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Re: [hockhist] youngest players in NHL

Lloyd Davis wrote:

> Indeed, at this point I'm not sure what impresses me more: the
> improvements of TH2 over the first edition, or the fact that Marc
> considers Total Hockey to be bathroom reading!

I prefer reference materials - things I can devote to memory through rote
techniques... Not that I've ever been much for fiction - alamanacs and
atlases are definitely at the top of my list.

> Never having been the home-improvement/basement-workshop type, I can only
> wonder how long it took to drill a hole through the top left-hand corner
> of your copy!

I've got some good drills and bits, such that I could probably slap it in my
vise and have a clean hole in thirty seconds flat. But the stack of
materials on the toilet usually reaches a point every few weeks that the
libr... err, my wife re-stacks them on my bookshelf.

So what I really need is to build some shelves in the bathroom. :)

Marc



Sun Mar 2, 2003 2:52 am

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going thru total hockey (1998 ed) i noticed the vast majority of players who made NHL debuts at age 17 or younger occurred during WWII (understandably). but a...
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Mar 1, 2003
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I've never been a fan of Total Hockey because of all the mistakes made in it. In some of my older Hockey Registers put out by Sporting news, the birth dates...
George Lloyd
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Mar 1, 2003
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I have no dates for these people, but just want to point out that although TH does have errors, it is remarkably accurate considering the amount of data it...
James Milks
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Mar 1, 2003
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... Putting out such a huge book is an enormous challenge. To entirely dismiss it because of the mistakes in it does a disservice to those who undertook the...
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Mar 1, 2003
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(Bob wrote) going thru total hockey (1998 ed) i noticed the vast majority of players who made NHL debuts at age 17 or younger occurred during WWII ...
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Mar 1, 2003
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... ever. Just wondering... 9 of those on Pat's list were from the war years. As the original post said, it would be interesting to know who the youngest ones...
Dave HTL
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Mar 9, 2003
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... We (the list) did that, and the resulting TH2 is *much* better than TH, which is what the original poster was using. Heck I found a half-dozen clear...
Marc Foster
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let the authors know of the errors and future volumes will be better for it. We (the list) did that, and the resulting TH2 is *much* better than TH, which is...
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... Indeed, at this point I'm not sure what impresses me more: the improvements of TH2 over the first edition, or the fact that Marc considers Total Hockey to...
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... I prefer reference materials - things I can devote to memory through rote techniques... Not that I've ever been much for fiction - alamanacs and atlases...
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