For the reader, Phil would autograph “The Brothers Esposito,” the new autobiography written with his brother, Tony, selling for $3.97 — a full 49 cents off the regular price.
“I think we paid Reggie a couple hundred bucks to come with us,” Esposito said of Leach. “That appearance was all about street hockey. I’d worked with a company to invent street-hockey sticks and the hard orange ball.”
There’s no record of Bergeron making a department store appearance when he claimed third place, rating a single paragraph when he scored No. 403. Coincidentally, Pastrnak scored what would be the game-winner that night against the Senators.
At age 91, Bucyk and his wife, Terri, attend every Bruins home game, the Boston legend holding court in the team’s alumni suite, greeting friends and visitors, posing for photos and signing autographs before he even sits down.
Next June will mark Bucyk’s 70th anniversary as a member of the Bruins family, with him having been traded with cash by the Detroit Red Wings in for goalie Terry Sawchuk on June 10, 1957.