Camera Catches Hockey Dignitaries At NHL Meetings

Coach, Player Changes, Entry Of San Diego Give WHL New Look’

LOS ANGELES, Calif.— The Western Hockey League will operate this next season with seven teams—the same six that operated last season, plus the new San Diego Gulls. The league will play a balanced 72-game schedule, with no interlocking competition with the American Hockey League. The rumored merger with the AHL has not come off, at least as yet. And beneath the surface, NHL expansion has produced more changes than has hit the Pacific Coast circuit in its previous history. On the tenth night of May, after almost seven months, the 1965-66 season came to an end and the matter of which was the better team, favored Victoria or defending champion Portland, w’as little more settled than it had been in the beginning of the season, which began in mid-October. Victoria led most…

Hamilton Juniors Under Bush Again; Guidolin Quits Post

HAMILTON, Ont.- Veteran hockey man Eddie Bush has decided to return to his first love—coaching junior hockey. Bush’s appointment as general manager-coach of the Hamilton Red Wings fills another void in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association’s coaching ranks. Bep Guidolin of Oshawa resigned to take up a business position and was replaced by Ted O’Conner, a former senior hockey star. Scotty Bowman quit Montreal Canadiens to join the NHL’s expansion program by accepting a coaching job with St. Louis. His successor has not been named. Roger Bedard has announced he has been re-hired to coach Peterborough Petes again butother clubs are con-templating coaching changes. Bush steps back into the Hamilton picture to relieve Rudy Pilous, who has left to become manager-coach of San Francisco-Oakland in the NHL when expansion comes to the NHL next…

Ten New Members Selected To Enter Hockey Hall Of Fame

MONTREAL, Que.—Hockey’s Hall of Fame will receive ten new members on August 27, 1966. In an announcement made during the recent meetings in Montreal, Frank J. Selke, Chairman of the Selection Committee, indicated that one builder and nine ex-players would join the ranks of hockey’s acknowledged greats. Elected to the builders category was Clarence S. Campbell, who has served as NHL president since 1946. A Rhodes scholar and lawyer, he became associated with hockey while serving as a referee in amateur and minor pro ranks from 1929 to 1936. From 1936 to 1941, he served in the NHL and the American League. Following distinguished service in World War II. he succeeded. Red Dutton as president of the’ National League. Ex-players who will enter the Hall are Frank “Mr. Zero” Brimsek, former Boston goalie great;…