Hi everyone! After one hell of a bad week for the National Hockey League (I’m looking at you Mike Babcock, Bill Peters, and Sutter brothers), it’s time to put all that negativity aside for just a while. The revelations from the past few days have been shocking to say the least. They remind me a little of some of the stories I’ve heard about Bert Olmstead when he was coaching the Seals: skating the players so hard they would puke, locking the players in the dressing room so they couldn’t go home for Thanksgiving. And what about those old Eddie Shore tales we’ve all heard. Players being forced to undergo painful massages and medical experiments from “Doctor” Shore, not to mention tying goaltenders to the net, but I may be confusing that story with the first Mighty Ducks movie. It’s been a long week, what can I say. Either way, it’s about time some of these old coaching practices get put out to pasture.

This week, I’ve posted a brand new-ish article from just this month. I say it is new-ish because it is a reposting of a March 1971 article about the night the expansion Vancouver Canucks ran roughshod over our Seals and established a team record with 11 goals. The Seals would get their revenge two years later, however, when the set a team record of their own, beating the Canucks 11-3. To read the piece head on over to the articles section. Thanks to Pete Manzolillo for making me aware that the article even existed!

Just to let you all know, I will be away from my computer most of next week due to the impending birth of my daughter. My wife is going in for a scheduled C-section this Monday, and I’ll be in and out of the hospital the next few days afterward, not to mention up to my elbows in baby poop and pee, so there won’t be an update until the following week, but rest assured I haven’t forgotten about all of you.

Until next time, stay gold!