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twelve golden threads (1997) - aliske webb

“why would you willingly live in utah”

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My Obnoxiously Long Analysis of Danny Torrance and Richie Tozier

I have thought about this particular analysis for a while, and this has been a really fun thing to write, but at the same time, I feel like I am missing a large part of the story because I am struggling to figure out why? I know these characters are connected in some way, that part is obvious, but I am unsure of the significance. Why are these two characters so similar yet so different? This isn’t a case of the Stephen King self-insert where every male lead is an author but grew up in a weird place and lost a family member that causes him great distress even in his adult life (looking at you, Bill Denbrough and Gordie LaChance). The case of these two characters is different, as their personalities and lives are so different as to not have them be carbon-copies of each other, but at the same time they share so many traits and they have this connection that is interesting to me (though not as interesting anymore, thank you so much, Mike Flanagan).

First, I will talk about the gifs, since I think that’s probably the best place to begin. That quote by Dick Hallorann is so, so interesting to me because it directly relates back to It. Towards the end of the book, Richie recalls a very distinct moment when Bill killed a mosquito that was on the back of Richie’s neck, and he talks a bit about it and how bugs were often drawn to them (though he uses pheromones as an example). Leeches are also mentioned quite descriptively in It as well, them being Patrick Hockstetter’s fear and what kills him in the book. The other gifs are mainly a visual comparison, as I think that the way those two moments were carried out was pretty interesting. I was going to make another visual comparison with the weird cloudy eye effect that both films utilize very well, but that part in It: Chapter Two with Richie does make me pretty uncomfortable. In both movies, essentially, characters’ eyes get clouded over when they get into someone else’s head: Danny Torrance does this to Rose the Hat, while It does it to Richie.

To start off, both Richie and Danny grew up as only children in a family where they had close relationships with their parents despite them having a hard time understanding their children. They both felt closer to their mothers, as their fathers were often busy with work; both Maggie and Wendy seemed to ensure that Richie and Danny grew up with strong moral values, and both of the children were affected greatly when their mothers died. As children, they are forced into an environment where they deal with a supernatural evil, though they are not in any real danger unlike other characters until the end of the story (when Jack chases Danny and when Richie and the other Losers fight It for the first time); all other times, they mainly see things that make them aware of the danger that is present. Notice that with Richie, unlike the other Losers, is not physically affected by It really at any point. This is very different from how It works with the others because that danger is still there even after the event has passed. The blood in Beverly’s bathroom is still there even after she leaves and goes back. But with Richie, in the park, he is able to make the danger go away, he puts those glasses back on and everything goes back to normal (the others physically run away from the danger, but Richie is psychologically running away from it by telling himself it isn’t real). Anyway, this event stays with them long after they’ve grown up and moved far away from the place where the trauma occurred: Richie moved from Maine to California (Chicago in the film) while Danny moved from Colorado to Florida (later to New Hampshire). They then, turn to drugs and/or alcohol, which is said in Doctor Sleep to sort of repress the ability to shine and keep those negative past memories at bay; Richie seems to lean more towards drugs than alcohol, and vice versa for Danny. When they are 40, they are drawn back to the place where they were mainly abused as children and are able to use their abilities to destroy the evil thing finally before returning back home to their pets and their co-workers that they have weirdly close relationships with and all is good. That's essentially their main stories, but I'm also going to talk about a few specific connections that I think are cool to see.

Both Danny and Richie use their hands as the main source of their shining abilities. This is not obvious with Richie in the movie, but it is for Danny with him and Tony. However! In the book, Richie's main goal in life as a child is to become- of all things- a ventriloquist. You know, a person that uses their hands a lot like how Danny does to make it look like Tony is more than just a voice. Speaking of voices, that's Richie's main thing. Who is to say all those voices aren't like Tony in that they're a personification of the shining? (more on this below) This is also a connection between the two because neither of them is particularly good at doing voices, they essentially still just sound like themselves; this doesn't mean that those voices don't represent other people, though, even if they do come out of Danny's and Richie's mouths. The whole hands thing also works for the other members of the Losers Club, with each of the Losers relying on their hands for their jobs, just like Danny, who, in Doctor Sleep, is mentioned as being a janitor before becoming an orderly at a hospice (I would classify him more as an unregistered nurse, as he does say he’s had medical training). Hands and arms in general play huge roles in these two stories, which I think sort of puts the nail in the coffin of this argument. As a child, Danny Torrance gets his arm broken by his father, which is the moment when he starts talking to his imaginary friend/personification of the shining, Tony. While nothing huge happens to Richie’s arms in the book or movie, I would go as far to say (I am aware this goes off-topic, but bear with me here) that in the hierarchy of who shines the brightest of the Losers, Eddie is up there since not only does he get his arm broken twice in the book, it’s also what causes him to die because he gets his good arm bitten off and he bleeds to death. Eddie in his final moments is so strange to me, and I think the reason why that is is that he physically cannot shine. His only arm left is broken. Of course, It would want to take that away from him because it’s aware that Eddie has the ability to kill it.

Both Danny and Richie rely on the guidance of an old (dead) friend to keep them on the correct path. For Danny, this is Dick Hallorann, as he appears in Doctor Sleep to guide Danny to return back to the hotel. For Richie, this is Stanley, as a memory of Stan keeps Richie from going back home.

Both Danny and Richie are able to form a connection with the dead/dying. For Richie, he's mostly connected to those who have already died, while Danny seems to help more with people who are dying. I mostly noticed this in It after realizing the voices of people (rather than original characters) Richie seems to do more often- Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, and Pancho Vanilla (based on Pancho Villa, the Mexican general)- are all people who have died before 1958. I like to imagine that this is just Richie flexing with his shining ability and him being able to form those connections with those people by taking their voices and making them his own. Notice that in the book, “voices” is usually capitalized, as if it represents something a lot more important than just a kid doing an impression.

Both Danny and Richie have confusing relationships with others, specifically their bosses. This is more a personal thing rather than a fact, but I have realized that these characters do have rather strange relationships with others. With Danny, he meets Billy after taking a bus to New Hampshire, and Billy gives him a job and a place to stay. They become fast friends, though I mainly attribute this to their shared ability to shine (yes, of course, I’m going to mention that Danny often sings along to YMCA while working). Danny eventually tells Billy about what’s going on with the missing kids, and Billy is just unusually calm with the situation and agrees to go with him to Idaho to find Bradley’s glove. With Richie, however, I would say the strange coworker comes in the form of Steve, who is his manager in both the book and the movie. Obviously, if you have never been to my blog before, I really like Steve. He’s a fun character to look at not only because of the way he interacts with Richie but because I am willing to bet that that’s who Richie ends up with (at least, in the movie, since that was the plan in the 2010 script). Like Danny with Billy, Richie wants to tell Steve about the crazy stuff that’s happening, if he remembered what happened at all. I know this isn’t really a good explanation for the comparison between Danny and Richie, but I feel like their relationships with Billy and Steve are just really interesting and something that stuck out to me in the books and the movies.

Of course, now, I feel like I need to justify all of this. I need to come up with some reason why these two characters are connected and why I felt the need to write all of this garbage. And for the longest time, I didn’t know why. I didn’t know why these two characters stick out so much in this universe.

And then I rewatched It: Chapter Two.

Richie sticks out the most in that movie because of the way he acts is so different from the others. He feels distant, almost. From the minute I see him on screen I am able to look at him and say “that’s Richie”, but at the same time he feels so different to me, as someone who has looked at this character for a long time to try and dissect him. In his opening scene, for one, unlike all of the others, Richie gets a moment on stage where he stares out blankly and he hears these voices, memories from his past (I don’t remember the exact things they said, but essentially they were the voices of himself, Stanley, Eddie, and Henry). That sticks out to me so much because he is the only character that that happens to, even after he drank a glass of bourbon like a minute beforehand (of course, this also can sort of be explained as the shining is dulled by alcohol, not always taken away completely). To be honest, all of the Losers tend to turn to alcohol when faced with stressful memories throughout the movie. But it wasn’t until later that I realized that Richie was seen differently by the Losers. In the Neibolt House, I feel like the Losers tend to somewhat overreact when it comes to Richie after being attacked by the spider-Stanley (like… when Eddie broke his arm, most of them were focused more on Pennywise rather than helping Eddie). And later after Eddie got stabbed, he looks to Richie as if Richie is going to help him.

This goes back to my hierarchy statement before, but essentially, what I’m getting at is that Richie shines the most. Like… Danny Torrance levels of shine. That’s why they are connected. It’s shown in Doctor Sleep that those who shine the most tend to connect to each other, so who’s to say that Danny didn’t know about Richie? In my hierarchy, by the way, I would say that the order of who shines the most would be: Richie, Stanley, Eddie, Beverly, Bill, Mike, and then Ben. Of course, this would bring up the issue of “if Richie shined the most, then why didn’t the Turtle talk to him instead of Bill?”, and that can just simply be put down to the fact that Bill is the leader. That came to be not because of his shining, but rather simply because of the way he looked; the other Losers (I believe it was either Eddie or Richie) mention that they look up to Bill, mainly because he is taller and stronger and more handsome. Why would the Turtle go to Richie for help with this when Richie has been running away from himself his whole life? Bill was the logical reason because he could lead them in a way that Richie never did.

Overall, I feel like both Richie and Danny have these super similar qualities that are hard to ignore. I love both of these characters, so writing this long piece of garbage was a lot of fun. It was also fun to rewatch these movies and see that there is just this big connection that is there for fans of the books, so I am dying to see where it goes. It feels like they are waiting for The Dark Tower to bring them together with the mentions of the Turtle and Ka and space and all of that, but I feel like a whole new story would be really interesting as well. Plus, you know, I am dying to see a teenaged Abra trying to explain to shining to Richie.

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OK, which members of The Losers Club survive the Captain Trips plague from The Stand?

You gotta be logical about this & look through King’s eyes! LOVE THIS ASK! My sister ( @m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog) & I discuss this a lot! 

What I get out of ‘IT’ is that the town of Derry was created by IT as a breeding ground for food. Whereas The Losers were created by The Turtle.They were each given a special trait (like Eddie’s navigational skills, Ben’s Building etc.)

Now, I firmly believe that Stan’s trait is The Shining. I think he’s the only Loser to fully have it. You can see it show itself many times in the novel, in the way he just knows things 

Why does this matter? Well, it’s that the people who have The Shining are the ones who survived the plague of Captain Trips. This is implied by a quote from Mother Abagail: 

“I started having dreams two years before this plague ever fell. I’ve always dreamed, and sometimes my dreams have come true. Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it. My own grandmother used to call it the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine…..” - ‘The Stand’

SO, who in the club survives? STAN. 100% because he’s fully got The Shining. 

BUT who else? Well, while I don’t believe he’s got the Shining like Stan, Bill lives. Why? Because he’s King’s Golden Boy! Bill is Stephen’s BIG HERO in ‘IT’ & his self insert. Very reminiscent of his character types like Gordie Lachance and Stu Redman. SO, Bill’s gotta live. King would 100% have him stick around to be that golden hero child. 

AND just for fun…Eddie Kaspbrak! BECAUSE how funny. Captain Trips would be Eddie’s worst freaking nightmare. This is more of a funny add on for me.Eddie would THINK he has the flu & would spend a majority of the early days convincing himself that he’s dying. Recreating the symptoms etc. How funny! A cycle of self-created torture for our boy! HA! 

As for Bev, Mike & Ben….they get the flu. I’m sorry. If you wanna go logically….that’s how I think things would go down. POOR FRICKIN’ BEN. That MAN would be devastated during the days watching his loved ones die. I don’t wanna think about it. 

What happens to Richie? Oh, he dies during the 2nd epidemic! Accidental deaths / death by association. A great chapter in The Stand that talks of the people who die from other factors caused by the plague. One of my favorite parts.

Richie dies by something like getting locked in somewhere or a car crash, idk. 

This is just my 2 cents. 

I think it’s 100% that Stan lives. Bill has gotta live just cause King would write it that way.

Everyone else is up in the air but would most likely….die. 

Those who live, have to be the ‘Shiniest’ you could say. 

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Stan Uris!

You sent this to my Bobby Blog! LOL

STANIEL

This is payback for Dinger, right?

a song that reminds me of them

Mad World - Tears for Fears

what they smell like

campfires and nature!

an otp

I guess Bill?

a notp

any of the bowers gang

favorite platonic/familial relationships

I kinda love his relationship with all of the Losers really.

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with

I... I don’t know what popular headcanon for Staniel is.

the position they sleep in

on his stomach. He doesn’t move much when he sleeps

a crossover au i’d love to see them in

WITH STAND BY ME! Losers club needs to hang out with Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern! (1990′s miniseries)

Stranger Things because I want a total parent trap plot for Richie and Mike. Stan would be so not impressed that there were two of them. (2017 movie)

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn

Boyscout Staniel! Also it has to be 1990′s mini series when it comes to Stan. 

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ok but here me out… stand by me and IT cross over

• bill and gordie would be able to relate losing their brother. Both of them helping each other understand their problems because both of them feel the same way. Both guilty, both blame themselves for it, both loved their brother more than the world.

• bill and gordie also relating on being very good at telling stories and writing. gordie even helping bill start writing some little stories and them sharing their stories.

• bill and chris being able to bond together over their natural goodness and leadership and wanting to care and keep peace for people. Them being able to lead the group together and just be great friends too

• richie and teddy swapping glasses and exchanging Hawaiian shirts. Both of them backing each other up with cigarettes and both of them acting out little scenes. richie with his voices and teddy doing his “storming the beach of Normandy” in response and them just being nerds together, running around and play fighting all the time

• richie making up nicknames for vern and teasing the life out of him

• richie and teddy stealing verns come and putting it in stanleys hair just to see how long it would take for stan to realize it was there and also to see how long it took vern to notice his comb was gone.

• teddy and chris teaching the losers clubs different card games and little gambling games. bev picking it up really quickly and just kicking everyone’s asses and someone as unexpected as stan also being hella good at it

• teddy, richie and bev all having such a wholesome friendship with each other. They friebdly flirt with each other and make jokes at each other. them always going to the movies and watching horror movies together.

• teddy, vern, chris and gordie all facing pennywise in their own ways too.

• gordie going to chris after facing pennywise and seeing his brother and crying over it because it’s the first time he’s properly faced thinking about his brother.

THE TRAIN BRIDGE SCENE HOLY GOD

• bill backing up gordie that it could be a bad idea to go across it and hanging back with him

• ben hesitating but then going ahead anyways, just blabbering on about the beautiful architecture of the bridge and the scenery around it

• richie giving eddie a piggyback ride over the bridge because eddies too scared he’s going to trip and die and he won’t move other wise and then both of them a screaming mess at each other when the train comes

• bill and gordie both physically picking up vern and r u n n i n g with him in their arms and bolting it

• the bowers gang and ace’s gang merging. belch becoming the best at mailboxes baseball and being crowned the champion.

• henry introducing ace’s gang to blowtorching their farts in the junkyard. them all also having competition who could get the biggest fart flame

• ace also being controlled by pennywise in the same way henry was to kill the losers and others.

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This day in hockey history, April 14th 1980, Stan Mikita retired after 22 seasons in the NHL. He is regarded as the best center of the 1960s. He was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players.

Mikita was born in Sokolče, Slovak Republic as Stanislav Gvoth and raised in a small farming community there until late 1948, but moved to St. Catharines, Ontario, as a young boy to escape Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia. He was adopted by his aunt and uncle, Anna and Joe Mikita, who gave him their surname.

After three starring junior seasons with the St. Catharines Teepees of the Ontario Hockey Association, Mikita was promoted to the parent Chicago Black Hawks in 1959–60. In his second full year, in 1961, the Black Hawks won their third Stanley Cup. The young centre led the entire league in goals during the playoffs, scoring a total of six.

The following season was his breakout year. Stan Mikita became a star as centre of the famed "Scooter Line", with right wing Ken Wharram and left wingers Ab McDonald and Doug Mohns. He became the most-feared centre of the 1960s. With superstar teammate Bobby Hull, the Black Hawks had the most powerful offense of the decade, generally leading the league in goals scored.

Combining skilled defense and a reputation as one of the game's best faceoff men using his innovative curved stick, Mikita led the league in scoring four times in the decade, tying Bobby Hull's year-old single-season scoring mark in 1966–67 with 97 points, a mark broken two years later by former teammate Phil Esposito.

The 1967–68 season, an 87-point effort from Mikita, was the last year a Chicago player won the scoring title until Patrick Kane's 106-point 2015–16 season. Kane's Art Ross season also saw him become the first Hawk to win the Hart Memorial Trophy as Most Valuable Player since Mikita in his last Art Ross season.

In his early years, Mikita was among the most penalized players in the league, but he then decided to play a cleaner game and went on to win the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for particularly sportsmanlike conduct combined with excellence twice.

Mikita's drastic change in behavior came after he returned home from a road trip. His wife told him that while their daughter, Meg, was watching the Black Hawks' last road game on television and when the camera had just shown Mikita in the penalty box again, she turned and said, "Mommy, why does Daddy spend so much time sitting down?"

During his playing career, in 1973, Mikita teamed up with Chicago businessman Irv Tiahnybik to form the American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association (AHIHA), to bring together deaf and hard-of-hearing hockey players from all over the country, and he founded the Stan Mikita School for the Hearing Impaired, inspired by a friend’s deaf son who was an aspiring goalie. He also helped bring the Special Olympics to Chicago, bringing his family out to volunteer at races.

Mikita and teammate Bobby Hull were the most formidable forward duo of the 1960s, notorious for using sticks with curved blades. Such sticks gave a comparative advantage to shooters versus goaltenders. As a result, the NHL limited blade curvature to ½" in 1970. Mikita reportedly began the practice after his standard stick got caught in a bench door, bending the blade before he hit the ice; he soon was borrowing a propane torch from team trainers to create a deliberate curve.

Mikita was also one of the first players to wear a helmet full time, after a December 1967 game in which an errant shot tore a piece off one of his ears. It was stitched back on.

At the time of his retirement, only Gordie Howe and Phil Esposito had scored more points in the NHL, and just six players had appeared in more games. Mikita was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983, and into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002.

After retiring, Mikita became a golf pro at Kemper Lakes Golf Club. His other business interests, under Stan Mikita Enterprises, included making the small plastic sauce containers that accompany chicken nuggets at McDonald’s. He owned Stan Mikita's Village Inn in the 1960s and 1970s, located in the Oakbrook Shopping Center, Oak Brook, Illinois.

Mikita is such an iconic figure than the mythical Stan Mikita's Donuts was created for the movie Wayne's World as a spoof of the ubiquitous Tim Hortons Donuts.

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Slap Shots and Self-Pleasure: A critical historical assessment of a hockey film classic

Without question, the greatest sports movie in cinema history is the 1977 classic “Slap Shot”, starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean – and a host of actual pro hockey players filling in various roles. You're free to disagree with me by citing any of a number of other classic sports movies, but you are simply wrong. Although there are some fine sports movies, and a few that rise to the highest strata of cinema, “Slap Shot” trumps them all.The movie was written by Nancy Dowd; the genesis of it came when Nancy received a phone call from her (hockey-playing) brother Ned, who was drunkenly regaling her with stories from life in the minor leagues. During the conversation, Ned mentioned that his team was being sold and he had no idea who even owned the team he was playing on (the Johnstown Jets of the North American Hockey League [NAHL]). Nancy, with no film credit to her name, started writing a story based on a minor-league team with an uncertain future and an unknown owner. Much of the screwball antics that take place during the movie, by the way, were either true or mostly true.In “Slap Shot”, we follow the minor-league Charlestown Chiefs, a minor-league team with an unknown owner and an uncertain future with the imminent closure of the local steel mill. Player-coach Reg Dunlop (Newman) clashes with star player Ned Braden (Ontkean), and with Chiefs' general manager Joe McGrath (longtime Western film veteran Strother Martin). The film opens with a Chiefs' loss, followed by a promotional fashion show featuring clothes modeled by irate Chiefs players. Dunlop and McGrath continue to clash, and it comes to a head when McGrath orders Dunlop to the local bus station to pick up “the new boys”.Dunlop's mood turns to annoyance when he arrives at the station and finds three teenagers in Coke-bottle glasses pummeling a vending machine over a quarter. And the annoyance turns to rage when he gets the three checked in at a hotel and sees that their luggage is filled with toy cars. Arriving at the arena, he storms after McGrath and calls him a “cheap son of a bitch”, before this legendary exchange.McGrath: I got a good deal on those boys. The scout said they showed a lot of promise.Dunlop: They brought their fuckin' toys with 'em!McGrath: I'd rather have 'em play with their toys than with themselves.Dunlop: They're too dumb to play with themselves! Every piece of garbage on the market, you gotta buy it!McGrath: Reg. Reg, that reminds me. I was coachin' in Omaha in 1948, and Eddie Shore sends me this guy that's a terrible masturbator. Couldn't control himself. He would get deliberate penalties so he could get into the penalty box all by himself, and damned if he wouldn't, you know, mm-mm-mmm-mmmm...Dunlop: Oh, Joe, geez.McGrath: Oh, what was his name...Later in the movie, we see a brawl that takes place during pre-game warmups. This is based on an actual event. We see a brawl in which players go into the stands to fight fans after being hit by objects thrown by spectators, with some players being arrested and then bailed out of jail – this also happened (even before the infamous Mike Milbury shoe-beating event!). And of course, nearly anyone who played minor league hockey in the 1970s can tell stories about the rest: the long bus rides, the chasing girls, the local economic instability of small towns, getting up close and personal with enraged opposing fans...it all rings true in the world of hockey.But the idea of a player who would take deliberate penalties in order to play with himself in the penalty box? In a movie that's so heavily based on true stories, is there anything to this?Let's begin.Pro hockey got its start in Omaha for the 1939-40 season, as the Knights of the American Hockey Association took the ice for the first time. In their first year of existence, the Knights qualified for the playoffs. In the semi-finals, they knocked out the St. Louis Flyers in a best-of-five series which featured four one-goal games. But in the finals, the St. Paul Saints defeated Omaha, three games to one, to take the championship. (Between Omaha in 1939-40 and Vegas in 2017-18, maybe all first-year hockey teams should be called the Knights!)Omaha missed the playoffs the next year (1940-41). But in 1941-42, after finishing third in their division, the Knights went on a tear and swept though all three playoff rounds to take the championship. And as it turned out, this would be the last game played in AHA history – World War II forced many industries to close their doors for the duration, and minor league hockey was no exception.In 1945, some of the leftover AHA teams formed a new league: the United States Hockey League (USHL), which was a minor league that is unrelated to the modern-day USHL. The 1945-46 Knights lost in the first round of the playoffs, despite the presence of a Saskatchewan farm boy named Gordie Howe. The 1946-47 team lost in the finals against the Kansas City Pla-Mors.And this bring us to the 1947-48 season. Now, in “Slap Shot”, Joe McGrath simply says, “I was coachin' in Omaha in 1948, and Eddie Shore sends me this guy...”, which does not specify whether the player in question was acquired in the latter half of the 1947-48 season or in the first half of the 1948-49 season. Either way, we'll keep going.Eddie Shore, a Hall of Fame defenseman and widely regarded as one of the all-time great players, has a load of legendary stories about him. There's the one about how a player's stick almost completely sliced his ear off, and no doctor would attempt to re-attach it. Shore found one who would, rejected anesthetic, and insisted on holding a mirror to “make sure that you sew it on straight”. There's the one about how he missed the team's train to Montreal, so he caught a cab, alternated driving duties with the cabbie, and eventually crashed into a snowbank – upon this bit of misfortune, Shore simply hitchhiked and then walked the rest of the way, arriving minutes before the opening faceoff...and he then played 58 out of 60 minutes (the only two minutes off being a penalty that he took), and scored the only goal in a 1-0 Bruins win.Now, this was during his playing career. In 1940, Shore purchased the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League and ran every part of the team. This story from Sports Illustrated, dated March 13 1967 and written by Stan Fischler, describes only a small part of what it was like to play under Shore in Springfield. (Not featured in this article is the thoughts of former Springfield defenseman Don Cherry, who referred to Shore as “The Prince of Darkness” for a multitude of reasons.)From the linked article:Can anyone believe a man would open a training camp by ordering two dozen rugged hockey players to tap dance in the hotel lobby or execute delicate ballet steps on ice? Would any ordinary coach tape a player's hands to his stick? Or work out day after day with players despite four near-fatal heart attacks? Is it conceivable that a club owner would instruct players' wives to avoid relations with their husbands in the interest of a winning team? Is it conceivable, either, that a man would actually lock a referee out of his dressing room as punishment for "poor" officiating? Or order his players to make popcorn, blow up balloons and sell programs when they're not in the game?And one more: is it conceivable that such a coach would discover that one of his players had a habit of excessive self-pleasure, and ship him off to any team that would take him before this could be discovered? Knowing Shore, who once had his goalie tied to the net in practice to prevent the goalie from flopping to the ice to make a save, the answer is “yes”. But...did it happen?In 1947-48, Omaha suited up twenty-four different players during the season, including future first-ballot Hall of Fame goalie Terry Sawchuk. Of these twenty-four players, eight of them played for a different team at some point during the 1947-48 season: Sawchuk played three games with the Windsor Hettche Spitfires of the IHL, Paul Gauthier played 27 games with the Houston Huskies of the USHL, Max McNab played twelve games with the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, Harvey Jessiman played 38 games with the Philadelphia Rockets of the AHL, and four other players (Calum MacKay, Al Dewsbury, Bruce Burdette, and Thain Simon) played games with the Indianapolis Capitals of the AHL. None of them played a single game with Shore's Springfield Indians, although five of them played games with other AHL teams.So it must have been the 1948-49 Omaha Knights who had the player in question. This team only had twenty different players suit up during the season, so finding the answer should be easy.Of the twenty players on the 1948-49 Knights, only five played with another team at any point during the season: forward Gordon Haidy (48 games with Indianapolis), and goalies Don MacDonald, Bob DeCourcy, Jim Shirley, and Gordie Bell. MacDonald played a single game with the Fresno Falcons of the PCHL, DeCourcy a couple games with Kansas City in the USHL, Shirley with St. Louis of the AHL. Gordie Bell, meanwhile, suited up with the Fort Worth Rangers of the USHL...and with Springfield of the AHL.So there was in fact a single player who suited up with both Omaha of the USHL and with Shore's Springfield Indians of the AHL in the 1948-49 season, although the date that he arrived in Omaha and where he had just been are unknown.But remember, in “Slap Shot”, Joe McGrath specifically said that the player would take deliberate penalties to get into the penalty box...According to the stat page for the 1948-49 Springfield Indians, the team run by Eddie Shore, Bell played four games in goal and had no penalty minutes. In 13 games with the 1948-49 Fort Worth Rangers, Bell played thirteen games and had no penalty minutes. And in Omaha in 1948-49, a team coached by McGrath, Bell played 36 games in goal...and had no penalty minutes.“Wait!”, you may say, “I see a separate line! Bell did have two penalty minutes in his four playoff games with Omaha!” Well, yes, he did. But there's a problem there as well.Goalies don't serve their own penalties.In “Slap Shot”, McGrath said a lot of things that didn't quite mesh with reality. He swore that the team wasn't being sold, which was untrue. He swore it wasn't going to fold, which was untrue. He said there were NHL scouts in the stands, which was untrue. He said an awful lot of things, none of which were true. It looks like we can add one more to the list of McGrath's false statements.TL;DR - Joe McGrath did not coach a player in 1948 in Omaha, who he got from Eddie Shore's Springfield team, who would take deliberate penalties for the purpose of self-pleasure. The only player who Omaha had at all during that time period who came from Springfield at all was a goalie who took one single penalty, and goalies don't even serve their own penalties.Bonus viewing of the movie scene in questionSpecial thanks are due to /u/ralphslate, founder of hockeydb.com – I've been using Ralph's site for over 20 years, and it's the first site I go to for quickly-accessible hockey statsAdditional bonus viewing from the movie with the Syracuse Bulldogs' special lineup for the championship game. Pro players Connie Madigan, Joe Nolan, Mark Bousquet, Blake Ball, and Ned Dowd – the original inspiration for the movie – all make appearances. Slap Shots and Self-Pleasure: A critical historical assessment of a hockey film classic Source

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MEGAOVER Overcast

Event: Overcast Date: Friday, July 20, 2018 Location: Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois Capacity: 11,500

Roley Poly Ole v Jimmy Del Ray

Ole is all business coming to the ring, meanwhile Del Ray is doing the “Gigolo Belly dance” down the entrance ramp.

The bell sounds and we are underway.

Del Ray is stalling big time. He grabs the mic and challenges Ole to a dance off.

The crowd starts chanting, “Dance Ole Dance!” The old curmudgeon looks to the crowd on the left side...then on his right. Ole smirks and agrees to the dance of.

We see the same old belly dancing from Del Ray. Now its Ole’s turn.

He starts to do the “Superbowl Shuffle” but immediately attacks Del Ray.

Ole clearly doesn't have time for these shenanigans and starts working on the arm. Ole delivers a shoulder breaker, into an armbar but Del Ray is too close to the ropes and breaks the hold.

Ole then starts stomping mudholes in Jimmy.

The ref tells Ole to back off. Del Ray is trying to get up but Ole hits him with a running knee to the side of the head and pins him. 

Ole gets the win!

WINNER: Ole Anderson

Bobby Blaze has ran into the ring.

He isn't scheduled to compete tonight.  

He calls out The Real Naturboy.

He says everyone saw how Naturboy screwed him over at the last ppv, and that he wants and deserves a rematch.

Real Natureboy walks through the entrance way. 

He accuses Blaze of being a inbred cousin of Roberto Gibson, because it’s clear that Blaze can’t think straight.

Naturboy states his  MEGAOVER United States Championship main event match later tonight is clearly more important than dealing with mullet wearing jabroni redneck from Kentucky.

Blaze tells Naturboy he is proud to be a Kentucky redneck and at least he isn't a rip off gimmick.

Naturboy is clearly angry with that comment from Blaze.

Naturboy then tells Blaze if he wants another piece of the Natureboy then he’s got it!

Natureboy says he has to go to the back to change into his gear and he will be right back out for the match. The crowd erupts! Blaze is getting warmed up in the ring, when the music hits and out walks….. 

Natureboy Paul Lee??!!!!!

Can you believe this?!!!

What a swerve by The Real Naturboy!

Blaze seems to not care and does a flying plancha over the top rope taking out Lee as he makes his entrance. Blaze slings him into the guardrail. Blaze jumps off the ring steps with an axe handle smash on Lee.

Blaze rolls Lee back into the ring and continues the offense. Blaze goes to the top rope and jumps off hitting Lee with the Jaw Jacker. Blaze then hits Lee with the Northern Lights Suplex pin. Blaze gets the victory! Blaze grabs the mic.

He tells The Real Natureboy that he can keep playing these tricks and mind games but eventually they will come face to face and there will be hell to pay!

(commercial)

Overcast Handicap Match Sliphouse Boys v Bogota Bam Bam Gordy

Great to see the Sliphouse Boys back in action!

The crowd is really into them as a video of them working out in speedos and bow ties to the sounds of “Only the Lucky Ones” by Loverboy play on The Ultimatron.

What a surprise!!!!

Gordy is being led to the ring by none other than MR. Fuji! Gordy has no time for the SlipHouse Boys and quickly attacks both of them!

Gordy hits them with several extreme lariats a piece.

Sliphouse Steve is thrown to the outside of the ring. Gordy gives Sliphouse Stan a piledriver. Meanwhile on the outside Fuji has cheap shotted Sliphouse Steve with his cane.

Back inside the ring Gordy gives Sliphouse Stan a sidewalk slam followed by a running splash.  Gordy signals for the Oriental Spike and applies it to Sliphouse Stan.

Stan goes out pretty quick and its an impressive victory for Bogata Bam Bam Gordy with his new manager Mr. Fuji!

WINNER: Bam Bam Gordy

Arabian Giant & Harley Davidson w/ Slick v The New Rock n Roll Express w/ Ricky Morton

Shane Morton comes to the ring alone. Once in the ring he announces that Bobby Gibson was injured at the last PPV and is still recovering. 

Morton says the show must go on and this won’t stop him from performing tonight, because he has a partner. 

Morton points to the entrance way...out walks Marty Jannetty with Sherri!

The match begins with Morton running circles around Davidson. Davidson is clearly embarrassed and tags out to Arabian Giant. 

Giant begins to pummel Morton.

Giant press slams Morton with 1 arm!!

Giant then throws Morton over the top rope into the crowd!!!! The crowd begins to crowd surf Morton around the Charlotte Coliseum chanting, “RocknRoll! RocknRoll!”

Marty Jannetty takes the opportunity to make himself the legal man and attacks the Giant, but is does nothing and Jannetty goes flying across the ring after a single clubbing blow from the Giant.

Jannetty gets up and comes right back at Giant but Marty just crumples to the ground after running into the brick wall that is Arabian Giant. Giant picks Marty up and delivers a devastating power bomb.

Giant then lifts up Marty and choke slams him through the ring! OMG!!!!!!! Match is ruled a no contest because referee stopped the match due to the ring breaking and Marty being unresponsive under the ring somewhere. 

Godbold runs out to the ring to assess the situation.  Godbold takes his headset off and grabs the mic.

He tells the crowd that the ring crew will need to repair the ring before the ppv continue. 

Godbold directs everyone's attention to the Godboldtron where he announces an up and coming metal band, Wally’s World, that has recently signed to his record label will be performing for the crowd live from Los Angeles via satellite!    

After the bands performance the crowd is chanting, “HARVEY! HARVEY! HARVEY!”

The camera gets a close up shot on ring crew member Harvey Updike finishing up fixing the ring. 

Harvey has become a fan favorite here in MEGAOVER but for reasons we are unsure of.  

Lex is slowly making his way to the ring. He has requested some mic time to clear the air. He asks ZZ and Juanita to come to the ring. They do but they are hesitant.

Once in the ring Lex says he wants to apologize for his actions at the Turmoil PPV.

Lex says he has been doing alot of soul searching in the past couple of weeks and its time to make things right. Lex extends his hand to ZZ. Juanita wants ZZ to accept but he is showing resistance.

Eventually ZZ agrees and shakes Lex’s hand. Lex then pulls ZZ into a massive clothesline! Lex throws ZZ against the ropes and hits him with a flying forearm.

Lex then corners Juanita who is backpedaling and begging on her knees! Lex grabs her by the hair and lifts her up into a torture rack! He only has her in the hold for a few seconds when ZZ recovers and attacks Lex.

Lex exits the ring quickly and runs to the back. ZZ signals for the MEGAOVER medical personnels to get to the ring fast. Juanita has to be stretchered out of the ring. The crowd is in a stunned silence.     

TOMORROW NIGHT: CBWA IMPERIO #Salvation Pay-Per-View live from Arena Bogota. 

MEGAOVER World Tag Team Title Rematch

The Megapowers w/ Jimmy Hart (c) v The Rocker Express

No time is wasted as The Rocker Express attack the champions before the bell. Michaels clotheslines Macho over the top rope while Eaton is hitting Hogan with one haymaker after another! Michaels and macho continue to brawl on the outside while Eaton continues the offense on Hogan. 

Hogan goes for the thumb to the eyes of Eaton then rakes his back.

Hogan turns the tide of the match in the ring. Meanwhile outside Michaels has macho set up in a folding chair, and dives onto him off of the ring apron, crashing him through the chair! 

Hogan is taking it to Eaton in the ring however Hogan is wasting too much time posing and playing to the crowd. 

Michaels jumps Hogan and they start to brawl.

Michaels gets the best of Hogan in a series of punches and dropkicks. Michaels hits an elbow off the top rope on Hogan. 

In runs Macho and he has a chair! The ref stops him before he can do any damages and threatens to disqualify him. This gives Michaels a chance to tag out to Eaton. Eaton comes in with a series of kicks and punches to Hogan.

Eaton slings Hogan into the ropes and gives him a high backdrop. Macho appears on the outside of the ring behind Michaels. 

Macho must have climbed under the ring to get there. 

Macho attacks Michaels from behind and the two start fighting on the outside of the ring again. This naturally distracts the referee.

Eaton goes to the top for the Alabama Jam, but Jimmy Hart jumps onto the apron and pushes him off the top rope back into the ring! Hogan recovers, drops a leg on Eaton and pins him!

WINNERS: MEGAOVER World Tag Team Champions, The Megapowers!  

Megaover GM Godbold and Assistant GM Mini Godbold are in the ring. 

Godbold announces that the next match is the finals of the Megaover United States Title tournament.

He also reminds everyone that this match will unify the CBWA North and South American titles as well as the MRW World Heavyweight title to become 1 championship.

Godbold then presents to the crowd the new MEGAOVER United States Championship belt as it sparkles and shines off the arena lights.  

Megaover United States Title Tournament finals: The Real Natureboy vs Duke the Dumpster

The two are face to face in the ring. Natureboy is running his mouth and poking the chest of Dumpster. Dumpster shoves Naturboy to the ground. 

Natureboy is shocked but gets up and the two tie up. Naturboy goes for the headlock takeover.

Natureboy is wearing down The Dumpster with headlocks, headscissors, and hammerlocks. Natureboy then gouges the eyes of the dumpster. Natureboy goes for the running knee drop followed by a swinging elbow drop. This is truly a one sided affair! Natureboy signals that it's all over and applies his patented figure four leg lock.

Dumpster tried to fight it but he can't and gives up. 

The winner and NEW MEGAOVER United States Champion, The Real Natureboy!  

Godbold and Mini Godbold enter the ring to present Natureboy with the new United States Championship Belt. 

Natureboy takes it but then asks for a mic. Natureboy shakes the hand of Godbold and thanks him for the opportunity to wrestle for Megaover.

However Natureboy quickly changes his tone and tells Godbold he has no respect for wanna be midgets in the business! 

Natureboy gives Mini Godbold a stiff shot with the title belt to the face! 

Naturboy escapes before Godbold can get to him.

Mini Godbold is bleeding profusely! Godbold signals for the medical personnel to get to the ring.

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Legendary Names to Be Stripped Off Stanley Cup Because There's No Room Left

The tradition of engraving the names of each year's NHL champion is one of the unique quirks that makes the Stanley Cup so special. Unfortunately, as more champions are crowned, some of the most important names to ever play the game will no longer have a place on the Cup.

Every spring when a new team hoists the title, players from the winning club get their individual names engraved on the silver Cup. To have their names enshrined alongside past legends is truly one of the most memorable things that can happen to a hockey player. But, as time goes on, some of these names will disappear from the trophy forever.

Every 11 to 13 years, the bottom ring on the base of the Stanley Cup is removed to make room for the next batch of champs. The last time it happened was after Carolina won in 2006, when names like Turk Broda and Syl Apps were removed along with the band listing the Toronto Maple Leafs teams that won four Cups in five years in the 1940s. It was also the last of Conn Smythe, though his name is now immortalized through the playoff MVP trophy.

Pittsburgh's Cup win this year will occupy the trophy's final open space, meaning that when a new champion is crowned at the end of next season, a ring containing the names of the legendary Gordie Howe and Maurice Rocket Richard, widely considered two of the greatest to ever play, will be removed from the Cup and retired into the vault at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

It seems tragic and almost blasphemous from the outside looking in, but Adam Kirshenblatt, a hockey historian and Stanley Cup expert, believes this process is just part of the changing character of the Cup and a big reason why the trophy is so unique.

"It's like all the spelling mistakes that are on the Cup, people love that even though it's wrong. Assuming the band is removed every 13 years, a player is essentially on the Cup for about 65 years. That's a lifetime for these guys," he told VICE Sports.

There is a cycle-of-life type mentality toward the Stanley Cup that no one is immune to. Though it's a couple decades away, next to be removed will be the early 70s era with Bobby Orr's name engraved on it, followed by Wayne Gretzky's Oilers. Yep, the guy literally named "The Great One" will no longer have his name inscribed on the greatest trophy in sports. Most seem to just accept how it is, but many have also found it hard to mask their sorrow.

"Back in 2006, Andy Bathgate expressed his disappointment when he was told about it. That's been the general feeling amongst former players, not necessarily backlash or outrage, just disappointment," Kirshenblatt said.

Along with Howe and Richard, other legends such as Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Glenn Hall, Pierre Pilot, and Bernie Geoffrion will fall victim to the removal cycle next spring, and some legendary team feats will no longer have a home on the Cup, either.

"The five Cup wins in a row by Montreal from 1956-60 will be coming off. That is the only time in Stanley Cup history that anyone has won five in a row," said Kirshenblatt, adding that "three of the remaining four Maple Leaf teams will be coming off, leaving 1967 [the Leafs' last Cup victory] as the last of the glory days. They still have at least 14 years to worry about them falling off completely."

It's too late to save Mr. Hockey and The Rocket from having their names erased from the Cup, and there hasn't been much discussion on changing anything before Orr and Gretzky get removed, either. Enlarging the trophy isn't an option and neither is creating a second one. So for the foreseeable future, this is just how it goes.

All rings removed from the Cup are placed in a vault at the Hockey Hall of Fame and a celebratory ceremony is held, giving those involved, some of the greatest players to ever play the game, one final tribute.

The Stanley Cup truly is one of a kind.

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