"Gordie asked me what I wanted to do, and I told him I wanted to be a hockey player," Orr said following Howe's June 2016 funeral. "Gordie looked at me and said, 'Well, when you get up there watch ...

When the big announcement came Friday night during the second intermission of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final, John Garrett ...

“So many generations of players wanted to play like Gordie Howe,” former Philadelphia Flyers captain Bobby Clarke said. “He was the ultimate professional hockey player.” ...

When sons Mark and Marty Howe played with him in the World Hockey Association with the Houston Aeros, Marty noticed that the player lining across from Gordie always got a whack across the head ...

You can debate the greatest hockey player of all time, and the discussion will inevitably center on three names: Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe. Gretzky owns all the scoring records ...

Yet the man who is perhaps the greatest hockey player ever was so self-deprecating that he was reluctant to even say his name into a microphone. "Oh, I forgot. Ha! Yes, this is Gordie Howe ...

Howe, known affectionately within the hockey community as “Mr. Hockey ... I tell people this all the time — the two greatest players ever were Gordie Howe and Bobby Orr.

“So many generations of players wanted to play like Gordie Howe,” former Philadelphia Flyers captain Bobby Clarke said. “He was the ultimate professional hockey player.” ...

When sons Mark and Marty Howe played with him in the World Hockey Association with the Houston Aeros, Marty noticed that the player lining across from Gordie always got a whack across the head ...

So many generations of players wanted to play like Gordie Howe,'' former Philadelphia Flyers captain Bobby Clarke said. ''He was the ultimate professional hockey player.'' AP Hockey Writer John ...