May 2025 - Sports Lunatics - May 4, 1980, 1989 & 1993

Howie is hosting and flying solo and he hits the Wayback Machine to go back to May 4 in 1980, 1989 and 1993. He looks at a night in Bloomington, Minnesota when the Flyers' Bill Barber scored four goals to help his team to a win over the hometown North Stars, then he heads forward to follow the defection of Alexander Mogilny to the United States so he could escape the repression of the Soviet Union and play for real money with the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL. It's life and death as Mogilny and his stewards, Gerry Meehan and Don Luce of the Sabres do their best to avoid the KGB and get their player out of Stockholm and home to Western New York. Then he looks at how the new commissioner, Gary Bettman, will handle the vicious hit that the Capitals' Dale Hunter put on the Islanders' Pierre Turgeon after Turgeon had scored a goal to put the nail in the coffin of the Caps in the playoffs that year. Hope you find this episode interesting.