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HHOF Member Harry Howell Dead At Age 86

03/10/2019 at 12:03pm EDT

from Scott Radley of TheSpec,

He may have been the greatest hockey player Hamilton has ever produced. Probably was.

He won the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenceman. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in a class with Bobby Orr and Rocket Richard. Canada Post put out a stamp of him. His number became one of just 10 retired by the New York Rangers and raised to the rafters of Madison Square Garden.

Yet when news broke that Harry Howell had passed away late Saturday night at 86, nobody talked about his work on the ice. They all wanted to talk about Harry the man.

"He was a gentleman," says Dean Prentice, who played with him in junior and was called up to the Rangers the same day as Howell back in 1952. "He was well-liked by everybody and he always had a smile."

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Hockey Hall of Fame feature on Harry Howell.

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