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Bob Mackin :
News Reporter

WITH the close of the 20th century

nigh, it’s time for all manner of
best-of lists to be written.

Onc such list will be unveiled Saturday night
during a special edition of Hockey Night In
Canada.

In conjunction with the Hockey News, the
greatest moments in hockey and the players
that made them will be remembered.

A Century of Hockey gets under way at 7-
p.m. on CBC TV. The 90-minute special is co-
hosted by Ron MacLean and Dick Irvin from
the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

The show will be the highlight of a day of
hockey. The Three Nations’ Cup women’s
hockey final gocs at 9.a.m., followed by the
New ¥ York Istanders at Ottawa Senators at
noon. Labatt Saturday Night follows ar 3:30
p.m. with the Philadelphia Flyers meeting the
Toronto Maple Leafs at 4 p.m.

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was Bobby Orr. He should know, he had the

-pleasure of coaching the Bruins’ and

Blackhawks’ famous number four during the
°70s in Boston.

Orr, he says, would anchor the defence of
his all-ceniury team.-

, "My top coach would be Scotty Bowman,
ine’s the absolute greatest coach,” “Grapes” told
the News Oct. 31 at Maple Leaf Gardens .
before his Mississauga Ice Dogs lost 8-3 to the
Toronto St. Michael’s Majors. “Toe Blake is
just behind him, for sure. [ would say Te:
Sawchuk (in goal), Doug Harvey, Orr (on, :
defence), left wing (Bobby) Hull, centre
(Wayne) Gretzky and right wing Gordie
Howe.”

Cherry has been out of regular coaching .
since 1980 when he was behind the bench evith

the Colorado Rockies. Though he will face Orr °°

in the Canadian Hockey League’s 2000
Prospects game at Air Canada Centre.

He does have a team of its own these days -
~~ the Mississauga Ice Dogs of the Ontario
Hockey League.

The team is struggling in its sophomore year
in last-place of the 20-tcam Circuit. - a

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