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January 23, 2017
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EXPANSION’S ‘GOLDEN’ ERA
The Vegas people would be well advised to limit their connection to the California Seals to simply the ‘Golden’ moniker A BIT OF unsolicited advice for Bill Foley and George McPhee: take 95 minutes to watch the new documentary, The California Golden Seals Story, for valuable tips on how not to run an expansion team. Fifty years before there were the Golden Knights, there were the Golden Seals, an NHL start-up trying to make a go of it in a Sun Belt city in the Pacific time zone. Technically, they weren’t the Golden Seals in the beginning, they were just the California Seals. Then they were the Oakland Seals, followed shortly thereafter by the California Golden Seals. Lesson No. 1: find an identity and stick to it. The doc, written and produced by…
THE INSTIGATOR
THE BIG 50: BOSTON BRUINS $16.95 U.S. / $19.95 CDN, Triumph Books, 304 pgs, 5.5" x 8.5", paperback Author Fluto Shinzawa took the difficult task of boiling down the Bruins’ 92- year history into his 304-page book, The Big 50: The Men and Moments that Made the Boston Bruins. He reaches way back with tales of players such as Dit Clapper and Eddie Shore, Frank Brimsek, Milt Schmidt and the ‘Kraut Line.’ Of course, modern greats get their due as well: Orr, Esposito, Bourque, Neely, Chara, Bergeron and numerous others. But Shinzawa doesn’t just focus on the good times. He also recounts some of the lowest points in the B’s history: Ted Green’s traumatic head injury, Joe Thornton’s trade to the Sharks and the infamous “too many men” call in the 1979…
STARTING FROM SCRATCH
DAVID POILE WAS just a young pup when the Atlanta Flames joined the NHL in 1972, but he learned a valuable lesson right off the hop. Poile, a 23-year-old administrative assistant at the time, was at the expansion draft with Flames GM Cliff Fletcher, where Atlanta and the New York Islanders would get their first players. After the picks were made, Minnesota North Stars GM Wren Blair came up to Fletcher and offered him a hearty handshake. “Fantastic job, Cliff,” Poile recalled Blair saying with enthusiasm. “Now all you have to do is get rid of every single player you picked, and you can get started on building your team.” Blair had called the expansion draft shots for the North Stars five years earlier in 1967, so his veiled compliment had some…
SAME FAMILY, DIFFERENT BREED
PEDIGREE ALONE WON’T carry Matthew Strome to the NHL. Despite having two older brothers drafted in the top five, the youngest of the Strome trio has a lot to prove in the eyes of critics. In his second OHL season, Strome led his turnaround Hamilton Bulldogs with 15 goals and 27 points through 25 games and was easily on pace to break his 16-goal, 38-point total from his rookie year. These numbers have helped make him a borderline first-round prospect for 2017. Some, however, question whether his skating ability is good enough for the next level, a critique he’s well aware of. “Both my brothers went through it and they both had stuff written about them like that,” he said. “I just have to move on from that, I can’t let that…
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