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    Great read. Can't say I ever knew this. I will be surprised if many, after looking at the painting (which many will undoubtably recognize) knew the background story to it. Click the link for the painting and full story. I'll share a snipit of the start of the story.

    http://www.therecord.com/sports-stor...ockey-history/

    All these years later he doesn't recall if it was a regular checkup or some kind of emergency that caused the team's other goalie to be at the dentist and miss practice that day. He simply remembers that as the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters skated that afternoon, he was in one net and the other was empty.

    On literally any other day in the entire history of hockey, this would be an irrelevant, forgotten footnote. If even that. But this one particular practice was the one Ken Danby happened to show up at to snap a photo around which he would base his next painting.

    The subject? A goalie.

    "So I was the only guy who could do the job," Dennis Kemp says.

    This was the beginning of the story of how an unknown hockey player became the model for one of the most famous paintings in Canadian history. And who somehow remained anonymous for decades until the greatest player of all time let his identity slip.
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    It's really cool how small the hockey world can be. And to have that kind of anonymity. It would be unheard of today!

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    It's really cool how small the hockey world can be. And to have that kind of anonymity. It would be unheard of today!
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    cool. i have that hanging in my basement..its a 5000 piece puzzle me and my son did and framed it..but its still close to the coolest thing in my house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by finnys_fanatsy View Post
    cool. i have that hanging in my basement..its a 5000 piece puzzle me and my son did and framed it..but its still close to the coolest thing in my house.
    I'll have to go see if I can find this puzzle. I love doing puzzles and this one would be worth doing and framing.
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    Don't a couple of guys on the forum have that painting as their avatar??

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    Someone does, I cant remember who it is though.
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    G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger


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