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Saturday, February 18, 1967

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Issue date: Saturday, February 18, 1967
Pages available: 143
Previous edition: Friday, February 17, 1967
Next edition: Monday, February 20, 1967

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba And Brian who once played for assesses our chances in the world hockey tournament next month in Vienna when i invited Toronto Maple Leafs Brian Conacher to occupy the Box Seal beside me at the directly behind the russian teams because i wanted to hear his comments during the game against Canadas National expressed polite but youve been watching world hockey tournaments since i was a wobbly ankle Bantam Here in he my reply was one that would undoubtedly have been Given by any Veteran observer of the challenging International scene with its different hockey but i have begun to suspect that my View Point from the press Box is the viewpoint of a player who has seen it from ice level is some thing special you see things we who have been raised in Canadian hockey dont at Brian has accumulated an extra Ordinary background even Lor one carrying on the fabulous Conacher hockey tradition Junior Marlies to the University of to the Canadian National team in the olympics in 1964 and the world tourney in 1965 before making it big As a pro last season with Rochester in the followed by this season in the with he has played the game in Czecho Finland and acted As player coach of the italian National team at Cortina the summer of 1964 winning i 1 lying losing one and rejected an offer to Here now Are Brian Conacher key conclusions on the world hockey one month before the 1967 tournament in Vienna our 1967 National team is definitely stronger in terms of Confidence and savvy hut the rus sians will be better in Vienna than they were in outside of the Winnipeg tournament they played for experience three stars were Side lined at Toronto and results of the games continued on next Page Canadas National team for next months 1967 tourney is also on the rugged Side As noted in Melee with Morris Mott 20 and fran Huck 9 trying to hash puck Over downed mate and by russian goalie Zinger As Alexandrov 8 Brian Conacher l comments on russians to Obrien whose first press interview 34 years ago was with brians late the immortal big train of Canadian weekend Magazine 1967 3 ;