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Conversations with Legends
In our annual Collector's Edition, we go in-depth with nearly 40 NHL stars in Conversations With Legends. We have extended Q&As with Sidney Crosby, Scotty Bowman, Ken Dryden, Chris Chelios and Red Berenson, plus 1-on-1s with local legends from each of the 32 NHL markets.
ROD LANGWAY
THE HOCKEY NEWS: This year is the 40th anniversary of the blockbuster six-player trade that saw you go from Montreal to Washington. What do you remember about being dealt? ROD LANGWAY: It happened the day before training camp. I was on the ice at the Montreal Forum. We were having a captain’s practice, just trying to get back into shape before training camp started. And then one by one, me, Doug Jarvis, Craig Laughlin and Brian Engblom were pulled off the ice to go up and see Canadiens GM Irving Grundman. That’s how we learned about the trade. THN: You were the catalyst for the trade. Why did you want out of Montreal? RL: Financially, as an American, it was a burden playing up there. Taxes were in the range of 45 percent,…
LEGENDARY CONVERSATION
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS ago, on Oct. 1, 1947, The Hockey News published its first edition, which began its legendary continuous print run of what many hockey industry insiders refer to as the “Bible of Hockey.” Ken McKenzie was born on Aug. 19, 1923, in Winnipeg, and after serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War, he pursued his dream to get a job with the NHL and start a hockey newspaper. McKenzie was 23 in 1946 when the then-NHL president, Clarence Campbell, hired him to be the league’s publicity director. McKenzie did not have a college degree, which led to some NHL owners objecting to his hiring, focusing on his youth. To this, Campbell famously responded by saying, “If Ken’s youth is his biggest impediment, I’m sure it is…
THEOREN FLEURY
THE HOCKEY NEWS: It took more than three decades for a playoff Battle of Alberta. Something you know a little about. You gave Flames fans a huge moment in the last one in 1991 with a Game 6 overtime goal and a full-ice, knee-slide celebration that still gets talked about today. What did you think about this spring’s long-awaited rivalry renewal between the Flames and Oilers? THEOREN FLEURY: There have been so many rule changes that have been made, it’s hard to compare what we went through to what the guys are going through now. It’s a different game, it’s a different time, it’s a different era. We would probably have to kill 20 penalties. When we played, it was violent and brutal. We were trying to hurt each other –…
ROBERTO LUONGO
THE HOCKEY NEWS: Congratulations on your call to the Hall of Fame. It’s only been an hour since you got the news, but how special is it to wrap your playing career this way? ROBERTO LUONGO: It’s extremely special, but I feel like it really hasn’t hit me yet. It feels a little bit surreal. When you’re playing, you don’t play hockey to be in the Hall of Fame, right? You play to win the Stanley Cup. It’s only when your career is done that you kind of start thinking about that other stuff. THN: Your trade to Florida along with Olli Jokinen is regarded as one of the best in team history. Do you remember learning you would be joining the Panthers? RL: I actually recall it vividly because it was a…
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