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Tough Guy, Marshmallow Heart: Nick Fotiu
Nick Fotiu was a homegrown tough guy. Raised in NYC, a former Golden Gloves boxers, he racked up 1362 PIM in 646 NHL games. Not quite Tiger Williams or Dave Semenko numbers, but... Read more
Stanley Cup Lore: the "You Are Here" edition
These days, Cup celebrations are pretty tame. Oh sure, there are the occasional odd moments (I'm looking at you and your misspelled Cup tattoo, Brad Marchand), but let's face... Read more
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The woman in this photo is Charlotte Grahame, long-time Avs exec. The goalie is her son John. They both have their names on the Cup, the first mother-son combination to do so. Charlotte's husband and John's dad is Ron Grahame, who was no slouch...
Pittsburgh wasn't a hockey town. Or at least, they weren't an NHL sort of town. They'd had a team once before, the Pittsburgh Pirates, that only lasted five years before relocating for one season and then folding. The New York Times, who had...
Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull have been friends since high school, and when they were invited back to the Blackhawks organisation to serve as ambassadors, they naturally jumped at the chance. They also jumped at the chance to tell old stories to a...
With the current lockout dragging on, I thought a 1967 labour dispute article I found would bring a little perspective to the evolution of the NHLPA and players' rights. Earlier this year, Red Wings executive Jimmy Devellano called players...
While doing research for Veterans' Day, I came across the following short article. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.I'm still hoping to track down the Bruins' reply.
In his first season with the New York Rangers, Bill Cook scored 33 goals in 44 games, securing the league scoring title. He never got big money, but he always managed to negotiate the best contract possible for himself. So when it came time to...
"I watched videotapes of that kid and kept charts on him until I could tell you how many times he scratched the back of his head" - anonymous NHL video coach. With the advent of video analysis in the NHL, every player could be studied, analysed...
"Do what you're told, or I'll send you to Springfield." Words that struck terror in the hearts of many NHL players. Springfield meant playing for Eddie Shore. The penny-pinching ogre who forced his players to work at the arena. The man who would...
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Found in the Montreal Gazette archives: NHL executive John McCauley: "How's Brian Hayward doing with the Canadiens?" Reporter: "The team is very happy with his goaltending." McCauley: "You know, he taught my kid at hockey school." Reporter:...
For all intents and purposes, Bill Goldthorpe WAS Ogie Ogilthorpe. Everyone knows Ogie was based on Goldie, but does anyone really know why, beyond The ferocious style and massive amount of penalty minutes? Perhaps one of the mildest moments:...
There is a debate about exactly when Bruce Gamble suffered a heart attack during the game on February 8, 1972. Did it happen on the ice? Between periods? After the game? We'll probably never know. Gamble didn't complain about chest pain until...
As a researcher, I find a lot of odd things. Hockey players on wrestlers' shoulders. Muppets in NHL gear. Bobby Hull skating with Sesame Street on Ice. Naked hockey player brawls. Naked hockey players. Hockey players posing with a goat they've...
George McPhee punched Blackhawks coach Lorne Molleken during a fight in the Blackhawks dressing room after a preseason game. The fight began when McPhee complained about unnecessarily rough play. McPhee was suspended for a month and had to pay a...
The first game was October 10, 1970. The Sabres won 2-1. Jim Watson and Gilbert Perreault scored for the Sabres. Arguably, the best trade the Sabres ever made was in 1992, when they traded Stephane Beauregard for Dominik Hasek. For one season,...
Esa Tikkanen is an unusual guy with an unusual sense of humour, and the inventor of the Tikkanese language. But just how unusual is he? Esa was Jokerit's team mascot at 3 in 1969 with the No. 5 on the sweater his grandmother knitted for him. "I...
This may be the best Bob Cole story I've ever heard. Courtesy of Classic Television Showbiz Coley would settle in for a game. Hed get up in the booth and hed undo his tie and he was getting ready to do his work. Sometimes to get really...
Alex Delvecchio had a problem. It was 30 games into the 1969-70 season, and he had yet to score a goal. Enter Miss America, Pam Eldred. She was a devoted Red Wings fan, and attended every home game. She felt sorry for Delvecchio, so she met with...
For a man who never played competitive hockey until he was 21, Ivan Ching Johnson managed to make an excellent Hall of Fame career for himself with the Rangers. A Winnipeg native, Johnson spent three years in the trenches during World War I before...
When I heard Boogaard had died, I made a promise to Bryan Reynolds at Hockey Wilderness and Defending the Blue Line: I would run a marathon and try to raise $500 to continue Boogaard's work with DTBL. The people at DTBL do amazing work to support...
Its playoff time, and that means one thing in Detroit: octopus. The tradition of throwing octopus on the ice began in 1952. Brothers Pete and Gerry Cusimano, being from a fish market family, thought that an octopus would be the perfect good luck...
April 1, 1919. The Stanley Cup series in Seattle, Washington between NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Seattle Metropolitans stands at 2-2-1.* Game Six is five hours away and the Canadiens are in...
As you may or may not know, I'm a huge fan of Finnish players. As I was preparing for the Ducks-Wild game, I needed to make a sign for Saku Koivu. One of my twitter followers was quite helpful, and in the process told me what "Koivu" means in...
There are three things in life you can count on: death, taxes, and the s**t hockey players and coaches say. There was 11 seconds left, and I almost threw up in the faceoff circle." - the always-colourful Jeremy Roenick on the 2002 Olympic...
The St. Louis Blues have had a long and somewhat colourful history. There were certainly lowlights, such as the time the team was in such dire financial straits they only had three employees. By the 1980s, new owner Ralston Purina lost interest in...
Sometimes I find some beautiful quotes in my research. Even though I share them on twitter, I have compiled them here without the 140 character limit and a bit of commentary. Enjoy! "It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after...
As many of you know, I was forced to make one more trip to the ER. This time it was for side effects so severe I that I could barely walk, had major muscle tremors, short-term memory issues, and speech issues. It's called Serotonin Syndrome, and...
2-7% of Americans have Bipolar II disorder. And I'm one of them. It means that some days I feel incredible, with a thousand brilliant writing ideas; one reason why I only slept 4 hours a night, and one reason I chose sobriety. It's why everyone,...
One night, the Oilers were up against the Penguins. For whatever reason, Paul Baxter and Gretzky had a grudge going back a little ways. It flared up during this game, as grudges usually do. Finally, Baxter whacked Gretzky, who dropped to the ice...
Dave Hanson, famous for his portrayal of Jack Hanson in Slap Shot, wasn't a whole lot different than his on-screen character. Take, for example, the following incident while he was playing for the WHA Birmingham Bulls: Hanson got into a fight, as...
Hobey Baker was the perfect amateur player. He was America's first hockey superstar, admired everywhere he played, and famous for his courteous behaviour both on and off the ice. Hobart Amory Hare Baker was born in Pennsylvania in 1892. While at...
When Petr Klima walked away from the Czechoslovakian national team in Nussdorf, West Germany on August 18, 1985, he made history as the first Czech player to defect directly to an NHL team. That night he was to meet Detroit Red Wings executive...
There are two stories about why Fighting Saints player Gord Gallant punched coach Harry Neale. One is that Neale insisted none of his players had the guts to punch him and Gallant wanted to prove him wrong. The other, and more likely, is that...
Gordie Howe. Mr. Hockey. Stanley Cup champion. Father. Gourmet chef? Apparently someone thought so... In 1965, Mr. Hockey's recipe for Canadian Bacon Pot Roast appeared in The All-Star Athletes Cook Book. The editor of the cookbook assures his...
Poor Sergei Fedorov. A month ago, he had walked away from the CSKA team and the only world he had known. Now he was at his first Red Wings training camp with only the most basic English. So it made sense that when he needed something, Fedorov...
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