Montreal Mystique interviews Ulf Nilsson, former dynamic centre for the WHA Winnipeg Jets and NHL New York Rangers. A Swedish hockey icon for the ages. Part II of II. (Montreal Mystique Podcast)
Rangers are finally awake. Popcorn finished, they look up from their programs and start asking about relevant players. Hey, is that Jack Lemaire? Is that King Dryden?
We hear that Panther snarl over the PA system. If we didn’t have audio recording technology, somebody might have to provoke a panther after every goal. Another plus for technology. I guess they could provoke an ocelot or a very big housecat. All you’d need then is a megaphone. Hmm.
Bettman and the Governors should have to ref games. You know. Just like how state governors should be on the front lines in Iraq. Get going. Oh. And get back to work you others over there. You slum-rogues.
Referee Bill McCreary has such an earnest, honest woodsman’s face. Healthy grizzly mustache to go with it. Or do you prefer moustache?
Should spotlights be sweeping the ice surface for the start of a second-period game in January? What about understatement?
Montreal Mystique interviews Ulf Nilsson. Part I of II.
Canadiens Today - The respected Doctor Rick took time from his taxing intellectual pursuits and guested for us today via email. He is based in Montreal.
A svelte 78-game life and four matches that matter.
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Bill Parcells once said (and I’m paraphrasing) “They’re not rooting for us, they’re rooting for the jersey.”
Parcells who is a Jersey guy and who began his head-coaching career in the NFL in the early eighties with the New York Giants, knows about fan loyalty and its opposite. No crowd is tougher than a New York [
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Tonight the scoreboard isn't enough. (It's never enough). Tonight the scoreboard doesn't show ...
... a team with pride peaking. A coach with his palm preach shading. A group of young lions nipped older. A phalanx of older lions found faster. An ageing, elegant warrior harnessing fierce fires of a white star 'c'.