Team Marleau! Hammered! selects in Round 8, number 125 overall, for the LW #1 position, a player who played a remarkable 24 years (his entire career) for the Detroit Red Wings, Mr. Hockey's longtime linemate, Alex Delvecchio (C & LW)
Alexander Peter "Fats" Delvecchio, born December 4, 1931 in Fort William, Ontario, is a former ice hockey player and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
After playing a single junior league season for the Oshawa Generals of the OHA (during which he led the league in assists) Delvecchio joined the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League for the 1952 season, and helped the team to win the Stanley Cup that year.
He would go on to excel both at center and left wing for twenty-two full seasons and parts of two others, and was notable for his spot on the Production line with linemates Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. No player in NHL history played more games with just the one team. One of the true gentlemen in the game of hockey, he was a three-time winner of the Lady Byng Trophy for combining good sportsmanship with excellence on the ice. Despite his impressive career, Delvecchio was never the Red Wings' leading scorer in a season. The closest he ever came was in the 1969--70 NHL season, where he was just 3 points behind Gordie Howe for the team lead.
Following his retirement as a player in 1973 -- having, at the time, played the second most games and with the second highest assist and point totals in league history -- Delvecchio served two stints as Detroit's head coach and then as General Manager, until leaving hockey in 1977 to go into business. He was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in that year.
Delvecchio is currently an "Honored Member" of the Detroit Red Wings Alumni Association and is active in its efforts to raise money for children's charities in Metro Detroit.
Named a Second Team All-Star in 1953 (at centre) and 1959 (at left wing).
In 1998, he was ranked number 82 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.
I hate you with every ounce of my being right now! (not sure if this should be in green yet)
I knew I should have taken last pick once the Forum was taken but I did not think that people would go nuts and start picking arenas when there are many holes in the players.
If it helps Superflyer, you can hate Berger instead of me as I had intended to take the Chicago Stadium till he stole it from me! LOL
As for the run on arenas, yeah once the Forum went it was kinda like the coaches - I hadn't planned on taking my arena for a couple rounds but once the good ones start they don't last long so I got in while I could.
All I can say is I hope you get in before you end up with nothing left to choose from but Rectal Place...
I was at the first game for the Flames there, as well as many Wrangler games. Even some Davis Cup tennis versus Chile. Enjoy walking around inside, any time I am there.
Since arenas seem to be all the rage, I will take the Stampede Corral.
I had the privilege of playing in the Corral in September for my rec league, it was the first time Ive ever been in the corral outside of the stampede.
I can only imagine what it would have been like to watch a game in that arena, it had a very intimate feel to it
nice dressing rooms (by rec league standards) too
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Since arenas seem to be all the rage, I will take the Stampede Corral.
I was at the first game for the Flames there, as well as many Wrangler games. Even some Davis Cup tennis versus Chile. Enjoy walking around inside, any time I am there.
Went to a Dinos hockey game there years ago. Five of us together and a total crowd of about 200. We tried to start the wave, which was difficult with such a sparse crowd. We just pointed to where the wave would be (if it were indeed waving) then jump up when it got to us again.
Eventually, we had every one of those 200 people doing the wave.
Weirdness.
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Team Toe Blake selects, as Centre #2, Milt Schmidt
Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Schmidt's early years were spent there, where he attended King Edward Public School. In high school, he briefly attended Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School, but dropped out at age 14 in order to work in order to support his family (his father had become too ill to work regularly), and took a job at a shoe factory.He made 18 cents per hour while working there and claimed that he knew the value of the dollar.(NHL Network January 2009)[1] He continued playing junior hockey with the Kitchener Empires and Kitchener Greenshirts. Schmidt was a childhood friend of fellow Hall of Famers Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer.
Schmidt played junior hockey with Dumart and Bauer in Kitchener, Ontario before their rights were all acquired by the Bruins in 1935.[2] After playing a final year of junior hockey in Kitchener, Ontario, and half a year with the Bruins' AHLProvidence Reds farm team, Schmidt would be called up to the Bruins during the 1937 season. He would quickly prove himself as a hardnosed center, a skilled stickhandler and smooth playmaker.
Schmidt and his childhood friends Bauer and Dumart would be teamed together in the NHL as well. They formed the famous Kraut Line, and were a strong and dependable line for the Bruins for most of the following fifteen seasons. They were a key ingredient to the Bruins' success as they rampaged to the regular season title and a hard fought Stanley Cup victory in 1939. The following season would be Schmidt's true coming out party, as he led the league in scoring and guided the Bruins to another first place finish and the third most goals in team history to date.
The 1941 season saw Schmidt spearhead the Bruins to their second Cup win in three years. However, the powerhouse Brown and Gold were decimated by World War II the following year as Schmidt, Bauer and Dumart enlisted in the Canadian military and superstar American goaltender Frank Brimsek enlisted with the American Coast Guard. The Kraut Line found success playing hockey for the Ottawa RCAF team by winning the Allan Cup before heading overseas. Schmidt, Bauer and Dumart would end up missing three productive NHL seasons due to their service in the War.
Schmidt returned for the beginning of the 1946 season. He resumed his starring ways and finished fourth in league scoring in 1947. Named captain in 1951, Schmidt won the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player that year. He retired as a player partway through the 1954–1955 to take over head coaching duties, replacing Lynn Patrick
Stanley Cup champion - all with Boston (1939, 1941 player), (1970, 1972 Manager)
Finished his career with 229 goals and 346 assists for 575 points in 776 games.
At the time of his retirement, was third in NHL history in points scored and second in assists.
Named to the NHL First All-Star Team in 1940, 1947 and 1951.
Named to the NHL Second All-Star Team in 1952.
Played in All-Star Game in 1947, 1948, 1951 and 1952.
very quickly, to please the commish...
because Im too lazy and out of it to try to think of something clever and witty for a team name I will just go and call my team Blades of Steel
as for my picks I dont really have time to put them up right now, but should have them up around 2ish
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I would have quit. That's what I threatened when my boss was waffling on giving me time off to see the last game at the Forum.
If it wasn't for the fact it was a well paying job with great benefits i would have quit. My boss hated sports also and couldn't understand why i wanted to spend all that money to see some stupid hockey arena as he called it.
Aym in yer brainz, steelin yer pikz.....
