[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.

[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.

[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).

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[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.

[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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[BeadCounter]

Rest In Peace.

So he had a name like that and played for the Habs.

[FourPeas]

May he rest in peace. I have several friends who’re die-hard Habs fans. They made sure our kids had little Habs (mock) sweaters. It will be a very sad time for them.