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This fall Conn Smythe replaced his aging once-greats ("Sweeney" Schriner, Lome Carr, "Babe" Pratt) with a bunch of promising youngsters, reducing the average age of his team from over 30 to 24. Then he announced: "There are oneway tickets to the minors for any players who get shoved around and take it numbly." Last week none of his youngsters, most of them ex-servicemen, were playing for Lady Byng. Body-checking their way into the league lead, they had run up 108 penalty-box minutes in eleven games...
...TIME'S printer, a Schriner fan, was overenthusiastic...
Shades of Stewart! Memories of Morenz! Sweeney Schriner is a fine hockey player. He can score goals with the best of them. But clever as he is, he can't be as good as you say in TIME (Nov. 20): 19 goals and 16 assists in the first seven games is too much. Isn't it more likely...
...talent yardstick showed Toronto stronger than last year. Dave ("Sweeney") Schriner had come out of retirement to score 19 goals and 16 assists in seven games and give the Maple Leafs' first line the lift it needed. Montreal, although it had lost veteran Center Phil Watson and two of its top defensemen, Mike McMahon and Gerry Hefferman disqualified by a new league rule barring players who work in essential war industry, was still close to prewar big-league hockey standards. That was scarcely true of the league's four U.S. teams: Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York-who might...
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