but I knew Squeak after his glory days on the ice he had been a high scorer but whether he showed any hustle or was a cherry picker it made a difference but unless he used to dig for the puck he would never saw like Gordie Howe he had played right wing my position maybe like his politics and whether he used his elbows in the corners or winded defenders with the butt end of his stick to the solar plexus like Gordie nobody's saying now in those days I didn't know much about those things politics I mean except that if you lived in Calgary you were probably a So Cred and listened to Ernest Manning's evangelism on the radio and had been complicit in saving funny bucks and if you shifted your allegiances it was probably only as far as Herbert W. Armstrong or his son Garner Ted Armstrong and the World Wide Church of God The World Tomorrow today out of Pasadena California these were before the days when people were gone but not away Alberta ha...

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