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William Lawrence Hicke (March 31, 1938 – July 18, 2005) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger.A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Hicke played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins, winning the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1959 and 1960. [1]
Gordie Howe, pictured here in 1966, played his final NHL game at 52. Below is the List of oldest National Hockey League (NHL) players, with their last year in parentheses. Only hockey players who played at least one game in the regular season or playoffs when they were 40 or older are included on the list.
The player category has been in existence since the beginning of the Hall of Fame and the first nine players were inducted in 1945. For a person to be inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player, they must have been retired for a minimum of three years and must be nominated by an elected 18-person selection committee. [3]
American Major League Baseball player [53] Sam Dana: 1903–2007: 104: American football player [54] George Daneel: 1904–2004: 100: South African international rugby union player [55] Frans De Blaes: 1909–2010: 100: Belgian canoeist [56] George Deane: 1828–1929: 100: English cricketer [57] Bill Dellastatious: 1922–2023: 101: American ...
Bill Hicke, 67, Canadian ice hockey right winger. [87] ... recognized as the oldest living former MLB player. [142] John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President ...
A study published by researchers at Boston University's CTE Center in December found that 18 of 19 former NHL players whose brains were studied had the neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated ...
A Pennsylvania woman who recently celebrated her 114th birthday is being recognized as the oldest living person in North America — and credits her very long life to abstaining from everyday vices.
The Pittsburgh Pirates played in the U.S. Amateur Hockey Association as the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets before joining the NHL in 1925. [7] The first NHL team to disband was the Montreal Wanderers, citing the lack of available players due to World War I. [8]