“Schoney,” I called out rather ineffectually, attempting to grab the Devils’ coach and prevent him from getting into trouble as the brouhaha escalated in the corridor leading to and from the Meadowlands ice. “Schoney …”
But it was too late. There was no stopping Jim Schoenfeld, and no stopping the trouble that would be visited upon Jim Schoenfeld — and, in fact, the NHL — in the wake of perhaps the most infamous coach-referee confrontation in North American pro sports history, which occurred 30 years ago to the day and date of Sunday, May 6, 1988.