![]() ![]() Rather than cancel the game, Detroit’s wily general manager Jack Adams offered my Dad to take Gump’s place.Īfter that season, like all professional hockey players at the time, Dad went back home with Mom so he could get a job. Their goalie, Gump Worsley, had taken ill and was unable to play. Detroit was playing against the New York Rangers and they did not have a backup goaltender. Given that he was backing up the greatest goalie who ever lived, Dad only played one NHL game. All his teammates referred to him as ‘The Little Uke’ and Sawchuck as ‘The Big Uke’ – two generations of Ukrainian goaltenders rubbing elbows with the very best players in what is still considered the golden age of professional hockey within the original Six Team League of the NHL. ![]() Dad was the backup goalie to the legendary Terry Sawchuck. Once he was brought into the fold of the team itself, Mom and Dad were nicely ensconced in the birthplace of Motown. For a couple of years, Dad played for a variety of their ‘farm teams’ in Northern Michigan, which meant he was almost always on the road, carted along icy highways in rickety buses across several states. My father was property of the famed National Hockey League (NHL) team the Detroit Red Wings. Colonial Report from the Dominion of Canada (above the 49th Parallel)
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