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SPORT-SCAN DAILY BRIEF NHL 8/15/2021 Boston Bruins 1219421 Hall of Fame goaltender Tony Esposito left a lasting legacy 1219422 Hagg Bag: Some Boston Bruins Talk In The Summer Break 1219423 BHN Puck Links: NHL Issues Memo On Who Must Be Vaccinated Chicago Blackhawks 1219424 Jake McCabe, Connor Murphy united on Blackhawks after 12 years of friendship Colorado Avalanche 1219425 Avalanche Mailbag: Where in lineup will Alex Newhook play this year? Columbus Blue Jackets 1219426 Staying centered: Jack Roslovic looks to prove himself in Columbus Edmonton Oilers 1219427 Oil Spills: Oilers summertime mop-up New York Rangers 1219428 Rangers' Adam Fox and Bruins' Charlie McAvoy: LI stars to NHL studs Ottawa Senators 1219429 GARRIOCH: The Ottawa Senators will get off to an earlier start at the Canadian Tire Centre for mid-week games 1219430 GARRIOCH: Ottawa Senators GM Pierre Dorion has had a busy off-season with more work ahead before camp Philadelphia Flyers 1219431 Flyers sign their top 2021 pick, a Finnish winger with 'elite speed' Pittsburgh Penguins 1219432 Penguins Schedule: NHL Announces Times, Pens Get 6 Afternoon Games in April San Jose Sharks 1219433 BREAKING: Eklund Signs with Sharks, Willing to Play in AHL 1219434 Where Has Brent Burns Declined? | SJHN+ Tampa Bay Lightning 1219435 Lightning will raise Stanley Cup banner at home opener 1219436 Sonya Bryson-Kirksey released from hospital following COVID battle Toronto Maple Leafs 1219437 Michael Hirshfeld’s work is providing some coaching for NHL coaches Vancouver Canucks 1219438 Canucks sign Jason Dickinson to a three-year deal SPORT-SCAN, INC. 941-284-4129 1219421 Boston Bruins “I think I was more nervous than Tony that night,” Phil said in “The Brothers Esposito,” a book with Tim Moriarty that the Globe excerpted in 1971. “In fact, it was probably the most frightful game of my entire hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Tony Esposito left a lasting legacy career.” A six-year NHLer, he was “getting ready to shoot pucks at my own brother, who had been in the league only one week.” Tony was fuming after hearing his older brother publicly agonizing about By Matt Porter Globe Staff potentially sending him back to the minors. Phil scored twice. It was a 2-2 tie. Updated August 14, 2021, 9:14 a.m. “We talked for maybe five minutes before I rushed for the team bus,” Tony wrote. “ ’You were lucky on the first goal and lucky on the second For those not familiar with Tony Esposito, here are the basics: star goal,’ I said. netminder for Chicago from 1969 to 1984. Three-time Vezina winner. No- “Phil just laughed. He said, ‘What the hell, Tony. I’m just a lucky guy.’ ” doubt Hall of Famer (1988). Still holds the record for shutouts in a season: 15, in a 63-start rookie season of 1969-70. NO LOVE LOST Tony O. Chelios never a fan of Bettman Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Keith Magnuson, and other villains of the Big The day is fast approaching when a whole bunch of new names — Chris Bad Bruins era knew Esposito, who died Tuesday at 78 from pancreatic Chelios and Mark Messier (ESPN) and Wayne Gretzky (Turner) among cancer, as a teammate. Phil Esposito loved his brother, stuck up for his them — will appear on our screens to break down games and discuss brother, and loved shooting for the insides of his brother’s posts. Every the league. Network executives will tell you that their hires, particularly goal, Tony insisted, was a lucky one. Hall of Famers, will bring the heat. Derek Sanderson said he might have been right. Even Phil, one of the Know what would be good TV? game’s all-time great scorers, had a tough time with his brother. Chelios and Gary Bettman having a discussion about what’s good for the “[Tony] gave you things and then he’d take them away,” Sanderson said. game. Wonder how much they’d agree. “He had great hands. The first great right-catching goalie.” If they get to talking labor issues, it might get tense. In 1994, as Lockout “He was very competitive,” Sanderson said, amid all the memories he 1 was under way and those beneath the executive level were losing shared over the phone this past week. “We had a problem going into paychecks, Chelios wondered aloud about Bettman’s safety … and didn’t Chicago because of him. He was a force to be reckoned with.” seem too concerned about it. They used to shoot high on Esposito early in games, Sanderson recalled, “If I was Gary Bettman, I’d worry about my family, about my well-being,” to try and rattle him. It made Phil livid, though he understood the strategy. Chelios said. “He’s going to affect a lot of people. Some crazed fan or He didn’t like seeing his brother and Sanderson square off at center ice, even a player — who knows? — they might take it into their own hands after Sanderson ran the Chicago netminder. and figure they get him out of the way, things might get settled. You hate to see something like that happen, but he took the job.” “He wound up and threw a stick at me,” recalled Sanderson, describing Tony Esposito’s hands at the end of a heavy piece of lumber. Sanderson Fun stuff. At the time, Bettman might have had an easier time shrugging had knocked over Tony O. with an elbow-and-hip combo following that off than Chelios’s next quip: Esposito’s charge through the circles for a loose puck. Esposito got up, pitched his Northland at Turk, and earned a few haymakers for his “The main thing is he doesn’t know anything about hockey,” Chelios said trouble. of the commissioner, then one year on the job and fresh from the NBA front office. “That’s obvious. He doesn’t recognize players like Jeremy “I used to cuff him, hit him in the back of the leg, skate through his Roenick and Brendan Shanahan at the meetings. Whether it’s this little crease,” Sanderson said a half-century later, with vivid recall. “I used to man syndrome thing or whatever ...” bug him and [Ken] Dryden. Goaltenders, if you let them go — like Glenn Hall and [Jacques] Plante, [Johnny] Bower — those guys were so The more diplomatic Gretzky also bashed Bettman that week, saying [expletive] focused. Tony could beat you by himself. You outshoot him, how “disappointed” he was that a newcomer had tried to change the 40-18, and you’d lose, 2-0.” financial picture. This was the era in which Bobby Orr fought Magnuson, as the Black “I’ve worked too damn hard in this sport to help push our sport and make Hawks (the spelling was changed to one word before the 1986-87 it be a piece of a puzzle, where it is today,” he said, “and I hope it doesn’t season) and Bruins were the “Real Final” of 1970, the last Original Six- all come crumbling down because one person wants to change the whole on-Original Six matchup of that year’s playoffs. It was rare to see a format.” college goalie (Tony O. played at Michigan Tech), the North American Let’s set the talk of Bettman’s legacy aside for now, and say this: He was game then largely dominated by Canada’s junior system. a primary force behind the multibillion-dollar TV deals that have player That Stanley Cup semifinal was brother vs. brother, two stars on their salaries at record numbers, and have a bunch of ex-players drawing TV way to becoming superstars. Tony was a year younger than Phil, but paychecks. Chelios, who remarked in his 2013 Hall of Fame speech that they arrived on similar timelines. Watching with split allegiances was Joe labor disputes were his most significant career regret, also didn’t mention Bertagna, the future Harvard goalie, Bruins goalie coach, and ECAC and Bettman over the course of 10 minutes. When speaking with reporters on Hockey East commissioner. He was converting from forward as a a call beforehand, he winced upon reference. sophomore at Arlington High and had an instant favorite as he studied “Let’s not mention that name on this call,” he said. “This is a good day.” the position. In the mask-optional years, to drop into a butterfly meant putting one’s face in the middle of the net. ETC. “You talk about courage … “ said Bertagna, on the phone and looking at Kaprizov trying to force Wild’s hand a signed Tony O. red No. 35 jersey in his Gloucester office. Kirill Kaprizov, who finally arrived stateside last season and electrified the Tony won 423 games, third all time when he retired and 10th today. He Twin Cities to a degree not seen since Marian Gaborik, is flexing his was known for trickery in the net, such as making snow piles at the side muscles. The Daily Faceoff reported the Calder Trophy winner agreed to of his net in the one-referee days, and sewing mesh inserts into his a deal with CSKA Moscow of the KHL that will pay him at least $10 goalie pants to block pucks. The league quickly registered its displeasure million if he can’t come to terms with the Wild by Sept. 1. with his innovative streak. But not nearly enough to keep him out of the Hall of Fame, an honor he received four years after retiring. Kaprizov wants a three-year deal that brings him to unrestricted free agency; the Wild want to lock him up for longer at a lower cap hit.