Keith Magnuson
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“You should know. You got your typewriter back”—ibid.
“I can’t count the number of times Stapleton convinced Maggie”—Mikita and Verdi, p. 115.
“Once a week [Stapleton] would tell Magnuson he was traded”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 11-1-79.
“Pat and I just seemed to click right away”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Blackhawks website, “The Verdict: Bill White Was a Defensive Stalwart, Prankster,” 12-22-10.
“He was tall and he had long arms”—Chuck O’Donnell, Hockey Digest, December 1996, p. 78.
“You could feel it starting to build”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 11.
“Usually I’m one of the first to congratulate Tony”—Mark Mulvoy and Gary Ronberg, Sports Illustrated, 4-6-70.
“Really, all that hurts is my lips”—ibid.
“The battle for the Cup returns to Chicago”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 3-30-70.
“The perfect cerebral and grounded half”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 12-18-03.
“Not that we never had differences”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 175.
“Until I finally kicked him out”—Neil Milbert, Chicago Tribune, 12-17-03.
“If you looked around, you’d see those lists”—Dan Ralph, Toronto Star, 12-17-03.
“It was if we had to win every night just to keep pace”—Verdi, p. 84.
“Fans, starved for hockey as they used to know it”—Mark Mulvoy and Gary Ronberg, Sports Illustrated, 4-6-70.
“Magnuson was playing spirited, flawless hockey”—ibid.
“It is interesting that in a hockey town like Boston”—Phil Elderkin, The Sporting News, 4-25-70.
“‘I had a date with Jackie tonight,’”—Mark Mulvoy and Gary Ronberg, Sports Illustrated, 4-6-70.
“Sanderson was a classic example”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 62.
“You have to know Derek”—Cheevers and Frayne, p. 8.
“Every day the Bruins are Page One stuff”—Leo Monahan, The Sporting News, 5-9-70.
“The Golden Jet has seemed to have lost his zip”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 5-9-70.
“If you were lucky enough”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 12-18-03.
CHAPTER 4
“Pat Stapleton came up to me”—Luis Fernando Llosa, Sports Illustrated, 3-1-99.
“Our best game of the season”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 11-12-70.
“The hero of the masses was Keith Magnuson”—ibid.
“No one could believe it when my first punch landed”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 175.
“A dynamite six-inch jab”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 12-5-70.
“You don’t see many like it”—ibid.
“Never before or since have a really injured a player”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 31.
“Maggie’s goal brought out a volume of cheers”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 11-12-70.
“Heiskala’s career as an enforcer”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 71.
“Off the ice, Magnuson’s bridgework gleams”—Time magazine, 1-11-71.
“Magnuson [has] set about establishing himself”—Dan Moulton, The Sporting News, 12-19-70.
“For the first time in memory”—John Ahern, Boston Globe, 12-2-70.
“Many of the fights he had”—Pat Foley, interview with author, 10-19-12.
“Last week the Bruins won 3–2”—John Ahern, Boston Globe, 12-2-70.
“He [Magnuson] does a lot.”—ibid.
“He likes to play it rough and he provides a spark”—ibid.
“With 10 seconds left, no matter who’s ahead”—Cheevers and Frayne, p. 65.
“If you’re going to play in this league”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 13.
“We insisted that our players get World Series tickets”—Dan Stoneking, The Sporting News, 11-4-72.
“Keith Magnuson, the robust Chicago defenseman”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 2-6-71.
“Magnuson, who was greeted by a loud round of boos”—Kevin Walsh, Boston Globe, 1-20-71.
“There wasn’t much hitting out there”—ibid.
“It is important to remember about Keith”—Jim Wiste, interview with author, 9-5-12.
“I sure can’t complain about most of the fights”—Dan Moulton, The Sporting News, 12-19-70.
“I know I haven’t played well this season”—Leo Monahan, The Sporting News, 5-15-71.
“We had let them win one”—Hull, p. 92.
“Chicago isn’t an easy rink for a visiting goaltender”—Ken Dryden, Canadiens Magazine, vol. 22 (1), p. 31—as quoted in Denault, p. 62.
“For 20 minutes this afternoon”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 5-10-71.
“Destroyed the rhythm”—ibid.
“If Magnuson had retaliated”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 5-11-71.
“Spent most of the game anchored to the bench”—Denault, p. 67.
“The worst he ever had”—Bill Brennan, The Sporting News, 6-5-71.
“With the French-speaking Henri”—Denault, p. 68.
“The temperature outside the Stadium”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“Was on the ice for seven of the first 10 minutes”—Joyce, p. 22.
“Mr. Hull, one day I’ll play against you”—ibid., pp. 24–25.
“I remember looking over to the Canadiens’ bench”—ibid., p. 34.
“Uncorked a booming slapshot”—Denault, p. 68.
“Through a humid haze which hung over the ice”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“Carried high into the net”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“It was the strangest goal I have ever scored”—Joyce, p. 39.
“I spent both intermissions praying”—Paul King, Canadian magazine (Toronto Star insert), 12-11-71.
“When Rejean got the puck to me”—Tom Fitzgerald, Boston Globe, 5-19-71.
“I didn’t see Richard”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“I made a move toward Esposito with the stick”—Tom Fitzgerald, Boston Globe, 5-19-71.
“Stan was as good as Wayne Gretzky with the puck”—Hull, p. 92.
“The Canadiens clung to their slender lead”—Bill Brennan, The Sporting News, 6-5-71.
“The best of the 10 Stanley Cups I’ve won”—Dan Proudfoot, Toronto Globe and Mail, 5-19-71.
“We played with confidence because he had confidence in us”—Joyce, p. 26.
“I never saw a goaltender”—Denault, p. 69.
“They gave everything they had”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“I’m mighty proud of this team”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“The Hawks lost this game and the Cup by inches”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“I still wake up at night, wishing it was a nightmare”—Verdi, p. 98.
“You come across something like that seventh game”—Joe Falls, The Sporting News, 6-5-71.
“A play which brought from Keith Magnuson”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 5-19-71.
“You get to know all its moods, its lights and shadows”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 170.
“I suddenly realized that part of being a true professional”—ibid., p. 43.
Chapter 5
“Milk, a bowl of clam chowder”—Paul King, Canadian magazine (Toronto Star insert), 12-11-71.
“If you leave your label on a guy convincingly enough”—Robert Bradford, Signature magazine, March 1973.
“Slumped leeward and was saved from complete collapse”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 11-25-71.
“With cuts over both eyes that bridged the nose”—ibid.
“Keith even won the debate in the penalty box”—ibid.
“The greatest corner-man in the league”—Cheevers and Frayne, p
. 65.
“The Bruins are gangfighters, or at least they used to be”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 1-1-72.
“At least with this rule, we know who the fighters are”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 3-25-72.
“It’s a term we use to describe those”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 25.
“As a fighter it was way better fighting at home”—Bernstein, p. 39.
“Let me tell you about Chicago”—Cheevers and Frayne, pp. 33-34.
“Back then, we never socialized off the ice”—Chuck O’Donnell, Hockey Digest, December 1996.
“In 1974, after the season, I had to fly to Detroit”—Rick Morrissey, Chicago Tribune, 12-17-03.
“I was shocked by the whole thing”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 1-26-72.
“The [local newspapers] treat hockey”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 2-5-72.
“A sophisticated team”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 165
“Did Chicago’s management at least buy a beer for Bobby?”—Dan Stoneking, The Sporting News, 4-8-72.
“If Winnipeg makes a sensational offer”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 4-22-72.
“To be sure, Chicago owner Wirtz won’t let Robert slip”—Dan Stoneking, The Sporting News, 4-8-72.
“Gives every decent player in the NHL”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 168.
“When Hull was setting scoring records”—Joyce, p. 59.
“Ten or 15 years ago”—Joyce, p. 63.
“He has been the most glamorous shiny ambassador”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 4-22-72.
“The players even said they’d give up a little bit of their salary”—Hull, p. 103.
“[Cliff] Koroll thinks that if we had won the cup in 1971”—Mikita and Verdi, p. 119.
“For a true professional”—Magnuson and Bradford, pp. 165–166.
“That irresistible wink and magnetic grin”—ibid., pp. 166–167.
“Bobby is like that wherever we play”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 4-22-72.
“I’ve never seen him turn his back on a kid”—ibid.
“A year ago, Sanderson held out for $40,000”—Ted Damata, Chicago Tribune, 10-23-72.
“The World Hockey Association is banking on the premise”—ibid.
“Billy made sure that nobody thought”—Hull, p. 91.
“In the NHL, they treat you like cattle”—(Bob Verdi, special to The Sporting News, 8-11-73.
“I don’t care if he signed with a team in China”—Joyce, p. 101.
“His objections to [Clarence] Campbell’s”—ibid.
“Sinden, who had privately wished to have Hull”—ibid., p. 102.
“One of those rare shared moments in the history of a country”—Denault, p. 115.
“After the excitement of the just-concluded Summit Series”—ibid., p. 116.
“Pat and I were on the ice when Henderson scored”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Blackhawks.NHL.com, “The Verdict: Bill White Was a Defensive Stalwart, Prankster,” 12-22-10.
“Magnuson flexed his muscles early”—Chicago Tribune (no author), 9-24-72.
“My first meeting with Magnuson was typical”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 71.
“I drove him in the mouth with my right”—ibid.
“I felt I had to prove myself”—ibid.
“Magnuson is just so busy all the time”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 4-11-70.
“I have no doubt that Bobby Hull took more physical punishment”—Joyce, p. 28.
“Hull threw Fleming around like a bale of hay”—Joyce, p. 236.
“Hull and Fleming reprised the roles”—ibid.
“A few times I’ve had to slow down”—Magnuson and Bradford, pp. 147–148.
“We’d be creeping along, trying to hit it”—Podnieks, pp. 120–121.
“I hit another car on a freeway”—Paul King, Canadian magazine (Toronto Star insert), 12-11-71.
“One day, he walked into the apartment”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune Magazine, 11-20-77.
“When they moved in last year”—Paul King, Canadian magazine (Toronto Star insert), 12-11-71.
“A minute later, in the center of a stadium”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 3-15-73.
“I haven’t won that many, have I?”—ibid.
“The Rangers, Bruins and Black Hawks had better win”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 5-26-73.
“The rivalry ensured the series would be hotly contested”—Mark Magnuson, interview with author, 5-20-12.
“Keith left hours early for the Stadium that day”—ibid.
“You could hear it reverberate throughout the old stadium”—Chuck O’Donnell, Hockey Digest, December 1996.
“You couldn’t hurt that kid’s head with an axe”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 43
“It was a five-on-three and it saved a goal”—Barry Rozner, Arlington Heights (IL) Daily Herald, 12-17-03.
“I thought I could be playing a week and a half ago”—Nolan Zavoral, Milwaukee Journal, 5-4-73.
“He reminded me a lot of Glenn Hall”—Mikita and Verdi, p. 112.
Chapter 6
“There’s no excuse for one of the sport’s richest franchises”—Stan Fischler, The Sporting News, 8-18-73.
“He was a gentleman”—Bob Verdi, special to The Sporting News, 8-11-73.
“The No. 1 order of business is getting Stan Mikita”—ibid.
“Able bodies who like Chicago”—ibid.
“Howatt is small”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 83.
“Magnuson said afterward that the brawl”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 12-16-73.
“I grew up on the thin edge of poverty”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 23.
“I wanted no part of that rough stuff”—ibid., pp. 30-31.
“I used to hear stories from opposing players”—Bernstein, p. 44.
“Intimidation went both ways, though”—ibid.
“So many clubs are tough only in their own rinks”—Jack Chevalier, The Sporting News, 3-16-74.
“I believe referees get up for certain games”—ibid.
“So, if you were a goal scorer”—Bernstein, p. 46.
“It wasn’t just two or three guys”—ibid., p. 45.
“If it’s pretty skating the people want”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 74.
“We lose as many fights as we win”—Jack Chevalier, The Sporting News, 3-16-74.
“If I hadn’t learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while”—Bernstein, p. 9.
“If ever a player led by inspiration”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 116.
“The unwritten rule was that he could dish out”—ibid.
“At times employing it in a manner of an infantryman”—ibid., p. 118.
“Any penalty involving the illegal use of the stick”—ibid., p. 196.
“It is an indisputable fact that Clarke”—ibid., p. 118.
“Bobby Clarke is a very dirty hockey player”—ibid., 119.
“My double triumph over so significant a foe”—ibid., p. 72.
“He showed me something by going down and helping out”—Dan Stoneking, The Sporting News, 1-19-74.
“How in hell do you sons of bitches ever win a hockey game?”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 127.
“I didn’t do that to get things going necessarily”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 4-24-74.
“A lot of people ask me if I’m bothered”—Gary Mueller, The Sporting News, 11-9-74.
“The fight and the goal not only gave us a win”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 78.
“You just can’t get behind that team”—Gary Mueller, The Sporting News, 11-9-74.
“Overall, this is the most solid team we’ve had”—ibid.
“Long ago I gave up counting the stitches”—Magnuson and Bra
dford, p. 1.
“Almost all hockey players have missing teeth”—Magnuson and Bradford, p. 140.
“Tangled with a lot of noted pugilists”—ibid.
“Don’t worry—you’ll find her”—ibid., p. 158.
“If you’re a pro athlete”—Paul King, Canadian magazine (Toronto Star insert), 12-11-71.
“I remember Maggie phoned me”—Dave Feschuk, Toronto Star, 12-21-03.
“That shows you the character and perseverance”—ibid.
“I’ve been lucky”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune Magazine, 11-20-77.
“By far the best start of Magnuson’s six-year fistic career”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 9-30-74.
“I was still talking when they started punching”—Toronto Star (no author), 9-30-74.
“It’s a long season, and we’ll get Magnuson”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 12-16-74.
“In the NHL jungle, an enforcer learns”—Schultz and Fischler, p. 78.
“Magnuson scored early”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 12-29-74.
“There were no takers”—Bob Verdi, Chicago Tribune, 12-29-74.
“The players don’t back each other up”—Gary Mueller, The Sporting News, 2-15-75.
“That might not be a very good thing to tell your own fans”—ibid.
“On the ice in the National Hockey League”—John Clayton, Beaver County (PA) Times, 2-18-75.
“You can’t score if you don’t get the puck”—ibid.
“I don’t care how much the league tries to suspend the players for fighting”—ibid.
“This league isn’t like it used to be in pre-expansion days”—Gary Mueller, The Sporting News, 4-5-75.
“There’s no way a wing can keep from scoring”—Dan Moulton, The Sporting News, 11-4-72.
“Billy Reay would instruct me and Maggie”—Phil Russell, interview with author, 10-29-12.
“I remember Stan Mikita asking Ted Lindsay”—ibid.
“The NHL will continue to be plagued by a split personality”—Ray Kennedy, Sports Illustrated, 11-17-75.
“I don’t think we need any of his legislation”—Toronto Star, 10-30-75.
Chapter 7
“Come contract time and all they talk about is the goals”—Gary Mueller, The Sporting News, 11-22-75.
“It just proves that against supposedly easier teams”—ibid.
“He was my first partner when I came to Chicago”—Tim Sassone, Arlington Heights (IL) Daily Herald, 11-12-08.