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Remembering Harold
by Alanah McGinley on 06/25/08 at 02:17 PM ET
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Reacting to the current bad behavior in the NHL owners’ boxes lately (i.e. Samueli suspended by the NHL; Del Biaggio’s financial chaos, etc) Jamie Fitzgerald of About.com reminds us that modern NHL owners are amateurs when it comes to such shenanigans. Remember Harry?
All very shady. But today’s NHL shysters are mere amateurs compared to the great Harold Ballard. Pal Hal was no ordinary crook. He did it in style and had a great time along the way.
And nobody - nobody - knew how to run a hockey team into the ground like Harold.
Even better, Fitzgerald reminds me of a scandalous interview that Ballard once gave CBC’s Barbara Frum. An absolute classic:
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