"Everybody thinks Gordie won," Lou told Gelman. "Nobody realized what I did to Howe. I ripped him in the face and gave him a bloody eye. There's no way he won that fight." With 20-20 hindsight ...

When asked what his dad thought about the naming of the bridge, Gordie's son Murray said his father had told him, "That sounds pretty good to me." Howe made his NHL debut in 1946 with the Red ...