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October 12, 1984
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A FEW WORDS FROM 99
The following is an excerpt from Walter Gretzky’s recently-released book, GRETZKY, From Back Yard Rink to the Stanley Cup, published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart and reprinted here with their permission. “Every year I send my Dad two return airline tickets to Florida. They won’t go. I keep saying, ‘Relax, I’ve made it now. Enjoy it.”’ “‘BS,’ he says. ‘Now I have to worry more.”’—Wayne Gretzky, 1983. This is my Dad’s book. That was the understanding from the start. But he left something out. He told you about the rest of the family. Now I’d like to tell you about my Dad. I’ve heard all the stories about how he pushed me into hockey and kept me out in the back yard practising because he wanted me to be a star in…
Blues Taking Precautions With Benning
ST. LOUIS—When the Blues held back-to-back intra-squad games before breaking camp in Peoira, IL, 18-year-old defenseman Brian Benning watched from the stands. With its exhibition opener against the Black Hawks only a few days away, the club was taking no chances. The wrist that Benning had broken last January while playing for the Portland Winter Hawks had been pronounced fit, but the Blues were playing it extra cautious. They wanted to be sure they could show off a healthy Benning to the hometown fans. If it seemed odd that the Blues would make such a fuss over a player drafted in the second round, 26th overall, consider that Benning is their highest draft choice since 1981. In 1982, the Blues didn’t draft until No. 50. In 1983, they didn’t draft at all. This…
Kelly Owes Punch Credit For Changing His Career
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?” is an old song written about an Irishman whose “hair is red and his eyes are blue and he is Irish through and through.” Now if you were a hockey fan from the late 1940s to the early ‘60s you would have sworn that the song was written about one of the game’s most versatile and talented players of that era, Leonard Patrick (Red) Kelly. Kelly played for 20 seasons (19471967) in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs. He won the Norris Trophy in ‘54 and the Lady Byng Trophy in ‘51, ‘53, ‘54 and ‘61. Besides playing, he also coached for nine other seasons in the league with Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and the Leafs. In ‘69, he was…
Joan Collins Goes On My Hockey List
With the 1984-85 season upon us, it is time to update our list of Purely Personal Prejudices, otherwise known as PPP. This column has nothing to do with logic, reason, fairness, perception, depth or under-standing. You don’t even have to know what the red line means. If you’re looking for any of these qualities, please go back and re-read Stan Fischler’s column and write to him, not me, and thank you for your time and patience and I don’t care what anybody says but nobody could ever stickhandle the puck like Bill Cowley. TOP TEN NICKNAMES: 1. Rivervale Skeeters. 2. Brooklyn Armed Torpedoes. 3. Moose Jaw Millers. 4. Sands Point Tigers. 5. Toronto Marlboros (sometimes called the Marlies by people who would like to put together their own Top Ten list…
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