The Chicago Blackhawks have retired six numbers to the United Center rafters. Steve’s Larmer’s No. 28 isn’t among them.
And for Larmer that’s alright with him.
“I think that really is reserved for very special people,” Larmer told Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun Times, shortly before taking the ice in full uniform for the national anthem as part of the Hawks’ “One Last Shift” ceremony. “I think that the numbers that they have retired up there are the ones that should be.
“Thank you, but I think that Bobby Hull and Tony Esposito and the Denis Savard and Keith Magnuson and Pierre Pilote are kind of in a league of their own.