"I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking."
Today, we mourn the loss of an icon of not just hockey, but sports as a whole. While we mourn the passing of Gordie Howe, a man who devoted his life to the sport of hockey, we celebrate the man who has long ago etched into the upper-echelon of hockey immortality.
When I was seven years old, I remember watching the Detroit Vipers open the 1997 IHL season in Auburn Hills.