‘A great change that is good for hockey in general’ September 6, Room 1914, Northstar Hotel, Winnipeg Ken Dryden dropped by my hotel room today, vainly attempted to call his old Winnipeg landlady, then talked for more than an hour about what the Canada-Russia series means to hockey everywhere. Unlike Read more…
Excitement mounted about the opening game in the series on September 2. My advance stories included a look at the two squads. September 1 Rating the squads — (Filing from Montreal) Professional hockey is machismo. The forms that scouts carry with them into the hinterlands have boxes for rating a Read more…
When Canada’s best took on the Russians, it was a Cold War on — and off —the ice. In the summer of 1972 Time magazine assigned me, the Toronto bureau chief, to cover an eight-game hockey series between a select team of NHL stars and the best players of Read more…