Hi everyone! I don’t know about you, but I’m definitely itching for some real NHL action. Pre-season games are nice, but let’s face it, unless someone gets illegally bludgeoned over the head and raises a stink on social media, the games are meaningless. After the free-agent frenzy of July, there really ain’t much going on the rest of the summer and early fall. It’s not like I’m expecting my Habs to do much of anything this year, but until we get a few weeks into the season, I can still only wonder if they are going to start the season like the 1970-71 Seals did. You know, go the first nine games without a win and basically playing themselves out of a playoff spot by Halloween.

So, this week, we are going back to Charlie Finley’s first season as Seals owner, and more precisely to that Halloween night I was alluding to. That was the night the Seals finally won a game, 6-1 over the Buffalo Sabres. The Seals launched 48 shots at the goaltending duo of Joe Daley and Roger Crozier, the latter of which had to take over after Daley took a puck to the head and needed a dozen or so stitches to close the gash. The win was the first of four straight for the Seals, who looked absolutely deadly for a very short while, but in the end, the playoffs simply weren’t in the cards. You can read about the Seals’ big night right here.

Hope you have yourselves a great weekend! Until next time, stay gold!