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Your dads mustache game is amazing.

Thanks for sharing BTW.

That's really damn cool.

I looked him up and was reading a bit on him, "a slick playmaking center"

http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=13594

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Ha yes those are him rrasco and yes he had a pretty rockin mustache for most of his career . lol

I was born after his hockey career was over but have a ton of Red Wings memorabilia including old programs and tons of pictures and a bunch of international keepsakes while he played for Canada and the London Lions in Europe.

Many are the items international teams exchange with each other before/after games.

Also if you don't know about the London Lions, I'd recommend checking them out. It's a cool part of Red Wings history.

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Also if you don't know about the London Lions, I'd recommend checking them out. It's a cool part of Red Wings history.

That's cool. So they only played for one "season" though? Would I be jumping the gun to assume your father was the captain? I always assumed that the London Lions were in London, Ontario; based on your profile info.

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That's cool. So they only played for one "season" though? Would I be jumping the gun to assume your father was the captain? I always assumed that the London Lions were in London, Ontario; based on your profile info.

Yeah they only lasted one season. As far as I know, it was the first real attempt at European expansion. And yes he was the captain.

The fact that I'm from and live in a different London (Ontario) is just a complete coincidence but I would assume most probably assume that. :lol:

In 1971, Detroit Red Wings-owner Bruce Norris presented plans for a European professional league with the best teams being able to participate in the Stanley Cup play-offs. Norris envisaged European club teams with working agreements with an NHL club and spent $300.000 on his European team, the London Lions. The league was planned to start in the autumn of 1973 but Russians and Czechs protested as professional athletes would stop all participation in the Olympic Games. The main stumbling block concerned the availability of players for the World Championships, which were played in March and April when the European League would be approaching the playoffs. Even if the idea of a league was off for the 1973-74 season, Norris decided to go ahead with the London Lions, which toured Europe like an icehockey equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters.

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