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Originally Posted by Maggie3and Me
2,5,10,
Thanks for coming. I had to figure a way to get you here.  With your hockey knowledge and canukfan, jkidd, BENNETWOLF, and many others, you all have a store house of information and stories that qualify you for admission. Fan, you do qualify as an OLD FART, but can take comfort from knowing I'm older.
fan, I remember seeing Plante's wood mask before they started making the others. Do you guys recall Gerry Cheevers. Each year for awhile he would use red paint to mark his mask where a puck hit him in the face. One year he estimated it saved him over 275 stitches.
Appreciate the participation
M3M
P.S. Since you all have given ages, I am 63 years old. I went to my first Hawks game at the old Chicago Stadium. We sat up in the nose bleed section on the other side of the ice from the organ. That was 1959. What players I have been privileged to see. Hull, Hall, Mikita and on and on. Plus all the players from the other five teams of the Original Six. I saw film of Hull in 57 and Mikita in 58 as rookies. My neighbor was a hockey nut and showed me the film and got me interested in the game. He.took me to agame in 59 and to two games in 60-61 Cup season. I have forever been grateful to him and his family. They created a passion that I have been able to pass on to kids and grandkids. |
Nice try on the age thing , lets just say their are PPL here that think I helped build the "ARC" , and I will keep it that way..
My father was a pro boxer so I got to go to some great places as a kid , I was able to see all six of the original NHL teams play in their own barns , most nights I didn't know any names because they only had numbers , every kid in Canada knew who wore number 9 for Detroit/Montreal/Chicago but to put names to the rest of the team was impossible when you are that young , all we had was Foster Hewitt on the radio from the gondola , boy when hockey night in Canada came on it was special , we got to stay up and listen to the game , names like Turk Broda/Johny Bower/Bill Barilko became house hold discussions , only to be that young again and smell gramps pipe ...
