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Greatest Teams of All-Time
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NO. 7 1974-75 PHILADELPHIA FLYERS
WHEN FRED SHERO WROTE the famous “Win today and we walk together forever’’ line on his office message board the morning of May 19, 1974, little did the coach know his Flyers team would not only win a Stanley Cup that day, but, on the way down that eternal stroll, another the following season. Togetherness. Ask any Flyer who played on the 1974-75 championship team what the key was to their success and that’s the answer you get. They didn’t just play hockey as a group. They went to lunch after practice, socialized on days off, tipped a few after a hard-fought win and vacationed at the same spots on the Jersey shore in the summer. Corny as it might sound, it was a family. It was the last all-Canadian team to win…
NCAA 1992-93 MAINE BLACK BEARS
IT WAS A TEAM THAT BY ALL accounts should not have been assembled. The parts were too disparate and daunting to put together. But thanks to coach Shawn Walsh and legendary assistants Grant Standbrook and Dennis ‘Red’ Gendron, the University of Maine Black Bears rolled out a devastating lineup that ran up a 42-1-2 record and took the 1992-93 national championship. “It was the greatest recruiting class of alltime,” said Anaheim Ducks senior vice president of hockey operations and former assistant GM David McNab, a longtime NCAA expert. “That trio was not destined for that school.” “That trio” was comprised of freshmen Paul Kariya and twin brothers Chris and Peter Ferraro, none of whom call Maine home. But Maine will certainly not forget them. Kariya, later taken fourth overall by Anaheim in 1993, was…
THE YEAR OF THE RAT
AFTER THE FLORIDA Panthers missed the playoffs by a single point in each of their first two years of existence, the ‘Year of the Rat’ proved to be a special one. The luck was foreshadowed at the beginning of the 1995-96 season at the team’s homeopener when Scott Mellanby set off what would become the team’s calling. Shortly before they took the ice, a rat scurried into the dressing room and made a beeline for the Panthers’ leading scorer that season. “As it got to me, really out of self defense more than anything – and probably fear – I just one-timed it,” Mellanby chuckled. “Probably the best one-timer of my career, because I certainly wasn’t going to rival Brett Hull for one-timing the puck.” Mellanby scored two goals that night, which led…
NO. 19 1943-44 MONTREAL CANADIENS
FOR THE PEOPLE OF QUEBEC, “THE Great Darkness” is remembered as the time when the province was ruled by the iron fist of Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale government. Duplessis’ corrupt government ruled the province from 1936-39 and 1944-59. For the hockey fans of Quebec, however, “The Great Darkness” represents the period between 1931 and 1944 when the Montreal Canadiens not only failed to win the Stanley Cup, but almost bumbled their way into oblivion. The Canadiens have long been the standard bearers for excellence in the league, but there was a time 70 years ago when they played to sparse crowds and were whipping boys for the rest of the NHL. In fact, they almost lost the battle for survival to the Montreal Maroons and very nearly were moved…
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