Wow, and after watching the Durbano stuff -- what an idiot.
Some of those names are great. Al Smith, the Whalers goalie, and apparent mauler of the other team's goalie, was one of my coaches with the Vernon Vikings (mites) at the time. I had no idea coach was such a badass! And the Carlson mentioned is, I would guess, one of the two Carlson brothers who played for the Whalers and gained fame as two of the Hansen brothers in Slap Shot. I guess the casting director for that movie knew something about the talent! Wonder what the Howes were doing at the time, seems like it should have been right up Gordie's alley.
I have been waiting all day to listen to this. Great stuff, senior bangs.
Minnesota Fighting Saints? Now that's nominative determinism.
Old time hockey? Toe Blake? Eddie Shore? Dit Clapper?
Video or it didn't happen. (Okay, so it clearly did... But I'm disappointed some enterprising soul doesn't have YouTube video of that brawl. *runs off to find hockey fight tape and capture it to the computer*)
