A group of Chicago prominent celebrities often gathered in years in a Lincoln Park Watering Hole called Stanley’s Kitchen and Tap, where the owner gave them some privacy and a chance to go down their hair.
It was mostly local athletes and a collection of Chicago -born musicians and actors, who drank and sang and shared stories, which probably became ornate after retailing after one or two years. Imagine a Chicago version of the Algonquin round table, but with beer and shots and with a certain lack of hypocrisy.
Chris Chelios was often at the center of all this, as he was in most of his activities in life.
Former Chicago BlackHox star is only known as “Cheli”, who wanted everyone to know to know everyone, and Miscellaneous characters like Eddie Weder, Kerry Wood, Chris Farley, John Cusec, Ryan Dempster and Dennis Rodman became an expanded rat of Chicago Celebs, which jointly jointly included north -north.
“I kidnapped one night and they took me to Stanley,” Weder once told me, credited Chelios for his abduction. “Then it became like a Patty Hurt situation where I was happy with my prisoners.”
There are a million Chris Chellios stories, most of which are true and many of which will be retained on Sundays when the Hall of Famer retired its number 7 during a pregem ceremony at the United Center before Patrick Kane’s home with Detroit Red Wings.
Where to start? Stories are mythological.
Philadelphia Flyer Ron Hextal attacked him during a playoff game. Paradeing the Stanley Cup around Chicago after hating red wings. During the stagnation of a work, Commissioner Gary Betman, saying that he was a Betman, he would “worry about my family …” worry about my goodness with a “crazy fan”. ,
After the US hockey team after damage to the Czech Republic at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, the Japan Olympic organizers should send $ 3,000 and send the Japan Olympic organizers after sending them apologies. Training with the US Olympic Bobaslet Team during another NHL lockout in an attempt to compete at the 2006 Athens Olympics.
After Red Wings coach Mike Babok, bearing at Wrigley Field in 2009 served him as beer vendors with his sons. Providing a soundtrack to someone’s YouTube video burning jersey of former Beers Quarterback J Cutler in Stanley.
Former Chicago BlackHox star Chris Chelios, from the left, actor John Kusak and Pearl Jam Frontman AD Weder posted on 22 August 2008 in the poseley field with a Stanley Cup before a cub-national game. (Phil Velaskase/Chicago Tribune)
A career in 1,651 games and 26 sessions, NHL finished ninth in history, spent in penalty box over 48 hours of his life, 12th in the all -time list ahead of former Hawk Dave Manson.
Chelios, an evergreen park native and Mount Carmel Bachelor, played nine out of those 26 years in Chicago. He arrived in a shocking business in the summer of 1990, which sent Star Dennis Savar to Canadines and forced a business for Red Wings at the end of the 1999 season on salary dispute with GM Bob Murray.
But Chelios left an impression on the franchise from 1990–99, winning two of his three Noris trophies as the top defenseman of the league and helped Hawks in the 1992 Stanley Cup final. It should also be noted that he helped introduce the revival of the waste side area around the old Chicago Stadium, opening Cheli’s chili sports bar and restaurant in 1137 W Madison St. in 1994, when some restotters dared to go to some neighborhood.
A notorious strict man, Chelios, was once nominated by a Canadian Sports Magazine, one of the “most hated players” in the game, a label that he wanted to shed hard.
“I am not out to hurt anyone.” He once said about his fierce reputation. “But I just want to win so badly that I may take things far away. I sometimes scrimp against my own colleagues, and I drive everyone crazy. Everyone just wants to kill me in scribe. ,
Defenseman Chris Chelios helped Chris Terry to clean a puck with a BlackHox zone against the Devils at the United Center on 16 April 1998. (Wes Pope/Chicago Tribune)
But everyone’s friend from Ice Chelios was a “man of Chicago man” who always had a cub or sox game or a ticket for a concert or show. In every group of friends, he is a man who starts gate-tooths. Chelios were the man who was a large scale than most of us.
Stanley’s late owner and one of the closest friends of Chelios, Doni Carros, nominated his friend as an institution of the Cutler Jersey-Burning Video, which went viral on TMZ in 2012. Cruce told me that Chelios had harassed the Beers Quarterback and treated the waiting staff during a visit at the bar. Stanley was like a family of Chelios, and the cross stated that Cheli never forgives the cutter for the alleged minor.
The soft side of Chelios was displayed to family and friends. When the Cruce was ill in a hospital bed in his last hours in 2017, Chelios and Kusack were sitting with their friends till the end. The pat Cruce, Donny’s mother, later told me two -sided Vedar, who took out a guitar and Donny’s favorite song, Huz I Am One, “Before it was” OK to Late Go. “Was.
Appropriately, Hawks asked Weder to inform the chillios of Jersey Retirement, which he surprised the Chelios with an announcement during a show in the last summer at the United Center.
The special day begins at 2:15 pm when former Hawks Broadcaster Pat Foley will host a panel discussion on Chelios with former team partner Jeremy Rick, Ed Belfaur, Tony Amonet and Gary Sutter at the former Hawks Broadcaster Pat Foley Joint Center. Many long -run friends, including Michael Jordan, are expected to be in hand for Sunday’s celebrations, which is before another big event – the first time Kane’s return to New York Rangers after his business.
When Chelios first returned to UC in April 1999 after Detroit trade in April 1999, it was the first visit to its former home since retirement from Bulls in 198.
“Chelios asked me to come here,” Jordan told KC Johnson of Tribune that day. “I did not go into any game and my boys wanted to go. I always know Cheli and wish him all the best. It is just an honor for me to see him playing. I hate leaving him, but sometimes you have to make decisions that are best suited to you. ,
Chelios will proceed to win two Stanley Cups in Detroit, as well as a legend in Motown. After the 2008 cup win, I ran away with her in the Wrigley Field, where she saw the Stanley Cup around the Ballpark for all the Chicago sports fans, when the hooks were still in the dry title. He had already taken it to a Pearl Jam Show in the auditorium and had planned to finish the night at Sax Park, Murphy’s bleachers and, of course, at the night in Stanley.
Chelios said, “We will run only one milk in the entire city.” “I know I am bringing it with the wrong team, but at least I brought it back home.”
Chicago was always a place that he was craving to return, whether Chelios San Diego, Mousse Jaw, Montreal, Detroit or elsewhere. You can leave the city, but it really never leaves you.
“I found a new house in Detroit, but Chicago is always home,” he said after returning with Red Wings in 1999. “My parents still live here, and I intend to come back and spend the rest of my days here, whether a player or somehow join with BlackHox.”
On Sunday, he will return to the west, with family and friends with his number 7 jersey, which will have a pack house of family and friends and fans of Hawks on hand.
The old gang will be to convince his friend Chicago Way, and although it is not an old stadium, where Chelios once dedicated a game winning target for “my people in the third balcony”, it would be enough.
The party begins when Cheli arrives, as was ever.