The Bowman file
Apr 19, 2003 13:31:18 GMT -5
Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Apr 19, 2003 13:31:18 GMT -5
The first time Scotty Bowman met the legendary Montreal coach Toe Blake 47 years ago he literally had to fight back the tears. Bowman met Blake while trying to escape a tear gas canister.
- www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/cup02/2002-06-14-usat-bowman-side.htm
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"I was in St. Louis and had given the guys a curfew," Bowman said recently, going back to the beginning of his NHL coaching career, in the late '60s. "I didn't do a bed check or anything, and I had guys that tramped a lot. So once I gave the bellman at the hotel we were at $10 and a hockey stick. He stood in the lobby, and when the players rolled in at one, two in the morning, he had the guys sign the stick. Every guy who cut curfew, his name was on that stick in his own handwriting. I just walked into the room the next day and held it out. 'Look what I've got.'"
- www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/capitals/longterm/1998/stanleycup/articles/bowman15.htm
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Steve Duchesne dropped what teeth he had left when the stunning announcement filtered through the impromptu celebration on the Joe Louis Arena ice.
"Scotty leaving?" Duchesne said with an incredulous look. "What? When? Why?"
- www.freep.com/sports/drewsharp/sharp14_20020614.htm
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A great hockey coach has to be motivational as well as strategic, manage a gang of poets, hitmen, no-hopers and goalies, think on his feet, memorize every game he's ever seen, match lineups under intense pressure without blinking, contain his temper, erupt in rage at the right moment, mete justice unto a savage race (players), suffer fools gladly (owners), move frequently to armpit American cities at sometimes laughable pay, neglect the family, live for the morrow and always look slightly ridiculous behind the bench in his business suit and slick hair hat.
- www.canoe.ca/JamBooksReviewsS/scottybowman_hunter.html
- www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/cup02/2002-06-14-usat-bowman-side.htm
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"I was in St. Louis and had given the guys a curfew," Bowman said recently, going back to the beginning of his NHL coaching career, in the late '60s. "I didn't do a bed check or anything, and I had guys that tramped a lot. So once I gave the bellman at the hotel we were at $10 and a hockey stick. He stood in the lobby, and when the players rolled in at one, two in the morning, he had the guys sign the stick. Every guy who cut curfew, his name was on that stick in his own handwriting. I just walked into the room the next day and held it out. 'Look what I've got.'"
- www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/capitals/longterm/1998/stanleycup/articles/bowman15.htm
(cut and paste)
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Steve Duchesne dropped what teeth he had left when the stunning announcement filtered through the impromptu celebration on the Joe Louis Arena ice.
"Scotty leaving?" Duchesne said with an incredulous look. "What? When? Why?"
- www.freep.com/sports/drewsharp/sharp14_20020614.htm
***
A great hockey coach has to be motivational as well as strategic, manage a gang of poets, hitmen, no-hopers and goalies, think on his feet, memorize every game he's ever seen, match lineups under intense pressure without blinking, contain his temper, erupt in rage at the right moment, mete justice unto a savage race (players), suffer fools gladly (owners), move frequently to armpit American cities at sometimes laughable pay, neglect the family, live for the morrow and always look slightly ridiculous behind the bench in his business suit and slick hair hat.
- www.canoe.ca/JamBooksReviewsS/scottybowman_hunter.html