[infidel29]

I agree that his coaching career was less than stellar, but sometimes a person's worth to a cause, or in this case a sport, cannot be measured in statistics.

Anyone who played for Herb had nothing but good things to say about him as a coach and a person, he was a great teacher of the game and I see more reason for him to be in the Hof than not.

Personal feelings of course.

[Alberta's Child]

I just finished reading one of the best sports books I've ever read -- The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey. It's a comprehensive account of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, with detailed player profiles presented within a minute-by-minute account of the game against the Soviet Union.

There's no open animosity shown because the book was written soon after Brooks died in 2003 (in fact, the book opens with the scene at his funeral), but the reader really comes away with a sense that many of those players really hated Brooks. I know from personal experience that he was pretty unstable and quite neurotic.