Detroit — Most played for the great Red Wings teams that won four Stanley Cups in six years during the 1950s.
Some, by dint of fate, scarcely missed the opportunity.
They are the 10 oldest Red Wings — Jim Conacher, 95; Steve Wojciechowski, 93; Pete Babando, 91; Ted Lindsay, 90; Red Kelly, 89; Dunc Fisher, 89; Tom McGrattan, 88; Marty Pavelich, 88; Benny Woit, 88; and Ed Sandford, 88.
They are the Wings the parents of the Baby Boom watched and the early Boomers recall from childhood.
Gone are Gordie Howe and Bill Gadsby, who died this year.