17&mdash;First name of a former Montreal goaltender.19&mdash;Initials of Gaudet of St. Louis.20&mdash;First name of Mickoski former Ranger.21&mdash;One of the Red Wings answers to this.23&mdash;First name of an NHL defenseman.24&mdash;Initials of 65-66 top rookie.25&mdash;20th and 5th letters of the alphabet.26&mdash;Initials of an NHL coach.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWERS</h2>ACROSS1&mdash;MacGREGOR7&mdash;DOAK8&mdash;KENNEDY11&mdash;EGAN12&mdash;YES14&mdash;TED16&mdash;TIM17&mdash;ICE19&mdash;E.l.20&mdash;ERR.21&mdash;1122&mdash;BROWN25&mdash;SLOAN27&mdash;G.A.29&mdash;SPENCER31&mdash;GEE32&mdash;PATDOWN1&mdash;McKENZIE2&mdash;CONACHER3&mdash;EDDY4&mdash;GOYETTE5&mdash;O.A.6&mdash;R.K.9&mdash;EG.10&mdash;N.N.13&mdash;SEILING15&mdash;D.M.18&mdash;CRISP22&mdash;BONE23&mdash;RACE24&mdash;ONE26&mdash;LEG28&mdash;ART.29&mdash;S.S.30&mdash;R.P. &#9632;

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KINGSTON, Ont. &mdash;Kingston Aces opened their quest for the Allan Cup and their Eastern Canadian rivals, the powerful Drummondville Eagles, could prove their biggest stumbling block to a national senior championship.The Aces qualified for the Eastern final by disposing of Morrisburg Combines, the St. Lawrence Senior Hockey League titleholders, in five games. The Aces were hardly extended outscoring the Combines 33-22.However, the Ontario Senior Hockey League champions appear to be in for their first real test since winning their league title as they squared off against Drummondville, a team of experienced pros and good young, fast skaters who plucked the Quebec Senior Hockey League crown away from Sherbrooke Beavers. Drummondville breezed past the Maritime champions, Moncton Hawks.The Kingston-Drummondvillie Eastern final completed the Eastern picture with the winner advancing against the Western survivors, who will be one of three teams Calgary Spurs, Winnipeg Maroons and Nelson Maple Leafs.The Spurs are leading the Ma roons in their Western semi-final series but the Maple Leafs, cham pions of the Western International Hockey League, were already lodged in the final by disposing of Drumheller Miners, the defending 1966 cup champions. The Leafs beat the Miners 3-1 in a best-of five series and loom as a big threat to carry the West&rsquo;s banner in the Allan Cup finals.In Memorial Cup junior action there were still four teams left in the East and four in the West Thetford Mines Canadiens of Quebee appeared superior to Cornwall Royals in one semi-final in the East while Toronto Marlboros looked like a cinch to grab the OHA Junior title from Kitchener Rangers and proceed to the Eastern finals against Thetford.Out West, New Wesminster Royals were engaged with Saskatoon Macs in one semi-final while Port Arthur Marrs and Flin Flon Bombers were playing off in the other. &#9632;

Kingston Aces Face First Big Cup Hurdle

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OHA Playoffs

<h2>ALLAN CUP</h2>EAST: Kingston Aces, Drummondville Eagles.WEST: Calgary Spurs, Winnipeg Maroons, Nelson Maple Leafs.<h2>MEMORIAL CUP</h2>EAST: Thetford Mines Canadiens, Cornwall Royals, Toronto Marlboros, Hamilton Red Wings.WEST: New Westminster Royals, Flin Flon Bombers, Saskatoon Macs, Port Arthur Marrs. &#9632;

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