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DINEENS LEARN THEIR HOCKEY TEXAS-STYLE
The Dineen family hockey story isn’t a simple tale of ‘Like father, like son.’ Granted, Bill Dineen played on the Detroit Red Wings’ last two Stanley Cup winning teams in the 1950s, all five of his sons became pro players, and three made it to the NHL. But there’s a wrinkle in this story. Bill Dineen doesn’t take credit for his sons’ success. He says their mother, Pat, played the major role in their development. While Bill built the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association and guided them to two AVCO Cup titles in the mid-1970s, Pat had an equally difficult task: managing the lives of their six children, sons Shawn, Peter, Gord, Kevin and Jerry, and daughter Rose. During those six Texas winters, Pat spent countless hours driving the Dineen brothers…


THE PLAYERS SPEAK OUT ON COLLECTING
It’s hard to think of Frank Finnigan being a card collecting youngster. But the only surviving member of the 1927 Stanley Cup Champion Ottawa Senators remembers having cards from the cigarette issues of 1910-11, 1911-12 and 1912-13. Finnigan, born in 1903, collected cards of his childhood heroes: Jack Laviolette, Cyclone Taylor, Newsy Lalonde, Sprague and Odie Cleghorn and the Patrick family. By the time Finnigan himself began appearing on both cigarette and food issues, he had stopped collecting. Finnigan played from 1924 to 1937 and was a member of the 1932 Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs. In 555 NHL games he scored 115 goals and 88 assists for 203 points. But despite being one of the more popular players of his day, he was rarely beseiged by autograph hounds the way…