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Erod is cool
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Casey Nelson tells press he was behind play and didn’t see the head hit
bob_sauve28 replied to SDS's topic in The Aud Club
Some fans would be happy if they just fought all the time, did cheap shots all the time and just lost. At least we would be "tough." -
Go Sabres!
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Well, maybe he will set up Tage for a few goals
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Asplund tore it up this weekend! He might be turning a corner
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It's wild!
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That was pathetic
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Let's do this boys!
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So, ummm...Chicago has given up the most first period goals in the league?
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This is my favorite goal in Sabre's history
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The bottom pic has Schony, Korab and Bill Hajt that I recognize
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I actually went to the pop shop, totally forgot all about it
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Jake McCabe done for the year...UBI 5-6 week recovery
bob_sauve28 replied to matter2003's topic in The Aud Club
Nothing. They still ain't going to make it ? -
So during last night's game they said something about Eddie Shack, a name I have heard but never knew anything about. But they showed this picture with the blurb about him: That picture hangs in the North Buffalo Ice Arena and I've always been impressed with it. It's a crazy picture, and the Seals player just looks so old! They have a great photo display at the arena there and this is just one of them. Anyway, so I looked him up and his wiki page has some interesting stuff on this former Sabre: * He left his job as a butcher to try out with the Guelph Biltmores hockey club, knowing he could return to the trade if hockey did not pan out as a career. * In November of the 1960–61 season, Shack was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he played seven seasons on the left wing as a colourful, third-line agitator who was popular with the fans despite a lack of scoring prowess. Canadian sports writer Stephen Cole likened Shack's playing to that of 'a big puppy let loose in a wide field'. * During the 1965–66 season Shack broke out, scoring 26 goals on a line with Ron Ellis and Bob Pulford. His popularity was such that a novelty song called Clear the Track, Here Comes Shack, written in his honour and performed by Douglas Rankine with The Secrets,[6] reached #1 on the Canadian pop charts and charted for nearly three months. * After retirement, Shack was a popular advertising spokesman in Canada, most notably for The Pop Shoppesoft drink brand,[9] and a Schick razor promotion for which he shaved his mustache. He also promoted a small chain of doughnut stores. * Shack also revealed he had been illiterate most of his life and subsequently became an advocate for literacy programs in his native Ontario.