Archive for the ‘Gordie Howe’ Category
Rick Ley may have grown up to become a hardrock defenceman for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New England Whalers, and Hartford Whalers, but he started out as a goalie, as you can see in the bottom paragraph on the left side, when he earned his sixth shutout as the first place Raiders turned back the [...]
May 18, 2013 in Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Gordie Howe, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks
Tags: Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Bruce Gamble, Hartford Whalers, New England Whalers, Orillia, Rick Ley | No Comments »
Everyone’s going on and on about this being Gordie Howe’s birthday, and that’s fine. Happy birthday Gordie. But what about Claude Bourque? What’s he, chopped liver? Claude Bourque was born on this day, March 31, 1915, and if he wouldn’t have died in 1982, he would’ve been alive and really old now. Bourque was the [...]
March 31, 2013 in Detroit Red Wings, Gordie Howe, Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Claude Bourque, Gordie Howe | 6 Comments »
Former Hab Alex Kovalev is packing it in after 20 years in the bigs. He’d given it a shot this year in Florida but managed just 14 games before Father Time gave him the final nudges to exit stage left. Kovalev played four full seasons with Montreal between 2005 and 2009, plus 12 games prior [...]
March 22, 2013 in Florida Panthers, Gordie Howe, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins
Tags: Alex Kovalev, Gordie Howe | 4 Comments »
Gordie Howe was in Montreal for an Eaton’s appearance tour in the 1970′s, and while there he did a T.V. taping session with singer Anne Murray. The taping was at the Forum, and Anne wore Howe’s sweater while Howe wore John Ferguson’s. Murray was quoted in Gerry Patterson’s book “Behind The Superstars” as saying to [...]
February 18, 2013 in Gordie Howe, Guy Lafleur, John Ferguson ., Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Expos
Tags: Anne Murray, Behind The Superstars, Gerry Patterson, Gordie Howe, Guy Lafleur, John Ferguson ., Montreal Forum, Nancy Greene, Rusty Staub | 4 Comments »
My almost complete (missing four) 1954-55 Parkhurst set. And yes, it’s not a mint set and that’s fine. I like them just the way they are. Detroit won the Stanley Cup this season, defeating Montreal four games to three in the finals. But the Canadiens were without Maurice Richard, who was on the sidelines serving [...]
February 15, 2013 in Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Doug Harvey, Gordie Howe, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs
Tags: 1954-55 Parkhurst hockey cards, Doug Harvey, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Original Six, Richard Riot | 5 Comments »
Ron Green in Orillia sends along an interesting story from TheStar.com – Hockey Is In Tom Scanlan’s Bones – about a fellow who bought game-used sticks once owned by the 42 players who scored at least 500 goals in the NHL. The sticks were up for auction last June from Classic Auctions in Montreal. 42 [...]
January 6, 2013 in Bobby Hull, Gordie Howe, Guy Lafleur, Jean Beliveau, Mario Lemieux, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Wayne Gretzky
Tags: 500-goal scorers, Bobby Hull, Brett Hull, Classic Auctions, Gordie Howe, Guy Lafleur, Mario Lemieux, Mark Recchi, Rocket Richard, Ron Green, Wayne Gretzky | 6 Comments »
It was July 18, 2007 when Powell River’s Gary Lupul died of a heart attack at just 48 years old. I was shocked. He was a close friend of mine, and he seemed in good shape. It was a horrible time for many people, because Gary was loved by many. There were those who didn’t [...]
November 24, 2012 in Gordie Howe, Vancouver Canucks
Tags: Gary Lupul, Gordie Howe, Marcel Dionne, Powell River, Rob Lowe, Vancouver Canucks | 3 Comments »
Immediately following their stunning game-eight victory, Team Canada had to hit the road to Prague to play the Czechoslovakian national team the next night. This should have been better thought out by Hockey Canada, with an escape clause written into the contract. The team was both emotionally and physically spent, and it was unfair to [...]
September 28, 2012 in 1972 Canada-Russia hockey, Gordie Howe, International Hockey, John Ferguson ., Montreal Canadiens
Tags: Alan Eagleson, Alexander Ragulin, Anatoli Tarasov, Bill Barber, Bill Goldsworthy, Bobby Clarke, Boris Kulagin, Boris Mikhailov, Darryl Sittler, Gary Bergman, Gordie Howe, Harry Sinden, Jacques Lemaire, John Ferguson ., Mike Walton, Reggie Leach, Rick Martin, Serge Savard, Stan Mikita, Valeri Kharlamov, Valeri Vasiliev, Vsevolod Bobrov | 2 Comments »
I can remember my parents talking about it when I was a kid. The day one of the Toronto newspapers put the Rocket in a Leafs sweater, just for fun. Maybe it was around that time in 1953 when Leafs owner Conn Smythe was telling people that he’d be willing to part with $100,000 for the [...]
August 21, 2012 in Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs
Tags: Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard in a Leafs sweater, Toronto Star, Toronto Telegram | 6 Comments »
Thanks a lot to Beatnik for sending the video below. It was Glenn Hall in nets for the Hawks who was the victim on the night the Rocket notched his 500th regular season goal, which was the first time a player had reached that milestone. I had breakfast with Hall once when he was in Powell River [...]
August 20, 2012 in Bobby Hull, Chicago Blackhawks, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Wayne Gretzky
Tags: Allan Cup, Bobby Hull, Brett Hull, Glenn Hall, Gordie Howe, Jari Kurri, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Mike Bossy, Rocket Richard, Wayne Gretzky | 1 Comment »