Sunday, September 4, 2011

Remembering 9-11

from Steve Bartlett of The Telegram, ...The Leafs finally flew to St. John?s Saturday ? five days later than expected.

Dryden remembers landing around midnight.

?What I remember most vividly was arriving at the airport and taxiing toward the terminal and seeing all of these planes. It was like a parking lot of these giant planes, and just one after the other, sort of wing tip to wing tip. We had known that planes were diverted to Newfoundland and some other places, but I don?t think it was until that moment that we realized the dimension of it and how many planes were actually diverted.?

The team held an intra-squad Sunday evening and were to face the Canadiens the next evening, a day later than planned.

Still, Dryden was faced with questions about whether or not the much-anticipated, sold-out match should go ahead.

?After what had happened days ago, when do you re-earn the right to smile and to laugh and to talk to people and to do normal life things? And at what point is it still being disrespectful and, at the next point,

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Source: http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/hockey/comments/remembering_9-11/

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