Living near Hartford at the time and caught this squad playing the Wolf Pack a few times that season. I remember following this run through the 'Other scores' in the Hartford Courant--not sure the AHL had a comprehensive website back then? Or maybe I just never used the internet (I was 13 during this run).
A few things:
1. Man, Marty Murray seemed to be in our system forever. I used to confuse him with a guy we had for a minute named Michael Murray--no relation but both played for Saint John between 95 and 97.
2. This 2001 squad was tough! I forgot we had Doug Doull who went on to have a cup of coffee in 2004 with Boston. He really had zero business being in the NHL but that era before the lockout was a weird one for enforcers. Also had Dave Roche who was a sneaky good tough guy. Didn't he knock out Probert when he played for Pittsburgh?
2a. Speaking of tough guys and sign o the times. The Wilkes-Barre roster was stacked: Denis Bonvie, Darcy Verot, Billy Tibbetts, Trent Cull, Jason MacDonald--wow.
3. I have zero memory of Derrick Walser and Darrel Scoville. Both these guys were young and looked like they played top D minutes. Were they ever considered top prospects? They both went on to play for Columbus a few seasons later.
4. There is a blog that follows backup goalies (drawing a blank on the URL) and there is a post that discusses guys who were called up and only 'dressed' as a backup and Levente Szuper is featured. There is also a picture of him floating around sitting on the CGY bench. Again, surprised in all those early 2000 years of CGY mediocracy, that he he never got a game in.
5. Does anyone know of any online resources where you can find detailed vintage AHL boxscores? I bet if you dug deep on internet archive you could probably find something. It's a shame that these are probably lost forever. I wonder if the AHL HQ has something like that--would be cool to dig through those. This is probably a needle in a haystack question.
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