[Dion]

"The crazy thing about the Corral,'' muses Murdoch, "was that our dressing room was on the other side of the lobby so that the end of every period and beginning of the next period we'd have to walk through the crowd to reach the ice surface.

"If you'd had a bad game …

"They had cardboard down so we wouldn't wreck the edges of our skates.

"On those walks, you got to know people. So you'd be heading out for a period, recognize someone who was there every game and say 'Hey, Bill, how's it going?' on the way out to play.

"What amazed me,'' Calgary's GM of the time, Cliff Fletcher, says now, "is that we'd been able to sell standing-room season tickets. I think they were $25 bucks a game.

"A lot of money back then. To stand. But you had a number, so no one could stand in your spot.

"That blew my mind.

"The fans were charged up. They were into it."

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