Sunday, August 31, 2008

Bad News follow-up

Finally, a piece on Gilles Bilodeau -

From The Birmingham News:


Hockey player `Bad News' was a teddy bear off the ice

Sunday, August 31, 2008
ERIN STOCK
News staff writer

Gilles "Bad News" Bilodeau famously delivered some bad news on Nov. 24, 1977, in what was coined The Thanksgiving Night Massacre in the next day's newspaper.

It took Bilodeau and four other Birmingham Bulls starters exactly 24 seconds to start a free-swinging, 15-minute brawl against their opponents. Players racked up 78 penalty minutes in the first 30 seconds of play.

"Bulls make a big Thanksgiving kill," The Birmingham News headline read . . .

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