News item (8 July, 1991 "Sports Illustrated"):
 
     "<The Edmonton Sun> reported last week that Edmonton Oilers owner Peter
Pocklington placed $100,000 (Canadian) on a Ping-Pong table in the Oilers'
locker room before Game 6 of the team's playoff series in April against the
Los Angeles Kings.  Edmonton was one win away from clinching the series when,
according to one unnamed Oiler player, 'He [Pocklington] just came in and
laid it down and said if we win, we get it.'  After the Oilers clinched the
series by winning 4-3 in OT, Pocklington passed out money to everyone on the
team."
 
     It's all so clear to me now: W. Riley [formerly of UMass-Lowell] was just
auditioning for a job in the Edmonton front office :-)
 
     Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose ......
 
			Cheers from the Chesapeake - Jim <[log in to unmask]>