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bob_sauve28

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  1. Quinn is just getting better and better, so great to see
  2. If Quinn, Benson, Cozens and JJP keep playing lights out, look out, this team is dangerous IF
  3. At some point the talent on this team can/will jell into the chemistry of a good team. They have talent
  4. But there were a lot of fancy passes on those goals. None of them were shoot and crash the net goals really. Fancy pass goals
  5. Sports is just like that. Wouldn't surprise me too much if this talented group goes on a nice run and threatens for a playoff spot, but that is a tall order
  6. Detroit losing, we can pick up two points on them tonight! @playoff_hopes
  7. And another apple for Dylan, who has also been really good.
  8. When Quinn is on, he is scary good! His shot is elite
  9. These announcers are wacked! Palm trees? Lol,
  10. I'm not, just recognized the name and did a search and that's what I found. I looked up the show, looks cool
  11. Before dropping the ceremonial puck, the man of the evening first removed his fedora. Thirty years old with a receding hairline, sporting a striped tie, overcoat and round-rimmed glasses, he looked fittingly distinguished for the occasion. Much better, for sure, than the blanched hospital gown he needed for more than a month. To his left at center ice stood all 16 members of the visiting team, wearing white jerseys with β€œNHL” embroidered across the chest. For their participation tonight, they would later receive medals that had been donated by the Montreal Canadiens’ organization; indeed, creating this event on short notice had required much charity and collaboration from the league’s nine clubs, eight of which were represented on this star-studded exhibition roster. On the other side were the man’s Toronto teammates, watching proudly. All of them had been outfitted in Maple Leafs sweaters, standard blue with white trim. Except these had also been custom-stitched on the front with three giant letters: β€œACE.” He might’ve been named Irvine Wallace Bailey at birth, but that’s what everyone called him. And now, on Valentine’s Day 1934, 14,000-plus fans rose and roared for Ace. Two months and two days earlier, Dec. 12, 1933, Bailey was sprawled on the ice at the Boston Garden, unconscious and twitching. He had been injured late during a 4-1 win over the host Bruins, when rugged defenseman Eddie Shore upended Bailey from behind, causing Bailey to fall backwards and land on his head. According to specialists who later treated him, the blithe left-winger from Ontario had suffered β€œa bruised and torn brain, fractured skull and an extra-dural clot on the brain.” Immediate diagnoses were bleak. At Boston City Hospital, Bailey’s condition was listed as β€œhighly critical,” and within 24 hours he had already undergone two spinal taps to relieve intracranial pressure. The next day, an area homicide inspector visited Shore’s home. According to the Montreal Gazette, the inspector told Shore that an arrest warrant had already been written in the event that Bailey didn’t survive. The intended charge: manslaughter. What followed is not merely the story of the original NHL All-Star Game. To this day, it also remains an incredible tale of physical survival and mental anguish, fights and forgiveness, blood and sacrifice. Secondary characters include a father with a gun; a general manager in jail; and an altruistic sports editor at the paper. The two main characters, meanwhile, have since been inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame. Both lived into their 80s. And yet, Ace Bailey and Eddie Shore will forever be remembered for the moment they collided.https://www.si.com/nhl/2017/01/27/first-nhl-all-star-game-ace-bailey-eddie-shore
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