Yes RIP,Henri. He was one of the greatest team leaders in sports.
We should only be so lucky as to have leaders as dedicated to us as Henri Richard was to his team and team mates. He was a credit to the Canadiens and hockey, great role model.
Okay bad Kate you started it. How come I’ve never heard any more about the Toronto Maple Leafs sex tape? Just one paragraph in the Sun. What’s this with Morgan Rielly and Tessa Virtue?
They could use some rockets on the ice.
As a native Montrealer I never met the Pocket Rocket in person but saw him play back in the ’70s occasionally from about a 10th row seat from the rink at the Old Montreal Forum. It seemed closeby enough though. From this vantage point one could hear the players yell at each other and the cracking of the puck against the boards.
It was exciting!
The crowd cheered and stood up in unison when
les Canadiens……………….S-C-O-R-E-D!!!
R.I.P. Henri Richard.
IIRC, the Pocket Rocket played when les Canadiens were still dominant. My condolences.
Though some of my UCLA basketball stars had passed away, most are still here. At the game last Saturday, we had Bill Walton, Sidney Wicks, Jamaal Wilkes, Lucius Allen, and Gail Goodrich in attendance. At least two time consensus All Americans, all of them. Bill and Sy (Sidney) were POY, and Gail should have been. And just so happens they have all five positions covered.
Those were the days, we thought they’d never end.
I don’t care…..Ju ne parl pas les francess, worth schitt
What does his being a French Canadian have to do with anything? He was a very talented athlete.
The Pocket Rocket had no part in what is happening today But in case you missed it we are basically at war with Trudeau and Quebec who are trying to drive western Canada into the poor house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
meh.
hey there UnmeAlterEgo, you dont speak common sense worth shyt either.
M. Strong.
UN apparatchik favoured by the Rothschilds.
Promoter of World De-Industrialization
Promoter of World De-Population
Co-Chair of 2nd World Congress on the Environment.
Convicted of theft- Iraq Oil for Food Program. Died in China no less..imagine that eh?
The guy who is venerated by Every Environmental org and Globalist That ever existed…..and this POS of course came out the hills of Laurentien Canada…..as has much of the political filth this country has produced since Confederation.
Yea, I know who he was….
Oh and the Pocket Rocket. Used to watch him and the rest of Les Canadiens down at the old Forum on Atwater, just a 20 minute walk along Sherbrooke St from our place. I miss all those Original Six. I can still name some of the team’s line ups. Only six teams, so not too hard to do.
Today it’s Millionaires on Ice, right from the git go.
Watch “Henri Richard STANLEY CUP winning goals in 1966 vs Roger Crozer and 1971 vs Tony Esposito” on YouTube https://youtu.be/E1Nlrqu77dw
I agree, those original 6 team players were terrific yet underpaid by comparison. I used to enjoy the fact that the inner boards lacked advertisements. What a distraction! Besides, costly ticket sales is likely where the revenue comes from to pay todays NHL players.
That ‘said’ this business of changing shirt colors to white when a team is ‘Home’ is stupid. The manufacturers make double the pay so then seats cost more.
(No wonder the Expos went kaput — plus the fact that the BIG O is in the poor part of town. But I digress…)
(OTOH: I no longer care, there are more important and serious things to worry about on the eve of distruction)
Nancy – the teams always had two sets of uniform jerseys; the “home” colour and the “away” colour. This was because two teams could have similar background colours – say red – so it was necessary for players, referees, and spectators to be able to differentiate between teams. Back in the day, the “home” colour was essentially white with the team logo and colour flashes. The “away” colour was dark because – given the jerseys were wool – there would be no opportunity to get them cleaned when the team was on a road trip and dark jerseys didn’t show the wear and tear (not to mention sweat) nearly so much.
Do not know when the reversal was made so the home team wore the “stronger” colours.
You’re right. Thinking back, on a black and white TV set it was crucial to have the different colored jerseys to be either dark or light for the millions of home viewers. I looked it up and the switch to white for an out of town game started in 2003-4.
Thanks Frances, I think that switch mixed me up, there has always been 2 sets for each team, in fact.
Hockey players played for peanuts for years.
All because of some guy from Saskatchewan.
Called Gordie Howe.
Each year Detroit GM Jack Adams would meet with Mr. Howe to discuss salary.
The meeting invariably ended with Mr Howe stating, ‘whatever you think is fair Mr.Adams”.
Mr. Adams would fill in a decidedly unfair number like $6000 per annum and the NHL had the sporting world’s first salary cap and the NHL GMs had the ultimate salary killer conversation.
It went something like this:
“Oh really, Mr.Lindsay? You want $7000 per year? You want to be paid more than Gordie Howe? The best player in hockey? Maybe the greatest ever? I’d get fired for such craziness. Maybe I should trade you to a sh*thole like Chicago for such blasphemy!” (which he actually did)
And then the players had to suffer through the dishonest union rep Eagleson years.
That’s another story.
Baseball had martyr Curt Flood’s sacrifice open the floodgates early for them.
Things didn’t change for professional hockey players until Bill Hunter came along with the WHA. He started offering salaries much higher than what the NHL was paying.
Robson at the national post has a good read about reality.
And now the Liberal Party’s Saturday Toronto Star. Because nothing is more important than the views of downtown Toronto. Editorial that Ford is Hitler. Editorial cartoon that Trump is Hitler. Heather Mallick explains that Ford and all male premiers including Jason Kenney promote drunken violence against women. Heather reminds everyone to vote for Justin and the Liberals or NDP. Remember, men are bastards. Exciting story that most people in Quebec support Indians having a veto over resource projects. Martin Cohn explains that former Ont. premier Wynne was the greatest premier Ontario ever had. Ford is Hitler. Numerous Trump is Hitler stories. Toronto needs more money. Heart warming story on why we should kill off old sick people. Carefully selected letters to the editor that Ford is Hitler and teacher unions are wonderful. Justin is wonderful, the Liberal Party is wonderful, socialism is wonderful, Islam is wonderful, Canadians are racist bastards.
‘Heather reminds everyone to vote for Justin and the Liberals or NDP. Remember, men are bastards. ”
True, not a man in the bunch.
Big Chief Shit For Brains is taking the weekend off. Little Justin had an exhausting week burning jet fuel at taxpayer expense around eastern Canada, attending Liberal Party fund raisers and photo ops.
Sad to see Henri Richard’s passing. He was a hero of mine. Another of the greats is gone. 11 Stanley Cups is a record that no one will ever even come close to. Oddly, he finally had his 21st birthday last week. Bon Voyage Pocket Rocket.
Typical article from the (we love Trudeau) CBC. Aaron Wherry writes about Peter MacKay and how bad his position is on climate change.
How about an article on Trudeau’s position and how well it is lowering emissions?
1. Canada’s CO2 emissions haven’t really changed (i.e. haven’t gone down) since 1999.
2. Trudeau wants to apply a carbon tax and then give 90% of it back to us.
3. China, India and the USA are the top CO2 emitters. Why aren’t we taxing imports of their products?
4. Why does Canada ship US coal through a B.C. port?
5. Why is Canada allowing LNG facilities to be constructed in Quebec and B.C. which will increase our total CO2 emissions?
But Peter MacKay’s position is an excuse for inaction. Oh the irony.
Never mind that we use 30% of our energy just for heating to avoid freezing in the dark, and Trudeau plans to triple our population through immigration while reducing emissions. That means that there will be no energy remaining for anything else. Just a plan to impoverish the entire nation and bring on the famine we need to learn from. Now how such a destroyed economy is supposed to invest in developing the new technologies we need to progress and deal with real issues, I have no idea.
Of course, the world will be dominated by those who possess a functioning economy, which will be the ones who ignore the current craze. We are looking at a Marxist environmental catastrophe on a global scale if the likes of Trudeau get their way. Just look at how China does on the environment, or the ecological disaster discovered in the east when Communism fell.
So rumors abound about an early call for a Saskatchewan election. I juxtapose three things.
1. We are headed for a season of unprecedented protests .
2. The government is shaking in it’s boots about the wexit party.
3. Between federal government impediments , protests ,supply chain disruptions and coronavirus fears the economy is in the toilet and is about to be flushed.
Our only hope is a new country and I don’t see any help from the Alberta or Saskatchewan leaders. The only benefit I see from an early election is possibly it may keep the NDP out of office before the Sask parties impending implosion.
The passing of the Pocket Rocket reminded me of being at a fund raiser in a small Alberta town once where the auctioneer was selling a seat from the old Montreal Forum.
When the Forum was demolished the seats were saved and I believe were auctioned off as memorabilia. One must have ended up in rural Alberta.
Albertans are not well known for their fluency in french or quebek culture. The auctioneer was given something to read about the history of the Forum seat which included a reference to the great hockey player Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard. The auctioneer, obviously no hockey fan as well
no franco file read out the blurb and referred to Richard as he might if he was talking about ‘Little Richard’.
Hey abtrapper you once wrote here that you were a Toronto Maple Leaf fan, I believe. So here is a true story for you. It’s about a Western kid who loved hockey. He was also a WW II vet. A real hero.
My true story about meeting (sort of) Johnny Bower of Toronto Maple Leaf fame happened when I once went to a wedding and he too was a guest there. He was long retired from hockey by then. He and his wife were guests of the groom’s side and I was a guest of the bride’s side. He looked older, much like the older photo in the link below, so I didn’t recognize him. They were seated at the other side of the hall. Someone at the table where I was seated remarked that Bower was amongst us and pointed him out. I kept glancing his way all evening from time to time after dinner was served in hopes that a lineup was formed to get his autograph. I would’ve then joined it for the same reason. It didn’t happen. People respected his privacy and the day was, in fact for the wedding couple. When I looked back at his table one last time, it was late, he was gone home.
Wish I had had the courage then to go up to him for a chat. I’d do it now, if this were today. From that day on I decided to never pass a chance to chat with some one if I met anyone famous, but, true to nature, most of the time I chicken out.
I just learned today that he was a Saskatchewan fella reading this above link!
Cool.
NR
My allegiance to the Oilers goes back to the WHA. The Alberta Oilers.
I had season tickets for many years and was at the rink when they won their first cup in ’84.
I might be inclined to pull for the Leafs if they were playing the Habs…ha
Johnny Bower was a gentleman who came up later in life. He’d seen it all by the time he made it to the show.
A nice man
Just curious. Which teams out of the original six teams did people in Western Canada root for pre 1972 when the WHA (’72-79) formed it’s league and expansion took place? My guess would’ve been Toronto, then Chicago then moving in an easterly direction with Montreal being last. Correct?
I rooted for Montreal. Even then, Toronto was the enemy.
Western Canada’s oil industry takes a lot of crap from the wackos down east so here’s a reminder of exactly who and where Canada’s biggest oil spill occurred.
It was in fact 4.3 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez.
“It is not sure what caused the collapse”… ah, Chinese construction standards?
They have standards?
Do we, as Canadians have confidence in this government, this PM?
It’s not surprising to now learn that JT squanders tax dollars like mad but (he) can be as parsimonious, miserly, very sparing in expenditure, frugal to excess, and stinting, as the old man was, when he wants to.
oh look. their valuable retirement property is quickly joining the silt on the bottom of the lake.
jeepers.
when I was a kid, I used to explore the unoccupied far western beaches of Port Stanley area.
one schmuck tried to put in a roadway down to the beach.
by disturbing the cliff, the ‘roadway’ fell apart faster than it could be put in place.
I was a pre-teen at the time and learned an immensely valuable lesson about where to live.
and where not to:
-near a river
-near a lake
-near a cliff side
– etc etc
Wasn’t there a parable or story in the Bible about not building your house on sand?
(The current system makes me feel jet lagged either way initially!)
I started using UTC back when I was a shortwave listener many years ago. Many stations utilized it because their audience lived in more than one time zone.
Some stations changed their program times in the summer as a convenience for their target audiences, but not every country switched to or from DST at the same time. It made things a bit interesting for a few weeks during the year.
The BBC World Service, not surprisingly, announced their times in GMT, partly out of tradition. For most people, though, there was no difference.
Amateur radio makes use of UTC and, of course, satellites don’t change their orbit times simply because the clocks are shifted by an hour.
Yes, you want daylight savings time year round if you are getting rid of it. I don’t need the sun starting to come up at 2 AM, at 3 AM it is bad enough.
Agreed: we should stick to standard time year-round. The sun should be at it’s height at 12:00 noon. Also, there is increasing scientific evidence that later sunsets are not good for human health.
Daniel Craig 007 is the host of SNL tonight.
Did a parody of James Bond very funny. He has moved to NYC. Everything is a parody on coronavirus, very funnuy too, using plastic wrap, etc.
Senator Elizabeth Warren did the opening number with the crew:
” LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!”
(If you hate this post, tough bonanzo, get a life!)
Yes RIP,Henri. He was one of the greatest team leaders in sports.
We should only be so lucky as to have leaders as dedicated to us as Henri Richard was to his team and team mates. He was a credit to the Canadiens and hockey, great role model.
Okay bad Kate you started it. How come I’ve never heard any more about the Toronto Maple Leafs sex tape? Just one paragraph in the Sun. What’s this with Morgan Rielly and Tessa Virtue?
They could use some rockets on the ice.
Vaguely related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyDsF-Gp3o
So sad to hear that Henri Richard passed away. He had quite a career with the NHL. See more details about his life here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Richard
Watch “Henri Richard’s Tavern closes in 1986” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/0tOsD5WBqiA
As a native Montrealer I never met the Pocket Rocket in person but saw him play back in the ’70s occasionally from about a 10th row seat from the rink at the Old Montreal Forum. It seemed closeby enough though. From this vantage point one could hear the players yell at each other and the cracking of the puck against the boards.
It was exciting!
The crowd cheered and stood up in unison when
les Canadiens……………….S-C-O-R-E-D!!!
R.I.P. Henri Richard.
IIRC, the Pocket Rocket played when les Canadiens were still dominant. My condolences.
Though some of my UCLA basketball stars had passed away, most are still here. At the game last Saturday, we had Bill Walton, Sidney Wicks, Jamaal Wilkes, Lucius Allen, and Gail Goodrich in attendance. At least two time consensus All Americans, all of them. Bill and Sy (Sidney) were POY, and Gail should have been. And just so happens they have all five positions covered.
Those were the days, we thought they’d never end.
I don’t care…..Ju ne parl pas les francess, worth schitt
What does his being a French Canadian have to do with anything? He was a very talented athlete.
The Pocket Rocket had no part in what is happening today But in case you missed it we are basically at war with Trudeau and Quebec who are trying to drive western Canada into the poor house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
meh.
hey there UnmeAlterEgo, you dont speak common sense worth shyt either.
Here Kanuckistanians, even the Yanks are onto us: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/19/canadian-government-anti-pipeline-extremists-sabotaging-railway-lines/
Oh I dunno, just a foreign look at Kanaduh today.
Calamity Jane
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/jane-fonda-promises-to-shut-down-the-government-if-necessary-over-climate-change/ar-BB10QFMR?ocid=spartandhp
When you don’t have to work for a living, have lived a life of fame and fortune, you can participate in “Fire Drill Fridays.”
I wouldn’t wish a stroke on anyone but anyone named Hanoi Jane ???????
Keep expecting to read, hear, see one sentence where word sabotage is used.
None in the Canadian mass media cartel.
Well, one can guess that the big giant head in the ministry of truth said no.
On the other hand the media cartel is well trained, not unlike monkeys, to know what’s verboten.
Do some reading folks, especially Albertans: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/19/be-careful-who-you-vote-for/ this is prescient post the last election. If that so-called “conservative’ McKay heads up “The New Conservative Party” as leader, kiss your life goodbye in Kanaduh. With polls showing his popularity up in Alberta, you’re screwed dumb arses.
And this one: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/01/the-liberals-covert-green-plan-for-canada-poverty-and-dictatorship/
Not to be found in any Canadian source. READ the comment sections, you’ll learn even more. This stuff was laid out in detail decades ago by none other than Canada’s own Maurice Strong….Agenda 21.
M. Strong.
UN apparatchik favoured by the Rothschilds.
Promoter of World De-Industrialization
Promoter of World De-Population
Co-Chair of 2nd World Congress on the Environment.
Convicted of theft- Iraq Oil for Food Program. Died in China no less..imagine that eh?
The guy who is venerated by Every Environmental org and Globalist That ever existed…..and this POS of course came out the hills of Laurentien Canada…..as has much of the political filth this country has produced since Confederation.
Yea, I know who he was….
Oh and the Pocket Rocket. Used to watch him and the rest of Les Canadiens down at the old Forum on Atwater, just a 20 minute walk along Sherbrooke St from our place. I miss all those Original Six. I can still name some of the team’s line ups. Only six teams, so not too hard to do.
Today it’s Millionaires on Ice, right from the git go.
Watch “Henri Richard STANLEY CUP winning goals in 1966 vs Roger Crozer and 1971 vs Tony Esposito” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/E1Nlrqu77dw
I agree, those original 6 team players were terrific yet underpaid by comparison. I used to enjoy the fact that the inner boards lacked advertisements. What a distraction! Besides, costly ticket sales is likely where the revenue comes from to pay todays NHL players.
That ‘said’ this business of changing shirt colors to white when a team is ‘Home’ is stupid. The manufacturers make double the pay so then seats cost more.
(No wonder the Expos went kaput — plus the fact that the BIG O is in the poor part of town. But I digress…)
(OTOH: I no longer care, there are more important and serious things to worry about on the eve of distruction)
Nancy – the teams always had two sets of uniform jerseys; the “home” colour and the “away” colour. This was because two teams could have similar background colours – say red – so it was necessary for players, referees, and spectators to be able to differentiate between teams. Back in the day, the “home” colour was essentially white with the team logo and colour flashes. The “away” colour was dark because – given the jerseys were wool – there would be no opportunity to get them cleaned when the team was on a road trip and dark jerseys didn’t show the wear and tear (not to mention sweat) nearly so much.
Do not know when the reversal was made so the home team wore the “stronger” colours.
You’re right. Thinking back, on a black and white TV set it was crucial to have the different colored jerseys to be either dark or light for the millions of home viewers. I looked it up and the switch to white for an out of town game started in 2003-4.
Thanks Frances, I think that switch mixed me up, there has always been 2 sets for each team, in fact.
I’m shameful now, — rarely tune into the games.
Watch “Barry McGuire – Eve Of Destruction” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/qfZVu0alU0I
Hockey players played for peanuts for years.
All because of some guy from Saskatchewan.
Called Gordie Howe.
Each year Detroit GM Jack Adams would meet with Mr. Howe to discuss salary.
The meeting invariably ended with Mr Howe stating, ‘whatever you think is fair Mr.Adams”.
Mr. Adams would fill in a decidedly unfair number like $6000 per annum and the NHL had the sporting world’s first salary cap and the NHL GMs had the ultimate salary killer conversation.
It went something like this:
“Oh really, Mr.Lindsay? You want $7000 per year? You want to be paid more than Gordie Howe? The best player in hockey? Maybe the greatest ever? I’d get fired for such craziness. Maybe I should trade you to a sh*thole like Chicago for such blasphemy!” (which he actually did)
And then the players had to suffer through the dishonest union rep Eagleson years.
That’s another story.
Baseball had martyr Curt Flood’s sacrifice open the floodgates early for them.
Things didn’t change for professional hockey players until Bill Hunter came along with the WHA. He started offering salaries much higher than what the NHL was paying.
Robson at the national post has a good read about reality.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-robson-canadas-stark-new-reality-barges-in-after-warren-buffett-pulls-out
Best line from comments
“Too bad Castro didn’t pull out 49 years ago”
Best line for sure and from a lady!
And now the Liberal Party’s Saturday Toronto Star. Because nothing is more important than the views of downtown Toronto. Editorial that Ford is Hitler. Editorial cartoon that Trump is Hitler. Heather Mallick explains that Ford and all male premiers including Jason Kenney promote drunken violence against women. Heather reminds everyone to vote for Justin and the Liberals or NDP. Remember, men are bastards. Exciting story that most people in Quebec support Indians having a veto over resource projects. Martin Cohn explains that former Ont. premier Wynne was the greatest premier Ontario ever had. Ford is Hitler. Numerous Trump is Hitler stories. Toronto needs more money. Heart warming story on why we should kill off old sick people. Carefully selected letters to the editor that Ford is Hitler and teacher unions are wonderful. Justin is wonderful, the Liberal Party is wonderful, socialism is wonderful, Islam is wonderful, Canadians are racist bastards.
‘Heather reminds everyone to vote for Justin and the Liberals or NDP. Remember, men are bastards. ”
True, not a man in the bunch.
Big Chief Shit For Brains is taking the weekend off. Little Justin had an exhausting week burning jet fuel at taxpayer expense around eastern Canada, attending Liberal Party fund raisers and photo ops.
Sad to see Henri Richard’s passing. He was a hero of mine. Another of the greats is gone. 11 Stanley Cups is a record that no one will ever even come close to. Oddly, he finally had his 21st birthday last week. Bon Voyage Pocket Rocket.
Typical article from the (we love Trudeau) CBC. Aaron Wherry writes about Peter MacKay and how bad his position is on climate change.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-carbon-pricing-peter-mackay-conservative-party-1.5482284
How about an article on Trudeau’s position and how well it is lowering emissions?
1. Canada’s CO2 emissions haven’t really changed (i.e. haven’t gone down) since 1999.
2. Trudeau wants to apply a carbon tax and then give 90% of it back to us.
3. China, India and the USA are the top CO2 emitters. Why aren’t we taxing imports of their products?
4. Why does Canada ship US coal through a B.C. port?
5. Why is Canada allowing LNG facilities to be constructed in Quebec and B.C. which will increase our total CO2 emissions?
But Peter MacKay’s position is an excuse for inaction. Oh the irony.
Never mind that we use 30% of our energy just for heating to avoid freezing in the dark, and Trudeau plans to triple our population through immigration while reducing emissions. That means that there will be no energy remaining for anything else. Just a plan to impoverish the entire nation and bring on the famine we need to learn from. Now how such a destroyed economy is supposed to invest in developing the new technologies we need to progress and deal with real issues, I have no idea.
Of course, the world will be dominated by those who possess a functioning economy, which will be the ones who ignore the current craze. We are looking at a Marxist environmental catastrophe on a global scale if the likes of Trudeau get their way. Just look at how China does on the environment, or the ecological disaster discovered in the east when Communism fell.
In Kahnawake the elected band councils compete with the power of the three long houses, with three clan mothers per who each appoint a chief.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/commentary-lessons-can-be-learned-from-the-blockade-in-kahnawake/ar-BB10QWZE?ocid=spartandhp
The Wetsuweten have 5 clans each with chiefs and 13 houses with elected band councils and the hereditary chief’s have their undefined power.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/joe-oliver-trudeaus-panicky-give-away-to-hereditary-chiefs-creates-more-chaos-and-confusion/ar-BB10NGb7?ocid=spartandhp
And Blackie the Gay Pirate and Corrupt Liberals want to give these groups veto power.
I bet everyone is excited that Blackie has made Omar Khadr’s lawyer a judge in Alberta. Its so “progressive”.
Much of what Tucker Carlson says about Biden applies to Prinz Dummkopf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrZCixuL8Wg
His comments start at around 9:00
So rumors abound about an early call for a Saskatchewan election. I juxtapose three things.
1. We are headed for a season of unprecedented protests .
2. The government is shaking in it’s boots about the wexit party.
3. Between federal government impediments , protests ,supply chain disruptions and coronavirus fears the economy is in the toilet and is about to be flushed.
Our only hope is a new country and I don’t see any help from the Alberta or Saskatchewan leaders. The only benefit I see from an early election is possibly it may keep the NDP out of office before the Sask parties impending implosion.
The passing of the Pocket Rocket reminded me of being at a fund raiser in a small Alberta town once where the auctioneer was selling a seat from the old Montreal Forum.
When the Forum was demolished the seats were saved and I believe were auctioned off as memorabilia. One must have ended up in rural Alberta.
Albertans are not well known for their fluency in french or quebek culture. The auctioneer was given something to read about the history of the Forum seat which included a reference to the great hockey player Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard. The auctioneer, obviously no hockey fan as well
no franco file read out the blurb and referred to Richard as he might if he was talking about ‘Little Richard’.
Hey abtrapper you once wrote here that you were a Toronto Maple Leaf fan, I believe. So here is a true story for you. It’s about a Western kid who loved hockey. He was also a WW II vet. A real hero.
My true story about meeting (sort of) Johnny Bower of Toronto Maple Leaf fame happened when I once went to a wedding and he too was a guest there. He was long retired from hockey by then. He and his wife were guests of the groom’s side and I was a guest of the bride’s side. He looked older, much like the older photo in the link below, so I didn’t recognize him. They were seated at the other side of the hall. Someone at the table where I was seated remarked that Bower was amongst us and pointed him out. I kept glancing his way all evening from time to time after dinner was served in hopes that a lineup was formed to get his autograph. I would’ve then joined it for the same reason. It didn’t happen. People respected his privacy and the day was, in fact for the wedding couple. When I looked back at his table one last time, it was late, he was gone home.
Wish I had had the courage then to go up to him for a chat. I’d do it now, if this were today. From that day on I decided to never pass a chance to chat with some one if I met anyone famous, but, true to nature, most of the time I chicken out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bower
I just learned today that he was a Saskatchewan fella reading this above link!
Cool.
NR
My allegiance to the Oilers goes back to the WHA. The Alberta Oilers.
I had season tickets for many years and was at the rink when they won their first cup in ’84.
I might be inclined to pull for the Leafs if they were playing the Habs…ha
Johnny Bower was a gentleman who came up later in life. He’d seen it all by the time he made it to the show.
A nice man
Just curious. Which teams out of the original six teams did people in Western Canada root for pre 1972 when the WHA (’72-79) formed it’s league and expansion took place? My guess would’ve been Toronto, then Chicago then moving in an easterly direction with Montreal being last. Correct?
I rooted for Montreal. Even then, Toronto was the enemy.
Thanks, Frances.
Not a tip, just a very smokey tour of London…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrqYohBV58o
Western Canada’s oil industry takes a lot of crap from the wackos down east so here’s a reminder of exactly who and where Canada’s biggest oil spill occurred.
It was in fact 4.3 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_(tanker)
Needless to say, if eastern Canada wasn’t IMPORTING oil just to spite the West, this huge oil spill would not have happened.
Sorry, I was too early with my tip and attached it to the previous story. So here it comes again:
It is more like a tip. Short footages from the Turkish – Greek border.
https://wpolityce.pl/swiat/489972-kolejne-starcia-z-migrantami-na-granicy-turecko-greckiej
In Polish, but it is what it is and you can’t find it on CBC.
Also, Border with Bulgaria seems to be quiet.
This looks serious. Maybe Rebel can send someone to report.
Derailments aren’t sabotage. Nononononononono. They’re the fault of the criminally negligent railways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V7HZ_TUoxo
Breaking: a five-storey quarantine hotel in China has collapsed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51784167
“It is not sure what caused the collapse”… ah, Chinese construction standards?
They have standards?
Do we, as Canadians have confidence in this government, this PM?
It’s not surprising to now learn that JT squanders tax dollars like mad but (he) can be as parsimonious, miserly, very sparing in expenditure, frugal to excess, and stinting, as the old man was, when he wants to.
Watch “Justin Trudeau owes us $5,500 — but won’t pay! | Ezra Levant” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/sMHtRixK62Q
This is a good example of his autocannibalism– he is derelict in paying Canadian taxpayer’s debts.
This government must fall at the next budget due to non confidence.
Wexit
This government must fall at the next budget due to non confidence.
With the allies that the Libranos have in Parliament? Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Wexit
in other news:
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/final-weekend-looms-for-shoreline-residents
oh look. their valuable retirement property is quickly joining the silt on the bottom of the lake.
jeepers.
when I was a kid, I used to explore the unoccupied far western beaches of Port Stanley area.
one schmuck tried to put in a roadway down to the beach.
by disturbing the cliff, the ‘roadway’ fell apart faster than it could be put in place.
I was a pre-teen at the time and learned an immensely valuable lesson about where to live.
and where not to:
-near a river
-near a lake
-near a cliff side
– etc etc
Wasn’t there a parable or story in the Bible about not building your house on sand?
There is indeed: Matthew 7:24 – 27.
An idea for the stupid party: https://dnyuz.com/2020/03/07/erik-prince-recruits-ex-spies-to-help-infiltrate-liberal-groups/ ?
Good. Every illegal is a terrorist. Bravo ICE, bravo Border Control. Bravo president Trump. https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/03/05/libs-panic-as-ice-starts-arresting-illegal-immigrants-in-nyc/ once proven they are illegal deport immediately. No appeals. Curb stomp if they resist.
Sanfransicko – Store Shelves Empty, Cronoavirus?
Nope, shoplifting………
https://news.yahoo.com/walgreens-says-near-empty-van-013540393.html
How deep is the swamp…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDEDR0JXdE
So they redact 300K names, and it’s 30 billion of US government money that they cannot say where it went or to whom? (JUST ONE YEAR?????)
Apparently, so deep that there may not be a bottom…
THE FREAKING MINIMUM WAGE IN SOME US GOVERNMENTS IS $100,000?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/coronavirus/card/PHR36rxMceFjA9JRrWHT
Like they have needed an excuse to this point?
°*☆ Reminder
☆ *☆ Timexit
° *☆ ° ☆ One Hour
Daylight Saving Time starts tomorrow at 03:00 hours (~_~) yawn……..
Albertans want this malarkey all year round?
https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/03/albertans-want-summer-time-all-year-round/
Not this one. My wristwatches and most of my computers (which run either Linux or FreeBSD) are on UTC.
You are a cool scientist!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
(The current system makes me feel jet lagged either way initially!)
I started using UTC back when I was a shortwave listener many years ago. Many stations utilized it because their audience lived in more than one time zone.
Some stations changed their program times in the summer as a convenience for their target audiences, but not every country switched to or from DST at the same time. It made things a bit interesting for a few weeks during the year.
The BBC World Service, not surprisingly, announced their times in GMT, partly out of tradition. For most people, though, there was no difference.
Amateur radio makes use of UTC and, of course, satellites don’t change their orbit times simply because the clocks are shifted by an hour.
Yes, you want daylight savings time year round if you are getting rid of it. I don’t need the sun starting to come up at 2 AM, at 3 AM it is bad enough.
Agreed: we should stick to standard time year-round. The sun should be at it’s height at 12:00 noon. Also, there is increasing scientific evidence that later sunsets are not good for human health.
Daniel Craig 007 is the host of SNL tonight.
Did a parody of James Bond very funny. He has moved to NYC. Everything is a parody on coronavirus, very funnuy too, using plastic wrap, etc.
Senator Elizabeth Warren did the opening number with the crew:
” LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!”
(If you hate this post, tough bonanzo, get a life!)