Off With His Hair: Clark Gillies shaves for charity
by Dominik on Sep 20, 2010 3:32 PM EDT
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Despite his presence at tribute nights and frequent interviews these days, this is still how I picture Clark Gillies: Helmetless, cutting through a turn with one of the baddest mops in the game flowing behind him -- often with a beard, and usually surrounded by a bunch of Bruins or Flyers feathers that he kicked up during a good tussle.
(I also still picture this as a symbol of that era's end, with the unceremonious "Now with Sabres" stamped over the shoulder.)
So it's both jarring and really cool to see a long-since retired Gillies shaving his head again -- with considerably less hair these days -- for the Clark Gillies Foundation, as chronicled (with pictures) at Huntington Patch:
In addition to benefiting The Clark Gillies Pediatric Unit at Huntington Hospital, funds will also help The Morgan Center, a preschool for children with cancer, and The Ascent School, a school for children with Autism.
"The main goal of today's event is the future building of the Clark Gilles Children's Center, when, once built, will also house The Morgan Center and The Ascent School, allowing both to have the security of a permanent home," Gillies said. "I think it's a good project. I'd like to build a legacy that hopefully will be around for a long time."
The Islanders official site has video of Gillies and Bruno Gervais being shaved, with the help of a News 12 reporter.
And no, Terry O'Reilly: You can't have the hair.
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Without sounding too weird, seeing Gillies and Nystrom skate will long flowing hair did put a thrill in me and fear in Flyers and Bruins players!
Seeing Tommy Salo get his butt whipped took fighting out of the game for me. No longer do I cheer when a fight starts. When I play NHL 09 on the PS3 when a fight starts, I laugh.
Get out of the sticks, Charles, move to Queens!! Come, Get some respect a Professional team deserves!!
That's like the alpha and the omega of Islanders fighting incidents, isn't it?
Gillies v. O’Reilly ……………………NYI Fight Spectrum……………………..Salo
I confess I got a charge out of the hair, too. When people say helmets took some of the character out of the game I always dismiss it, but then I remember those two. And Harold Snepsts.
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This Clark is also superman
Am I the only old man here who remembers him whuppin Terry O. ? Oh the memories.
by Torch7 on Sep 20, 2010 9:52 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I only knew of it via legend/stories from dad
But I do think there are a few regulars around here who had beating hearts and (mostly) fully developed brains at the time.
Lighthouse Hockey: Trying to reconstitute the Hogue-Turgeon-Thomas line from NHL 94.
It one of my first memories. What year was it?
by Torch7 on Sep 21, 2010 7:29 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Several of the O'Reilly-Gillies fights were in 1980
(So I guess actually I had a beating heart and was maybe even out of diapers by then, but I didn’t know of them until a couple years later.)
Lighthouse Hockey: Trying to reconstitute the Hogue-Turgeon-Thomas line from NHL 94.
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