Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Late Nights. Watson's system was straightforward. While he was boss, his players would eat, sleep, talk and think hockey. Did some of the men feel smug because they had reported to camp at their best playing weight? They got the same treatment as the boys who had run to fat over the soft summer months; they were told to take off a few pounds just to keep them concentrating on their diet. Did they think they were sending those trunks of fancy clothes to the Times Square hotels where they had lived it up during other seasons? "Every...
From his four crack forwards (Lewicki, Hergesheimer, Bathgate and Prentice) Watson announced that he expected a goal a week apiece-the equivalent of one every three games. From the other seven forwards he would settle for twelve goals each before the regular season ended...
...Rangers' training camp in Saskatoon, Sask. was a dismal place last fall. Every hockey player there had read in the papers that his team was a cinch for the National Hockey League cellar. They were all resigned to their fate-until their new coach, former Ranger Center Phil Watson, started giving them the needle. "Last place?" snarled the fiery Canadian. "Why, I never finished last in anything in my life-not even in a poker game. Last season the rest of the league scored 210 goals against the Rangers while the Rangers made a lousy 150. This year...
...sounded simple, and when the season started it seemed to work. Too inexperienced to play as well as Watson wanted, the gangers nevertheless took a firm hold on second place, behind the Montreal Canadiens, and served notice that this year, for a change, they expect to make the Stanley Cup playoffs...
Fullerton said: "We have a lot of respect for their depth and speed." But each was speaking of the other's charges. The two teams clash tomorrow in Watson...