RIP MR HOCKEY

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[signals2112]

RIP GORDIE. I wish I could of been born just a few years earlier, and been able to watch him play once.

 

[not_nadine]

R.I.P.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...the passing of yet another legend...rest ye well Mr. Red Wing...

 

[Dana Jean]

RIP

 

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[staropeace]

Gordie Howe’s life in Saskatoon: The early years of Mr. Hockey | Globalnews.ca

 

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Garth Brooks in Sask wearing Gordie's number in tribute.

 

[fljoe0]

RIP GORDIE. I wish I could of been born just a few years earlier, and been able to watch him play once.

I actually saw him play once. It was the 79-80 season at the very end of his career. I think he was over 50 years old and was playing with Hartford. I was in Colorado at a Rockies game (the old Rockies team that is the Devils now - Don Cherry was coach) against Hartford.

R.I.P. Gordie

 

[Walter Oobleck]

never saw him play live, on scene, but I saw him often on the old black & white television, the kind you have to travel from couch to tv to change the channel...that or fiddle with the controls on the back to keep the screen from rolling. i remember one game, musta been play-off time and musta been an away game for the Wings. the other team had to have been behind by a goal or two, they had pulled their goalie, had six skaters attacking the Wings' net and Howe got the puck and scored the length of the ice. the fans booed...i was half watching, musta been all of ten...and behind me i heard the old man chuckle and he spoke...which was rare...he was the most reticent of men. Howe had gotten the puck, again, skated the length of the ice, and dumped it in the open net from two feet away. game over. and around the same time they had an awards banquet for the kids, me among them, (we played at the Dee in Houghton, where some claim the game was invented) and i got an autographed photo thingie of Howe, #9.