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Edmonton's Greatest Hockey Hero (and it's not who you think)
I first saw Randy Gregg play a game of hockey in the fall of 1975. He was among a group of young blueliners auditioning for the University of Alberta Golden Bears, looking to fill the departin...
Looking Back...at Jaroslav Pouzar
Pouzar was a man of few words, and those in a broken English which had an endearing way of getting straight to the point, usually with a twinkle in his eye. During one celebrated incident he got stit...
Pouzar
This is Jaroslav Pouzar. (Always wanted to write that, LT!) He won three Stanley Cups with the Oilers in 1984, '85 and '87, and his absence in 1986 was a little-credited factor in the Oilers upset los...
Anniversaries II: Saddledome
This didn't really fit thematically with the Gretzky/Messier post, but today, October 15, also marks the 25th anniversary of the Olympic Saddledome in our sister city of Calgary. Three years after blo...
"Scouting" a Hall of Famer -- two ancient game reports
My first view of Glenn Anderson occurred sometime during the 1978-79 season, when the University of Denver brought their fine hockey team to Edmonton for an exhibition game against the University of A...
From the archives: The campaign to elect Glenn Anderson
Date: November 13, 2006To: Hockey Hall of FameFrom: BruceRe: The compelling case for Glenn AndersonWhen Wayne Gretzky retired in the spring of 1999, the NHL decided to honour him in a multitude of way...
Anniversaries VI: Heritage Classic --Friday
Five years ago this weekend Edmonton hosted the NHL’s first outdoor game. This lifelong fan was one of 57,167 people in attendance that day, but my experiences over that hockey weekend were in s...
Anniversaries V: Bugsy's new shoes
November 20, 1980 was a Thursday of course, it being exactly one "solar cycle" ago (28 years = 7 leap cycles). It seems like a long time ago but what goes around comes around; there are some interesti...
Another great one honoured
Although we have been in the same room over 500 times I have never really met Glenn Anderson. He came to my wife's class at Glenrose School Hospital with Ken Linseman and Don Jackson; and we once pass...
Anniversaries VIII: 50 in 39
It was a magic time. If you didn't live through it, it's hard to comprehend what a record-breaking machine Wayne Gretzky was. He didn't just break records, he destroyed them with a flair for the drama...
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