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Post by ToeMata42 on Feb 2, 2022 14:21:19 GMT
Well I got 3 players in the all-star game. Pavelski, Eberle, and Pelech. I’m surprised Pelech got the call, but happy just the same. 😀
Dan - tor - classic
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Post by cyclone on Feb 2, 2022 19:53:49 GMT
I don’t know what to think about having “celebrity” players. I mean, Rheaume? Sure, she made history. But Russell? Famous for who his parents are…that is it.
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Post by fordprefect on Feb 3, 2022 0:50:12 GMT
Ah yes, Manon Rheaume. Schwing.
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Post by ToeMata42 on Feb 3, 2022 1:21:52 GMT
I’m showing my age a little, but there was a Buffalo player back in the late 80s who was a nephew of Elvis Presley. He was basically there in name. There was no Nashville then, or he would have played there.
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Post by fordprefect on Feb 3, 2022 1:32:07 GMT
I didn’t realize Wayne Presley was the Pelvis’s nephew. He was a legit 3rd liner alright.
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Post by ToeMata42 on Feb 3, 2022 1:40:27 GMT
Yaeh Wayne Prestly wasn’t to bad. I was a fan of Buffalo then. They had great players. Pat laFontaine, Alexander mogilny, dale howerchuk, yari curry, grant fuhr, Dominic Hasek. He was in good company
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Post by fordprefect on Feb 3, 2022 2:17:45 GMT
I’m going to date myself, but I was a Sabres fan in the French Connection era. I was a big Rick Martin fan, and I liked a lot of others from that era…Perreault or course, but also their supporting cast guys like Luce, Ramsey, Korab, Schoenfeld, Crozier, Ruff. Ruff married married one of my wife’s high school friends.
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Post by ToeMata42 on Feb 3, 2022 2:36:42 GMT
Wow! You older than me. I don’t remember those
Guys. I vaguely remember Turgeon, but that’s as close as l get to that time
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Post by cyclone on Feb 3, 2022 2:55:52 GMT
I’m going to date myself, but I was a Sabres fan in the French Connection era. I was a big Rick Martin fan, and I liked a lot of others from that era…Perreault or course, but also their supporting cast guys like Luce, Ramsey, Korab, Schoenfeld, Crozier, Ruff. Ruff married married one of my wife’s high school friends. Geezer |
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Post by redhawk12 on Feb 3, 2022 3:06:12 GMT
Yeah I think Ford is ancient.
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Post by cyclone on Feb 3, 2022 3:17:15 GMT
Just to show he isn’t alone…
Gare, Schoenfeld, Meehan, Crozier, and Brian Spinner Spencer
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Post by fordprefect on Feb 3, 2022 3:45:41 GMT
Meehan…yeah. I liked him. And I mentioned Schoenfeld and Crozier myself. Geezer.
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Post by fordprefect on Feb 3, 2022 5:09:33 GMT
Spinner Spencer. Geezuz. Now there’s a HNIC memory. I was watching the night his father, enraged and probably drunk went into a northern BC CBC TV station with a gun. He was enraged because Spinner, who played for the Leafs at the time, was on the Saturday night national broadcast for the first time…but the local station was an affiliate and not carrying the broadcast. He tried to get them to air the game at gun point. He ended up being shot and killed by RCMP officers when he left the station. They were giving updates about the standoff and shootout during the game. Again, if my memory is correct, I think he was dead before the end of the game. Fuck of a thing to happen during a kid’s first appearance on HNIC.
Edit…if you’re interested in the story Google Roy Spencer’s death. It’s not a story that gets much attention, but there’s something so very sadly Canadian about it.
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Post by cyclone on Feb 3, 2022 12:49:15 GMT
I brought up the guys I had memories of (why I duplicated a couple of yours). I vaguely remember watching the French Connection. But I distinctly remember the ones I mentioned.
And, ya, Spencer was included because of that story. A tragedy. I think there was a crap-ass Canadian made for TV movie about it too.
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Post by fordprefect on Feb 3, 2022 15:03:36 GMT
More trivia involving the Sabres from that era … they were involved in the only time two brothers faced each other in goal in the NHL. Dave and Ken Dryden. Dave was no good though so he ended up playing for the Oilers in the WHA. Budda-boom.
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Post by ToeMata42 on Feb 3, 2022 17:47:11 GMT
Wow! I never heard that story before. That’s insane!!!
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Post by fordprefect on Feb 3, 2022 18:05:16 GMT
Yeah. Pretty wild.
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