Jim Schoenfeld

If you're out there and you want to have a game-like practice, you better be helping the shooters as much as you're helping the goalie, because you need the shooters to come back.

And a lot of the drills that we do, you know, I'll tell you what, when I was, when I was playing for Hartford, Jim Schoenfeld was our general manager and Shoney was, was the best.

He was great to me.

He helped me become a Ranger.

to jerry king kong corab man big jerry corab is 78 years young today how about that

So I was at an event the other day, and someone said that the brother-in-law was Jim Schoenfeld.

Okay.

And I

think, wow, because I just think of that presence of Jim Schoenfeld and Jerry King Kong Korab as far as, I know they played for, I know he played for other teams, Los Angeles Kings and all that, but just, man, oh, man, you talk about two pillars, two towers on the defense core of the Buffalo Sabres.

That's them.

And you can't mention Korab and Schoenfeld without a little Jocelyn Gavermal.

Happy to share some of those because Brent and I go back over 40 years.

His time, he came to the Buffalo Sabres in a huge deal that was made in early December of 81, a trade in which Scotty Bowman sent two of his previous captains Jim Schoenfeld and Danny Gare, two of the Detroit Red Wings.

And the yield was Brent Peterson, Mike Foligno, and Dale McCourt.

Huge trade that day, and it still seems just as huge right now.

Okay, so those are the easy three.

Now, there's three more, like Jim Schoenfeld.

No.

No, it was a guy really