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"The Greatest Hockey Player In The World"

06/11/2016 at 9:24am EDT

from Roy MacGregor of the Globe and Mail,

Surely it cannot possibly be more than 60 years – and yet it is.

My older brother Jim, who has a far better memory, remembers the score, the fact that the Detroit Red Wings beat his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs and that both “Terrible” Ted Lindsay and Gordie “Elbows” Howe scored.

I was too young. Our father had been given tickets to Maple Leaf Gardens by a buyer who toured the lumber mills of the north in search of good timber. We had driven down, our parents baffled by clover leafs, unused to streetlights, and I recall being wary of the Gardens’ escalators and, after too much pop, terrified by a stainless steel urinal that seemed as long and packed as the arena itself.

But I do remember, vividly, when our father pointed at No. 9 in the Red Wings jersey, a lanky fellow with a dark forelock of hair, and said, “There is the greatest hockey player in the world.”

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