Podcast (Audio) Gord Stellick

[Khall9]

Really fun interview with NHL insider Gord Stellick. Stellick shares some great stories from his life in hockey. Including some good ones from his time with the Toronto Maple Leafs where he was the youngest GM in NHL history at the time of his hire. Gord also talks about the upcoming NHL offseason and some possible moves teams will make.

Apple Podcast:
‎The Broadway Hat Podcast: Ep. 30- Gord Stellick on Apple Podcasts
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[MakeTheIronSing]

Thanks for drafting Scott Pearson, Gord. Good call. Only 3 hall of famers drafted right afterwards.

 

[KuleminFan41]

Thanks for drafting Scott Pearson, Gord. Good call. Only 3 hall of famers drafted right afterwards.

Gord Stellick, John Fergusson Jr, Kyle Dubas...maybe we shouldn't be giving rookies the GM job . Will we ever learn though?

 

[JT AM da real deal]

Gord Stellick, John Fergusson Jr, Kyle Dubas...maybe we shouldn't be giving rookies the GM job . Will we ever learn though?

Unbelievable really .. 3 rooks none of whom earned anything to deserve da prime time job .. makes me sick

 

[Apex Predator]

Unbelievable really .. 3 rooks none of whom earned anything to deserve da prime time job .. makes me sick

Relax it’s only hockey

 

[Mess]

Gord Stellick, John Fergusson Jr, Kyle Dubas...maybe we shouldn't be giving rookies the GM job . Will we ever learn though?

In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill paraphrased when he said 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it".

 

[Trapper]

In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill paraphrased when he said 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it".

And don’t forget those that do the same thing but expect a different result…

 

[57 Years No Cup]

Relax it’s only hockey

Sorry Mrs. Stellick.

 

[Mess]

And don’t forget those that do the same thing but expect a different result…

Yup, Albert Einstein covered that one by his definition of insanity.

 

[Lightsol]

Gord Stellick, John Fergusson Jr, Kyle Dubas...maybe we shouldn't be giving rookies the GM job . Will we ever learn though?

Considering the Leafs haven't won in 54 years and they've hired plenty of experienced GM's in that time, too, you can play the same game with them...

Geez, Ballard even brought back Punch Imlach because he won the last Leaf Cup, so of course he'd know what to do to make them a winner in 1980, right?

 

[justloveleafs]

We were best friends from 6-10. We kinda of rocked, an experimental school, called Davisville. Half deaf, half 'normal' .
We both skipped a grade, dominated athletics and academics. But, he was more careful than me. He avoided, the brawl's between the deaf and the hearing.

I spent half my day either beating the shit out of my best friends for picking on deaf people, or being smoked by guys aged ten, when I was six, defending the deaf.

We both swore to play for the leafs.

He got closer initially, but I went on to play pro sports, have the highest paying job , teaching tennis in the world, so I guess we did pretty well surviving, what has been called, the most evil experiment, of the last 50 years.

Me, maybe 90 concusssions.

School was buried very quietly. All of us called it Davis hell.

My mom had me at 15, lived with my grandparents, I would come home every day covered in blood, shirt and pants ripped apart.

I think there is a pretty good movie there, well, I know there is.

School yard was pure concrete. No grass any where.

When the whistle blew for recess, it was according to my jailbird contacts, pretty close to the yard in jail, but it was two world's that scared each other.

 

[Cleetus]

Relax it’s only hockey

 

[keonsbitterness]

We were best friends from 6-10. We kinda of rocked, an experimental school, called Davisville. Half deaf, half 'normal' .
We both skipped a grade, dominated athletics and academics. But, he was more careful than me. He avoided, the brawl's between the deaf and the hearing.

I spent half my day either beating the shit out of my best friends for picking on deaf people, or being smoked by guys aged ten, when I was six, defending the deaf.

We both swore to play for the leafs.

He got closer initially, but I went on to play pro sports, have the highest paying job , teaching tennis in the world, so I guess we did pretty well surviving, what has been called, the most evil experiment, of the last 50 years.

Me, maybe 90 concusssions.

School was buried very quietly. All of us called it Davis hell.

My mom had me at 15, lived with my grandparents, I would come home every day covered in blood, shirt and pants ripped apart.

I think there is a pretty good movie there, well, I know there is.

School yard was pure concrete. No grass any where.

When the whistle blew for recess, it was according to my jailbird contacts, pretty close to the yard in jail, but it was two world's that scared each other.

I thought he lived in North York growing up.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Gord Stellick, John Fergusson Jr, Kyle Dubas...maybe we shouldn't be giving rookies the GM job . Will we ever learn though?

For as long as I live I never want a rookie GM in charge of the Leafs again. 3 f*** ups is more than enough to tell you it doesn’t work. Sure, we’ve had vet GMs like Burke and Nonis f*** up this franchise too, but there have also been veteran GMs who’ve led this team to the little success this franchise has experienced, you can’t say that about a rookie GM. Fletcher and Quinn might not have won it all but they were a hell of a lot better than any of Stellick, JFJ, and Dubas.

 

[justloveleafs]

He lived on Davisville Avenue, block away from Davis Hell.

It was by far and away, the closest thing, a six year old could get, to being on the yard in max security.

He was interviewed by a good friend of mine, Joe Tilley, on his podcast two weeks ago.

Gord is a great guy, but he doesn't speak of what we experienced. Me, any time.

 

[Mickey Marner]

We were best friends from 6-10. We kinda of rocked, an experimental school, called Davisville. Half deaf, half 'normal' .
We both skipped a grade, dominated athletics and academics. But, he was more careful than me. He avoided, the brawl's between the deaf and the hearing.

I spent half my day either beating the shit out of my best friends for picking on deaf people, or being smoked by guys aged ten, when I was six, defending the deaf.

We both swore to play for the leafs.

He got closer initially, but I went on to play pro sports, have the highest paying job , teaching tennis in the world, so I guess we did pretty well surviving, what has been called, the most evil experiment, of the last 50 years.

Me, maybe 90 concusssions.

School was buried very quietly. All of us called it Davis hell.

My mom had me at 15, lived with my grandparents, I would come home every day covered in blood, shirt and pants ripped apart.

I think there is a pretty good movie there, well, I know there is.

School yard was pure concrete. No grass any where.

When the whistle blew for recess, it was according to my jailbird contacts, pretty close to the yard in jail, but it was two world's that scared each other.

Uphill both ways too.

 

[KuleminFan41]

Considering the Leafs haven't won in 54 years and they've hired plenty of experienced GM's in that time, too, you can play the same game with them...

Geez, Ballard even brought back Punch Imlach because he won the last Leaf Cup, so of course he'd know what to do to make them a winner in 1980, right?

Running the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club is not a job for a rookie, this isn't a job you take over and are learning while you do it, this isn't a trade school. It took a veteran general manager in Lou Lamoriello to clean up the mess left behind by a rookie GM which caused a ripple effect for future GM's expecting playoffs every year.

And lets be honest here, Harold Ballard did whatever he wanted and ruined the club far worse than any GM he employed.

 

[A1LeafNation]

Gord Stellick, John Fergusson Jr, Kyle Dubas...maybe we shouldn't be giving rookies the GM job . Will we ever learn though?

Burke Nonis And Fletcher set this franchise back years.

 

[axlrose87]

We were best friends from 6-10. We kinda of rocked, an experimental school, called Davisville. Half deaf, half 'normal' .
We both skipped a grade, dominated athletics and academics. But, he was more careful than me. He avoided, the brawl's between the deaf and the hearing.

I spent half my day either beating the shit out of my best friends for picking on deaf people, or being smoked by guys aged ten, when I was six, defending the deaf.

We both swore to play for the leafs.

He got closer initially, but I went on to play pro sports, have the highest paying job , teaching tennis in the world, so I guess we did pretty well surviving, what has been called, the most evil experiment, of the last 50 years.

Me, maybe 90 concusssions.

School was buried very quietly. All of us called it Davis hell.

My mom had me at 15, lived with my grandparents, I would come home every day covered in blood, shirt and pants ripped apart.

I think there is a pretty good movie there, well, I know there is.

School yard was pure concrete. No grass any where.

When the whistle blew for recess, it was according to my jailbird contacts, pretty close to the yard in jail, but it was two world's that scared each other.

Meth?

 

[hamzarocks]

Meth?

I don't know what the poster's on, but his post made me chuckle at the absurdity of it.

 

[wingman75]

Gord is a great story teller. Much better story teller than GM ;-)

The best part is that he fully admits that, and talks often about that time and the craziness around it.

He's good on the radio too, don't get to hear him often but when I do I enjoy him.

 

[horner]

Considering the Leafs haven't won in 54 years and they've hired plenty of experienced GM's in that time, too, you can play the same game with them...

Geez, Ballard even brought back Punch Imlach because he won the last Leaf Cup, so of course he'd know what to do to make them a winner in 1980, right?

Imlach ruined the leafs or gutted them for some reason .
Lanny McDonald the HOF McDonald was traded to Colorado for Wilf and Quenneville.
Then traded HOF Sittler for scraps

 

[bodechek]

Unbelievable really .. 3 rooks none of whom earned anything to deserve da prime time job .. makes me sick

What was more sickening is when some idiot named Richard Peddie extended the incompetent GM JFJ.

 

[wingman75]

Imlach ruined the leafs or gutted them for some reason .
Lanny McDonald the HOF McDonald was traded to Colorado for Wilf and Quenneville.
Then traded HOF Sittler for scraps

Punch passed away before he completed that complete tear down. That was just before my time as a true fan, so I have only read what happened. Complete barnyard from 80-90 until Ballard was out of the picture.

 

[The CyNick]

Early on I compared Dubas to JFJ. Many people said I was wrong, said I didn't know what I was talking about. Now we can see its clear, he's in the Stellick-JFJ group of worst GMs in franchise history. It upsets me to be right, but I'm not surprised.