Not directly NHL-related, but interesting to hockey history buffs:
I see that today's featured article at Wikipedia is on the legendary Cyclone Taylor, who may have been the biggest star in hockey in the pre-NHL era:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Taylor
There are many stories about the Cyclone, from his first days as a hockey player in Ottawa to his last years as an elder statesman of hockey in Vancouver. But this is my favourite, from Holzman and Nieforth’s
Deceptions and Doublecross:
Quote:
In 1973, the legendary Toronto Star sportswriter Frank Orr was preparing to interview Cyclone at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. Noticing the old guy in the fedora skating on the ice, he asked the Hall of Fame defenceman Babe Pratt who it was. Pratt pointed out that it was Taylor. Orr asked Pratt how many goals he thought Taylor would score in the expanded, sixteen-team NHL.
‘Sixteen to eighteen,’ Pratt replied.
Orr was incredulous. ‘Sixteen to eighteen? Is that it? He was one of the all-time greats.’
‘Yeah, well,’ Pratt replied, ‘you'd have to remember he's eighty-nine years old.’
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