If anyone wants to check it out there is some vintage North Star/Scout action from 1975-76 posted here. Truly terrible teams! Lots of empty seats as well..... ...
I recall seeing that footage before. Paul Patskou was trying to figure out what it was, and couldn't come to a definitive answer -- and if he doesn't know,...
Okay, I asked this a couple of days ago via email but it doesn't seem to have made it to the list, so my apologies if this hits people twice. I'm trying to...
Clark: I'm just going by memory (I was a scorekeeper in the 2002 Olympics), but IIRC, Rafalski wore 3; Drury 18; and Deadmarsh 28. The confusion with Rafalski...
In my recollection, Rafalski wore #3 in the Olympics that year (because Deadmarsh wore #28, seniority). Drury wore #18 (because Tkachuk wore #17, seniority,...
Pretty Cool and yes two very bad teams. Did you see that same person post about 10 minutes of 1976 Cleveland Baron vs. Mtl Canadians footage. Now that is rare...
Doug, I did watch that as well. It's funny I always though Cleveland should have worked as a major league level hockey town. The AHL Barons and WHA Crusaders...
I'm hoping someone here can help me out 'cause I'm getting conflicting answers from my Googling. What I'm looking for is the sweater number worn by Brian...
Craig, Yes I think it is one of great faux paus of modern stadium building is the Richfield Coliseum. As early as the first year of the Crusader's time in...
A recurring theme is that the Coliseum's location made it unattractive to hockey fans. But there are other factors to consider. First of all, Cleveland was a...
... Not entirely correct. Detroit (a 3-hour drive) started its downtown revitalization planning in 1972, and the RenCen was built in 1977. That same year,...
Can anyone shed some light on the Flyers reasons for trading Doug Favell for Bernie Parent in the summer of 1973? I am curious as in 1973 Parent obviously had...
I think circumstances more than anything else forced Toronto to make this deal, and that Philadephia were anxious to unload Favall. While I don't think anyone...
Bernie Parent wrote a book - "Bernie!" - and he doesn't get into why the trade was made. He does mention that "Favvy's goofing around in practice drove ...
Free agency was still very much in club hands as the reserve system was in place. Add on that, the NHL had lists for "defected players" for years where if a...
Well, there were "free agents" in those days, but the funny thing is they were almost always clients of R. Alan Eagleson. And in the case of Vaclav Nedomansky,...
I seem to recall baseball also having a "voluntarily retired" list -- or at least Joe Garagiola used to say so on the old NBC Game of the Week. From time to...
I believe it's Jay Greenberg's book Full Spectrum that goes into the Favell trade in more detail. Apparently Shero didn't think Favell was ever going to be a...
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Also consider the defence Parent was playing behind. Richard Campeau, Jim Cardiff, Ron Plumb and Irv Spencer. Not quite Barry Ashbee, Ed Van Impe, Joe Watson,...
I recall Chicago keeping Bobby Orr's rights through at least 1983. It became rather humorous when Chicago protected Orr in the Waiver Drafts... Morey ... was...
Trying this again, because I think it bounced back. (Too many darned email accounts on this computer.) According to Jay Greenberg in _Full Spectrum_ (pp....
You are SPOT ON! The WHA not only had weaker D but they had different off side pass and icing rules not to mention the banana blade. [Non-text portions of this...
Harold got stung by the WHA badly not only because of his frugality but he seemed to not really believe that they would ever play! And when he was burnt he was...
Correct, there were free agents but essentially they were players who the team basically said "fine.good bye.we have no interest in signing you." Now Brewer...
Lloyd, The only thing I'd take exception to in your note is your comment about Andre Lacroix. He was a superb defensive forward. In the last 10 months I have...
