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From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (Tom O`Connor)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: The Great One
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:35:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:35:34 1984
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Sorry, but whenever I hear someone use the term "The Great One"
in hockey, and they use it to refer to Gretzky, I keep remembering
another player who was truly THE great one, a man Wayne G.
could never hold a candle to, Gordie Howe.  If you ask me,
Gretzky is a good player, but only would have been average
back when hockey was hockey, not this 20-or so team league
with good to average talent.  Bring back the days when there
were only 6 teams, and the players were great.  And the king
of them all was Howe, a man who even was playing in his late
40s (albeit in a so-called major league) along side his sons.
What a thrill.  What a man.

Tom O`Connor
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