Everybody knows that Mister Hockey – Gordie Howe – ranks among the greatest players of any era. And everybody knows that he earned that label starring for the Detroit Red Wings. What few know ...

Gordie Howe had smiled at Gatt back then, just as he smiled at him now. Howe sat in that chair for hours, watching over Gatt after he suffered a severe stroke that pushed him to the edge of death.

Mister Hockey, the legendary Gordie Howe, was almost a Ranger. This is a true story, told to me by Howe, himself. When he was 15, he showed up at the Rangers training camp in Winnipeg. He was a ...