RIP Bob Pulford

[MTM]

Four-time Stanley Cup champ, a Hall of Famer and the only LA Kings coach to win the Jack Adams Award.

Pulford, 4-time Stanley Cup champion with Maple Leafs, dies at 89 | NHL.com

 

[micropolitan guy]

A very consistent, reliable player in an era when scoring 20 goals was an achievement.

 

[ChrisLong]

RIP, Pully. He was the Kings' coach when I first got the beat in 1975. He knew I didn't know bleep and he helped me a lot. Class guy. He used to drink beer with us in the press lounge at The Forum after games, his wife, too. There were lots of stories and explanations about when he felt he was gaining the advantage in the line changes. I remember after "Slap Shot" came out and we had all seen it, somebody asked him if there was actually a fight before a game started. He hemmed and hawed, while his wife was standing behind him nodding her head. Then he agreed. How did it happen, he was asked. "Well, they were skating on our half of the red line."

 

[Jake from State Farm]

When I was a kid my introduction to hockey was Hockey Night in Canada. CBC used to scroll the roster — Baun, Brewer, Horton, Kelly, Armstrong, Keon, Pulford. My dad would watch and he knew nothing about hockey but he liked to see the refs skate up the ice after an icing to deliver the puck at the opposite faceoff circle

 

[Liut]

Guessing Pully got sick of Cooke in L.A. and that is how he landed in Chicago.
Tended to be a very methodical GM. Pully was once described by Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a man posing for a portrait.
However you think of it, he was loyal to Bill Wirtz and Wirtz reciprocated.
RIP to a hockey lifer

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Survived a nasty power power play by Mike Keenan in Chicago.

 

[Liut]

Nasty i

Survived a nasty power power play by Mike Keenan in Chicago.

Nasty is a bit harsh, CW2. Keenan had a contractual agreement with Wirtz to move up to GM after two years. That is what happened, with Darryl Sutter promoted to head coach.
... Sidebar ... Keenan had a trade set up with Quebec for Eric Lindros. Belfour would have been a part of the package going to the Nordiques. Dollar Bill nixed it over, you guessed it, money.
If that deal had come off, Chicago would not have traded Hasek.
With Hasek, Roenick, Lindros and Chelios, hell, the Hawks might have won a Cup.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Nasty i

Nasty is a bit harsh, CW2. Keenan had a contractual agreement with Wirtz to move up to GM after two years. That is what happened, with Darryl Sutter promoted to head coach.
... Sidebar ... Keenan had a trade set up with Quebec for Eric Lindros. Belfour would have been a part of the package going to the Nordiques. Dollar Bill nixed it over, you guessed it, money.
If that deal had come off, Chicago would not have traded Hasek.
With Hasek, Roenick, Lindros and Chelios, hell, the Hawks might have won a Cup.

Mea culpa. Was going off memory and blurred it with some of Keenan battles.

 

[Liut]

Mea culpa. Was going off memory and blurred it with some of Keenan battles.

LOL! No worries. The battles were many, indeed.

 

[SportsDiva72]

I remember Bob Pulford way before he was a coach and GM. The first year that I started watching hockey was in 1967 and the Maple Leafs, yes the Toronto Maple Leafs, had just won the Stanley Cup. R.I.P.