The Philadelphia Quakers portion of the Flyers History site has been updated: http://quakers.flyershistory.net/ About 75% of the player photos have been...
The Philadelphia Quakers portion of the Flyers History site has been updated: http://quakers.flyershistory.net/ About 75% of the player photos have been...
FYI: I just came across this interesting blog where the guy designs and posts architectural sketches of imaginary athletic facilities. He has done several for...
Can anyone tell me what happened with Rod Gilbert in the 1977 World Championships in Vienna? The reason I ask is leading up to WC's that year Gilbert was one...
I found it! I was just leafing through Paul Delaney;s great book about Spokane hockey "Saturday Nights Were Special" and found that Ralph and I were actually...
Evgeny Malkin became the first player in modern NHL history to score a goal in each of his first six NHL games tonight in Los Angeles. Three other players have...
Great work there. Are the Quakers stats from the NHL, newspapers or game sheets? There are a good number on this list who are not on the game summary list and...
The game summaries for the Quaker games are from the official NHL game sheets - except for a couple of games where the game sheets are lost. In those cases I...
... I've checked some of my hockey books and according to the Swedish annual "Ishockey 1977", Gilbert DID play all 10 games in the WC. His two goals both came...
The Swedish annual doesn't mention any spearing but Stig Salming was indeed a bad guy so I wouldn't be surprised. In the 1976 World Championships, Salming was...
Some additional data points: Gilbert played on a line with Guy Charron and Walt McKechnie. Not exactly Hadfield and Ratelle. In his only game of the...
The Swedish annual has some additional info on Sweden's games. According to this info, Gilbert started the first game vs Sweden (which Sweden won 4-2) as a...
An interesting point. It's surprising to hear that European expectations were high; the Worlds ran concurrently with the Stanley Cup playoffs, so Canada was...
IIRC the announcement of Canada's participation at the 1977 Worlds was finalized during the Innsbruck 1976 Winter Olympics. I think it was CTV who was doing...
... At the time, I think nobody really knew the standard of an average NHL:er in comparision with the best Europeans. Many North Americans still seemed to...
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Mikael, You certainly raise some good points. And to be honest the team Canada sent over was a very good squad. Certainly not our best, but it was a strong...
Mikael, Is there any chance you could send me the box scores of Team Canada's games in Vienna if you have them? Thank you. Craig ... From: Mikael Uhlin To:...
Column by Jim Proudfoot in the May 9, 1977 edition of the Toronto Star. I find it curious that there is no mention of Phil Esposito who played super hockey...
I was looking for the European perspective, though. Was the return of Canada highly anticipated simply because of our absence since 1970, or was there really...
... Both I think. Everybody in Europe understood that a so-called World Championships WITHOUT Canada wasn't a real championship, so Canada must return. And...
... True, Eagleson wasn't known for managing his emotions in the best possible way. And Esposito set the tone, for better and for worse. Espo's attitude going...
I can certainly say as a Canadian who has always been far more interested in international play as opposed to club level play I was really excited about...
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... Eagleson was never any popular in Europe. He was regarded as an insensitive loudmouth. Regarding Espo, the sad and - I suppose - unfair thing is that his...
