MONTREAL -- It was played a half-century and thousands of games ago, so you'd cut Scotty Bowman some slack if he had only sketchy memories of it. But leave it to the man referred to by a former player as "The Computer" to have frighteningly sharp recall of the NHL's historic 1969 All-Star Game, the first time the established East Division faced representatives of six expansion teams in the West.
Bowman fondly remembers first time East played West at 1969 All-Star Game
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