TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
Per my 97 year old grandmother who grew up north of Montreal, no self respecting Quebecois hockey player would demean himself playing college hockey when major junior is an option.
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Per my 97 year old grandmother who grew up north of Montreal, no self respecting Quebecois hockey player would demean himself playing college hockey when major junior is an option.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Good call. There must have been a tremendous amount of self-loathing involved to account for the generational influx of such players to BU back in the Kelly/early Parker era. Although (according to BC lore/propaganda back in the day) those Quebecois would not have been eligible for Major Junior at their advanced ages of 25-29, eh?
In contrast, Bjorkman’s Quebecois recruits at UNH during the 1968/69 season were 22 years old (senior forward Rich David), 21 years old (seniors Graham Bruder and Mickey Goulet on the blue line), and 20 years old (sophomore forwards Loui Frigon and Al Catto)l eh?
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
He probably took those guys to Berlin or Manchester's West Side during recruiting trips back then to show 'em they really weren't far from home? There ain't no "French Quarter" anywhere within an hour of Commonwealth and Babcock, eh?
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
What choice did they have playing south of the border? They already felt shame because they couldn't skate and couldn't make the big leagues...
What choice did they have playing south of the border? They already felt shame because they couldn't skate and couldn't make the big leagues...
Louis Frigon could skate and was a joy to watch on the fledgling Snively’s wide sheet. Loui’s senior year in 1970/71 was his best with 38 goals and 48 assists. That season was Charlie Holt’s second with a team that was loaded, thanks to Rube Bjorkman, with eight skaters scoring double-digit goals for a total of 199 and a 20-9-0 record. But, you are right, Loui only played three seasons in the IHL as he was too undersized as a center in the big leagues. He later head-coached at ECAC-2 Plattsburgh where he had three successful winning seasons after inheriting a perennially losing team.
After the Oilers went down 2 games to 1 to the Dallas Stars, Edmonton HC Kris Knoblach benched Warren Foegele along with Sam Carrick and Vincent Descharnei in favor of Corey Perry, Ryan MacLeod, and Philip Broberg for games 4 through 6, which paid off with a 4 games to 2 series win and a return to the Cup championship series for the first time since 2006. If the Oilers should win it all, Foegele would join TvR and what other UNH alums with their names on the Stanley Cup?
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Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Yes, he would. Quite a journey from the stands at The Whitt, sitting behind the senior (first) checking line. So while this is not the first time WF has suffered from being a healthy scratch, I'm guessing this instance is (slightly LOL) more acceptable than it was for him the last time around, given his lucrative pro career and possible SC inclusion since.
I hope our former HC (if he hasn't already done so) has reached out to Foegele to congratulate him on what he's done with his career, after he was basically asked to "park it" while Gaudrault/Smith/MacDonald (barf) got ice instead.
d.gerry
Five for Fighting
Rod Langway is one.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Possibly Dave Lumley (Edmonton) unless he, unlike Lacombe, had moved on before the Cups arrived circa 1984?
HockeyRef
Well-known member
Coach U to be inducted in the UNH HOF Class of '24...
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
50 years ago this February, the sports world lost an icon named Tim Horton, an NHL defenseman well into his 40's, who had been a lynchpin and star of the Toronto Maple Leafs' final Stanley Cup winners in the '60's under Punch Imlach. In what little spare time he had back in his heyday in Ontario, he and a police officer friend named Ron Joyce got the idea of selling donuts, muffins and coffee out of a small self-built shop located in Hamilton ON (a large city at the western tip of Lake Ontario). Ten years later, playing in Buffalo under now-GM Imlach, and lured back for one more season with a huge salary (USD $150,000) and a speedy sportscar by the Sabres - the money being very helpful to grow the chain, at the time "only" in the dozens - Horton never made it all the way back from his final game at his old haunts to his home in Buffalo. Neither did he make it to see the chain bearing his name become an iconic Canadian brand leaving a worldwide footprint ... with lots of commentary from his friends, family, and long-time teammate (and fellow Canadian hockey icon) Eddie Shack ... the inspiring, tragic, real-life story of the amazing yet flawed force of nature who backboned the last great pre-expansion dynasty in Ontario, and in the end arguably/literally worked himself to death.
Tim Horton's Hockey and the start of Tim Hortons (youtube.com)
Tim Horton Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com
Tim Horton's Hockey and the start of Tim Hortons (youtube.com)
Tim Horton Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com
TheGrouchyCat
Litter Box of Bad Ideas
70/71? You old farts are dating yourself. I wouldn't even be born for a few more years. Do I need to call Ken Burns to make a UNH Hockey documentary, complete with melancholy fiddle music and overly serious narration from Peter Coyote to get these obscure and historical references?
Umile will be the Icarus-like figure who melts under the heat of the spotlight and never achieves his ultimate goal.
Scarano will be the villainous character that sold out the program for personal glory and a polished CV
Our AD f/k/a SB is cast as the savior of the program, helping the team navigate through delicate times and diminishing budgets
MS7 will be shown as a sympathetic figure, a former superstar, hired to salvage a program but struggles to succeed under the weight of apathy and an inability to coach a power play
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Boy, did you hit the nail on the head with MS7. Presumably "the weight of (his own) apathy", except when it comes to his contractual status as we saw so vividly this past Wintah ...
While Ken B is at it, maybe he could do a double feature on UNH and St Cloud State. Plenty of misery to go around and create several episodes. Maybe forget Ken and bring in Stephen King, though there is the whole UMaine angle that would cloud (no pun intended) the story.
Wouldnt these stories actually be a better tragic comedy? Plenty of fodder there, I am sure we could all come up with plenty. Get the Greg Ambrose's of the UNH hockey world and there has to be some nice behind the scenes "scenes". Do the Farrelly Brothers have some extra time? We NEED more Sea Bass!
Wouldnt these stories actually be a better tragic comedy? Plenty of fodder there, I am sure we could all come up with plenty. Get the Greg Ambrose's of the UNH hockey world and there has to be some nice behind the scenes "scenes". Do the Farrelly Brothers have some extra time? We NEED more Sea Bass!
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
True story (or at least I was told so by someone who used to post on here back in the day regularly, but has since passed) ... when I did my WIS Production of "Da Godfaddah" not too long after the turn of the century - right before BC broke their title drought in 2001 IIRC - my pal prepared printed rough drafts of how the story appeared on here, and sent a few copies around without telling me (which I found hilarious and flattering). He claims one was sent to the Farrellys, and he told me he got a note back from them appreciating the submission, and very much liking how I'd woven their adopted hometown of Providence into the story so prominently. Long and short, it was dismissed because the "target audience was very limited" (understatement of the new century, for sure!), but they supposedly did bother to read the whole thing. Which I suppose means it made it through the first line of the "we're not gonna waste Peter's time with this junk" due diligence threshold.
Almost semi-infamous LOL.
Ironically, one of my more frequent acquaintances in my professional work is a prominent Boston area mediator who was friends with the Farrellys when they were younger, and because of that connection, he landed a few cameos in their various movies, to the point where he has his own IMDB account. See the video below for an example of his "work". His life's major regret (at least as he tells it) is that he missed out on a cameo for the Brothers' "Three Stooges Movie" due to an extended work commitment. My only show biz pal lol ...
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Grouchy's recent post on the reluctance of any self-respecting Quebecois to lower themselves to D-1 college hockey is timely, as I found this in the off season archives featuring two of the very best Quebecois skaters to even don a sweater and pair of skates. Both wore #4 at the time of the report, one clearly in honor of the other. Enjoy!!
WIS QUIZ: Who did Montreal trade to the Oakland Seals/California Golden Slobs to land the #1 pick in the '71 draft?
I was looking at the other players taken in the '71 draft, some interesting names in there ... Marcel Dionne went #2 to the Winged Wheel, and Detroit drafted the star-crossed Henry Boucha #2 in the second round for a pretty darned good haul (for once) ... the B's blew their first pick on someone named Ron Jones, but recovered nicely to pick Terry O'Reilly with the last pick of the first round ... one slot after the Rangers spunked their #13 pick on the infamous Steve "Psycho" Durbano. The hidden gem of that draft - one who arguably had a bigger impact on the Montreal dynasty of the late '70's - lasted until the #20 overall pick, after the Habs blew two more first round picks (Chuck Arnason and Murray Wilson).
Yup - pretty much every team in the NHL passed (some more than once) on none other than Larry Robinson. Ouch ...
WIS QUIZ: Who did Montreal trade to the Oakland Seals/California Golden Slobs to land the #1 pick in the '71 draft?
I was looking at the other players taken in the '71 draft, some interesting names in there ... Marcel Dionne went #2 to the Winged Wheel, and Detroit drafted the star-crossed Henry Boucha #2 in the second round for a pretty darned good haul (for once) ... the B's blew their first pick on someone named Ron Jones, but recovered nicely to pick Terry O'Reilly with the last pick of the first round ... one slot after the Rangers spunked their #13 pick on the infamous Steve "Psycho" Durbano. The hidden gem of that draft - one who arguably had a bigger impact on the Montreal dynasty of the late '70's - lasted until the #20 overall pick, after the Habs blew two more first round picks (Chuck Arnason and Murray Wilson).
Yup - pretty much every team in the NHL passed (some more than once) on none other than Larry Robinson. Ouch ...