Hockey Pictorial mystery leads down memory lane with McFarlane #4

It was the early 1970s action picture that initially stopped me, 2 superstars that had appreciated their biggest success for the group that was their challenger right here: Montreal Canadiens onward Frank Mahovlich in tight versus Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jacques Plante. And after that, the mailing tag. "B. McFarlane." Hockey Photographic publication, released between 1955-80, was a staple of my youth, a depository of account stories, photos, animations and quizzes. Almost definitely I owned a copy of this February 1972 problem as a 14-year-old, my paper-route revenues paying the $3, seven-issue yearly membership rate-- and for Hockey Globe and Hockey Illustrated subscriptions, $3.50 each for a year. Now, below was Mahovlich versus Plante, this Hockey Pictorial on a shelf deep in Antique Plaza Vintage Rendez-Vous, a delightful little antiques shop in a 65-year-old shopping center not much from my boyhood Montreal-suburban Pointe-Claire home.Brian McFarlane and his wife, Joan, arrive at the 2022 Hockey Hall of Popularity inductions ceremonies in Toronto, and the cover of McFarlane's long-lost February 1972 Hockey Photographic publication. Bruce Bennett, Getty Images As a teenager, I always hoped the cover of my publications wouldn't be also terribly shrouded by the mailing tag, and there was one covering a lot of the Plante headline on this pristine treasure, 86 web pages sheathed in a plastic pouch. "B. McFarlane, 25 Tollerton Ave., Willowdale, Ont." Brian McFarlane? I wondered. Difficult. Or was it? Brian and I return years, our work in some cases intersecting. The 91-year-old is a renowned Canadian broadcaster, reporter and writer, from 1964-91 a color analyst and workshop host for Hockey Night in Canada. He is widely deemed hockey's preeminent chronicler, embellished in 2020 with the Order of Canada, recipient of the Hockey Hall of Fame's 1995 Foster Hewitt Award for broadcast quality and the participant of 5 halls of fame.Brian McFarlane at St. Lawrence College's Appleton Sector upon his 2017 "Legends of Appleton" induction and featured on the cover of the 1955 NCAA Official Ice Hockey Guide. Courtesy St. Lawrence College; Brian McFarlane Brian worked games in the program booths of CBS and NBC in the United States, the first Canadian to do so, and for several years became part of the local telecasts of the Toronto Maple Leafs until he ran afoul in 1980 of short-tempered then-team co-owner Harold Ballard. Honorary head of state of the international Society for International Hockey Research, Brian has composed 99 hockey publications with his 100th, "The Maple Leaf Forever, " set up for magazine this fall by At Bay Press. I have maybe a lots of his titles in my collection, including his first publication, released in 1967 at the NHL's half-century mark-- "50 Years of Hockey: An Intimate History of the NHL 1917-67." As a young boy, I played into vinyl dust a 45-rpm record "Clear The Track, Here Comes Shack, " a 1966 Toronto chart-topper that Brian wrote as a salute to Maple Leafs wrecking sphere Eddie Shack. Overlapping broadcast and writing professions drew out of his collegiate hockey profession. A 1952 All-America facility with St. Lawrence University of Canton, New York, Brian's 101 career objectives and 10 occupation hat methods are group documents. The SLU Hall of Famer led 3 teams to NCAA tournaments, his Skating Saints squads winning 64 and losing only 19. Brian McFarlane and Hockey Night in Canada visitor analyst Bobby Orr in 1976; and an ad from the February 1972 Hockey Pictorial magazine, providing lending of a short NHL timing movie that McFarlane had actually narrated. He discovered his means right into tv and radio in upstate New York, Toronto and Montreal, hence starting his life's work. For around 25 years he played on NHL Oldtimers teams, skating with some of the League's all-time greats. "I'm inspecting Gordie Howe, Rocket and John Ferguson, " Brian remembered. "I informed 'Fergy' one night, 'Unwind on this old male.' This was at the Montreal Forum, almost a complete home. He didn't address, he just provided me among those looks that claimed, 'Obtain out of my way or I'll run you over.' I left his method." The Hockey Pictorial was a couple of feet from a row of Hardy Boys mystery publications shelved by the antiques store. Twenty-one of the first 25 approximately books in the franchise were composed between 1927-46 by Brian's father, Leslie, a distinguished journalist, author, screenwriter and filmmaker, under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon. The Hardy Boys looked like a natural background for the magazine, just in instance I would certainly discovered its initial owner, to ensure that's where I photographed it before messaging the image to Brian with a simple question about the mailing tag: "I saw this in an antique store near home. Would certainly this be you?" His reply came immediately. "Yes, it's me. I lived at that address for half a century. B." Brian McFarlane's Hockey Pictorial was found at the Vintage Plaza Vintage Rendez-Vous shop in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, among 1950s NHL All-Star metal rod-hockey players; 1961-62 jelly-powder promotional coins of New york city Rangers' Andy Hebenton and Larry Cahan; 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee Boston Bruins cards; and a 1977-78 NHL timetable. Dave Stubbs After I picked myself up off the flooring, I hustled back to the store and got the magazine for $10. It was the expense of a year's 1972 membership for Hockey Pictorial, Hockey Globe and Hockey Illustrated integrated, however worth every cent. Fifty-one years after it was published in Montreal, right here was Brian's Hockey Pictorial, a magazine sideline of The Hockey News founder Ken McKenzie. It remains in practically mint problem, completely undamaged, barely a mark on it. Also the crossword challenge is unblemished. The "1-73" on the mailing label showed the membership's January 1973 expiry. "Amazing. What are the chances of this publication turning up currently in a suburban Montreal antique shop?" I asked Brian when we linked by phone. I am gradually functioning my way with the pages, believing I need to be wearing white gloves. There are features on Plante, Bruce MacGregor, Gary Smith, Nick Libett, Marc Tardif, the Boston Bruins' "HEC Line" of Ken Hodge, Phil Esposito and Wayne Cashman, the Chicago Black Hawks' 1971 household Christmas celebration and a flashback to 1940s Canadiens goaltending tale Expense Durnan. Cartoons. A quiz. Updates on minor-pro American, Western, International and Eastern leagues. Letters to the editor, including four readers aiming to sign up with numerous follower clubs.Brothers Phil and Tony Esposito endorsed Mylec street-hockey products in a full-page ad in the February 1972 edition of Hockey Photographic magazine. Equally great is the advertising and marketing: "Bobby Orr states: It's A Male's Globe with Yardley Black Tag, " the within front cover featuring the Bruins legend's endorsement of after-shave and deodorant. "Be a stickler about your stick, " claims the facing full web page for Northland hockey sticks of Minnesota. There are ads for Gunzo's and Gerry Cosby showing off goods shops in Chicago and New York. Cooper shin-guards. Hockey Superstars jigsaw problems. A complete web page connecting Phil and Tony Esposito-endorsed Mylec street-hockey sticks, replacement blades, balls, pucks, goal internet and goalie masks. Bauer skates. WinnWell headgears. Bourbon and cigarettes. The Orr-Walton Sports Camp in Orillia, Ontario, teachers consisting of Darryl Sittler, Dale Tallon, Jim Rutherford and Bep Guidolin. The Bruce Hyland and Harry Watson Metropolitan Ice Skating Institution at St. Andrews University in Aurora, Ontario. Prizes by Birks jewellers. The actor/comedian Leslie Nielsen, not mentioned by name but instantaneously recognizable connecting the Financial institution of Montreal. And an ad for the Brian McFarlane-narrated Gruen-timepiece 16mm movie in English or French - "12 action-packed mins" - on the timing of an NHL game, offered for loan. An incredible time capsule, really.Three of Brian McFarlane's 99 hockey books, his 100th set up for magazine this fall. From left: half a century of Hockey, 1967; The most effective of It Took Place In Hockey, 1997; Best of the Original Six, 2004. I was compelled to dig even more deeply right into this magazine's pedigree. Within a couple of days, with shop dealership Chris Esposito-- no relationship to Phil or Tony-- I made call with Victoria Jonas, a Montrealer that acquires, offers and consigns antiques and antiques online while working regularly with the store. Victoria is almost certain that she bought the Hockey Pictorial regarding 2 years earlier as component of big auction lot, likely from a Toronto dealership. She said she thinks she offered the publication to buy, unsuccessfully, at numerous shows and on eBay, before she ultimately put it in the shop a couple of weeks. Concerning a decade earlier, Brian and his wife of 67 years, Joan, left Willowdale, concerning a half-hour north of Toronto, relocating to a home in Stouffville, another half hour to the northeast. Around the time his Hockey Pictorial was published, they bought 35 untaught acres in Grafton, concerning 80 miles east of Toronto, on which they constructed a three-story country log home. The pair's time is invested there, in Stouffville and in Florida. Brian is joyfully at the workplace today with yet one more occupation, having actually returned to a long-ago love; he took painting lessons as a teenager in Ottawa and when again loves his time invested with canvas and brushes, developing pond-hockey scenes that resonate with his fans.Brian McFarlane in a video clip still, during a January 2023 presentation and sale of his hockey paintings in Port Hope, Ontario. On the phone for an hour, we discussed his art, his broadcasting and writing occupations and the NHL of yesterday and today, Brian counting his blessings. "I'm thinking exactly how fortunate we are to be in Canada with on a daily basis a bonus offer. This is really the best nation on the planet, " he claimed on July 1, the 156th wedding anniversary of confederation. "As a lad expanding up, I typically gave thanks to God in my petitions for giving us winter season and ice for hockey. That was all we needed to make it through an Anxiety and a number of Globe Wars." His Hockey Pictorial was a secret deserving of a Hardy Boys unique, having actually found its method from his hands to mine, entirely by coincidence, greater than a half-century after its magazine. "I was as shocked as you were to see my name and address, " Brian claimed. "I want I had some memory of how it left my basement. I do not bear in mind subscribing to it, so they should have sent it to me free." Then, with a laugh: "I used to obtain The Hockey News absolutely free all the time, after that they obtained smart and began billing me for it."

It was the early 1970s action picture that initially stopped me, 2 superstars that had appreciated their biggest success for the group that was their challenger right here: Montreal Canadiens onward Frank Mahovlich in tight versus Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jacques Plante. And after that, the mailing tag. "B. McFarlane." Hockey Photographic publication, released between 1955-80, was a staple of my youth, a depository of account stories, photos, animations and quizzes. Almost definitely I owned a copy of this February 1972 problem as a 14-year-old, my paper-route revenues paying the $3, seven-issue yearly membership rate-- and for Hockey Globe and Hockey Illustrated subscriptions, $3.50 each for a year. Now, below was Mahovlich versus Plante, this Hockey Pictorial on a shelf deep in Antique Plaza Vintage Rendez-Vous, a delightful little antiques shop in a 65-year-old shopping center not much from my boyhood Montreal-suburban Pointe-Claire home.Brian McFarlane and his wife, Joan, arrive at the 2022 Hockey Hall of Popularity inductions ceremonies in Toronto, and the cover of McFarlane's long-lost February 1972 Hockey Photographic publication. Bruce Bennett, Getty Images As a teenager, I always hoped the cover of my publications wouldn't be also terribly shrouded by the mailing tag, and there was one covering a lot of the Plante headline on this pristine treasure, 86 web pages sheathed in a plastic pouch. "B. McFarlane, 25 Tollerton Ave., Willowdale, Ont." Brian McFarlane? I wondered. Difficult. Or was it? Brian and I return years, our work in some cases intersecting. The 91-year-old is a renowned Canadian broadcaster, reporter and writer, from 1964-91 a color analyst and workshop host for Hockey Night in Canada. He is widely deemed hockey's preeminent chronicler, embellished in 2020 with the Order of Canada, recipient of the Hockey Hall of Fame's 1995 Foster Hewitt Award for broadcast quality and the participant of 5 halls of fame.Brian McFarlane at St. Lawrence College's Appleton Sector upon his 2017 "Legends of Appleton" induction and featured on the cover of the 1955 NCAA Official Ice Hockey Guide. Courtesy St. Lawrence College; Brian McFarlane Brian worked games in the program booths of CBS and NBC in the United States, the first Canadian to do so, and for several years became part of the local telecasts of the Toronto Maple Leafs until he ran afoul in 1980 of short-tempered then-team co-owner Harold Ballard. Honorary head of state of the international Society for International Hockey Research, Brian has composed 99 hockey publications with his 100th, "The Maple Leaf Forever, " set up for magazine this fall by At Bay Press. I have maybe a lots of his titles in my collection, including his first publication, released in 1967 at the NHL's half-century mark-- "50 Years of Hockey: An Intimate History of the NHL 1917-67." As a young boy, I played into vinyl dust a 45-rpm record "Clear The Track, Here Comes Shack, " a 1966 Toronto chart-topper that Brian wrote as a salute to Maple Leafs wrecking sphere Eddie Shack. Overlapping broadcast and writing professions drew out of his collegiate hockey profession. A 1952 All-America facility with St. Lawrence University of Canton, New York, Brian's 101 career objectives and 10 occupation hat methods are group documents. The SLU Hall of Famer led 3 teams to NCAA tournaments, his Skating Saints squads winning 64 and losing only 19. Brian McFarlane and Hockey Night in Canada visitor analyst Bobby Orr in 1976; and an ad from the February 1972 Hockey Pictorial magazine, providing lending of a short NHL timing movie that McFarlane had actually narrated. He discovered his means right into tv and radio in upstate New York, Toronto and Montreal, hence starting his life's work. For around 25 years he played on NHL Oldtimers teams, skating with some of the League's all-time greats. "I'm inspecting Gordie Howe, Rocket and John Ferguson, " Brian remembered. "I informed 'Fergy' one night, 'Unwind on this old male.' This was at the Montreal Forum, almost a complete home. He didn't address, he just provided me among those looks that claimed, 'Obtain out of my way or I'll run you over.' I left his method." The Hockey Pictorial was a couple of feet from a row of Hardy Boys mystery publications shelved by the antiques store. Twenty-one of the first 25 approximately books in the franchise were composed between 1927-46 by Brian's father, Leslie, a distinguished journalist, author, screenwriter and filmmaker, under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon. The Hardy Boys looked like a natural background for the magazine, just in instance I would certainly discovered its initial owner, to ensure that's where I photographed it before messaging the image to Brian with a simple question about the mailing tag: "I saw this in an antique store near home. Would certainly this be you?" His reply came immediately. "Yes, it's me. I lived at that address for half a century. B." Brian McFarlane's Hockey Pictorial was found at the Vintage Plaza Vintage Rendez-Vous shop in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, among 1950s NHL All-Star metal rod-hockey players; 1961-62 jelly-powder promotional coins of New york city Rangers' Andy Hebenton and Larry Cahan; 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee Boston Bruins cards; and a 1977-78 NHL timetable. Dave Stubbs After I picked myself up off the flooring, I hustled back to the store and got the magazine for $10. It was the expense of a year's 1972 membership for Hockey Pictorial, Hockey Globe and Hockey Illustrated integrated, however worth every cent. Fifty-one years after it was published in Montreal, right here was Brian's Hockey Pictorial, a magazine sideline of The Hockey News founder Ken McKenzie. It remains in practically mint problem, completely undamaged, barely a mark on it. Also the crossword challenge is unblemished. The "1-73" on the mailing label showed the membership's January 1973 expiry. "Amazing. What are the chances of this publication turning up currently in a suburban Montreal antique shop?" I asked Brian when we linked by phone. I am gradually functioning my way with the pages, believing I need to be wearing white gloves. There are features on Plante, Bruce MacGregor, Gary Smith, Nick Libett, Marc Tardif, the Boston Bruins' "HEC Line" of Ken Hodge, Phil Esposito and Wayne Cashman, the Chicago Black Hawks' 1971 household Christmas celebration and a flashback to 1940s Canadiens goaltending tale Expense Durnan. Cartoons. A quiz. Updates on minor-pro American, Western, International and Eastern leagues. Letters to the editor, including four readers aiming to sign up with numerous follower clubs.Brothers Phil and Tony Esposito endorsed Mylec street-hockey products in a full-page ad in the February 1972 edition of Hockey Photographic magazine. Equally great is the advertising and marketing: "Bobby Orr states: It's A Male's Globe with Yardley Black Tag, " the within front cover featuring the Bruins legend's endorsement of after-shave and deodorant. "Be a stickler about your stick, " claims the facing full web page for Northland hockey sticks of Minnesota. There are ads for Gunzo's and Gerry Cosby showing off goods shops in Chicago and New York. Cooper shin-guards. Hockey Superstars jigsaw problems. A complete web page connecting Phil and Tony Esposito-endorsed Mylec street-hockey sticks, replacement blades, balls, pucks, goal internet and goalie masks. Bauer skates. WinnWell headgears. Bourbon and cigarettes. The Orr-Walton Sports Camp in Orillia, Ontario, teachers consisting of Darryl Sittler, Dale Tallon, Jim Rutherford and Bep Guidolin. The Bruce Hyland and Harry Watson Metropolitan Ice Skating Institution at St. Andrews University in Aurora, Ontario. Prizes by Birks jewellers. The actor/comedian Leslie Nielsen, not mentioned by name but instantaneously recognizable connecting the Financial institution of Montreal. And an ad for the Brian McFarlane-narrated Gruen-timepiece 16mm movie in English or French - "12 action-packed mins" - on the timing of an NHL game, offered for loan. An incredible time capsule, really.Three of Brian McFarlane's 99 hockey books, his 100th set up for magazine this fall. From left: half a century of Hockey, 1967; The most effective of It Took Place In Hockey, 1997; Best of the Original Six, 2004. I was compelled to dig even more deeply right into this magazine's pedigree. Within a couple of days, with shop dealership Chris Esposito-- no relationship to Phil or Tony-- I made call with Victoria Jonas, a Montrealer that acquires, offers and consigns antiques and antiques online while working regularly with the store. Victoria is almost certain that she bought the Hockey Pictorial regarding 2 years earlier as component of big auction lot, likely from a Toronto dealership. She said she thinks she offered the publication to buy, unsuccessfully, at numerous shows and on eBay, before she ultimately put it in the shop a couple of weeks. Concerning a decade earlier, Brian and his wife of 67 years, Joan, left Willowdale, concerning a half-hour north of Toronto, relocating to a home in Stouffville, another half hour to the northeast. Around the time his Hockey Pictorial was published, they bought 35 untaught acres in Grafton, concerning 80 miles east of Toronto, on which they constructed a three-story country log home. The pair's time is invested there, in Stouffville and in Florida. Brian is joyfully at the workplace today with yet one more occupation, having actually returned to a long-ago love; he took painting lessons as a teenager in Ottawa and when again loves his time invested with canvas and brushes, developing pond-hockey scenes that resonate with his fans.Brian McFarlane in a video clip still, during a January 2023 presentation and sale of his hockey paintings in Port Hope, Ontario. On the phone for an hour, we discussed his art, his broadcasting and writing occupations and the NHL of yesterday and today, Brian counting his blessings. "I'm thinking exactly how fortunate we are to be in Canada with on a daily basis a bonus offer. This is really the best nation on the planet, " he claimed on July 1, the 156th wedding anniversary of confederation. "As a lad expanding up, I typically gave thanks to God in my petitions for giving us winter season and ice for hockey. That was all we needed to make it through an Anxiety and a number of Globe Wars." His Hockey Pictorial was a secret deserving of a Hardy Boys unique, having actually found its method from his hands to mine, entirely by coincidence, greater than a half-century after its magazine. "I was as shocked as you were to see my name and address, " Brian claimed. "I want I had some memory of how it left my basement. I do not bear in mind subscribing to it, so they should have sent it to me free." Then, with a laugh: "I used to obtain The Hockey News absolutely free all the time, after that they obtained smart and began billing me for it." ```

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