Hi everyone! Well, it’s now been three weeks since sports came to a sad and sudden end, and we’re still here. It’s been nice to be able to catch up on some NHL classics on Sportsnet. I got to watch Ron Tugnutt’s 70-save masterpiece against Boston from 1991, a game I remember hearing about the next day, but had never seen. I also got to see the 1980 All-Star game which featured Reggie Leach and Gilles Meloche. I’ve got an ’82 Vancouver Canucks-Chicago Black Hawks game as well as game six of the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals on tap in the next few days, so I’m looking forward to those. Still, they are not the same as watching a game where you don’t already know the outcome ahead of time.
In this week’s blast from the past we’ve added a new piece on Gary Smith’s tough game on March 2, 1969, in which the Seals blew a 4-1 lead to Philadelphia and ended up in a 4-4 tie. You can find this week’s article, as usual, in the Seals/Barons articles section.
And in a brand new Overexposed, we’re featuring Tom Kurvers in either the most selfish or the most depressing moment of his life. It’s a card whose background story is arguably more confounding than an episode of Tiger King. Or maybe I’m once again just reading way too much into a simple early 90s hockey card. I leave it up to you to look at the evidence right here and decide for yourself.
Before you go, be sure to vote for the player or players you feel deserve to be inducted into the Seals Hall of Fame for 2020. You can vote up to three times per device and the voting will continue into early July like we’ve always done here at Golden Seals Hockey.
WordPress has also made a long-awaited and much appreciated update to its parameters and functions, so this site is just about back to where it was before the unpleasantness occurred before Christmas, which made updating this site a real ordeal. That being said, you can once again subscribe to this site to receive this kind of update each and every week! Go ahead and sign up right now by typing in your e-mail address over on the right-hand side of the page. It’s free and it’s fun! Besides, it’s not like you’ll be going out to the restaurant, the opera or Disneyworld today or anytime soon, so go ahead, sign up! I promise you won’t regret it!
Until next time, stay safe and stay gold!