Squeak screamed like every other coach I had but somehow I don't think he was afraid of the four horsemen of the apocalypse even if he did remind me of ring wraith Nazgul with his smoker's hack and colourful vocabulary Squeak often entered the dressing room after the First Period and told us we were skating like old ladies and that our scoring production was horseshit and that we weren't hitting and it was hitting that won games because it tired the other team out to prepare for Squeak's training camp the Calgary Mustangs named after the car that was hoisted on a pedestal prairie public sculpture advertising art the way we called crude oil Texas Tea and it had nothing to do with the Beverly Hillbillies and sponsored by the local Ford dealership Maclin Ford then on McLeod Trail we took power skating with Howie Meeker's Hockey School at Rose Kohn Arena after that it was Deal Cassidy'sCalgary Booster Club Hockey School and g...

Squeak Leopold made the ice for the Stampede Corral in those days there were no Hitmen only the Centennials and Squeak kept the ice before that was fashionable he had been a junior hockey player before that Edmonton Oil Kings Calgary Stampeders Drumheller Miners Trail Smoke Eaters there were a lot of junior hockey leagues and teams at that time Canadian-American Western Central Professional Alberta Senior and I'm sure that was a factor in the job he got it might have helped that he had tried out for the Chicago Blackhawks 3 times when you're played with Stan Mikita getting cut is not a disgrace and in some circles was even quite respectable To be continued.