Billy Reay

As New York stumbled and Montreal struggled in Stanley Cup warfare, passions off the ice were becoming as heated as the action on it

New York's suffering hockey fans, deprived of the Stanley Cup since 1940, were ecstatic over the Rangers' blitz of Chicago but apprehensive about their opponents in the final: the bold Boston Bruins

And again and again. That's life for the king of the Black Hawks, Bobby Hull, who protests the shadowing he receives as no fun for him and a poor hockey show. Still, last week he scored his 40th goal

Still running hard in a race most experts thought would be won by now, Chicago last week was pressed by East and West

Ex-Maple Leaf Jimmy Pappin is swinging a hot stick for Chicago