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Damn. Ok, maybe I was wrong and you will get this one.

 

Good ones. I wouldn't have gotten Virta.

 

Is this one Gilles Hamel?

 

Just to clean up the previous "easy one" -- Tom Barrasso.

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Good ones. I wouldn't have gotten Virta.

 

Is this one Gilles Hamel?

 

Just to clean up the previous "easy one" -- Tom Barrasso.

 

Yes, the other one is Barrasso, currently the goalie coach down here with the Canes.

 

The other one is not Hamel. I have a hint that will likely give it away, but I'm interested to see if DD can get it.

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How are you getting these, at your age?!

 

The Sabres franchise is chalk full of mediocre players that have been made fun of for years. I just profile the picture I see, then run through a few who I figure it could be. Makkela was easy because of the blonde hair. Hannu Virta is one of the first names I think of from back then. Mal Davis was interesting, because the radio show looks from Finland, but the guy looks irish. I was thinking Sean McKenna off the top of my head, but then I googled the radio host and the paper trail led me to him.

 

I used to follow sports at 4 years old. My dad was a cop and would take me to the precient when I was 8 to compete in sports trivia and win money from the other cops. They got a kick out of it. Then on the way home I would look for people that resembled the police sketches on display.

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The Sabres franchise is chalk full of mediocre players that have been made fun of for years. I just profile the picture I see, then run through a few who I figure it could be. Makkela was easy because of the blonde hair. Hannu Virta is one of the first names I think of from back then. Mal Davis was interesting, because the radio show looks from Finland, but the guy looks irish. I was thinking Sean McKenna off the top of my head, but then I googled the radio host and the paper trail led me to him.

 

I used to follow sports at 4 years old. My dad was a cop and would take me to the precient when I was 8 to compete in sports trivia and win money from the other cops. They got a kick out of it. Then on the way home I would look for people that resembled the police sketches on display.

 

My hint for Mal Davis was going to be Jody Gage before there was a Jody Gage.

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Mal Davis scored either the tying goal or the winning goal in probably the greatest comeback in Sabres history. The Bruins led 6-1 early in the second period at the Aud, and the Sabres scored six unanswered to win 7-6. (Looked it up -- Davis got the winner.)

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I couldn't pick any of these guys out of a lineup with the Harlem Globetrotters....

 

Yeah, I'm afraid this is too hard to catch on as a good feature. As soon as we solve Claude's stumper, I have some easier ones ready.

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Moving closer to the turn of the century for the youngens:

 

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Peca's pet Dixon Ward!

 

These are extremely entertaining to me. As a previous poster commented, the overwhelming obscurity of a lot of these guys makes it somewhat nostalgic to think back to their time period.

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Peca's pet Dixon Ward!

 

These are extremely entertaining to me. As a previous poster commented, the overwhelming obscurity of a lot of these guys makes it somewhat nostalgic to think back to their time period.

 

Dixon was great. Loved that Ward-Peca-Varada line.

 

By the way, that photo comes from a site that says Ward is a hockey coach and vice president of a hockey school in British Columbia.

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