In an effort to keep poaching all the available talent in the Central Division in the hopes of repeating last season's pre-playoff choke/terrific regular season, the
St. Louis Blues have hired
Darryl Sydor to be
one of two assistant coaches (with Daniel Tkaczuk) with their AHL affiliate Chicago Wolves.
Sydor had been
an assistant coach with the Minnesota Wild for the past four seasons, before
a DUI event forced him to step down and enter rehab.
As a player, he'd been in five Stanley Cup Finals - including two Cup wins - to go with a Memorial Cup, two
All-Star Games, over 500 regular-season points and over 50 more in the
playoffs. He wasn't a Hall of Famer, but he was certainly a star and a good team player.
Here he is wearing the
Dallas Stars' original (notwithstanding the Minnesota part of the franchise, anyway) green - away - uniform, showing him taking a slap shot from inside the offensive zone:
It's card #96 from
Panini's
2012-13 Classics Signatures
set (the signed insert version, signed on-card in blue sharpie - you can
tell because the spot where the signature is was airbrushed white to
show him where to sign). I'm not sure whether I'd classify that set as
higher-mid-range or lower-premium, but boxes are still available for
around $60 for 30 cards, with 5 or 6 autographs per.
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