Pretty good Anders Eriksson dig:
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He eventually traded the core players in those Blackhawks teams after a consecutive series of extremely predictable salary disputes—Belfour was sent out of town for Ulf Dahlen and Chris Terreri, Roenick for potato-headed Russian sleepwalker Alexei Zhamnov, and Chris Chelios for a pony keg of Grain Belt.
Other reports claim the Blackhawks actually received some guy named Anders Eriksson. He lasted two seasons. It worked out about the same.
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As someone that grew up in Illinois, I was pretty familiar with Dollar Bill's rep. I was not familiar with Hawkvision specifically, so that was a nice new tidbit.
Because hockey was televised so sparingly in our area, it took Sega and NHL94 to really expose me to the sport as a kid. That's why I still think the NHL needs to be more active and creative in their marketing. In Canada its certainly a different dynamic, but having grown up in the midwest and lived the better part of the decade in the south, I have been able to introduce so many people to hockey that might not have gotten into it otherwise.
While Wirtz may have set the bar pretty high, the league will need to continue to weed out owners and GM's that aren't interested in moving the game forward.
Deadspin - In Unloving Memory of Hawkvision (And Bill Wirtz)
