BY: Ryan Dixon

At this point, I’m not sure I could pick out one player from NHL history and identify him as my favorite, but I definitely know who my favorite player to hear stories about is.

That fact was re-affirmed while we at The Hockey News put together a special issue titled the Top 100 Players of All-Time by Position. It’s on newsstands now (and available online) and the profile on Gordie Howe includes more than one smile-inducing yarn about the man who is the extreme representation of that most fascinating of contradictory beings, the small-town Canadian hockey player.


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