I saw that you brought up Eddie Shack earlier... Is it true or not that he couldn't read?
Okay, I've heard/read legends that contradict that speculation:
- When Shack played for the Leafs, Jack Adams said he couldn't read. So Shack scored on Detroit, skated by Detroit's bench, and said 'Hey Jack: G-O-A-L".
- When Shack played for the Pens, the coach would write practice times on a blackboard. "No practice tomorrow" was written once, and Shack was the only player to show up on that day.
2007-12-07 12:38:06 · 18 answers · asked by Erica 6 in Sports ➔ Hockey
Oh, just a diclaimer... I mean no respect to Eddie Shack!
(Though I do wonder what could have been had Jack Riley not traded Rene Robert for him!)
2007-12-07 13:21:48 · update #1
CME - Wow, you played with a signed puck? Is that a Canadian thing? Lol.
Although I do have a Josef Melichar puck I'd love to sink into a creek. (Of all the signed pucks I could have won...)
2007-12-07 13:26:50 · update #2
LITY - Wow, my best friend's mother shares the same sentiments. I don't what it was like in Canada, but in the US there certainly wasn't as much emphasis put on education and graduating back in the day. You were considered a good kid if you dropped out of school to work (plus a lot of kids HAD to do that). To drop out of school now days is really frowned upon.
2007-12-07 13:31:05 · update #3
MIKE - I think LITY beat me to calling you "Mikey". Aww. Lol.
2007-12-07 14:14:15 · update #4
Still have to admit Eddie was one huge character. A total card.
My dad dropped out of school and never went back so he made damned sure all of us finished high school if he had to drag us out of bed and take us there.
No Sheep Joe B: Is it a full moon or did they hand out weekend passes at the fruit farm?
2007-12-07 13:12:46 · answer #1 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Eddie Shack was indeed illiterate, and some question his business savvy as well. he took a company called the PopShoppe and raiused it into a $40million a year operation and then lost it all in less than a year. Since then, he has started many other businesses many times with the same result. I've heard rumours that he requested his NHL pension in a lump sum and has gone through it as well.
He's not alone. I was a lousy student. My wife had to teach me things like economics, and words with more than one syllable. Hockey was important to me. I wanted to be the next Maurice Richard. You keep playing for travelling teams, you get signed as a 16 yr old, you think your rich. When I turned 19 and actually got invited to training camp...I got a check for $6500.00. That was a huge amount in those days, I bought a house with it. But looking back, I wish I had graduated from high school.
I'm sure Eddie wished the same thing.
Mikey
Jacques Demers was the coach of the Canadiens in 1993, and a few years ago, it was revealed in a book that he couldn't read. He then made it public shortly afterwards.
TBL
- "Like I'm Telling You Who I Am" (except Yahoo cut off the 'm'). Since I have the Stan the Man avatar, I'm thinking of going all out and just becoming 'LITY'. But still in the thinking stage.
2007-12-07 21:11:31 · answer #2 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Mike- Mario Trembley was the former Habs player who worked for Molson brewery only to get a job as the habs coach after Demers was gone. Trembley will forever be infamous for being the man who drove Patrick Roy out of Montreal. That's why not a soul in this city likes the man.
2007-12-10 11:27:24 · answer #3 · answered by DLG 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not only Eddie Shack (who dropped out of junior high school if I remember the story correctly), but Jacques Demers, too. In Demers' case, his illiteracy was due to physical and emotional abuse by his father. Shack needed to earn money for his family.
Didn't see your post up there when I added mine, Bob.
2007-12-07 21:07:45 · answer #4 · answered by Snoop 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I know The Shack..and he reads just fine.. Country Dumb was a great marketing tool.
2007-12-08 00:12:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mario Tremblay; coach of the Habs when they won their last Cup couldn't read. I think he still doesn't know how to. I remember reading this in some hockey book. I don't know about Shack.
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Then who is Mario Tremblay?? I thought it was Tremblay.
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Oh ok, I just got their names mixed up. I knew it was a Habs coach.
2007-12-07 21:44:43 · answer #6 · answered by N/A 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know he can write his name. When I was, I dunno 9 or 10, he was at my hockey banquet and autographed a puck for me.
Sacred treasures being what they are, I kept it on my dresser until the pond froze over and we needed a puck. It lasted about 15 minutes before it was shot into the creek feeding the pond. Had it for a whole summer and fall, though.
Actually, I've heard that before too, that he couldn't read.
2007-12-07 20:53:58 · answer #7 · answered by cme 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Hi Erica, not sure about Shack (it was more common for people in general back then) but Jacques Demers was.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/hockey/nhl/11/03/demers/index.html?cnn=yes
2007-12-07 20:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by Bob Loblaw 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
LITY -
Where did you come up with you name?
2007-12-07 22:49:46 · answer #9 · answered by TBL 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
who? I dont understand do you want to know if he can read.
I do not know. that really is not enough info to go by. maybe he did not check the board or he forgot or was sick the day before. or he is just an idiot
2007-12-07 20:47:16 · answer #10 · answered by M&M = yum 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋