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...that point, Canadien Coach Claude Ruel, knowing his team was not only beaten but behind New York in goals scored, pulled his goalie in favor of an extra forward-just as the Rangers had yanked their goalie that afternoon in order to pile up scores against Detroit. But the Canadien strategy backfired: Chicago's defense held, and the Hawks poured five goals of their own into the empty Canadien net to win a 10-2 fiasco. For the first time in the history of the league, a play-off spot was determined by goals scored: New York 246, Montreal...
...psychological advantage of the one goal can seldom change a series' outcome, but it makes for a delicate balance in individual games. In one of Montreal's single goal victories over St. Louis last year, Canadien goalie Gump Worsley deflected a sure St. Louis score with the wrong end of his stick after slippling in front of the net and broke St. Louis' rally late in the game...
...Howie Young: the dubious title of the Baddest Bad Boy in National Hockey League history, after picking up an unprecedented 27 min. in penalties in a game with the Detroit Red Wings against the Montreal Canadiens. The 25-year-old defense man, with 210 min. in the penalty box so far this season, easily surpassed the record of Montreal's Lou Fontinato (202 min.) by clobbering two Canadien players with his stick, lunging at the referee and finally bouncing his glove off the ref's head. Total fine for misconduct: $100, plus a three-game suspension without...
...Only the puck went unscathed in Boston last week when every Boston Bruin and Montreal Canadien swarmed out on the ice for a spectacular 14-minute brawl. After them skidded skateless cops, pratfalling through a Mack Sennett routine, while frantic officials whistled out a string of 27 penalties. At game's end (Montreal 4, Boston 3) the skating wounded included Boston's Leo Labine (five stitches in the forehead) and Jack Bionda (mashed hand), and Montreal's Henri Richard (six stitches in the scalp...
...Detroit, the Red Wings won hockey's Stanley Cup for the third time in five years, beating the Montreal Canadiens four games to three in one of the roughest play-offs in hockey history. Hero of the series: little (5 ft. 7 in.) Red Wing Forward Tony Leswick, who broke up a "sudden death" overtime period in the final game by slamming a 40-ft. screen shot into the Canadien...