Lose the face of Boxing and (arguably) the face of Hockey in the span of, what? Two weeks?
I’m sad for Cameron too
A true great of any sport. I didn’t follow hockey till the 1980 Islanders (5-year) dynasty. He certainly could have walked out on the ice in New York and be cheered. I reckon Gretzky would be as well.
He was Mr. Hockey.
And Woodrow in the Simpsons. 
He played 80 games and scored 15 goals in the NHL when he was 51 years old! (And racked up 42 penalty minutes.)
Hell of a player.
When you have a stat named after you (Gordie Howe hat trick) you know you’re the man.
Two sports legends gone in a week. Too bad, he was one of the best ever. His memory will live on in the new bridge to be built between Detroit and Windsor, to be named the Gordie Howe Bridge.
Thanks to the craptastic WHA I was lucky enough to see Gordie play back in the 1970s.
Over the years I saw him at a few NHL events and he always had a smile on his face and was surrounded by a huge gaggle of fans.
Gordie set a standard for playing the game that many young Canadians are still trying to match. Mister Hockey indeed.
RIP Gordie, you will be missed.
Yep. He and Wayne Gretzky are the Babe Ruth of hockey. Huge loss.
“Strap on your skates, Gordy – you’re going in.” – Bart Simpson
“Dearest Earth, I must leave you. Why, I cannot say. Where, you cannot know. How I will get there… I haven’t decided yet. But one thing I can tell you, any time I hear the wind blow it will whisper the name Gordie. And so let us part with a love that will echo through the ages.”
I couldn’t post from work, but just wanted to go on record to state that Gordie was a great athlete, hockey player, and by all sounds of it a great man and ever the gentleman off-ice.
On-ice? He was a force to be reckoned with.
When addressed as Mr. Howe, apparently always said “call me Gordie.”
RIP Gordie. One of the greatest 5 hockey players ever.
Bobby Orr will always be number one in my heart due to nostalgic reasons, but there is no denying that Gordie really was Mr. Hockey.
There is a movement locally to christen the soon-to-be new Red Wings home Gordie Howe Arena (rather than Little Caesars Arena). I am not hopeful, but that would be an awesome thing to happen.
mmm
Well, considering Mike Ilitch owns both the Red Wings and Little Caesars Pizza, I highly doubt that’s going to happen. Sponsorship money means too much, alas.
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In all due respect to the recently passed, it would be fair to note that he was in fact quite “softed” late in his career, as were Lafleur and Esposito. (I just made up that term, btw, but you hopefully get the gist.) Of course it’s amazing that anyone would even fucking lace up for a game, let alone play it, at 45 or older, and the fact that GH played it just past 50 is something I doubt anyone will ever achieve. (Jagrmeister is 44 as I write this - hmmm not sure if he’s got another 6 seasons, with today’s fast game, to get there). (Leaving Chelios, currently, the second oldest at I think 47.)
As much as I respect the man, he did only have two of them. However a ‘Rick Tocchet hat trick’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Petr Klima hat-trick?:o
What is that? Bouncing from team to team to team?
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The NHL tweeted the game sheets from October 11, 1953. (Add Fernie Flaman to your trivia night questions.)
He, too, was the Greatest.
Gordie Howe’s funeral will be in Detroit? Wow.
I met Gordie Howe in the 1980’s.
Shook his hand! The man’s hands could have crushed a coconut.
RIP, Mr. Hockey