Dr. Lecter
04-08-2007, 07:52 PM
This season's edition of the Buffalo Sabres boasts four players with 30 or more goals – Daniel Briere, Thomas Vanek, Chris Drury and Jason Pominville. But even these outstanding players would have a hard time keeping pace with the Sabres' "French Connection" line.
Joe Crozier, the former coach of the Buffalo Sabres, has quite the litany of memories surrounding Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin and Rene Robert.
“Perreault, Martin and Robert were like magic together. And they could perform like magic on the ice. They could bring fans out of their seats in Buffalo like no other line I’ve ever seen in the Aud. And there were times that you almost had to drag them off the ice during a game. I don’t think they realized how long they were out there sometimes because they were having so much fun.”
That is how Crozier remembered the famed French Connection line. The trio was one of the highest scoring lines in NHL history.
Crozier knew them better than anyone because he is the guy who put them together in the first place. It was March 1972, 35 years ago, that Crozier united the threesome together for the first time.
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=298604
Joe Crozier, the former coach of the Buffalo Sabres, has quite the litany of memories surrounding Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin and Rene Robert.
“Perreault, Martin and Robert were like magic together. And they could perform like magic on the ice. They could bring fans out of their seats in Buffalo like no other line I’ve ever seen in the Aud. And there were times that you almost had to drag them off the ice during a game. I don’t think they realized how long they were out there sometimes because they were having so much fun.”
That is how Crozier remembered the famed French Connection line. The trio was one of the highest scoring lines in NHL history.
Crozier knew them better than anyone because he is the guy who put them together in the first place. It was March 1972, 35 years ago, that Crozier united the threesome together for the first time.
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=298604