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On February 20, 1970, the @LAKings acquired Denis DeJordy, Gilles Marotte, and Jim Stanfield from Chicago for Bryan Campbell, Gerry Desjardins, and Bill White. DeJordy had a record of 23-45-15 in 86 games, and Marotte scored 130 points in 271 games with the #LAKings. #GoKingsGo https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5E-1HpDTK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“Youthful Thug Given 5 Years,” Border Cities Star. March 20, 1930. Page 3. ---- Noe Hebert Convicted Of Stealing Car, Gas And Parts ---- Noe Hebert, of Sandwich West, was sentenced to spend five years in Kingston Penitentiary by Judge J. J. Coughlin, at yesterday's session of the county criminal court, held at Chatham, when he was convicted of two charges, theft of a motor car and breaking and entering.

Hebert, in his early twenties, had a record of two previous convictions. He was arrested by Chief Gerry Desjardins, of Tecumseh, November 8, 1929. Several days before. October 28, he had stolen a motor car from Chatham, and had stolen $500 worth of tools from the Kent County Highways Department. His father and mother are both dead. Hebert was arrested on suspicion by Chief Desjardins when empty gasoline tanks and hose, apparently gasoline stealing equipment, were found in his car. Examination of his car disclosed the fact that it had been stolen, and that the engine had been replaced.

On his person Chief Desjardins and Chief Adam Martindale, of Belle River, found a revolver and a number of keys. The tanks of the automobile consisted of two five-gallon tanks, and one two-gallon tank, and were covered with a blanket. Hebert was taken into custody and appeared the following Tuesday in East Windsor police court charged with carrying concealed weapons, to be remanded. It was learned however, that he was wanted by Chatham police.

Hebert is 21 years old. He lived in Tecumseh formerly, but for several months before his arrest had been boarding in Windsor at Tecumseh Road and Crawford avenue.

[AL: Hebert had previously been in the reformatory and was a machinist. At Kingston Penitentiary he was convict #1695 and worked in the machinist shop. He supported the strike and riot in October 1932, demanding “cigarette papers, newspapers, recreation, two letters a month. Would like comb and brush, also mirror in cell.” He complained that “the conditions in my cell, in D (the old cells) are unsanitary.” Hebert noted that “there are fellows with certain diseases that should be separated from others. They even use the same dishes as we do.” Here he means that prisoners with VD were not kept separate or provided with different cleaning and drinking vessels. He wanted the end of the silent system in morning and noon, “with an orchestra playing when we come in from work.” 

His greater ire was saved for the officers, and he had much to say about their conduct before and during the riot.  During the riot itself, he blamed I have “three men who were shooting on E Range. Mr. Marshall, the young one, Mr. Shewall, and Mr. Archibald, [the chief keeper]” who gave the orders to shoot at convicts in their cells.  He disliked the Blacksmith Instructor Dunford of the machine shop:

 “He is aggravating in a very base manner concerning work which has been done on the new female prison. The work which was inspected by him was very unsatisfactory but our instructor under him could not say very much. At first we had only a few toys to work with I only had a monkey wrench and two hammers so I got after Mr. Dunford to get some tools to be able to work with. Finally I got one tool, which was an old hammer. I got after him again and it is my trade and i like to do work to the best of my ability. I threatened I would go to the Warden if I could not get them. Finally he came over with a pipe wrench and we got three machinists hammers and a bull wrench that was only aggravating because we needed a lot of tools. I had a very, very hard time to get the few tools I did. Since then he has been taking some back and we are gradually getting short all the time. They are going back in the shop - he demands them. He is a person who encourages you to do things that are breaking the rules of the institution, like smoking and gives us lights. Later on he encourages like that until you do something and then he reports you.”

Hebert noted that he was not an agitator, just a supporter of the strike, and that he does “try to follow the rules of the institution but if I can get a chance I will smoke though.” He hated the “two fellows in our gang who are recognized as rats.” He called these men rats to their faces, and the guard "told me if I did not apologize to these two men he would put me in the hole. He got my temper up. I did not say anything just thought it over if I did not apologize they will take me to the hole so I told him I did not give him direct satisfaction or what he wanted.” He was reported a few times, most importantly “two or three months ago for shouting on the range. I am in 4-D - three of us were reported for that.” Hebert was rankled by “the idea of injustice” - that he was the only one reported.

He continued to work in the blacksmith shop and supported many of the strikes there in 1933. He was released March 1934.]

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If not for John McGale, who was killed in a car accident on Monday, Offenbach might have thrown in the towel before experiencing some of his greatest successes. Posted at 3:14 p.m. Updated at 5:56 p.m. “I’m not stopping, it’s too early”, sang Gerry Boulet in 1985 in Rock’n’roll wants my skin, a text by Marc Desjardins with music by John McGale. Never stop: this is a credo to which the guitarist…

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Urban Revitalization That Sets an Example

Behind the remarkable charm and energy of rue du Petit-Champlain is a story of adversity. It took the determination of a visionary entrepreneur and architect in the late 1970s to impose a new approach to historical renovation in Québec in order to create a new community that attracts many thousands of visitors every year. 

   Crafting business success    

Artisans lived in this part of town during the New France period. When Gerry Paris and Jacques de Blois came up with an ambitious project to give rue du Petit-Champlain a new lease on life in the mid-1970s, they kept its artisanal roots in mind. The original concept has changed since then, with the focus shifting more towards business, but the restaurants, performance venue, and many small exclusive boutiques preserve the special charm of this singular street.

   Hard times    

In the early 19th century, epidemics that arrived from Europe in vessels groaning with immigrants forced the artisans to flee to Upper Town. In their place were poor Irish escaping their beleaguered homeland. Fatal landslides exacerbated the isolation of this forgotten street. Five times between 1841 and 1889, large pieces of the cliff came tumbling down, burying some 15 houses, for a death toll of 86. The authorities managed to solve the problem but “Little Champlain,” as opposed to the new Champlain Boulevard that was wider and hugged the river, was not any better off. The proof: as late as the 1920s the street consisted of wooden planks while most other streets were paved.

By the late 1960s, the squalor had spread. The City even considered bulldozing the whole area to make way for a parking lot.

   A revolutionary renovation project    

Gerry Paris and Jacques de Blois had a dream—revitalize a section of Old Québec in the European manner. Their goal was to create a living community and restore the buildings.

They bought a block of derelict houses and began to recruit artists and artisans interested in working and living there. The concept was very different from anything done before in Québec and elsewhere in Canada. They kept the traces of the many changes to the houses over the years, recycled as much material as possible, and spruced them up discretely so as to preserve the historical character of these buildings ranging in age from 200 to 300 years old.

Paris and de Blois were very persistent in their bid to convince those involved in the ever-growing project that their approach was the right one. At the time, this way of doing things—which would become standard practice—went against the tide.

   A fruitful partnership    

The work begun in 1977 wrapped up in 1980, with some 30 artisans living on rue du Petit-Champlain. The government of Québec got involved in a new phase of the project that ended in 1983. When Paris and de Blois withdrew in 1985 and sold to the artisan-residents who made up the Quartier Petit Champlain cooperative, there were twice as many residents and businesses. The government of Québec and Caisses Desjardins provided financial backing for the project from that point on.

Subsequently, rue du Petit-Champlain gradually changed to become a popular and much-loved centre for culture, business, and leisure. In 2011 it won the first Great Places in Canada competition in the Neighbourhood category. Its social and economic vitality, urban appeal, and historical and cultural worth earned it that recognition.

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C'est le 13 septembre qu'avait lieu le Sommet québécois des médias Plateforme(s). La transparence, la découvrabilité, l’engagement et même le cannabis sont parmi les thèmes ayant été discutés par une trentaine d’experts. En voici certains des propros marquants.

Sur les nouveaux auditoires

«Faire des partenariats, ça donne la propulsion au contenu et donne accès à un auditoire qui ne regarde pas notre contenu sur nos plateformes normalement.» - Philippe Lamarre, président, Urbania

Sur l'état des médias

«Est-ce que moi j'investirais aujourd'hui dans les médias comme la Gazette. Non, probablement pas.» - Mitch Garber, Investissement Canada et président du conseil, Cirque du Soleil

«On doit avoir une profonde réflexion dans la société pour savoir quel rôle on veut que les médias traditionnels jouent.» - Pierre-Elliott Levasseur, président, La Presse

Sur la valorisation du contenu

«Le consommateur a appris à dévaloriser le contenu. On ne l'estime pas à sa juste valeur.» - Gerry Frappier, président, télévision francophone et RDS, Bell Média. Puis: «Le grand défi est d'apprendre à monétiser les différentes fenêtres de valorisation de contenu.»

Sur la concurrence des géants comme Netflix, Facebook, Google et Amazon

«Pour encourager les collaborations, il faut qu’il y ait plus de réseautage entre la communauté média au Québec.» - Salim Sader, cofondateur et directeur de la stratégie de croissance, Goalcast

«Le nouveau mot d'ordre ce n'est pas compétition, mais bien collaboration.» - Pierre-Elliott Levasseur, président, La Presse

«Frennemies, je ne sais pas si vous connaissez l'expression.» - Gerry Frappier, président, télévision francophone et RDS, Bell Média

Sur la responsabilité des annonceurs

«Veut, veut pas, une entreprise à but lucratif choisira la façon la plus efficace de faire du profit et misera d'abord sur la croissance de son entreprise.» - Mitch Garber, Investissement Canada et président du conseil, Cirque du Soleil 

«Il faut faire confiance aux médias crédibles qui savent créer un contenu qui sera engageant sans être dégoulinant du côté publicitaire.» - Hugo Meunier, directeur, production des contenus numériques, Quebecor (Sac de chips, Tabloïd) 

«C'est nécessaire d'avoir une approche plus humaine dans un monde de plus en plus numérique.» - Gigi Huynh, stratège d'engagement et d'impact, Rad

«La publicité plus traditionnelle, c'est comme de payer une place à un party sans être invité de façon organique. L'auditoire est maître, on est maintenant dans une dynamique publicitaire de dialogue.» - Philippe Lamarre, président d'Urbania.

«Souvent, on ne se fait pas embaucher à cause de notre stratégie, alors que c’est pourtant ce que les clients recherchent. Mais ils veulent surtout le moins cher. On a du travail à faire; il faut valoriser nos services.» - Véronik L'Heureux, directrice générale, Spark Foundry

«On fait le pari de soutenir l’écosystème local en investissant dorénavant uniquement dans des médias d’ici. C’est aussi une façon de mieux pouvoir contrôler la fraude. L’an dernier, près de 1 milliard$ seraient disparus à cause du trafic frauduleux.» - Jean-Sébastien Prénovost, conseiller stratégique, médias numériques, Desjardins

«Je pense qu’il ya un rôle des annonceurs d'être sensible aux médias locaux, mais il ne faut pas mettre toute la pression sur eux non plus. Il faut aller chercher l’argent du public.» - Pierre-Elliott Levasseur, président, La Presse

Sur la place de l'instinct à l'ère des données 

«La création lead le contenu. On utilise la donnée pour améliorer la performance, par exemple, la meilleure méthode de présenter son contenu.» - Gigi Huynh, stratège d'engagement et d'impact, Rad

«Les chiffres sont intéressants dans la rétroaction et pour améliorer le contenu futur plutôt que dans la création du contenu comme tel.» - Philippe Lamarre, président d'Urbania.

«Tout chiffrer devient réducteur. Oui, on mesure, mais ça ne peut pas être notre seul engagement. (...) Il faut toucher le coeur des gens. Ça aussi ça nous aide à bien performer.» - Valérie Sapin, diretrice marketing, expérience client et efficacité énergique, Énergir

Sur la publicité du cannabis

«L'idéal pour tous les médias et annonceurs qui pensent s'engager dans la voie du cannabis, c'est d'établir une bonne relation avec Santé Canada.» Kevin Adhami, conseiller juridique, Newad 

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Monday, January 8, 2017

 I gave it the old college try but I was thwarted again from catching up on all the comic books that I wanted to read last week by life's little events. My Dad's 85th birthday meant an evening out with family. Spent most of one day off cleaning the whole house in the aftermath of Christmas being put away for another year. One extra loading and unloading of stuff to take to the monthly Capital Trade Show because I was flying solo for this one took part of another day. Penny came to help and keep me company yesterday at the beginning and the end of the trade show. Thanks to our neighbour vendor Chris for helping me load up after the show. This week has us dealing with our cars having to be serviced. Penny's Soul has to go in for a recall. The ever ominous "service engine soon" light came on the dashboard display of my X-Trail yesterday. The transmission didn't engage a couple of times but I managed to get it going by adjusting the stick shift. I hope it's just the extreme cold of the last week that's causing the problem. I hope I get a bit of alone time to read more this week. Here are comments of the few that I got to.

 Phoenix Resurrection #1 - Matthew Rosenberg (writer) Leinil Francis Yu (pencils) Gerry Alanguilan (inks) Rachelle Rosenberg (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). The gang's all here. I still read Astonishing X-Men so I recognised that team and I figure the other two teams are Blue and Gold. Correct me if I'm wrong. So they're bringing back Jean Grey/Phoenix again just in time for the spring release of the movie starring Sophie Turner better known as Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones. There's enough mystery here to keep me reading but I have issues with all-powerful beings and wonder if we need another super human on the racks right now. This 5-issue mini comes out weekly so I will be able to decide whether it's good enough to read the whole story very quickly.

 Batman and the Signal #1 - Scott Snyder & Tony Patrick (story) Tony Patrick (writer) Cully Hamner (art) Laura Martin (colours) Deron Bennett (letters). This 3-issue mini lets the Signal shine solo as he tries to figure out where his powers come from. I'm not familiar with Duke but I've seen him fight alongside Batman before. DC is probably hoping that his partnership with Batman will help sell this but here we have another young super hero fighting young super villains. I predict Signal will get into deep trouble and then find a way to win the day. The art would be the only reason that I would read the rest of this story.

 Rogue & Gambit #1 - Kelly Thompson (writer) Pere Perez (art) Frank D'Armata (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). This 5-issue mini takes the two off again romantic partners on a mission to save other mutants. The art is very nice and the last page got me good. I'm going to read the next issue to see what happens next.

 The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1 - Mark Russell (writer) Mike Feehan (pencils) Mark Morales (inks) Paul Mounts (colours) Dave Sharpe (letters). The art got me to pick this off the rack to read with it's mix of human and anthropomorphised animals walking around on two legs. The only thing I recall about the old Hanna Barbera cartoon was Snagglepuss's voice. It sounded snooty to me. The one in this 6-issue mini would sound snooty too since he's a big time playwright. The story takes place in the late 1940s when the government was going after communist sympathisers in the entertainment industry. There are a couple of surprise twists that make this worth reading even if you were never a fan of the cartoon character.

 Dark Nights: Hawkman Found #1 - Jeff Lemire (writer) Bryan Hitch (pencils) Kevin Nowlan (inks) Alex Sinclair & Jeremiah Skipper (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). I thought that I was done reading any more Dark Night books but then I saw the creative team on this one-shot and had to see what's up with Hawkman these days. I really enjoyed reading this book. They captured the warrior spirit of Carter Hall very well. I was disappointed by the Groundhog Day twist at the end however. As a fan of Jeff, Bryan and Kevin, this book was a blast to read but it didn't make me want to reach for more Dark Night books.

 Jessica Jones #15 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Michael Gaydos (art) Matt Hollingsworth (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). The return of the Purple Man has a great twist that you don't want to miss. If you've watched the first season of the TV show you will get added enjoyment from having a deeper insight into the relationship between Jessica and Killgrave.

 Action Comics #994 - Dan Jurgens (writer & pencils) Art Thibert, Trevor Scott, Johnny Desjardins & Joe Prado (inks) Hi-Fi (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). Ugh, I can't wait for Booster Gold's guest appearance in this book to be over. In order for this time travel snafu story to have any emotional impact Dan has to make Superman act in a stupid and selfish way. Any hero should know better than to mess with time, but no, Superman MUST find the answers he seeks. That bothers me a lot.

 Moon Knight #190 - Max Bemis (writer) Jacen Burrows (pencils) Guillermo Ortego (inks) Mat Lopes (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Crazy Runs in the Family part 3. I really like how Moon Knight's multiple personalities are interacting with each other in Marc's head. The reintroduction of an old supporting character and the surprise twist on the last page gave me that "what a great comic book" chuckle.

 Batman #38 - Tom King (writer) Travis Moore (pencils & inks) Giulia Brusco (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). This one is a mind bender. Batman flexes his detective's muscles as he solves a serial murder case. The fisherman in me loved all the red herrings.

 Invincible Iron Man #595 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Stefano Caselli & Alex Maleev (art) Marte Gracia & Alex Maleev (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). The Search for Tony Stark part 3. We're getting closer to finding Tony but meanwhile the Infamous Iron Man has problems with the Hood and RiRi has problems with the board of directors of Stark Industries. It's all very entertaining.

 The Demon: Hell is Earth #2 - Andrew Constant (writer) Brad Walker (pencils) Andrew Hennessy (inks) Chris Sotomayor (colours) Tom Napolitano (letters). Jeepers, this is awesome sauce. Not only is the art incredibly nice to look at but the writing is so much fun. I like this Etrigan and Jason Blood pairing. One of the things that made this evil demon character appealing to me was how Jason could control him somewhat. Things have changed between them now and it makes their relationship more interesting. I am definitely going to read the rest of this 6-issue mini.

 Punisher: The Platoon #4 - Garth Ennis (writer) Goran Parlov (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) Rob Steen (letters). I know that Frank survives this story but I am also hoping the young Vietnamese guerrilla fighter makes it through the war alive too. She's a great character and I keep wondering when she and Frank will meet.

 Superman #38 - Peter J. Tomasi & Patrick Gleason (writers) Sergio Davila (pencils) Vicente Cifuentes (inks) Gabe Eltaeb (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). Super Sons of Tomorrow part 4. I am assuming that future Tim Drake/Batman changes into a character named Savior in the Teen Titans tie-in. I don't care how that happened so I'm not going to read that tie-in. All I now is that he's bad and his team mates in the future Titans show up to help the kids and Jon's dad. I can't wait for this time travel story to conclude in Super Sons #12 which hits the racks January 17.

[junker-town]

Sabres goalie’s practice mask will give you nightmares

Move over, Jason Voorhees.

Over the past few decades, goaltender masks have gone from nightmare fuel to impressively crafted pieces of art. Buffalo Sabres netminder Robin Lehner gave us a good reminder of this when he rocked a 1970s-style mask used by Gerry Desjardins during practice Thursday morning.

Testing out for #WinterClassic? Robin Lehner taking a few shots wearing this mask, used by Gerry Desjardins in the 70s, before practice. #Sabres http://pic.twitter.com/ftCf6WWEQ0

— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) December 21, 2017

Just look at those dead, soulless eyes:

Gah!

Lehner also sported the mask in practice before the 2018 NHL Winter Classic, where we got to see it in full with his outdoor getup.

That mask though. #WinterClassic http://pic.twitter.com/nBs8BXTDDG

— NHL (@NHL) January 1, 2018

Robin Lehner, rocking the Gerry Desjardins mask during warmups, is everything. #WinterClassic #NHL @BuffaloSabres http://pic.twitter.com/NmCfOqja1t

— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) January 1, 2018

As much as we’d love to see someone lookin’ like Jason Voorhees out there on the ice, those old-school masks don’t quite provide the kind of protection necessary for today’s game. Thankfully, Lehner also revealed an awesome custom mask for the upcoming Winter Classic, too.

It’s here: @RobinLehner’s 2018 #WinterClassic Mask by @artofdave. Includes a tribute to #39 on both sides. #Sabres http://pic.twitter.com/4HFrEfKGip

— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) December 21, 2017

It’s fair to say that mask is significantly less horrifying. The inclusion of former Sabres goalie Dominik Hasek on there is a nice touch.

Although, we gotta say, the horrifying 40-year-old mask would be more fun.

[flauntpage]

DGB Grab Bag: Halloween Hijinx, The Nuclear Option, and an Ode to Offense

Three Stars of Comedy

The third star: The Nashville Predators enjoyed Halloween – We won't clog this whole section with NHL player Halloween costumes. If that's your thing, you can find a rundown on the league web site, although they seem to have left one out. But we will mention the Predators, who may have been enjoying themselves a little too much, starting with P.K. Subban:

But the real stars were Nick Bonnino and his wife Lauren, who went as the scariest thing a hockey player can imagine.

The second star: Ryan Reaves vs. Phil Kessel – OK, one more Halloween one.

The first star: Chance the mascot – The new Vegas mascot has not had a warm reception, as documented here.

Honestly, the whole thing is reasonably funny, but I'm putting it in the top spot solely for the little girl who goes "GOOD ONE, DEL." That kid kills me. That needs to go right up there with "Way to go, Paul" as a generic hockey putdown.

Be It Resolved

We're a month into the season, and the Golden Knights are still decent. Sure, everyone realizes that they're not as good as their record indicates, but they're far better than most of us expected. It turns out that expansion teams in the salary cap era can be reasonably competitive right away.

Meanwhile, the Arizona Coyotes began the year with a record-tying 11 straight losses, and their season is already basically over. Other teams, like the Sabres, Rangers, Canadiens, and Oilers are another bad week or two away from being in the same boat.

All of which leads us to our crazy idea of the month. From the same minds that brought you the Jagr Draft, Cup champs picking their banner night opponent on live TV, and using the Cliffhanger guy to announce player signings, please welcome the league's newest rule: The Nuclear Option.

Yes, the name's kind of dramatic, I know. The idea lives up to it.

It would work like this. Every year, at the end of the regular season, all the non-playoff teams have the option of hitting the reset button on the entire franchise. If a team decides to go nuclear, they get to protect up to three players in the entire organization—not just NHL, but prospects, unsigned picks, etc.—and everyone else instantly becomes a free agent. No cap hits, no buyouts, no re-signing anyone, no compensation. Everything you spent the last decade building is gone.

In return for nuking the entire organization, the team gets two things. First, they move to the front of the line for that year's draft lottery odds, if they're not already there. And second, they get to restock in an expansion draft, under the same rules as the ones the Golden Knights just had.

Three players, an otherwise barren cap situation, top odds in the lottery, and an expansion draft to start all over with. Would you do it? Would you take the Nuclear Option?

It goes without saying that not many teams would. This year's Coyotes wouldn't, for example. They've been rebuilding for years, and have plenty of good young players worth holding onto. I doubt any of this year's bad teams would seriously consider it, unless things go completely off the rails somewhere.

But last year's Avalanche would have had to at least think about it, right? And you can bet that a team like the Sabres would have jumped at the chance a few years ago leading into the McDavid draft. You'd probably see the option used once or twice a decade, just about always after a team had fired its old GM and hired a replacement with a mandate to rebuild. Imagine that new guy having the option to walk in, take one look around, go "NOPE" and just bulldoze the entire thing.

(As an added bonus, the same league full of cry-baby GMs who spent all of last year whining about how the expansion draft made their jobs slightly harder would absolutely lose their minds if they had another one dropped on them with a few weeks' notice. That's not the main point here, but it's a nice side-benefit.)

How much fun would it be to argue over whether your favorite team should use the Nuclear Option? How hard would you have to work before you started to talk yourself into it? How mad would you be when Nuke Day came around and your team chickened out and didn't do it?

Like most great ideas, the NHL would never do it in a million years. But they should. Terrible teams need hope too, and the Golden Knights have proven that it's not as far away as you might think. You just need a way to get there. You need the Nuclear Option.

Obscure Former Player of the Week

Today's obscure player is a guy you probably saw a few photos of this week: former Sabres and Canucks goaltender Gary "Bones" Bromley.

Bromley was never drafted, but was signed by the expansion Sabres in 1971 and made his NHL debut two years later. He played 12 games backing up Dave Dryden for the 1973-74 Sabres, then won the starting job for most of the 1974-75 season after Dryden left. He played well, going 26-11-11 and helping the Sabres to a league-high 113 points. That team went all the way to the Stanley Cup final, but turned to late-season acquisition Gerry Desjardins and Roger Crozier for the entire run; despite appearing in over 50 regular season games, Bromley never even saw the ice in a playoff game that year.

He'd play just one more game for the Sabres the following year before heading to the WHA for two seasons. He returned to the NHL in 1978 after signing with the Canucks, and spent three years pulling part-time duty. After a year in the minors, he retired in 1982, having won 54 games over six NHL seasons.

Today, he's probably best remembered for the fearsome skull mask he wore in Vancouver. It was one of the most unique looks of the era, and to this day often shows up on lists of the greatest masks ever.

Trivial Annoyance of the Week

Have you ever been at a point when things were going well—not awesome, not great, but reasonably well—and then your stupid friends show up to remind you that their lives are way better than yours?

That's what it felt like to be a hockey fan this week.

The big news in the sports world this week was the World Series, a seven-game thriller that drew big ratings. Games six and seven were good, but the real show came earlier in the series, as the league's secret new baseballs resulted in every third batter hitting a home run off the face of the moon and everyone went crazy over how much fun it was. Oh, OK, so now sports fans enjoy games with lots of offense. When did this happen?

[Checks earpiece]

I'm being told that everyone has always thought offense was fun. Huh. Well OK, then where were all of you during the NHL playoffs?

[Checks earpiece]

Right, I'm told that the deciding game of the Stanley Cup final featured 58 scoreless minutes, a fluke goal that had to be reviewed, and an empty netter. Huh. I'd completely forgotten about that game. I can't imagine why.

Meanwhile, the NFL stole a few headlines with it trade deadline. If you follow football, you know that their deadline is usually a bust. Unlike in the NHL, where GMs just pretend because they like excuses, the salary cap actually does make trading hard in the NFL because signing bonuses get instantly converted to dead money when a player switches teams. So moves are rare, especially midseason ones, and the trade deadline often passes without anyone really even noticing.

But not this year, where everything went insane and trades were happening everywhere. And not just NHL deadline-style veteran rentals, but big names, young stars, potential franchise quarterbacks…everyone. It was madness. Glorious, wonderful madness.

And then you've got the NBA, where the season is only just starting but everyone has a personality and says interesting things and players quit on their teams over Twitter and fired coaches go scorched earth on Instagram.

Look, other leagues, we get it. You're more fun than the NHL. Leave us alone.

I mean, we're trying, OK? The Golden Knights are a genuinely cool story, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos are killing it in Tampa, the Kings are kind of back, and the Blues and Devils are surprisingly good. That's something, right? Scoring's up slightly because of extra power plays, there's intrigue in New York, and the Coyotes are terrible, which can be entertaining in its own kind of way.

Sure, we may not have record offense and blockbuster trades and social media wars. We're working on it, OK? You don't need to rub it in our faces all at once. Why don't you go lose half a season to a work stoppage?

[Checks earpiece]

I'm told that other sports don't do that anymore. Wonderful. Good for you. Now finish your seasons, pack up and get out of your stadiums. We're going to need them for our outdoor games pretty soon.

Classic YouTube Clip Breakdown

Hey, it's not like the NHL never serves up a ridiculously high-scoring playoff game. For example, today let's travel back to 2006 and see what happens when two rivals decide to play with the goaltending sliders pushed all the way down…

It's the second round of the 2006 playoffs, and the Senators are hosting the Sabres for game one. It's a great matchup, featuring a 113-point team facing a 110-point team. It also pits the conference's lowest goals-against against its fourth-lowest, so I'm sure there won't be much offense. Hey, defense wins championships, am I right?

Our clip begins a few seconds after the opening faceoff as we get a look at the Sabres lines and yeah it's already 1-0.

Mike Grier has tipped in a Derek Roy feed to give the Sabres the lead. Nice start. Now they just have to settle in and play a classic road playoff games, take the crowd out of it and wait until—oops never mind it's 1-1.

That Ottawa goal was Jason Spezza from Dany Heatley and Wade Redden, as the Senators deploy their famed "guys we love right now but will eventually leave town as villains" line. I guess Daniel Alfredsson missed a shift.

The Senators make it 2-1 just 15 seconds later. A quick warning here: This game is in Ottawa, which means it features the Senators goal horn guy, which means you're going to be deaf by the end of it. He's a tad excitable. Here's some behind-the-scenes footage of him at work, but it's a preseason game so he's taking it easy.

On the other hand, we've got Bob Cole. You win some, you lose some.

Six minutes in, the Sabres tie it at 2-2. (Hello, Numminen.) Amazingly, this will be the last goal of the first period, as everyone's arms are tired and they decide to just skip ahead to the intermission.

By the way, the goaltending matchup here is Ray Emery against Ryan Miller, which is fine, but we have to point out that this was the year the Senators had Dominik Hasek. But he got hurt at the Olympics, depriving us of one of the great face-the-former-team revenge matchups in league history. Damn you, Olympic injuries, maybe Gary Bettman was right about you all along.

We're back for the second period, both teams having made their intermission adjustments. In the Sabres case, that was apparently "let's give up easy breakaways." and they go out and execute it beautifully.

Buffalo gets it back quickly, as they get a 2-on-1 and then do that video games move where you forget which button is the pass one and just end up with everyone skating into the goalie and pushing the puck into the net because you have penalties turned off. It's super effective!

A few seconds later, the Senators have a 5-on-3 and you can probably guess how this turns out. They do that thing where they park Zdeno Chara directly in front of the net and dare the goalie to do anything about it. It works, because the only goalie crazy enough to ever swing at Chara was Ray Emery.

We skip ahead to goals by Derek Roy at the end of the second and Mike Fisher at the start of the third, and it's 5-4 Ottawa. Both starting goalies are still in, by the way, and will stay in for the entire game. I always thought that was an underrated aspect of this game's silliness.

Side note: This is somehow only the second craziest game featuring Ray Emery and the Sabres.

At this point, things actually settle down and the two teams decide to play NHL playoff hockey, which is to say nobody does anything interesting for almost an entire period. The keyword here is "almost," as things are going to go off the rails as soon as we get to two minutes left. Which is right…now.

The Senators have a one-goal lead late in regulation, a powerplay, the puck in the Sabres' zone, and still somehow manage to give up a 2-on-1. Derek Roy buries the one-timer and it's 5-5.

Hey, was I the only one who called him Derek Wah for his whole career, like Patrick Roy? I don't think I was.

We get a brief glimpse of a dude with an Obscure Player Alumni Maxim Afinogenov jersey, but before our brains can process that we're back to the action. The Senators still have a powerplay, remember. You'll never guess what happens next.

This may be my favorite moment from the game, as Bryan Smolinksi bangs home the go-ahead goal with a minute left and makes one of the all-time great "whew, did we ever just dodge a bullet there" smug faces. Hold that thought, Bryan.

We're down to 20 seconds left, and all the Senators have to do now is cram all six guys into the goal frame and call it a day. Instead, there's a mixup behind the net, the puck comes out front, and Tim Connolly buries it to tie the game. The crowd makes that classic "Are you F-ing kidding me?" noise you only get in the NHL playoffs, and we're off to overtime.

OK, settle in because these two teams are going to smarten up and get conservative. Ha, no, just kidding, the overtime is going to last 18 seconds.

The end comes when Anton Volchenkov commits what might literally be the worst turnover in modern playoff history. Seriously, let's just admire that thing. Not only does he fan on the pass, he kicks it off both skates and then turns his back to the puck as the Sabres break in. By the time Chris Drury scores the winner, Volchenkov is just sadly sliding off into the corner on his belly. Other than that, I thought the shift went well.

The Sabres ended up taking the series in five games, three of which came in overtime. But the Senators earned revenge in 2007, knocking out Buffalo on their way to the Stanley Cup final. This time, Emery and the Senators learned from their mistakes and made sure that when the puck was behind their own net at a crucial moment, they never let the other team even touch it.

Have a question, suggestion, old YouTube clip, or anything else you'd like to see included in this column? Email Sean at nhlgrabbag@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @DownGoesBrown.

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