I got this in an email today,seems we hear about the bad all the time so I thought this may be a good read for anyone down on the pro athlete these days....I researched it and its a true story.One I only heard about today,maybe its old news but still I think its a good read.....
Now THIS, is a real hockey story !
In the middle of a grueling six game road trip where a very young
hockey team is away from home, the third game of the trip ends late on a
cold Canadian Saturday night. This is the only break on the trip and the
three days between games allow them the only break to get back home in their
own beds for a couple of days before going back on the road. A scheduled
commercial flight waits for them at Toronto 's International Airport for the
short flight home. They could be home by midnight. This plane departs on
schedule, but without a single member of the hockey team on board.
Earlier, back in the locker room, a vote was taken after the game
and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and
stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on
a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a
journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada , but
where hockey is its passion.
They arrive at their destination to the surprise of the team's
general manager who is there attending his father's wake. After a few
emotional hours, this team boards the buses and head back for a two hour
trip back to Toronto . On the way they ask the bus drivers to stop in a tiny
Canadian town because they are hungry.
To the shock of the patrons and workers at this small hockey town
McDonald's, a professional team walks out of two rickety buses and into the
restaurant, which just happens to have pictures of two members of this team
on its wall. The patrons know every single one of these players by sight
being fanatic fans of hockey in these parts. One can only imagine the
amazement of the locals seeing an entire professional hockey team sit down
and have a meal in their tiny little town in the middle of a hockey season.
After a while they board the buses and catch their same flight, 24 hours
later, giving one day of their time to their general manager.
Have I made this up? Is this an excerpt from some fictional book?
No this a true story of the Chicago Blackhawks last Saturday night
and they decided to attend Dale Tallon's father's funeral. It's amazing that
such a good story can be found nowhere on the Internet, and not even
mentioned in the Chicago papers. Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight
and punched some drunken loser in a Toronto bar it would be plastered all
over papers and the television.
This being said, it's hard to imagine any professional football,
basketball or baseball team doing this, but the members of the Blackhawks
claim any "hockey" team would have done this. This is one reason I continue
to be a big hockey fan, and another reason I am excited about this Chicago
team. I thought I would share this story as it appears to have gone
unnoticed.
What a Great Hockey Story. Most of the players on the Team are
Canadian kids. Born and raised with the values that we all sometimes forget.
Remember that we are not all destined to play hockey in the NHL but we are
all destined to take pride in our Canadian way of life and the way we are
looked at for being respectful, polite, hardworking and most of all
HOCKEY FANS and HOCKEY PARENTS.
Now THIS, is a real hockey story !
In the middle of a grueling six game road trip where a very young
hockey team is away from home, the third game of the trip ends late on a
cold Canadian Saturday night. This is the only break on the trip and the
three days between games allow them the only break to get back home in their
own beds for a couple of days before going back on the road. A scheduled
commercial flight waits for them at Toronto 's International Airport for the
short flight home. They could be home by midnight. This plane departs on
schedule, but without a single member of the hockey team on board.
Earlier, back in the locker room, a vote was taken after the game
and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and
stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on
a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a
journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada , but
where hockey is its passion.
They arrive at their destination to the surprise of the team's
general manager who is there attending his father's wake. After a few
emotional hours, this team boards the buses and head back for a two hour
trip back to Toronto . On the way they ask the bus drivers to stop in a tiny
Canadian town because they are hungry.
To the shock of the patrons and workers at this small hockey town
McDonald's, a professional team walks out of two rickety buses and into the
restaurant, which just happens to have pictures of two members of this team
on its wall. The patrons know every single one of these players by sight
being fanatic fans of hockey in these parts. One can only imagine the
amazement of the locals seeing an entire professional hockey team sit down
and have a meal in their tiny little town in the middle of a hockey season.
After a while they board the buses and catch their same flight, 24 hours
later, giving one day of their time to their general manager.
Have I made this up? Is this an excerpt from some fictional book?
No this a true story of the Chicago Blackhawks last Saturday night
and they decided to attend Dale Tallon's father's funeral. It's amazing that
such a good story can be found nowhere on the Internet, and not even
mentioned in the Chicago papers. Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight
and punched some drunken loser in a Toronto bar it would be plastered all
over papers and the television.
This being said, it's hard to imagine any professional football,
basketball or baseball team doing this, but the members of the Blackhawks
claim any "hockey" team would have done this. This is one reason I continue
to be a big hockey fan, and another reason I am excited about this Chicago
team. I thought I would share this story as it appears to have gone
unnoticed.
What a Great Hockey Story. Most of the players on the Team are
Canadian kids. Born and raised with the values that we all sometimes forget.
Remember that we are not all destined to play hockey in the NHL but we are
all destined to take pride in our Canadian way of life and the way we are
looked at for being respectful, polite, hardworking and most of all
HOCKEY FANS and HOCKEY PARENTS.
