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Jun 21Liked by Jeff Dorchen

If you'd used Wayne Gretzky as your hockey reference ... the youngsters probably still wouldn't get it.

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Great post. And I'm a fan of Gordie Howe. I was glued to the TV in 1972 in the USSR, watching the Summit games -- Team Canada vs. USSR -- for which Howe came out of retirement and brought his two sons to the Soviet Union to play with him for Canada.

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Gordie was the hero of my childhood Redwings, of course. My dad took me to see them play a couple times.

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