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Before “The Great One,” there was “Mr. Hockey.”
Gordie Howe, who led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cups and won six MVP awards before retiring as the NHL’s most-prolific scorer, died on Friday. He was 88.
“A lot of times when you meet your idols and people you respect and look up to, sometimes it’s not as great as you had anticipated or you built it up too much,” Wayne Gretzky told ESPN. “I was so lucky when I met Gordie. I was 10. It was so much nicer and bigger and better than I had ever imagined it. To this day when people come up to me that talk about having done a book report or speech about me, I always talk about the time that my fondest memory in public school was writing a book report on Gordie Howe.”
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Before “The Great One,” there was “Mr. Hockey.”
Gordie Howe, who led the Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cups and won six MVP awards before retiring as the NHL’s most-prolific scorer, died on Friday. He was 88.
“A lot of times when you meet your idols and people you respect and look up to, sometimes it’s not as great as you had anticipated or you built it up too much,” Wayne Gretzky told ESPN. “I was so lucky when I met Gordie. I was 10. It was so much nicer and bigger and better than I had ever imagined it. To this day when people come up to me that talk about having done a book report or speech about me, I always talk about the time that my fondest memory in public school was writing a book report on Gordie Howe.”
Get the Rest of the story on BlowoutBuzz.com (https://blowoutbuzz.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/sports-loses-an-icon-mr-hockey-gordie-howe-dies-at-88/)
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