Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto Maple Leafs have the youngest forward line in the National Hockey League?Conacher, Primeau and Harvey Jackson, youngest player in the league and its leading scorer. In the league season, they lost most of their games away from home but only four in Toronto's new hockey rink, Maple Leaf Gardens. This was to their advantage last week when they played the New York Rangers in the finals for the Stanley Cup. The last three of the five-game series were scheduled for Toronto. The Maple Leafs started by winning the first game, 6 to 4, in New York...
Unlike the Rangers, the Maple Leafs depend on speed and power, not on clever hockey and adroit passes. In Toronto, needing one game more to end the series, the Maple Leafs quickly piled up five goals. Only one Ranger shot, by Frank Boucher, got past Lome Chabot, who used to be goalie for the Rangers. In the last period, Boucher was busy again. He passed to Bun Cook for one goal, made two more himself in less than two minutes. By this time it was too late. The Maple Leafs stopped protecting their lead long enough to score one more...
...offense. Its spearhead is Howie Morenz, reputedly the fastest player in the world, famed for the way he pivots behind the goal to get up speed when carrying the puck. Last week, Howie Morenz received a cup for being the most valuable player to his team in the National Hockey League. In the second game, after 59 min., 32 sec., of overtime play to settle a 3-10-3 tie, Bun Cook of the Rangers made a goal on a pass from his brother Bill.* The Rangers won the third game 1 to 0. By this time...
...Playing against Detroit, the Maroons last week played a 1 to 1 tie in the first of a two game series to be decided by the total number of goals scored. In a similar series, Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Black Hawks, a strong team which has played erratic .hockey this year, won, 1 to 0, against the -Toronto Maple Leafs, whose energetic manager, Connie Smythe, often occupies a box seat instead of the players' bench .because he considers it good luck...
...Trustees of the Stanley Cup last week tried to persuade National League hockey officials to accept a challenge from the Chicago Shamrocks, champions of the "outlaw" American League, to a series for the Stanley...