Mike Eruzione
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's where I was.
You played for the team from Slapshot?
That was the league.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
Ogie Goglethorpe, remember him?
Yes.
He was on our team in Toledo for a week and then he got traded.
But anyway, so I go to camp.
I go to, I get sent to Toledo, the New York Rangers, you know, number two farm team, but I didn't have an NHL contract.
It was a minor league contract.
So I got paid every two weeks by the gold diggers.
I made $4,000 my first year in Toledo.
I led our team in scoring.
I was rookie of the year.
I'm going to sign with the New York Rangers.
John Ferguson got fired.
A guy named Fred Shero, who used to be with the Philadelphia Flyers, he becomes the general manager of the New York Rangers.
And he calls my agent and says, look, Mike's free to do what he wants to do.
We're not signing Mike.