#moiappreciation

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Bill Baker appreciation week → favorite photos

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Jack O’Callahan appreciation week → favorite photos

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Eric Strobel appreciation week → favorite game highlights; fancy moves vs. West Germany

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Some days are better than others. If you get on a roll, you get on a roll. Hockey's a funny game. Things bounce funny all the time.

Eric Strobel, “Boys of Winter”

Eric Strobel appreciation week → favorite quote

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It was fun for me to trade some pins. Being in the village with my parents. And my buddy showed up. He hitchhiked all the way up here from Minneapolis.

Eric Strobel on his favorite memory from the 1980 Olympics outside of hockey (x)

Eric Strobel appreciation week → favorite quote

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Bill Baker, who’d been captain of the Minnesota varsity, was at once baffled and amused by him. The Gophers would be playing down at Madison with 8600 hostiles jeering at them, Herbie jittering like an overwound mainspring, everybody’s adrenaline shooting off the scale, Baker’s face showing the strain. And during intermission, in would breeze Strobel, unconcerned and reassuring: ‘Hey, guuyys, what’s the matter? We’re only down by threee.’ The nonchalance was genuine; three goals were nothing for Strobel.

One Goal

Eric Strobel appreciation week → favorite story

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ERIC STROBEL APPRECIATION WEEK ➝ day one: favorite photos

“The unassuming, soft-spoken Strobel carries his gold medal around in a paper bag and lets curious kids borrow it when they’re doing school projects.”

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Eric Strobel appreciation week → favorite photos