FOILS HICKE--Toronto goal- Johnny Bower and defenceman THIRD-STRAIGHT Hab's Charlie Hodge Allan Stanley (26) combine to stop a scoring bid by Mont- real's Billy Hicke (8) during - National Hockey League game last night in Montreal, first period action in the only Staff Smythe Gives Explanation Of Trade By ED SIMON Canadian Press Staff Writer "We've drawn on all our re- serves and we hope the trade doesn't weaken either ciub," said Smythe, "I want to em- phasize that there has been no dissatisfaction with any of our players, They've been very fine." The boss of Toronto Maple Leafs was commenting on deal he had just completed with one of the National Hockey League tail-enders in which he had parted with five hockey players to get two in a bid to strengthen his Stanley Cup champions, |wasn't Stafford Smythe, the Leafs' current president. This was Conn Smythe talk- ing on Nov. 4, 1947, about the trade that brought Max Bentley to Toronto from Chicago Black |Hawks, The Hawks, who had lost their first nine games that year, NHL BIG SEVEN Only it didn't happen last| Fowler for Dave (Sweeney) |weekend. And the speaker player. All four of the other ex- Leafs had tong since departed. Stewart and Poile were play- ing out the string in the minors, Dickens had retired. And, pain- fully, Goldham had been in- volved in a nine-player trans- action with Detroit Red Wings who proceeded to win five straight NHL champiunships. Even more painfuliy, Bentley helped the Leafs to the Stanley Cup three times in four years. The elder Smythe had done it beiore. In 1939 he gave New York Americans Harvey Jack- son, Buzz Boll, Doc Romnes Murray Armstrong and Jimmy Schriner, their top scorer. The Americans folded quietly three years later. Schriaer stuck around long enough to play for mileage from Dick Duff and Bob Nevin, the two men he took from the Leaf lineup, and the three rookies, Arnie Brown, Billy Collins and Rod Seiling, whom he picked up in the Bath- gate-McKenney deal. There are a couple of useful citizens wearing Toronto uni- forms whom Patrick once had on his payroll. Muzz didn't send them there--he just let them go elsewhere because he didn't fig- ure they'd help his club. One, a goalkeeper, the Leafs rescued from the minors, The other, a defenceman, came in a trade. There must have been times when the suspicion crossed Pa- trick's mind that he gave up a bit early on Johnny Bower and Allan Stanley. a couple of Stanley Cup win- ners, REMEMBER ROWER The Bathgate deal is Stafford! Smythe's first opportunity to SHORGAS HEATING & APPLIANCES establish himself as his father's got a complete forward line-- Gaye Stewart, Gus Bodnar and Bud Poile -- and defencemen diens By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jean Beliveau hasn't lost sight of the $1,000 pot of gold at the|NHL scoring leader for the two end of the 'National Hockey|previous years, and Cy 'Thomas, League rainbow. | The towering Montreal Cana-| conceded centre hasn't Bob Goldham and Ernie Dick- ens in exchange for Bentley, a rookie who promptly disap- peared into the minors never to lequal in robbing his NHL asso-| |ciates of their eyeteeth. His ad-| jversary, Muzz Patrick, is an-| jother second-generation execu-| jtive but the records show no| jnotable deals between the elder} \Smythe and Lester Patrick in his years at the Ranger helm. | Still, Muzz has an extra rea-) Industrial and Commercial The established, relioble Gas Decler in your eres. 31 CELINA ST. 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FLANNEL SUITS, 2-pr. pants in dark anything to Chicago's Stan Mi- son to hope he gets adequate! charcoal, medium grey, top quality, in all sizes 36 Blanks Leafs Again By THE CANADIAN PRESS Wonder what Toronto would give up for Charlie Hodge? The Maple Leafs traded away five players to acquire Andy ' Bathgate and Don McKenney from New York and they might be persuaded to part with sev- eral more valuables for Hodge. Although the Leafs don't ur- gently need a goaltender, the fact that durable Charlie would be removed from the Montreal It marked the third straight game that the economy-size net- minder has blanked the Leafs and the fourth time in five games. The Leafs haven't beat him since Jan, 29--or 217 min- utes and 55 seconds ago, to be exact. He couldn't have made it, however, without the help of the Leafs, who missed open nets, shot wide and bounced pucks off the goalposts three times to keep the scoring draught intact. "TI don't feel very good," said the Boomer, taken out momen- jnausea, \CAN'T HIT TARGET rising by the Leafs, who were badly outplayed in the first pe- riod but came on with a rush early in the second, just miss- ing when both Ron Stewart and kita and Bobby Hull--the fore- runners in the race for the NHL scoring tille and its big cash \prize. He's staying within pass- jing range. | tarily in the second period when| Beliveau picked up an assist|ried off Madison Square Gar- Blake feared he'd faint with)Wednesday night -- setting up|den ice - making equipment Bernie Geoffrion's goal in Mont-| jreal's 1-0 win over Toronto--to jmove within five points of Mi-| | Geoffrion's tally spiked an up-jkita and two behind Hull. 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