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has 65 shots and no goals. He’s also got zero penalty minutes in 57 games. No one has ever done this. Only one other player has reached half a season with this combination: Pittsburgh’s Kevin Porter, who played 41 games in 2015-16. Chicago’sHopefully, Rieder and Nichushkin break those zeroes. No one needs that.
“What I remember,” Baldwin laughed, “was meeting in Montreal in the middle of the night with Bill Wirtz. I was younger than he was. At midnight I’m ready for bed. Bill was ready to go. At 4:00 a.m., he’s got ice in one glass, his drink in another.”Baldwin’s stories were fantastic. He felt the WHA was making progress towards a merger before the 1977-78 season, only to have NHL owners vote down a six-team move in June 1977.
“We decided to hit them hard again for certain players. We offered $175,000 for Rod Gilbert, praying he would say no. Then John Bassett made up his mind to create the ‘Baby Bulls’ — go after the underage juniors.” “Gretzky got the NHL back to the table,” Baldwin said. “They had to have him. For the vote, I had the Aetna private jet, ready to fly down to announce the deal. At 7:00 a.m., Ziegler called to tell me he didn’t get the votes. I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’ But Montreal and Vancouver said no. We were deeply disappointed. We were playing bullshit poker. We were dying.”What helped the WHA was massive pushback against Molson’s, which owned the Canadiens.
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