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...York Rangers skated onto the ice of drafty Chicago Stadium one night last week, a somber figure watched unobtrusively from a mezzanine seat. For the first time in 22 years, 47-year-old Frank Boucher was neither in a Ranger uniform nor on the Ranger bench. Boucher, one of hockey's greatest centers, had stepped down as coach of the last-place Rangers, though he would continue as manager. In his spot on the bench sat a big handsome blond in a polo coat, a member of hockey's first family...
Last week, when young Patrick replaced Boucher, there were some who were still saying that he was helped by being the "boss's son." It was no secret that Frank Boucher, who starred on Lester Patrick's first 1926 six, had been on the outs with papa Patrick. As vice president and a substantial stockholder in the Garden (which owns the Rangers), Lester Patrick was obviously in a position to make it tough for Boucher. But Boucher insisted that the change was his idea, not Lester Patrick's. The job of manager-coach was just...
...training camp, crusty Lester Patrick tried to cut Lynn from the squad, but Frank Boucher persuaded him to keep the boy on. Says Lynn: "It wasn't easy to work under dad." The other players distrusted him, the fans booed him, and his father was rougher on Lynn than on anybody else. But by 1942 Lynn was one of the National Hockey League's top scorers, made the all-star team, and was popular with fellow players...
...second half was see-saw, scoreless football all the way, due mainly to the line work of Adams' Frank Holt and Bill Boucher...
...starting Adams lineup: le, Phypers; lt, Holt; lg, Ingram; c, Rogers; rg, Boucher; rt, Nosek; re, Evans; qb, Bogert; lh, Fialkow; rh, Davis; fb, Andrews...