Nobody – not Wayne Gretzky, not Phil Esposito, not Alex Ovechkin – would equal Mike Bossy's scoring run of nine straight 50-goal years. An Islanders legend, Bossy died on Friday. He was 65. SportsnetSpec tells us why Bossy was such an elite talent.
The night Mike Bossy so famously joined the 50-in-50 club, he was only the second player in National Hockey League history to accomplish the feat of scoring 50 goals in his team’s first 50 games of the season.
"Boss," as those who knew him called the Hockey Hall of Fame right winger, died Friday after a long battle with lung cancer. He had been a heavy smoker in his early years, in a time when players would step outside the dressing room for a between-periods cigarette.teammate Brent Sutter. “A phenomenal player, a phenomenal person.”
“I texted him then,” said Sutter, whose older brother Duane “Dog” Sutter was also an Islanders teammate. “My nickname was Pup. And Boss said, ‘Yeah, Pup, I’m in the fight in my life right now.’” “On his stick, off his stick,” marvelled Coffey. “He didn't have a piercing shot like a Brett Hull, or even Guy Lafleur. But I don’t think Mike ever missed the net.”
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