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Originally Posted by Steve Bozek
On a more serious note, that anecdote is probably an illustration of why Johnson wanted to get rid of him. Everything came easily to him, and I suspect that Nilsson wouldn't take a lot of things in life too seriously, including losing a hockey game.
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To be sure, Nilsson was both uber-talented and uber-lassez faire (I remember him saying that when Grretzky did something great on the ice he sometimes wanted to join in the celebration and that's just wrong).
On the other hand , it was a funny line and maybe Bob took that one a little too seriously. I'm sure, considering the era, the rest of the team was thinking that yoga was a bit "out there". A few of the vets (Lanny and Peplinski to name two) didn't like Bob's style at all. I was a huge Badger fan myself.