Richard Dean Anderson Has an Icy Tale in the Works

It's a natural. "MacGyver" star Richard Dean Anderson, renowned for his almost-addictive love of ice hockey, has acquired the rights to "The Lester Patrick Story."
Patrick, explains Anderson to those who aren't hockeyphiles, "was instrumental in the development of the original National Hockey League. He coached the New York Rangers to their first Stanley Cup."

Anderson reports he got permission to do the story from Patrick's great-grandson. And, he said, "The Patrick family is extremely happy with the idea of my playing the part."
Anderson, who regularly plays benefit exhibition games with the celebrity hockey team he co-founded (it includes such celebs as Dave Coulier, Alan Thicke and Matt Frewer), said, "We've already developed a treatment for the story and submitted it to the family."
The 42-year-old actor, who stars in CBS' April 7 "In the Eye of the Stranger," added that he would like to get the project off the ground in the next couple of years. "If I wait much longer, I'm going to have to play Lester Patrick in his wheelchair."

Marikyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith, Daily News of Los Angeles, 29 Mar. 1992.