On site in Toronto when the Salming purée was celebrated
TORONTO – Tonight Börje is back home, announcer announces my fateful confirmation.
Then it was 1976 again.
Just like the legendary autumn evening during the Canada Cup 46 years ago, Toronto stood and cheered for its beloved Swedish lion minute by minute.
There are no words to describe how impressive it was.
It was heartbreaking and heartbreaking when I had severe amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Puree Salming For the second day in a row, Toronto celebrated at the Scotiabank Arena.
just more.
After all, Friday’s party was arranged in association with the Hockey Hall of Fame organization and although the Swedish legend was also in the spotlight, he shared the ice with others.
This time it was the Maple Leafs – the club whose heart he played in 1,180 games, including the playoffs, between 1973 and 1989 – who honored one of their greatest icons but none other. Only Porgy and his family were on the ice before the duel between the Blue and White Papers and the Vancouver Canucks.
However, the applause became… unrealistic.
Ideally we would have run away
When an evocative video clip on the jumbotron, complete with the most deafening moments of today’s 71-year-old back star’s brilliant career, culminated in the presenter’s festive “Ikväll har Börje” party. Börje, the people of Leafs Nation love you “Suddenly it’s 1976 again.
Back then, when Tre Kronor stepped up during the legendary Canada Cup against the US and Canada in Toronto, Sweden first realized just how big a “BJ” is here – far from Kiruna and Gavel.
Despite the fact that ‘we’ faced Canada itself, ‘our’ Porgy Salming received such a long, loving and loud warm welcome that it was instantly written into the history of Swedish sport.
And now, 46 years later, the replay has come.
Just like that time, fall so long ago, Toronto stood cheering for its now wounded lions. exclaimed. exclaimed. higher and higher and higher.
It never ended.
Being able to be a part of such a moment and experience this moment…there are really no words to explain how it feels.
Ideally, of course, we would have run away. It is an overwhelming tragedy that such a hateful fate has befallen a hero like Börje – known not only for his skill, his unparalleled willingness to sacrifice and his extreme pain threshold, but also for his warmth and kindness. He should be fine and have a long and happy life. Instead, he is forced to live in this nightmare,
But at the same time, it is incomparably pleasant that during these two days he was once again overwhelmed by the boundless love of Toronto – and the year 1976 witnessed it again.
