Bill,

I don't think Dougie had much of a workout regimen. I heard he would
eat an entire pizza in the locker room before a game. I loved the
fabulous flopper though, when I was 11.

Jim Dornberger


--- In hockhist@yahoogroups.com, "William Underwood" <wausport@...>
wrote:
>
> I do recall that he had a bad knee, he only played 3 games in 75-6
and was
> actually down to recondition where he only played 4. His GAA for
those 3 was
> 5.63 with a .754 SVPC, and even before that in 74-5, it was 4.09 up
from
> 2.71 the year before. Now due to his injury they had brought in
Wayne Thomas
> from the Habs who had not only pinch hit well when Dryden had sat
out in
> Montreal but had a 3.19 GAA in 75-6 but a much better.905 SVPC.
They also
> had Mike Palmateer in the wings. So you had Favell making good
money in the
> WHA era with a gimpy knee who had not played well in two years,
Thomas who
> had played pretty well both with the Habs in 73-4 and with TO in 75-
6
> outplaying Favell who was 31 at the time, and lesser paid guys like
McRae
> and Palmateer. McRae was a back up type, Palmateer was a prospect.
Keep in
> mind Favell was put of the league after 3 more years the last of
which was
> mostly in the AHL.he was declining and this is one that I can't
blame the
> leafs for. Favell was getting older, banged up and not playing
well, Thomas
> was not a bad goalie. And in the end, Palmateer was better than
either. I
> think it was the knee and just father time catching up to Dougie.
Also bear
> in mind that Favell was never the model of consistency. In Boston
he was
> down there on the depth chart and played third fiddle to Parent and
Cheevers
> in term of young goalies and was even behind Jack Norris when they
had him.
> Then in Philly he was #2 to Parent , took the job, then lost it
when they
> went out of the way to trade to get Bernie back. Then in TO he was
ok for a
> year and not so ok in year two. And, as I recall he had a number of
> ailments. I remember when he played with the NLL Wings a bit in 784
he was
> wearing a knee brace and could not play much. The truth is that
Favell was
> always one of those guys that could tease a little but never made
the top
> tier of NHL goalies unlike Parent. And when things went south they
did so in
> a hurry like often happens with guys like that.
>
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