06-10-2016, 08:05 AM
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#21
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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All our legends are leaving us. RIP.
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06-10-2016, 08:07 AM
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#22
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God of Hating Twitter
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88 yrs old, man that guy lived a long and amazing life. He will be sorely missed.
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Allskonar fyrir Aumingja!!
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06-10-2016, 08:10 AM
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#24
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Franchise Player
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A true legend of hockey and I am sure his funeral will be a national event in Canada. My son met him briefly a few years at a Houston Aeros pre game ceremony and it cemented his love for hockey.
A great Canadian.
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06-10-2016, 08:15 AM
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#25
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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From Mark Howe
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06-10-2016, 08:15 AM
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#26
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Franchise Player
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Growing up Detroit was my favourite team, with Norm Ullman and Gordie Howe my favourite players. Sad day. One great, tough player. I'd have loved a photo of Gordie giving me the elbow.
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06-10-2016, 08:18 AM
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#27
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Calgary
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RIP Mr Hockey.
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06-10-2016, 08:18 AM
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#28
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Bay Area
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Sad news, all the best to his family.
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06-10-2016, 08:18 AM
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#29
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Near Fish Creek
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Rest In Peace Gordie
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06-10-2016, 08:19 AM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Post up some favourite Howe stories here. I love this one from Harry Neale:
I used to send all the players a letter in early August saying that training camp begins on such and such a date, don’t forget to pack your sneakers, that kind of thing. In this particular letter, I wrote that we were going to do a 2 mile running course every day before our two practices. I encouraged them all to do some jogging in the weeks leading up to camp so the 2 miles didn’t destroy them for the ice.
There we were about 45 of us at a rink outside of Hartford getting ready for our first run when Gordie comes up to me. He says, “Harry all I ever do to get ready for training camp is make sure that I am within one pound of what I finished at last season. I have never run two miles.”
I told him, not to worry about it, he didn’t have to run. He said, “What do you mean, I don’t have to? You can’t have special rules; I am a part of the team.” I told him to just let me handle it. I walked over to the players and I said, “Alright gentleman, I am making a deal, Gordie Howe does not have to run in training camp. The deal is, if any of you yo-yos are playing for me when you are 50, you won’t have to run then either! Now get the hell out of here and onto that course.” He must have thanked me for a week for taking him off the hook. Because he would have done the run, even though it would have given him shin splints and all the other problems new runners get. He would never put himself before the team.
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06-10-2016, 08:21 AM
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#31
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary
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Really sad news, RIP Gordie
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06-10-2016, 08:22 AM
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#32
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: On the Bandwagon
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Greatest hockey player EVER!
not to mention an amazing human being , God rest Mr. Hockey
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06-10-2016, 08:23 AM
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#33
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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The Hanson Brothers @Hanson_Brothers · 3m3 minutes ago
Our hearts are broken of the news of our dear friend GORDIE #RIPMrHockey
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06-10-2016, 08:30 AM
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#36
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Franchise Player
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Just read this quote in an article on The Hockey Writers.com. A lot of funny stories in this one.
Even late in his career he was an imposing force, as Canadiens defenseman Bryan Watson once testified: [As a rookie] I went into the corner with Howe, knocked him down from behind and skated away with the puck. I hadn’t gone very far before I heard heavy strides coming up behind me, and then I felt a stick slipping under my arm. Then there’s the blade—not an inch from my nose. It’s Howe, and he says, ‘Check out, junior.’ I got so scared I fell down.
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06-10-2016, 08:33 AM
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#37
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie · 16s16 seconds ago
Gordie's greatness as a player, and his legendary nastiness on ice, were always such a stark contrast to his kindness and humility off ice.
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06-10-2016, 08:34 AM
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#38
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Lives In Fear Of Labelling
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####!
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06-10-2016, 08:36 AM
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#39
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Franchise Player
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He lived a great life, with a well earned nickname.
RIP
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06-10-2016, 08:36 AM
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#40
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Pavel Datsyuk @Datsyuk13 · 6m6 minutes ago
World lost one of the greatest human beings and the best all time hockey player. Thanks for many lessons and memories. RIP Gordie
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