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...Winter Carnival at Sun Valley (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A blend of sports and show business, with Louis Armstrong, Roberta Peters, Skater Dick Button and Skiers Stein Eriksen and Anderl Molterer...
...York fans; he is the most exciting player in the National Hockey League. Although he is burdened with 23 Ibs. of protective padding and wears braces on both knees (he suffers from slipping kneecaps), Bathgate glides across a rink with the classic grace of an Olympic figure skater. He has exceptional peripheral vision, is an expert at "decking" (feinting) defensemen and goalies out of position. A cat-quick opportunist, he is the best playmaker in the game. And his longdistance "slapshot" is pro hockey's most effective offensive weapon: the rock-hard puck streaks toward the nets...
After limited action last season, the 6-1, 185-pound Taylor showed great improvement in pre-season, drills last fall as a strong skater and a hard shooter. His play with Kinasewich and Jorgenon has overshadowed the supposed first line of Jim Dwinell, Dave Morse, and Dave Grannis, all seniors...
...Crimson will be led by Gene Kinasewich, its flashy sophomore skater from Edmonton. The varsity, however, is far from a one-man team; coach Cooney Weiland has formed three balanced lines, headed by the Dave Morse-Jim Dwinell-Dave Grannis trio. Wing Tim Taylor and centers Bill LaMarche or Gerry Jorgenson skate with Kinasewich...
Bill Cleary, a member of the great Harvard teams of the 50's and of the 1960 Olympic squad, has described Kinasewich as "the greatest skater I have ever seem in amateur hockey." Weiland feels that Gene will make "an already excellent team into a spectacular...