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How the hell does Badger Bob Johnson last until the 16th round?
I would rate him as the best coach the Flames have ever had. Took a team that didn't have much talent and got them to beat the mighty Oilers in 7 games and got them to a Stanley Cup final appearance.
How the hell does Badger Bob Johnson last until the 16th round?
I would rate him as the best coach the Flames have ever had. Took a team that didn't have much talent and got them to beat the mighty Oilers in 7 games and got them to a Stanley Cup final appearance.
But is he greater than Scotty Bowman, Roger Nielson, Al Arbour, Toe Blake, Herb Brooks, Don Cherry, Dick Irvin Sr & Viktor Tikhonov?
I would argue maybe on Brooks and Cherry (debatable), but the rest had greater success and more impact on hockey than Johnson...in spite of how great a guy he truly was.
16th round has more to do with the fact that 7 guys still haven't taken a coach and people are leaving coaches fairly late (speaking as someone without a coach).
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But is he greater than Scotty Bowman, Roger Nielson, Al Arbour, Toe Blake, Herb Brooks, Don Cherry, Dick Irvin Sr & Viktor Tikhonov?
I would argue maybe on Brooks and Cherry (debatable), but the rest had greater success and more impact on hockey than Johnson...in spite of how great a guy he truly was.
16th round has more to do with the fact that 7 guys still haven't taken a coach and people are leaving coaches fairly late (speaking as someone without a coach).
I'd take him over Roger Nielson, Don Cherry and Herb Brooks. He may not have coached as long as some of those you mentioned but he did have a huge impact during his short coaching career. His 7 point plan that he used to beat the Oilers was pure genious.
Mellon Arena (formerly the Civic Auditorium and Civic Arena, nicknamed The Igloo) is an arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It primarily serves as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise.[1] Constructed in 1961, for the use of the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (CLO) Mellon Arena has hosted multiple concerts, as well as hockey, basketball, tennis, boxing, wrestling, and soccer matches. The Arena was the world's first major indoor sports stadium with a retractable roof. It is named for Mellon Financial, which purchased the naming rights in 1999.
The Pittsburgh Hornets, members of the American Hockey League (AHL) played home games at the Duquesne Gardens, located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. The team played 20 seasons in the Gardens prior to its demolition, which made room for an apartment building.[6] The Arena opened on September 17, 1961.[6] With the Arena available, the Hornets resumed play in the 1961–62 season and went on to win the Calder Cup in the 1966–67 season.[6]
As part of the 1967 NHL expansion, the city of Pittsburgh was selected to host one of six new franchises. With a hockey seating capacity of 12,508, Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena was eight seats over the NHL's minimum seating benchmark.[3] Due to its outward appearance, the Arena was nicknamed "The Igloo" which led to the naming of the Penguins.[7] The Penguins debuted at the Civic Arena on October 11, 1967 in a 2–1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens. Andy Bathgate scored the Penguins's first goal in the arena. The Penguins won their first game at the Arena on October 21, when they became the first expansion team to beat an original NHL franchise—besting the Chicago Blackhawks 4–2.[8] On January 21, 1990, the Civic Arena hosted the 41st National Hockey League All-Star Game. Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux scored three goals on his first three shots—the first coming 21 seconds into the game. He later scored a fourth goal and was named the game's Most Valuable Player.[9] The arena also hosted the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.[10] Games of the 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cup Finals, which the Penguins won, were hosted at the Civic Arena, as were three games of the 2008 Finals.[1]
Team He Shoots....He Scooooores!!!! is proud to call to the podium for their final centre position, Syl Apps.
From Legends of Hockey.com:
Perhaps never has a finer man played in the NHL than Syl Apps. A remarkably skilled hockey player, he was big and strong and possessed one of the best shots in the league. He never drank or smoked, never swore and was as loyal to his boss, Conn Smythe, as to his team, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Smythe was alerted to Apps when a friend told the Leafs' owner of a great football player at McMaster University who was studying economics. When he heard the young man's name was Sylvanus Apps, Smythe laughed and said, "Nobody with a name like that could possibly become a pro hockey player." Still, he traveled to Hamilton to watch Apps play football. Smythe was so impressed that he offered Apps a hockey contract right then and there, but Apps declined, saying he still had to compete in the pole vault at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Apps had previously won the British Empire championship with a jump of 12 and ˝ feet. And those were the days when poles were made of bamboo and players landed on their feet in a sand pit.
In his first NHL season with the Leafs, he won the Calder Trophy, the first Leaf so honored, and his career continued to flourish. During that first year, many players thought he was too nice and not tough at all. Flash Hollett discovered this belief was mistaken one night when he high-sticked Apps, knocking out two teeth. Apps dropped his gloves and pummeled Hollett, but he got into only two other skirmishes in his whole career. In 1941-42, he went the whole season without getting a single penalty and was awarded the Lady Byng Trophy for his gentlemanly play. At the end of that season, he led the Leafs to the most improbable Stanley Cup win in NHL history, a series against Detroit that he calls his career highlight. The Leafs lost the first three games of the finals to the Red Wings but somehow won the next four in a row to win the Cup, the only time this has happened.
At the end of the [1942-43] season, while in the prime of his career, he left the team to join the Canadian Army. There he stayed for two years until the war was over. When he resumed his career, he put the captain's "C" back on his sweater and promptly picked up where he left off.
From Wiki:
- Apps was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961.
- In 1975 he was elected to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and two years later Apps was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
- In 1998, he was ranked number 33 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.
- In 2001, Canada Post included Apps in a series of NHL All-Star 47-cent postage stamps.
- Won the Stanley Cup 1942, 1947, 1948 (as Captain with Toronto)
- Won Calder Trophy 1936-37 (First Leaf to do so)
- Won Lady Byng 1941-42
Well I'm gonna give this thing one more shot. I'd like to select Didier Pietre as our fourth defenceman
Didier "Cannonball" Pitre was generally credited with having the hardest shot of his day and there were more than a few times when his goals were contested because they had gone right through the net. He was a big man, as far as hockey players go, but was never a rough player in an era marked by rugged play. He was also noted as one of the fastest skaters of his time and it has been said that he could skate backward as fast as he could skate forward.
PRO HOCKEY Totals 339 315 64 379 393 27 13 2 15 31
David "The Hammer" Schultz (born October 14, 1949 in Waldheim, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Schultz is renowned as one of hockey's greatest enforcers and holds the NHL record for most penalty minutes in a single season, at 472.
Schultz earned the nickname "The Hammer" for his aggressive style of hockey. He was one of the most notable enforcers on the Philadelphia Flyers' infamous "Broad Street Bullies". After winning two Stanley Cups with the Flyers (1973–74 and 1974–75), "The Hammer" drifted through several teams (Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres) looking for a permanent position. When different GMs tried to find some "muscle" for their fledgling clubs, his was a popular number to call.
Schultz was more than a traditional enforcer; he scored 20 goals for Philadelphia in 1973–74. He also scored the series-clinching goal in overtime in the first round of the 1974 Stanley Cup playoffs against the Atlanta Flames.
Dave "Tiger" Williams/ Dave Schultz linebrawl
"...to hockey players, fistfighting is an acceptable form of violence."
That makes 3 Flyer LW's on my team... I didn't plan it that way, but a psychiatrist might have a field day analyzing this, and the fact that I chose "Slap Shot" as my first pick in the CP movie draft.
