Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Shorthanded The Untold Story of the Seals Hockey's Most Colorful Team by Brad Kurtzberg Charlie Burns. Charles Frederick Burns (born February 14, 1936) is a retired American-born Canadian professional forward who played 749 games in the . He played for the Detroit Red Wings, , Oakland Seals, Pittsburgh Penguins, and . Burns was mainly known for being an excellent skater, playmaker and defensive player who performed checking and penalty-killing. His trademark was the heavily padded helmet that he was forced to wear after suffering a serious head injury while playing junior hockey in 1954–55. In 1959, he was the only US-born player in the NHL. Although Burns was born in Detroit, Michigan, his family moved to Toronto, Ontario when he was a child. [1] Burns chose Canadian citizenship when he turned 21 [2] and later played for the 1958 World Champion Whitby Dunlops. Burns had three spells as a player-coach, twice with the San Francisco Seals (1965-66 & 1966-67) and one with the Minnesota North Stars (1969–70). He coached the Stars again in 1974-75 after his retirement. Curiously, all of these were midseason assignments. He currently coaches youth hockey for the Wonderland Wizards of Bridgeport, Connecticut in his spare time. [3] Maruk. If you have information about this name , share it in the comments area below! Numerology information Maruk: Name Number: 1. Meaning: Individual, Masculine, Logic, Self, Active, Leadership, Initiative, Assertive. Songs about Maruk: Love Slave (feat. Jaylee Maruk) by Pearl from the Album Pleasure Love Slave (feat. Jaylee Maruk) by Pearl from the Album Love Slave (feat. Jaylee Maruk) Maruk Mal by Ajith Bandara from the Album Thilaka Thiyanna. Books about Maruk: Kang Yu-won ui kojon kangui kongsandang sonon : cholmun sedae rul wihan Maruk'usu immunso. - 2006 by Yu-won Kang Mutter mit 18 - Managerin mit 36 (German Edition) - Jan 23, 2002 by Mona Maruk Yoda: Dark Rendezvous (Star Wars: Clone Wars) - Nov 23, 2004 by Sean Stewart Hockey Card Stories: True Tales from Your Favorite Players - Oct 14, 2014 by Ken Reid As Long as the Rivers Flow - Feb 2003 by Larry Loyie and Heather D. Holmlund Ulysses Moore #2: The Long-Lost Map - Jul 1, 2006 by Ulysses Moore and Inc Scholastic Genesis (Spanish Edition) - Sep 6, 2015 by Pedro Urvi Frozen in Time: A Minnesota North Stars History - Dec 1, 2014 by Adam Raider Ulysses Moore #2: The Long-Lost Map - Sep 1, 2007 by Scholastic Hockey in Cleveland (Images of Sports) - Sep 2, 2013 by Jon Sladek Shorthanded: The Untold Story of the Seals: Hockey's Most Colorful Team - Mar 6, 2006 by Brad Kurtzberg The Glass Mountains - Sep 16, 2014 by Cynthia Kadohata. 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Shimo-Maruko Station is a Tokyu Tamagawa Line station located in Ōta, Tokyo. Marukawichthys is a small genus of deepwater bullhead sculpins native to the Pacific Ocean near Japan. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of a little girl nicknamed Maruko and her family in suburban mid-seventies Japan. The series is set in the former city of Shimizu, now part of Shizuoka City, birthplace of its author. Shorthanded: The Untold Story of the Seals: Hockey's Most Colorful Team by Brad Kurtzberg. You can read more about the Seals in these books: Shorthanded: The Untold Story of the Seals: Hockey's Most Colorful Team by Brad Kurtzberg. The : A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL�s Most Outlandish Teams by Steve Currier http://goldensealshockey.com. You can watch "The California Golden Seals Story" hockey documentary by Mark Greczmiel on iTunes. I used a Canon 8400F to scan these Kodak Ektachrome slides and Kodak Tri-X Pan and Ilford HP-4 Pan Black and White negatives. Seals, the Bay Area's first NHL team, had more fun than success. 2 of 4 Dennis Maruk was a member of the California Golden Seals in the franchise's last season in the Bay Area (1975-76) and for the two seasons it existed as the Cleveland Barons. He is the Seals/Barons all-time leader in goals (94), is third in assists (117) and second in points (211). Len Shapiro Collection Show More Show Less. 3 of 4 The and Arena construction completed Seen here, the inauguration of Arena as it is hosting an Ice Hockey game between the California Seals and San Diego Gulls AP Photo photo ran 12/11/1966, p. 8 Show More Show Less. 4 of 4 Ellis "Woody" Erdman, left, was part of a group that attempted to buy the California Seals. But when the deal fell through, his group was forced to back out and Charlie Finley, right, bought the team. Len Shapiro Collection Show More Show Less. Gary Simmons recalls driving across the San Mateo-Hayward bridge one summer morning when he heard the news on the radio. The Seals’ hockey team could be moving to Miami, , New Orleans or Cleveland. The ex-goaltender didn’t think about the report again until crossing the bridge at night after teaching a youth hockey clinic. “And when it was announced — ‘The California Golden Seals are moving to Cleveland’ — I just thought, ‘Of course!’” Simmons said. The NHL’s first venture into the Bay Area was short — just nine seasons — yet long on color and entertainment. A small but loyal number of fans supported a team that changed its name from California Seals to Oakland Seals only two months into its first season. By the time the league rescued failing ownership — a common trait throughout the Seals’ existence — the team was known as the California Golden Seals. Their time in the Bay Area was anything but golden. As part of the league’s expansion from its “Original Six” to 12 teams in 1967, the franchise that started in the Bay Area is the only one that didn’t survive. After they moved to Cleveland for two woeful seasons on the ice and at the box office, the renamed Barons became the only NHL team since 1942 to fold. Four ’67 expansion teams — Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis — are celebrating 50-year anniversaries this season. And a fifth — the Minnesota North Stars — predated the 2000 expansion Wild by spending 26 seasons in the Land of 1,000 Lakes before relocating to Dallas in 1993. “I have great memories out there in Oakland, other than we didn’t win enough hockey games,” said Walt McKechnie, who spent three seasons (1971-74) in Oakland and led the Seals with 54 points in 1972-73. “We had fun on the ice even though we didn’t have a lot of success . and we had lots of fun off the ice,” echoed Stan Weir, who played the first three (1972-75) of his 11 seasons with the Seals. The Sharks, who began play 15 years after the Seals departed, will honor their hockey ancestors when Detroit visits SAP Center on Saturday. There will be video tributes, memorabilia on display in the arena’s concourse, and a number of ex-Seals will be on hand to recognize a team that averaged 20 wins per season, had five owners and employed seven head coaches — five between 1971 and 1975. Despite the dearth of success, it’s difficult to find anyone who will speak poorly of his time with the Seals. “I have nothing but positive things to say about hockey in the Bay Area,” said Marshall Johnston, first a player, then coach of the Seals. “I, for one, want to thank the Sharks for reciprocating to the fans of the Seals.” The Seals are hardly forgotten. In 2006, author Brad Kurtzberg produced a 336-page book, “Shorthanded: The Untold Story of the Seals. Hockey’s Most Colorful Team.” And Mark Greczmiel, a director and producer of television documentaries who attended the Seals’ games as a teen, is in the final stages of a two-year project that chronicles the team in a 97-minute documentary. The late Charles Schulz, creator of “Peanuts,” was one of the Seals’ early dedicated fans. And an Oakland high school student named Tom Hanks — who would make a few movies — sold hot dogs on occasion at Seals games. And the team’s booster club is still going strong. A couple dozen members meet every other month at Ricky’s sports bar in San Leandro. California Golden Seals head for the Ice at the Oakland Arena leading the way are Gary Simmons (l) and Gilles Miloche, Photo ran 12/20/1974, p. 63 Jerry Telfer / TheChronicle 1974. The Seals employed 138 players over the years. The more recognizable names included Harry Howell, Reggie Leach, Gilles Meloche, Craig Patrick, Charlie Simmer and Carol Vadnais. Diminutive scorer Dennis Maruk — with 878 points in 888 career games over 14 NHL seasons — was the last active Seal. He retired from the North Stars in 1989. Now 61 and living in suburban Toronto, Maruk looks back fondly to the day the Seals drafted him in the second round in 1975. “I was pretty excited about everything that was going on: playing in California, wearing shorts and T-shirts to the rink,” Maruk said. “I bought a ’73 Corvette with a T top. Hey, a 20-year-old kid driving around like that in those days? It was pretty special to play hockey there.” “Every time I had friends or relatives come out, I’d show them the sites. I don’t know how many times I was on Alcatraz.” The NHL chose Oakland and Los Angeles for its first California franchises in order to attract a new U.S. television contract. The move undercut the existing , which was viewed as a possible rival. Barry Van Gerbig, an Ivy League-educated socialite, purchased the minor-league Seals from San Francisco developer Melvin Swig and moved the former WHL team from the Cow Palace into a new arena — known today as Oracle Arena. Attendance lagged during the debut season and didn’t improve much in the second season when the Seals qualified for the playoffs despite a sub- .500 record. Van Gerbig got cold feet, and when the league rejected an offer to sell and relocate to Vancouver, British Columbia, he sold the team to a group of investors led by Ellis “Woody” Erdman and including ex-NFL kicker Pat Summerall and former Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford. That group, however, abruptly filed for bankruptcy and Van Gerbig was forced to find another buyer: A’s owner Charlie Finley. On the ice, the Seals hoped to expand their fan base with postseason berths in their second and third years, but back-to-back first-round exits tempered the enthusiasm — and attendance totals. “The 7,000-8,000 fans were as hard core as 15,000-20,000 fans in a lot of cities,” said Johnston, 74, and now living in Bemidji, Minn. “The same group, it seemed — even if we got beat the night before 10-0 — was there again, those same 7,000.” “I loved playing in that arena,” Weir added. “The fans were very vocal.” The fans were led by drum-beating, gravel-voiced enthusiast Krazy George Henderson of San Jose. His exposure at the Seals’ games gave rise to a career that included gigs with dozens of professional teams, including the A’s. “If we could ever have won in the playoffs or been competitive, I can’t imagine how great it would have been,” said McKechnie, 69, who lives in Peterborough, Ontario. “The one thing we lacked was discipline. I don’t want to say we were bad, but we were all young … a lot of free spirits. We needed the reins tightened.” A little more discipline — and perhaps a little more money, too. Ernie Hicke, who played two seasons with the Seals — and had his older brother, Bill, as a teammate in his rookie season — was quick to offer why the Seals lost what he estimates as 50 percent of their top players to the rival WHL, which operated from 1972 through ’79. “Charlie Finley,” Hicke said. “The money they were offering was a heck of a lot more than Charlie was offering.” Finley’s frustration with players leaving for the WHL, his unwillingness to pay more to keep them, and his inability to find a new owner resulted in the Seals being sold back to the league after 1974. That’s when Swig re-entered the picture. After a possible relocation to Denver fell through, he appeared to have saved the Seals by purchasing the team from the NHL a year later. Swig had a model replica made of a proposed rink with office buildings, a hotel and retail outlets in downtown San Francisco. He showed it to Simmons one day. “In my opinion, had they gone there, they’d still be there,” said Simmons, 72, a Harley-riding enthusiast who lives in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. “I’m not going to mention the mayor, but they named a center after him in about the same spot where our rink was supposed to be. It was all politics. Mel got turned down, and it was sickening.” Swig’s plan had the approval of Mayor Joseph Alioto, but when George Moscone took office in January 1976 he found a reason to bring the issue back to a vote. Swig was denied. The team’s fate had been sealed. The league didn’t stand in the way of the Seals’ move to Cleveland following the 1975-1976 season, a move urged by minority owners — and future Sharks’ original owners George and Gordon Gund. Just like that, the Seals were gone. The players were stunned and saddened. “I was engaged to get married, and back home in Toronto getting ready for the wedding, so I had no idea at all,” Maruk said of the relocation announcement. “I got the call and said, ‘Wait a minute, what’s going on?’ I was very disappointed.” According to Simmons, the location was the worst part of it. “These guys were used to playing, practicing, golfing, going over to San Francisco,” said the goalie nicknamed “Cobra.” “What are they going to do in Cleveland? Make snowmen and throw snowballs? It was just a totally depressing thing going there. “It wasn’t going to fly in Oakland. Like we used to say, that bridge is 8 miles long in one direction and 800 the other. Nobody went from San Francisco to Oakland. Why they didn’t go to San Francisco when they expanded I have no idea.” Ross McKeon covers the San Jose Sharks for The San Francisco Chronicle. Twitter: @rossmckeon. Ross covered the San Jose Sharks and the National Hockey League since the team's inception going back to the Cow Palace days starting in 1991-92. He was the Sharks' traveling beat writer and general assignment reporter/editor first for the San Francisco Examiner, then the San Francisco Chronicle, through 2007. He spent four years as NHL Editor/Writer with Yahoo! Sports as part of a 36-year print and on-line sports journalism career that began in 1978. Away from work, Ross is heavily involved in youth baseball as a manager, coach and administrator for 20- plus years. The 10 Grumpiest Coaches in NHL History. Coaches are paid to win, not to make friends. But over the years, some NHL coaches have earned a reputation as particularly tough to get along with. Here is a look at the top 10 grumpiest coaches in NHL history. Keep in mind that grumpy doesn't mean that these men were not excellent coaches or good people. Coaching a professional hockey team is not an easy job and can be very stressful. As a coach, a lot of things are out of your control. Still, these coaches tended to be grumpy and tough on their players and, in a few instances, even the press or the fans. To make this list, you had to have coached in the NHL, so minor league coaches (like the legendary Eddie Shore, who would have won this hands down) and coaches in the WHA or in Europe are just not eligible. The coaches on this list were often yellers or just seriously lacked a sunny disposition. Feel free to comment and mention any coaches you feel belong on this list. Indicate why you feel your candidate belongs and where you feel they belong on this list. 10. Mike Milbury. Mike Milbury's temper has been an issue throughout his career as an NHL player, coach, general manager and broadcaster. As a player, Milbury notoriously charged into the stands at Madison Square Garden in 1979 and beat a hapless fan with his own shoe. As a coach and GM with the Bruins and Islanders, Milbury often yelled at referees and his own players when he wasn't happy with what was going on during a game. In December of 2011, Milbury was accused (although later acquitted) of assaulting an opposing player during a youth hockey game. He was an assistant coach at that time. Even as a broadcaster for NBC and NESN, Milbury has occasionally lost his temper and cursed on the air. He is an opinionated broadcaster who makes memorable quotes, but again, he is hardly a cuddly teddy bear. 9. Fred Glover. Fred Glover coached the California Golden Seals and in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Glover was one of the greatest players in AHL history when he starred for the Cleveland Barons back in the days of the Original Six. He was also a very tough guy on and off the ice. Practices for the Seals under Glover were not always easy, but eventually, the players figured out how to make them shorter. Glover laced up his skates and scrimmaged with his team. Part of him still wanted to play in the NHL. Once he scored a few goals in the scrimmage, practice was generally over. Glover once got into a fight at the Oakland Coliseum with a visiting fan who was heckling a Seals fan. In the book Shorthanded: The Untold Story of the Seals, Hockey's Most Colorful Team , Glover recalled the incident. "The last thing we're going to do is let anything happen to our season ticket holders," Glover explained. "We have so few, we can't afford to." Unfortunately, Glover couldn't stop the Seals from losing a lot of hockey games, and he ended up drinking heavily. One former Seals employee said he was "moody" while another remarked, "Freddie carried so much inside. He was one tough SOB." Glover was hired, fired and rehired by Charlie Finley, who then owned the Seals. In between, he had a less successful stint with the Kings. In the end, the losing got to Glover, who had a tough time of it. 8. Bob Pulford. Bob Pulford had a Hall of Fame career as a player with the Maple Leafs and Kings and later was a successful coach with the Kings and Blackhawks. But Pulford wasn't always the happiest man behind the bench. Bob Berry, who played under Pulford in Los Angeles, told Michael Farber of The Montreal Gazette back in 1981, "He [Pulford] made them all better players even though it may have been a pain at times." Most players realized it was tough to play for Pulford, but they realized that under that tough exterior was a genuinely good person. Mike Murphy, who played under Pulford in Los Angeles and later coached in the NHL, told Chris Baker of The Los Angeles Times , "He's a very intimidating guy, but he's a softie at heart. It just takes a while to get to know him." Broadcaster Bob Miller added, "He was all business around his players, but away from his players, you could have a good time with him." While he may have been tough, Pulford was successful. He won the Jack Adams Trophy as the NHL's coach of the year in 1975 and helped make the Blackhawks a consistent winner in the 1980s after leaving Los Angeles. 7. Jack Adams. Jack Adams is a hockey legend. His name has been engraved on the Stanley Cup as a player, coach and general manager. Still, Adams was known for his temper and for keeping his own players on their toes by making constant trades so they would never feel their job was secure. The constant trading earned him the nickname "Trader Jack." One of his more infamous trades came in 1957, when he dealt future Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay to Chicago because Lindsay was active in the players' attempt to form a union. As a coach, Adams was suspended during the 1942 Stanley Cup Final for punching a referee when he thought the official was being biased. It gave Adams the distinction of being the first coach to be suspended during a Stanley Cup Final series. Adams was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959. He served as Red Wings general manager for 36 years, longer than any other GM in NHL history. 6. Ken Hitchcock. Ken Hitchcock has mellowed a bit in recent years, but there is no doubt he has been a grumpy and difficult coach to play for over the course of his career. Hitchcock has been successful and even won a Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars in 1999. Still, he is known as a yeller and a screamer. In 1998, an AP article described Hitchcock as "an in-your-face taskmaster who demands everything his players have to give, then asks for more." Scott Melanby, who was an assistant under Hitchcock in St. Louis, simply described him as a "hard ass." Either way, "Hitch" has managed to be very successful at motivating his players during coaching stints with Dallas, Philadelphia, Columbus and St. Louis. 5. Herb Brooks. Herb Brooks will always be remembered for coaching the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team to a miraculous gold-medal victory, including a defeat of the mighty Soviet team. But anybody who saw the movie Miracle knows that Brooks managed to bring his team together by getting them to unite in their hate for him. He made them do endless skates after practice that became known as "Herbies" until the players were exhausted or even sick. While Brooks was remarkably successful coaching college hockey and at the Olympics, his NHL results were mixed at best. He coached the Rangers, North Stars, Devils and Penguins but never advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs. Brooks was a great coach and an inspiration to his players, but he was not a warm and cuddly guy and came across as a grumpy coach to many. 4. Bert Olmstead. Bert Olmstead was a Hall of Fame player in the NHL known for his toughness and his never-ending desire to win. He coached only one year in the NHL with the expansion California Seals in 1967-68, but Olmstead's intensity and desire were not a good match for his expansion club. Olmstead didn't even finish the season and was let go after winning just 11 of 64 games. Olmstead was hostile to the press. As Eddie Dorohoy, who worked with Olmstead when he coached the Vancouver Canucks of the WHL said in the book Shorthanded: The Untold Story of the Seals, Hockey's Most Colorful Team , "If Olmstead did public relations for Santa Claus, there wouldn't be any Christmas." His captain in Oakland that year, Bob Baun, said that Olmstead's training camp "made Punch Imlach look like a schoolboy." The low point for Olmstead came on Thanksgiving Day in November. The team practiced from 10 a.m. until 11:30 and then the coach called a team meeting at noon. But Olmstead just locked the team in their locker room and didn't return until 5:00 p.m., telling them that if regular people had to work from nine to five, his hockey team would, too. Needless to say, the club had little to be thankful for that day. Olmstead stepped down before the season ended because the expansion Seals couldn't match his ability and passion. His brief tenure in Oakland was certainly a grumpy one. 3. Scotty Bowman. Scotty Bowman is considered by many to be the greatest coach in NHL history. He won nine Stanley Cups as a coach, including victories with the Canadiens (four), Penguins (one) and Red Wings (three). Still, Bowman's ways of motivating a team were notoriously difficult. He often gave players the silent treatment or simply put them at the end of the bench and gave them nearly no playing time to show his displeasure. Rejean Houle, who played for Bowman with the Canadiens in the 1970s, summed up Bowman's mind games by telling Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated , "To understand Scotty, you have to know one thing: What human nature dictates, he does the opposite." He wasn't always easy for his players to understand or get along with, but Bowman was a winner and eventually, players learned there was a method to his madness. He may have been unorthodox, but nobody was more successful behind an NHL bench. 2. Mike Keenan. Mike Keenan was a successful NHL coach, but his legendary temper and the difficulty many general managers had in dealing with him kept him moving from team to team more often than you would expect. In a 1995 interview with Gary Smith of Sports Illustrated , Keenan tried to explain away his legendary temper. "My temper is a tool," Keenan said. "I lose my temper for the right reasons, to make players better." Former Flyers Peter Zezel said Keenan threw sticks at him in order to motivate him, while former Blackhawks forward Steve Thomas said, "Eventually, he drove us physically and mentally insane." Keenan had success in Philadelphia, helping the team reach the Stanley Cup Final twice. He later led the Blackhawks to the finals in 1992 before they lost to the Penguins. Finally in 1994, Keenan won a Stanley Cup with the Rangers, although a feud with Rangers GM Neil Smith led to his departure before the start of the following season. Later stints with St. Louis, Vancouver, Boston, Florida and Calgary were less successful, and Keenan's difficult personality was a big reason for his brief tenures with those clubs. 1. John Tortorella. John Tortorella became a legend on Broadway in recent years as coach of the New York Rangers. But it wasn't for his coaching ability. Although Torts was successful during most of his tenure at Madison Square Garden, he'll always be remembered for the way he treated his players and members of the media. Tortorella's postgame press conferences were often brief and filled with tirades against members of the media who were just doing their job. His feuds with Larry Brooks of the New York Post became almost legendary. Tortorella also called out his players, often in public. He once said that forward Carl Hagelin, "stinks on the power play" during a postgame press conference. When Tortorella was fired by the Rangers after the team was eliminated in the playoffs this spring, the New York Daily News reported that "multiple players" were behind the move to fire their coach. GM Glen Sather added, "Every coach has a shelf life." Torts did win a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004. He now is head coach of the Vancouver Canucks. It will be interesting to see if his personality changes at all in Vancouver.