I was saying, wow, I was amazed.”Ĭourtnall was out west while recounting his season with Hull and Oates, but he’s about to board a plane to Toronto for the Hockey Hall of Fame ceremonies this weekend, which culminate with the inductions of Oates, former Leafs captain Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Joe Sakic on Monday. I asked him how the heck he did it and he just came over and said here’s how you do it, like it was simple. to just scoop the puck up and shovel it across, and it came off his backhand. “Players never even expected something like that, and Adam did it and did it so fast, all in one motion. “The puck would come along the boards and he’d go from his forehand to his backhand along the boards and he’d shovel the puck out into the slot without the puck stopping. “There are very few guys who could even do something that Adam did, and was a master at,” said Courtnall, who would be the answer to a Hall of Fame weekend trivia contest: who was the other winger on the Hull and Oates line? Louis Blues, and Courtnall is still amazed by Oates’ passing dexterity almost 22 years after the fact. The Victoria native played on Oates’ line with Brett Hull on the 1990 St. Adam Oates could do astounding things on the ice, subtle things that defenders knew would happen but were almost powerless to prevent.
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