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June 1, 1967

The Hockey News June 1, 1967

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>Louis A. R. Pieri, nationally prominent sportsman, was accorded one of the highest academic honors when Bryant College, of Providence, Rhode Island, presented him with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at a special ceremony on the school's campus.</p><p>Pieri, former treasurer and president of the world's champion Boston Celtics basketball team, and President of R. I. Auditorium and the R. I. Reds hockey club, was one of six national business and education leaders feted at a special Bryant convocation.</p><p>At the convocation, E. Gardner Jacobs, President of Bryant, cited Pieri, saying : &ldquo;Your business abilities have been acknowledged through numerous awards, including the DuPont Fellowship, and membership in Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary society.&rdquo;</p><p>Pieri was termed &ldquo;successful businessman, educator and civic leader.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

Pieri Awarded Academic Honor

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE-1966-67 Statistics

<div class="byline">- By Bill Libby</div><h2><b>Blair Coach Hunting</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>his was late</b> last season in the new San Diego Arena. Wren Blair, the bouncy and enthusiastic gentleman, who is managing the new Minnesota North Stars of the NHL's new expansion division, was bouncing along enthusiastically. &ldquo;In my opinion,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;a manager has to use his imagination. He has to look for new ways to do things better.&rdquo; He showed us a tiny tape-recorder, into which he had been dictating his observations while scouting games. &ldquo;Writing is distracting,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;With this gimmick, I transcribe my notes at my leisure. And come the ; draft meetings, I'll still have the tapes to play back if I want to recapture my exact feelings about a player at the time I was watching him in action. And,&rdquo; he concluded with a devilish grin, &ldquo;if I have my scouts use these, and they recommend a player highly, who later flops, I can always play back the scoundrel's tape for i him before firing him.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01847/3173618-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="316" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wren Blair</b></figcaption></div><p>The energetic young executive has not hired many scouts so far. He engaged 35-year-old Ted O'Connor, former top amateur and minor-league player and coach of the Oshawa and Whitby junior clubs, as his chief scout on a permanent basis. And he hired the great former goalie Bill Durnan on a temporary basis. The latter was an imaginative move. &ldquo;I don't think anyone really knows a goalie except another goalie, so we had Bill rating the goalies who might be available to us in the draft,&rdquo; Blair explained. &ldquo;But I don't think there was any justification in any of the expansion clubs having too many scouts this past season. There hasn't been much to do. If I'm to earn my salary, I have to scout. I was home only five days from Christmas to the end of the season. If we had too many men out scouting, we'd have too many different opinions of who to draft. When we get to the draft, one man will have to make the final decisions, anyway, and that one man is me. Next season, when I'm tied up in the front office, I'll need scouts to advise me about players in which we might be interested.&rdquo;</p><p>Blair, who to this writing still hasn't named his coach, wasn't even eager to have a coach ; to sit in on the drafting. &ldquo;If I get one before the draft, I'll listen to his opinions on the various players,&rdquo; Blair said. &ldquo;But if he's the right kind of coach, he'll only know about players he's coached. When I was coaching and someone asked me about some player on another team, I'd say 'Who's he ?&rsquo; A coach should be too busy watching his own men to worry about the other guys. It's my job to assemble a team. It'll be his job to coach them.&rdquo; Blair believes, &ldquo;At the most, a good coach can win five extra games for you a season at the most,&rdquo; an opinion we do not share. Yet, he wants an experienced man. &ldquo;I don't want a star player who wants to try his hand at <i>I</i> coaching,&rdquo; Wren said, taking a subtle dig at &rsquo; <i>I</i> some of his rivals. &ldquo;I want someone who has <i>I</i> served his apprenticeship and has worked his way up as a coach. I've narrowed the field down to four men, and the man I choose may not be very well known, but he will be qualified.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Leans To Veterans</b></h2><p>It is possible, Blair may assemble for his new coach one of the older expansion rosters. The triumphs of Toronto and others with veterans in recent years has not gone unnoticed, although most of the new clubs are plotting to build with kids. &ldquo;In the end, we will want some sort of age balance, but we're going to g take the best players available, regardless of 1 their age,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If a player is in his 30's, but I think he has four good years left, I'll take him; after all, that's all I'll have left on my contract. I want to win right from the start. I'm a realist. I know that in one year we can't g L match the quality the present NHL teams have built up over many years. But we'll be competing primarily in our own division. The last place team in the old division may claim to be better than the first-place team in the new division, but everyone from the fans on up to the owner will be happier on the first-place club than on that last-place club, I guarantee you.&rdquo;</p><p>As an imaginative effort to get an early start towards that first place in his division, Blair will have his new players spending 10 days at the vacation paradise in northeast Ontario, Haliburton, prior to the formal beginning of pre-season drills Sept. 21 in Oshawa. ! They will have headquarters at Chateau Woodland, a rustic resort on famous Lake Kashagai wigamog in the high!lands of Haliburton. Blair explains, &ldquo;I will tell them : 'There is a lake, go fishing or swimming. There is a golf course, go play golf. Enjoy yourselves. Most of you are strangers to one another. Get to know each other. Become a family!&rdquo; He beamed at the beauty of his scheme.</p><p>Once the season has begun, the North Stars can be expected to sparkle in their new 14,500-seat home in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. We pointed out to Wren that playing 24 games against NHL clubs, more than one third of the schedule, and probably losing most of these, the best of the expansion teams may have trouble finishing above 500. Blair grinned, &ldquo;That's true. It will be one for the record books. Some day, they'll say, 'In 1968, a hockey team finished first in. its league with a percentage of 498!&rsquo; &ldquo; He shook his head at the wonder of it all: &ldquo;I'll tell you,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;if it's good enough for first place, I'll take it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Seals Well Staffed</b></h2><p>MELTING ICE &mdash; Barry Van Gerbig assured himself of colorful and controversial leadership for his Oakland expansion team when he decided to retain Rudy Pilous as general manager and signed Bert Olmstead to a three-year-contract to coach the California Seals. They are demanding individuals, who make enemies as well as friends. Frankly, neither can be counted among my admirers. But there is much to be admired in both of them. Pilous is deeply experienced. Olmstead has schooled if I himself well and is the brightest new NHL g coaching prospect in years. With Frank Selke Jr. moving in from Montreal as vice-president, I the Seal staff is set for its first year in the g big time. Season ticket sales are nearing the 2,000 mark vice-presidents Jim Lingel and Tim g Ryan announce.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02726/3173611-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="293" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Oimstead</b></figcaption></div><p>Toronto, moving its WHL farm from Victoria to Phoenix, plans to turn the franchise over to a Phoenix group, headed by ex-Air Force Academy and Chicago Cub executive Bob Whitlow, in the future. Then Toronto may move into Vancouver, with New York moving out. The Oakland team, frustrated in its bid to locate its top farm in Phoenix, now is in a swift search to find a new minor league outlet.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Ad Lib

<div class="byline">BY BILL LIBBY</div><p>PORTLAND, Oregon&mdash;</p><p>The official announcement that Toronto's Victoria franchise has been transferred to Phoenix and the unofficial indication that the Western and American Leagues will merge were the most significant developments of the Western League meeting in Portland, May 16-17, under the direction of circuit president Al Leader. As has been the case in recent springs with the annual post-season get-together the main decision reached was to meet again. The WHL will convene again during the NHL draft meetings in Montreal the first week in June, and again, probably in Seattle, where WHL offices are located, in mid-June.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03590/3173649-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="300" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Cooke</b></figcaption></div><p>An American League delegation headed up by Jack Butterfield huddled with the WHL brass at length and while no official decision was announced, is has been learned that the two circuits have agreed to merge for next season.</p><p>An inter-league schedule of approximately 36 games, such as was played one season, 1965-66, but dropped this past season, will be resumed. There may be post-season playoffs between the two circuits. And the circuits plan joint action on common problems, including any pacts with the NHL.</p><p>The Los Angeles Blades, whose group was headed up by Dan Reeves, requested a postponement on their decision whether or not to operate in the WHL next season, and were granted one until June 16. The Blades have a lawsuit pending against Jack Kent Cooke and his L.A, Kings, who have been awarded the NHL franchise for LA. to begin next season.</p><p>Privately, the WHL brass discussed their tenatively-planned lawsuit against the NHL for compensatory payment for &ldquo;invasion&rdquo; of the L.A. territory, but an out-of-court settlemen still is being sought. The league hope is that Cooke will reach an agreement with Reeves&rsquo; Blades which would provide the WHL with satisfactory financial balm.</p><p>The California Seals, operating in Oakland, have withdrawn from the WHL preparatory to moving up to the NHL's expansion division next season. The Seals already have made compensatory payment deemed acceptable by the WHL brass. The Seals, who have Rudy Pilous as general manager, hired Frank Selke jr. of Montreal as vice-president and Bert Olmstead as coach. Vancouver is seeking a new coach to replace Olmstead, but no one has been hired as yet.</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs shifted their WHL franchise from Victoria, B.C., to Phoenix, Arizona. No decision was announced as to whether A.J. &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Houle and Frank Mario will continue as general manager and coach, respectively. It is understood that the Leafs, who were represented by Stafford Smythe, will turn the franchise over to a Phoenix group, headed by retired Air Force officer Robert Whitlow, in the future.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Merger Decision Pending; Leafs Transfer Victoria To New Phoenix Setting

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-01177/3174025-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Stanley Cup Champions TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</b></p><p><b>Here are the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; 1966-67 Stanley Cup winning team after their sensational six-game final series victory over Montreal Canadiens. It was Leafs&rsquo; 11th cup conquest. First row, left to right, PUNCH IMLACH, manager-coach, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, JOHN BASSETT, board chairman, STAFFORD SMYTHE, president, HAROLD BALLARD, executive vice-president, BOB PULFORD, KING CLANCY, asst, manager-coach. Second row, JOHNNY BOWER, DAVE KEON, LARRY HILLMAN, RED KELLY, FRANK MAHOVLICH, TIM HORTON, BOBBY BAUN, TERRY SAWCHUK. Third row, RON ELLIS, MARCEL PRONOVOST, PETE STEMKOWSKI, ALLAN STANLEY, EDDIE SHACK, LARRY JE FFREY, MIKE WALTON. Fourth row, BOBBY HAGGERT, trainer, MILAN MARCETTA, BRIAN CONACHER, JIM PAPPIN, AUT ERICKSON, TOM NAYLER, asst, trainer.</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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EXPANSION TEAMS AWAIT D-DAY

<div class="byline">By BOB HARRIS</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The National Hockey League intends to keep its six new teams in the dark until the very last minute before letting them loose in the expansion draft.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-02148/3174056-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="303" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Clarence Campbell</b></figcaption></div><p>This was the result of plans announced by the league for the June 6 draft whereby the six new NHL clubs will be stocked with 120 players for the start of the loop's historic expansion program next season.</p><p>The league declared that the six existing NHL teams must file their protected lists by 5 p.m. Monday, June 5. The lists will be posted for inspection by the six new clubs at 9 a.m. the next morning only and the draft will commence one hour later.</p><p>&lsquo;That amounts to a one-hour sneak preview of what the new clubs can expect in the way of player talent for the $2,000,000 each of the teams invested in the soon-to-be-operated Western Section of the NHL. The plan is intended to keep the new clubs from bidding and negotiating with players before the actual draft commences.</p><p>NHL President Clarence Campbell will be in the chair and will be the sole controller of the multiplayer drafting by which each club will get 18 players and two goalkeepers.</p><p>The NHL has told the expansion clubs it can expect a three-minute selection period with a 30-second warning for both claiming and filling their lists. Each club will be permitted three 10-minute conferences. If a team exceeds its three conferences, it will be penalized by a deferment of the club's choice until the next team has selected a player. Also if a team drafts a player and he later decides to retire, the new NHL club loses its selection.</p><p>Each of the six NHL clubs will be allowed to protect one goalie and 11 players. Another player can be protected after a team loses one in each of its first two rounds. Then the present clubs must give up three players and from then on it is run under the claim and file system until each new club has its quota &mdash; 20 players.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Draft Plans To Keep Clubs “Up In Air”

<div class="byline">By TOM MONAHAN</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&ndash;</p><p>Milt Schmidt assumed his duties as general manager of the Bruins earlier than expected and he extended his nerves and perspiration commensurately. But he has no second thoughts of self-recrimination. He is positive he made the right move at the right time and he has a legion of backers in Beantown.</p><p>Schmidt operated with the Bruins this past season as assistant to general manager Leighton &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms.</p><p>Even before the season had ended Emms announced he would remain in the post as director of the B's ice fortunes only until the meetings at Montreal in June.</p><p>President Weston Adams immediately appointed Schmidt to take over Emms&rsquo; job as of that June 9 date.</p><p>As interim assistant, however Schmidt knew he would be responsible for anything that might happen with the Bruins before next September.</p><p>There was expansion to think of as well as the possibility that other NHL teams might want to discuss a trade between the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs and the freezing of rosters on May 15.</p><p>The day after Toronto wrested the battered old Cup from Montreal, Schmidt was on the phone. He got nowhere.</p><p>&ldquo;They all wanted to swap names and garbage,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I won't swap names just to change names. I think a trade has to help both teams. I don't see anything special coming up for the Bruins in the matter of trade.&rdquo;</p><p>Time went on and the deadline approached. Schmidt still was on the phone but nothing broke until the deadline was minutes away.</p><p>Then the Bruins agreed to send sophomore defenseman Gil Marotte, center Pit Martin and minor league goalie Jack Norris to Chicago for Phil Esposito, Fred Stanfield and Ken Hodge.</p><p>Shortly thereafter, Schmidt completed a trade with Toronto that sent Murray Oliver and cash to the Stanley Cup champions for Eddie Shack.</p><p>There is no doubt around Boston that Emms was in disagreement with Schmidt for the deal with Chicago. Emms would not have given the Black Hawks Marotte.</p><p>This is not simply because Emms has a liking for Marotte as one of his prime Junior players at Niagara Falls. His feeling was rather that a young player should not be sacrificed in a deal.</p><p>Schmidt agreed with the theory.</p><p>&ldquo;I don't care particularly to let Marotte go,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But from our end he was the key man. We had to give something in order to get something that would help us.&rdquo;</p><p>For help Schmidt was looking for heavyweight forwards particularly at center and left wing.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we got that,&rdquo; says Schmidt.</p><p>&ldquo;I've been sick of seeing our guvs outmuscled in the corners and shoved around in front of the goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02722/3173166-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="567" height="584"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GIL MAROTTE &hellip; Sacrificed By Bruins</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I think the guys we got in the two trades will help put a stop to that.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03582/3173159-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="562" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL ESPOSITO &hellip; Much Needed Center</b></figcaption></div><p>There was one other thing Schmidt had in mind.</p><p>The Bruins have some of the most promising young hockey players in the entire NHL system. But they need time to develop.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04403/3173152-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="567" height="611"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE SHACK &hellip; He'll Swing For Bruins</b></figcaption></div><p>If they are rushed in to service too soon they may never develop the proficiency they need to make the Bruins a solid Stanley Cup contender.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Schmidt Confident Trades Aided Bruins

<p>MONTREAL, Que.-</p><p>Four players from the National Hockey League champion Chicago Black Hawks were named to the first official NHL All-Star team.</p><p>The four Hawks selected for the first team following a poll of sportswriters and broadcasters in the six NHL cities were defenseman Pierre Pilote and the forward line of center Stan Mikita, left winger Bobby Hull and right winger Ken Wharram. Another Hawk, veteran goaltender Glenn Hall, was named to the Second Team.</p><p>Two New York Rangers rounded out the first team &mdash; goaltender Ed Giacomin and veteran defenseman Harry Howell, both making their initial appearances on All-Star teams. The five Hawks were all chosen for All-Star recognition in the past.</p><p>Mikita, making his sixth appearance as an All-Star and fifth on the first team, was the lone unanimous choice, drawing a perfect 90 points in each half.</p><h2><b>How They Picked Them</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05281/3173197-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="282" height="85"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Black Hawks Dominate All-Star Voting Placing Four Vets On NHL’s First Team

<div class="byline">By JACK BERRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01777/3173121-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="283" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Mahovlich</b></figcaption></div><p>I DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Sid Abel gathered his aides and played &ldquo;Expansion Draft,&rdquo; in the Alumni Room at Olympia, a game with high stakes and no room for mistakes.</p><p>Those high stakes were the reason for the 'game&rdquo; as Abel, farm chief Jim Skinner, farm club coaches Baz Bastien and Jimmy Peters and vides Johnny Mitchell and Doug larkley played the part of the six expansion teams and &ldquo;drafted&rdquo; rom Detroit.</p><p>In terms of hanging onto what they have, the Wings are in pretty grood shape.</p><p>In addition to protecting 11 (layers and a goalkeeper at the start, Peter Mahovlich, Bart Crashey and Doug Barrie are autonatically exempt from the draft. Then there are six more who won't eligible until the 18th round.</p><p>Mahovlich, who spent most of the season on the Red Wing bench, Crashley, who started with the Wings and then was farmed out to gain experience and Barrie, also on the farms, still could have played Junior 'A&rsquo; last season and hence they were exempted through a special rule.</p><p>Top men in the other half dozen are defenseman Bob Falkenberg, who saw duty with the Wings at the close of the season, and right wing Don Anderson who played at Memphis.</p><p>An expansion team wouldn't be able to pick from this group until the Wings had protected 18 players.</p><p>And, under the fill process whereby the old clubs pluck back a player from their draft-eligible pool each time they lose one, the Wings would have seven chances to get their top-rated youngsters back on the roster before the expansion team could grab one.</p><p>In addition to Falkenberg and Anderson, other members of the somewhat safe six are left wing Larry Billows, center Dave Rochefort, left wing Gary Marsh and left wing Nick Libett.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wings’ Top Young Stars Draft Free

<div class="byline">By GIL SMITH</div><p>MONTREAL, Qtie.&mdash;</p><p>The annual hockey draft, usually little more than a breeze is certain to be a full-blown affair, this year.</p><p>For the first, and what is likely to be the only time in NHL history, 120 players will be on the move as the six new teams in the expanded league stock up on playing personnel. Further, there'll be no actual charge to the new clubs for drafting players, for the usual $30,000 draft price has been waived in deference to the $2,000,000 investment that each new franchise holder made upon entering the league.</p><p>The system of drafting is as follows: Existing clubs can protect a goalie and 11 other players. After the 11 are protected, a club loses its 12th in the draft, but can protect its 13th. It then loses its 14th, but can protect its 15th. Then it loses its 16th, 17th and 18th, but can protect its 19th. After that it loses its 20th, but protects its 21st. From then on, it's lose one and protect one.</p><p>The four-day meetings, commencing June 5 in Montreal, are expected to attract upwards of 350 participants, in addition to hordes of newspapermen', as well as radio and television representatives. Many will be attending an NHL draft meeting for the first time, and out-oftowners will be faced with the problem of finding accommodation in a city already bulging at the seams with visitors to Expo '67.</p><p>Providing working facilities at the meetings for the many who are expected to attend Is a job that's been occupying the attention of Ron Andrews, NHL Publicity Director. He's sent out questionnaires to representatives of the press and other media in various cities, in order to determine how many will be on hand and what facilities they may require. An NHL release, outlining the draft procedure, has also been sent out.</p><p>Says Andrews : &ldquo;We expect a fairly smooth operation, despite the fact that it'll be bigger than usual. Mr. Campbell, (NHL President Campbell) will be in complete charge of the meetings, assisted by Brian O'Neill, my-<b>self, Don Ellis and others on</b> the NHL staff. Most of the new owners attended last year's draft meeting, and are familiar with the general procedure. There shouldn't be any real problems, but it certainly will be the biggest draft ever, both in the number of players involved and people attending.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01782/3173228-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="330" height="405"></div><p>General opinion in hockey circles seems to be that a flurry of trading will follow the draft, as clubs attempt to achieve a balance in their rosters. In other words, teams that wind up with too many defensemen will be trying to unload them for forwards, and vice-versa. This means that a player, drafted from Club 'A&rsquo; by Club 'B&rsquo; could be traded off to Club 'C&rsquo; at the conclusion of the draft, or even back to Club 'A&rsquo; in some cases.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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June Draft Unique In NHL History With 120 Players Eyeing Expansion

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02657/3173259-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Veteran forward BERNARD GEOFFRION was choosen as the &ldquo;Most Popular Ranger&rdquo; last season and was the recipient of the Catholic Youth Organization of New York award. Making presentation to Geoffrion are EDWARD WISELY, left, and JOHN DESIMONE, two young CYO hockey stars.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion has declared his intentions of remaining with the New York Rangers as a player or in some other capacity for the remainder of his three-year contract.</p><p>Geoffrion, 36, returned to the National Hockey League last season with the Rangers after two years as coach of the Quebec Aces of the American League and 14 seasons as a player with the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;With the upcoming National Hockey League meetings, I fully realize the possibility of my being drafted by one of the expansion teams, and I would like to clarify my situation in his respect,&rdquo; Geoffrion said.</p><p>&ldquo;Should I be drafted by one of the new teams, I will retire as an active player and remain with the Rangers in an executive capacity,&rdquo; Geoffrion stated.</p><p>Rangers have assured Geoffrion that such a position would be available to him should he decide to retire as an active player.</p><p>&ldquo;When I signed with the Rangers last June, it was with the understanding that I remain three years with the club,&rdquo; Geoffrion continued. &ldquo;I intend to fulfill the contract either in a playing or an executive capacity.</p><p>The NHL &ldquo;Expansion Draft&rdquo; will be held on June 6 in Montreal, and 120 players will be drafted to stock the six new franchises entering the National Hockey League in October.</p><p>Each of the current six clubs is allowed to protect 11 skaters and one goaltender for the draft's first round. Then, after the new clubs make their first choices, the current clubs may add another player to their protected lists.</p><p>The same &ldquo;claim and fill&rdquo; procedure will be followed in the next round, but then the new clubs will make three straight &ldquo;claims&rdquo; without any &ldquo;fills&rdquo; by the present teams. The remainder of the draft will be conducted by &ldquo;claim and fill&rdquo; until the new teams have been stocked with 20 players (18 skaters and two goaltenders) apiece.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Geoffrion Will End Hockey Days With N. Y.

<p>TORONTO, Ont.-</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01840/3173290-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="296" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>Veteran Red Kelly could very well be the coach of the new Los Angeles Kings by the time National Hockey League expansion draft opens June 6.</p><p>However, the 40-year-old Toronto Maple Leaf forward, who announced his retirement May 14 after 20 years as a player with the Detroit Red Wings and Leafs, said he would give the offer deep thought before signing a contract.</p><p>Kelly has decided to quit playing and concentrate on coaching, which is the major factor why he wil1 sign with Jack Kent Cooke s Kings. He has let be known that if he is drafted by one of the six new NHL teams in expansion they would be wasting their selection because he doesn't intend to play any more.</p><p>One of only 20 players in NHL history to score 250 or more goals in his career, Kelly said he would announce his decision after meeting with Cooke in L.A. One conference set up for the California city between the two had to be cancelled when illness hit Kelly's family.</p><p>Kelly informed the Maple Leafs after the team's Stanley Cup i win over Montreal that he wanted his name to be placed on the ; voluntary retired list in order to negotiate with Los Angeles.</p><p>Under NHL rules, even retired players must have permission from their last known team before discussing employment with another league team.</p><p>Kelly wound up one of the NHL's most brilliant playing careers in the recent Stanley Cup finals. In 20 years, he played in 1,316 regular-season games, scored 281 goals, had 542 assists, 823 points and earned only 327 minutes in penalties. In addition he performed in 164 playoff games, scored 33 times and was a member of eight Stanley Cup winners, four each with Toronto and Detroit.</p><p>Over the years, Kelly won the Lady Byng Trophy as the most sportsmanlike player four times and the James Norris Trophy as best defenseman once. He also made the NHL All-Star team eight times, six on the first team.</p><p>The ironic part of Kelly's lifetime story was the fact the Leafs didn't want him when he was a junior with Toronto St. Mike's and he promptly paid his own way to Detroit's camp where he remafneu 12% years as a top star. His ambition was always to play with the Leafs, something he eventually realized when he was traded off by Detroit to Toronto in 1960 after spurning a move to the New York Rangers.</p><p>Kelly's Retirement leaves only Gordie Howe of Detroit as the only active player with 20 or more years playing service. Howe has completed 21 seasons. Kelly, Bill Gadsby and Dit Clapper and Howe are the NHL's only 20-year men.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kelly Ends 20-Year NHL Playing Career To Ponder LA Offer

<div class="byline">By Ken Mc Kenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02793/3173342-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="416" height="459"></div><p>&bull; <b>FRANK BOUCHER'S</b> Canadian Major Junior Hockey League came out on top in their tussle with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Associaation after they threatened to take four of the CAHA leaders to court&hellip; Boucher's loop is now back in the good graces of the august CAHA and will be competing for Canada's Memorial Cup in 1968 &hellip; Boucher has proven over i the years that he can hold his own with any of the so-called &ldquo;committee-men"&hellip; Many hockey buffs puzzled by the lush financial assets announced at the recent CAHA meetings when it was recalled how Canada's National Team had to play those gruelling exhibition games prior to the World Championships i s to help pay their way overseas&hellip; Sid Abel, General Manager-Coach of Detroit, is just one of several NHL execs who was impressed with j the calibre of play in United States college ranks this past season&hellip; College hockey in &rsquo; I the States has been improving at a tremendous rate in recent years&hellip; Abel knows whereof he speaks. He has five Americans in his system and two of them played for the Red Wings at the end of last season. They were Doug Roberts, a Michigan State graduate, and his son Gerry Abel, a product of the Detroit area &hellip; Abel was a spectator at the recent Kentucky 'Derby&hellip; Jack Riley, General Manager of the Pittsburgh Penquins, says he has received numerous applications from Canadian hockey announcers anxious to broadcast the games of the new NHL entry next season&hellip; Frank Stukus, proprietor of the very successful Byrnell Manor Boys Camp at Fenelon Falls, Ont., was the first one to operate a resident hockey school and he will be the first to run a summer hockey tournament which he will start this summer at Lindsay, Ont. in conjunction with his Boys Camp at Fenelon Falls&hellip; The NHL will open the regular schedule in 1967-68 on October 11 and end on March 30. With the exception of the last two seasons these are the approximate opening and closing dates used by the league for years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03689/3173335-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="320" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>GEORGE HAYES,</b> former NHL linesman, now writes a column three times a week for the Woodstock, Ont. paper&hellip; A lot of National League fans were disappointed that more trading didn't take place between the clubs prior to the annual meetings and the much discussed draft&hellip; Mike McMahon, son of the former Montreal and Buffalo defenseman, was picked as the top CPHL defenseman last season while toiling for Houston Apollos. No doubt he will be picked up fast in the NHL expansion draft&hellip; Chicago netminder Glenn Hall recently purchased an additional 320 acres of farm-land near Edmonton&hellip; King Clancy says Punch Imlach is about as good a hockeyman as you'll ever find. Clancy also stated that the only reason he stays in the game was on account of Imlach and that if he should ever leave, he would leave, too&hellip; Pittsburgh Penguins have taken over the same telephone number and same offices used by the American Hockey League Calder Cup champion Pitts-burgh Hornets&hellip; Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; new arena is called The Spectrum, which shows originality and class &hellip; When Jack Cooke builds g his Forum at Inglewood, California, the NHL will have two Forums &hellip; The Montreal Forum g being the oldest building in the league and g Cooke's Inglewood emporium being the newest arena &hellip; After the Hornets won the Calder Cup and the players jumped over the boards to congratulate each other Bob Wall fell and was hit in the eye with a teammate's stick. The whole arena became silenced thinking that perhaps in that last minute of joy he had suffered a serious injury. Fortunately it was nothing more than a black eye, but he scared the daylights out of all the fans&hellip; Terry Harper and John Ferguson of Canadiens spending the summer in Montreal&hellip; Herb Elk, former contributor to this paper, is the new travelling I secretary of the Houston Astros &hellip; Butch Goring, center for the Winnipeg Rangers of the Manitoba Junior League, named this year's winner of the Lorhe &ldquo;Windy&rdquo; Lyndon Memorial Trophy. Goring is rated a terrific NHL prospect&hellip; John McCauley, Brian Lewis and Willie Norris, three young OHA referees, will move into pro ranks next season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04590/3173328-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="325" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>King Clancy</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>JERRY DELISE,</b> owner and general manager of the Muskegon Mohawks of the International Hockey League, was paid many compliments (for the manner in which he chaired the meeting between the Governors of the Eastern Hockey League and the International Hockey League out at Colorado Springs last month &hellip; DeLise was the moving force behind this get together between the heads of two of the most flourishing hockey leagues in the United States &hellip; Many important items were covered at the session such as a playoff between the winners of the two leagues and possibly an interlocking schedule ... The playoffs will take place in the Spring of 1968 &hellip; Norm Mackie, trainer for the Memorial Cup champion Toronto Marlboros, will move out to Los Angeles to handle the trainer's job with the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL&hellip; Stan Waylett, trainer of the Oshawa Generals Jrs., is another trainer moving into an NHL expansion city. Stan will accompany Wren Blair to Minnesota&hellip; West Palm Beach applied for a franchise in the International League but were turned down&hellip; Andy Mulligan reports his IHL played before over 136,000 extra fans this past season over 1965-66&hellip; Conn Smythe tried to have one of his race horses registered under the name &ldquo;Big No. 9&rdquo; in honor of Charlie Conacher, who wore that number, when he played for the Maple Leafs. The Jockey Club of New York advised Smythe that the name had been taken. He's trying with a couple more such as &ldquo;The Big Bomber&rdquo; and &ldquo;Big Blue Bomber".</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05469/3173321-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="307" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jerry DeLise</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01780/3173380-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>AHL Champion - PITTSBURGH HORNETS</b></p><p><b>Here are the Pittsburgh Hornets, who completed a sweep in the American Hockey League by winning both the league and Calder Cup playoff races. First row, left to right, DON CALEY, BILLY HARRIS, BOB WALL, BAZ BASTIEN, manager-coach, BOB McCORD, PETE GOEGAN, HANK BASSEN. Second row, JOE GORDON, publicity director, TERRY GRAY, DON McKENNEY, AB MCDONALD, PETER MAHOVLICH, WARREN GODFREY, TED TAYLOR, DOUG HARVEY, DANNY WOOD, trainer. Third row, DOUG BARRIE, DUKE HARRIS, CRAIG CAMERON, GARY JARRETT, VAL FONTEYNE, PARKER MacDONALD.</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>SALUTING HOCKEY'S CUP CHAMPIONS</b></h2><p><b><i>National League: TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</i></b></p><p><b><i>Western League: SEATTLE TOTEMS</i></b></p><p><b><i>Eastern League: NASHVILLE FLYERS</i></b></p><p><b><i>Allan Cup: DRUMMONDVILLE EAGLES</i></b></p><p><b><i>American League: PITTSBURGH HORNETS</i></b></p><p><b><i>Central League: OKLAHOMA BLAZERS</i></b></p><p><b><i>International League: TOLEDO BLADES</i></b></p><p><b><i>Memorial Cup: TORONTO MARLBOROS</i></b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02668/3173373-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="3076" height="1161"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>WHL Champions - SEATTLE TOTEMS</b></p><p><b>Here are the Seattle Totems, who had the distinction of winning the Western Hockey League's Patrick Cup playoffs after finishing third during the regular season. First row, left to right, JIM ARMSTRONG, GU YLE FIELDER, BILL MacFARLAND, manager-coach, GERRY LEONARD, MURRAY COSTELLO, executive director, DON WARD, JIM McLEOD. Second row, BILL SHEPPARD, advertising manager, JIM PATERSON, DON FEDUN, HOWIE HUGHES, DON CHIZ, BILL DINEEN, EARL HEISKALA, DICK BIELOUS, trainer. Third row, JiM POWERS, PAT QUINN, BOB LEMIEUX, NOEL PICARD, JEAN GAUTHIER, LARRY HALE, LARRY LUND, CHUCK HOLMES.</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hockey News Statistical Issue 1966-1967

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Stanley Cup Playoff Records

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE-1966-67 Statistics

<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&ndash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02761/3173494-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="300" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bobby Rivard</b></figcaption></div><p>Big Bob Mc-Cord of Pittsburgh Hornets, Hershey's durable Mike Ny-koluk and little Bobby Rivard of Quebec Aces walked off with the American Hockey League's post-season individual player awards.</p><p>McCord was named winner of the Eddie Shore Plaque as the AHL's outstanding defenseman for the second time.</p><p>McCord, also a unanimous selection for the AHL's first all-star team, collected 39 points in the voting by hockey writers and broadcasters. Dale Rolfe of Springfield was second with 13 points.</p><p>Nykoluk, Bears&rsquo; centerman who was named to his first all-star post this season after ten AHL campaigns, was selected the loop's most valuable player and will receive the Les Cunningham Award along with a bonus of $300.</p><p>Ironically, Nykoluk outdistanced Quebec's Gord Labossiere for the MVP crown posting 29 votes to Labossiere's 14. It was Labossiere who beat out Nykoluk for the first team center berth in the all-star voting with Mike settling for the second team nomination.</p><p>Always rated as a fine defensive performer, 'Big Mike&rsquo; burst into the offensive spotlight this year with 16 goals and a league-leading 68 assists for 84 points, his best season ever in all categories and a tie for 4th in overall scoring with teammate Roger Dejordy.</p><p>For the third successive year a center has won the Dudley 'Red&rsquo; Garrett Memorial Trophy, which annually is awarded to the AHL's outstanding first year player.</p><p>Rivard follows in the footsteps of Rochester's Mike Walton (6566) and Buffalo's Ray Cullen (6465) in gaining the vote of the League's press-radio-television representatives. With the award goes a bonus of $300.</p><p>Rivard, 5'7&rdquo; 155 lbs., had his doubts about playing with the Aces early this season, but his skating and a regular shift dispelled any qualms he or the Aces might have had about an AHL career.</p><p>A defenseman, Cleveland's Jacques Lemieux was runner-up in the voting, posting 25 points to Rivard's 30 while Providence's Brian Perry was third</p><h2><b>Calder Cup Playoffs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03632/3173487-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1317" height="2628"></div><h2><b>Final AHL Goalkeeping Records</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04430/3173480-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="1924" height="812"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rivard Named Top AHL Rookie, McCord. Nvkoiuk Grab Awards

<p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Joe Gordon has been named to the position of director of public relations and promotion by the new Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League.</p><p>A native of Pittsburgh, Gordon held the same post with the Pittsburgh Hornets for the past three seasons. Prior to that he was the publicity director of the Pittsburgh Rens of the defunct American Basketball League.</p><p>During his tenure with the Hornets the club showed an increase in attendance in two of three seasons. This past campaign a new attendance record was established as the team won the regular season and playoff championships in its final season in the American Hockey League.</p><p>With the Penguins, Gordon will be responsible for public relations, publicity, promotion and advertising. He will also handle the sale of advertising in the same program as well as the coordination of all editorial material and layout of the program.</p><p>Gordon is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Business Administration, majoring in marketing and advertising. While attending Pitt he was a member of the varsity baseball team and won two letters in the sport. He also played freshman basketball.</p><p>Jack E. McGregor, president of the Penguins, made the announcement. &ldquo;We are very happy to have Joe join our organization. His experience will be invaluable to us,&rdquo; McGregor said.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NHL Penguins Name Gordon Press Chief

<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; defenseman Bob McCord was the only unanimous selection on the AHL's 1966-67 All-Star teams.</p><p>McCord, a 33year-old veteran who led the Hornets to the Western Division and Calder Cup championships, totalled a perfect 45 points in the balloting, two more than Hershey's 52 goal scorer, Roger DeJordy, who received eight first place votes along with one second place ballot to cop the first team left-wing spot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01834/3173580-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="290" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob McCord</b></figcaption></div><p>Each member of the first team received a $300 League bonus and a miniature gold puck while second team choices received $200 and a silver puck.</p><p>This is the initial appearance on the first team for all but McCord, who also was selected back in the 1960-61 season while playing with Eddie Shore's Springfield Indians. The burly blueliner who is obviously slated for one of the new NHL expansion teams, also has three alternate squad selections to his credit, all while with the Indians, in '59-60, '61-62 and '62-63.</p><p>The only other first team member who saw all-star recognition was Quebec's Wayne Hicks, a second team choice the year before last ('64-65).</p><p>Overall Eastern Division champion Hershey led the selections with two first team members and another two on the runner-up squad, while Cleveland, Providence and Buffalo were the only clubs failing to place <i>a</i> representative on either team.</p><h2><b>AHL's All-Star Teams</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02748/3173573-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1261" height="523"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hornets’ McCord Lone “Unanimous” Pick

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01819/3173725-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>CPHL Champions OKLAHOMA CITY BLAZERS</b></p><p><b>Here are the Oklahoma City Blazers, repeat champions of the Central Pro Jockey League, who pulled a double this year by winning both the league and layoff races as well as the Jack Adams Cup. Front row, left to right, GERRY HEEVERS, DOUG FAVELL, MURRAY DAVISON, coach, DICK CHERRY, WAYNE ASHMAN. TED IRVINE. TED HODGSON. RON BUCHANAN. Back row. FRASER GLEESON, trainer, RON NANCE, publicity director, BILL LEVINS, general manager, DEREK SANDERSON, JEAN PRONOVOST, DAVE WOODLEY, ROSS LONSBERRY, DALLAS SMITH, JOHN ARBOUR, GLEN SATHER, BOB HEANEY, TERRY CRISP, BRIAN BRADLEY, JEAN PAUL PARISE.</b></p></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03559/3173718-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="1272" height="2086"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CENTRAL PRO HOCKEY LEAGUE Final 1966-67 Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04394/3173756-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The Central Professional Hockey League completed its fourth successful season and felt the effect of National Hockey League expansion plans that reflected in the attendance figures.</p><p>For the past three seasons, the circuit has been composed of six f teams and once again they averaged better than 100,000 attendance. Total league attendance was 600,395 with Oklahoma City Blazers leading the way with 157,439. Houston Apollos were sixth in drawing power with 65,188 wending their way through the turn stiles.</p><p>Gate receipts for the six clubs | over the 1966-67 schedule totalled $1,148,208.</p><p>The St. Louis Braves, playing their last season in the city, found that hockey fans in many instances decided to wait until this fall for their hockey when the National Hockey League Blues swing into action.</p><p>After being out of the circuit for a season, Omaha returned in triumphal fashion and the second-place Knights, runners-up to Oklahoma City for the League championship, drew 128,404 customers.</p><p>Announcement was made before the completion of the regular schedule that the Memphis Wings would move at the end of the season to Fort Worth, Tex. and the news might have affected the attendance that showed only 72,803 and $100,038 at the box office.</p><h2><b>CPHL Playoff Records</b></h2><p>But with the changes in the NHL, there will also come changes in the CPHL with the Chicago Black Hawks moving their St. Louis Braves team to Dallas, Tex.; Memphis Wings going into a new home in Fort Worth and Kansas City filing entry to the loop as a brand new team, a farm club the St. Louis Blues.</p><p>Heading into the annual meeting at Montreal, the CPHL liste Oklahoma City, Omaha, Houston Fort Worth, Dallas, Tulsa and Kansas City.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Blazers Top Box Office Draw But Expansion Plans Hurt CPHL

<p>TULSA, Okla.-</p><p>Ray Miron, general manager of the Tulsa Oilers, announced that Johnny McLellan, Coach of the champion Nashville Flyers of the Eastern League and former Tulsa player, has been named to pilot the Oilers during the 1967-68 season. McLellan replaces Rudy Migay who coached Tulsa's entry in the Central Professional Hockey League for the last three years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01804/3173794-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="317" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ray Miron</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;After this past season we felt a change was indicated and Rudy agreed,&rdquo; Miron said. &ldquo;Rudy will be offered another position within the Toronto organization.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I feel we are very fortunate to get Johnny. He has been offered a number of coaching positions by some of the new National League expansion organizations, and I'm happy he's decided to cast his lot with us. He has an outstanding record of accomplishments,&rdquo; Miron said.</p><p>He turned professional with Toronto in 1950 after playing on the champions St. Michael junior team in 1946 and Toronto Marlboro teams which won three successive Allan Cups between 1947 and 1950.</p><p>Although he saw brief action with Toronto, most of his professional playing career was spent in the American League where he starred four years as a center with Pittsburgh and four years at Cleveland. He played on Calder Cup championship clubs in Pittsburgh and Cleveland.</p><p>In 1959 he played on the Belleville MacFarlands team representing Canada in the world competition. It was the last Canadian National Team to win the world title, defeating Russia in Prague, Czechoslovakia.</p><p>He became player-coach of Nashville in 1962. The next year, however, he retired as player and for the past four years has coached from the bench. In his five years at Nashville, Johnny's teams have won three straight southern division championships and the league playoffs for the past two seasons. He has been named coach of the year for the last four seasons in the 10-team league.</p><h2><b>CPHL Playoffs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02730/3173787-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="658" height="1773"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ex-Oiler McLellan To Succeed Migay As Tulsa Coach

<div class="byline">BY HARVEY POLLACK</div><p>CHERRY HILL, N.J.&mdash;</p><p>Nashville's loss coach John McLellan and lie Eastern Hotkey League's Rejection of Jerey's sale to West Palm each, two ventualites predicted by THE HOCKEY NEWS, have laterialized.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01803/3173825-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="300" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John McLellan</b></figcaption></div><p>McLellan, the successful skipper of the EHL's champion Flyers the past two seasons, has decided to leave for greener pastures, taking a coaching post with Tulsa of the Central League. Meantime in the EHL meeting at Colorado Springs, the request of the Jersey Devils for approval of the club's sale to West Palm Beach, Florida group for $50,000 was vetoed by a 5-4 ballot with two teams not voting.</p><p>McLellan's departure leaves at least three coaching jobs in the EHL up for grabs. Thus far no appointments have been made at New Haven for Jackie LeClair or at Knoxville for Doug Bentley. Another opening is definite with the Jersey franchise since Vic Stasiuk will pilot one of the Philly Flyers farm teams. There's talk that there could be a change at Johnstown too. In fact the only coaches definitely signed for next season are Bob Sabourin at Jacksonville, Fred Creighton at Charlotte and Gene Achtymichuk at Long Island.</p><p>A pilot for the new entry at Salem has yet to be picked. Pat Kelly at Clinton and Ron Spong at Greensboro secure but at last reports they hadn't been inked. Jack McIntyre at Johnstown also is a question mark.</p><p>As for McLellan, he admitted that Mark Parrish, new owner of the Flyers, had offered him a year-round deal. &ldquo;However it wasn't as good financially as the Tulsa offer,&rdquo; McLellan said. &ldquo;Another factor was my improvement in hockey. I figured that if I couldn't move up now, I might as well get out of hockey. (After his record at Nashville who could dispute this theory ?).&rdquo;</p><p>Parrish said he was exploring several coaching possibilities, but that his only requisites were these: (1) the coach be capable and (2) he make Nashville his year-round residence.</p><p>Meantime back in Jersey, the Devils were wondering what to do. They had voted to sell their franchise to West Palm Beach radioTV executive Bert Lebhar for a reported $50,000 after Harold Aranow, club secretary, had failed to get a group to buy the team here.</p><p>As predicted, the move was rejected. Clinton didn't attend the meeting and Knoxville didn't vote since it had not met financial obligations to the league. It was conjectured that Long Island, New Haven and Johnstown voted against the move along with the new Salem entry.. Jersey naturally voted for the switch. There was some doubt as to who cast the other veto vote but it was figured to be Jacksonville which probably wanted to play games in West Palm Beach this season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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McLellan Leaves Nashville For CPHL Coaching Job

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EASTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE-1966-67 Statistics

<p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association yielded and gave the powerful Canadian Major Junior Hockey League its official blessing after one season of unrest and bickering.</p><p>The CAHA executive made it official here at its 51st annual meeting by negotiating peace with Frank Boucher's super Western junior league. All they asked was that the CMJHL comly with its wish and alter its name to the Western Canada Junior Hockey League.</p><p>The move will bring the western league back under the jurisdiction of the CAHA after eight &rsquo; months of being 'outlawed'.</p><p>Both sides were agreeable to the terms. CAHA president Fred Page said his group was anxious to have the league back in its fold. League commissioner Boucher said &ldquo;we never did want to be outside the CAHA jurisdiction. It's just that we weren't understood. Now everything is fine again. We're glad to be back,&rdquo; he commented.</p><p>The CMJHL broke away from the CAHA last fall when the governing Canadian body refused to recognize their operation on the grounds the time wasn't ripe for a league of this nature.</p><p>Boucher's circuit operated last . season and quite successfully. The, new agreement between the NHL and CAHA helped bring about the peace settlement between the two warring groups. Boucher said five new applications will be studied for expansion next year.</p><p>Elimination of NHL sponsorship of amateur clubs will allow the CAHA to set up an over-age draft of junior players next season with the money to be distributed by the CAHA for players taken by the pros.</p><p>The CAHA also announced it had selected the Allan Cup champion Drummondville Eagles of the Quebec Senior Hockey League and the Kingston Aces of the Ontario Senior League to tour Europe next season.</p><p>Drummondville, which won the Allan Cup from Calgary Spurs in four straight games, will compete in the Ahearne Trophy tournament in Sweden. Kingston, beaten by Drummondville in the Eastern finals, will play in the Spangler Tournament in Switzerland and in Gotenberg, Sweden.</p><h2><b>OHA Goaling</b></h2><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01779/3173887-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="634" height="924"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CAHA Makes Peace With Major Juniors

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Final Ontario Junior League I Storing Records For “66-67”

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C0004-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0421/3173963-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg"></div><h2><b>Final Playoff Records</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0269/3173956-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="2504" height="949"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0342/3173949-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="2447" height="1254"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>IHL Champions - TOLEDO BLADES</b></p><p><b>Here are the Toledo Blades, winners of the Turner Cup as playoff champions of the International Hockey League. Front row, left to right, GERRY FLEURY, ENO KRAFT, CHICK BALON, JIM SANKO, CHICK CHALMERS, SHORTY MELANCHUK, LOU KAZOWSKI, CHUCK KELLY, GLENN RAMSAY. Back row, KEITH SMITH, trainer, BILL LITTLE, business-manager, BARRY JAKEMAN, LARRY HORNUNG, GREG JABLONSKI, DON WESTBROOKE, JIM NIEKAMP, ROY DAVIDSON, STAN MAXWELL, TERRY SLATER, coach and general manager.</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FINAL STATISTICS

<div class="byline">BY BOB REED</div><p>TOLEDO, O&mdash;</p><p>There has been some mild controversy over the relative strength of the International and Eastern Hockey Leagues and the two circuits took a step toward settling the question when they agreed to a postseason playoff between the two champions during a joint meeting at Colorado Springs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0192/3173994-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="310" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lefty McFadden</b></figcaption></div><p>The playoff series will be best three-out-of-five and the leagues agreed to have their own championship series completed by April 18 so that the inter-league playoff may begin.</p><p>In addition to the playoffs the leagues agreed to have a two-week period in September when players may be traded or sold from one league to another without first being waived out of one league. Also the leagues strengthened their agreement to honor contracts and suspensions of each.</p><p>Andy Mulligan was renamed commissioner 5 for one year but he indicated he did not plan to a retain the position much longer. John Wismer R of Port Huron was named first vice-president and g Norm Conway of Des Moines second vice-president. The league was reported in sound financial condition, with no club having an indebtedness.</p><p>Lefty McFadden, general manager of the 8 Dayton Gems, was given a vote of confidence by K the board of directors in the shape of a new five-year contract, a raise and a bonus. His old contract, which had a year to run, was torn up.</p><p>The Gems finished as season champions in their third year in the IHL under the management of McFadden, who declined a front office position with the Chicago Cubs last winter.</p><p>McFadden announced that, &ldquo;we declared a nice dividend and all the stockholders are happy. Financially speaking, we are way ahead of schedule. We are operating in the black much sooner than we expected.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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