the mad sports man

 The 1967-68 NHL season had - guess what - 12 teams and a 74 game schedule. Highlights include: 1. May 15, 1967 Boston gets Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge Sr from Chicago. 2. Alan Eagleson negotiates Bobby Orr's contract. Salaries rise. 3. February 24, 1968, Garry Unger begins a 914 consecutive games played streak. It ends on December 21st 1979. During the streak, he plays in Toronto, Detroit St Louis and Atlanta. He had passed Andy Hebenton. 4. April 6, Los Angeles wins consecutive playoff games, the first team to do so in their first playoffs. Michel Plasse is the first pick in the 1968 draft, drafted by Montreal. He plays 299 games with Cleveland, Kansas City, St Louis, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Colorado and Quebec. He has a 92-136-57 record. Playoffs: QF;Montreal 4 Boston 0, Chicago 4 New York 2, St Louis 4 Philadelphia 3, Minnesota 4 Los Angeles 3. SF: Montreal 4 Chicago 1, St Louis 4 Minnesota 3. Stanley Cup: Montreal 4 St Louis 0. Montreal wins 15th Cup. Glenn Hall of St Louis wins

 Domingo German of the New York Yankees has thrown a perfect game (no Oakland runners got on and no defensive errors) in a Yankees 11-0 win in Oakland.  He had 9 strike outs  in the process.

 The 2023-24 NHL schedule is out and opens October 10 with 3 games: Nashville at Tampa Bay, Chicago at Pittsburgh and Seattle at Vegas.  Season concludes April 18. Today is also draft day.

 Oh boy some storm this afternoon. Started around 2:50pm. Heavy duty rain and pea sized hail. Rain was heavy and intense enough that the streets here in Prince Albert git flooded.  Even some of the parking lot at work was flooded. No water got in at home or at work.  Makes me wonder what else got swamped. 

 The first day of summer. It began at 8:58am Prince Albert time. Supposed to get to 19c here.  Although the last few days on the prairies has had some weather.  It is also national indigenous day.  There will be stuff happening along the river bank to celebrate. Planning on checking it out.

 Not so much in my neck of the woods. Western Alberta got snow yesterday. You read that right  - snow.  Also a few tornado spouts in Alberta as well. I think B.C. got some too.  Aahhh yes.

 This wasn't much of a series and game 5 ended the same way the Stanley Cup finals started- with a one sided win. Vegas won game 5 9-3 and the series 4-1. Their first Stanley Cup in their 6th season.  Makes ne wonder if a Stanley Cup clincher finished with someone scoring 9 goals.  That's it for another NHL season.  At least until the fall. 

 Archangels wins the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes. Javier Castellano wins hist first Belmont as jockey and Jena Antonucci is first female trainer to win Belmont. Winning time was 2:29.23. Another triple crown has come and gone for another year. 

 We're off to Mongolia. Their capital and largest city is Ulaanbaatar. Largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea. Grassy steppe and mountains to the north ans west, xnd Gobi desert to south.  Bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. Genghis Khan started the Mongol empire. NOC was created in 1956 and recognized in 1962. First winter games were in 1964 and have only missed 1976 since. First summer games was also in 1964 and have only missed 1984 (the return boycott). They have 2g, 11s, 17b for 30 total. And all won in the summer. First medals were in 1968 (1s, 3b 4 total). First medal was the silver by Jigjidiin Monkhbat in mens freestyle wrestling 87kg. First bronze was by Chimedbazaryn Damdinsharav in mens wrestling freestyle 52kg. First gold was in 2008 won by Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar in judo mens 100kg.  4 sports Mongolia has won in: judo (1g, 4s, 6b, 11 total), boxing (1g, 2s, 4b 7 total), wrestling (4s, 6b 10 total) and shooting (1s,1b, 2 total)

 This tournament was from February 6-17 in and around Grenoble, France. 43 games played resulting in the Soviet Union winning gold, Czechoslovakia the silver and Canada the bronze. It will be Canada's last medal until 1992. Canada also doesn't compete in 1972 oe 1976, due to issues with the Soviet Union usage of pro players. Highlights also include: 1. East Germany participates for the only time. 2. Finland bears Canada for the first time.  Notable players include: Lou Nanne, Herb Brooks, Larry Pleau and John Cunniff for the United States and Brian Glennie and Wayne Stephenson for Canada.