Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxw.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxw!tommyo From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (Tom O`Connor) Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey Subject: Re: The Great One Message-ID: <1001@ihuxw.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:35:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxw.1001 Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:35:34 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 07:52:25 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 14 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 ihuxw!tommyo