Posts Tagged ‘Harry Sinden’
In a box in my closet I found a few old issues of The Hockey News from 1988, and here’s a sampling of things mentioned: “We’re so used to this against Montreal, but we’re not complaining.” – Quebec Nordique GM Maurice Filion after an apparent tying goal was waved off against Montreal Feb. 29. Consumer [...]
December 7, 2012 in Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets
Tags: Borje Salming, Bruce Boudreau, Harry Sinden, Jacques Demers, Joe Sakic, John Ziegler, Mats Naslund, Maurice Filion, Quebec Nordiques, Ralph Nader, Randy Cunneyworth, Stephane Richer, Steve Yzerman, The Hockey News, Theoren Fleury, Tom Barrasso | 6 Comments »
There was a strong contingent of Montreal Canadiens on Team Canada ’72 - Ken Dryden, Serge Savard, Guy Lapointe, Frank and Pete Mahovlich, and Yvan Cournoyer, and all, in their own way, contributed mightily to the cause, including Dryden who struggled at times but showed enough to coaches Harry Sinden and John Ferguson to be called [...]
September 30, 2012 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, International Hockey, John Ferguson ., Ken Dryden, Montreal Canadiens, Yvan Cournoyer
Tags: Alan Eagleson, Bobby Clarke, Canada-Russia Summit Series, Frank Mahovlich, Guy Lapointe, Harry Sinden, John Ferguson ., Paul Henderson, Peter Mahovlich, Phil Esposito, Serge Savard, Team Canada 1972, Yvan Cournoyer | No Comments »
Immediately following their stunning game-eight victory, Team Canada had to hit the road to Prague to play the Czechoslovakian national team the next night. This should have been better thought out by Hockey Canada, with an escape clause written into the contract. The team was both emotionally and physically spent, and it was unfair to [...]
September 28, 2012 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Gordie Howe, International Hockey, John Ferguson ., Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Alan Eagleson, Alexander Ragulin, Anatoli Tarasov, Bill Barber, Bill Goldsworthy, Bobby Clarke, Boris Kulagin, Boris Mikhailov, Darryl Sittler, Gary Bergman, Gordie Howe, Harry Sinden, Jacques Lemaire, John Ferguson ., Mike Walton, Reggie Leach, Rick Martin, Serge Savard, Stan Mikita, Valeri Kharlamov, Valeri Vasiliev, Vsevolod Bobrov | 2 Comments »
Team Canada had a six-hour stopover in Paris on the way to Stockholm, and goalie Ed Johnston said this about the beautiful old city: “What’s wrong is the same thing you find with all these European cities. Too many old buildings.” While in Stockholm, a Swedish fellow at the press conference mentioned that maybe Bobby [...]
September 23, 2012 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Bobby Orr, International Hockey, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Bobby Orr, Carl Voss, Dennis Hull, Ed Johnston, Harry Sinden, Maurice Richard, Punch Imlach, Valeri Kharlamov, Whipper Billy Watson | 5 Comments »
Forty years ago, on this day, August 13, 1972, they strolled into their first day of training camp in Toronto confident and somewhat annoyed that their summer had been cut short. They had been summoned from their cottages and golf courses and barbeques to prepare for a series of four games in Canada and four games in [...]
August 13, 2012 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Bobby Orr, International Hockey, Ken Dryden, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Belleville MacFarlanes, Bobby Orr, Brian Glennie, Gilbert Perreault, Harry Sinden, Ken Dryden, Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, Mickey Redmond, Rod Seiling, Serge Savard, Whitby Dunlops | 8 Comments »
To help take your mind off the wacky world of this year’s Habs, at least for a few minutes, I thought I’d mention a couple of tidbits about good old number 22, John Ferguson, that I found while re-reading my book Breakaway by Charles Wilkins. First, an autograph I got from him in the mid-60′s. Fergy was sitting in a restaurant [...]
January 16, 2012 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Bobby Hull, Chicago Blackhawks, Henri Richard, Jean Beliveau, John Ferguson ., Montreal Canadiens, Sam Pollock, Toe Blake, Toronto Maple Leafs
Tags: 1972 Summit Series, Bobby Hull, Breakaway, Charles Wilkins, Dick Duff, Eddie Shack, Eric Nesterenko, Harry Sinden, Henri Richard, Jean Beliveau, John Ferguson ., Sam Pollock, Toe Blake | 7 Comments »
Inexcusably, I failed to mention the late, great John Ferguson during all the Winnipeg hoopla of the past few days, and I’m bad and I know it. Because John Ferguson, the ex-Hab, ex-ornery on-ice policeman, was extremely vital in the growth of the Winnipeg Jets, and for him to witness the return of his Jets in a game against his Montreal [...]
October 10, 2011 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Boston Bruins, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Winnipeg Jets
Tags: 1972 Summit Series, Bobby Clarke, Dale Hawerchuk, Harry Sinden, Jean Beliveau, Jimmy Mann, John Ferguson ., Ted Green, Teemu Selanne, Thomas Steen, Valeri Kharlamov | 37 Comments »
Right now, 36 years ago in 1972, Team Canada was not having a nice time with the Russian National Team. They were clobbered in Montreal and booed in Vancouver. They were tired and frustrated, and things looked bad. But in they end, as we all know, they pulled it out. But it wasn’t just on-ice things going on. [...]
September 17, 2008 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Bobby Orr, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Fascinating facts, International Hockey, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: 1972 Summit Series, Bobby Orr, Buffalo, Carl Voss, Copenhagen, Dennis Hull, Ed Johnston, European cities, Harry Sinden, Maurice Richard, Montreal, Moscow, Paris, Punch Imlach, Russian National team, Stockholm, Team Canada, Valeri Kharlamov, Vancouver, Whipper Billy Watson | No Comments »