Hi everyone! The day is getting closer! In exactly two months and one day (January 20, 2022), my new book, When the NHL Invaded Japan: the Washington Capitals, the Kansas City Scouts, and the Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Cup, 1975-76, will be released. That means I should probably start shilling and promoting my baby, so here goes. Click on this link to find a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the book, not to mention a few links to places where you can pre-order it. If you liked my first book, I think you will find this new tome an interesting read as well. The book covers the Scouts and Capitals’ first two years in the NHL, but in actuality, the book is about the mysterious Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Cup. To fully understand how the little-known Japanese mini-series came to be, one must start at the very beginning of these two franchises, even going a little further back to the NHL’s earliest forays into expansion. The NHL picked a very bad time to expand into Washington and Kansas City. The World Hockey Association had already pillaged and plundered the New York Islanders in 1972, and the rebel league continued to wreak havoc on the NHL when the Scouts and Capitals prepared for the 1974 expansion draft. The slim pickings at their disposal sent the NHL newbies on a two-year roller-coaster ride that culminated in the four-game set of games in Tokyo and Sapporo.

As I was thinking of what I could add to the site this week, I realized I had forgotten two very important statistics sections pertaining to the San Francisco Seals. First, there is the WHL Seals’ all-time scoring and goaltending stats, and then there is the club’s year-by-year scoring and goaltending stats. Can’t believe I never got around to posting them until now, especially since they were all ready to go just sitting there in a computer folder since something like 2019. Whoops!

So that’s the update for this week. Have a great weekend, and get some hockey under your belts! Until next time, stay gold!