News Article: Gordie Howe dies, RIP

Megustaelhockey

"I like hockey" in Spanish
Apr 29, 2011
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Megustaelhockey, not to bust chops, just asking, do we have a thread in case any NHL player moves on? Whether entire NHL or just our Rangers? Not seeing a necrology/in memoriam/or similar. And I assume we do not have/entertain similar thread for members who have passed on either. It's like, you hear from them every day. EVERY DAY. And then suddenly.....

like a pin drops.

We'll decide on a case by case basis. It's more about housekeeping than anything.
 

bernmeister

Registered User
Jun 11, 2010
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We'll decide on a case by case basis. It's more about housekeeping than anything.

That's fine enough and ok, but my point is no verboten automatic foul to create such a thread if one has reasonable basis to believe person has died....

you'll decide after the fact, but a thread can be proposed.
 

Edge

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We lost an ICON to the sport.

I was talking to a colleague/fellow hockey nut when I heard the news. Both of us were quite audible in our sadness.
 

trilobyte

NYR Fan In the Foothills
Dec 9, 2008
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I met Gordie Howe when I was really young, at Maple Leaf Gardens. I don't really remember it. What I do remember is the next time I met him.
1988, my brother had Flames season tickets and more importantly, a security pass for work his construction company was doing on the new but not quite finished Saddledome. Rangers were in town, great for me, so after the first period we decided to see how far the security pass would take us. We went down to the dressing rooms. Walking along, two big guys coming toward us.
Lo and behold, Phil Esposito and Gordie Howe. They stopped to talk to us. The only thing I remember saying was telling Phil that the D made some bad pinches. He agreed, laughed and said he would tell the coach. BTW, the coach was Michel Bergeron, who the Rangers got from Quebec Nordiques for a first round pick and $75K.

Gordie was nice, as was Phil. I wish I could remember more about it, but it was just pleasant chit-chat. They shook our hands. Shaking Phil's hand was a normal occurrance. Shaking Gordie's hand, you knew you were dealing with a powerful man. Guys who grow up working on farms have hands like that, and strength like that.
Here was this legend, being as nice as your next door neighbour to you. I don't remember why Gordie was there that particular night.

What a gas that was. Later, after the Rangers loss (Flames were on their way to a Stanley Cup, very good team) we went to III Cheers bar, where I hung out with Tomas Sandstrom who had had a great game, for a short while. His English was much better than my Swedish, but the conversation was a bit laboured, but what a great guy and what a fantastic player. He seemed sincerely happy to just chat about the Rangers and whatever with me.
All in all, I never met so many great hockey players in such a compressed period of time.

I had an autographed quality lithograph of Gordie from the 60's, but somehow I lost it over the years.
What a guy he was.
 
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