I post with a heavy heart ❤ that, George Trottier, my best friend and incentive to the establishment of my New England themed weather (blog) website (www.newengland-nao.com), has peacefully passed on October 8, 2023. I HOPE and pray he passed peacefully, to his eternal home. Love, Danny
Trottier, D. (2018). Privacy and Surveillance. In J. Burgess, A. Marwick, & T. Poell, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media (pp. 463–478). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473984066.n26
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Video outlining career, esp. with Pittsburgh.
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Drafted 5th by Pittsburgh; had told top 4 teams he wasn’t leave Czechoslovakia. Told Penguins he would come over, so they took risk drafting him so high.
First European to play for the Pens
“He wanted to be great.” - Trottier
“I just want to play hockey, you know, as long as I can… So far we get in the playoffs, the more we play. I love it. After a while, they told me, ‘hey, there’s no more games, you guys won the cup!”
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Trophies and awards
He has won the Stanley Cup twice; the Art Ross Trophy as League scoring champion five times; the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player; the Lester Pearson (now Ted Lindsay) Award as the League’s most outstanding player, as voted by the players, three times; and the Bill Masterton Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. He has also made the NHL First All-Star Team seven times and the Second All-Star Team once.
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Second in points, third in goals and fifth in assists.
From Scotty Bowman
"He's a different type of player than the League has seen in a long time. He has a lot of Frank Mahovlich in him. His skating style and strength make him almost impossible to stop 1-on-1. A lot of big guys play with their sticks tight to their bodies and don't use that reach to their advantage like Jaromir does.
"When Jaromir gets the puck, he's always thinking, 'Where can I go with it?' He reminds me of Maurice Richard in that way. They both played the off-wing, and both had so many moves I don't think either knew which moves they were going to do until they did them. Totally unpredictable."
Decades later, after having those words read back to him, Bowman found them still true. "That's him," Bowman said. "He hasn't changed much, except he plays more now from the blue line in. He's still very tough around the goal line. He likes to fish pucks behind the net and in the corner. He's got a good sense for the net. I mean, he seems to score goals and you say, 'How the hell did that go in?'
"There aren't many players I've ever seen who can hold the puck the way he does. He's really physically strong and -- even now, at 44, almost 45 -- you think he's going to be checked, he comes out of the corner and you think a guy is going to poke the puck off his stick, but it never happens."
Underage
According to the article, he regularly played kids 4-6 years older, and started playing juniors at 12 in Czechoslovakia:
"I was actually playing illegally," he wrote in his 1997 autobiography, "so there was no Jagr on the roster. I was hiding behind the name Zdenek Hrabe," who was an older pro on Kladno.
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Food
In the early '90s, long before "The Traveling Jagrs," Penguins fans learned he loved a certain brand of chocolate bar. He was flooded with them in the mail. "I eat them all," he said with a laugh. Find out what this is?
Life on 234 stars: French-Canadian scientists Borra and Trottier interpret certain sky signal data to be possibly of intelligent extraterrestrial origin.