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canada.com - 8/4/2008
Family comes first for Canadiens legend Scotty Bowman
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Have you ever seen anything to match the buzz surrounding Mats Sundin during this off-season? Will he or won't he play? If he doesn't retire, does he go to Vancouver? The Canadiens? Back to Toronto, maybe? Elsewhere? How do you turn down a $20-million, two-year contract at age 37? Hardly a day has passed without Sundin being mentioned in newspapers everywhere, as well as being a favourite ...

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Red weighs in
Habs Inside/Out — ... Red Fisher, the Living Legend of Sports Journalism, is tanned, rested and ready to offer some thoughts on Scotty Bowman joining the Chicago front office: ...

Gazette's Fisher pays tribute to Bowman as the "summer's story" of note
Snapshots — The Montreal Gazette's Red Fisher believes that former Red Wings consultant Scotty Bowman's move to Chicago is the biggest story of the summer by far, and he suggests as much with a fair bit of schmaltz as Fisher covered Bowman when he was the coach of the Montreal Canadiens: August 4, Montreal Gazette : My choice is Scotty Bowman's decision to join the Chicago Blackhawks as their senior advisor of hockey operations. The reason: while the Sundin story is all about money, Bowman's is all about family. It's about what really matters. It's about Scotty's son, Stan, 35, who's ...

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