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Everything went as planned . . . except . . .

“All the pucks were in storage and everything else was stacked on top of them,” McDonald said. “No one could get to them.”

It became a Hollywood story.

Saul Ilson, producer of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,” was at practice and remembered the puck given to him by Montreal Canadiens legend Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion.

“I called my office and told my assistant, ‘Bring that puck to Long Beach,’” Ilson said. “They went through practice with one puck. It would go into the seats and someone would go get it. It was kind of weird.”

Cowboy Flett, Chief Campbell, Frenchy Lemieux, those stuck. Eddie Joyal became Eddie “The Jet” Joyal, and Cooke took that even further. He insisted that Joyal have little jets on his skates during warmups.

“Eddie wasn’t going for that,” McDonald said. “They were gone three spins around the ice.”