To: george76
Loved him as a Red Wing.
He, and Bob Probert were brothers in trouble.
Some of the early building blocks of an impressive hockey organization.
I believe he was the first player to come from behind the old Soviet Block countries.
Czech Republic if memory serves.
8 posted on
05/05/2023 4:05:29 AM PDT by
MotorCityBuck
(Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
To: MotorCityBuck
The defection of the Stastny brothers from Czechoslovakia to Canada in the late 1970s was the one that made the history books.
Peter Stastny later became the answer to a great trivia question: Who was the #2 scorer in the NHL during the 1980s (after Wayne Gretzky)?
9 posted on
05/05/2023 5:28:46 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
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