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canadiancapman:
--- Quote from: Surreylily on Tuesday February 09, 2021, 08:46:24 PM Eastern ---
I'm going to set you a challenge luvvie..
My favourite author is the late. great, Terry Pratchett. The "Discworld" series. II would suggest starting with "Mort" The earlier ones make more sense after that... Sort of............. :wackysmile:
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I'm not a fan of fictional books. If I'm reading it's non fiction.
If you're interested on a hockey book that gives a great glimpse of hockey dating back to the early 50's, check out "Scotty A hockey life like no other" it's about the greatest hockey coach ever, Scotty bowman and 8 teams from 51-present day that he feels were the greatest ever assembled.
Surreylily:
Read "Mort". It's not about hokcey, it/s about human beings. ;)
alta:
--- Quote from: canadiancapman on Tuesday February 09, 2021, 09:00:01 PM Eastern ---
If they didn't get crosby, they would have never got the millions of dollars to pay Mario back. If the team still owed him money do you think he would have put forth the effort to keep the team there? I feel like that was set up for them to get the first overall pick. Pittsburgh was gone otherwise in my opinion.
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Mario wasn't the only one to put up money, that team wasn't leaving that city
canadiancapman:
Problem was people weren't going to the games. They were losing. As soon as they won the draft lottery everyone and their brother wanted to play there. Mario even tried to make a return. It wasn't about putting up money, it was about putting a competitive team on the ice so that people's butts would be in the seats. Winning the draft lottery saved the franchise.
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