#moiappreciation

Some days are better than others. If you get on a roll, you get on a roll. Hockey's a funny game. Things bounce funny all the time.

It was fun for me to trade some pins. Being in the village with my parents. And my buddy showed up. He hitchhiked all the way up here from Minneapolis.

Bill Baker, who’d been captain of the Minnesota varsity, was at once baffled and amused by him. The Gophers would be playing down at Madison with 8600 hostiles jeering at them, Herbie jittering like an overwound mainspring, everybody’s adrenaline shooting off the scale, Baker’s face showing the strain. And during intermission, in would breeze Strobel, unconcerned and reassuring: ‘Hey, guuyys, what’s the matter? We’re only down by threee.’ The nonchalance was genuine; three goals were nothing for Strobel.