Not that he needed help but I remember some guy pummelling one of those Howes Jr. and Gordie came over and lifted the guy up by the head or something and threatened him. The guy probably soiled his pants.
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Not that he needed help but I remember some guy pummelling one of those Howes Jr. and Gordie came over and lifted the guy up by the head or something and threatened him. The guy probably soiled his pants.
Howe was very protective of his 2 sons. During the 74 Canada Russia hockey series Mr Howe recounts one such incident........
Years afterward, Howe told the Windsor Star’s Bob Duff what he did when an unidentified Soviet slashed open Mark’s ear.
“The next shift when we were out together, I said, ‘Oh you want the puck? Well, here it is’. I threw it in the corner and when he went to get it, I broke his arm. After the game, he had to shake hands (with his opposite limb).”
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Things you may have not known about Mr Howe
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When we talk about the joys of my whole career, that was in Houston,” Howe said.
“If it wasn’t for the kids, I would never have come back.
“They put fun back in the game.”
During that season, Howe chased a purse-snatcher for several blocks until the thief dropped the stolen goods.
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“He had his own rules,” Marty Howe said of his father’s style of play. “You didn’t make him look stupid.
“He didn’t like getting hooked from behind in the ribs. If you did that, you usually got the stick or the elbow.”
Howe played what he liked to call “religious hockey” — better to give than receive.
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In 1974, during an eight-game WHA-Soviet Union series, the Russians were dumbfounded that Howe could be such a force.
“I mellowed a bit as I got older but when I was playing in the WHA against the Russians and one of them hurt (my son) Mark, I went out and played against the guy who did it,” Howe recalled. “When I came out of the corner, he didn’t.”
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The family act moved to New England in 1977. Whalers coach Harry Neale recalled an incident regarding a team curfew check that reflected Howe’s attitude.
Neale, respecting Howe’s age and status, hadn’t checked to see if Howe was in his room. Howe took Neale aside the next morning.
“If I’m on this team, I want to be treated like everybody else,” said Howe. “Don’t ever do that again.”
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“If he’s not the best player of all time, he is certainly the most resilient,” wrote Steve Dryden, former editor of The Hockey News. “His stop-and-start career was stunning.
“To emerge from retirement after a fabulous NHL career (averaging more than a point a game) and then score 15 goals as a 51-year-old in the NHL defies the laws of science.
“As Howe rang up a 96-point season the year he turned 50, he didn’t belong in the uniform of the New England Whalers as much as he belonged in the pages of the New England Journal of Medicine.”
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“I only had three teeth knocked out in my career and, oddly enough, it was in the first game I played,” he was quoted in an autobiography. “After that, someone had to come through lumber to get to my mouth.”
All the conversations among my peers of the top 3 NHL careers always come down to Gretzky, Lemieux, and Orr. Gordie was never included because his numbers weren't as high, and, more likely, he was before our time.
As I get older and combat accumulating aches, pains, and mobility issues, my appreciation for longevity in a professional athlete's career has never been greater. To compete the way Gordie Howe did for so long, putting up numbers while being so gritty and tough makes me rethink his ranking. His style of play was the prototype of the Canadian identity in hockey, and in life.
Rest in peace, Gordie Howe.
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Jim 'Bearcat' Murray reflects on his hero
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Bearcat had been tapped to train a team of junior all-stars as they played a nine-game "tune-up" series against top professionals of the World Hockey Association (WHA) — the upstart league that competed with the NHL at the time — ahead of their 1974 Summit Series versus the Russians.
The tune-up series took both the juniors and the pros across Western Canada and, one night at the Saskatoon airport, Murray found himself late for a flight after helping to load the young players' equipment into the plane's cargo hold.
The aircraft began to move almost the moment he boarded, and a flight attendant urged him to take a seat and strap in as quickly as possible, or risk being tossed about the cabin at takeoff.
"I ran down the aisle and down to the back but there was no seat empty," Murray recalled.
"Gordie was sitting right there and he says, 'Come here, old fella!' And he grabbed me around me the waist and sat me on his lap and put the seatbelt around both of us — him and me — and we took off. We hardly had it buckled and we were in the air.
"So he saved my life, I figured."
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Murray and Howe became friends over the span of that nine-game series, and continued their friendship the following year, when Calgary got a (short-lived) WHA team — the Calgary Cowboys.
As a member of the Houston Aeros, Howe would come to town from time to time to face off against the home team at the Stampede Corral.
"It was a big thing here in Calgary, when we got the Cowboys, to play against him," Murray said. "It was a very big thing, and we had really great crowds attending that hockey."
"He was a still a good hockey player in his older age — a very good hockey player," Murray said.
"He's my hero, I'll tell you that, and he always will be."
Is anybody else either shocked or miffed at how little attention his WHA career is garnering? In the mainstream, non sports media all I keep seeing is his stats from the NHL.
The man did play 6 seasons and win a couple of championships in the WHA. I know some hockey fans take that league as some sort of joke but the truth was it was quality pro hockey and some big names were part of the league.
I just find it poor reporting or perhaps too NHL focused sometimes. I wasn't even born when he retired so its not like I saw him play. I just find it frustrating when we talk about players from that era who played in both leagues and people don't give credit to their accomplishments. I mean Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe have over 900 goals combined and so did #99.
Anyhow, rant over!
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really awesome gesture by the Howe family.
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Gordie Howe's visitation and funeral will be open to the public.
The visitation is scheduled for Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. -- in a nod to his No. 9 jersey -- at Joe Louis Arena, the home of the Detroit Red Wings, the team Howe played for during much of his Hall of Fame career that started in 1946 and ended in 1980.
Howe's family plans to greet the public in the arena, where he will lie in state.
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As a kid, I had this mini-poster (the type that came folded inside a pack of hockey cards) of the Howes tacked to my bedroom wall for years. Autographed by all three when they were in town to play the Cowboys.
Can't remember what happened to it. it probably became dog-eared and faded over time. Must have chucked it at some point.
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'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' turns 30: 17 things you didn't know
13. Turns out Cameron’s Gordie Howe jersey was sent to him by none other than Mr. Hockey himself. In a 2009 interview with Sports Illustrated, Howe told the magazine that he sent producers the jersey at their request. "It was nice seeing the No. 9 on the big screen," Howe said. "I had a lot of proud moments in that jersey."
Ted Lindsay told me one. Gordie, he blinked like every 10 seconds or so. He’d take a real deep blink, and it was from when he fractured his skull. When you first meet him, you’re like what is this? Then you realize it’s just this little affliction. So he blinked like once every 10 seconds. So Ted Lindsay told me this story, he said they were lining up for a faceoff against Chicago and they dropped the puck and Gordie speared the guy opposite him right in the groin, and they had to carry him off.
“And Teddy said to Gordie, ‘What the hell was that for?’
“Gordie said, ‘He was mocking me, he was blinking at me.’
“And Teddy says, ‘He’s got the same thing you do, you a—h---!’”
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‘Come here, let’s sit and talk some hockey.’ So we went in the back booth for an hour. We just talked hockey, telling stories. I would’ve stayed there all night. Finally my wife said, ‘You’ve got 200 guests here, you know?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, but I’m talking to Gordie Howe. They can all wait.’”
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