Besides Murray Bannerman, no other player may have been more exciting to listen to Pat Foley broadcast than Denis Savard. When Foley would tell us listening on radio that the Savard had just done the spin-0-rama you couldn’t wait to possibly see a highlight of it on TV.
Like so many of the All-Time Chicago players (Michael Jordan, Jonathan Toews), Savard was the third selection of the NHL draft in 1980 and didn’t waste anytime playing 76 games in the 1980-81 season. Savard scored 28 times with 47 assists in his rookie season to end up finishing 5th in the Calder Trophy race.