Gordy Haw Biography

A year and a half ago, the hockey world learned that the legendary Gordy Haw suffered a heavy stroke and was partially paralyzed. Having iron health and willpower, Hou was holding on, but on June 10, he was still forced to give in to the battle with death. Seeing the legendary Mr. Hockey on the last journey, we recall the milestones of his magnificent hockey biography. The strength and effectiveness of the career of the hockey player Gordon Hou began in the 10ths of the last century.

He, being the right extreme, was able to act effectively on the left and in the center, and even in defense, ”said the legendary Scotti Bownean. Gordy Hou was born in a year in a poor family, where his father was forced to get funds to eat his relatives hunting. He found his first horse in a bag with things that a neighbor brought them, and the second bought from a sister for 10 cents.

The first contract of HOU cost dollars, and already at the age of 18 he played in the NHL. Since childhood, he was obsessed with achieving success in hockey.

And achieved. On his account of matches in the regular NHL championships and glasses. In total, Hou 33 years old was a current player. Gordy Hou, nicknamed the flasher in the year, Haw life almost broke. At the cost of a serious injury, he stopped Tim Kennedy, a Toronto player. The clash of Hou and the opponent and board turned out to be so serious that only at the cost of the incredible efforts of the famous neurosurgeon Frederick Schreiber Gordi managed to save life.

The hockey player was made by the skull, and he muttered the club manager an apology, because he believed that he could play better that evening. It would seem that after this, fear of professional sports may appear. But Haw returned to the ice next season. After this injury, he had a nervous tic, for which the partners affectionately nicknamed his flashing light. In the next two seasons, HOU scored 86 points, in the second year leading Detroit to victory in the Stanley Cup.

In the year, he had already won the fourth cup in six years, and this, surprisingly, was his last triumph in the NHL. Such a career does not end the first time at the age of 40, Gordon Haw set a personal record, for the first time in his career, scoring more points per season. And two years later, in his anniversary season in Detroit, the striker decided that it was time to finish with hockey.

He even managed to go to the post of Vice President Detroit. But Gordy was not ready for office work, which cannot be compared with his favorite thing - hockey. And then the story continued, but already in the VHA. The Houston Alternative Hockey League Club concluded a contract with the Haw family, that’s how it will be right. Gordy Haw began to play with his sons Mark and Marty in the same team.

In the first three seasons, a gray -haired hockey player was still magnificent in VHA, scoring, 99 and points. In the year, Hou played all 80 matches of the regular championship. The gray -haired veteran did not lose his combat uniform at all and, like a quarter of a century ago, weighed the same 92 kilograms. Many copies were broken about the so-called “Hit-trick Gordy Hou”, when the player in one game manages to score, give a pass and fight.

After all, Gordon himself was submitted only three times in his career. Nevertheless, there is a justification for such a naming. Hou was burning with hockey, he worked out with pleasure every game, every shift on the site, sought to cover the entire area of ​​ice with his actions. And it is quite logical that his name is named, which implies the complete involvement of the player in the match.

It is known that HOU came a lot of letters from different people from all over North America. On the envelope it was enough to write to Mr. Gordy Haw, and the letter was sure to find the addressee. Instead of an epilogue. Letters to Mr. Gordy Haw June. Gordy Hou, who can be called the personification of all the post -war hockey, still decides to hang skates on a nail.

The goal that he designated - to play 25 seasons in the NHL is fulfilled. But players who were not even born performed on the site with him when he first played for Detroit. This is not given to everyone. And this, you see, something means.