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Old 10-27-2015, 02:06 PM   #29
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Monday December 2, 1940

MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 1940
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
GERBER LEADS WINGS TO WIN

The Detroit Red Wings won the latest battle between the league's top two teams as defenseman Ben Gerber had a 4-point night pacing Detroit to a 5-2 victory over Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday night. It was a career night for the 21 year old Gerber, who joined the Wings from Hershey midway through last season and has been a stalwart on their blueline ever since. Gerber scored two even strength goals, both on shots from the point that eluded Leaf goaltender Evan Tilley. He also assisted on a pair of power play goals to improve his season output to 8 goals and 11 assists. Wings center Andy Adell also had a strong game, scoring once and adding a pair of helpers. The victory allowed the Wings to pull 2 points ahead of the Leafs but Toronto does have 2 games in hand.

The Leafs missed an opportunity to capitalize on one of those games the next night as they fell 4-3 to the Canadiens in Montreal. Goaltender Tilly had Leaf fans longing for the return of Marc-Andre Baribeau as he had a terrible night, allowing 4 Montreal goals on 20 shots. Baribeau, the Leafs number one goalie has been out 3 weeks with a neck injury and there is hope he will return to the lineup by next weekend.

One team that is thrilled with it's goaltending is the New York Rangers. 26 year old Bill Horvath (12-10-8, 2.49) leads the NHL in goals against average and shutouts with 4. He was named the league's goaltender of the month for November and has been outstanding of late including a 30 save effort in a 1-1 tie with Detroit last Thursday.

Neil Frank has made the most of his new surroundings. Traded from Boston to the New York Americans on October 22nd, Frank has 17 points in 14 games with the Americans and is now second in NHL scoring. He was also named the player of the month for November after scoring 7 goals and 14 points in 10 games.

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NHL STANDINGS GP   W  L  T PTS
Detroit	      30  16  6  8  40
Toronto	      29  16  7  6  38
Boston	      28  14  9  5  33
NY Rangers    30  12 10  8  32
NY Americans  28  10 15  3  23
Mon Canadiens 31   9 17  5  23
Mon Maroons   28   9 16  3  21
Chicago	      26   6 12  8  20

SCORING LEADERS	 TM   GP  G  A  PTS
Darren Vaness    TOR  27 11 23  34
Neil Frank	 NYA  27 16 17  33
Ryan Dirk	 NYR  30 22 10  32
Anthony Manca	 DET  30 17 14  31
Matt Jambrosich  BOS  28 18 12  30
Chris Bishop	 TOR  29 18 12  30
Tyler Wing	 NYA  28 12 16  28
Chris Maxwell	 TOR  29  8 20  28
Andy Adell	 DET  29 11 16  27
Ben Gilbart	 TOR  29  8 18  26
Payton Yuen	 MON  31 12 13  25
Nicolas Frenette NYR  30  5 20  25

CANADIAN JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE ROUNDUP

The Regina Pats continue to lead the CJHL thanks in a big part to 17 year old Antoine Desmarias, who leads the CJHL in scoring with 51 points. Desmarias has passed former teammate Nathan Pare in the scoring race but the deal that sent Pare to Quebec and brought defenseman Gord Bachman west has benefited both teams as they each lead their respective divsions.

Looking at the scoring leaders you can see the NHL's most successful club has plenty of young scorers in it's system. The Boston Bruins have 3 of the league's top scorers in Curtis McIntyre, Chris Seftel and Brandon Moir. However, if I was betting on one player from the group of league leaders listed below to become an NHL scoring star I would take Edmonton Oil Kings center Eli Gunderson. Not eligible for the NHL draft until June, the youngster from Winnipeg just turned 18 last month. He was selected third overall by the Oil Kings in the 1939 junior draft and led the team in points with 78, earning him an assistant captain letter in the process.

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CJHL STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE	
LOWER CANADA DIV  W  L  T  PTS
Quebec		 16  9  4   36
Montreal	 14  9  4   32
Ottawa		 12 11  5   29
Sherbrooke	 12 15  2   26
Cornwall	  5 19  5   15
UPPER CANADA DIV  W  L  T  PTS
Toronto	  	 16  4 10   42  
St Catharines	  9 10 10   28
Peterborough     10 13  6   26
Oshawa		 10 11  6   26
Niagara Falls	  8 15  5   21
WESTERN CONFERENCE	
ONTARIO DIV  	  W  L  T  PTS
London		 17 10  2   36
Sudbury		 14 11  4   32
Guelph		 11 11  6   28
Sault Ste Marie  11 14  3   25
Windsor		  7 19  2   16
PRAIRIE DIV	  W  L  T   PTS
Regina		 22  6  1   45
Edmonton 	 14  9  5   33
Brandon		 11 11  7   29
Medicine Hat	 11 13  4   26
Flin Flon	  7 17  3   17

SCORING LEADERS   TM    G   A   PTS  NHL RIGHTS
Antoine Desmarias REG  20  31    51	1941 draft eligible
Nathan Pare	  QUE  23  26    49	MON
Mykola Melnyk	  TOR  22  26    48	DET
Eli Gunderson     EDM  16  29    45	1941 draft eligible
Curtis McIntyre	  TOR  13  31    44	BOS
Ryan Barczai      BRN  23  20    43	Maroons
Chris Seftel	  StC  20  22    42 	BOS
Guy Richard	  BRN  16  25    41	1941 draft eligible
Eric Rufenach 	  CORN 13  28    41	1941 draft eligible
Rob Ouellet	  CORN 23  17    40	1941 draft eligible
Carsen Reimer	  SUD  22  18    40     NYR
Brandon Moir	  GUE  12  28    40	BOS

In other sports news from my universe this week.

Cal falls from the ranks of the unbeaten in NCAA football

The intersecting careers of quarterbacks Michael Huff and Corey Ely

plus a look at some key college baseball players to keep an eye on this year.

All of that is posted in my Fictional History of Baseball thread on the main OOTP dynasty board. Link is here
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