{"id":1453,"date":"2016-06-16T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2016-06-16T07:16:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:16:27","slug":"gordie-howe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"Gordie Howe, hockey’s ironman, passes away at age 88"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gordie Howe<\/strong>, hockey’s ironman, passes away at age 88.\u00a0Howe, known as Mr. Hockey, was the greatest goal scorer in hockey history until Wayne Gretzky eventually passed his record. Gordie Howe\u00a0played in his first NHL game\u00a0on October 16, 1946 for the Detroit Red Wings. The\u00a0right winger\u00a0would score a goal\u00a0in that\u00a0first game at the age of 18.\u00a0Wearing\u00a0the number\u00a017 during his rookie season, he would switch to number 9 the following year, and wear that number for the rest of his career. He would go on to lead the\u00a0Detroit Red Wings to four Stanley Cup championships during the 1950’s.<\/p>\n

During those\u00a0dominating years, Gordie was part\u00a0of one of the greatest lines in NHL\u00a0history. The\u00a0Production Line teamed Howe with “Terrible” Ted Lindsay and Sid Abel. He would go on to lead the league in scoring six times. He also won the Hart Trophy as the Most Valuable Player in the\u00a0league six times as well. He would appear in his\u00a023rd NHL All-Star Game\u00a0at Joe Louis Arena less than two months before\u00a0his 52nd birthday in 1980. Gordie actually still holds several of the Detroit Red Wings\u00a0franchise records with 786\u00a0goals, 1,809 points, and 1,687 games played.<\/p>\n

After retiring from Detroit in 1971, he took a job with\u00a0the Red Wings front office. However, in 1973 he came out of retirement to join the newly formed World Hockey Association. The Houston Aeros of the WHA had signed Gordie’s\u00a0sons\u00a0mark and Marty. The Howe’s would go on to\u00a0led the Aeros\u00a0to back to back\u00a0championships. With Houston folding prior to the start of the WHA’s last season, the Howe trio were traded to the New England Whalers. The newly named\u00a0Hartford Whalers would be one of four teams to join the NHL following\u00a0the WHA’s final season in 1979. Gordie would play for the\u00a0Hartford Whalers for their first NHL season before retiring again in 1980.<\/p>\n

Gordie Howe suffers stroke<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Gordie Howe had\u00a0a stroke two years ago. He had been suffering from symptoms of dementia for the two years prior to the stroke. Due to this declining health, Howe had been spending his time living alternately with his four children. He was staying with his daughter Cathy in Lubbock, Texas when he suffered his stroke in 2014. Mr. Howe\u00a0went\u00a0to Mexico to undergo\u00a0stem cell treatment, one\u00a0of two he would receive. Despite these therapies, Gordie’s health would continue to decline. He\u00a0passed away\u00a0just outside of Toledo in the town of\u00a0Sylvania, Ohio,\u00a0on June 10, 2016\u00a0at\u00a088 years of age.<\/p>\n

A Gordie Howe tribute video can be viewed at this link:\u00a0Mr. Hockey<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gordie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gordie Howe, hockey’s ironman, passes away at age 88.\u00a0Howe, known as Mr. Hockey, was the greatest goal scorer in hockey history until Wayne Gretzky eventually passed his record. Gordie Howe\u00a0played in his first NHL game\u00a0on October 16, 1946 for the Detroit Red Wings. The\u00a0right winger\u00a0would score a goal\u00a0in that\u00a0first game at the age of 18.\u00a0Wearing\u00a0the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,398],"tags":[401,399,407,403,408,400,406,405,402,409,404],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-sports-news","tag-detroit","tag-gordie-howe","tag-hartford-whalers","tag-houston-aeros","tag-joe-luis-arena","tag-mr-hockey","tag-new-england-whalers","tag-nhl","tag-red-wings","tag-the-olympia","tag-wha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}