"Thank our Jets" Saturday, 1 p.m.
Daniel Steven Miles
Arena, this Saturday at 1 p.m. Doors open at 12:30.
The Jet logo will be retired, as will Thomas Steen's number
25.
Vic Grant of CJOB greatly encourages people to show up and
stay in the parking lot if they can't be one of the 15,500
in the arena. Show Gary Bettman that we do have great fan support.
Vic wants 50,000 people. I think the citizens of Winnipeg
will deliver. We have the greatest people in the world, and they
will show their support.
Hope to see you there,
Danny
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Danny Miles | Tel: (204) 489-0787 or
Science (II) U of Manitoba | (204) 488-2877
Winnipeg, Manitoba | e-mail: ummi...@cc.umanitoba.ca
R.I.P.
Winnipeg Jets 1972-1995
Candace Cameron homepage:
http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/hpp?Candace.html
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Bartley Kives
: A special good-bye to the Winnipeg Jets will be held at the
: Arena, this Saturday at 1 p.m. Doors open at 12:30.
: The Jet logo will be retired, as will Thomas Steen's number
: 25.
That makes me feel very good. How often do players spend their entire
careers in one place? Come to think of it, we never should have traded
Willy Lindstrom for Laurie Boschman, either.
But ... what about Dale Hawerchuk's #10? Yeah, I know it hasn't been
observed, but neither was Bobby Hull's. (Oh yeah, maybe he should retire
from Buffalo, first. Oops.)
And that Wade Campbell, and Larry Hopkins, and (shudder) Norm
"goalpost" Dupont ... :)
(Come to think of it, this team has seen some odd characters. Don Spring,
the guy from Venezuela who couldn't score. Hannu Jarvenpaa, the Finn who
scored 4 goals in a pre-season game and never followed things up in the
regular season. Bengt Lundholm, Lukowich and Lindstrom's line-mate who'd
try to pass on a bareakaway (ok, that's an exaggeration).
Brian Hayward, who like most Jets goalies was inexplicably hot and cold
(read: Essensa, Berthiaume, Reddick, Beauregard). Bryan Maxwell, who was
taunted out of the playoffs by the Oilers. Ray Neufeld, scapegoat
extraordinaire. Mark Kumpel ... could you believe a guy like Mark Kumpel
could start on an NHL team? (Mind you, today, he'd play on Tampa's second
line).
And remember eight 20 goal-scorers in 1984-85? (Okay, let's see if I
do .... Hawerchuk, Steen, Lukowich, Arniel, Deblois, Maclean, Brian Mullen
and Lindstrom? Somebody with an 85-86 media guide correct me, please.)
Okay, time to end this pathetic little nostalgia trip. Ken Dryden made me
cry tonight on PTN ...
bart
David Udoye Anyadike
>Vic Grant of CJOB greatly encourages people to show up and
>stay in the parking lot if they can't be one of the 15,500
>in the arena. Show Gary Bettman that we do have great fan support.
>Vic wants 50,000 people. I think the citizens of Winnipeg
>will deliver. We have the greatest people in the world, and they
>will show their support.
I was one of the hundreds who were unable to make it into the arena for
the event. The doors were locked shortly before 1 PM. Police officers were
blocking the entrance as people had begun banging on the doors to get in.
All the doors were locked. Although the sentiment of hanging out in the
parking lot seems like a good idea, standing outside listening to the
radio broadcast and hearing the cheering through the walls was depressing,
and most people left right away. I don't know who turned on their truck
radio outside the door at 1:15, but I think it was one of the hot-dog
vendors. They were pulling in some good cash.
Although not getting in felt like one final slap in the face, I hung
around until 1:45 PM, finally heading off to run errands, listening to the
rest of the ceremony with my earphones.
The atmosphere inside was bittersweet. It was more bitter outside. I
think there was about a hundred people outside at the highest point, but a
lot of people left as soon as they found out the doors were locked. A lot
of those hanging around had disappointed and depressed faces - especially
when all the kids inside were cheering to the comment about Winnipeg kids
always being Jets fans.
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David Anyadike Biochemistry Part-Time Polysomnographic Technician
University of Manitoba, Canada (Sleep Disorders Tech)