I didn't care for him at first, due to his being acquired by the Jets in 1983 from the hated Edmonton Oilers in a trade for the wildly popular Willy Lidstrom (yes, the Jets had a talented Swede named Lidstrom before Detroit did)
But then I saw why the Jets brass wanted him. Laurie Boschman was a talented two-way player that had a work ethic that no one else brought to the team (perhaps besides Jets legends Dale Hawerchuck and Thomas Steen) That, and he was an awesome face-off man.
But in the short term after the trade, Bosch didn't win the battle of the newly-traded-players-facing-their-old-team, as Ol' Willy scored the backbreaking goal against the Jets in the final game of the 1984 Smythe division semi-finals against the Edmonton Oilers. The Jets would go golfing early again early many, many times at the hands of the Oilers in the upcoming years.
On hand in Conception Bay South in Newfoundland as part of KRAFT Hockeyville, Boschman spoke to NHL.com's Brian Compton.
