NOVEMBER 3, 1947
Boston and Montreal have jumped out to an early lead after two weeks of NAHC action. The Bees, owners of each of the last two Challenge Cups, are to be expected especially with the return of Juneau Award winning goaltender Tom Brockers to the Bees after spending the past three seasons in Brooklyn. Montreal, on the other hand, is a bit of a surprise but the Valiants are starting to hear the term "Flying Frenchman" bandied about in the Montreal Arena as their high scoring offense has new coach Norb Hickey looking like a genius to fans in the hockey hotbed.
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NAHC Standings
TEAM GP W L T PTS GF GA
Boston 7 5 2 0 10 21 14
Montreal 7 5 2 0 10 25 21
New York 6 4 2 0 8 21 12
Toronto 7 3 4 0 6 16 19
Chicago 6 2 4 0 4 14 17
Detroit 7 1 6 0 2 11 25
SCORING LEADERS
NAME GP G A PTS
Albers, NY 6 1 9 10
Lanceleve, Mon 7 6 3 9
Mahoney, Chi 6 2 6 8
Doyle, Mon 7 2 6 8
Cabbell, NY 6 6 1 7
Walker, Bos 7 5 2 7
Lynch, Mon 6 3 4 7
Chandler, Bos 7 1 6 7
GOALIE LEADERS
NAME GP W L T ShO GAA
Brockers, Bos 7 5 2 0 0 2.00
Tremblay, NY 5 3 2 0 0 2.41
Hanson, Chi 6 2 4 0 0 2.51
Broadway, Tor 6 2 4 0 0 2.85
Touhey, Mon 7 5 2 0 0 3.01
Chasse, Det 5 1 4 0 0 3.63
NAHC RESULTS
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29
Detroit 1 at 3 Chicago : After a 1-3 start on the road the Packers arrive at Lakeside Auditorium for the first time this season and skate away with a 3-1 victory over the Detroit Motors. Tommy Burns, who has had a slow start, comes up big in this one with a goal and 2 assists while linemate Marty Mahoney picks up a pair of helpers. The Packers outshot slumping Detroit 38-32.
Boston 2 at 3 New York: Rookie Simon Savard's second goal of the season proved the difference as the Shamrocks nipped Boston 3-2 at Bigsby Garden. Orval Cabbell and Tommy Brescia also scored for the Greenshirts while Mickey Berard and Tommy Hart replied in a losing effort for Boston.
Montreal 3 at 5 Toronto: The two Canadian rivals meet for the first time this season with the Dukes coming out on top by a 5-3 score. It was just the second loss of the season thru 6 games for the Valiants, who fell despite outshooting Jack Barrell's club 34-33. Five different Dukes lit the lamp while Max Ducharme was a 2-goal scorer for the visitors.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1
Detroit 2 at 5 New York: Detroit's awful start continued as the Shamrocks outstot the Motors 44-16 and thoroughly dominated a 5-2 victory. Jocko Gregg and Gil Corbeil each scored twice for the winners with Laurel Albers chipping in 3 assists. Henri Chasse had a decent game in the Detroit net but the rest of the team took the night off.
Boston 2 at 1 Toronto: Tommy Hart's unassisted goal early in the third period proved the difference to lift the visitng Boston Bees to a 2-1 win over the Dukes. Garrett Kauffeldt of Boston and Herb Burdette traded goals in the opening stanza of a game in which Boston's 40 shots on Gordie Broadway nearly doubled Toronto's efforts.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2
Montreal 4 at 3 Chicago: The Packers early season struggles continue with a 4-3 loss at home to Montreal. The Valiants dominated the play and outshot the Packers 36-24 including 30-15 over the final two periods. Doug Lynch got the game winner -his third of the young season- 4 minutes into the third period.
Boston 3 at 1 Detroit: Another loss for the Motors, who fall to 1-6-0 on the season after Boston rode second period goals from Robert Walker, Waldemar Rupp and Tommy Hart to a 3-1 victory. Arnold Singleton scored late in the third period to ruin Tom Brockers shutout bid. Boston forward Jacob Gron was suspended for four games after a vicious boarding major in the first period.
Toronto 0 at 6 New York: The last of a busy night of Sunday hockey saw the New York Shamrocks continue their solid start to the season with a 6-0 drubbing of the Toronto Dukes. It was a special moment for 21 year old rookie goaltender Alex Sorrell as he stopped all 22 shots he faced for a shutout in his NAHC debut. Another Shamrocks rookie, 22-year-old winger Sam Furr paced the offense with 3 points including his first career NAHC goal.
UPCOMING REGULAR SEASON GAMES
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5
Boston at Chicago
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6
New York at Detroit
Toronto at Montrel
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8
Detroit at Montreal
New York at Toronto
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9
New York at Chicago
Toronto at Detroit
AROUND THE LEAGUE
From Sam Fincher, New York World Telegram --The Shamrocks are off to a solid 4-2 start. Laurie Albers is dishing out assists to everyone, Orval Cabbell is his usual scoring self and a few rookies are making their marks. Sam Furr and Simon Savard are doing it on the scoresheet while Jim Macek is literally leaving marks to the tune of 19 penalty minutes. Injuries have left the defensive core unsettled, but goalies Etienne Tremblay and Alex Sorrell have covered for any lapses.
From Marc T. McNeil, Montreal Star -- Montreal is keeping pace with Boston, but a big red flag is the number of goals given up. Offense has been clicking, but the defense is an afterthought. Unless the plan is simple: just outscore everyone.
The Toronto Dukes beat Montreal at home to finish October but November does not start out well on the ice. On Wednesday night the fans were treated to a relatively high scoring affair against the Valiants. Trevor Parker opened the scoring in the first on a pretty passing play from Walz, Zimmerman for his first of the season. The Dukes, as has been to common early this season, fell into a funk early in the second allowing the Flying Frenchmen to take a 2-1 lead before the period was 5 minutes old, which led to outburst on the bench by Jack Barrell. The coach was seen making hand gestures to many players in what was thought to be a description of their mistakes in coverage. What ever was said seemed to have produced the desired results as the team stormed back with 4 straight goals by Galbraith, Zimmerman, Burdette, Carson to secure a 5-3 victory. Post game Barrell said "We cannot paly a fire wagon brand of hockey especially against a team like Montreal, Broadway again came up big after we took a couple bad penalties allowing two power play goals."
Boston was in town Saturday night in front of a crowd of 13.361. Bees controlled the game from the opening puck drop winning 2-1. The final score was flattering to the Dukes as Broadway faced 40 shots from the opposition. He made numerous acrobatic saves to keep the score close. If the team though they were outplayed Saturday they were in for worse on Sunday at Bigsby Gardens. Toronto again subjected Broadway to a shooting gallery with the Shamrocks scoring two goals in each period for an easy 6-0 whitewashing, with Alex Sorrell making 22 saves to record the shutout. Barrell did not meet with the media post game but rumour is that the Dukes are in for a few tough practices before Thursday's game in Montreal.
OTHER HEADLINES THIS WEEK
- Hot Stove talk is heating up in baseball after the Brooklyn Kings acquired pitcher Bob Arman from Cincinnati and the Pittsburgh Miners are shopping a pair of potential Hall of Famers in catcher George Cleaves and hurler Lefty Allen.
- The Washington Wasps exploded for 59 points, the highest total for a team in an AFA game since 1934 as they thumped Chicago 59-7 in grid action. In college action top ranked St Blane beat Annapolis Maritime 31-14 while the second ranked Detroit City College Knights had their hands full in Springfield, Il., but held off Lincoln College 24-16
- The pro cage season gets underway this week as basketball has joined hockey and baseball in the online portion of the Figment sporting universe.
- 20-year-old Detroit born heavyweight Joey Tierney won again, scoring a unanimous decision over Larry Duncan at the New York Athletic Club to run his record to 9-0.
- As the House Committee on Un-American Activities continues to probe the motion picture industry, screenwriter John Howard Lawson faces a citation for contempt of Congress after refusing to say whether he was a member of the Communist Party. Over the next few days, six more screenwriters were also cited for contempt for refusing to answer questions.
- Secretary of State Marshall is busy shaping final recommendations to Congress for a 4-year European recovery program that may cost up to $20,000,000,000.
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