This Day In Hockey History (8/29)

Posted by on Aug 29, 2011 22:16

As we cleaned up the mud, muck and debris from Hurricane Irene, we take a look at what happened today years ago.  Today’s moment does come from 17 years ago and illustrates why some athletes just should never take health for granted.  Anyway, here is the video and moment as we always do it here on “This Day in Hockey History”. 

 

 

August 29, 1994

Pittsburgh’s Mario Lemieux announced that he would sit out the 1994-95 NHL season, due to fatigue from his previous illnesses. He returned in 1995-96 and won the NHL’s Ross Trophy as the league’s leading scorer.

 

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This Day In Hockey History (8/29)

Posted by on Aug 29, 2010 18:15

This moment happened 36 years ago today and did not seem much at the time but later it would prove to be.  Now here is the story.

 

 

August 29, 1974

St. Louis Blues traded Greg Polis to the NY Rangers, in exchange for Larry Sacharuk and the Rangers’ first choice in 1977 Amateur Draft. The draft choice was later returned to N.Y. in acquisition of Derek Sanderson on October 30, 1975.

About Chris Wassel

Simply I am a sports writer whose first loves will always be hockey and food. As we attempt to fix the site which has fallen into some disrepair (okay a lot), any and all help is always appreciated. For now, everything will channel through on a post by post basis. As always, let's have some fun!

This Day In Hockey History (8/29)

Posted by on Aug 29, 2009 15:00

BallHype: hype it up!

Saturday on This Day and we have a strange trade that involves compensation and probably a heavy amount of alcohol consumed. To think this happened in the mid 70’s. Cue up Leisure Suit Larry and let’s hit the Time Warp too.



And yet after this…he became a Ranger later.

August 29, 1974

St. Louis Blues traded Greg Polis to the NY Rangers, in exchange for Larry Sacharuk and the Rangers’ first choice in 1977 Amateur Draft. The draft choice was later returned to N.Y. in acquisition of Derek Sanderson on October 30, 1975.

About Chris Wassel

Simply I am a sports writer whose first loves will always be hockey and food. As we attempt to fix the site which has fallen into some disrepair (okay a lot), any and all help is always appreciated. For now, everything will channel through on a post by post basis. As always, let's have some fun!

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