hipcheck wrote:
Bosc, how is a young man such as yourself so thoroughly engrained in the history
of this sport? I feel, to quote Razz, woefully inadequate, and feel you could correct me
on any number of facts concerning the history of the Bruins ( a team I have watched since my youth in the 70s and 80s)
I definitely wouldn't say thoroughly engrained
I haven't been around long(and following really closely even less because of my age) relative to the league(I'm not an Avs fan so the league did start prior to 1995) and there's a ton of history that I know nothing about, so it's something that I want learn a lot more about. So for a while I've started to go back and read some of the older biographies/autobiographies and books like In The Crease(Dick Irvin) on older events. I read a bunch on the NHLPA/NHL/Eagleson battles, and still have Game Misconduct to read by Russ Conway. There's not a ton of readily available video and many of the older books are out of print with the exception of classics like The Game by Ken Dryden. Used bookstores are awesome for finding out of print books, which is what I've been doing a lot of lately.
I wouldn't be able to correct you on stuff about the Bruins. You've followed em a lot longer and more closely than I have, that's for sure. Searching For Bobby Orr by Stephen Brunt is a good read. I don't have much else on the Bruins other than scattered anecdotes from various books, and stuff about the early years regarding the ownership from Net Worth. That's a must read.
I think pretty much all of the Legends of Hockey profiles are on youtube, and those are generally good watches.
...If you meant thoroughly engrained because of my title of "OTP Historian", that was to do with my ability to remember and pull out long forgotten posts, mostly on Razz