Posts About "Derek Sanderson"
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...
