![]() ![]() The alumni (Shane Doan, Dave Ellett, Kris King, Jamie Macoun, Lanny McDonald and Thomas Steen) were great, too. ![]() “I cannot thank you enough,” Bettman said. The commissioner is rarely speechless, but this one got him. They held a statuette modelled after a stance from one of Fred’s hockey cards. In an unscheduled moment, Fred Sasakamoose - the first Canadian Indigenous player in NHL history - stepped on stage with his son, Neil. “This blanket represents … the strength of our grandmothers and our mothers.” “This is one of the highest honours we can bestow,” Bellegarde said. Tribal Chief Edmund Bellegarde presented Commissioner Gary Bettman, Winnipeg owner Mark Chipman and Calgary President & CEO John Bean with gorgeous “star blankets” in NHL, Jets and Flames colours, respectively. It started with a welcome luncheon featuring two exceptional presentations. The project was euthanized shortly thereafter. The last two games in hockey-mad Minneapolis - Buffalo/Islanders and New Jersey/Quebec - had crowds of 8,016 and 6,222. One month earlier, in the same city, the Panthers played Winnipeg in front of 6,291. Hamilton’s last date was between Florida and Toronto. Of the 50 match-ups, none was held on a Saturday, with just four on Sundays and seven on Fridays. (The other Canadian stop was Halifax, with three appearances.)Īccording to official NHL records, those games were played at 70 per cent of capacity. Cleveland, Minneapolis, Sacramento and Saskatoon had six. Hamilton got the most appearances, with eight. Future league locations Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Minnesota and Phoenix were involved. The NHL was a 24-team league in 1992–93 and a 26-team league in 1993–94. We just played the game and moved on to the next one.” “I remember we played in Milwaukee, Phoenix (twice) and Sacramento,” Hrudey said. Some of you might not be old enough to remember, but the 1992––94 seasons were expanded from 82 games to 84 so that each team could play twice in neutral cities. He replied, “It better not be the same as it was when I played.” I turned to Kelly Hrudey and said, “They should do a few neutral-site games per season.” ![]()
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