Posts About "Derek Sanderson"
Derek "Turk" Sanderson: A Boston Legend
August 3rd, 2020 Combine a gritty style of play with quick hands and fast feet, throw in a swagger that sat well with his movie-star good looks, mix well with his fair share of nastiness and you have the young Derek Sanderson, better known by his friends and teammates as “Turk”. Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, he played his junior...
Blues' Sunshine Boys: Derek Sanderson, Chuck Lefley and Claude Larose
March 30th, 2020 Every now and then, I find myself sharing a story with my kids about the St. Louis Blues. In my bedroom, I have a pair of hockey gloves from Robby Fabbri that we purchased at a Blues equipment sale. One of my kids has a hockey puck signed by Vladimir Tarasenko. In the corner of our living room, I have an old hockey stick from Wayne...
50 Years Ago in Hockey: Canadians Finally Best Russians
December 22nd, 2015 After nine successive losses against the Russian national hockey team, Canada’s national team finally pulled off a win against the touring Soviets Monday night in Victoria, B.C. Coach Scores Two The Canadian team took advantage of a sluggish performance by the visitors to skate to a well-earned 6-1 victory. Canadian coach Jackie...
50 Years Ago in Hockey - Memorial Cup Final: What a Riot!
May 11th, 2015 The Memorial Cup best-of-seven final series turned ugly last night. The hometown Edmonton Oil Kings won 5-1 to make the series two games to one for Niagara Falls Flyers in a game that was stopped by officials and police after mayhem broke out with three and a half minutes to play in the third period. Rough right from the start The...
50 Years Ago in Hockey - Hawks Punch Ticket to Finals
April 16th, 2015 The Chicago Black Hawks rallied from a 2-0 deficit last night to upset the first-place Detroit Red Wings and claim a spot in the Stanley Cup finals against Montreal. This will mark the first Black Hawk appearance in the finals since they won Lord Stanley's mug in 1961. Hawks trailed 2-0 after one The entire series seemed to be a...
50 Years Ago in Hockey - Hawks Force Seventh Game
April 14th, 2015 The Chicago Black Hawks rode Glenn Hall's goaltending to a convincing 4-0 rout of the Detroit Red Wings last night in noisy Chicago Stadium. The Chicago win forces a seventh and deciding game, to be played in Detroit tomorrow night. The win followed the "homer" pattern of the series, as a road team has not yet been...
Q & A With Former NHL Enforcer Dave Hutchison (Part I)
February 5th, 2015 For over a decade, Dave Hutchison platooned blue lines around the NHL. From Los Angeles to Toronto - with stops in Chicago and New Jersey in between - Hutchison raked in 116 points (19g-97a) and 1,550 penalty minutes in 584 regular season NHL games. Now, at 62, the former NHL enforcer finds himself fortunate enough to still reap the...
