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April 13, 1968

April 13, 1968

The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.

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Rangers Set Crowd Mark By Selling Out 22 Times

NEW YORK, N.Y.— The smash finish of the Rangers which gave them their best finish, second place, since the 1957-58 season also was their most successful in history in so far as records were concerned. The Blue Bombers won the most games in New York history with 39, they notched 90 points, again the most ever, scored the most ever goals with 226 and racked up the most ever home wins with a sensational 22. Eddie Giacomin nosed out the Montreal tandem of Gump Worsley and Rogatien Vachon for the NHL’s second half goaltender award and will be the recipient of the league bonus of $250. And Jean Ratelie won $500 as the League’s top point producer in the second half of the campaign. Ratty was tied with Detroit’s fantastic forty year old,…

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Canadiens Sights Set On 13th Cup Victory

MONTREAL, Que. — The Montreal Canadiens are the playoff kings of hockey. They’ve won the Stanley Cup an even dozen times since 1927, which is more than any other team can boast of. Their closest competitors are Toronto and Detroit, so there are no challengers to their leadership in that department this year. Habs also won the record for most consecutive cup wins, which they established by five straight victories from 1956 to 1960, inclusive. Toe Blake was and still is the coach of the Canadiens. He holds the record for most cup wins — seven. The Habs also hold marks for most consecutive final series appearances (10). They also tie a record this year, by making the playoffs. It’s the 20th consecutive playoff appearance for Habs since 1949. Detroit are co-holders of that…

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Hockey Ad Lib

Hockey Experts Fooled As this first expansion season of the National Hockey league opened, the experts forecast a farce. Some wise-guys predicted the old pros would break all records for victories and goals, the upstarts would be me carted away in baskets, and the fans, unable to stomach such horrors, would have stayed home watching television soapoperas. As this most critical regular season of the NHL concluded, it was the reputations of the experts and wise-guys who were broken up and being carted away. Indeed, watching TV is insufficient punishment for their crimes. Their pencils should be jabbed under their fingernails and their typewriters dropped on their toes. Not that one should be carried away by any illusions of grandeur on the part of the expansionist. As earlier we suggested might happen,…

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KINGS STRUGGLED TO HOLD SECOND PLACE

—LOS ANGELES, Cal. Most of the new teams did much better than expected in this just - completed first regular season of expansion in the NHL. Against this background, it can be said that the L.A. Kings inaugural campaign was a moderate success. Many times this past season it seemed it would be much more than that, but as it wound up it was not. The Kings collapsed in the clutch to fall from a possible pennant to second place. They were fortunate they didn’t fall further. And they wound up losing more games than they won. The Kings led the expansion division most of the first half of the season. They fell out in a winless string of nine games at mid-season. They climbed back into a tie for first in…