On this day, NHL Trade Deadline day, here’s a few things about John Ferguson from Charles Wilkins’ book Breakaway, and which has nothing to do with Trade Deadline.
Trade Deadline on TV is a lot like Seinfeld – a show usually about nothing.
Fergy was sitting in a restaurant with teammate Dick Duff, ready to tackle a steak, when Eddie Shack of the Leafs walked in. Duff, who had played with Shack in Toronto, struck up a conversation with his old friend. Fergy was so disgusted that a teammate would socialize with the enemy that he got up and walked out, leaving his uneaten steak.