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Habs Just O THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesdey, Mey 4, 1966 13 ne Victory Away After Walloping Wings 5-1 By GARY McCARTHY MONTREAL (CP) -- Mont- real Canadiens are only one game away from winning their second consecutive Stanley Cup + and their seventh in 11 years. possibly deciding game is Thursday night at Detroit Olympia. period. Canadiens won 5-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the Stanley Cup final. Sixth and CLAUDE PROVOST sco- res Montreal's first goal against netminder Roger Crozier early in the first Detroit Road Rough The Canadiens, who at one point trailed 2-0 in the best-of- seven final round against De- troit Red Wings, downed the Wings 5-1 Tuesday night to move ahead 3-2 in the series. A victory for the Canadiens in the scheduled sixth game in Detroit Thursday night would give them the coveted trophy for the second r in a row and also their cup since the 1923-24 season, The defending champions came out flying against the Red Wings Tuesday, outskating, out- hustling and outshooting the Wings in two of the three peri- ods. They fired a total of 33 shots at Detroit netminder Roger Crozier while the Red Wings could only come up with 21 shots at Gump Worsley. CUP STATISTICS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Finals Montreal led 13-8 in shots at the end of the first period and outshot Detroit 15-5 in the sec- ond period. The Wings came back to outshoot Montreal 8-5 in the third. ; PASSED BASSEN Detroit coach Sid Abel elected to go with Crozier in the nets, rather than _ substitute net- minder Hank Bassen, despite the fact that Crozier picked up a severe knee and ankle sprain in the' fourth game in Detroit Sunday. Abel said after the game that he will call on Crozier again Thursday despite the loss, be- cause "'it wasn't Roger's fault." The Canadiens scored twice in the opening period to lead 2-0 and were ahead 4-1 after two. The Montreal marksmen were Claude Provost, Yvan Cournoyer, Dave Balon, Bobby Rousseau and Dick Duff. Norm Ullman accounted for Detroit's lone marker. A good number of the 15,017 screaming, cheering hometown fans had not yet settled in their seats when the Canadiens) scored their first goal. | Crozier got off to a shaky} the puck into the lower right hand corner. Balon whipped the puck be- tween Crozier's pads at 1:05 of the second period after the di- minutive goaltender had made a good stop on Leon Roche- fort's 40-foot shot from the right side. Rochefort and Henri Richard drew assists on the play, and the trio which Montreal coach Toe Blake threw together for the third game in Detroit con- tinued to be & threat throughout the contest, SUMMARY First period -- 1. Montreal, Provost Z (Backstrom, J. C. Tremblay) 1:06; 2. Montreal, Cournoyer 2 (J. C. Tremblay, G. Tremblay) 19:21. Penalties--| Talbot 5:51, Henderson 18:07, Second period -- 3, Montreal, Balon 2 (Rochefort, Richard) 1:05; 4. Montreal, Rousseau 4 (Duff, Backstrom) 11:22; 5. De- troit, Ullman 5 - (Henderson, Bathgate) 14:22. Penalties -- Bergman 2:44, Wall 5:03, Rous- seau 6:25, Balon 12:21, Marshall 16:42. Third period -- 6, Montreal, WL F A|Start as Provost's second play-| putt 2 (Richard) 5:31, Penalties Montreal Detroit Says Montreal Boss MONTREAL (CP) Mont-; Beliveau, the last Canadien to, Other Detroit players re- real coach Toe Blake figures|leave the dressing room, said|flected Howe's sentiments, but Detroit Red Wings will have aj that after the Canadiens fell be-| were optimistic about the next tough time beating the Canadi-| hind 2-0 in the series the play-| game. ens. while his opposite number/ers did a lot of thinking. "Don't count us out," Andy Sid Abel hopes his gg will) «But then you. play them one|Bathgate 'said. "We'll be back; "regroup" for the sixth game ; our| here Saturday," he added as he of the finals in Detroit Thurs-| *t a gd ahead your' strolled over to talk with goalie] day. | best. Roger Crozier who was struggl- "We've got a good skating) RICHARD HURT ing to escape from the band- team and it's going to be pretty Canadien centre Henri Rich-|28°S that covered his left leg hard for them to come back," 4.4 who played with a bandage| from ankle to thigh that pro- Blake said in th Montreal] and strap on his knee, but well| tected a sprained left knee and dressing room after his club de-| enough to earn a place on the| twisted ankle suffered in Sun- feated the Wings 5-1 to take the! three stars of the game, said he|@ay's fourth game at Detroit. | lead in the best-of-seven Stan-) a> oravated an old knee injury| "f felt okay in the warmups ley Cup final series. lwhen he was checked into the)and I told the coach I could "We never chased them all/hoards by Detroit's Leo Boivin|Play," Crozier said. "Heck, night, in fact we wouldn't have in the first period. He said he|there is no sense in second- beaten a girls' team tonight | won't know if the knee is badly; guessing at this time of the We must bee Pier te arene injured until some time today.| Year. | in Detroit," Abel told reporters; etroit's big Gordie Howe : of in the quiet of the dressing] had little to say after the game, _ A BOTHER room. but when he was approached by| 'No, the !eg didn't bother me) Jean Beliveau, Montreal's gi-|a young autograph seeker sport-|in the game, only the tape did. | ant team captain who turned injing a heavy bandage over his/tn fact one leg felt shorter than! a sparkling performance at cen-jeye Howe said to him 'Hey, the other." tre to earn the games first star,)what happened to you. You!" | . : ' a said the Canadiens' victory was|couldn't have been playing us.| Defenceman Bill Gadsby fig- ured that Montreal forward a team effort. | Yvan Cournoyer was out to get) | | (Montreal leads best-of-seven series 3-2) A Pis Pim Ullman, Det Prentice, Det Beliveau, Mtl Del'chio, Det Bathgate, Det Howe, Det JC Tremly, Mtl Rousseau, Mtl G. Tremly, Mtl Backsom, Mtl Duff, Mtl Smith, Det Hendson, Det we ~ wone |oerurwnan 6 0 4 0 4 10 Ber Va RFP Anoka | AanINAIDwDSSS lthe nef, but still managed to} |sneak in past the netminder's| right pad. | | The Canadiens continued to} }pour it on but they didn't get) their second goal until Paul) Henderson was given an inter-| ference penalty at 18:07. At) 19:21 Cournoyer, Montreal's power-play expert, had his sec- ond goal of the playoffs. } | WHIRLED AND SCORED | The little right winger took a jpass from defenceman J.-C,/ |Tremblay 10 feet in front of the} net, whirled and backhanded| SAVE! FUEL OIL | We hit too easy."" Howe signed| "When you go this far, it has/the youngster's program as he to be a team effort." 'walked to the waiting bus. him. Why Pay More .. ! ON PREMIUM QUALITY Phone 668-3341 DX FUEL OIL Serving Oshawa --. Whitby and Ajax Districts 16: 3.2 1512/Off goal at 1:06 was fired from) Marshall 7:49. Rochefort 23 1215/8 bad angle from the side of) 13:17, Boivin 17:12. Shots on goal by Detroit 8 5 8--21 Montreal 13.15 533 Attendance--15,017 Rousseau scored his fourth goal of the playoffs at 11:22. Skating across the goalmouth attempting to control a pass from Dick Duff, he finally man- ley was sprawled in the crease and the puck trickled loose and was headed for the empty net. the puck just inches away from the goal line and fed @ pass to Richard who carriéd to the De- troit blueline and dropped it back for Duff. ' For all AUTO REPAIRS d CERVICE en Vv Robinson Motere (OSHAWA) LTD, 574 Ritson Ra. 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