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April 7, 1972
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B’s Cheevers Ranked As Most Consistent Of All NHL Goalers
BOSTON— They say facetiously around the Bruins’ dressing room that no one ever taught Gerry Cheevers how to be a goal-tender. The word is that someone helped him on with the tools of ignorance, pointed him towards the cage, and that was it. But for the fact that the Bruins drafted him from Toronto in 1965 after Punch Imlach tried to hide him as a forward, there would be some basis for the fabrication. Cheevers’ record of 30 games without a loss from Nov. 10 through March 19 has been Something to marvel at. But the 31-year-old native of St. Catharines, Ont. actually believes he is doing just what comes naturally. “I just go out there to try to stop as much rubber as I can,” says the witty and apparently nerveless Cheevers. “I don’t worry…


Blues Ride With Youth For Sixth Playoff Try
ST. LOUIS— The St. Louis Blues remain the only team in the National Hockey League that has never missed the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Blues have gone into the playoffs each of their five years of existence. Of the other 13 NHL teams 11 have missed the playoffs within the past four years, and New York and Boston have missed within the past seven. But the St. Louis team in the playoffs this year is vastly different than the St. Louis teams of the past four years, and the difference is playoff experience. In past seasons the Blues were loaded with postseason experience. They had such players as Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante and Al Arbour and Doug Harvey and Dickie Moore and Ab McDonald and Phil Goyette and Camille Henry and Jean-Guy Talbot—men…


Players of the week
In The East Talented Marcel Dionne is proving conclusively that the Detroit Red Wings knew what they were doing when they made the classy little center from the St. Catharines junior club their No. 1 selection in last summer’s amateur draft. The former scoring champion from the tough OHA junior A league went on a rampage this past week that netted him a grand total of nine points. A two-goal, two-assist night against the Los Angeles Kings in a 6-4 Red Wing victory pushed Dionne past the 72-point mark for the season and enabled him to eclipse the record for scoring by an NHL rookie established last year by Gil Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres. Dionne, a prime Calder Trophy candidate this season, now stands among the top 12 in league scoring with…


Hawk Goalers Pull Walkout
ST. CATHARINES— There’s mutiny in the ranks of the St. Catharines Black Hawks it seems. The club’s three netminders bolted the team in a revolt that saw Mike Ralph, Brian Cousineau and Gordon Black, pack their bags and head for home. Ralph, the 19-year-old spokesman for the group, said the three goalkeepers thought it over between them and decided to walk out reluctantly. Their complaint was they didn’t get enough ice time. “With three goaltenders, none of us got into enough games,” said Black, who started only three complete games. “It was a matter of loss of pride. We just didn’t see eye to eye with management.” Ralph and Cousineau were in 24 games each. The Hawks were left with a 16-year-old midget, Bill Cheropita, to finish the schedule.…