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| - Growing up in Iowa, my parents would occasionally take us to the "Big City" - Minneapolis to see the old Minnesota North Stars Hockey Team (now the Dallas Stars) play. Those were the days of Jude Drouin, Jean-Paul Parise, Danny Grant, Bill Goldsworthy, and of course Gump Worsley (one the last goalies to go without a mask). My fondest game memory was watching a Yvan Cournoyer (Montreal) slap shot rip Cesar Maniago's mask off and throw him into the net at the same time. Wow.
Anyway, I still enjoy watching hockey (especially in Canada during the Stanley Cup) and going to an occasional San Jose Sharks game, but of course it isn't the same.
But besides endless viewing of "Slap Shot" in which I can quote most of the movie lines (Gloves off, stick down, he challenged the Chiefs!), I know a good bar here, the Palm Isle....), there is a hockey mecca - The Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto (and especially since Maple Leaf Gardens and the Forum in Montreal are gone). It's a well organized museum in a very handsome domed building. And it's worth every penny of the admission price.
And I got to touch the actual Stanley Cup! And all the memoribilia and other trophies are cool too.
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