Whatever Happened To…

i still wanna use some of my cards!!! ha! somewhere i got the fabulously rare and sure to be worth millions soupy campbell junior hulls card!!

Trauma, I don’t actually own that card (Honestly, it may be in a box in my basement). That was “borrowed” from somewhere on the Internets.

But if you’d like to help us catch up with Campbell at some point (still lives in St. Louis and is a Brentwood rec league HOFer if I remember correctly), we’ll gladly use a photo/scan of your card.

Harold was truly one of the greats. Watching him toss someone down to the ice, sit on them and wave his finger telling the “no no” was a sight to be held. He was so great.

True story…My buddies actually gave my wife and I an autographed painting of Harold as an engagement present! It hangs proudly in our family room still today.

Hey, anyone know whatever became of Phillipe Bozon?

the thing harlod snepts taught me about d:

(and you got to remember he was pretty dead by the time the blues got him)

if you know what you are doing, you dont even have to skate to be effective on d.

may no longer be true, but at that time, it certianly was. harold was far more effective with fewer steps than half our d

of course that half of our d included marois, tilley, featherstone, and dirk

still rememebr seeing him break up almost all the 2 on 1’s against he was in and if he could do it, why in they world cant someone with spead do it?!?! (backman! Visor! sasha! kravchuk!)

It doesn’t seem that long ago, but the game seems a lot different now. I’d like to watch tape of Snepsts and see how many things he (and all defensemen back then) did which are now penalties.

The finger shaking alone would probably get him a 10-minute misconduct.

wow bozon, havent heard that name for so long

Man, does this league need more characters like Harold!!!

This topic reminds me of when I play NHL ’07 (never got ’08 (yet)).
But, according to NHL ’07, several familiar players litter the rosters of European teams and those names include:

[ player(s) (team, league) ]

Andreas Dackell (Brynas, Elitserien)
Per Eklund (Djurgaden, Elitserien)
Tom Koivisto, Jason Krog, Tommy Salo (Frolunda, Elitserien)
Fredrik Olausson (HV 71, Elitserien)
Jerrod Skalde, Pavel Trnka, Mike Watt (Leksand, Elitserien)
Lubos Bartecko, Jonas Nordquist, Jaroslav Obsut, Mikael Renberg Shane Willis (Lulea, Elitserien)
Mattias Timander (Modo, Elitserien)
Petr Smrek (Mora, Elitserien)
Josef Boumedienne, Stan Neckar (Sodertalje, Elitserien)
Kent Manderville, Pavel Rosa (Timra, Elitserien)
Jere Karalahti, Peter White (HIFK, SM-Liiga)
Jyrki Lumme (Ilves, SM-Liiga)
Steve Passmore, Roman Vopat (Jokerit, SM-Liiga)
Petr Tenkrat (Karpat, SM-Liiga)
Scott Langkow (Lukko SM-Liiga)
Sami Helenius (Pelicans, SM-Liiga)
Kristian Kudroc (Saipa, SM-Liiga)
Antti Aalto, Greg Hawgood, Kai Nurminen (TPS, SM-Liiga)
Mark Beaufait Denis Pederson, Deron Quint (Berlin, Del)
Mathieu Darche, Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre (Duisburg, Del)
Chris Ferraro, Peter Ferraro, Craig Johnson, Andrej Trefilov (Dusseldorf, Del)
Daniel Corso, David Gosselin, Steve Kelly, Patrick Lebeau, Dwayne Norris, James Patrick (Frankfurt, Del)
Roman Cechmanek, Benoit Gratton, Darren Van Impe (Hamberg, Del)
Jeff Finley, Sascha Goc, Steve Heins, Trevor Kidd, Dan Lambert, Marty Murray (Hannover, Del)
Craig Ferguson, Cameron Mann, Ken Sutton, Rob Valicevic, Jimmy Waite (Ingolstadt, Del)
Ted Drury, Alexander Selivanov Krefeld, Del)
Alex Hicks, Bill Lindsay, Dave McLlwain (Koln, Del)
Lonny Bohonos, Frederic Chabot, Rene Corbet, Karl Dykhuis, Jeff Shantz, Yannick Tremblay (Mannheim, Del)
Christian Laflamme, Francois Methot, Jame Pollock (Nurnberg, Del)
Roman Turek (Budejovice, Extraliga)
Milan Hnilicka, Lubomir Vaic (Liberec, Extraliga)
Robert Reichel (Litvinov, Extraliga)
Jan Caloun, Jan Lasak (Pardubice, Extraliga)
Josef Beranek (Slavia, Extraliga)
Karel Piilar (Sparta, Extraliga)
Milan Kraft (Vary, Extraliga)
Vladimir Vujtek (Vitkovice, Extraliga)
Radim Bicanek, Jiri Dopita (Znojmo, Extraliga)

I left out younger guys that hadn’t crossed over yet, such as Merek Schwarz and Jiri Novotny.

by the way, a Phillippe Bozon bio: http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=10151

I’d like to recant ever thinking Gametime was smart.

Tom Koivisto? Possibly the softest defenseman ever to wear the note… and yes, that DOES include Backman. How many defensemen do you know who actually skate AWAY from contact? Backman just gives it the old (yawn…) college try and if he doesn’t get there first… oh well. Koivisto would actually skate away from a puck in the corner if someone was bearing down on him. “oops… gotta go protect the net. Coach always says protect the net.”

Little Bird, huh? We never claimed to be smart. What the hell about fondly remembering Harold Snepsts suddenly proves that?

Little Bird is now the early favorite for “Worst Non-Sequitur Comment for 2008”.

Nice work.

meh, he/she is probably just a writer for the Detroit version of GT

pah, you can’t recant a thought, only a statement.

and you can’t unthink a thought.

so little bird is wrongly admitting to being wrong?

sign it up sean, it will fight right in with the rest of us

I went to a Billy Joel concert at the Pacific Coliseum (two friends made me! they bought the tickets and got me liquored up!) back in 1990. No doubt because the thought of seeing Billy Joel kinda sucked, when somebody started chanting “Harrrrroooooold!” the whole crowd picked it up. For minutes on end the sound was deafening.

I’ve always hoped that nobody explained this to Billy Joel, and that to this day he wonders about this rock band “Harold” that the fans in Vancouver wanted to see more than they wanted to see him.