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There are differing claims as to who dubbed the hockey line “The French Connection” as a reference to the Academy Award-winning film. Origination of the term was often given to writer Lee Coppola when he was operating the Buffalo Auditorium message board and who later became Dean of Journalism at St. Bonaventure University. Credit is also given to Rick Azar, the Dean of TV sportscasters in Buffalo at WKBW TV, who used it first on a 6pm Eyewitness News sportscast and references it in his 2014 book, Tales from Azar’s Attic.