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Manager of the Rangers is silver thatched, 54-year-old Lester Patrick. Patrick has been a name known to hockey fame since the early days of the century. Trained on Montreal's corner-lot rinks, where the game was played with tin cans and tree-branches, Lester Patrick went on to star at McGill University.* In 1909, the year after the sport was first professionalized, he became the most publicized player in Canada when he got $3,000 for playing twelve games for the famed Renfrew Millionaires...
...exploit the franchises they had purchased in the National Hockey League, so the Brothers Patrick sold the cream of their players to the Eastern clubs and disbanded the league. While Brother Frank became managing director of the National Hockey League and more recently coach of the Boston Bruins, Brother Lester became the most famed of all hockey managers...
...Lester Patrick himself had to perform a feat. In the first period of the second game of the playoffs, when the Ranger goalie was removed to a hospital after being struck in the eye by a whizzing puck, Manager Patrick, who had been out of the game since 1921, came from the sidelines, took his place. Never a goalie in his playing days, Patrick allowed the puck to slip by him only once, saved the game. In the third game, with a borrowed goalie, the Rangers...
...years ago Lester Patrick did the same thing that Connie Mack has twice done in baseball: disbanded his great team to start building another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where...
Elections at the meeting resulted in the choice of the following seven men: two each from the Graduate Schools, Junior, and Sophomore classes, and one Freshman, for the governing committee: Bernard Barber '39, Wendell Bash 3G, John B. Blair '39, Calvin H. Elliott '40, Lester H. Geist '41, Dudley Kirk 2G, Norman J. Richards '40. When the group next meets, two of these will be chosen as officers...