There Will Never Be Another Gordie Howe

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Gordie Howe, is one of the greatest players in hockey history, a man who cheated father time to play in the NHL in five decades, a man who won 4 stanley cup championships, had 23 NHL all-star appearances, won 6 hart trophies and 6 art Ross trophies, as the NHL’s most valuable player and top point-scorer. A man who had 22 consecutive NHL seasons of scoring on at least 23 goals… And whats crazy is that this list of achievements barely scratches the surface on how Mr. Hockey has left an impact on the game we see today.

Born March 31, 1928 in Floral, Saskatchewan as one of nine children, Gordie Howe’s pro hockey career got off on a bad foot. Not for Howe necessarily, but for the New York Rangers and Lester Patrick, who famously told a 14-year-old Howe at their tryout camp in Winnipeg that he “might as well go home” because he’d “never be a hockey player.”