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Golly Gee Willikers! It’s Howie Meeker’s Birthday!
Golly Gee Willikers! It’s Howie Meeker’s Birthday!
Howie Meeker is maybe best known to fans of my generation as the colorful analyst from Hockey Night in Canada. Now, stop it right there!, as he would say, because there is so much more to this legend. Born in Kitchener, ON in 1923, Meeker quickly rose as a prominent junior hockey star, in ...
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