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July 15, 1984
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ON THE CONTRARY
The Campbell Years THE MOMENT I learned that Clarence Campbell died, I looked up to a bookshelf in our hallway. Sitting in the back, as dust-laden as an old hockey trophy, rests a scrapbook I had put together in the early 1950s. Its prize possession is a letter dispatched to me by Campbell when he was the National Hockey League president. I was vice-president of the New York Rangers Fan Club at the time and a dreadful thing happened—the Montreal Canadiens were playing the Rangers at Madison Square on Dec. 20, 1953. It was a mean game to start with, and got nastier from there. During one collision along the boards, Ron Murphy, a Ranger rookie, checked Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, the bombastic Montreal hotshot. The Boomer lost his stick in the scuffle…
SOME OTHER VIEWS
The Hockey Stick Helped Me To Hold On May 14, 1984 came and passed for many people, but for me, it proved to be the longest day of my life. Early that morning, my sister, Robyn, died of leukemia. She was only 22. Never having experienced the loss of a close relative—or being old enough to appreciate it—I couldn’t immediately understand my sister’s death. With each day, however, I am slowly adjusting to her absence, though it becomes very painful when I realize that absence is permanent. Not only has time allowed me to reflect on what my sister meant to me, it has also given a chance to look back on my youth and fondly recall some special moments, one of which occurred when I was too young to realize it. My father…
NHL Executive Of The Year
The kids are alright in Buffalo, but the credit must go the man who molded them together—William Scott Bowman. Bowman has used unparalleled hockey acumen to build the Sabres into a competitive team, since taking over as coach, general manager and director of hockey operations in 1979. His biggest coup was getting a total of six first-round picks in two successive entry drafts (‘82 and ‘83). allowing him to build a good, young nucleus for the Sabres. Bowman’s work with the Sabres was rewarded this past season with THE HOCKEY NEWS Executive of the Year Award. Washington Capitals’ general manager David Poile was a runner-up to Bowman in the balloting. Bowman is a shrewd and tough man, one who is sometimes considered an enigma. But there is nothing puzzling about his ability to take a…
Campbell Meant A Lot To Many People
MONTREAL—Brian O’Neill, the executive vice-president of the National Hockey League, was given his start in hockey by the late Clarence Campbell in 1966. They worked side-by-side for 11 years while Campbell was league president, and O’Neill, for one, has been deeply affected by the death of his former boss. “It was a shock to me even though I knew he was a very ill man for a long time,” O’Neill said. “I’m extremely saddened because I was with him for such a long time. He meant a great deal to me. He gave me my start in hockey.” While no longer with the NHL, Ron Andrews worked 14 years in the Campbell administration as the league’s statistician and information director. Andrews, now a radio commentator in Ottawa, called his former employer “the best…
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