Patrick WilliamsTheahl.com’s writer
Dunc FisherShooting has never left him. He has no competitiveness.
The long -term striker will enter the Celebrity Hall of Fame of the American Cunning Hocket Alliance on Monday. This is his last 65 years for his last time. Fisher died in 2017 at the age of 90. He still has 260 goals in the eight seasons of Hershey, where he also won two Calder Cups (Calder Cups). , Enter 40 goals four times, and are the first or second lineup. Stars five times. He also participated in six AHL All -Star games. In addition, he completed AHL career with 620 points (285 goals and 335 assists) in 579 games.
Along the way, he also participated in 275 NHL competitions with the New York Rangers, Boston Brown Bear Team and Detroit red wings.
After a few years of retirement, his son DuncanBack to Sask’s Regina for vacation. Duncan played a college hockey in Princeton in the 1970s and was the captain. But he was in a low scoring, so he asked his father some instructions.
They went to one of the outdoor ice rinks in Rijana. The old wooden board on the skating rink is nail, which is very suitable for some target exercises to launch some ice hockey and shoot.
Elder Fisher told his son: “Hit that nail.”
Duncan fired six shots. Miss everyone.
Then, Dunc, who has not picked up the stick for many years, was cracked.
The six -month nails rang. He still fired, and the man helped him enter NHL at the age of 20. In 1949-50, he played 70 games with the Rangers, scored 33 points (12 goals, 21 assists), and then in the seven series of Detroit’s seven series, a victory of the Stanley Cup fell into A victory.
That’s a big fire. The young Fisher’s own son played the windpi and will soon participate in the competition. Maybe there are some nerves. Duncan told his son to do his best. However, Grandpa Deng Ke himself did not.
“‘We are going to win,'” Duncan recalled. “‘We won’t go there to do my best.'”
He needs that competitive roar. Fisher is a right -wing of 5 feet 8, trying to break into AHL with New Haven RamBlers in 1947. Try to crack the lineup of New York. Try to enter his 30s through AHL in a skating rink with a chicken wire instead of glass, instead of the defensor of the glass and Serr, occupy the opposite lineup, hoping to put the ice hockey on the stick every time At that time, he wanted to punish him.
Although today’s AHL has 32 teams, from California to Quebec, Fisher’s AHL ranked 11th with 11 teams in the game, and fell to 6 in the second half of his career to 6 club. The urgent timetable, the required travel and limited work define most of the time of Fisher and its contemporaries. In the last season of Fisher’s last season, a Friday night game was held at SpringField. This was a quick home and held Saturday on Hershey. In the evening, a week was held in Cleveland.
“I think that is one of the biggest tools [he had] Become a successful hockey player, “Duncan Fisher overlined.” He had that driving. He wants to win. He doesn’t want to only appear. I don’t think he thinks he is very small. He can yield there. “
Fisher’s development in the second half of his 13 -quarter career has flourished and occupied 121 goals in the three seasons of bear teams. He held the Cald Cup in 1958 and 1959. He returned to NHL for eight games with Detroit.
However, of course, the wear finally caught up with Fisher, and the latter completed his career after the 1959-60 season. At that time, he was still 32 years old and he scored 22 goals.
“I think my legs have just left,” Fisher told Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Patriot Newcomer March 1960.
Duncan, who was still very young at the time, skated on Hersheypark Arena and participated in the competition here and there, but the Fisher family was time to try some new things. Dunc and his wife, DalinBack to Retina, they started a new stage of their lives. daughter, HeidiSoon follow. Dunc serves as a coach in REGINA PATS for two seasons, and then a member of the Saskatchewan Win -Win -Win -Win -Win -Win Choi Hockey Alliance, then starts selling, and then manages the city’s water sports center and swimming plan.
Life comes from the family. Dunc entered the Sports Hall of Sports in Saskatchewan in 2011. Next, he was selected in Hershey Bears Hall of Fame in 2014. Duncand Doreen established 61 years of marriage before passing in 2013.
Over the years, Fisher has maintained a firm connection with her ex -teammates, even if life has spread them. the late Nick Mickoski (Nick Mickoski)In 1947-48, a 20 -year -old stroller teammate continued to play 705 NHL games. For decades, the two remained nervous. In Fisher’s last NHL competition, he had the opportunity to reunite with Mickoski and Red Wings. In good time, Larry Zeidel and Willie Marshall (Willie Marshall) Become some of his close friends, Marshall participated in Fisher’s employment in 2014. They even faced NHL in 1958, Detroit, Marshall and Toronto Maple Leaf.
Opponents must compete with Fisher’s fierce competition every night, but it is his cooperation and team priority method to make him popular among teammates in the days of the game and decades of daily life.
Duncan said, “On the ice, he is one of the best people you have ever seen.” “Hockey, he will meet people and become friends with others, and these friendships continue.
“He is a person who is interested in you.”
In the fifty years of the American Hockey Alliance, theahl.com writer Patrick Williams is currently covering the alliance of NHL.COM and FLOSPORTS, and is the regular contributor of Siriusxm Nhl New Network Radio. He won AHL James H. Ellri Commemorative Award for his outstanding league report in 2016.
