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Fascinating video on the life and times of former Oiler, and cousin of Mark Messier, Don Murdoch. Once the brightest rookie light in hockey, he ruined his career with Cocaine. Never forget it.



Also kudos to what a great guy Phil Esposito is. Confronted the player, but had his back for decades and gave him a job in hockey. Even after being out of the NHL, and still with the Oilers Org, Murdoch scored a goal/game in the playoffs to lead the Wichita Wind, at the time the Oilers affiliate. Was almost good enough to get him back in the show with the Oil but by then we had a loaded lineup. Murdoch was traded from Edmonton and his NHL career gradually unraveled.
 
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Drivesaitl said:
Fascinating video on the life and times of former Oiler, and cousin of Mark Messier, Don Murdoch. Once the brightest rookie light in hockey, he ruined his career with Cocaine. Never forget it.



Also kudos to what a great guy Phil Esposito is. Confronted the player, but had his back for decades and gave him a job in hockey. Even after being out of the NHL, and still with the Oilers Org, Murdoch scored a goal/game in the playoffs to lead the Wichita Wind, at the time the Oilers affiliate. Was almost good enough to get him back in the show with the Oil but by then we had a loaded lineup. Murdoch was traded from Edmonton and his NHL career gradually unraveled.
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Donny "Murder" Murdoch. What a player. I have an acquaintance that told me a story of when said acquaintance played for the Pats and was assigned to check Murdoch in a playoff game. Murder scored 5 goals, and really, only one of them was the checkers fault. Drilled two of his snipes into the top corner from just inside the blue line. Nonetheless, the checking assignment was given to someone else on the team, although the results weren't a lot more favourable.;)
 
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Drivesaitl said:
Fascinating video on the life and times of former Oiler, and cousin of Mark Messier, Don Murdoch. Once the brightest rookie light in hockey, he ruined his career with Cocaine. Never forget it.



Also kudos to what a great guy Phil Esposito is. Confronted the player, but had his back for decades and gave him a job in hockey. Even after being out of the NHL, and still with the Oilers Org, Murdoch scored a goal/game in the playoffs to lead the Wichita Wind, at the time the Oilers affiliate. Was almost good enough to get him back in the show with the Oil but by then we had a loaded lineup. Murdoch was traded from Edmonton and his NHL career gradually unraveled.
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Thin Ice is a fun read. I have it on my bookshelf, will reread it again soon, been around 30 years since I first read it. No idea how those players actually were able to play hockey with all the shenanigans that went on.
 
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bellagiobob said:
Not sure if you’re kidding or just a youngster. :). Was in a lot of great movies back in the ‘80’s - Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, 48 hrs.
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Was just kidding lol. I was just surprised I hadn’t heard of this song or his bet with Pryor for $100k that Eddie couldn’t make a hit song until last night!
 
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Stoneman89 said:
Donny "Murder" Murdoch. What a player. I have an acquaintance that told me a story of when said acquaintance played for the Pats and was assigned to check Murdoch in a playoff game. Murder scored 5 goals, and really, only one of them was the checkers fault. Drilled two of his snipes into the top corner from just inside the blue line. Nonetheless, the checking assignment was given to someone else on the team, although the results weren't a lot more favourable.;)
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Saw him play a number of times on TV and in person. What a goal scorer phenom career he could have had. The guy had a real knack. That OT winner in the video, wow, what a filthy move. Murdoch didn't have as much of that in him when he was up here in Edmonton but apparently showed it in Wichita. For the young Oilers team its better that Murdoch didn't stick here ultimately, and that we got Kurri instead.

But Murdoch was a fun player to watch. Apparently he had too much fun everywhere. One wonders if it would have gone differently for him in a quieter city than NY. NY was wilder than usual at the exact time he was playing there.

bellagiobob said:
Not sure if you’re kidding or just a youngster. :). Was in a lot of great movies back in the ‘80’s - Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, 48 hrs.
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Pluto Nash....;)
 
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Bryanbryoil said:
We can't do f*** all over here. Design, build or maintain. Bunch of f***ing rejects here in the department of transportation.
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On the other hand you live on volcanic islands that are predominately igneous material Landslides, movements, shifts, floods are common and roads are often built in the coastal regions where roads are most feasible. What makes most sense in hawaii is very simple Asphalt roads which I notice is what they build. Nor do the islands all have to be volcanically active to have these problems. Its the unstable substrate you have to build on. I don't know how they build any towers at all in Hawaii but Oahu of all the Islands seems to have a larger kind of flood plain established that is low land and has allowed massive building in the Honolulu/Waikiki area. My guess is that this was all a huge laval flow area at one time with magma flows much more pervasive there millions of years ago. I do know that Oahu was formed of two gigantic Volcanoes.

Japan, conversely which people might think of as similar origin or topography is more the result of tectonics and uplfting of land masses. Still a real challenge I would assume building in an area that is tectonically active but it is a shelf landmass uplift rather than being volcanic extrusion, and offers more stable substrate in which to build.

This is perhaps interesting for some people that Edmonton region built on clay, a lot of clay, you have to have subtantial underground concrete piers of basements, mooring of a type to build towers here. Its much harder to build towers here than in say NYC, where the substrate would be Manhattan Schist which is a very hard rock that allows such massive and high builds. So that in NYC the substrate is naturally occuring to build on top off. In Edmonton for towers you have to build the substrate. Without which the towers would sink or fall into the clay. The reason we would have all this clay here is due to how closely situated we are with what was gigantic continental glaciation here and alternately that at different geologic time we were also under a continental sea. Both that covered the landscape and left a lot of gunk behind. This has also resulted in the North Saskatchewan river fairly easily establishing very deep banks for a prairie river.

Stoneman89 said:
Shit, where are the Hot Wheels cars?;)
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Godzilla would have a field day with all this spaghetti junction. They probably destroyed that in CGI once or twice.
 
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This sums up my general experience with our present reality.
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