Hockey Mourns Veteran NHL Workhorse Dead at 79

The hockey world is mourning the loss of a longtime NHL veteran who spent 14 seasons in the league and left his mark on more than one generation of teammates. MarkerZone.com reports the death at age 79, and that kind of news tends to pull old locker-room stories back into the light. Players like this often built their reputation the hard way, through durability, trust, and the sort of minutes that never make for flashy highlight reels.