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Tim Sheehy Recalls ‘Forgotten Team’

Jay Gearan -- Worcester telegram and Gazette

Former Hartford Whaler Tim Sheehy doesn’t play hockey anymore, but he’s still always around rinks, some nights watching his son, Dan, play for Algonquin Regional, other nights scouting potential college and professional players.

Today, on the 30th anniversary of the famous “Miracle on Ice” victory for the U.S. Olympic gold-medal winning team in 1980, Sheehy can look back with pride even further, to the 1972 Games in Sapporo, Japan, when his U.S. team won the silver medal.

In 1972, with the country embroiled in social unrest and the war in Vietnam, Olympic athletes did not command the media attention that exploded eight years later at Lake Placid.

“We’ve been called ‘The Forgotten Team,’ ” said Sheehy, who co-captained the all-amateur squad. “Russia won it all, and that was probably the greatest hockey team ever assembled with someone who many of us thought was the best player in the world, Valeri Kharlamov.”

Sheehy, was a star high school hockey player from International Falls, Minn., and led his team to 59 consecutive wins and three straight state championships. He turned down NHL draft opportunities and chose a full athletic scholarship to Boston College in 1966.

Hartford Courant: Howard Baldwin Bringing Brass Bonanza Back to Hartford?

According to the Hartford Courant, former WHA President and Whalers founder Howard Baldwin is in discussions to bring the Whalers back to Hartford:

"Howard Baldwin has taken serious steps toward taking over management of the AHL franchise in Hartford. That's what our sources are telling us.

Yet the bigger truth needs no unnamed sources: Baldwin never did step away from this pursuit and he has never stopped dreaming big dreams. So the end game here could be more than a minor league hockey team and, no, I'm not only talking about a major league hockey team."

Full Article Here:  http://www.courant.com/sports/hockey/hc-jeff-jacobs-0215feb15,0,7219450.column

New Minnesota Fighting Saints Video Found: "You're a Saint or You Ain't"

This newly-found Minnesota Fighting Saints 1972-73 Hilite Film includes some of the best WHA footage found in the last 20 years.

"Just Another Job" 1972 WHA Quebec Nordiques Documentary

This film (often unintentionally hilarious) takes you behind the scenes of the WHA Quebec Nordiques in 1972. Coached by the legendary Maurice Richard, the team is playing its opening World Hockey Association game at the Quebec Coliseum. Experience the pre-game tension, the on-ice action and the dream-contract signing.  Features Richard, JC Tremblay, Jean Guy Gendron and more.