>>Unrelated to the current thread -- I think you'll like this --
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>>http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1152491/1/index.htm
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>I had the absolute honor to meet him several times during the early '70s. He never forgot about his fans - he showed up wandering the corridors in the Garden (Boston that is) after many a game talking to fans (especially kids) and signing autographs..
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>He is probably the singular reason I got so attached to hockey.

I got to meet him a few other times in more formal circumstances (my uncle was commissioner of baseball back then and there were times the sports collided), but he seemed to be scared to death to be seen in a suit, so his appearences were very short.