NHL 2024- 2025 Out of Town

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I wonder if that conversation went like this.....

Yzerman: So Derek - did you enjoy your Christmas break ????
Lalonde: Oh yeah Steve - I loved spending some quality time with my family.
Yzerman: That's just great.
Lalonde: Those 3 days just flew by - I wish I could have spent even more time with them.
Yzerman: Well then I have some great news for you.
 

I don't think anyone had the Rangers playing this badly when they thought about the 2024 season. I know I didn't. I thought maybe Sheshterkin's contract situation might distract them a little but this is a debacle.
 
Growing up if the Bruins weren’t playing I’d listen to the Wings from time to time and Bruce Martyn was one of the best.

Yes he was.

The 1970s were dark days for Detroit and its sports teams.

I could be wrong but it wouldn't surprise if wearing the brown bag of embarrassment began with a mortified Dead Wings fan base.

You may recall Martyn's color partner was HOFer Sid Abel, original center on the Wings' famed Production Line, distributing the puck to Terrible Ted and Gordie while potting plenty of his own. The line is justly considered one of the greatest in NHL history.

After his retirement, Abel became Detroit's head coach & GM. A bit like Uncle Miltie without the success.

(Red Wings owner Bruce Norris, of the infamous Norris family who also controlled the Chicago Blackhawks and had an interest in the New York Rangers, was a scumbag and a fool.

(The good old days weren't so good for players back then.

(It was Abel who coaxed a recently retired Lindsay to end his playing career, properly, in Detroit.

(Ted had been traded by tyrannical Wings GM Jack Adams in the late 50s to the then bottom feeding Blackhawks as punishment for attempting to establish an NHL players association.)

(This was appropriate.

(Ted Lindsay was born to be a Detroit Red Wing. Indeed, as a boy growing up in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, he listened to the very same radio station you and I did, WJR, cheering on rough & tumble Black Jack Stewart.

(As he said many times, Lindsay had the Winged Wheel tattooed on his forehead, his chest, and his backside.

(It was therefore appropriate that Sid Abel brought him back for a final hurrah in Detroit.)

 
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Yes he was.

The 1970s were dark days for Detroit and its sports teams.

I could be wrong but it wouldn't surprise if wearing the brown bag of embarrassment began with a mortified Dead Wings fan base.

You may recall Martyn's color partner was HOFer Sid Abel, original center on the Wings' famed Production Line, distributing the puck to Terrible Ted and Gordie while potting plenty of his own. The line is justly considered one of the greatest in NHL history.

After his retirement, Abel became Detroit's head coach & GM. A bit like Uncle Miltie without the success.

(Red Wings owner Bruce Norris, of the infamous Norris family who also controlled the Chicago Blackhawks and had an interest in the New York Rangers, was a scumbag and a fool.

(The good old days weren't so good for players back then.

(It was Abel who coaxed a recently retired Lindsay to end his playing career, properly, in Detroit.

(Ted had been traded by tyrannical Wings GM Jack Adams in the late 50s to the then bottom feeding Blackhawks as punishment for attempting to establish an NHL players association.)

(This was appropriate.

(Ted Lindsay was born to be a Detroit Red Wing. Indeed, as a boy growing up in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, he listened to the very same radio station you and I did, WJR, cheering on rough & tumble Black Jack Stewart.

(As he said many times, Lindsay had the Winged Wheel tattooed on his forehead, his chest, and his backside.

(It was therefore appropriate that Sid Abel brought him back for a final hurrah in Detroit.)


Do you have something against right parenthesis? 😁
 
Growing up if the Bruins weren’t playing I’d listen to the Wings from time to time and Bruce Martyn was one of the best.


During the 80's, I attended a fair amount of Adirondack Red Wings games in Glens Falls, and, when walking around during intermissions, I heard Bruce Martyn's voice quite a bit, as fans with radios would tune in the big club. In that neck of the woods, you could tune in a lot, B's, Wings, Hawks, Rangers, Habs, the Komets on WOWO, etc.

One other thing I remember well is the referee effigy a lady Civic Center regular would wave in case of disagreement, via a 20-foot telescopic rod.


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During the 80's, I attended a fair amount of Adirondack Red Wings games in Glens Falls, and, when walking around during intermissions, I heard Bruce Martyn's voice quite a bit, as fans with radios would tune in the big club.
He voice was very distinguishable. One of the best !
 
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