Dickie Moore dies

NY Times ^ | DEC 19 2015 | Rishard Goldstein

[RitchieAprile]

Dickie Moore, a Hockey Hall of Famer who played on six Stanley Cup championship teams with the Montreal Canadiens and won two straight N.H.L. point-scoring titles, died on Saturday in Montreal. He was 84.

[JewishRighter]

Dang. For a minute there, I thought it said Michael.

[yarddog]

I have never watched a hockey match other than when the U.S. beat Russia then Finland in the 1980 Olympics.

No interest at all but I can see how a person could like it.

Now soccer, I can’t understand at all.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Try cricket. I’ve watched a few matches and still have no clue as to what the goal is.

[advertising guy]

That had me doubled over laughin

[Mears]

I grew up rooting for the Boston Bruins and we had feelings toward Montreal the same way we feel now about The Yankees.:-)

The Habs are a legendary hockey team thanks to guys like Moore.

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[PGalt]

One of the all-time greats on a one of the greatest sports teams in the history of athletics.

Condolences to family and friends of Dickie Moore.

[yarddog]

Back in the early 90s I had a guy from England on my crew at a resort. He was a good athlete and played center field on our staff team.

He used a mitt appeared to be little else than a pad. He said it was a cricket glove. He could use it very well but why would they use such a contraption when a real glove would be so much better?

[MinuteGal]

Oooo-eeee....I thought it was Dickie Moore, child star in the very popular "The Little Rascals" films of the Thirties......and the young man who gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss in 1942 when he was billed as "Dick Moore".

I looked him up on Wiki and he died this past September at age 89.

Leni

[SamAdams76]

Wow, this guy completely evaded my radar. I was a huge hockey fan during all the 1970s, especially of Bobby Orr and the Bruins, but I never heard of this guy. He stopped playing in 1968 so that is probably why. But after just reading his bio, it looks like he had a long and successful post-hockey career as a businessman.

But he seems to have been unlucky with automobiles. In 1970, his son, a budding professional hockey player as well, died in the pre-dawn darkness at age 16 in a one-car accident, as he was driving himself to hockey practice. (For those who never played hockey, you usually had to get up at ridiculously early times of the day to get ice time).

In 2006, Dickie himself was involved in a horrific car crash which he was lucky to survive and never fully recovered from (neck and spin injuries).

[ex91B10]

Yes..in the original Boston Garden. Many fond recollections.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[bobby.223]

The game was quite a bit better when it was just the Original Six’. Then came the first expansion and everything changed imho.

[Alberta's Child]

You'd be hard pressed to find a Montreal Canadien from that era who DIDN'T play on at least six Stanley Cup championship teams! Henri Richard holds the record. His name has been etched on the Stanley Cup eleven times as a player.

[dfwgator]

I was at the game last night between the Stars and Canadiens, they had a nice tribute to Moore before the game.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just waiting for Gordie Howe to make my Dead Pool 2015 list. Maybe not this year. He did have a major stroke last year.



Howe, who vies with Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr for the title of hockey's greatest player, had long seemed invincible. He played his first NHL game for the Detroit Red Wings in 1946, at 18, and didn't retire for good until 1980, at 52, having scored more goals than anyone else. But over the past decade, fans had followed Howe's slow decline from a murderer's row of ailments - heart disease, dementia, spinal stenosis - and despite the family's best efforts to keep it private, his stroke made the front page of the Detroit News. Keith Olbermann aired a preemptive obituary on ESPN. The family made funeral plans. Murray, his youngest son, wrote a eulogy.

The Gordie Howe Protocol

[EveningStar]

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[Hot Tabasco]

you usually had to get up at ridiculously early times of the day to get ice time)

The group my nephew plays with has ice time at 11:00 p.m. at night.....