RIP Gordie Howe
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Hockey player, right ?
https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/2014/11/01/gordies-greatest-hits-the-night-howe-took-apart-lou-fontinato/
"Observers recalled Howe grabbing Fontinato’s jersey with his left hand, then using his right hand to deliver a stream of vicious uppercuts–”whop, whop, whop, just like someone chopping wood,” said one player quoted in Life magazine..."
"Observers recalled Howe grabbing Fontinato’s jersey with his left hand, then using his right hand to deliver a stream of vicious uppercuts–”whop, whop, whop, just like someone chopping wood,” said one player quoted in Life magazine..."
DeaconPeach
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Gordie Howe hat trick: Score a goal, assist on a goal, and get a fighting major.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/columnist/allen/2016/06/10/gordie-howe-appreciation-nhl-red-wings/18159445/
"what always struck me as the most fascinating aspect of Howe's career is that he was able to play a dominant tough, physical, often ruthless, style for 26 years in the NHL without developing a large collection of people hating him.
You have to look long and hard in the hockey world to find anyone who disliked Gordie Howe.
His son, Mark, once said of his dad: "He was the meanest, nastiest man on a pair of skates that I ever met. Off the ice, he was the most gentlemanly man I ever met."
That was Mr. Hockey's greatest talent. He knew where the game ended and life began.
He played with his elbows up, and if you wronged him, you faced his retribution. But if you respected Howe, he respected you. He lived by his own code of conduct, and almost everyone in the NHL understood Howe's rules."
"what always struck me as the most fascinating aspect of Howe's career is that he was able to play a dominant tough, physical, often ruthless, style for 26 years in the NHL without developing a large collection of people hating him.
You have to look long and hard in the hockey world to find anyone who disliked Gordie Howe.
His son, Mark, once said of his dad: "He was the meanest, nastiest man on a pair of skates that I ever met. Off the ice, he was the most gentlemanly man I ever met."
That was Mr. Hockey's greatest talent. He knew where the game ended and life began.
He played with his elbows up, and if you wronged him, you faced his retribution. But if you respected Howe, he respected you. He lived by his own code of conduct, and almost everyone in the NHL understood Howe's rules."
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Not too much to add, but I feel obligated to chime in. Howe was certainly the greatest player of his era. The long standing debate between him and Gretzky is a difficult one to sort out, though. If Gretzky played during Howe's prime, I don't believe he would have been as dominant. It was a different game at that time. Gretzky was the most talented offensive player ever, but did not have the grit of Howe.
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Baseball player. Grandfather of Steve Howe and son was Art Howe
jaybone
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Old time hockey, Eddie Shore
sailordeac
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Great player. RIP.