by George Grimm | Dec 26, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
At 6-1 and 185 pounds, Cal Gardner did not shy away from the physical side of the game and in 1947 he became embroiled in what was then described as the biggest, longest brawl in NHL history. Cal Pearly Gardner signed as a free agent with the Rangers in 1945 following...
by Darryl Houston Smith | Dec 2, 2020 | Darryl's Dispatch, Hockey History, Toronto Maple Leafs
Early last month the hockey world lost another iconic figure. Howie Meeker has died. Howie Meeker spent his long and unique life playing, teaching and broadcasting the game of hockey and serving his country. A standout player, he won the Calder Trophy in 1946-47 (the...
by Darryl Houston Smith | Nov 25, 2020 | Darryl's Dispatch, Hockey History
Photos Source: NHL Archives Hockey lost one of its true originals as Fred Saskamoose has died. Sasakamoose died at age 86 in his hometown of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada after being hospitalized last week with wheezing, chest pains, and other complications...
by George Grimm | Sep 17, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
Tim Ryan graduated from Notre Dame University in 1960 with a journalism degree, in hope of becoming a newspaper reporter. He began working at the Toronto Star but was intrigued when he heard that a new commercial television network called CTV was coming to Canada....
by George Grimm | Aug 6, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
Edgar Laprade was considered by many to be the best senior hockey player in Canada during the early 1940s. Laprade began playing junior hockey with his hometown Port Arthur, Ontario, Bruins at the age of 16 in 1935. Three years later he moved up to senior hockey and...
by George Grimm | May 29, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
Do the names Hub Anslow, Ron Rowe, Herb Foster, Huddy Bell, Jean-Paul Denis or Alex Ritson, ring a bell? How about Len Wharton, Henry Dyck, Max Labovitch or Art Strobel? Unless you’re a true student of the game and the Rangers of the 1940s and 50s, most of those names...
