Wow.. I knew the Isles were your second team, but didn't realize how deep that connection was. Those are some great memories TAC.
I attended some of those cup-winning playoff games way back when. Too many Isles memories to recount, but one in particular: Garry Howatt forgot his skates for a photo shoot at our local rink and he spotted me on the sidelines with mine slung over my shoulder. He came over to see if he could borrow them, which was an automatic. When the shoot was over, I ask him how they fit... He said "a little tight" lol. He came back with 2 hockey sticks, a righty Gord Lane and a lefty Anders Kallur and since I shoot left, I snagged the Kallur. And I still have those CCM Tacks. Oh yeah and Lorne Henning was also in on the shoot and when I passed by the dressing room, I had the misfortune of catching him in all his naked glory.
But my favorite player from that era was Bobby Bourne.
More recently, my beer league team managed to recruit Garth Snow to play on D for a few seasons. We also convinced Miro Satan to play in one of our games, but he was clearly embarrassed at being there and never came back.
Oh hell yes!
Off the top of my head, with no peaking..
Bossy
Trottier
Gillies
Goring
Nystrom
Tonelli
Howatt
Bourne
D. Sutter
B. Sutter
Merrick
Potvin
Langevin
Persson
Morrow
Smith
Resch
Oddly, you referenced 3 guys in that awesome story that I couldn't come up with.
I spent last night staring at the pics from our visit down there for the Goring ceremony. What an amazing time!
Did you catch this as well, Tim?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8VutLh0N0Q
Man.... I didn't know he was drafted 15th overall?!?!? Too bad he couldn't have stayed healthy... 1000 goals is not far fetched. Too many great players with shortened careers - Lemieux and Orr obviously as well.
Thanks for the link Chad. I couldn't wait to get home and watch it. That stat about his final year was amazing...still .60 goals per game.
His goals per game was .75. He scored in three out of every four games. For his career. Think about that.
We played hockey when I was a kid up in Pierrefonds Quebec, and there was a junior team there...the Pierrefonds Pirates, and Tim Bossy, Mike's brother played for them. Don't think I didn't refer to myself as Tim "Bossy" when I was playing on the ice or in my driveway.
@Gord, I think you will attest, that it wasn't the goals he and his line did score, but it was the ones they didn't. I mean, they were so close to scoring on every shift.