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Vandelay’s Coffee Talk with ex-Penguin Jason Woolley
Jason Woolley had a front row seat to two of the weirder things that went on in the 90′s and sandwiched right in between he spent part of a season with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Jason came to Pittsburgh along with Stu Barnes in a trade that sent Chris Wells to the Florida Panthers one year after Jason helped eliminate the Penguins from the playoffs in the year of the “rat”.
A few years after leaving Pittsburgh he was playing for the Buffalo Sabres when Brett Hull scored a Cup clinching goal for Dallas. A goal that ESPN said is the fifth worst call in sports history. That year in the playoffs Jason was tied for most overall points by a defenseman and also tied for most points on the entire Buffalo roster.
Jason and I talked about his time with the Penguins, Mellanby’s “Rat Trick”, the Olympics and more. Read more...
