Posts About "Doug Favell"

50 Years Ago in Hockey: 65-66 Goalie Preview - Boston Bruins

July 10th, 2015 With the NHL's annual meetings all wrapped up and most off-season player transactions completed, hockey's big league now slips into a slumber session for the next two months. With training camps scheduled to open just past mid-September, players and management alike are taking advantage some time for much-needed rest and...

50 Years Ago in Hockey - Memorial Cup Final: What a Riot!

May 11th, 2015 The Memorial Cup best-of-seven final series turned ugly last night. The hometown Edmonton Oil Kings won 5-1 to make the series two games to one for Niagara Falls Flyers in a game that was stopped by officials and police after mayhem broke out with three and a half minutes to play in the third period. Rough right from the start The...

50 Years Ago in Hockey: Bower Returns - Leafs End Slump!

March 21st, 2015 Toronto Maple Leafs goalkeeper Johnny Bower made a successful return to the nets last night as his team defeated the New York Rangers 4-1 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. In the only other NHL contest, the Montreal Canadiens edged the Chicago Black Hawks 3-2. Bower sharp after two weeks off Bower, who missed the past two weeks with...

Draft Schmaft – The Maple Leafs First Round Draft IV 1973

July 7th, 2011 In the spring of 1973, the Maple Leafs missed the playoffs again after exiting in the first round the previous 2 seasons. In the off-season, Jim Gregory and his staff would make personnel choices that would have impact in building the Leaf team that peaked with a Semifinals appearance in 1978, and would unfortunately be dismantled...