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Hockey Annual 1964
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Res Fleming: The Toughest Hawk Of ‘Em All
REG Fleming is as soft spoken as a summer breeze but on the ice he is hockey’s fiercest competitor. They don’t call Fleming “The Horse” and “The Animal” for nothing. He is 185 pounds of aggressive, charging brute enthusiasm every second he is on the ice. He is also one of hockey’s most versatile players and easily the most popular player among the fans of the Chicago Black Hawks. The Black Hawk fans, extremely rabid and making up the largest crowds in the National Hockey League, have heros aplenty. Bobby Hull is one of hockey’s most exciting players and has twice led the NHL in scoring and in 1961-62 tied the record of 50 goals in one season. Stan Mikita is a hard-nosed player who combines finesse with agressiveness and has been an…
Parker MacDonald’s Big Break
CALVIN Parker MacDonald, 30-year-old left winger with the Detroit Red Wings, easily ranked as one of the most improved players in the National Hockey League last season. He was the fifth player to hit the 20-goal plateau last season. The Sydney, Nova Scotia native reached it in his 41st game of the season against Toronto. Actually, the 19th goal which he tallied the night before at Montreal tells the story even a little better. Because that matched his total goal output in the 102 games he played with Detroit in two previous seasons. The 20 goals represented a production of a goal once every 2.05 games. It added up to an improvement of more than 300 per cent for Mac-Donald over his previous four seasons. He counted only 42 goals in a total of…
BOSTON BRUINS
Looking At The1963-64 Bruins BUCYK, JOHNNY Enjoyed his best NHL point production in the eight years he has been in league … Led all Bruins’ scorers with 27 goals, 39 assists, 66 points in 69 games … Ranked third behind Mahovlich and Hull among big league top left wingers in 1962-63 … One of few glimmering lights in Bruins’ dismal season … Placed 7th in final point race … Cigar smoker off the ice. Boston; b. Edmonton, Alta., May 12/35; 5’11”, 190 lbs.; shoots left. HEBENTON, ANDY He now ranks as NHL’s newest living ‘iron man’ player with 560 straight games … Starting eighth year in league, he will make fresh start with Boston, who drafted him from Rangers during off-season … Point production slipped to career low of 37 points, 15 goals, 22 assists…
Are Training Camps Necessary?
IN the Fall of 1961 during an inconsequential exhibition game, Jean Beliveau, the Montreal Canadiens’ dreadnought, collided with a minor league player and crumpled to the ice in pain. The Habs’ bread-and-butter man suffered severely torn ligaments in his knee and was side-lined for a good segment of the schedule. There are those who believe that Beliveau never fully recovered from the collision—torn knee ligaments leave a faint but indelible pain—and, as a result, the Canadiens were foiled in the Stanley Cup bid. Beliveau’s injury is just one of many examples of the hazards of training camp. The year previous, Lou Fontinato, then a Ranger, and Frank Mahovlich of Toronto, engaged in a beheading contest, using their sticks as if they were machetes. Fortunately, neither connected but let’s suppose that Fontinato had…
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