The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 115

The Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, September 21, 1991 K3 Hockey Hall of Fame Hockey Hall of Fame dinner on Ottawa By Martin Geary Citizen sports writer The 35th induction ceremonies will feature coach Scotty Bowman, former NHL stars Mike Bossy, Denis Potvin, Bob Pulford, Clint Smith and longtime linesman Neil Armstrong The 35th Hockey Hall of Fame induction dinner comes to Ottawa for the first time Monday with a star-studded cast For one night only, NHL fans can invest $250 to see hockey's winningest coach, a goal-scoring artist, the top-scoring defenceman, a true two-way player, an ironman official and a veteran who rarely visited the penalty box. In a ceremony at the Ottawa Congress Centre, coach Scotty Bowman, forward Mike Bossy, defenceman Denis Potvin, forward Bob Pulford, linesman Neil Armstrong and forward Clint Smith will be inducted into the Hall. This will be only the third time the dinner has been held outside of Toronto. In 1986, Leo Boivin, Dave Keon and Serge Savard were welcomed into the Hall in Vancouver during Expo "86. The 1988 ceremony was held in conjunction with the entry draft in Detroit, where Tony Esposito, Guy Lafleur and Brad Park received their coveted rings.

The move to Ottawa was an obvious one after the NHL board of governors awarded Terrace Investments Ltd. one of two expansion franchises last December. The theme of the Ottawa Hall of Fame dinner will be a Salute to the Senators both old and new. The Senators were the NHL's first dynasty, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920, 1921, 1923 and 1927 and finishi lg in first place seven times from 1919-27. Everyone attending the dinner will receive It and Frank Nighbor, the skates of Cyclone Taylor and the stick goaltender Percy LeSueur used for eight straight seasons, 1906-13.

Columnist Wayne Scanlan tells on pages 9 and 10 how a blow to the head with a hockey stick ended the junior career of Scotty Bowman, who went on to compile an unprecedented 739 career wins as a coach with the St Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres. If not for a chronic back injury, Mike Bossy could have been the greatest goal scorer of all-time. In his 10 seasons with the New York Islanders, Bossy counted 573 goals and had nine consecutive seasons of 50 goals or more. He also had five years of 60-pIus goals. Don Campbell interviewed hockey's first 50-50 (goals-in-games) player since Rocket Richard for a story on pages and For 20 years, Denis Potvin patrolled the blue line of the OHL's Ottawa 6Ts and the NHL's New York Islanders with authority.

An NHL rookie of the year, a top defence-man for three years and the captain of four Stanley Cup winners, Potvin is profiled by Ken Warren on pages 5 and 6. Bob IWord dared to be different both on an off the ice. On pages 20 and 21, Martin Cle-ary tells how a hard-working Maple Leaf earned his B.A. while playing in the NHL, started the NHL Players' Association and then worked his way up the management ladder. If one word could describe linesman Neil Armstrong, it's dependable.

Armstrong didn't miss an assignment in 16 years and only one in 1,962 regular-season, playoff and all-star games. Assistant sports editor Tom Casey spoke to Armstrong and his associates for a story on page 24. Playmaker Clint Smith logged plenty of ice time and picked up a lot of points in his 10 years with the New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks. He rarely visited the penalty box, accumulating a career 24 minutes. There were four seasons when he didnt get a penalty.

Bob Ferguson reviews his career on page 16. Tickets, which have remained at $250 ($150 deductible) for the past four years, are available by calling Michelle Landreville of Callprint Canada at 233-4101. There are about 250 tickets remaining. Proceeds of the dinner will fund the Hockey Hall of Fame, which is moving to downtown Toronto in the fall of 1992 from the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. a limited-edition calendar with the six inductees superimposed over aa image of the 1927 Ottawa Seaators' Stanley Cup-winning team.

A 12-by-12-foot enlargement of the calendar will serve as the stage backdrop. Besides a video showing clips of the Senators past and present, the Hockey Hall of Fame will have a display of memorabilia related to the Ottawa Senators and Ottawa Silver Seven. It will include the jerseys of King Clancy J3J The Ottawa 67's are proud to congratulate b1l DENIS POT for his induction into the New Hall of Fame 4 Denis Potvin 5 Mike Bossy 7 Scotty Bowman 9 Trivia Test 12 NHL Schedule 14 Clint Smith 16 Ottawa Innovators 17 Record Breakers 18 Ottawans in Hall 19 Bob Pulford 20 All-Star Teams 22 Neil Armstrong 24 Trivia Answers 25 Hall members 27 aJ NHL Hall of Fame September 23,1991 Catch the action as tomorrow's NHL Hall ofFamers, the nttaua R7's mm ii-n take on the defending 0HL Champs, 1 Jj( V- OTTAWA QCMATriRQ uic ouu Ul UJfllUUIIUO Friday, Sept. 27 Lf 7:30 D.m. if 2d ii5lll sponsors 111 I 111 it W- Two honored Citizen staff Bruce Martyn and Hugh Delano will be honored at the Hockey Hall of Fame induction dinner Monday for their contribution to the sport as members of the media.

Martyn, the voice of the Detroit Red Wings for the past 27 years, will receive the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award. Delano, who writes for the New York Post, has covered hockey for the past 20 years. His first 12 years were spent following the New York Rangers and the past the, Jew, Jersey Devils. FOSTER'S CSS 232-6767 SPORTS CENTRE 305 BANK ST. FREE PARKING 235-4195.