With the Dog Days of summer decending upon us, and no ice to be
found, I picked up a few books to take care of my "hockey fix" over
the summer months.

One is called "In the Bin" and is written by Lloyd Freeberg, an off-
Ice Official for the Anahiem Mighty Ducks. Basically, Lloyd is a
penalty box official. Printed by Triumph Books in paperback format,
it rus $14.95 US ($22.95 Can). I found it at my local book store,
you can also likely find a place to order it online.

In any case, when I picked it up, I wasn't even thinking about Brad
or that there might be something in the book about him. No really!
I know he's one of the "bad boys" of hockey, but I just don't think
of him that way most of the time.

The stories are fairly recent, including some dating back to the just
last couple of seasons, with nothing really more then a decade old.
And no, you don't have to be Ducks fan to enjoy the book.

As it turns out, there's a whole section dedicated to the old Buffalo
Sabres Dog Line.

An excerpt from the book:

After missing most of the season, Brad May was back playing
regularly, and that spelled trouble for visiting teams. Anxious to
make a contribution, he holds himself to high standards of play.

Brad picked up a minor penalty in a game against the Ducks and joined
Rob Ray, who was serving for impersonating Mike Tyson. As May sat
watching the Ducks power play, Ray started in.

"Hey, Brad. The coach is gonna be upset with you if they score on
your penalty."

"What about yours?"

"I brought someone with me," Ray countered.

And on it went, Ray ribbing May, who became progressively more
worried as the penalty wore on and the Ducks rained shots on the
Buffalo goalie. Groaning out loud with each Ducks shot, Ray kept up
the needle until I couldn't resist saying, "He's playing with your
head, Brad."

Rob was loving it. "Brad worries about everything. We'll be out on
the lake in the middle of summer with not a care in the world, and
he'll be worrying about whether we'll catch fish, whether it's gonna
start raining, whether the motor will start. You name it, he's
sweatin' it."

How did it end? I'm not telling, and it's not the only May story in
the book, but, IMHO, it's the best one!

LOL! It was just such a Maysie thing, I couldn't help but crack up
at it!

Could someone PLEASE drop the puck already????

Wolfie!

Still, it might have gone down as just another hockey night in
northern Michigan until a fan hopped over the plexiglass...Savo
Mitrovic, reached the man on the ice...(and) tried to hit the fan.

"He landed between me and my goalie," Mitrovic explained. "Who knew
what he had in his hands?"

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