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Originally Posted by dash_pinched
In Larry Robinson's book, he had a funny story about Pete Mahovlich. The Habs were in Detroit for a game and Scotty Bowman set a curfew of 11 pm. Scotty is in the hotel lobby as Pete comes strolling in at a little past 1 am and Scotty says, "Okay Mahovlich, you're two hours late, that'll cost you $200". Pete reaches into his wallet, grabs two one hundred bills, hands them to Scotty, then goes back into his wallet and grabs another $400 and says to Scotty, "Here Scotty, this way you can get some sleep tomorrow night"
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haha the above named player was one of several Team Canada players my dad encountered out on the town on the eve (I believe it was the night before- the legend may have grown slightly with time) of the first game of the 72 summit series- now of course at that point TC had reason to think the series would be a bit more of a cake walk than it became