saskhab
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 Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:16 am Post subject: Herb Cain: Former Scoring Champ blackballed from Hall? |
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http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=794735c3-8b6d-40c1-9176-0b9039f60e86
Interesting story.
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From the Canadiens' Joe Malone in 1917-18 through the Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux in 1996-97, there are 37 NHL scoring champions, deceased or alive, who are eligible for induction in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Thirty-six have been so honoured.
Solely not among them is the late Herb Cain, the former Montreal Maroon and Canadien and two-time Stanley Cup champion who won the league scoring title in 1943-44 with the Boston Bruins. And it's been reasonably argued through the decades that the apparent blackballing of Cain by former Bruins boss Art Ross - because Cain once held out for a pay raise - has played a role in his exclusion.
Cain scored 36 goals and had 46 assists in 48 games during his league-leading year. Yes, the war had diluted the NHL, but this was a record that stood for seven seasons, until Detroit's Gordie Howe had 43 goals and 43 assists through 70 games in 1950-51. |
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