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the concusser

A quick review of Gordie Howe’s career on the ice suggests that he suffered at least six concussions in his time (Head Count, February 10). Another question might be: how many did he cause? They don’t...

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hockey players in hospital beds: doug bentley

Doug Bentley had a bad groin. That’s not to judge, it’s just what we know. What it meant in January of 1950 was that when the last-place Chicago Black Hawks went on a road trip, Bentley stayed home. He...

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this week: there aren’t enough adjectives in the vocabulary

“Happy holidays everybody!!!,” tweeted @AnzeKopitar this week, “#besttimeoftheyear”      ‪ In Ottawa, Governor-General David Johnston told CTV’s Powerplay what he thought of his next-door neighbour’s...

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high five

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a thousand and thirty-three

Tony Harris tells the story of illicitly drawing constant Tony Espositos when he should have been taking notes as a school kid in Lakefield, Ontario: that’s where his career as an artist started....

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edgar laprade, 1919–2014

If it were anyone else, we might be able to swing players around to fill the gap. But the loss of Laprade is serious trouble. • Frank Boucher in January of 1951 Edgar Laprade was 94 when he died last …...

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hp[post]hb: jerry toppazzini

Almost There: You can’t see the damage here — post-plastic surgery, Jerry Toppazzini of the Boston Bruins looked pretty good in early March of 1957. A month after suffering what doctors called a...

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fathers and sons

Leo Reise, Jr., seen here getting in some hurdling practice, had some very good sporting days in his time. He played his first NHL game in 1946 for the Chicago Black Hawks; in 1950, he helped the...

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back home, back in hockey

Terry Sawchuk wasn’t happy to leave Detroit in the summer of 1955, having just helped the team win the Stanley Cup, but GM Jack Adams decided it was time: he had a young goaltender by the name of Glenn...

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dickie moore, 1931–2015

Dickie Moore was 84 when he died on Saturday in Montreal. A Hall-of-Fame left winger, he twice won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s leading scorer. While he also turned out, later in his career, for...

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the wild man of guelph

A birthday today for Lou Fontinato, who was born in 1932, in Guelph, Ontario, whereabout he still lives. A defenceman, he was mostly, in the NHL, a New York Ranger, though he ended his career with...

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floral glory

Hockey’s Mister: Born on a March-ending Saturday in 1928, Gordie Howe turns 88 today. About his beginnings, Don O’Reilly wrote this in his 1975 biography, Mr. Hockey: The World of Gordie Howe: “Floral,...

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homespin

The bad news: the Detroit Red Wings lost to Montreal’s powerful Canadiens in the sixth game of the 1954 Stanley Cup Finals. A better bulletin: they were headed home for the seventh and deciding game...

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that week: if he were a forest, he’d be a national park

“There will never be another Gordie Howe,” is what Bobby Orr was saying last week, in the days following Howe’s death on June 10 at the age of 88. “You couldn’t invent Gordie today,” Orr told Dave...

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wing-ding

Pushback: He was still often Gordon Howe in the press in 1947, starting into his second NHL season working the right wing for the Detroit Red Wings, though Gordie was starting to take hold more and...

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riot’s eve, 1955: when I’m hit, I get mad, and I don’t know what I do

northbound Sunday night, March 13 of 1955, after Boston beat Montreal 4-2, Canadiens caught a night train north. “The big rhubarb in Boston Garden,” The Gazette’s Dink Carroll called what had gone on,...

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whango! another strike, and the mosienko grin: working the hockey off-season

  Gordon Sparling directed Hockey Stars’ Summer, a 1951 ASN “Canadian Cameo,” with  Andy O’Brien contributing the script.Filed under: jobs Tagged: Andy O'Brien, baseball, Bill Gadsby, Bill Juzda, Bill...

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ted talk

Filed under: Detroit Tagged: Bert Lindsay, Charlie Conacher, Detroit, Montreal Wanderers, Renfrew, St. Michael's Majors, Ted Lindsay, Toronto Arenas

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afore orr

Staredown: Those of us who studied under Bob Armstrong recognize this glare as the same one he used in his post-hockey career to quell classroom uprisings during his time as a popular teacher of...

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held ’em, hall

Montreal was sitting high atop the NHL standings in February of 1959, looking back down at Chicago in second. The Bruins were a point behind the Black Hawks the night Boston stopped in at the Stadium...

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