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March 2, 1968
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Montreal Pursues Kitchener In ‘Showdown’ For First Place
KITCHENER. Ont. - With only three weeks remaining in the schedule five teams are still, mathematically at least, in the running for the Ontario Hockey Association junior A pennant. Since the early part of the season the league has been virtually divided into two sections. Kitchener Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Niagara Falls Flyers, Toronto Marlboros and Hamilton Red Wings have been scrambling for the top five positions. St. Catharines Black Hawks, London Nationals, Peterborough Petes, Oshawa Generals and Ottawa 67s have been running in that order in the second division. Kitchener Rangers, after winning 14 games in succession appeared to have first place safely tucked away. However Montreal Canadiens had also been winning regularly to remain just one-half step behind. The Ranger win steak was halted when they were held to a home ice 3-3 tie by…
High-scoring Rousseau Turns Playmaker In Victory Surge
MONTREAL, Que. - He hasn’t been scoring too many goals this season, but Bobby Rousseau has “assisted” Canadiens quite a bit in their drive to the top of the standings. Rousseau, in fact, has more assists than anyone on the club, and only half-a-dozen players in the league could boast of a higher total, after three-quarters of the schedule had been played. The fleet right winger had counted 36 assists to go with his dozen goals in 57 games. The league-leader was Alex Delvecchio, of Detroit, who’d notched 40 assists in 58 contests. Rousseau likes to roam with the puck, and could easily fit in as a centre. He’s been used at that spot from time to time on Cana-diens lineups, but his specialty is blasting a slap-shot from the right boards. It got…
McComb Wins Scoring Again, Defelice Grabs Goaling Award
GALT, Ont.— Dave McComb of Collingwood Kings and Norm Defelice of Galt Hornets won the top prizes in the OH A senior A hockey circuit but took different routes to their trophies. McComb won his second straight I scoring championship and Eccle-stone Trophy by securing three assists on the final night of the I four-month schedule. He shaded Toronto Marlboro veteran Moe Galand by one point, 74 to 73. Defelice picked off the Turofsky Trophy as the goalie with the best average, leading the race since his first game which was a shutout. He finished with a glittering 2.14 average, the lowest in the league in years and also led in shutouts with five. McComb, a runaway winner a year ago with 88 points, had to come from behind this time. He trailed Galand…
Leafs’ Plight Forces Punch Into Changes
TORONTO, Ont. - In all the years he’s spent in hockey, Punch Imlach never has been associated with a team that missed the playoffs In Its league. That goes all the way back to junior playing days with Toronto Young Rangers, through senior competition with Goodyears and Marlboros and a coaching career that took him to Quebec Aces, Springfield Indians and now Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. Now, in his 10th season with Leafs, it appears Imlach finally may be a spectator at post-season play this spring. Leafs’ latest slump reached disaster proportions — nine losses in 11 games — and dropped them far behind Boston Bruins and New York Rangers, who’ve been tussling for third and fourth positions. And fourth place, of course, is the lowest you can finish and…
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