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Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 88
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File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
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File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
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File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
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File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
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File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 88
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File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
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self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
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Julie Courtney
Independent Curator
I met Marian Locks at the home of Sidney Guberman, one of her artists, in 1968. I was an art history major at Boston University, and passionate about contemporary art. I had a long conversation with Marian, late into the evening, and I really can’t remember what either of us said, but at the end of our conversation she said, “Someday, when you’re ready, I’d like to have you work for me.”
When I graduated from college, I came home to Philadelphia and went right to her gallery, which at that time was in the back of a gift shop right across from Peale House in the 1800 block of Chestnut Street. I frequented the gallery, admired her artists, and had some wonderful conversations with Marian and the artists who would come and go all day long. “I’m ready,” I said brightly on more than one occasion. But alas, the answer was always the same. “I can’t afford you.” Not that I came at such a high price.
Eight years later I got a call from Julie Jensen, an old high school friend, who said, “Marian’s looking for someone.” So I called her up and she invited me to come in to her new gallery, the spacious second floor of 1524 Walnut Street, for a chat. When I got there, Diane Burko was sitting there, so my interview was really with both Marian and Diane. Fortunately, I was impressive enough, and entered into the world that would become my life.
Life working at Marian’s was a combination of an old-fashioned art salon, with artists and collectors in and out, and a bustling business. Cheap white wine flowed, and for special guests, like Edna Andrade, a vodka on the rocks. It was wild, chaotic, and exciting. The openings were amazing; they were so crowded we steamed up the wall-to-wall front windows. Since most of the artists were from Philadelphia, and teaching at PAFA, Tyler, PCA (now UARTS), Moore, and Penn, the crowd included their friends, collectors, and students, past and present. Generations, genders, and classes mixed. What we had in common was stronger than most bonds: we shared a passion for art and artists. It was very exciting.
Marian used to refer to herself as the old woman who lived in a shoe, who had so many artists she didn’t know what to do. She was everyone’s mother, artists and collectors alike. She had a very hard time saying “no,” and rarely did. Collectors bought “on time.” One couple amassed an amazing collection, sending in $10 a week. They’d often come in from Wilmington every week, drop off a check and drink a lot of wine, chatting with us and whomever else dropped by. Marian often invited whoever remained after closing time to dinner. She was generous to a fault.
I was privileged to know so many of Philadelphia’s finest artists. Warren Rohrer, Fumio Yoshimura, John Formicola, Harry Soviak, Bob Keyser, Jody Pinto, Ray Metzker, Liz Osborne, John Moore, David Fertig, Murray Dessner, James Havard, Tom Palmore, and soon, as their students became part of the “stable,” the next generation of artists: Keith Ragone, Mary Nomecos, Carolyn Healy and John Phillips, Bob and Trish Moss-Vreeland, and countless others would all come by and catch Marian up with their lives. I know I have forgotten some whom I shouldn’t, but it was a long, long, ever-morphing crowd. Edna Andrade and Diane Burko were among Marian’s closest confidantes, and I hated to pull myself away from the gallery when they came in because that’s when the juiciest gossip was to be heard.
Soon after I started working at the gallery, I fell in love with Warren Rohrer’s work. I bought a small 10” painting and paid Warren $25 a month until I couldn’t stand it any longer and paid the balance, foregoing dinners out and bottles of wine. That little painting cost $300 at the time, and Marian didn’t take her commission, so I paid Warren $180 (those were the days of the 60/40 split, with the artist getting 60%). I treasure that painting today, and look at it each day from my desk – an ever-changing, meditative landscape. I never grow tired of it.
Because the gallery was in the former Yale Club, my father’s Alma Mater, he came to see me every day. It became clear to me that by repetitive viewing, one can really begin to respond to contemporary art. My father knew nothing about art, and in the beginning didn’t even look around. After visiting an exhibit 15 or 20 times (he never missed a day), he would start to make comments. Fascinating!
I started working at the Gallery in 1977, and left in 1983 to start The Temple Gallery. It was inevitable that I would leave one day, but I didn’t like change and was afraid of what my future would hold. But I could see that our interests were diverging. I was becoming more excited by artwork that didn’t sell as Marian was trying to be a better businesswoman and work with corporate clients. I was moving into a world of commissioning site-specific installations, and was interested in writing grants to support artists in that way. I was drawn to non-profit as the gallery was finally becoming a profit-making business.
Marian used to say I was getting my Ph.D. working at the gallery. I started at $100 week, paying my own taxes and health insurance out of that. My accountant said I’d be better off not working, but I wouldn’t have traded this for the world. Marian taught me how to look at art, and more importantly, to be sympathetic and supportive to artists. I know I am who I am today because of our relationship.
In memory of Marian Locks 1915-2010
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Brian Brennan is an Irish-born writer who has lived and worked in Canada since 1966. He makes his home in Calgary, Alberta, where he has worked as a journalist and author, publishing eight books of biography and social history including The Good Steward: The Ernest C. Manning Story (2008), How the West was Written: The Life and Times of James H. Gray (2006), Romancing the Rockies: Mountaineers, Missionaries, Marilyn & More (2005) and Scoundrels and Scallywags (2002). He was the first recipient of Canada’s Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award and has written freelance articles and columns for magazines and newspapers across the United States and Canada, including the New York Times, Globe and Mail and Toronto Star. Brian also serves on the National Council of The Writers’ Union of Canada.
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“God loves you more than you will ever know” – church leaders’ united message for Cumbrians
Source: anglicannews.org
Churches across Cumbria in the north-west of England have taken part in what is probably the largest-ever ecumenical regional-missions to take place in the UK. The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, led a Church of England delegation of 26 bishops and retired bishops from across the northern Province; and was joined by the national Chair of the Methodist Conference, Loraine Mellor, and the Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church, Alan Yates, who each bought teams of clergy and laity for the mission. The Salvation Army also took part. In total, 34 ecumenical groups of lay people, youth workers, ordinands and clergy, supported by the national and regional leaders, took part in more than 200 events across the county. The “Moving Mountains” mission was, in essence, local churches planning and doing local mission, supported by the visiting teams of church leaders.
The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, chats with shoppers in a Cumbrian high street during the Moving Mountains regional ecumenical mission this weekend.
Cumbria is one of the most-sparsely populated counties of England, with a population of around half-a-million people spread out over 2,613 square miles. It borders south-west Scotland and includes the Lake District national park.
As part of the mission, Archbishop Sentamu co-presented part of the local BBC Radio Cumbria Sunday morning breakfast programme, alongside regular presented Richard Corrie. In addition to talking about the Moving Mountains mission, the Archbishop got involved in general presenter duties, such as introducing the news, weather, traffic and travel reports, and reading the Church Noticeboard – a regular feature of the programme. “This is a great opportunity to connect with the people of Cumbria and to share with everyone here what we have been doing with this ‘Moving Mountains’ mission,” Archbishop Sentamu said.
Regular presenter Richard Corrie said he was “really honoured to be joined by the Archbishop of York”, saying that there was “a real excitement from listeners” about the Archbishop taking part in the special programme.
The four-day mission, from 8-12 March, included school visits, puppet making, pub quizzes, ceilidhs (a Gaelic folk music event, common in Scotland and Ireland), litter picks, gospel choirs, magicians and comedians, walks and treasure hunts, art and craft, men’s breakfasts, film nights, walking football and other sporting events, dementia friendly events and services, flower festivals, photographic exhibitions, a passion play, and many more, all of which were designed to communicate a key message: “God loves you more than you will ever know.”
Many events were themed around Mothering Sunday, and included giving out daffodils, putting on pamper sessions and hosting afternoon tea. The mission concluded with what was billed as “Cumbria’s largest ever Messy Church”, at Rheged – a grass-roofed heritage centre in the Lake District – yesterday (Sunday).
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SEC Clears Apple’s Tax Disclosures
October 7, 2013 at 3:03 am PT
Four months after opening its review of Apple’s finances, the Securities and Exchange Commission has closed it, having found nothing untoward about the company’s handling of its overseas cash and related tax policies.
In a September letter to Apple, released late last week, the SEC said it had completed its review of the company’s fiscal 2012 annual report, and would take no action against it at this time. Evidently, there’s no need to, as the agency has found Apple’s disclosures to be sufficient, particularly now that it has agreed to provide investors with more information about its foreign cash, tax policies and plans for reinvestment of foreign earnings. In the SEC’s eyes, Apple accounts for taxes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
The review’s conclusion follows a summer of tax scrutiny for Apple, kicked off by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations claim that the company used the “Holy Grail of tax avoidance” to pay little or no corporate taxes on some $74 billion in profits over the past four years. Apple, of course, disputed that characterization, sending CEO Tim Cook to Washington to tell the subcommittee to its face that the company is a good corporate citizen.
Good news for Apple, which can now presumably go about its business without further bother from the SEC and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, whose probe found no evidence that the company did anything but comply with tax law. Unless, of course, those agencies and the broader government decide to consider Apple’s proposal for tax reforms that might encourage companies to repatriate their offshore cash.
Below, a video from D11, in which Cook discusses Apple’s tax strategies and its call for a major overhaul of corporate tax code:
Correction: This post was updated to make it clear that the SEC’s review concerned Apple’s tax disclosures, not the legality of its tax practices under U.S. tax law, which is the purview of the IRS.
Tagged with: Apple, SEC, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, taxes, Tim Cook
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When AllThingsD began, we told readers we were aiming to present a fusion of new-media timeliness and energy with old-media standards for quality and ethics. And we hope you agree that we’ve done that.
— Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, in their farewell D post
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After Heart Attack, Following Doctor's Orders Greatly Boosts Survival
THURSDAY, March 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Heart attack survivors receive a laundry list of tasks from their doctors as they leave the hospital, all aimed at improving their heart health.
It would be understandable to look at the list with a raised eyebrow and ask just how important all of it is.
Vitally important, it turns out.
Heart patients who follow all of their doctor's recommendations have a much lower risk of death than those who only follow some or most of them, according to a new study published March 5 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Each additional recommendation a patient follows appears to reduce their risk of death by between 8% and 11%, researchers found.
Patients who faithfully followed all seven recommendations had a 43% lower risk of death compared to those who followed three or fewer.
That benefit decreased with the number of recommendations followed, from six (31%) to five (25%) to four (16%).
"All of them are important," said senior researcher Dr. Alan Go, associate director of cardiovascular and metabolism research at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. "If you only get to four, there's value to getting to five and in going from five to six and from six to seven."
For this study, Kaiser Permanente researchers followed more than 25,000 heart attack survivors after their discharge from the hospital.
The survivors were each given seven tasks or goals intended to help them live longer and prevent future heart attacks. These included:
Taking an ACE inhibitor or ARB medication.
Taking a beta blocker.
Taking blood thinners.
Taking cholesterol-lowering medications.
Controlling their blood pressure.
Quitting smoking.
Reducing their "bad" LDL cholesterol levels.
"The amazing therapies we can provide at the time of a heart attack these days, like stents and IV medicines in the hospital, really are just the beginning of a long journey toward wellness and improving your heart health," said lead researcher Dr. Matthew Solomon, a cardiologist with Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical Center. "There are many things patients need to do after the heart attack."
Doctors checked in with patients at one month and three months after their discharge to see how well the survivors had complied with this list of heart-saving measures.
They then tracked the patients for six years, from 2008 to 2014, to see whether these recommendations had any effect on patients' long-term survival.
"We wondered, 'Are there going to be diminishing returns?'" Solomon said. "We don't have great information for patients who follow all of the recommendations. Do they do as well as people who only follow some of them?"
About 23% of patients were able to stick with all seven recommendations by three months following their hospital discharge, and they had the lowest risk of death, the researchers found.
"Given that a majority of people did not follow all of the guidelines, there is a substantial opportunity for clinicians, health care systems, communities and patients to improve," said Dr. Richard Becker, director of the University of Cincinnati's Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, adding that such action "promises to be lifesaving." He wasn't involved with the study.
The results show the importance of cardiac rehabilitation programs aimed at preventing second heart attacks, Solomon said.
Unfortunately, typical nationwide participation in cardiac rehab programs is around 30%, Solomon noted. Kaiser Permanente offers a comprehensive home-based cardiac rehab, and its enrollment is 77%.
Kaiser Permanente heart patients receive an exercise prescription and a care plan that targets smoking cessation, medication adherence, cholesterol management, blood pressure control, dietary advice, stress reduction and weight management.
The American Heart Association has more about recovering from a heart attack.
SOURCES: Alan Go, M.D., associate director, cardiovascular and metabolism research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California; Matthew Solomon, M.D., cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical Center; Richard Becker, M.D., director, University of Cincinnati Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute; March 5, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
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David Britland
Television consultant and writer specialising in magic, deception, psychology and the paranormal.
THE FIRST SAWING A WOMAN IN TWO?
Cardopolis
There has been a lot of debate about who created the first Sawing Through a Woman illusion. And it has now been 100 years since P T Selbit debuted his version in January of 1921. The illusion was a sensation but this didn't stop some magicians questioning the originality of the effect. Hadn’t Robert-Houdin mentioned such an illusion in his memoirs back in 1868? Didn’t the Hanlon Brothers do the trick at the Follies Bergere in 1878? Robert-Houdin's trick was a product of his imagination and while the Hanlon Brothers did patent a dismemberment illusion in 1890, I don't think anyone has evidence that they performed what we would categorise as a sawing illusion.
None of the discussion, much of which seems to be mischievous rather than analytical, unearthed a sawing illusion that predated Selbit’s. And even if they had, it would not detract from the fact that it was Selbit’s invention, and his clever publicity, that made the sawing illusion one of magic’s most iconic feats.
However, one piece of information that seems to have been forgotten was unearthed by Houdini. He published a very interesting article in the M.U.M. magazine for September 1921 (Vol 11 No 3). Houdini had in his collection a playbill for a Prof Hengler and a show at the Winchester Music Hall in London. It advertised an effect titled ‘Sawing a Lady in Two.’
The playbill is undated but Houdini estimated it to be from the early 1800s. No one seems to have looked into Houdini’s playbill so I decided to see what I could find out via the various newspaper databases that are now available.
Dr Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theater and Performing arts at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Austin, Texas, emailed to say that the actual poster is in their collection. With the permission of the Harry Ransom Center the poster is reproduced here. Incidentally, they have some wonderful Houdini ephemera available for viewing on the department website including some of Houdini's scrapbooks.
Image courtesy of The Harry Ransom Center
the University of Austin, Texas
The playbill displays the proprietor of Winchester Music Hall as R Preece. The first thing I learned was that Preece had given up his management of the Winchester Music Hall by March 1878. Which means the playbill is earlier than Houdini's estimate.
Searching for Hengler showed that Professor Hengler was Alfred Hengler. I'd assumed he was from the famous Hengler circus family but this is an ongoing enquiry.
According to John Stewart's book The Acrobat (2012), Alfred Hengler was the brother of Charles Hengler, the man who founded Hengler's Grand Cirque. The London Palladium is built on the former site of Hengler’s Grand Cirque which had been there since 1871. I haven't done a deep dive but I haven't seen anything to show that the Hengler family had any interest in magic. They were equestrian acrobrats. And there are reports that one of the family named Alfred Hugh Hengler died in 1842 after a fall from a horse. Yet there is an Alfred Hengler still in the circus business in the 1880s. Maybe someone who is familiar with the Hengler dynasty can provide some clarity.
Chris Woodward referred me to the books by John Martin Turner on the history of circus. His papers are at the National Circus and Fairground Archive. Chris found what appears to be a reference to a magician called Alfred Charles Hengler in volume 2 of Turner's Victorian Era - The Performers: volume 2. Perhaps this is our guy. Chris also sent along an advertisement for the opening of Hengler's Cirque in 1871:
Alfred Hengler was a magician who had been performing since the mid 1860s. Press advertisements and reviews show that he was good at his job and noted for his sleight of hand, instantaneous growth of flowers, and the Indian Basket Trick.
But in 1873 he advertised a new routine, ‘Cutting a Lady in Two.’ The first advert I’ve found appeared in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle on 1st February 1873 for a performance on 3rd February at the South of England Music Hall, St Mary’s Street, Portsmouth
'MR ALFRED HENGLER, in his new Grand Magical Illusion Every Evening, Cutting a Lady in Two – A Feat never attempted before. All should see this wonderful illusion.'
The South of England Music Hall was no small town theatre. It was built to rival London theatres and seated 2,000 people. It was said to be Hengler’s first appearance at the venue. He had been performing there in January but the illusion is not mentioned until February after which it makes appearances in several small advertisements.
A brief note in the same newspaper on 15th February says:
'SOUTH OF ENGLAND MUSIC HALL – The principal attraction at this popular place of entertainment are the wonderful feats of Mr. Alfred Hengler, whose crowning illusion is that in which he appears to cut a lady in two.'
A final advert, on 19th February, advertises the ‘last six nights’ of appearances by Alfred Hengler.
It is possible that these performances are the provincial shows mentioned in the playbill. I can’t find any other shows. More importantly, I haven’t found any reports of Hengler appearing at The Winchester Music Hall in May 1873 though De Castro’s acrobatic troupe, also mentioned on that playbill, did.
At the moment we have no idea what the trick looked like. The title ‘Sawing a Lady in Two,’ appears on the London playbill but not during the performances in Portsmouth. More material might come to light as more newspapers are digitised. New material is being digitised all the time and some archives will even alert you when new items for keywords you have already searched for have been added to the database.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the invention of Selbit's illusion, a fact that will be celebrated by a broadcast from The Magic Circle. You can read more about that here:
Finally, in his 1921 article, Houdini wrote, 'we must hand Prof. Hengler the palm for at least inventing it before present day disputants. Perhaps Houdini was right.
Since I uploaded this post yesterday a couple of notes have come in. Richard Wiseman pointed out that the Chinese method of execution supposedly involved being sawn vertically down the body not across the midriff. Searching for reports of that in the British Newspaper Archive I found an article from 1870 of a visit to a sort of wax museum in Canton that was circulated in several newspapers (Strange Sights In Canton - The Clare Journal 14th July 1870). The method of execution, of being sawn while held between two planks, is briefly mentioned there. It's pure speculation but maybe an article of this sort inspired Hengler's illusion. Wikipedia has a page on the gruesome business of death by sawing.
Bill Mullins emailed to say that the date on the playbill is Monday 12th May. The only days on which the 12th of May falls on a Monday around that time are 1861, 1873 and 1878. Given what we know I think this confirms that the playbill is from 1873.
LENGTHWISE SAWING
Talking of the lengthwise sawing, I remembered that Billy McComb had such an idea in his book McComb's Magic 25 Years Wiser. He wasn't the first but in the book he mentioned a competition that Dunninger ran in Scientific American in the 1920s. Billy had misremembered the name of the magazine, it was actually Science and Invention.
Dunninger had a regular magic column in Science and Invention where, to the consternation of some, he explained many tricks. In the September 1929 issue he ran a reader competition to devise a method for a lengthwise sawing illusion. First prize was $100.
The issue has a vivid cover illustration of Dunninger performing the effect which he described in great detail saying that it was a trick he had intended to perform in vaudeville and that it had never been done before.
The magazine reported that they received more 10,000 entries to the competition. In the March 1930 issue they announced the winner, a Mr A. G. Illich, and published his method which, I have to say, was not half as exciting as the effect. But then isn't that often the way?
Posted by David Britland at 1:51 pm
Labels: Alfred Hengler, Billy McComb, cutting a lady in two, Dunninger, Hanlon Brothers, Harry Houdini, Harry Ransom Center University of Texas, Magic Circle, Robert-Houdin, sawing a woman in two, Selbit
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Image shows Westerlund I, an observed example of a Young Massive Cluster (YMC). Produced by the European Southern Observatory (PHAS+Survey/N. Wright).
Funding boosts Exeter’s research into the building blocks of galaxies
An Astrophysics expert from the University of Exeter has been awarded substantial funding to help solve one the most fundamental riddles of modern astronomy.
Dr Clare Dobbs has received a €2 million grant to conduct pioneering new research into the formation and evolution of star clusters.
The multi-million pound funding was awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) under its Consolidator Grants scheme. Dr Dobbs’ research is one of 55 grants awarded to UK institutions in the most recent announcement.
One of the pivotal areas which Dr Dobbs’ research will centre around the formation of young massive star clusters – extremely dense collections of young stars that form the fundamental building blocks of galaxies.
At present, astronomers have little understanding of how these clusters are formed, as there is no explanation as to how so many stars develop in such a comparatively small region of space, in such a condensed timescale.
Using the most advanced numerical simulations on supercomputers, Dr Dobbs will study both the formation and evolution of star clusters for the duration of the five-year project.
The Consolidator Grant is the second ERC grant bestowed on Dr Dobbs, and the 10th award to Exeter’s Astrophysics department.
Dr Dobbs, a Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Exeter said: “'This research is fundamental to understand the difference between the formation of stellar clusters versus less dense groups of stars called OB associations.
“It is also ground-breaking in attempting to follow the evolution from the earliest stages of star formation in galaxies, right through to clusters which are millions or even billions of years old.”
The ERC will award a total of 291 consolidator grants as part of its EU Horizon 2020 research programme, worth a total of €573 million.
The research initiatives chosen cover a wide range of topics in physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, as well as social sciences and humanities.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 818940).
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Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands. Also known as Whitman Comics, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984.
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5.1 Original series
5.2 Licensed series
Gold Key Comics was created in 1962, when Western switched to in-house publishing rather than packaging content for branding and distribution by its business partner, Dell Comics. Hoping to make their comics more like traditional children's books, they initially eliminated panel line-borders (using just the panel — its ink and artwork evenly edged but not bordered by a "container" line — a novel idea at the time — and making the comic look more like "artwork"), and had word and thought balloons that were rectangular rather than oval, giving the titles a cleaner, more modern look. Within a year they had reverted to using inked panel borders and oval balloons. They also experimented with new formats, including black-and-white 136 page hardcovers containing reprints (Whitman Comic Book) and tabloid-sized 52-page hardcovers containing new material (Golden Picture Story Book)[1] These evidently were aimed at the book trade and department stores, in the manner of Western Publishing's popular Little Golden Books. In 1967, Gold Key reprinted a number of selected issues of their comics under the title Top Comics which were sold in plastic bags of five at gas stations and various eateries; some locations removed them from the bags and sold them individually with price stickers attached to the covers.[2]
A striking difference between Gold Key and other publishers (which had been done by Dell as well) was to publish most of their mystery, jungle, science-fiction, adventure and similar series with full-color painted covers rather than the standard line-artwork.[citation needed]
Like Dell, Gold Key was one of the few major American publishers of comic books to never display the Comics Code Authority seal on its covers.
Gold Key featured a number of licensed properties and several original titles (including a number of publications that spun off from Dell's Four Color series, or were published as standalones by Dell). It maintained decent sales numbers throughout the 1960s, thanks to its offering many titles based upon popular TV series of the day, as well as numerous titles based upon both Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. animated properties. It was also the first company to publish comic books based upon Star Trek. While some titles, like Star Trek and The Twilight Zone were published for many years, many other licensed titles were characterized by short runs, sometimes publishing no more than one or two issues.
Editor Chase Craig once told writer Mark Evanier that to launch titles with Hanna-Barbera characters usually the early issues would be direct adaptations of episodes of the program because "The studio had approval rights and the people there could get pointlessly picky about the material...but they rarely bothered looking at any issue after the first few. Therefore, it simplified the procedure to do the first issue as an adaptation and maybe the second. They couldn't very well complain that a plot taken from the show was inappropriate".[3]
Over the years, it lost several properties, including the King Features Syndicate characters (Popeye, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, etc., to Charlton Comics) in 1966, numerous (but not all) Hanna-Barbera characters (also to Charlton Comics) in 1970, and Star Trek (to Marvel Comics) in 1979.
Key creators
The stable of writers and artists built up by Western Publishing during the Dell Comics era mostly continued into the Gold Key era. In the mid-1960s a number of artists were recruited by the newly formed Disney Studio Program and thereafter divided their output between Western and it. Among the few new creators at Gold Key were writers Don Glut, Len Wein, Bob Ogle, Steve Skeates and Mark Evanier; and artists Cliff Voorhees, Joe Messerli and Mike Royer. Also in the 1970s, writer Bob Gregory started drawing stories, mostly for Daisy and Donald. Acclaimed artist/writer Frank Miller had his first published comic book artwork in The Twilight Zone for Gold Key in 1978.[4]
Diana Gabaldon began her career writing for Gold Key, initially sending a query that stated "I've been reading Disney comics for the last twenty-odd years, and they've been getting worse and worse. I don't know that I could do it better myself, but I'd like to try." Editor Del Connell provided a script sample and bought her second submission.[5]
According to former Western Publishing writer Mark Evanier, during the mid-1960s comedy writer Jerry Belson (whose writing partner at the time was Garry Marshall), while writing for leading TV sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke Show, also did scripts for Gold Key. Among the comics he wrote for were The Flintstones, Uncle Scrooge, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, The Three Stooges and Woody Woodpecker.[6]
Leo Dorfman, creator of Ghosts for DC Comics, also produced supernatural stories for Gold Key's similarly themed Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Grimm's Ghost Stories. One of Gold Key's editors at the time told Mark Evanier "Leo writes stories and then he decides whether he's going to sell them to DC [for Ghosts] or to us. He tells us that if they come out good, they go to us and if they don't, they go to DC. I assume he tells DC the opposite."[7]
The comics industry experienced a downswing in the 1970s and Gold Key was among the hardest hit. Its editorial policies had not kept pace with changing times and suffered an erosion of its base of sales among children, who could now instead watch cartoons and other entertainment on free television. It is also alleged by Carmine Infantino that in the mid-to-late 1960s DC Comics attempted to pressure Gold Key from the stands through sheer weight of output.[8] By 1977 many of the company's original series had been cancelled (especially circa 1973-1974), and its licensed series had more reprinted material, although Gold Key was able to obtain the rights to publish a comic book series based upon Buck Rogers in the 25th Century between 1979 and 1981. It did however, lose the rights to publish Star Trek-based comic books to Marvel Comics just prior to the revival of the franchise via Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the final Gold Key-published Star Trek title being issued in March 1979.
In this period, Gold Key experimented with digests with some success. In a similar vein, to explore new markets, in the mid-1970s it produced a four-volume series, with somewhat better production values and printing aimed at the emerging collector market, containing classic stories of the Disney characters by Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson (Best of Walt Disney's Comics). In the late 1970s, came somewhat higher grade reprints of various licensed characters also aimed at new venues (Dynabrites),[9] plus a four-issue series adapting classic science fiction stories by authors such as Isaac Asimov and John W. Campbell (Starstream).[10] Golden Press released trade paperback reprint collections (Walt Disney Christmas Parade, Bugs Bunny Comics-Go-Round,[11] Star Trek Enterprise Logs[12]), while the distribution of comic books on spinners and racks at drug stores, supermarkets and such continued under the Gold Key label- the same comics being simultaneously distributed (usually in plastic bags of three) to toy and department stores, newsstands at airports, bus/train stations, "as well as other outlets that weren't conducive to conventional comic racks",[13] under the Whitman logo, which it also used for products such as coloring books. Western, at one point, also distributed bagged comics from its rivals DC Comics and Marvel Comics under the Whitman logo. Former President of DC Comics Paul Levitz has stated: "The Western program was enormous — even well into the 1970s they were taking very large numbers of DC titles for distribution (I recall 50,000+ copies offhand)."[13] Continued declining sales forced Western to cease newsstand distribution in 1981, and thereafter it released all its comics solely in bags as "Whitman Comics". The "Gold Key" logo was discontinued. Eventually arrangements were made to distribute these releases to the nascent national network of comic book stores as part of the Whitman alternate methods of distribution. All these efforts ultimately proved unsuccessful and by 1984 Western was out of the comic book business.
Relaunches, reprints and legacy
Three of Gold Key's original characters — Magnus, Robot Fighter; Doctor Solar; and Turok, Son of Stone — were used in the 1990s to launch Valiant Comics' "Valiant Universe".
Dark Horse Comics has published reprints, including several in hardcover collections, of such original Gold Key titles as Magnus, Robot Fighter; Doctor Solar; Mighty Samson; M.A.R.S. Patrol; Turok: Son of Stone; The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor; Dagar the Invincible; Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery; Space Family Robinson; Flash Gordon; the Jesse Marsh drawn Tarzan; and some of the Russ Manning-produced Tarzan series. They have begun several revivals of characters under Jim Shooter, including Doctor Solar, Magnus, Turok, and Mighty Samson. The Checker Book Publishing Group, in conjunction with Paramount Pictures, began reprinting the Gold Key Star Trek series in 2004. Hermes Press will be reprinting the 3 series based on Irwin Allen's SF TV series, as well as Gold Key's Dark Shadows, My Favorite Martian and the Phantom.
Bongo Comics published a parody of Gold Key in Radioactive Man #106 (volume 2 #6, Nov. 2002) with script/layout by Batton Lash and finished art by Mike DeCarlo that Tony Isabella dubbed "a nigh-flawless facsimile of the Gold Key comics published by Western in the early 1960s...from the painting with tasteful come-on copy on the front cover to the same painting, sans logo or other type, presented as a "pin-up" on the back cover."[14]
In the 1990s new Gold Key comics from the late 1970s would occasionally turn up in Australia, in two-for-the-price-of-one bags, sold through newsagents.[citation needed]
^ The Biggest Disney Comic Book in the World
^ Top Comics: What the heck are these?
^ Goodbye, Charlie!
^ "The Complete Frank Miller: The Twilight Zone".
^ Interview with a Freelancer: Diana Gabaldon, Author
^ Evanier, Mark. "Jerry Belson R.I.P.," New From Me (October 12, 2006).
^ Evanier, Mark. "More on Leo Dorfman," News From Me (May 29, 2005).
^ Ro, Ronin. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2004).
^ http://bp0.blogger.com/_tHVfHpnv17g/RlWykja3F3I/AAAAAAAAAXE/isC8abuotjE/s1600-h/dyna.jpg
^ Starstream #3 1976
^ http://www.comicvine.com/bugs-bunny/29-2860/bugs-bunny-comics-go-round/49-20974/
^ Reprint Editions - The Enterprise Logs
^ a b News from Me (column): "More on Comicpacs" (May 2, 2007), by Mark Evanier
^ Review of Radioactive Man #106
Selected titles
Baby Snoots
Brothers of the Spear (originally a backup series in Tarzan)
The Close Shaves of Pauline Peril
Doctor Solar
The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor
Golden Comics Digest
Grimm's Ghost Stories
Jungle Twins
M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War (formerly Total War)
Magnus, Robot Fighter
Mighty Samson
Mod Wheels
Mystery Comics Digest
O.G. Whiz
Space Family Robinson - predated similar television series Lost in Space
Tales of Sword and Sorcery, featuring "Dagar the Invincible"
Turok, Son of Stone
Tragg and the Sky Gods
UFO Flying Saucers (retitled/reprinted as UFO and Outer Space)
Wacky Adventures of Cracky
Wacky Witch
Licensed series
Adam-12
The Addams Family (based on the 1974 Hanna-Barbera animated series)
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
The Avengers (published as John Steed & Emma Peel, due to Marvel Comics' superhero title)
The Banana Splits
The Beagle Boys (Walt Disney's)
Beep Beep the Road Runner
Beetle Bailey
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery (based upon the TV series Thriller)
Bullwinkle and Rocky
Doc Savage (unproduced 1966 movie tie-in)
Donald Duck (Walt Disney's)
The Funky Phantom
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Hanna-Barbera Fun-In
The Hardy Boys (based on the Filmation cartoon series)
Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
H.R. Pufnstuf
Korak, Son of Tarzan
Huey, Dewey and Louie, Junior Woodchucks
The Inspector (Pink Panther spinoff)
Krofft Supershow
Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp
Lidsville
Little Lulu
Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney's)
Moby Duck (Walt Disney's)
Popeye the Sailor
Ripley's Believe It or Not! with three subtitles: "True War Stories" (#1 and #5), "True Demons & Monsters" (#7, #10, #19, #22, #25, #26, and #29) and "True Ghost stories" (remaining numbers)
Secret Agent (based upon the TV series, Danger Man)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (later changed to Scooby-Doo Mystery Comics)
Super Goof (Walt Disney's)
Tweety and Sylvester
Walt Disney Comics Digest
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
Walt Disney's Showcase
Where's Huddles?
Yosemite Sam (and Bugs Bunny)
Database and Cover Gallery of Gold Key Comics
Gold Key Comics at the INDUCKS
Toonopedia's Article on Gold Key Comics
Complete Listing of all Gold Key Comics and known variants
Mark Evanier on the failure of Gold Key's attempt to distribute their comics in bags of three
Golden Picture Story Book covers
Photo of Top Comics 5 pack
Visit Mykal's Gold Key Comics Blog!
Joe Messerli, R.I.P.
Comic book publishers in North America
Aardvark-Vanaheim
Another Rainbow
Archie (MLJ)
Aspen MLT
DC (National Allied Publications)
Fantagraphics (Eros)
Radio Comix
Slave Labor
WaRP Graphics
Atlas/Seaboard
Eternity Comics
FantaCo
Fiction House
Highwater Books
Hyperwerks
Nedor
Renegade Press
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Defunct comics and manga publishers
Comic book publishing companies of the United States
Lists of comics by publisher
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U.K. — Concert Classics Volume 4
(Renaissance RRCD00704, 1978/1999, CD)
by Jeff Melton, Published 2000-05-01
I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of this live series disc at a local SF Bay area shop in the bin with the regular monthly releases. Considering that Volume 4 had supposedly been pulled by none other than Eddie Jobson, it's possible that the disc is not in wide circulation. The recording comes from the heavily booted Boston 1978 FM radio show featuring the first line-up of the group with Allan Holdsworth (electric guitar) and Bill Bruford (drums). The most important tracks are three pieces which were re-worked on the next studio LP, Danger Money: "The Only Thing She Needs," "Carrying No Cross," and "Caesar's Palace Blues." Each of these songs contains wildly different group arrangements and is worth hearing in their initial form. It is no surprise to identify the jazz elements injected specifically from Bruford and Holdsworth that give each track a noticeable guitar context. "The Only Thing She Needs" benefits from Bruford's adept top kit drumming style and a looser tempo. "Carrying No Cross" includes a Latin midsection which is quite impressive, while "Caesar's Palace Blues" is more syncopated rhythmically with Holdsworth's leads playing off Jobson's pizzicato violin during the intro. The disc liner notes include pictures of other boot CDs: 23 total by my count, which could explain Jobson's concern with potential lost revenue. Together with another missing track, "The Sahara of Snow," this recording provides distinct clues as to how close the original quartet was to completing their second album before the band split. If you can find a copy of the disc, snag it while you can since you may not get another chance.
Filed under: New releases, Issue 19, 1999 releases, 1978 recordings
Related artist(s): Bill Bruford / Earthworks, John Wetton, Allan Holdsworth, U.K., Eddie Jobson
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'The Expendables' and 'Eat Pray Love' remained at the top of Tuesday's unchanged top five.
‘Expendables’ #1, ‘Eat Pray Love’ #2 on Tuesday
on August 18, 2010 by Daniel Garris
The Expendables led the daily box office for a fifth consecutive day on Tuesday. After experiencing a sharp decline on Monday, the ensemble action film from Lionsgate stabilized nicely with $3.87 million for the day. That was down only 2 percent from Monday, which was stronger than the respective 11 percent and 9 percent Tuesday declines of last August's District 9 and Inglourious Basterds. The Expendables topped the $40 million mark yesterday and has now grossed $42.63 million through five days. That places The Expendables 10 percent behind the pace of District 9 and 9 percent behind the pace of Inglourious Basterds.
Eat Pray Love remained in second place, but continued to make up ground on The Expendables in the process. The Julia Roberts vehicle from Sony grossed $3.34 million, which was up 10 percent from Monday. That represented one of the day's better daily holds, though it should also be noted that films skewing heavily female tend to hold up well on their first Tuesday. In comparison, Julie & Julia experienced an 11 percent daily increase on its first Tuesday last August. Eat Pray Love has grossed $29.49 million through five days, placing it 14 percent ahead of the five-day start of Julie & Julia.
Fellow Sony release The Other Guys held steady in third with $2.24 million. The PG-13 comedy was down 1 percent from Monday and down 53 percent from last Tuesday. The Other Guys has grossed $74.45 million through twelve days and is set to clear the $80 million mark on Friday. The Other Guys is currently running 9 percent ahead of the pace of 2008's Step Brothers.
Inception was up 1 percent over Monday to remain in fourth with $1.54 million. Warner's sci-fi blockbuster was down 41 percent from last Tuesday. As was the case last week, Inception is clearly losing midweek momentum, but the film could stabilize once again when the weekend arrives. The 33-day gross for Inception stands at an impressive $251.54 million.
Universal's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World rounded out the day's unchanged top five with $1.44 million. After a nice hold on Monday, Scott Pilgrim was down a solid 2 percent on Tuesday. However, after being as front-loaded as it was this past weekend, Scott Pilgrim will need to keep the momentum going on Wednesday and Thursday if it is to have a chance of avoiding a large second weekend decline. The film's five-day start stands at a soft $13.51 million.
Tags: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Inception, The Other Guys, Eat Pray Love, The Expendables
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GERD talks: Same old story?
Doaa El-Bey, Thursday 27 Aug 2020
What prospects do talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam scheduled for 28 August hold?
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said last week that the second phase of filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s (GERD) reservoir, which would involve 18.4 billion cubic metres of water, will begin during the rainy season in August 2021. The announcement came despite the fact negotiations between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan over a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the dam are ongoing.
The irrigation ministers of all three states met on 16 August and, after failing to resolve several contentious issues, agreed to resume talks on the disputed points on 28 August.
“This week should have been a good opportunity for the parties to bridge their differences. And an agreement is in the interests of Ethiopia since it would legalise the filling Ethiopia has already undertaken,” Abbas Sharaki, a professor of political science at Cairo University, told Al-Ahram Weekly.
“Without an agreement, it is difficult to see how Addis Ababa can carry on with the coming phases or begin generating electricity.”
Several technical and ministerial meetings have been held in recent days in the hope of reaching a consensus on outstanding disputes before 28 August. One legal and technical representative from each country was selected to form a sub-committee to compile proposals on the filling and operation of the dam with the aim of reaching a draft agreement that was scheduled to be presented to the irrigation ministers by 28 August.
One diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it looked increasingly as if the purpose of negotiations was simply to meet rather than progress towards an agreement.
“Now the meetings are being held under African Union (AU) sponsorship. Last year it was the US mediating between the three countries. Lately, Russia has suggested it could play the same role. But the bottom line is Ethiopia is unwilling to accept binding rules or regulations for the filling and operation of the dam,” he explained.
Mohamed Nasreddin Allam, a former minister of irrigation, believes Addis Ababa is seeking “full hegemony over the Blue Nile, and no restrictions on building more dams” and that “after years of negotiations, we are back to square one.
“In the meantime, despite all the talks, Ethiopia is moving on with its plans without any delay or changes.”
Last month Addis Ababa declared the first reservoir filling of 4.9 billion cubic metres of water complete. The announcement was widely seen as an attempt to placate Ethiopian public opinion after Addis Ababa’s repeated promises that the initial filling would start in July.
“According to the plan drawn by Ethiopia in 2011 the first phase includes operating two turbines. But neither of the turbines are installed, nor has the water reached the 18 billion cubic metres needed to operate the turbines. So, given the conditions it set itself, Addis Ababa cannot really claim the first phase is complete,” says Sharaki.
Ahmed’s declaration angered Egypt and Sudan, that saw it as a violation of the Declaration of Principles (DoP) signed in Sudan in March 2015 which state the three countries must first agree guidelines and rules on the operating process of GERD before filling the reservoir.
Earlier this month Cairo and Khartoum both sent letters to South Africa, the current chair of the AU, rejecting Ethiopia’s unilateral actions.
During a visit by Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli to Khartoum two weeks ago, both countries reiterated their determination to a comprehensive and binding agreement settingthe rules for filling and operating theGERD.
Cairo and Khartoum issued a statement that stressed the importance of “avoiding any unilateral measures before reaching an agreement”, and that any agreement must include “effective mechanisms to settle disputes and coordinate efforts to ensure the safe operation of all facilities and water projects affected by the dam”.
Egyptian-Sudanese coordination on Nile water affair is not new, says Allam. “We are in favour of good Egyptian relations with neighbourly Sudan. “Unfortunately, the Sudanese position seems neither strong nor consistent enough to face down Ethiopa.”
In February, when both Egypt and Sudan’s ministers of foreign affairs headed to Washington to sign the agreement that had been mediated jointly by Washington and the World Bank, Ethiopia failed to show up. When Egypt initialed the agreement and Sudan deferred, some commentators argued that Khartoum’s signature would have increased the pressure on Ethiopia to comply.
In March, Khartoum also declined to join Egypt when it appealed for an Arab League resolution demanding Ethiopia refrain from filling the reservoir in advance of an agreement, and when Egypt requested the UN Security Council intervene in May Khartoum did not support the request.
The AU-sponsored tripartite talks launched last month and attended by the US and EU have already stalled twice. There was a hiatus between 27 July and 3 August after Ethiopia announced it had completed the first phase of filling the reservoir, followed by another halt when Sudan called for a suspension of meetings to allow for consultations after Addis Ababa’s proposed a package of non-binding guidelines for the filling.
Allam argues that Ethiopia is pushing Egypt and Sudan to abandon negotiations, leaving Addis Ababa with carte blanche to take any unilateral actions it likes.
Which is why, he says, now is the time to push for greater Security Council involvement.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 27 August, 2020 edition ofAl-Ahram Weekly.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/378599.aspx
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Why Should Children Learn a Foreign Language? Languages are the vehicles through which we communicate as human beings. Every ethnic group, country or region of the world has a language of its own. When children are born, they usually fist pick up the language spoken to them by their parents.As the OP, I'll start: Aside from the business reasons, language learning for me is to learn about other cultures, and to share these cultures to the rest of the world. It’s a way to make new friends, have fun, and experience a different sort of.
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TV/Film & Literature
Bill Cosby raped at least 15 women
Thread starter The Art of Postin'
Kageho
@DSookochoff
Not too surprised about this, but the facts that the police have gotten for some people, are opening up civil suits.
So I'd probably guess Crosby will be claiming "bankruptcy" next.
BING CROSBY WILL NOT FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY.
He'll do something to save his millions though. I'm sure.
Add R. Kelly to list of celebrities defending Cosby that Cosby probably wouldn't want defending him.
http://www.gq.com/story/r-kelly-confessions
And so an attempt to tie up one mystifying loose end only introduces another, even more baiting one: Bill Cosby? R. Kelly, with all of the baggage that comes with being R. Kelly, chooses to introduce into the conversation—as a symbol of a great father figure—Bill Cosby?
Naturally, I ask his perspective on what has been happening with Cosby. Though Kelly begins carefully, his deeper and truer feelings quickly seem to take over, and what he is saying is clearly just as much about himself.
“Well, my opinion on that is, I don't know what happened. I'm a fan of Bill Cosby's from the Bill Cosby show, of course—who's not?—and for me to give my opinion on something that I have no idea if it's true or not, all I can say is that it was a long time ago. And when I look on TV and I see the 70-, 80-, 90-year-old ladies talking about what happened when they were 17, 18, or 19, there's something strange about it. That's my opinion. It's just strange.”
Although if—
“[interrupts] It's strange. Strange is strange. I can't explain strange. That's why strange is strange. Because it's something we can't explain.”
But don't you think that if they're telling the truth, it doesn't matter how long ago it was?
“If God showed me that they were telling the truth, I would say that's wrong. I don't care if it was a zillion years ago. But God would have to do that, because God is the only one can show me that. No man can tell me that. No woman can tell me that. And when you wait 70 years, 50 years, 40 years, to say something that simple, it's strange. You know why I say that is because it happened to me, and it wasn't true.”
This whole article is great btw at illustrating what a batshit insane, sack of shit R. Kelly is.
CanadianGuitarist
Youth N Asia said:
When it Reines said:
"Bill Crosby"
Anyone else wanna fuck with Ghost Dad!?
Rapp Snitch Knishes
So, Kanye has an opinion of this whole thing
He's going to stand trial.
BruiserBrody
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/05/16/bill-cosby-will-not-testify-at-his-sexual-assault-trial/101743458/
ill Cosby's cautious effort at image rehab in advance of his trial on sexual-assault charges took another step Tuesday in a Sirius radio interview in which he implied racism and revenge might be behind the dozens of rape accusations made against him over more than two years.
In a 30-minute phone interview on The Michael Smerconish Program that aired on SiriusXM, Cosby answered one question with a direct answer: Will he testify in his defense at his trial?
"No," Cosby replies.
Cosby said his decision was intended to make his attorneys' jobs easier: "I just don’t want to sit there and have to figure out what I believe is a truthful answer as to whether or not I’m opening a can of something that my lawyers are scrambling," he explained.
(He also implies racism and some lying women as part of what is to blame for his arrest.)
Last month, Cosby told the National Newspaper Publishers Association news service in an email interview that he hopes to resume his entertainment career after the trial.
"I think about walking out on stage somewhere in the United States of America and sitting down in a chair and giving the performance that will be the beginning of the next chapter of my career," Cosby said i
Brodypedia said:
"I think about walking out on stage somewhere in the United States of America and sitting down in a chair and giving the performance that will be the beginning of the next chapter of my career," Cosby said
Incandenza
Isn't he blind now
I hope this guy dies in prison
Youth N Asia
(Thinking of a new title for this space)
Incandenza said:
Isn't he blind now?
That's the story he's telling. Talking about about walking into things and getting bumps on his head as proof of his blindness.
Yeah. He can die slowly for all I care.
I have a weird, bad gut feeling about this trial.
But regardless of result, Cosby is going to be dead in a few years.
The Art of Postin'
wipeoff
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bill-cosbys-trial-begins-with-the-world-barging-in
Good article with some details on testimony and other aspects of the trial.
KOAB
You know... I didn't realize he was the type to leave clues about his evil nature in his work but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBDRwiSZSBg
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/14/bill-cosby-rape-trial-fat-albert-hey-hey-hey-video/
I laughed....
This was in my Timehop this morning:
Swing and a miss!
Mistrial. Cocksucker's safe for now.
Haws Bah Gawd
TRTSM's Color Commentator
Damn! Think they'll go after a civil case here?
The prosecution can retrial after a mistrial. They said they would.
Mr. S£im Citrus
Representing Blacks Without Soul since 1975
Even a mistrial is more than I expected; I expected an acquittal.
What about the case made you think it would lead to an acquittal?
JHawk
Thank You, Fuck You, Bye!
Prrettyy said:
Apparently some people on the jury think there should have been an acquittal because they couldn't come to a unanimous vote.
I didn't see any of the trial so no clue what evidence may or may not have persuaded someone in either direction, but the fact it took nearly a week and still no official verdict makes me think attorneys on both sides dropped the ball.
I've simply reached the point of cynicism where I never expect a man to ever be found guilty of rape, regardless of how much evidence is against him, especially when that man is rich. Same as how I never expect a cop to be convicted of killing a black man, even when there is video evidence.
I'm not surprised by this, and that he was technically not acquitted is some cold comfort.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/335504/two-juror-holdouts-cosby-case/
Some Jurors spoke out
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/335581/bill-corby-town-halls-sexual-assault-tour/
After narrowly avoiding a sexual assault conviction thanks to two jury holdouts, Bill Cosby is taking up a new venture. According to Cosby reps Andrew Wyatt and Ebonee Benson, the 79-year-old wants to travel the country educating the youths on how to avoid getting accused of rape.
bill corby is a monster.
http://www.tmz.com/2017/06/23/bill-cosby-andrea-constand-juror-midriff/
The male juror -- who spoke with Philadelphia Inquirer -- said Constand should have been "dressed properly" when she went to Cosby's home. Constand apparently was wearing a top with the midriff exposed.
The juror felt Constand was interested in a romantic relationship, in part because she brought a gift -- incense. The juror felt she should have "left the incense in the store" if this was just a friendship.
Damaramu
I wonder how many women he's sexually assaulted. I guess he wouldn't know though because he wouldn't have thought he did anything wrong.
I think he knows the drugging and raping is wrong. This isn't the 'brush on the shoulder' the reps reference in the Bill Corby link. A few of the women have stated that he would react in ways that showed he knew what he was doing, that he was getting away with it, and that there was nothing they could do about it.
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BJP steers country on wrong path
DAINIK NATION BUREAU
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh alleged Monday the BJP-led central government was taking the country towards a “wrong path” and the nation’s freedom could be under threat due to its actions.
He said the Congress had played an important role in strengthening the country’s freedom, but “during the last four and a half years, the BJP laid emphasis on things which could adversely affect India’s history”.
“This can again endanger country’s freedom,” he said.
Manmohan Singh was speaking at the re-launch ‘Navjivan’, a Hindi newspaper that was first launched in 1919 by Mahatma Gandhi but was closed several times during the British regime.
“I want to appeal to the people that they should understand how the present government is taking the nation on a wrong path and there is a need to strongly fight against it,” he said, adding former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had once said that “Freedom is in peril, defend it with all its might.”
He said Punjab had played a vital role in the fight for country’s freedom.
The event was attended by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and other party workers.
Congress leader and Associated Journals Limited chairman Motilal Vora on the occasion said after Mahatma Gandhi was sent to jail in 1920, he had asked Jawaharlal Nehru to run the paper.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh could not attend the event due to ill-health.
“I regret not being able to attend the function, as I’ve been advised bed rest by the doctors,” he tweeted. PTI
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What was the last movie you watched?
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Darth Geek
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?
« Reply #18135 on: July 20, 2018, 06:05:47 AM »
Quote from: Edward J Grug III on July 20, 2018, 12:13:27 AM
Watched The Philadelphia Story last night and it wasn't as great as I remembered.
For one thing the movie is very unevenly paced - Some great snappy scenes that are just what you would expect from a screwball comedy, but interspersed with slower, more serious scenes that always slow things right down.
Obviously it's a product of its time, but even with that in mind, some of the ideas in it are pretty gross. Especially Hepburn's dad telling her the reason he cheats on her mother is that his daughter is 'too cold' and doesn't show him enough affection.
The movie is pretty snobby too, it has Stewart's character, who starts out being anti-rich, pro the poor, learn that actually the rich are pretty great people, and the poor aren't necessarily so. The character that isn't born into wealth is really ridiculed for not belonging, and the 'good' poor people are the ones that understand their place and love their bosses etc.
The main message of the movie though, is that Hepburn's character needs to learn to stop being such an ice queen - only it completely fails to show her as one. In fact, aside for the very opening scene (which 'hilariously' ends with Cary Grant going to punch her and pushing her down instead) is the only time she is shown and not being loving and kind to her partner. Her then husband, Grant, was an alcoholic and she wasn't in to it. Luckily, she gets really drunk the night before her second wedding and then, for some reason, suddenly gets back with Grant and seems to be pro-alcoholism?
Anyway, it was a confounding experience, because the movie is so much fun in a lot of places, and features some great performances. The scenes where the rich family are pretending they don't know the reporters are reporters and are sending them up is incredible. It's what you want the whole movie to be.
I came out of it more enjoying it than not, but it wasn't the favourite I thought it was going to be.
I'm confused, at what point does a gay Tom Hanks phase through the wall of a battleship?
Edward J Grug III
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« Reply #18136 on: July 20, 2018, 04:50:54 PM »
Quote from: Darth Geek on July 20, 2018, 06:05:47 AM
I only get half that reference.
Quote from: Edward J Grug III on July 20, 2018, 04:50:54 PM
Philadelphia and The Philadelphia Experiment
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Quote from: Darth Geek on July 20, 2018, 07:04:18 PM
My brain had erased The Philadelphia Experiment.
MartyS (Gromit)
Disembaudio's Squadio
Weirdies!
Very well done, mostly accurate portrayal of Churchill's early days as Prime Minister.
After watching The Crown it's tough to say who does a better Churchill, Garry Oldman or John Lithgow. Oldman may have gotten Churchill's speech patterns down a little better.
It is a terrible movie, and I haven't seen it but reviews say the remake in 2012 is even worse.
Then there's the sequel from the 90s, I know I watched it and thought it was bad, but can't remember anything about it.
So apparently the experiment to make a franchise where the movies get more and more invisible worked perfectly.
Johnny Unusual
It's a bit more watchable than I remember, but it is also really dumb. The face-stretching aliens don't register so much as a blip outside of the not-as-interesting-as-they-think-they-are visual and a lot of the story beats seem taken from more interesting TNG episodes. Also, jeez Picard, why are you giving Worf the stink-eye for not knowing Gilbert and Sullivan. It's 500 year old music from a culture quasi-alien to Worf. I wouldn't presume one way or the other if my family knew who they were. Don't be such a friggin' snob, man.
stethacantus
Not Hurt By Pain
The Duel ( a.k.a. Duel of the Iron Fist ) ( 1971 )
For budgetary reasons I am probably not going to buy a new martial arts film for another month or two ( unless something suddenly goes OOP ), which gives me a chance to rewatch some of the films in my library. This week I picked at the last second The Duel, one of Chang Cheh's violent gangster films from the early 70s where everyone either carries a knife or hatchet, and the gangsters have nothing better to do but try to hack each other up. It has a very decent plot, one which Cheh liked enough to recycle in Flags of Iron ( 1980 ). ( I was so tempted to watch Flags of Iron as a double feature, but just didn't have the time. )
Going back to the 80s when The Duel aired on television as part of the Saturday afternoon martial arts movie theater on a local station, and going through my bootleg SB Video copy, an authorized VHS release from Canada that inexplicably edited out all the violence, including the opening rumble at a funeral and last ten minutes where Ti Lung and David Chaing take on an army of thugs, and finally the official DVD release, I have previously watched this film about a dozen times. An this is the first time I noticed Scrooge McDuck was in the film. His picture is on the box of a tattoo artist along with a few drawings of nudes. Except that this film is supposed to take place in the 30s, a decade before Scrooge was created.
For some reason when I first watch the DVD, I watched using the English dub instead of the original language soundtrack with subtitles as I usually do with martial arts films. This time I kept the subtitles on and occasional cut back to the English track for comparison. One big difference, while most of the music is the same, the Chinese track uses the theme from 2001 A Space Odyssey whenever one of the heroes attacked the evil gangsters while the English track used some of the archive music from the Shaw Brothers music library. Another big difference, how dumbed down the English dub is. ( As usual. ) The Duel is not one of the classic Shaw Brothers films, but it is pretty close. And thanks to Dragon Dynasty acquiring the rights to a lot of Shaw Brothers films they never released, this is one of the few Chang Cheh gangster films to be available on home video in America.
RoboCop ( 2014 )
Beginning next week I have a blaxploitation superhero film from the 70s followed by three Asylum films. All of them with bad reviews. I am not going to see a good superhero film for at least 3 weeks, perhaps more. So I was hoping the final RoboCop film this week was not going to be bad. Actually, despite poor reviews, it was a good film. Not great, just good.
The biggest problem with this RoboCop reboot is that the film makers completely missed the point of making a RoboCop film. RoboCop is supposed to be a Robot. The reboot he is still Murphy. While his body is all robot, his face and brain is Murphy who has all of his memories and personality. So basically a bionic man rather than robot.
Another thing I didn't like about this reboot, it seemed like there was no good reason for Keaton to suddenly turn into the bad guy in the final 30 minutes other than the film needed a villain for Murphy to fight in the climax.
Despite the flaws, it was well made, had a lot of excellent action scenes, and really good visual effects. So despite the reboot f$#king up the RoboCop story, it was still very entertaining.
Coconuts ( 1929 )
To be honest, I didn't intend to get around to the Marx Brothers films this summer. The plan was to complete the WC Fields films, and work on the last of the films with Buster Keaton and Three Stooges cameos so their libraries would be completed. Also, I really should get around to buying the rest of the Chaplin films. Worse, the only one I have on DVD is A Countess From Hong Kong and the rest are on VHS. But then I found out the Warner Bros Marx Brothers collection had gone OOP, so I had to buy it before collectors and Amazon jacked the price up on what was left.
The main thing holding me back from buying the Marx Brothers films was that the official DVD release of their Paramount films was botched. Not only was there no attempt at restoration, but they didn't even use the best know prints. I decided to hold off until someone released the same films restored. And wouldn't you know it, Universal just released the film's on Blu-ray using the best know prints. Add to that, Amazon began reporting they were running low on Love Happy with no word if Olive Films would be printing any more. So I ended up buying their films out of chronological order, and subsequently watching them out of order. Last week I watched the final Marx Brothers film. This week I am watching the first.
The story is that the Marx Brothers were so horrified by the final cut if this film that they tried to buy the print from Paramount so they could destroy it instead of releasing it. And for the first half hour of this movie it looked as if this would be a bad film. It is supposed to take place in Florida, but instead is on a really bad movie set with a painted back drop of palm trees that look exactly like a painted backdrop. Groucho is the first to show up, and he seems to be walking through his role. He says a few lines, then the film cuts to a music number with the B characters. When that ends Groucho says a few more unfunny jokes and we cut to a dance number with bellhops. When Chico and Harpo finally show up, their initial gags aren't funny. But just as it looks like the film will be a complete stinker, Groucho's acting suddenly perks up to his usual self and he is suddenly telling jokes that work. Chico and Harpo's material also picks up. So the second two thirds of this film is a successful comedy, and the opening third is a dud.
One surprise is how little of Zeppo is in this film. I knew Zeppo rarely did anything funny in these movies. But his character barely has any lines and is barely on screen. Even more surprising, he was not cast as the film's romantic lead. That role goes to someone else, and that character is in a lot of the film.
wihogfan
Trailer Park Boys (1999)
Ultra low budget Canadian black and white pic that lead to the TV series. After starting the series, I decided to watch it. Started good. Dragged in parts. The decision to kill the pet hitman storyline in the series and keep much of the rest was a great decision. Despite being a pet lover, it was a storyline that I was OK with as it was kind of funny as a part of the movie but would have been a tough sell to keep going for an extended period. Kind of cool that they got most of the actors in the movie to come back for the series. Movie was OK, but the series is definitely a better starting place than the movie.
Russoguru
Bilbo Baggins Balladeer
Mission Impossible: Fallout This movie was really really good! It had a lot of tense moments, great action, some very fun twists, and I came away from the movie feeling very satisfied with this, the sixth entry in the MI franchise. I'm not sure I would say the series is getting better and better with each installment, but I would say that they are keeping the series of the highest quality. However I will go so far as to say that unless something dreadfully bad happens, this series is as it stands now is the gold standard for smart and compelling action drama film-making.
Everyone was great, I was really looking forward to seeing Tom Cruise fight Superman. We had a couple familiar faces returning from Rogue Nation. Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames were great, as was Alec Baldwin. I'm just a little bummed out that Jeremy Renner didn't return because dammit, I love that man.
"Russoguru is a naive jackass"
“I have no issues calling you a fucking moron. That's not dehumanizing you.”
Insert $0.25 to Play!
Well my son LOVES Teen Titans, Go!, so a trip to see Teen Titans Go! to the Movies was in order. It's a good time. Plenty of the meta-humor and anti-humor the show does so very well, and a hilarious bit involving time travel. There was also a little tidbit in the credits for fans of the old cartoon.
I assume you've already introduced him to the animated series of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited?
He's not quite ready for that level of sophistication yet. IE: There are no fart jokes or songs about waffles to hold his interest. Someday, though!
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Quote from: Russoguru on July 27, 2018, 09:09:28 PM
That's kind of apples to oranges. Teen Titans Go, although based on a DC superhero team, is very much a comedy. I like TTG, but wouldn't really like those Justice League shows. I kind of hate DC comics, mainly because of Superman. Any team dynamic is ruined by an overpowered superhero who puts the 'ME' in "TEAM".
I'm not particularly religious, and I don't really like Muppets, but I do love word play.
I saw a review of that movie, and it kind of concerns me. Seems dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/v/S54pGjRnbHk?rel=0
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TSX:GG.V $0.33 +0.04
Mupane
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Galane Gold Ltd. Releases Financial and Operating Results for First Quarter 2015
TORONTO, May 13, 2015 /CNW/ -Â Galane Gold Ltd. ("Galane Gold" or the "Company") (TSX-V: GG) is pleased to announce the release of its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2015. All amounts are in United States dollars unless otherwise indicated.
A copy of the unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2015 prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and the corresponding Management's Discussion and Analysis will be available under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com.
All-in operating cash cost of $1,270 per ounce (excluding royalties).(1)
Net loss of $1,969,368.
Cash balance of $6,565,677 at the end of the quarter.
Cash out-flows from operating activities of $789,477.
Cash flows used in investing activities of $2,482,872 which included infrastructure and initial development for Tau underground plus pre-stripping at Golden Eagle.
Produced 5,030 ounces of gold.
Total ore mined of 97,722 tonnes at an average grade of 1.55 grams per tonne.
Total ore milled of 158,765 tonnes at a head grade of 1.41 grams per tonne.
Mining licence for Tekwane received which has a measured and indicated mineral resource is 12,735 ounces of gold and the Company will commence trial mining in Q2 2015.
Announcement of potential acquisition of Galaxy Gold.
Galane Gold CEO, Nick Brodie commented: "In isolation the results for the quarter appear disappointing, but this does not represent the achievements we have actually made in the quarter. The results are in fact as planned by the Company as we undertake the transition from predominately open pit to underground mining at the Company's Tau operation. It is currently expected that the Company will be in full production from Tau underground towards the end of Q3 2015 at which point we expect there to be a marked improvement in the performance of the Company.
It is also an exciting time for the Company as we start the process of due diligence at Galaxy, which was announced subsequent to the end of the quarter. The Company sees Galaxy as a potential near term production asset, with minimal capital costs and an ability to increase production in easily manageable steps. This is also expected to be at a cost which is a fraction of replacement cost."
(1)Â Â Â Â Â Total Operating cash cost excluding royalties is a non-GAAP measure. Refer to "Supplemental Information to Management's Discussion and Analysis" in the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2015 for reconciliation to measures reported in the Company's financial statements.
About Galane Gold
Galane Gold is an un-hedged gold producer and explorer with mining operations and exploration tenements in Botswana. Galane Gold is a public company and its shares are quoted on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Botswana Stock Exchange under the symbol GG.  Galane Gold's management team is comprised of senior mining professionals with extensive experience in managing mining and processing operations and large-scale exploration programmes. Galane Gold is committed to operating at world-class standards and is focused on the safety of its employees, respecting the environment, and contributing to the communities in which it operates.
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Volume 2 Issue 2: Hydrosphere. Hazard processes and phenomena /
The evolution of the hydrosphere
PALAEORUNOFF FROM LAKE LADOGA TO THE BALTIC SEA DURING THE HOLOCENE
Dmitry A. Subetto 1Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Department of Geography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3585-8598
Denis D. Kuznetsov Institute of Limnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Maria V. Minina FSBI "VNIIOkeangeologia", Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Olga A. Druzhinina Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Department of Geography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4326-6792
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34753/HS.2020.2.2.148
Keywords: Lake Ladoga, Baltic Sea, palaeohydrology, Karelian Isthmus, Heinjoki waterway, Neva River, Holocene, modeling, palaeoflow parameters
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The article presents the results of the palaeohydrological analysis of the river system reorganization in the North-West of Russia, the Karelian Isthmus. This study aimed at the hydrological calculation of the runoff through the Heinjoki water connection of Lake Ladoga, the Gulf of Finland and PalaeoVuoksa during different periods of the Holocene. The methods of the equation of water balance, hydraulic-morphometric dependencies and the method of geographical analogy were used in this research. The main result of the carried work is the refinement of the existing regional flow model. In particular, the role of the Heinjoki Strait and the Neva River channel in different stages of the Holocene is considered. The authors came to the conclusion that Lake Ladoga always had a runoff to the Baltic Sea. It is shown that most probably in the period of 10,200-3,500 years ago the runoff was carried out through the Heinjoki waterway. The study underlines that the isostatic factor played a significant role in the forming of the water flow. The change in the runoff direction from the Heinjoki waterway to the Neva River is mainly related to the isostatic uplift of the Karelian Isthmus and the northern part of Lake Ladoga. Quantitative parameters of the Heinjoki palaeoflow (flow rate, annual runoff, runoff layer, runoff coefficient) seem to be roughly equivalent to the modern parameters of the flow of the Neva River.
The article is dedicated to our colleague, a talented geographer and teacher, PhD Oleg Borisovich Averichkin (1979-2010) who first performed the calculations of the paleorunoff of Lake Ladoga
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Dmitry A. Subetto,
1Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Department of Geography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: subetto@mail.ru
eLibrary (РИНЦ) SPIN-код: 8799-7111
Scopus ID: 6602963673
Denis D. Kuznetsov,
Institute of Limnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: dd_kuznetsov@mail.ru
Scopus ID:26654876400
Phone: +7-921-7594711
Maria V. Minina,
FSBI "VNIIOkeangeologia", Saint-Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: maria.minina@mail.ru
Scopus ID:
Phone:+7-953-1445092
Olga A. Druzhinina,
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Department of Geography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: Olga.alex.druzhinina@gmail.com
Scopus ID: 38861290900
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Zobkov M., Potakhin M., Subetto D., Tarasov A. Reconstructing Lake Onega evolution during and after the Late Weichselian glaciation with special reference to water volume and area estimations. Journal of Paleolimnology, 2019, vol. 62, iss. 1, pp. 53-71. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-019-00075-3
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Mats Naslund
Like every other position, the Montreal Canadiens have had a lot of great left wingers over their long and glorious history. Steve Shutt, Bob Gainey, Dickie Moore, Toe Blake, Aurele Joliat, Bert Olmstead, and Frank Mahovlich are all Hall of Fame left wingerss.
But did you know the record for most points in one season by a Montreal LW is held by Mats Naslund, the very first Montreal player from overseas?
"Le Petit Viking" was born and grew up in Timra, a small city in the northern parts of Sweden. Mats Naslund was an extremely talented player in his early years and played against 11-year olds as a 6-year old. He made his first impact when he led Sweden to a Gold medal in the European Junior Championships in 1977 and later that year was voted as the best Swedish junior player.
In 1978 he left his longtime club Timra to play for the top club Brynas. A year later Mats was selected to play in the 1979 World championships. At first the trainer's selection of Mats was heavily criticized by media and hockey people in Sweden, as they all claimed that he was to small to compete in international play among seniors.
He quickly silenced the critics when he led the Swedish team in goals (5) and points (7). His fine play caught the eye of Montreal Canadiens scouts. A lot of Canadian journalists were curious who this little fellow was. Montreal selected Mats with their 2nd choice, 37th overall despite the fact that he only was 5'7" and 160lbs.
Mats didn't disappoint the scouts and had a fine season in the Swedish league as well as a 10 point performance in the 1980 Olympics. After the Olympic games Montreal wanted to sign Mats, but he declined the offer because he didn't feel ready. During the next season (1980-81) he led the Swedish league in assists (25) and points (42).
In 1981 he tore his ACL while playing badminton and missed the 1981 Canada Cup. His injury made Montreal back off for a while in their pursuit of his signature. But just three weeks prior to the 1982 World championships Mats signed a 3 year contract with Montreal, becoming the first ever European trained player in Canadiens 73 year history.
He was an instant hit with the Forum fans, scoring three goals in his first pre-season game (vs Philadelphia). From that moment on he was "Le Petit Viking," the little Viking. Mats sat out the first three games of his rookie season, but when Rejean Houle got injured, Mats got his NHL debut which came against the rivals Quebec Nordiques on October 11th 1982. Two nights later Mats buried a shot behind New Jersey's goalie Lindsay Middlebrook for his 1st career NHL goal. He was also the game's 2nd star. Mats also scored in his 3rd game vs NY Rangers and clicked immediately with his line mates Mario Tremblay and Pierre Mondou.
Mats best season in the NHL was undoubtedly the 1985-86 season when he scored 110 points (43 goals and 67 assists) and was a 2nd All-Star left wing. The crowning moment was the Cup win later that season where he scored 19 points, including 8 goals, in the playoffs and was a key component for Montreal. Mats never won another Cup although he had a splendid playoff the following season, scoring 22 points.
During his career Mats earned a reputation as a true playoff warrior, scoring a very respectable 92 points (35 goals and 57 assists) in 102 playoff games. By doing so he won over a lot of fans, and remains one of the most popular European players in Canada.
Mats strongest asset was undoubtedly his speed and acceleration, plus a great change of pace ability. He had good hands and took passes excellently while in full stride. Despite his small size he could absorb and give a check as good as anyone. He wasn't a true superstar player but an above average player who took over Guy Lafleur's role as Montreal's dynamic offensive leader and fan favorite. The Montreal Forum applauded his efforts every time announcer Claude Mouton announced a goal by "number 26, numéro vingt six . . . Matsss....Nasluuuund."
The winner of the 1988 Lady Byng Trophy played in Montreal until 1990 before deciding to return back to Europe. He spend the 1990-91 season in Lugano, Switzerland. Despite scoring 31 goals and 70 points in 42 games. After the season was over he rejoined the Swedish national team for a world championship gold medal. After his Swiss adventure he returned back to Sweden where he joined Malmo and helped them win two titles in three years (1992 and 1994).
In 1994 Mats won the Olympic Gold and shared the lead in the tournament with 7 assists. During the lockout season in 1994-95 Mats attempted a comeback in the NHL, jumping on a lucrative deal offered to him by Boston and played 34 games. The aging Naslund would score 8 goals and 22 points.
Mats finished his NHL career with 634 points (251 goals and 383 assists) in 651 games. He also had 280 points (123 goals and 157 assists) in 294 games in the Swedish Elite League. Mats holds the distinction of being one of very few Swedish players to have won the Swedish league championship, an Olympic Gold, a World championship and a Stanley Cup.
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Pierre Mondou
This is Pierre Mondou. He won three Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens in the late 1970s. The native of Sorel, Quebec was a nice complimentary player with that dynasty team. Along with similar players like Doug Risebrough, Mario Tremblay, Rejean Houle, Doug Jarvis and Jimmy Roberts, Mondou was excelled as an extraordinary role player.
In junior hockey in Sorel and Montreal, as well as in the American Hockey League when he first turned pro, Mondou was an offensive star. Buried behind the likes of Guy Lafleur, Steve Shutt and Jacques Lemaire, Mondou became more of an all-round player with the Habs. He injected youth and life into the Habs dynasty, as well as four seasons with at least 29 goals. But he was better known as a support player who could add offense. He was versatile in that he could play either center or wing with equal ease. He excelled as a penalty killer, and, because of his skating ability, was often called upon to shut down the other team's top lines.
Unfortunately for Mondou his career came to a scary end at the age of 29. An errant high stick belonging to Hartford's Ulf Samuelsson clipped Mondou in the left eye. The incident happened as Mondou was scoring the game winning goal in overtime. Sadly it would the last goal Mondou would ever score, as he was forced to retire because of the injury.
In 548 regular season games Pierre Mondou scored 194 goals, 262 assists and 456 points while totalling 179 penalty minutes. He added another 17 goals and 45 points in 69 playoff games.
Mondou later served as a long time scout for the Canadiens.
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Jean Gauthier
Jean Gauthier died February 20th, 2013. He was 75 years old.
Gauthier played 166 NHL games in the 1960s. He played with Montreal, Boston and Philadelphia, as well as with the New York Raiders of the WHA.
Gauthier was a rough and tumble defenseman who was no stranger to the penalty box. He won a Memorial Cup as a junior star with the Flin Flon Bombers and after apprenticing in the minor leagues, the Habs moved veteran Bob Turner to make room for Gauthier.
The move turned out to be a bit of a bust. After playing the 1962-63 season in Montreal, Gauthier was destined to play the rest of the Original Six days in the minor leagues with a few big league call-ups. At least he got called up during the 1965 playoffs and played a couple of games. That was good enough to get his name on the Stanley Cup!
Once the NHL expanded Gauthier, like so many career minor leaguers, found regular work with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1967-68. But he could not stick in the league beyond that season, returning to the minors while also making brief appearances in Boston and again in Montreal.
In 166 NHL games Jean Gauthier scored 6 goals and 29 assists.
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Robert Fillion
This is 2 time Stanley Cup champion Robert Fillion. His name is inscribed on the Stanley Cup in 1944 as Bob as he was known as "Bobby" when he first broke into the National Hockey League. In 1946 it is inscribed as Robert.
Fillion played 327 games in the 1940s with Rocket Richard's Montreal Canadiens. He scored 42 career goals and 103 points, adding another 7 goals and 11 points in 33 playoff games.
The 5'10" 170lbs left winger out of Thetford Mines, Quebec was a junior teammate of Rocket Richard. But in the NHL he was turned into "a fine checker." In his best season he scored 30 points (1943-44 as a rookie). Two years later he posted a career best 10 goals.
"I had been a high scorer in junior but the Canadiens made me into a defensive forward, just like they did with Guy Carbonneau," he described many years later.
He may not have been a Picasso on the ice but Fillion was very much interested in artists of a different sort. He often visited artist studios while on road trips and took up painting himself! It may have been a bigger passion for him than hockey!
Bob, the brother of Marcel Fillion who played 1 game in the NHL, worked in public relations for years after retiring from hockey. He also went back home to work in a mine in Thetford Mines before retiring to Montreal's south shore. He was a regular guest at Montreal Canadiens games right through to his final season.
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Patrick Lebeau
The parallels between the careers of brothers Patrick and Stephan Lebeau are pretty remarkable.
Both were undersized scoring sensations in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, putting up eye-popping numbers. Despite that they were never considered to be top prospects. Stephan was never drafted, and Patrick only in the late rounds, likely because by then Stephan established himself as a pro player. Both brothers would go onto amazing rookie seasons in the American Hockey League, both winning the Dudley Garrett Award as top rookie.
Heck, even when Patrick was recalled for his first NHL games in the 1990-91 season he was united with Stephan for two games. Patrick even scored his first NHL goal and his first NHL assist.
Unfortunately that is where the parallels more or less end. Stephane went on to play several seasons with the Montreal Canadiens and helped them win a Stanley Cup in 1993. Patrick would never play for the Canadiens again, and only would play in a handful of NHL games spread over several years. His lengthy career was spent jumping around minor leagues and Europe.
Lebeau's introduction to the international game actually began back in 1992 when he joined the Canadian Olympic team during the season. He joined the likes of Eric Lindros, Joey Juneau and Sean Burke in helping the Canadian team to a silver medal.
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Stephan Lebeau
An undersized centre from St-Jerome, Quebec, #47 Stephane Lebeau was junior scoring dynamo. Blessed with quickness and an amazingly accurate shot. In four seasons with the Shawinigan Cataractes he scored 281 goals and 580 points in 270 career games. In his last season of junior his scored a ridiculous 94 goals and 188 points.
You know what is even more ridiculous? Even with those gaudy offensive numbers, Lebeau was never drafted by a NHL team.
Sure, he was small and slow and did not pay much attention to the defensive side of the game. But with numbers like that, how could every NHL team not take at least a late round flyer on him?
The Montreal Canadiens invited him to camp and were smart enough to sign him to a pro deal. Perhaps the Habs were look to prop up their farm team in Sherbrooke. The Habs were hoping to inject some offensive life into their AHL team.
It obviously worked. As a rookie Lebeau scored 70 goals and 134 points in 78 games. He and Benoit Brunet formed a dynamic duo that, despite their lack of size, would not be denied their NHL chance.
But the Habs insisted Lebeau learn to play without the puck first. Lebeau was not the first offensive star out of the QMJHL to be expected to become a well rounded and defensively conscientious player. In fact Guy Carbonneau became perhaps the greatest defensive forward of all time.
Lebeau would join the Canadiens in 1989-90 and was utilized as a power play specialist while learning defense for 3 seasons. In 1992-93 the Canadiens needed an infusion of offense and new coach Jacques Demers. He capitalized on his teammates speed. He would headman the puck and trail in on the play. He exploded for a 31 goal and 80 point season, 4th best on the team. More importantly, he helped the Canadiens capture a surprised Stanley Cup in the spring of 93.
The writing was on the wall however. He only played in 13 of Montreal's playoff games, and contributed just 3 goals and 6 points.The next season he was traded to Anaheim and after another season he was out of the NHL altogether.
Lebeau extended his career by playing several seasons in Switzerland. Nowadays Lebeau is living in the Eastern Townships in Sherbrooke and runs the hockey program at private English school Bishop College in Lennoxville. He also has done some French media work concerning the Montreal Canadiens.
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Gilbert Dionne
You could be forgiven if you thought Gilbert Dionne's nickname "King" came courtesy of his famous older brother. Marcel Dionne, best known as a Los Angeles King, was one of the greatest offensive players the game of hockey has ever seen. But in actuality, Gilbert's nickname came from a love of karaoke - specifically Elvis songs.
Gilbert may always be known as Marcel's little brother, but more than a few people have confused him as his son. Gilbert is 19 years younger. Being so much younger made Marcel more of a hero to look up to than a brother.
Gilbert may have caught a few breaks because of his famous brother and his last name, but he was hardly considered to be a top prospect much of his youth. He would follow his brother's move by playing in Ontario, learning English and developing his hockey game.
Gilbert slowly developed into a NHL prospect. The Montreal Canadiens, who passed on Marcel in favor of Guy Lafleur years early, took Gilbert in the 4th round of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft.
Gilbert caught on with the Habs in 1991-92. Skating with Shayne Corson and Mike Keane, he scored 21 goals in 39 games and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team.
“I would just go to the net and the puck would end up on my stick. I just kept it as simple as possible and it worked out for me,” he told The Hockey News.
The next year Gilbert would score 12 points in 20 playoff games to help the Habs win an unexpected Stanley Cup championship. In doing so he accomplished about the only thing older brother Marcel was not able to do - hoist the Stanley Cup high over his head.
“I had two tickets available and I asked Marcel and his wife to be there. He came to the game luckily. I kept waiting for my turn (to hoist the Cup on the ice after the game) and I said: ‘No, I’m going to wait until I’m at that section so I can raise the Cup in front of my brother,’” Gilbert recalled. “It was one of the best things ever and I just raised the Cup up and I almost dropped it because it’s about 35 pounds and throughout the playoffs I lost about 15 pounds. I raised it toward my brother and it was the highlight of my life to show him that, ‘Hey, we finally did it.’”
Unfortunately the rest of Dionne's tenure in Montreal was not so rosy. He had a bit of a love/hate relationship with fans as his game never really continued to develop after that great playoff. On Feb. 9, 1995, he was dealt to Philadelphia in a blockbuster along with Eric Desjardins and John LeClair for Mark Recchi and a third-round draft pick.
Dionne would surprisingly only play 22 games in Philadelphia and 5 more in Florida before disappearing to the minor leagues. He would become a very popular player with the Cincinnati Cylones.
After retiring from hockey Gilbert purposely took a job outside of hockey. He settled in Tavistock, Ontario, working as a grain merchant for Parrish and Heimbecker.
“I made a decision to work outside of hockey. The best thing is to do a nine-to-five job so I can come home to my kids and my wife every night,” he said.
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Alex Smart certainly knew how to make a favorable impression on his coach and new teammates. In his first NHL game he became the first rookie to score a hat trick in his first NHL game.
On January 14th, 1943, the Montreal Canadiens hosted the Chicago Blackhawks. Playing on a line with Hall of Famers Buddy O'Connor and Gordie Drillon, Smart scored the final three Montreal goals in a 5-1 victory for the Habs. The first two goals were scored just 14 seconds apart.
Unfortunately, that alone was not enough to keep Smart in the NHL. Though he scored 2 more goals and 2 assists, he only played 7 more NHL games before all but disappearing as a tiny note in hockey history.
"People still remind me about (the hat trick)," said Smart in 1991. "I never though it could last this long."
Buddy O'Connor, Fabian Brunnstrum and Derek Stepan have since duplicated the feat.
Smart returned to senior hockey in Montreal until 1946 when he moved Ottawa. He helped the senior league Senators to the Allan Cup finals in 1948 and helped them win Canada's national amateur championship in 1949.
Alex Smart lived the rest of his life in Ottawa, working for Goodyear Tire for 40 years while also doing some scouting for the Los Angeles Kings.
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Louis Berlinguette
Perhaps the original utility forward, Louis Berlinguette was a notable defensive forward but not a great offensive player. But because he was so reliable and valuable, he gained so much respect that he played in more games and seasons than any hockey player of his era.
Berlinguette played with the Montreal Canadiens from 1912 through 1924, playing with the team in both the NHA and then the NHL when it was formed in 1917. He played on top lines with the likes of Newsy Lalonde and Didier Pitre, but was never rewarded with great offensive output like his linemates. He totalled just 46 goals in 193 NHL games (plus another 19 in 100 in the NHA).
Berlinguette ended his career with single seasons with the Montreal Maroons and Pittsburgh Pirates before continuing on as an amateur. He finally left the ice after 1927.
Interestingly, much debate surrounded his name. Many sources mistakenly typed his name as Berlinquette. To complicate matters, his baptism certificate is in the name Berlinguet.
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Jean Jacques Daigneault
J.J. Daigneault grew up in Mario Lemieux's shadow. Literally.
The two were born in Montreal just one week apart, and spent much of their youth and junior hockey careers together (along with defenseman Marc Bergevin, too).
"Mario's always been a great player," said Daigneault. "He knew right from the beginning right where he was going. He was always first in scoring on the team and in the league when I played with him."
Despite playing in front of all those drooling scout, it never really dawned on J.J. that he, too, might be able to make it to the NHL.
"I really didn't think about playing hockey professionally until I was about 16," he said. "The agents come out and they try and get you into it. Then try and get you interested by telling you that you're pretty good and how you might make it to the NHL."
Daigneault, a rushing defenseman in junior was a 5'11" and 180lb defenseman known for his offensive game more so than his physical or defensive game.
"If I wanted to stay on defense, I had to be able to do things that the bigger guys couldn't do. I had to be quick and agile so the big ones couldn't hit me. I had to be able to move the puck."
Daigneault really started catching the scouts' eyes after scoring 26 goals and 84 points in 70 games with Longueuil.
"I had a great year that year playing for Jacques Lemaire," he said. "In the final we played at the Montreal Forum. We played in front of 17,000 people. It's a big thrill to be 17 and play in front of all those people."
"A month after that, I was awarded the Emile "Butch" Bouchard Trophy for best defenseman."
Daigneault jumped to Dave King's Canadian Olympic team in 1984. He spent the season with fellow youngsters like Dave Gagner, Russ Courtnall and Kirk Muller in pursuit of their Olympic dream. Daigneault described his tutelage with the national team as "the best thing for me."
Mario Lemieux was the obvious choice as the top player chosen in the 1984 NHL draft. Nine picks later, his childhood friend Daigneault was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks.
J.J., the youngest of seven children of a Montreal taxi driver, certainly raised a few eyebrows after being drafted. He hobbled to the stage on crutches, as he had to have his knee surgically repaired. It goes down in Canucks history as a rather disheartening moment.
Mario, of course, went on to a career of epic proportions that all players dream of. Daigneault, well he had some more mixed results. Yes, his career spanned 899 career NHL games (plus 99 more in the Stanley Cup playoffs), but he was one of the most travelled players in NHL history.
Let's see if we can keep this all straight. Daigneault played for the Vancouver Canucks (1984–85 – 1985–86), Philadelphia Flyers (1986–87 – 1987–88), Montreal Canadiens (1989–90 – 1995–96), St. Louis Blues (1995–96), Pittsburgh Penguins (1995–96 – 1996–97), Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1996–97 – 1997–98), New York Islanders (1997–98), Nashville Predators (1998–99), Phoenix Coyotes (1998–99 – 1999–2000), and Minnesota Wild (2000–01).
The only player to play with more teams is Mike Sillinger. Daigneault joins Michel Petit and Jim Dowd tied for second for most teams played with.
The Canucks probably rushed Daigneault to the NHL too early. He was a good skater with a good shot. But he tended to over-handle the puck rather than make safe and simple plays, often getting him into trouble. And defensively he had a tough time with the NHL's speed when it came to reading plays defensively.As he matured he began eliminating that from his game. He became a stabilizing defender later in his career, but his lack of size and physicality continued to limit his game.
His best years were spent at home in Montreal where sipped championship champagne from the Stanley Cup in 1993.
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Gordie Poirier
This is Gordie Poirier. His NHL career consisted of 10 lone games with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1939-40 season. He picked up a lone assist in what at first glance was a pretty unimpressive career in hockey.
But nothing could be further from the truth.
Poirier was from a tiny town of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, the same town more modern NHL players Barry Dean and Zack Smith are from. The town probably would never have existed if the Canadian Pacific Railway did not set up a construction camp in the area a couple of decades earlier. Even to this day the beautiful village is a very rural home to a small number of families.
Yet somehow this rural kid became a very worldly traveller. And it was thanks largely to hockey.
Details are sketchy, but Poirier did not stay in Maple Creek too long. At some point he moved to Montreal where he played junior hockey with several teams from 1931 through 1934 and senior hockey with the Montreal Sr. Canadiens in the 1934-35 season.
That's when things get interesting. Poirier spent the 1935-36 season in Italy, playing with a team called Diavoli Rosso Neri Milano. According to the Society for International Hockey Research his obituary said he coached Italy's national team in preparation for the 1936 Olympics as well!
From there he moved to Britain after being recruited by a fellow named Don Penniston. Poirier became a legendary player in the BNL. He played with the black and yellow Brighton Tigers before and after World War II, also appearing with Harrington Racers late in his career. He was elected to the British Hockey Hall of Fame in 1948, even though he did not hang up his skates until 1951!
Here is how he is remembered in Britain:
With his dark, dashing good looks and amazing hockey skills, Gordie was an immediate success and soon became the star of the Brighton Tigers. The crowds would scream the roof down as he scored one goal after another, leaving the opposing team players in total disarray. This was perhaps something to do with his ability to shoot a puck at a defending goal keeper at over 100mph. I mentioned he played in Britain pre and post World War II. He spent 7 seasons from 1939 through 1946 back in Canada where he was enlisted in the war effort. From 1941 forward he was stationed in Ottawa and played with several senior league teams.
But in the 1939-40 season he was based in Montreal, serving with the Royal Canadian Medical Corps. He starred with the senior team in St. Hyacinthe, playing on a line with brothers Tony and Albert Lemay (both of whom would also serve and play with Poirier in war efforts in Ottawa and star in Britain with the Wembley Lions).
But it was Poirier who caught the eye of the Montreal Canadiens. He signed on with the Habs in February, 1940, playing the 10 games.
His NHL career was not particularly noteworthy but his life was fascinating. After he hung up his skates in Britain he apparently returned to Canada and opened a restaurant and an import business. He passed away from a heart attack on May 25th, 1972. He was living in Montreal at the time.
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Armand Mondou
Armand Mondou will always go down in NHL history as the answer to this popular trivia question: Who was awarded the NHL’s first penalty shot? He was stopped in Toronto on Nov. 10, 1934, by Maple Leafs goaler George Hainsworth.
Mondou played in 386 NHL games, all with Montreal, but he could never seem to settle on a jersey number. He wore 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 44, 64 and 66 in his career!
In addition, he was said to be one of the earliest users of the slap shot, many years before Boom Boom Geoffrion or Bobby Hull really popularized the tactic.
Mondou, a checker primarily but he could make smart plays with the puck, scored only 47 career goals. But the gritty left-winger played a key role in the Canadiens’ Stanley Cup victory in 1930, a huge upset of the defending champion Boston Bruins, and again in 1931. His speed and unselfish team play were two keys of any good player on any championship team in any era of hockey.
Mondou's career took a major blow in the 1937-38 season when he broke he leg in a collision with Boston's freight-train of a defenseman, Eddie Shore. He returned to play the better parts of two more seasons before leaving the NHL.
Armand Mondou passed away in 1976, just before his grandson Pierre Mondou played his first NHL game.
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Clifford "Red" Goupille
This is Clifford "Red Goupille, a defenseman out of Trois Rivieres. He played 222 NHL games over parts of 8 seasons - all with the Montreal Canadiens.
From 1937 through 1942 Goupille matured into "a highly effective" defensive defenseman known to play the game physically. He was a bruiser who kept the opposition honest when it came to abusing his smaller teammates.
He was also known for a rather odd and rather ineffective superstition. He always put a bottle of Coke in his shoe, claiming it was a guarantee he would score that night. Too bad it did not work better. Goupille had 12 career goals in 222 games.
Goupille's NHL career came to an end 6 games into the 1942-43 season. He joined the Army to help Canada's efforts in World War II. He was stationed in Montreal for the rest of that season and played senior hockey. For the next two seasons there is no record of him playing hockey at all, almost certainly due to the military commitments.
Goupille returned to the ice in 1945, playing senior hockey first in Hull then in Sherbrooke. He hung up the blades for good in 1951.
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Rod Lorrain
Rod Lorrain grew up playing hockey in Buckingham, Quebec before joining the Ottawa Lasalle Juniors in 1932-33. Lorrain teamed together with Polly Drouin to lead Ottawa to several strong seasons.
The duo were reunited in Montreal with the Canadiens. Drouin joined Montreal in 1935, but Lorrain did not join the Habs until 1937. Initially playing together on a line with Jack McGill, both players went on to solid careers in Montreal.
Lorrain, described as a "speedy but chunky winger" played regularly for Montreal for four season but in 1940 he left the team and became an amateur player again.
Interestingly, with the Habs desperate for wingers in the 1941-42 season, Lorrain returned to the professional ranks. Montreal signed him despite the fact that he was notably out of shape. As such, the Habs used him for just four more games. He spent the rest of the season playing in the AHL in Washington.
After a second season in Washington Lorrain again returned to amateur status until he hung up the skates for good in 1945.
Lorrain returned to the Buckingham area and became a local hockey coach. He passed away in 1980.
Bill Summerhill
This is Bill "The Thrill" Summerhill. I am making his nickname up, but it could have applied. He was described as "one of the fastest skaters in all of hockey" and "a fine playmaker who could also find the back of the net with regularity, especially in the minors."
Most of his career was spent in the minor leagues where he was an AHL all star. He also spent a couple of seasons playing senior hockey in Toronto while serving at an army base during World War II.
For all his prolific scoring exploits in the minors, Summerhill never made the same impact in the NHL. He played most regularly on a Montreal line with Polly Drouin and Herb Cain, but his career totals of 14 goals and 31 points are nowhere near as dominant as his minor league numbers.
Summerhill - whose real nickname was "Pee Wee" presumably because he was 5'9" tall - played 59 games (plus 3 playoff games) with the Montreal Canadiens over parts of 3 seasons in the late 1930s. Interestingly he wore 8 different uniform numbers in his time in Montreal.
He later played 13 more NHL games with the Brooklyn Americans in the 1941-42 season.
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Leroy Goldsworthy
Leroy Goldsworthy played with 6 different NHL teams in the 1920s and 1930s. He never stayed in one spot too long, but he totalled 336 games played. He scored 66 goals, 57 assists and 123 points. He added 1 goal in 25 playoff games.
Throughout much of his career Leroy Goldsworthy was utilized as a checking forward, but he could score some goals too. His best stint came in Montreal in the 1934/35 and 1935/36 season. He scored 35 goals in 80 games over the two seasons.
Described as "a tireless worker whose strength was his consistency," Goldy found some magic in Montreal. Perhaps it was the number 9 jersey he wore nearly a decade before Rocket Richard arrived in Montreal. Then again, maybe not. He wore number 75 when he first arrived in Montreal from the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Black Hawks.
Goldsworthy was a definite rarity in those early days of NHL history. He was a rare American born player. He was born in Two Harbours, Minnesota, though he was playing senior hockey in Edmonton by the time he turned professional.
Leroy Goldsworthy, a right winger who may have played some defense late in his career, played with the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins and New York Americans.
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Joffre Desilets
This is Joffre Desilets, one of the long forgotten NHL players. He played 192 games in the 1930s with Montreal Canadiens (3 seasons) and Chicago Blackhawks (2 seasons) before beginning a minor league vagabond life through various American cities and leagues. He also played with army teams during 1942 through 1944, though statistical records are very sketchy during his military service. Apparently he was based out in British Columbia, spreading his time in Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver and Vernon.
With his name you may think he was a true Flying Frenchman, but he was actually from Capreol, Ontario (20 miles northeast of Sudbury) and played his junior hockey in Stratford, Ontario. He came from a large family and was always happy to point out he had one brother named Romeo and one sister named Juliette. Another brother named Rolland was an international hockey vagabond, settling in South Africa where he helped introduced the game on ice.
"Dizzy," as Joffre was affectionately known, was an inseparable friend of Montreal teammate Polly "Daffy" Drouin. The two were known as "fun-makers." Sometimes their tomfoolery would get them in trouble. Like the night in Chicago in 1938 when Montreal's train took off without them and goaltender Wilf Cude. Those three were still in the train station, hamming it up with locals. They had to run down the tracks chasing the train while one of the staff radioed to stop the train!
In 192 NHL games Desilets scored 37 goals, 45 assists, and 82 points. He added 1 goal in 7 playoff games.
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Georges Mantha
Georges Mantha, the brother of Hockey Hall of Famer Sylvio Mantha, played 498 regular season games in the NHL, all with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1930s. The winger had 89 goals and 191 points in that time. He added another 6 goals and 7 points in 33 Stanley Cup playoff games. He would be a part of Montreal's Stanley Cup championship teams in 1930 and 1931.
Blessed with blazing speed, Georges Mantha was described as a "whirlwind" of a player. Though never a big scorer, he was an effective scorer who also took a number of shifts on defense. He was very responsible defensively, and was mostly utilized as a checking forward.
Georges began his NHL career in 1928-29 but did little. In 1929-30 he wasn't Howie Morenz by any means, but he did get to play on his first Stanley Cup champion.
The next year he scored 11 goals as a substitute and added 5 more in the playoffs as the "Little Men of Steel" won their second straight Stanley Cup. That Montreal Canadiens team was a legendary one that had 4 Hall of Famers on it - Morenz, Aurel Joliat, George Hainsworth and brother Sylvio Mantha. Georges would never be a Hall of Famer. After a 1 goal season in 1932-33 he re-emerged as an offensive player through the next few years. In 1936-37 he had 13 goals and 14 assists for 27 points. In 1937-38 he scored 23 goals and had 19 assists for 42 points, finishing 4th in NHL scoring.
He was injured much of 1938-39 and never was the same again. As one might expect, he was subpar in 1939-40 and in 1940-41 after 6 games he was sent to New Haven of the AHL, then the Habs sold him to Washington of the AHL. He retired in 1942.
Born in 1908, Georges Mantha died as the result of Alzheimer's disease on January 25th, 1990.
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Walter Buswell
If I asked you to name all the captains in the history of the Montreal Canadiens, you would probably be hard pressed to named the captain of the 1938-39 team. Walter Buswell wore the "C" that season, placing him in history along side Rocket Richard, Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau, Yvan Cournoyer and Bob Gainey as such honoured players in history.
Walter Buswell was a defenseman who broke into the NHL in 1932 after a fine career in senior hockey and a good year with the AHA's Chicago Shamrocks. It was when James Norris Sr. purchased a share in the Detroit Falcons in 1932-33 that he also purchased the Detroit franchise in the IAHL and the Chicago Shamrocks, which made Buswell property of the new Detroit NHL franchise.
He was fairly impressive in his first two seasons. Norris became undisputed owner of the newly named Detroit Red Wings in 1933-34, Detroit had a first place team that made it to the Stanley Cup finals before losing to the Chicago Black Hawks.
Buswell was traded to Boston in the summer of 1935, and two days after the trade was traded to the Montreal Canadiens. Buswell had his best year in 1937-38 with 2 goals and 15 assists for 17 points. He was probably Montreal's steadiest defenseman in the late 1930s. He was steady and reliable in a period of Habs history that was anything but.
After the Canadiens finished last in 1939-40, Buswell was released. He played for the Joliette Cyclones in the Quebec League the next season and then coached junior hockey after that.
One junior team he coached was the Verdun Cyclones, and a goaler he coached for two seasons was a boy who would go on to have a Hall of Fame career and be on four Stanley Cup champions. Lorne "Gump" Worsley was a product of Walter Buswell's astute coaching.
Buswell was born in Montreal in 1907 and died October 16th, 1991.
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Remember this guy? It's Oleg Petrov, the first Russian trained player to play for the Montreal Canadiens.
Not that Petrov was the highest touted Russian player to graduate out of the old Soviet training of hockey. The Canadiens drafted Oleg 127th overall in the 1991 Entry Draft. He was playing with the famous CSKA Moscow team at the time, but he was far from a known player on this side of the Atlantic.
Petrov came over to North American in 1992, but the undersized winger did not stick with the Canadiens in his first four seasons. He was up and down between Montreal and the minor leagues. By 1996 he headed back overseas, to play in Switzerland (winning two scoring titles) and presumably never be heard from again.
But Oleg did come back, and he became a bit of a fan favorite in Montreal. In 2000 he returned and posted a career high 30 assists and 47 points. The following year he scored 24 goals. He developed really good chemistry with team captain and crowd favourite Saku Koivu. The tiny duo excited the Montreal faithful with their play.
Petrov got the fans out of their seats when he found a little bit of room in the neutral zone to start gaining some speed. He was a tricky skater with superb agility and quickness. But what really won him over in Montreal was his gritty and tireless work ethic. Being so small he did not win every battle for the loose pucks, but he gave it everything he had.
Petrov's offense dried up in what proved to be his final NHL season, 2002-03. At the trading deadline he was moved to Nashville for the final 17 games of his NHL career.
Petrov totalled 382 career NHL games, scoring 72 goals and 115 assists for 187 points. His hockey career was far from over though. He returned to Switzerland for several more seasons, and then joined Ak Bars Kazan of the KHL in 2007 for two final seasons.
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Marty Burke
Like Cy Wentworth, Marty Burke very likely will never be in the Hockey Hall of Fame, because he focused strictly on playing defense. That's how it was, mostly, in the 1930s. Defenders like Burke just stayed back while the forwards strutted their stuff on offense. It was Burke's job to shut down such flashy attempts by the other team, usually in emphatic physical fashion.
Burke started his career with the Montreal Canadiens, but after just 11 games he was loaned to struggling Pittsburgh in the 1927-28 season. Burke and goaler Roy Worters were instrumental in leading the Pirates into the playoffs.
Burke returned to the Montreal the following season. He helped the great puck stopper George Hainsworth win the Vezina Trophy with 22 shutouts and an incredible 0.98 goals against average, but greater joy was upcoming. He and Sylvio Mantha anchored the Canadiens blueline as the Habs won two consecutive Stanley Cups. The Canadiens were nicknamed the "Little men of Steel" those two years, and Burke was just that.
He even played well in 1931-32, and the Habs looked as though they might win their third straight Cup, but injuries prevented the feat.
After a forgettable 1932-33 season both Burke and the Canadiens returned to form in 1933-34. Burke helped new goalie Lorne Chabot lead the Canadian Division in fewest goals given up, and finishing third in the Vezina race.
Burke was involved in a big trade after 1933-34 as he, Howie Morenz and Lorne Chabot went to the Chicago Blackhawks. Burke helped Chabot win the Vezina Trophy and helped Chicago finished second overall.
Frequent mention of his fine defensive support for Chabot finally got Burke some recognition. He was as effective the following year in front of rookie goaler Mike Karakas.
Burke began to slow down in 1936-37 and the Blackhawks plummeted to the cellar, and during the 1937-38 season, he was traded back to the Montreal Canadiens. But Burke's best days were behind him. He retired at season's end.
In 494 career NHL games, Marty Burke scored just 19 goals and 66 points. But he was a solid defensive defenseman who was a nice part of two Stanley Cup championships.
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Ching Dheere
This is Marcel Albert "Ching" Dheere. He was a war-time fill in for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1942-43 season, playing a total of 11 games (scoring 1 goal and 3 points). Interestingly, in those 11 games he wore 4 different jersey numbers - 8, 18, 19 and 21.
Dheere himself would lose his NHL job to the war service. In 1944 and 1945 he served in World War II. He would never play again the NHL, though he would play professionally for six more seasons.
Ching Dheere hung up the skates in 1953. He would work with the Canadian National Railway as a switchman for 30 years.
Dheere passed away in 2002 at the age of 83. He had a short fight with cancer.
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Smiley Meronek
This is William "Smiley" Meronek. He was a sensational hockey star in his native Manitoba. He moved to Verdun in 1937 and continued to star with the Maple Leafs of the QSHL, capturing the attention of the Montreal Canadiens.
Meronek agreed to a contract in both the 1939-40 and 1942-43 seasons. However in that 1943 season he would only play home games. He refused to travel with the Canadiens for road games due to his day job at a war plant in the city. Alex Smart was signed under the same circumstances at the same time.
All told, Smiley Meronek played parts of two NHL seasons, totalling 19 games. He scored 5 goals and 13 points.
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Ray Getliffe
This is Ray Getliffe, pride of Galt, Ontario. He was a NHL regular from 1936 through 1939 with Boston and from 1939 through 1945 with Montreal. He was originally scouted by the New York Rangers, but never played for the Blue Shirts.
Getliffe was lucky to play at all. In 1933 he was in critical condition in hospital with a serious case of pneumonia.
Ray Getliffe made a brief appearance with Boston in 1935-36 and then became a regular on a line with Bill Cowley and Charlie Sands, and was second to Cowley as leading scorer for the Bruins in 1936-37. He combined with Dit Clapper and Cooney Weiland when Boston finished first and won the Stanley Cup in 1938-39.
Getliffe was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in 1939-40 where he played for six years, being on two first place teams and another Cup winner. In his first two years with the Habs he played with Sands and Toe Blake. Playing with Elmer Lach and Joe Benoit in 1942-43, he scored 5 goals in a game against Boston.
Ray suffered a bad face cut in 1943-44 and missed several games. However, back in action again, he made this his best scoring year working on a line with Phil Watson and Murph Chamberlain, scoring 28 goals in the 50 game schedule and the Canadiens coasted to first place and won the Stanley Cup.
He played one more year on another first place team before retiring. He was actually traded by Montreal to Detroit in September 1945, but he decided to retire rather than move southward. He put on the stripes for the next two seasons, refereeing NHL games.
Getliffe, a left-winger, played in 393 regular-season games during his career, scoring 136 goals and adding 137 assists to go along with 250 penalty minutes.
It should also be noted that it was Getliffe who is responsible for Maurice Richard's moniker "the Rocket." Getliffe was in awe of Richard in practice, and was prompted to say "That kid can take off like a rocket!" The other players picked up on his comment right away, and the nickname stuck. Prior to that, Maurice's early nickname was "The Comet."
Getliffe would go on to become a legendary senior golfer in Canada. Getliffe had a keen eye for talent on the links as well as at the rinks. In 1960 he was quoted as saying "I've just seen a kid who is going to become the greatest golfer in the world." Getliffe had just finished watching a young Jack Nicklaus.
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Polly Drouin
This is Polly Drouin. You can tell just by looking at this Beehive photo that he was a tiny hockey player. The native of Verdun stood just 5'7" and 160lbs.
From 1935 through 1941 Paul-Emile Drouin skated with the Montreal Canadiens. He was actually originally property of the St. Louis Eagles (who, one season after transferring from Ottawa, folded). The Habs grabbed the 19 year old in the subsequent dispersal draft.
Over the next season Drouin struggled for ice time. He was bouncing around between the Habs and the minor leagues. When with the Habs he was strictly a support player, never scoring more than 7 goals in a single season. He was seemingly on the sidelines a lot, often nursing an injury. In a total of 156 career NHL regular season games he scored 23 goals and 73 points.
Drouin's professional hockey career came to an end due to two years of military service in World War II. During that time he played with Ottawa based military teams, helping lead the Ottawa Commandos to the 1943 Allan Cup championship. Upon his release from the military Drouin remained in amateur hockey for several years where he was known as an offensive dynamo.
Drouin was also a heck of a pitcher, playing in many baseball leagues in the summer time. He remained in Ottawa the rest of his life, passing away in 1968.
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Bill Taugher
Kingston, Ontario's Bill Taugher was a long time goaltending hero with the Buffalo Bisons of the IHL in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Though details are very sketchy, it appears he also played a single NHL game really early in his game. I say appear because not every source credits him for 60 minutes played with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1925-26 season. Those that do agree he surrendered three goals in a loss.
Which game that would have been remains a mystery though. My search suggests Herb Rheaume and Alphonse Lacroix played in the Habs net in the season following the loss of Georges Vezina.
Taugher may have been an emergency replacement. In the 1925-26 season Taugher was playing junior with the Kingston Frontenacs. In fact, Taugher helped Kingston reach the Memorial Cup finals that year.
He signed pro with Hamilton Tigers of the Can-Pro league. Two years later he signed on with the Buffalo Bisons where he starred for 7 seasons. He wound up his career with a season split between Rochester and Cleveland, both of the IHL as well.
Life was not all fun and games for Taugher. He suffered a back injury vs London (IHL) on March 20, 1936 that left him paralyzed. He actually resumed walking in 1942, but his health failed him again in the fall. He required brain surgery. The Society for International Hockey Research suggests the brain injury may have been from an old hockey injury. The Windsor Daily Star newspaper archives suggest it was from a puck to the head some fourteen years earlier.
Whether it was or not remains a mystery to me at this time, but I do know a few months later, on February 25, 1943, Bill Taugher passed away from complications of a brain tumor. Whether the two brain injuries were related or actually one also remains a mystery to me.
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Gerald "Stub" Carson
This is Gerald "Stub" Carson, brother of fellow NHLers Frank and Bill.
Born in Parry Sound, Ontario, "Stub" was a sensational amateur player with the Grimsby Peach Kings. He turned pro in 1927-28 with the Philadelphia Arrows of the Can- Am League. The following year this swift skating defenseman known to enjoy the physical game was in the National Hockey League.
Carson joined the Montreal Canadiens that season, although he also spent part of the season as loaned player to the New York Rangers. He returned to Montreal for the 1929-30 season.
That second season was one to remember for the man they called "Stub." He was a significant contributor to the Habs blue line, earning lots of playing time. He helped Les Canadiens win their second Stanley Cup championship (in the NHL) that season.
For whatever reason that was not enough to keep Carson in the NHL. For the next three seasons he was dispatched to the Providence Reds of the CAHL (forerunner of the NHL).
Carson returned to Montreal in 1932 and remained with the Habs through the next four seasons. He suffered a serious off-season knee injury in the summer of 1935, causing him to miss the entire 1935-36 season.
Carson successfully returned for one more NHL season in 1936-37, though the Canadiens had traded him. Fortunately for Carson he did not have to move very far, as they traded him across town to the arch rival Montreal Maroons.
Gerry "Stub" Carson played a total of 261 NHL games scoring 12 goals and 11 assists. He played 22 playoff games with no points.
When Carson retired he returned and worked as a salesman for the Don Brewing Company, just as he did each summer break during the hockey season. He died prematurely in 1956. He was just 53 years old.
The Bobby Orr Hall of Fame is a hockey museum in Orr's home town of Parry Sound. The museum has also taken to inducting other area legends, and in 2005 they included Gerald Carson, saying "he was a tower of strength on the ice and if necessary would hit his opponents hard, but cleanly. He acquired only 205 penalty minutes in his NHL career. He never cared who scored the goals. Preventing the opposition from scoring and feeding the puck to the slick, stick handling forwards was his job on defense. Just as long as they scored, he was satisfied. He would, on occasion, zoom down the ice, leaving everyone on the opposing team behind him and if a goal wasn't scored, would return to his own end just as quickly."
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The man known as "The Flower" entered the National Hockey League in 1971 under perhaps the most intense pressure of any projected- superstar.
By 1971 the Montreal Canadiens had a long established history of French Canadian superstars. Names like Morenz, Richard and Beliveau had all set the standards, and with Beliveau retiring in 1971 Montreal was looking for a new hero to take the proverbial torch.
Enter Guy Lafleur.
After two outstanding seasons with the Quebec Remparts of the QMJHL, one of which saw him score 130 goals and add 79 assists for a then-record total of 209 points, Montreal fans expected Lafleur to score at will in the NHL right from the get-go.
However it did not happen.
Lafleur had respectable totals in his rookie year, but respectable was not what management and fans had hoped for. With 29 goals and 64 points in his rookie season, people said "just wait for next year." Next year his totals slipped to 28 goals and 55 points, and the year after that 21 goals and 56 points. Meanwhile Marcel Dionne, another French Canadian player drafted 2nd behind Lafleur, was tearing up the league with Detroit.
In his fourth season " The Flower" blossomed into the scoring machine everyone knew he was capable of. Lafleur, who wore a helmet his first three years but removed it at the beginning of year four, erupted 53 goals and 119 points.
That was just the beginning of an era where the Canadiens were the dominant team in pro hockey, and Lafleur eclipsed Bobby Orr as the game's dominant player. He would go onto lead the league in scoring the next three years in a row, and recorded an amazing 6 consecutive years with at least 50 goals. Twice he was named as the NHL MVP and three times he was awarded the Pearson Trophy. He was the most exciting player in the second half on the 1970's, and helped lead the Habs to five Stanley Cup Championships, including four straight to end the decade.
His blazing speed and long flowing hair combined with his puck wizardry placed him first in Montreal Canadiens all time scoring and second on Montreal fan's all time favorite list, behind the immovable Rocket Richard, of course. He was one of the rare players that got you out of your seat almost every time he touched the puck. And to witness him score a goal was more often than not an event onto itself.
The Canadiens went through a transitionary period immediately following their dynasty at the end of the 1970s. The team became extremely focused on defensive hockey, and Lafleur's style did not fit in well. Injuries also slowed Lafleur.
After being at odds with the coaching staff, Guy decided to retire after 19 games in 1984-85.
Following the mandatory waiting period of three years, Guy was an obvious election into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.
After taking his place as a legend of hockey in hockey's famous shrine, Lafleur made a surprising return to hockey in 1988, first with the New York Rangers and later in the city where his hockey career started so many years ago with Quebec. Perhaps one of his finest moments in his comeback was his first game back at the Montreal Forum, where he played so brilliantly for 13 and a half seasons. After a boisterous reception, Lafleur had the best game of his second career, notching 2 goals.
Guy retired permanently at the end of the 1990-91 season after 1 year in New York and 2 years in Quebec City. In total he brought his numbers to 1126 games, 560 goals, 793 assists and 1353 points.
Almost all of those points were scored with a flare of excitement that few other men in National Hockey League history have ever delivered better than Guy "The Flower" Lafleur.
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The Stare.
The stare was Rocket Richard's trademark. When he came at a goalie with his eyes lit up, the opposition was terrified. Glenn Hall once was quoted sharing his memories of Rocket Richard - "What I remember most about the Rocket were his eyes. When he came flying toward you with the puck on his stick, his eyes were all lit up, flashing and gleaming like a pinball machine. It was terrifying."
One of the games greatest goal scorers, he recorded a then-NHL record with 544 regular season goals. That record stood until 1963 when it was surpassed by Gordie Howe. He was also the first to score 50 goals in one season, and the only player to have reached that figure in a 50 game season.
Rocket Richard did everything by instinct and brute strength. He would run, not glide, down the ice and cut fearlessly to the slot. Some describe him as the greatest opportunist the game has ever known. He was probably the greatest goal scorer from the blue line in.
Richard's fierce temper and dedication were also hallmarks of his. He got into frequent scraps with players and officials. His suspension by NHL president Clarence Campbell in 1955 for attacking a Boston player with his stick and punching a linesman precipitated the now famous riot in the Montreal Forum.
Winning at all costs best sums up Richard's approach to hockey.
In a playoff game, the Bruins Leo Labine knocked Richard unconscious and doctors said he was done for the series. Richard refused to be hospitalized and returned to the game as the teams battled. Rocket Richard scored the game winning goal.
But the legend of Rocket Richard almost never came into fruition. Early in his career he missed a lot of time with various ailments such as a broken wrist and badly sprained ankle. Too injury prone they said. The Canadiens supposedly came close to trading the young firecracker, reportedly to the New York Rangers. Thankfully they didn't!
In addition Maurice initially started on the left wing, where he struggled in comparison to what he would do on the right wing. Once he changed sides, he began achieving great success. However his early accomplishments came during the second World War.
"He was a wartime hockey player," onetime Canadiens general manager Frank Selke once told a reporter. "When the boys come back, they said, they'll look after Maurice. Nobody looked after Maurice. He looked after himself. When the boys come back, they said, they'll catch up with him. The only thing that caught up with Maurice is time."
Even in these tough early days, you could tell Maurice was special. The local media had dubbed him The Comet. Later teammate Ray Getliffe, in an intra-squad match during a practice, was wowed by Richard and compared him to a rocket. The name stuck.
Things really turned around in 1943-44. Perhaps it was the switch to the right wing, or perhaps a superstitious switch in number. Richard asked coach Dick Irvin Sr. if he could change his number from 15 to nine to mark the occasion of the birth of his first daughter - 9lb Huguette. Richard scored 32 goals -- the fourth-highest total in Canadiens history at that time -- in his first full season. Combined with rookie Bill Durnan in goal, the Canadiens re-emerged as a top team. Richard added 12 more goals in the playoffs and the Canadiens took their first Stanley Cup since 1931. In one game in the final series against Toronto, Richard scored all Montreal's goals in a 5-1 victory
50 Goals in 50 Games
1944-45 was the Rocket's greatest season. Richard raced through the 50 game schedule at an incredible goal-per-game pace, becoming the first player to score the magical 50 goal total. He is the only player to do it in a 50 game schedule.
Rocket's amazing drive for 50 goals in 50 games is considered to be perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of hockey. Critics argue that the League at that point was watered down by the World War, but it remains among the greatest achievements in professional sports.
The eyes of the world were focused in on Rocket as he chased down what once seemed unthinkable. In game number 48 he scored goal number 49. In the 49th game Montreal easily defeated the Chicago Blackhawks, yet somehow Rocket was blanked. That left him only one last chance to make 50 in 50. The final game of the season was in Boston at the dreaded Boston Garden. Montreal won 4-2 and Rocket managed to hit the twine behind Bruin goalie Harvey Bennett for his 50th goal that season! That amazing feat would not be equaled until 1980 when Mike Bossy would score 50 goals in the first 50 games of an 80 game schedule.
Richard and the Canadiens didn't sip from the Stanley Cup that season, but they did the following year. Richard "slumped" down to 27 goals but erupted for a league high 7 playoff goals in 9 games as the Habs won their second Cup under Richard's firepower.
Despite twice leading the NHL in goal scoring in the regular season and some fine playoff performances, the Habs failed to win another Cup until 1952-53. By this time the Habs were just establishing themselves as the most dominant team in NHL history, and were just a couple years way from a 5 year reign as Cup champions.
The Infamous Richard Riot
Perhaps the Canadiens could have won a Cup in 1954-55 that would have been the first of 6 in a row, but they suffered a daunting blow when the NHL unthinkably suspended their most dynamic superstar for the rest of the regular season and playoffs. Years later, the infamous 'Richard Riots' are stuff of legend in hockey history.
A common tactic that teams used to keep him off the score sheet was to simply sucker him into a fight. Richard was not one to back down to anyone, and sometimes he let his anger get the best of him. He was suspended numerous times by NHL President Clarence Campbell for violent slashing penalties and abusive behavior towards referees.
His most memorable suspension, and one of the most traumatic incidents in NHL history occurred in Montreal in 1955. The "Richard Riot" came about after an incident on March 13, in a game between Richard's Canadiens and the Boston Bruins. Boston defenseman Hal Laycoe cut Richard over the eye with a high stick and drew a delayed penalty. Once the play was stopped, Richard showed the referee that he was cut and promptly went after Laycoe, hitting him with his stick. Richard was pulled off of the Bruins defenseman twice, but he broke free, picked up another stick off the ice and started attacking Laycoe again. Linesman Cliff Thompson finally was able to pin Richard down on the ice. When they let Richard back on his feet, he was still mad as hell and wanted a piece of anyone he could find. Unfortunately, Thompson was the closest one around. Richard struck him twice before anyone could intervene.
President Clarence Campbell had given Richard many suspensions and fines in the past for actions such as this, but this time it seemed as if he said enough was enough. Campbell suspended the Rocket for the remainder of the regular season and all of the playoffs.
Fans in Montreal were shocked by Campbell's decision. The suspension was thought of as an extreme blow to the team's chances of taking the Stanley Cup away from the Detroit Red Wings. Canadiens supporters threatened both the league offices and Campbell himself. However, Campbell was a stubborn man who was not intimidated easily. Despite pleas by both the mayor and police not to attend, Campbell showed up at his usual seat for the next Montreal home game. He was bombarded with rotten fruit and vegetables throughout the early portion of the game, and by the time Detroit took a 4-1 lead, the crowd had enough. A group of fans started to make their way towards Campbell's section. The police had to step in and try to keep the peace. All of a sudden, someone threw tear gas right next to the president's seat and all hell broke loose. The fire marshal announced that the game must be stopped for fear of a disastrous fire, and Campbell announced that the game was to be forfeited to the Red Wings. A mob of angry fans took off down St. Catherine Street, throwing stones, breaking store windows and looting shops. Over 60 people were arrested during the melee, and Richard had to plead for calm on Montreal radio stations in order for people to settle down.
This was one of the most severe penalties ever handed out in the NHL, and it was especially painful for Richard. At the time he was leading the league in points and was a shoo-in to win the Art Ross Trophy. The Art Ross was the one trophy that Richard desperately wanted in his career, but, because of his suspension, he lost probably his best chance to win it. Finally, on the last day of the regular season, Richard's teammate Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion moved ahead of him in the scoring race, taking the Art Ross from the Rocket by a single point. The fans actually booed Geoffrion for surpassing the Rocket.
The next year, the Canadiens began their record string of five consecutive Stanley Cups, but the torch was already being passed from Richard to the next great Canadiens star -- Jean Beliveau.
Richard was injured for most of his last three seasons. The injuries slowed the Rocket so that he was no longer able to accelerate on skates as he once did.
Perhaps sensing that the Habs dynastic reign would be coming to an end, Richard made the tough decision to retire following the 1960 Cup victory. By this point he wasn't the warrior he once was, but was still number one in the hearts of the fans.
Richard ended his career of 18 years playing 978 games, scoring 544 goals, assisting on 421 more for 965 points. He also accumulated 1285 penalty minutes and 8 Stanley Cup rings. He had a then-record 82 playoff goals in 133 games, plus 126 points and another 188 PIM. The 14 time all star also won one Hart Trophy.
He was only a hockey player often preached Richard. However he was for more than that as the Riot attests. He was an absolute hero to French Canadiens in particular. Some suggest it is more than just coincidence that tension between French and English in Quebec coincided with Richard's presence. Not that he ever did anything to promote or deny any Quebecois movement - he was very careful not to get involved - but he remained the hero. And many Quebecois would employ a similar fierce pride and win at all costs attitude in their political endeavors/
"He carried the flag for an entire population -- and that's pretty heavy," the Gazette's Red Fisher said. "He felt he had to live up to that responsibility and he did it the way he knew how -- by scoring goals and responding to every challenge on the ice."
Richard always remained number one with the fans, and likely always will be. In 1995, some 35 years after he last played and in front of a sold-out stadium of fans - many of whom too young to have ever seen Richard play - gave Richard the longest standing ovation in hockey history. It was a sad day as the Canadiens were closing the Cathedral of Hockey - The Montreal Forum. In typical Habs class, they brought out all the old legends in a torch passing ceremony - to symbolize the passing of greatness from the old building to the new one. A tearful Richard stole the show.
A couple of years later Richard came down with an inoperable form of cancer of the abdomen.
The scare moved the Canadiens outgoing president Ronald Corey, who grew up idolizing the Rocket, to push for the creation of the Maurice Richard Trophy for the league's top goal-scorer. The trophy was granted, forever immortalizing Richard.
On May 27th, 2000, Rocket Richard lost his battle with cancer. The celebration of his life that shortly followed was unmatched in Canada, and in very few places around the world. A state funeral was held for a hockey player. Tens of thousands of people - one estimate had over 50000 a day - lined up to pay their respects to Richard at center ice of the Montreal Molson Center - the new Forum. The actual funeral was broadcast nationwide and throughout the world. It was eerily similar to the passing of Princess Diana just a short time earlier.
He was just a hockey player, but no one hockey player meant so much to so many people on such a personal level.
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Mention the name Jean Beliveau, and so many images come to mind. His size, his skills, his class - he was the perfect hockey player and an even better person. He's one of the few players that seems to have transcended the game itself, particularly in his native Quebec.
"Le Gros Bill" (Jean was nicknamed after a French folk hero) was the centerpiece of the mighty Montreal Canadiens dynasty that accumulated 10 Stanley Cups during his extraordinary reign. Five of those championships came with him serving as captain - no other man has captained his team to more Stanley Cups. Twice voted the NHL's MVP, he was a First All Star in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960 and 1961. He was the scoring champ in 1956 and was the first recipient of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs in 1965. He accumulated 507 goals, 712 assists for a point total of 1219 in 1125 games, all with Les Habitants. He racked up 176 more points in 162 playoff games.
Most "experts" agree that Beliveau is one of the top ten players in hockey history. He is also almost universally regarded as one of the top three centers in NHL history - along with Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
Mario Lemieux is most often compared to Jean, and it is a very accurate assessment. That statement alone gives younger fans an idea of just how Le Gros Bill was. Like Mario, Big Jean was an almost unseen blend of grace and power. He had the body of a giant, yet was such a gentleman. He could use his physical gifts to dominate a game, but more often than not relied on his skill and smarts.
Wild Bill Eznicki, one of the most physical players of his era, recalled what it was like to attempt to knock down Beliveau: "It was like running into the side of a big oak tree. I bounced right off the guy and landed on the seat of my pants."
His uncanny physical gifts weren't his only blessing on the ice. He was a great skater - deceptively fast due to his long stride. He was a puckhandling wizard with a great knack for goal scoring. He was a majestic player known for his crisp passes and laser like shot.
Beliveau's journey to Montreal was one of the most interesting in pro sports history. The Canadiens purchased an entire hockey league in order to get him. The Habs held Jean's negotiating rights, but he refused to sign with them, preferring to stay in his hometown of Quebec City where he already was a legend with the junior team and was being paid big money to play as a supposed amateur in the Quebec Senior League. In fact many reports suggest he was being paid more money than any professional of the day, including Gordie Howe and Rocket RIchard! But moreover, Jean felt a great deal of loyalty to the Quebec Aces and the people of Quebec City, and just wasn't quite ready to leave yet. He was treated like royalty, and he wanted to stay to repay his debt of gratitude.
However the Canadiens had just won their first Stanley Cup since 1946 in 1953 and they wanted to inject some of their top junior prospects in order to get them over the hump known as the dynastic Detroit Red Wings of the 1950s. Dickie Moore and Boom Boom Geoffrion were two key additions, but the graceful giant Beliveau was a must have as far as Frank Selke was concerned. He went to great lengths to ensure he could get Beliveau in a Habs jersey. The Canadiens purchased the whole league and turned the league professional just to get Beliveau in a Habs jersey! Beliveau could have played in the amateurs forever but once he became a professional he had to play with Montreal. By turning the whole league professional, Beliveau had to travel down the highway and lace up for Montreal.
It was money well spent for the Montreal Canadiens, and hockey fans everywhere. Success wasn't immediate though. He struggled through injuries in his rookie season and the Habs fell in the Stanley Cup finals in each of Beliveau's first two years.
But by 1955-56, Beliveau and the Habs arrived. Beliveau seemingly took the torch from Rocket Richard's hands and led the Habs to their first of 5 consecutive Stanley Cups. En route, Beliveau scored a league high 47 goals and 88 points in the regular season, plus 12 goals and 19 points in 10 post season games. It was one of the greatest seasons by any individual in hockey history.
The Canadiens owned the remainder of the decade. Beliveau was of course a huge part of what many consider to be the greatest team in NHL history. He never quite duplicated his great 55-56 season, though came close in 1958-59 when he again lead the league with 45 goals in just 64 games, plus 91 points. While the Habs of course won the Cup that year too, Jean was only able to play in 3 games (accumulating 5 points) due to injuries.
The 1960s have been termed The Forgotten Decade by Montreal Canadiens decades. Rocket Richard had retired at the beginning of the decade, and the Canadiens got off to a slow start in terms of championships. But by the end of the decade Jean led the Habs to 5 Stanley Cups in 7 years (including 1971).
5 championships in 7 seasons has earned the Toronto Maple Leafs of the 1940s and the Edmonton Oilers of the 1980s dynastic status, but that has eluded the Habs of the 60s. Perhaps that was because Canada's other team - the Toronto Maple Leafs - did so well and it is remembered their decade. And despite great peformances from Jean, Geoffrion, Henri Richard and many Canadiens, that team seemed to lack that one iconic attraction that captured the Quebec fans - like Rocket Richard of the 1950s and Guy Lafleur of the 1970s.
That 1971 Stanley Cup was special. The Chicago Blackhawks were favored to win, yet somehow a combination of the old guard and some of the young guns of the 1970s dynasty teamed together to win a surprise Cup. It was a perfect moment for Jean to ride out into the sunset. He retired at the end of the playoffs.
Beliveau achieved all of this despite some major obstacles. He had to play under the shadow of Rocket Richard, something which became even more difficult once Richard slowed and retired and Jean became the man known as Richard's "replacement." He faced constant criticisms because of the comparisons to Richard. No matter how many Cups Beliveau could deliver, there was no replacing the Rocket of course. Plus he was criticized because of his status as the most talked about junior player in history at the time, plus his battles with injuries over the years.
One of the biggest obstacles he had was his heart. No one ever questioned his desire, but his heart was diagnosed as being too small for his gigantic body. Doctors proclaimed that it was amazing that Beliveau could perform as an athlete. But perform he did, and at a level few others have attained. His body obviously learned how to cope under such athletic stress. Basketball players Hank Gathers and Reggie Lewis died on the court with a very similar ailment. Other than some occasional fatigue, Beliveau was unaffected. Actuality
Beliveau had a sometimes rocky relationship with the fans and media over his playing days, but in retirement he has become even more legendary. For many years he continued to work as an executive for the Habs and for Molsons. He has this uncanny charisma that not even Wayne Gretzky has - he just has this way of making whoever he is talking to - no matter if it is the Prime Minister or his garbage man - feel like he is the most important person at that particular time. He genuinely cares.
He was a master of public relations, always knowing how to give the public exactly what they wanted.. Beliveau would serve with 8 major corporations, and reluctantly had to turn down opportunities to become a senator and governor general of Canada. He opted not to go to Ottawa as he felt he had to stay home and help raise his daughter's children, who lost their father, a Quebec police constable, to suicide.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau perhaps said it best about Jean Beliveau:
"Rarely has the career of an athlete been so exemplary. By his courage, his sense of discipline and honour, his lively intelligence and finesse, his magnificent team spirit, Beliveau has given new prestige to hockey."
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Art Gagne
Art Gagne was a well travelled, 5-foot-7, 160-pound right winger. Described as a scrappy forward, Gagne was best known for playing in Montreal in the late 1920s alongside linemates Howie Morenz and Aurele Joliat. He also played in Ottawa and had brief stops in Boston and Detroit.
The Ottawa born hockey star headed west to start and finish his hockey career. In 1920-21 Gagne joined the Edmonton Eskimos, of the WCHL not the CFL. By 1923 he was traded to the Regina Capitals for Spunk Sparrow. He was soon traded back to Edmonton with none other than Eddie Shore for a couple of guys named Joe McCormick and Bob Trapp.
By 1926 the 29 year old joined the Montreal Canadiens. He was one of nine new faces brought in to help out the Habs. He was described as a sensational star from Western Canada, and the best of the nine newbies which also included Gizzy Hart, Ambrose Moran, Athur Gauthier, Peter Palangio, Carson Cooper, and Léo Lafrance.
Gagne found a home on the greatest line in hockey, helping him fulfill his advanced billing. In the 1927-28 season he scored 20 goals and 30 points in 44 games. He ranked 6th in the entire league in both goals and points that season.
Gagne lasted three seasons in Montreal and another couple in Ottawa, plus the two brief spots in Boston and Detroit.
All told the shifty but temperamental winger scored 67 goals and 100 points in his 228 game NHL career. The pepperpot accumulated 257 career penalty minutes.
In 1932 Gagne returned to west to where it all started, re-joining Edmonton Eskimos where he teamed well with the great Duke Keats. He later coached in Edmonton and with the Seattle Seahawks of the NWHL, not the NFL.
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Johnny Matz
Most sources say Johnny Matz was born in Omaha, Nebraska way back in 1891. The Society for International Hockey Research suggests he was actually born in Casper, Wyoming. Either way Johnny Matz was one of the earliest American born players in the National Hockey League.
Matz, who was raised and learned the game in Alberta, played one season with the Montreal Canadiens in 1924-25. He scored just two goals and 5 points in 30 games. Hints as to what type of player he was are very few and far between. Two sources refer to him as a colourful play.
At the age of 33 years he was hardly a rookie that season with the Habs. He had long played in Western Canada with several teams in Edmonton, most notably the WCHL Eskimos. He also played with the Saskatoon Shieks and Moose Jaw Maroons as well as stops in the British Columbia towns of Grand Forks and Rossland. He was always one of the top players on every Western team he played on.
Statistics are sketchy at times, leaving question marks as to whether Matz was even playing, especially pre-1920. We do know he enlisted with the Canadian military in 1918 to help in Canada's efforts in World War I.
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Mike McMahon, Sr.
Mike McMahon Sr. played just 57 games in his NHL career. The vast bulk of that came in his only full campaign, 1943-44, when he was essentially a war fill-in, as many NHLers enlisted for service in World War II.. Listed at 5'9" and 218lbs, McMahon played in 42 games that season, scoring 7 goals and 24 points. He added another goal and three points in 8 playoff games, helping the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup.
McMahon, a Quebec Senior League stalwart, was an adventurous sort. He made the opposition feel quite uncomfortable, as his career 132 penalty minutes suggested. But he also made his own goaltender uncomfortable. Bill Durnan shared this memory of McMahon in Stan and Shirley Fischler's book Heroes and History:
"Mike McMahon, a rolypoly who would scare the hell out of me whenever he played the point; I always expected the other team to jab the puck away from him and come in on me all alone."
Once the war was over and NHL rosters were at full power once again, McMahon found himself mostly playing in the American Hockey League until his retirement in 1949. He became a self-employed welder after leaving the ice.
Mike McMahon Sr. died on December 3rd, 1974. Mike's son Mike Jr. also played in the National Hockey League, playing in 224 games in the 1970s.
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Leo Lamoureux
Leo Lamoureux was a defenseman with the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 through 1947. Born in Espanala, Ontario but raised in Windsor, Leo was part of Montreal's Stanley Cup championship teams in 1944 and 1946.
In the book Heroes and History by Stan and Shirley Fischler, Habs goaltending great Bill Durnan reflected back on Leo, describing him as "a real character."
"Leo was a worry wart; if something was going to happen, it would be to him. He was also always in and out of mischief along with his pal Murph Chamberlain. They gave (coach Dick) Irvin so many headaches between them that Dick actually missed them once they were gone. Irvin used to say, 'Geez, if we could only get some guys on this team who could get in trouble like those two we'd be alright."
Lamoureux was certainly a well travelled hockey player, bouncing around various Ontario senior teams, down to Washington in the AHL and even in Great Britain for a season before joining the Habs full time in 1942. A converted center, Lamoureux was described as a crafty defenseman, adding some offensive spark. He was also played the game tough while defending his own zone, making life unpleasant for oncoming attackers.
Though his NHL days were over by 1947, Lamoureux enjoyed a lengthy minor league and senior league career through to 1957.
He turned to coaching after that, but he passed away mid-season while coaching the Indianapolis Chiefs of the International Hockey League. He had to leave the bench in November as a case of acute hepatitis hospitalized him. He died on January 11th, 1961. He was just 45 years old.
In memoriam, the IHL created the Leo Lamoureux Trophy to be handed out to that league's leading scorer.
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Lyle Odelein
Lyle Odelein was not a flashy player, adding very little offense or finesse. But the native of Quill Lake, Saskatchewan was a player every fan and especially every player and coach could not help but appreciate.
"Lyle was a great team player," said Rejean Houle, president of the Canadiens' Alumni Association. "Guys always knew he had their back if there was a tough situation. It's a nice feeling for guys to know there is always someone there and ready to help."
This defensive defenseman showed up to compete every shift, every night. He started out more as a rugged presence, dropping the gloves often (though he was not a great fighter by any means) and throwing hard hits. But he worked hard at his game and became a valuable depth defender and, as one reporter put it, "a classic overachiever."
Odelein matured into a solid rearguard. For all his raucous physical play, he was very calm with the puck on his stick and made strong outs. He knew how to play within his limitations. He as an average skater at best, so he played a very conservative game. That made him reliable in the defensive zone, and, outside of an average shot from the point, a non-factor in the offensive zone. That being said, Odelein did have magical night in Montreal. On February 20th, 1994 Odelein matched Doug Harvey's team record for defensemen with 5 assists in the same game. A couple of weeks later he somehow recorded a hat trick against St. Louis.
The Montreal Canadiens drafted Lyle Odelein from the Moose-Jaw Warriors in the seventh round (141st overall) of the 1986 Entry Draft. He scored his first NHL goal on December 19, 1991 at Chicago.
Odelein, who was most often paired with Mathieu Schneider in Montreal,, not only was an essential component for the Canadien's Stanley Cup winning team in 1992-93, he also played in 83 games and led the Canadiens with a plus 35 rating. The next season, he posted career highs in goals - 11, assists - 29, points - 40, power play goals - 6 and . He also had a career high 276 penalty minutes, leading the Habs. That was not unusual. He did that 6 seasons in a row from from 1990-91 to 1995-96.
His penchant for fighting and physical play was definitely brought about by his rural Saskatchewan upbringing. They make hockey players tough in places like Quill Lake.
"Well, when we played minor hockey as kids, there would nearly always be some kind of a fight, either during the game or right afterwards," Odelein once said. "I can tell you names of guys who played their age-group hockey in that area and you won't ask me if they could fight. Guys like (future NHL tough guys) Wendel Clark, Joe Kocur, Kelly Chase, Kevin Kaminski.
On Aug. 22, 1996, Montreal traded Odelein to the New Jersey Devils for Stephane Richer. He led the Devils in penalty minutes in 1996-97 with 110 PIMs. He would often be paired with Scott Stevens as the Devils' top shutdown pair. In fact, Odelein was so highly thought of around this time that he was included on Team Canada at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
On March 7, 2000 he was traded by the Devils to the Phoenix Coyotes for Deron Quint and a conditional pick in the 2001 draft. He was then selected by Columbus Blue Jackets in NHL expansion draft on June 23, 2000, where he was named Columbus Blue Jackets first ever team captain.
Like most players, Odelein was a bit of a vagabond late in his career as teams looked to him for his experience. He rounded out his career with short stints in Chicago, Dallas, Florida and Pittsburgh.
All in all, Lyle Odelein played in 1056 hard fought NHL contests. He scored 50 goals, 252 points and 2316 career penalty minutes.
After retirement Odelein split his time working on the family 6400 acre ranch back in Quill Lake, and with North Shore Saloon in Pittsburgh.
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ER Visits for E-Scooter Injuries Nearly Double in One Year
MONDAY, Aug. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As the popularity of electric scooters has accelerated in the United States, so have serious injuries, which nearly doubled in just one year, a new study reveals.
In 2019, more than 29,600 e-scooter riders were treated in U.S. emergency rooms, up from about 15,500 the year before, the researchers found.
"I probably operate on at least two to three people that have scooter injuries every month, especially during the summer months," said study co-author Dr. Eric Wagner, director of upper extremity surgery research at Emory University, in Atlanta.
"These injuries are increasing and they aren't benign. Many of them are fractures, many of them are head injuries, and some of the head injuries require hospital admission, which means that they're very severe," Wagner said.
The study authors noted that only a minority of riders wear helmets and that riders often misunderstand traffic laws governing e-scooter use.
Wagner's team found that from 2014 to 2019, more than 70,000 e-scooter riders sustained injuries severe enough to warrant a trip to a U.S. emergency department. The number was less than 5,000 in 2014, before the convenient, environmentally friendly vehicles really took off.
E-scooters look like toys, but they're not, said Dr. Amishav Bresler, from the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, in Newark.
"A lot of people are really unaware how dangerous they can be," said Bresler, who wasn't involved in the study.
"I see many broken bones. Patients end up in the ICU due to being thrown off the scooter and hitting the ground at high velocity. So they can be even life-threatening, causing concussions, skull fractures, even brain bleeds," Bresler said.
Men aged 15 to 39 accounted for the greatest increase in injuries, the study findings showed.
When looked at from a population standpoint, e-scooter injuries rose from less than two per 100,000 people in 2014 to nine per 100,000 in 2019, the researchers found.
Of all injuries, 27% were to the head. And half of these were classified as a traumatic brain injury, which can include concussions and skull fractures. Many who had head injuries also suffered internal organ injuries, fractures, breathing difficulties or bleeding.
Among patients with a potential traumatic brain injury, 17% were admitted to the hospital, compared with 8% of patients without a head injury, according to the report.
Drugs and booze played a role in many scooter accidents in 2019, with over 2,600 injuries associated with use of these substances and 88% of these scooter crashes involving alcohol use.
For the study, the researchers used data from the U.S. National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, agreed that people underestimate the dangers of e-scooters and their potential speed.
"This is even more relevant for older persons who choose to hop on these scooters, since they may have prolonged reaction times along with reduced dexterity and balance, thus increasing the risk of potential injuries and death," said Glatter, who had no role in the study.
Regarding the many accidents involving drug or alcohol use, Glatter said, "operating an e-scooter under the influence of drugs and alcohol … is a recipe for disaster."
Glatter also said pedestrians should remember to look both ways when crossing streets, noting riders weave in and out of traffic on streets and sidewalks.
"I have taken care of a number of pedestrians seriously injured in collisions with people operating e-scooters," he said. "Many have sustained head injuries, lacerations, concussions, internal organ injuries and extremity fractures."
E-scooters are a growing public health problem as their popularity continues to increase, Glatter warned.
Dedicated bike lanes in cities have helped to make a space for these riders, but Glatter said that's not enough.
"Increased regulations are necessary to protect citizens from the dangers associated with this new mode of transportation. This includes mandatory helmet use, enforcement of laws against operating them under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and a requirement that all riders take a safety course before operating them," he said.
The report was published online Aug. 31 in JAMA Network Open.
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about head injuries.
SOURCES: Eric Wagner, MD, director, upper extremity surgery research, Emory University, Atlanta; Robert Glatter, MD, emergency medicine physician, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Amishav Bresler, MD, department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark; JAMA Network Open, Aug. 31, 2020, online
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