# Gordie Howe Dies. RIP Mr. Hockey **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 10, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020 "2016-06-10T14:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/1 "2016-06-10T14:10:06Z")
[As per ESPN](http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/16096859/hockey-legend-gordie-howe-dies-88) Lose the face of Boxing and (arguably) the face of Hockey in the span of, what? Two weeks? I’m sad for [Cameron](https://media3.giphy.com/media/YZj6yC5sbZ5qo/200_s.gif) too ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/2 "2016-06-10T14:27:33Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/3 "2016-06-10T14:51:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/4 "2016-06-10T14:58:11Z")
When you have a stat named after you ([Gordie Howe hat trick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_hat_trick)) you know you’re the man. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/5 "2016-06-10T15:01:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/6 "2016-06-10T17:10:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/7 "2016-06-10T17:26:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Two sports legends gone in a week. Too bad, he was one of the best ever. Yep. He and Wayne Gretzky are the Babe Ruth of hockey. Huge loss. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/8 "2016-06-10T18:16:34Z")
“Strap on your skates, Gordy – you’re going in.” – Bart Simpson ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/9 "2016-06-10T18:27:00Z")
“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.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/10 "2016-06-11T01:56:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/11 "2016-06-11T12:15:37Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/12 "2016-06-11T21:18:42Z")
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. Sent from my MotoE2(4G-LTE) using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/13 "2016-06-12T01:44:40Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > 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. 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.) > [@Telemark](#): > > When you have a stat named after you ([Gordie Howe hat trick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_hat_trick)) you know you’re the man. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/14 "2016-06-12T02:53:37Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > When you have a stat named after you ([Gordie Howe hat trick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_hat_trick)) you know you’re the man. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/15 "2016-06-12T04:03:23Z")
Petr Klima hat-trick?:o ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/16 "2016-06-12T04:07:53Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > 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. What is that? Bouncing from team to team to team? _flees_ ---
**Author:** ![cardinal\_fang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal_fang/32/15316_2.png) [@cardinal\_fang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardinal_fang)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/17 "2016-06-12T04:40:11Z")
The NHL tweeted the [game sheets](https://twitter.com/NHL/status/741308960179945472) from October 11, 1953. (Add Fernie Flaman to your trivia night questions.) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/18 "2016-06-12T14:56:38Z")
He, too, was the Greatest. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/19 "2016-06-13T01:38:17Z")
Gordie Howe’s funeral will be in Detroit? Wow. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordie-howe-dies-rip-mr-hockey/757020/20 "2016-06-13T02:26:32Z")
I met Gordie Howe in the 1980’s. Shook his hand! The man’s hands could have crushed a coconut. RIP, Mr. Hockey