Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the war, the professional hockey season opened last week with hardly a crimp in it. This is remarkable since 90% of the big-time hockey players in the U.S. are Canadians...
Brooklyn has never backed a professional hockey team (although a Brooklyn prompter in 1897 staged the first professional hockey game in the U.S.). Whether or not its citizens will get steamed up over a team that says "my heart belongs to Brooklyn," but plays its home games across the river in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, remains to be seen. Last year the orphan Americans finished last in the seven-team league. This may be Brooklyn's year in hockey as well as baseball, but after three games last week there was no indication...
...Americans' archrivals. The 1941 Rangers lost their star goalie, Dave Kerr, who retired to go into the beer business. To replace him, Manager Lester Patrick brought from his Regina (Saskatchewan) kindergarten a 21-year-old named Jim ("Sugar") Henry. Henry has never' played anything but amateur hockey. But rinkfans who saw him guard the Ranger nets to two victories last week voted Sugar Jim the sweetest rookie to come up to the big-time in years. He may do more than his share toward keeping the Boston Bruins from skating off with the National Hockey League championship again...
Though Ringleader Sutphin may never realize his dream of a hockey World Series between the champions of the American and National Leagues, the up-&-coming American circuit puts on a hell-for-leather hockey show attracts almost as many spectators as the National League. Last year Cleveland's Barons outdrew the New York Rangers. Nearly as large a following had the little Hershey Bears, owned and operated by a trust fund set up by chocolate-rich Milton S. Hershey for his chocolate-bar paradise at Hershey...
Coaching will not be a new experience for Hodder's new assistant. As Indian chief last year he aided the Green's coach Eddie Jeremiah with the handling of the squad, and collaborated with him on the writing of a book on hockey...