from Tony Gallagher of the Vancouver Province,

For a guy who played just 26 games with the Vancouver Canucks during the team’s initial season in the NHL, Ed Hatoum is as well known as any player from that era.

Im­agine the im­pact of a guy who scored just one goal hav­ing the nick­name Ed ‘Sock’ Hatoum (Get it? sounds like “Sock it to ’em.”) — which was on the lips of every fan that 1970-71 sea­son. Van­cou­ver final­ly be­ing ad­mit­ted to the league was a very big deal in town and, for a short while, so was Hatoum.

“It’s amazing, really,” says Hatoum, now 67, some 38 years since his hockey career ended after more stops than any Allied Van Lines truck...

There’s a reason why Hatoum was so well remembered, and it had a little to do with the nickname and the promise with which he arrived. After having had a big year with the Detroit Red Wings’ Central League team in Fort Worth, Tex., he came to training camp with considerable promise and for good reason. The Canucks’ players were all new, there were jobs open, and Hatoum could skate, shoot and score.

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