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May 14, 2012
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FLEUR DE LEAGUE
IF QUEBEC CITY ever gets an NHL team again, it would be considered sacrilege to call it anything but the Nordiques. We all get that. But if you really want to harken back to the salad days of professional hockey in La Vieille Capitale, you might want to consider the Bulldogs for a moniker. After all, no professional team in Quebec City has even come close to the legendary Bulldogs, who won their first of consecutive Stanley Cups exactly 100 years ago. With future Hall of Famers Joe Malone, goalie Paddy Moran and defenseman ‘Bad’ Joe Hall in the lineup, the Bulldogs were the toast of the hockey world two years running. Back then, of course, professional hockey was still in its infancy and consisted of a mishmash of leagues where hockey…
Deal With The Devil
There was a spot for Petr Sykora on his hometown team in Plzen, Czech Republic. It was a long way from the NHL, but he was 34 and a long way from his glory days with the Devils and Penguins. The door opened slightly when Devils GM Lou Lamoriello offered him a camp tryout with no contract. His perks started and ended with a hotel room. Sykora turned it into one of the most inspiring stories of the season. He earned a spot on the Devils’ second line and scored 21 goals while playing all 82 games. Shuffling slowly as he walks, he is affectionately called the ‘1,000-year-old man.’ But ‘1,000-game man’ would be more appropriate since he reached that milestone March 4. “Trust me, I wasn’t looking that far ahead in…
Born For Beantown
No player has ever epitomized what it means to be a Boston Bruin like Terry O’Reilly. Tough? Check. Talented? Check. Irish ancestry? Check. In the late 1970s, O’Reilly was the ringleader of the Lunch Pail Gang, one of the most beloved outfits in Bruins history. As the name suggests, the Bruins of the time took a hard-hat approach to the game – a tight-knit squad whose success was mostly predicated on an unmatched work ethic. Working-class Boston fans saw themselves in O’Reilly, who overcame somewhat limited skills, particularly skating, with dogged determination. Nicknamed ‘Taz,’ as in Tasmanian Devil, the right winger held his own as a pugilist against all comers in arguably hockey’s toughest era. His scraps against the likes of Dave Schultz, Paul Holmgren and particularly Clark Gillies are the stuff of…
Country Strong
When Chad Brownlee decided to hang up his skates, he picked up a guitar and hasn’t looked back. Brownlee was a 6-foot-2, 200-pound defenseman drafted in the sixth round by the Vancouver Canucks in 2003 fresh from the Vernon Vipers of the British Columbia League. He went on to play four seasons at Minnesota State-Mankato, where he wore the ‘C’ and made his professional debut for the ECHL’s Idaho Steelheads in 2007. He then decided hockey was no longer his lifelong dream. Hours at the rink…made me who I am as an artist– Chad Brownlee Why the switch? Brownlee’s passion for hockey was fading while, simultaneously, his love for music was rapidly growing. By Brownlee’s own admission, it wasn’t the most glamorous of times for him. “It wasn’t like I was a prolific…
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