Tag Archives: Gordie Howe
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This Day In Sports History (March 14th) — Gordie Howe
It was on this day in 1997 that a 68-year-old Gordie Howe signed a contract with the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch. He was attempting to become the first player to play professional hockey in six consecutive decades. Unfortunately, Howe’s comeback had to be canceled because the Crunch were in the playoff hunt and could not afford [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 12th) – Gordie Howe
It was on this day in 1972 that Gordie Howe had his #9 jersey retired by the Detroit Red Wings. Howe would return to playing a few years later for the Houston Aeros of the newly formed WHA, and after the WHA went bust in 1979, “Mr. Hockey” returned for one more year in the [...]
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This Day In Sports History (November 14th) — Gordie Howe
It was on this day in 1964 that Gordie Howe set the record for most career NHL goals, with his 627th. The 1964-65 season was Howe's 19th in the league, and while it certainly wasn't his best, it was still pretty impressive, as the 36-year-old (at the time) recorded 29 goals, 47 assists and 104 [...]
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11 Fantastic Sports Statues
Sports statues are like pizzas: sometimes you don’t know how truly bad one is until you get a taste of the really good stuff. Thus, maybe you checked out our list of bad sports statues yesterday and thought to yourself, “these aren’t that bad, are they?” But they really are bad. And once you see [...]
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This Day In Sports History (February 29th) — Gordie Howe
It was on this day in 1980 that Gordie Howe became the first NHLer to ever score 800 career goals. Howe would finished his career with a total of 801 goals. That would stand as the highest career total for an NHL players until the 1993-94 season, when it was broken by Wayne Gretzky. “The [...]
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9 Sports Legends We Should Take Time To Appreciate Before They’re Gone
This past Sunday, the sports world lost one of it’s most iconic figures in Joe Paterno. And while I usually don’t get too sad when people pass away at the ripe old age of 85—especially not when they’ve accomplished as much as JoePa—this time the news got me down a bit. Why? Because of the [...]
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Wayne Gretzky Breaks The Goals Record 15 Years Ago Today
Total Pro Sports – It seemed as if it were yesterday I was sitting in front of my television waiting for my idol and hero Wayne Gretzky to score and break Gordie Howe’s NHL goal record.
