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RIDING THE RAILS, TELLING TALES
Rails, engineers and the old iron horse kept NHL squads on schedule long before teams were jetting from city to city. The NHL once relied so heavily on train transportation, wartime travel regulations once brought an end to regular season overtime games on Nov. 21, 1942. Previously, trains had been held in the station beyond their scheduled departure time while a game was settled in sudden death. But during World War II, the mandate was trains had to keep on schedule. Regular season overtime did not return for more than 40 years – until 1983-84. In his book The Glory Years, former Toronto center Billy Harris recalled the Leafs would leave Toronto’s Union Station about midnight following a Saturday night contest at Maple Leaf Gardens and arrive in New York shortly before noon on…
WINGED DEVIL GOMEZ TAKES ON HORNET
Nothing thrills Scott Gomez more than taking in a Yankees-Red Sox game at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium with close friend and Devils teammate Jay Pandolfo. Except, maybe, flying an F/A-18 Hornet with the United States Navy’s Blue Angels over Anchorage, Alaska. Although he is not a pilot and doesn’t have plans to pursue his license (the Devils can breath a sigh of relief), Gomez is an enthusiastic flier. After his rookie season with the Devils, he flew in an F-15. Last summer it was the F/A-18. “In the F-15 it was dogfights and I was shown what dogfights would be like,” the amiable center recalled. “The F-18 was all about tricks. The Blue Angels came to Anchorage a week before an air show and asked me to do it. I jumped right…
THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE GAME
Once upon a time, long, long ago, life was simple in the NHL world of statistics. It was a cozy environment, bereft of complicated items such as plus-minus, giveaways, takeaways, hits or ice time. Goals, assists, points and penalty minutes were all that mattered. Reality set in – big time – in 1997. Somebody at NHL high command decided there is more to the game than meets the eye, let alone the stick. The NHL employs at least 270 people to track real-time stats, investing a lot of time and money to compile the data. But why? In 1992, with the use of personal computers rapidly on the rise, three entrepreneurs developed a program that could easily compile stats once recorded with pen and paper. Starting a company called Scientia Quaestus Res Atelets, –…
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