Curmudgeon
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Sixty years ago today my dad took me to my first ever hockey game, a Western League game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Calgary Stampeders. The Canucks won 3-1 in the old PNE Forum, which was an ancient, rat-infested building even then. Vancouver's goalie was a 20 year-old named Gilles Villemure, who played all 70 games without a mask. I don't think they even had a backup goalie on the roster. The big scorer was 5'7", 150 pound winger named Buddy Boone. Boone was one of about five guys in the whole league who had mastered this new thing called a slapshot. Old school coaches were not at all receptive to slapshots. I was thrilled to see my first ever live game and it has remained one of my fondest memories. I lost my dad just over a year ago and wish he was here to remember that first game we spent together.
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bathgate and popein, both lived in our old neighbourhood mudge. do you remember the old blue bird motel? they stayed there until they went up to the rangers. there was a small rink in the form at one end of the building. we use to put in a dollar each in and another community would do the same and we'ld play hockey. the old forum had a lot of posts that would block sight to parts of the ice.
apparently connie madigan is still alive. use to hate him.
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Yes, I remember the Bluebird Motel, and I remember watching Andy Bathgate in pre-game warmups in the old Forum. He could pick a top corner form anywhere inside the blue line with a wrist shot. I couldn't believe that one of the best NHL players of his generation would end up playing for Vancouver. I was a big fan of Phil Maloney and Billy McNeill. I still have programs from that era with autographs of various players.
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i always wondered what ever happened to billy dea?
he went up to the rangers, played a couple of games and then nothing. bathgate and popein played baseball at collingwood park. the tennis courts are gone now and the row of big trees that ran along on side of the courts. if they ever wrote a history of that park, they would have to write one chapter about us tom's boys, after tommy mah. that's my whole youth.
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I may have mentioned this before, but you could do worse than signing Troy Stecher as a FA. If Calgary misses the playoffs, I'd expect Treliving to be fired, and the new guy would probably clean house.
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the only trouble there mudge, is that we already have a lot of third pair guys. imo, bear is the perfect 3rd pair rd. he will probably be played higher in the line-up out of necessity. we really need a 2nd pairing, left and right d-men. i was hoping for pettersson to play 2nd pair ld. looks like hughes and hronek will be our top pairing. after that we are still in JB country.
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Getting really sick of all the media talking heads falling all over each other criticizing EVERYTHING the Canucks are doing. Give us a trade! We hate the trade! Management is stupid! They are doing everything exactly the wrong way! They should be doing this! They should be doing that! We are way smarter than the guys who have been doing this all their adult lives! We want the team to keep losing so they can get more draft picks! We want the team to win so free agents will want to come here! All I know is that the next time ANY of them say anything positive, it will be the first time.