Because I barely remember the incident, went back to check the Montreal Gazette in case it seems made up......
Wait?! That is a different Mario Gosselin than the goalie who played for the Nords around the same time, right? I mean--I am thinking it is, but funny non the less.
Game 22 - Wednesday, November 23, 1988 - New Jersey Devils 2 at Calgary Flames 3
With 5 goals in the last 9 games, Joel Otto is one of the hottest Flames Gary Suter and the Devils' Jamie Huscroft raise sticks during Wednesday's action'
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I'm sure I have that all star ballot somewhere- not a bad team with 1 G, 3 D, 1C and 2 RW on the ballot
however Gilmour was not- no total shame in that as there are 6 HOFers on that ballot, but the other two were Mike (traded for Gilmour) Bullard, and Jimmy (started his career off great, will start busting soon) Carson
I'm a HUGE fan of this era. Although my personal golden NHL era is the 89 season to the 94 season. Just a great run of seasons.
PS: Cool to see another Flames fan in NC! I thought I was the only one.
Ha! Same - it's pretty hard to find a hockey fan (let alone Flames fan) in the Charlotte area. The Canes don't resonate here - they ought to change the name to the Raleigh Hurricanes.
The 90-94 Flames were great - so much promise, only to break my heart every Spring. I often wonder what went wrong . . . bad coaching (Crisp and Risebrough benefiting from Badger Bob's legacy?), giving away our veterans for nothing (Ramage, McCrimmon, Mullen?) coupled with leadership retiring (McDonald, Peplinski?) maybe too much faith in our European prospects (Priakin, Johansson, Bergvist, Forslund?), or bad drafting? Probably a little bit of each.
After watching that EDM/CGY clip, one thing you don't see anymore is that low ice-level glass. Pretty crazy from a security perspective when you think about it. It felt like most barns in this era had that--though I don't think the Dome did.
Also... It dawned on me that at one point in the 80s all the arenas had the team benches across from one another as opposed to the modern style you see today with them being right next to one another. I think by the '89 season every arena adapted to what we have today, right? Same with board ads. There seemed to be a few team in '89 that still went with white board (CHI and NYI come to mind). Anyone else?
Last: I'll give a plug to the YT channel that BL linked in the prior post. I discover that guy a few months ago and glad to see him make the rounds here. He pretty much has the 88-89 season covered for fights, hits and cheap shots: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...fsG-PBaG5H7Fss
And not to steal your thunder BL, but here is the aforementioned Messier/Otto fight that took place in the 12/2 game as well: https://youtu.be/IhWmHNaT78g
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Reason: added clip
My mental image of it has him running up the aisle waving his shoe over his head, all the while trying to keep the beat with the song "Turning Japanese". It is a bit of a toe-tapper after all.
Does he have the professional hockey record of running into the stands to attack people? I would not be surprised if there were more than 2 incidents.
wow. The was a rough looking lineup the Nords iced that night. I consider myself to have a really deep knowledge of late 80s NHL and had to look up Dean Hopkins and David Latta.
