Part 2 Of Our Seattle Hockey History Video Series
Editor's Note: I host a weekly YouTube show, Hockey Time Machine, most Thursdays at 4 pm Pacific time. Guests have included Hall of Famers Bryan Trottier, Yvan Cournoyer and Lanny McDonald.
All this week, we'll feature video excerpts from a show we did with authors and historians about Seattle's century-plus of hockey history.
THIS Frank Foyston, of your Seattle Metropolitans.There's no more reliable way to start a sports debate than to argue over who belongs on a particular city's "Mount Rushmore" of sports icons.
In Seattle, for instance, who deserves to be chiseled into the side of Mt. Rainier: Ken Griffey, Jr.? Steve Largent? Lenny Wilkens? Sue Bird?
See, it only took two paragraphs for me to make you mad.
Before you go arguing why Don James needs to be up there, or Ichiro, or Russell Wilson, or Clint Dempsey, one Seattle hockey author says you've got to reserve a spot for Frank Foyston.
Frank Who-ston?
Watch the clip below, and you'll find out.