Normand Leveille 40 Years Later

[Van Everyman]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/22/sports/now-40-years-past-normand-leveilles-life-changing-injury-reminder-an-athletes-fragility/

This was so upsetting to me as a 9 year-old kid. Norm was incredibly exciting player to watch. Sounds like he has found happiness in his life but still …

 

[Ferm Sheller]

His aneurysm occurred between periods in Vancouver. I remember it well (even though I didn't hear about it until the next day as it was a late night game and I was only 12.) Like now, the B's hardly ever played the Canucks back then, but they had played them in Boston about a week or so before the game in Vancouver and the Bruins won, 2-1. Trivia Question: Who was the player who got both goals that night? Normand Leveille

 

[ColdSoxPack]

I was at the next game at the Forum in LA.

 

[RoDaddy]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/22/sports/now-40-years-past-normand-leveilles-life-changing-injury-reminder-an-athletes-fragility/
Norm was incredibly exciting player to watch.

He sure was! Fast skater who could shoot and had a pugnacious toughness to him where he would check players before they were about to hit him in the corner. The great Fred Cusick used to laugh on air when he did this. I remember the game report from one of the Boston sportscasters, probably Mike Lynch, that he had suffered an apparent concussion. So wish it had been only that! But man, that team had talent with Nifty, Pederson, Bourque, Park and others and could've won it all if Leveille had continued his rise to stardom.

 

[ifmanis5]

Thanks for the link. I think about him often. One of my favorites as a kid.
Instant dusty:
View: https://youtu.be/W5WfCyUUnDc

 

[worm0082]

I always thought His number should be retired by the bruins. At least in an unofficial/official way by not giving it out again.