All this and poetry, too.
Former Islanders GM and dynasty architect Bill Torrey turned 81 today, so let's take a minute to celebrate the man, his legendary hockey wisdom and his mercurial sense of humor.
First: a cool AP story from February, 1972, as Torrey just barely begins the process of building an NHL expansion team from scratch basically without a hope in Hell. The whole (short) article is interesting, but this sequence is extra fun. I never thought of the Islanders logo as splashy.
"I don't think it makes drafting somebody who won't be here a long time," said Torrey.