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...were playing with a rookie goalie, Roger Crozier, who had been traded away as hopeless by the Black Hawks. Only 5 ft. 8 in. and 150 Ibs., Crozier has a nervous stomach ("I worry a lot"), and no less an authority than Jacques Plante -six-time winner of the Vezina Trophy as the N.H.L.'s top goalie-flatly predicted that Roger would never make it in the big time. Last week Plante was down in the minors, tending net for Baltimore in the American Hockey League. Crozier, with six shutouts and an average of only 2.4 goals allowed...
...letting 5 goals slip by him against the lowly Rangers, Canadiens' goalie Jacques Plante eliminated himself from the race for the Vezina Trophy, awarded to the netminder playing the most games for the team allowing the fewest goals. Instead, Glenn Hall of the Hawks won the honor for the first time in his career with an average of 2.54 goals scored against him per game...
...hockey at 6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs., and takes a special joy in grinding ambitious enemy forwards into the boards. As for Goalie Glenn Hall, 31, an N.H.L. All-Star for six of the past seven years, he is well on his way toward his first Vezina Trophy as the league's best goalkeeper, with a league-leading goals-against average...
...part of last season, this winter Montreal's masked Goalie Jacques Plante (TIME, Nov. 24) knuckled down to work. He played the full 70-game schedule for the first time in his nine-year National Hockey League career, allowed only 2.37 goals a game, easily won the Vezina Trophy - awarded to the league's best goal tender - for the sixth time in the last seven seasons. In the N.H.L...
...moving fast, Big Bill had won the Vezina Trophy (for the goalie playing the most games on the team which allows the fewest goals) for four straight years. Last year he lost the trophy to Turk Broda, rough-&-tumble goalie of the Toronto Maple Leafs, but had cinched it again this season. On top of that, last week he set a modern record for consecutive minutes of play (309 min. 20 sec.) without allowing a score, beating Boston Bruin Frankie Brimsek's old mark by 77 min. 26 sec. and topping by 19 min. 8 sec. the standard...