God he was great! I always watched him in Minnesota. I thought he did the splits sometimes. I always thought he was around 5' 6". The good old days in the 70's. I had a crush on him too back then. Wrote it all over my school folder lol. I was in 8th or 9th grade. I'd play hockey a few times with my brothers and neighbors and I'd be the goalie. No helmet or padding at all. I'd say, I'm gonna be the Gump! Got hit with the puck on the side of my leg, a bruise as big as the puck exactly. But....I wasn't being a goalie when I got hit. The neighbor took a slap shot and I got it. The "Gump" will always be in our hearts. ❤
Gump was my neighbor in Bloomington, Mn back then. His son Drew and I were playing hockey in the drive way with a tennis ball, the older son Dean who had pretty good shot himself stopped the Gump while going to work in a suit and ask if he could take a shot the ole man. Dean wound up from 25 ft let go a supper hard slap shot the Gump effortlessly blocked the shot with his right bicep then got in his Cadillac and went to work like nothing happened. It was impressive and I'll will always remember that day.
Gump was doing a commercial on Weston Road in Toronto at a Esso Gas Station in 1969.at 300am Morning me and my friend saw the Brightest Lights in the Gas Bar, and Gump he went to the Pop machine and Bought us 4 cokes,Said glad yous pulled in it was a week night and he treated us like Family.l told him l Recognized him,O lm Just an ordinary guy we stayed another hour and never forget how l met him nice man,nice night.....
What a character, loved to watch Gump play. I remember one night, somebody - I forget who - got a breakaway on him but tripped on the way. Gump dropped down with his pad and kept the player from crashing into the immovable iron posts they had at the time. The comment in the paper the next day was something like "the best save Gump made last night was so-and-so's head".
Gump was an old throwback from the ancient times. Still quick as a cat when he came to Minnesota. We loved him. So glad he came out of retirement. He was damn good.
Hard to believe there was no mention of all the years he played with the Rangers. I used to watch him from the upper balcony at the old Madison Square Garden. The NY sports writers used to give him a hard time because of his style, but he was the best there was at stopping a breakaway. Years later when I was living in Minneapolis I got to see him again.
I agree RJ, what kind of biographer would totally not mention his NY Ranger years. For God's sake, he played there 9 years....was Rookie-of-the-Year in his first year.
It's amazing how time flies...My dad was the Gumper's team mate when they played hockey as kids in the Point, a rough area in Montreal. In those days poor kids played with magazines stuffed down the front of extra large socks for goalie pads and the puck was a frozen horse patty.
Thanks for sharing lumberjack. It brought tears to my eyes being from Montreal & remembering Gump play. He was my idol. I played goalie in peewee, bantam & midget. Also in high school. I can recall at age 14 in nets, the guys slapshot were so hard you didn't see a puck coming. It was concentric dark circles of increasing size until it hit you in the face. That was the last year I played goalie. I switched to defence the next year. That was 1973.
I remember Gump quite well in the late 60's and 70's. All the kids who played goal in street hockey thought they were Gump Worsley. Unforgettable unique character.
Circa 1969 we were in desperate a way to find the perfect ball to play street hockey. Orange street hockey balls were OK but jittery in cold weather. A buddy shows up with a whiffle ball. It was awful. A buddy ran in the house and came out with a sock. He tied it knots & stuffed it inside the whiffle ball via a hole. Voila !!!! We had a near perfect ball to play with for years.......the only downside was some sock material would eventually try to peekaboo out a hole. We perfected smaller knots and played for hours every day......at night wherever we found enough light. Our goalie ? "Da Gumpah". Of course. You know we still call him that to this day ? Memories.
I remember reading his autobiography in the 70’s after he retired. When he was with the New York Rangers a reporter asked Gump which NHL team gave him the most trouble. He responded with no hesitation saying it was the Rangers because of all the shots he had to face!
God I miss the game so much!!! at the end when he talks about when you’re playing you think you’re gonna play forever, until you realize at some point it’s all over! I never played in the show but I played in the minors and i can say the game and all my experiences literally shaped or at least greatly helped shape my life today! What a beautiful sport hockey is!
This is Awesome! I grew up on Da Range and remembering listening to the North Stars on the radio and perhaps catching them on TV. Gump was always the best!
In a playoff game against the Blues in St. Louis, I saw Gump get knocked out by a shot in warm-ups. About a minute after he got up, he got hit with a second shot and was down on the ice again. Just after he got up, they lined up and started the game. Gump could barely stand but he stayed in goal. I thought he was nuts.
Damn, now I know I'm old Lol. My Father was a big sports fan and Hockey he loved just after Baseball, so the games where always on TV local and national and I was 8 yrs old when Gump played his last 2 yrs with the Canadians and then his years in Minnesota I became a really big Hockey fan and was playing it in school. Gump really stood out then being the only guy left not wearing a mask along with Andy Brown of the Penguins. Gump was solid in net even as an old timer, but with guys like Dryden the Net-minders would never be the same ! The last 25 yrs or so it's silly with the massive oversized Pads, Glove & Blocker, it's just not the same !!
I played goal for years. I greatly admired many of the goaltenders of that era. Along with Gump I loved Glenn Hall, Terry Sawchuck, and of course, being from New York, my favorite was Ed Giacomin. But no way would I play without a mask. In those days it wasn't easy to get a goalie mask, so I wore my catchers mask. Better than nothing.
@@davidhetting4007 Bernie Parent was my boyhood hero as a young goaltender in the mid-late 1970's. I had the pleasure of meeting him in 2014 and chatting with him for almost five minutes at a meet and greet. He autographed my Jacques Plante "Goaltending" book for me without having to ask him.
@@gynandroidhead That's awesome, NHL players are the best athletes with the fans. Fortunate to see Patrick Roy with Avs, and Grant Fuhr with Blues in late 1990s battle to a 0-0 game!
Memories. Playing in the street with our own version of "The Gumpah".......We used a whiffle ball with a sock stuffed inside it to weigh it down. It wouldnt bounce was great for stick handling and hurt like a mother when someone hit you with a blast. Memories.
I saw Gump play with the North Stars without a mask. Hard to quantify the balls it takes to stand in an NHL net with your bare face staring at pucks flying at you.
I was only 8 but i remeber it vividly. The rangers were at home vsing the north stars. Gump was taking shots left right center and high right on the honker. I dont remeber who won but i do remeber gumps performance with the north stars
I was so happy to see him traded to Montreal so he could win a Stanley Cup. I was at the Forum the night Gordie Howe scored his 600th goal against him.
The NHL had a golden age in the late 60s and 70s. Grew up in Northern Virginia, with the Capitals, and went to a lot of games at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md. Saw the great goalies of the time. Bernie Parent, Tony Esposito, Ken Dryden and Mike Palmateer was outstanding for a time. Went to college at Mankato, Minnesota from 1979-81, when the North Stars had their shot at the CUP. Don Beaupre & Gilles Meloche!!
Playing the way Gumper did and with that equipment takes more athleticism then a 6’4 kid whose Mommy and Daddy have spent 300 k on camps, clinics and private coaching.
Gump you were my coach at Sir James Dunn Area I brought my high school team to win the league! Played with the Bruins twice in fund raising games! Thanks Gump. Jeffrey Ventola Melrose, Ma. 1.40 goals against average!
got a story for you.......i was just a little guy and in our cereal boxes, they were giving away little balls in them that had the hockey stars of the day on them. i wanted a Gump Worsley one so bad.......so i got all the money I could find in the house and went the the grocery store. I stood in the cereal isle and looked over the different boxes of cereal and had to decide which box had Gump in it. So I decided on the Alpha-Bits and bought it and took it home. As soon as I got home, I dug into the box of Alpha-Bits, wishing it was Gump. I felt it in my hand and pulled it out and guess who it was? GUMP was looking back at me, I was so happy.
As a kid you like players for different reasons. Gump was one of my favorites because of his nickname Gump, how he played in the 70s without a mask and that he played with the expansion North Stars after being part of the original Six for so long. RIP Gump, you were a real character (and heck of a netminder).
When I was a kid growing up Gump was my favorite goalie. And I go down to the park at 12 years old. And play with all the big kids any age. And I never wear a mask. And I actually more glasses the athletic glasses lol and they all used to call me little gumper. Went on to play and win a state championship in my teens. He was the best man for me he was the best of all time
They did that in Montreal a lot. I remember Backstrum, Cournoyer and others sitting on the bench their first year, just playing on power plays, only gradually getting to play full time, even though they had loads of talent.
Apparently Gump Worsely would come into the locker room after practice and be covered in ugly painful bruises from taking rifle shots from a young Bobby Hull... How could you not be just petrified every day before practice? Lucky he wasn't killed. A true legend of the game. Both of them actually...
Compared to "modern NHL goaltending", it's amazing that during the 1950s/1960s/1970s the style & mindset of those goalies was to give up rebounds and keep scoring chances alive for the opposition.
I was in middle school in the mid 70's playing organized hockey. At a summer camp I got nailed in the head with an 80 mph slap shot through a screen wearing a fiberglass-composite Jacques Plante mask, and that was brutal, so a Bobby Hull slapshot is in another world. The reason why I wanted to be a goaltender was I got to wear more equipment, a face mask being one of them!
The story about Bobby Hull hitting Gump in the head with a slap shot hilights two things for me: 1) players and fans had a lot of personal respect and as Dick Irvine pointed out, the players had character that the fans could get close to. 2) how incredibly stupid it was for anyone to think goalies should be playing without a mask for as long as they did.
Gumper spent about 10 years with some rather mediocre NY Rangers teams. Had he spent that time on a winning club, his career record would have been a lot better. Great player and character who added so much to the great game of NHL hockey.
@@charleynewman4783 Bro' Had you been goalie for the pathetic Rangers during that era you would have a losing record as well. Despite all, his career GAA of 2.8, with four Stanley Cups, and two Vezina trophies, and one All Star appearance make him Hall of Fame material. Besides that, he was honest enough to admit he was ugly as f___k. Gotta give him credit for that, right?
I remember being old enough to see Gump Worsley and Andy Brown without masks . I know could never happen now but hockey would be better without helmets and goalie masks .
The Dominic Hasek of his day. No one was faster from vertical to horizontal. With the Rangers, he regularly stoned Todd Sloan on breakaways. North Stars? Who were they? Hockey players in Minnesota are called "Rangers", for the Iron Ranges where the top players came from because the alternative was to be a miner like your dad. But New York stole the name, just like today.
Ok so why did they not come back as the North Stars? Like the Cleveland Browns did for their fans they made sure if they ever did they would be just as they left. It should have happened here as well for their fans.
Because the Dallas Stars are obviously the old North Stars, even the logo didn't change that much. The Browns became the Ravens, so there's no conflict in bringing them back.
"They Call Me Gump," his wonderful book is worth a read.
We loved him here in Minnesota.
God he was great! I always watched him in Minnesota. I thought he did the splits sometimes. I always thought he was around 5' 6".
The good old days in the 70's.
I had a crush on him too back then. Wrote it all over my school folder lol. I was in 8th or 9th grade.
I'd play hockey a few times with my brothers and neighbors and I'd be the goalie. No helmet or padding at all. I'd say, I'm gonna be the Gump!
Got hit with the puck on the side of my leg, a bruise as big as the puck exactly. But....I wasn't being a goalie when I got hit. The neighbor took a slap shot and I got it.
The "Gump" will always be in our hearts. ❤
Afraid of the air-planes but faced 100 mph Bobby Hull's shots without a mask. The brain is such a mysterious thing.
Miss those green starred uniforms and the original Minnesota hockey heritage, from Vancouver.
Gump was my neighbor in Bloomington, Mn back then. His son Drew and I were playing hockey in the drive way with a tennis ball, the older son Dean who had pretty good shot himself stopped the Gump while going to work in a suit and ask if he could take a shot the ole man. Dean wound up from 25 ft let go a supper hard slap shot the Gump effortlessly blocked the shot with his right bicep then got in his Cadillac and went to work like nothing happened. It was impressive and I'll will always remember that day.
Dave g how about this, Gump’s son is Dean, my name is Dean Worsley and I play hockey in Australia 😳😳
What a great experience. Too bad a hockey loving state have not had great teams
That's cool
@@mikelawlor1533 and demoncrats parasites ruining the great state of Minnesota
Coach Chris move or stop bitching.
Gump is my all time favorite goalie
Seeing those old Minn. North Stars jerseys still guts me a bit-lotsa good memories!!!
Beauprrrrrrrrrreeeeee!!!!!!!
Jon Casey, Cesare Maniango.
Same!!
Gump was doing a commercial on Weston Road in Toronto at a Esso Gas Station in 1969.at 300am Morning me and my friend saw the Brightest Lights in the Gas Bar, and Gump he went to the Pop machine and Bought us 4 cokes,Said glad yous pulled in it was a week night and he treated us like Family.l told him l Recognized him,O lm Just an ordinary guy we stayed another hour and never forget how l met him nice man,nice night.....
Growing up in Montreal in the 60s.... I was Gumper every day when we played street hockey( 7 days a week, 3 times a day) .
Man i miss my childhood !!!
What a character, loved to watch Gump play. I remember one night, somebody - I forget who - got a breakaway on him but tripped on the way. Gump dropped down with his pad and kept the player from crashing into the immovable iron posts they had at the time. The comment in the paper the next day was something like "the best save Gump made last night was so-and-so's head".
I loved this Guy. Only got to see him in later years with Minnesota. He was still Unbelievable. R.I.P. Gump.
Gump was an old throwback from the ancient times. Still quick as a cat when he came to Minnesota. We loved him. So glad he came out of retirement. He was damn good.
Looking at Gump's face, you'd never guess that guy played goalie with no mask.
A Great Goalie and a nice humble man. God bless his soul.
Hard to believe there was no mention of all the years he played with the Rangers. I used to watch him from the upper balcony at the old Madison Square Garden. The NY sports writers used to give him a hard time because of his style, but he was the best there was at stopping a breakaway. Years later when I was living in Minneapolis I got to see him again.
I agree RJ, what kind of biographer would totally not mention his NY Ranger years. For God's sake, he played there 9 years....was Rookie-of-the-Year in his first year.
I was gunna say the same thing...He played most of his games for the Rangers. One season 55-56 he played 70 games....insane
Gump as a Ranger .. what team gives you the most trouble? …. The Rangers .. 😂
My favorite goalie of all time.
A true legend. A fearless competitor. A character never to be duplicated
It's amazing how time flies...My dad was the Gumper's team mate when they played hockey as kids in the Point, a rough area in Montreal. In those days poor kids played with magazines stuffed down the front of extra large socks for goalie pads and the puck was a frozen horse patty.
Thanks for sharing lumberjack. It brought tears to my eyes being from Montreal & remembering Gump play. He was my idol. I played goalie in peewee, bantam & midget. Also in high school. I can recall at age 14 in nets, the guys slapshot were so hard you didn't see a puck coming. It was concentric dark circles of increasing size until it hit you in the face. That was the last year I played goalie. I switched to defence the next year. That was 1973.
I remember Gump quite well in the late 60's and 70's. All the kids who played goal in street hockey thought they were Gump Worsley. Unforgettable unique character.
Circa 1969 we were in desperate a way to find the perfect ball to play street hockey. Orange street hockey balls were OK but jittery in cold weather. A buddy shows up with a whiffle ball. It was awful. A buddy ran in the house and came out with a sock. He tied it knots & stuffed it inside the whiffle ball via a hole. Voila !!!! We had a near perfect ball to play with for years.......the only downside was some sock material would eventually try to peekaboo out a hole. We perfected smaller knots and played for hours every day......at night wherever we found enough light. Our goalie ? "Da Gumpah". Of course. You know we still call him that to this day ? Memories.
The Gumper was so so tough. As all goalies were in those days.
@dave4248 Actually he wore one during his last season in Minnesota.
I remember reading his autobiography in the 70’s after he retired. When he was with the New York Rangers a reporter asked Gump which NHL team gave him the most trouble. He responded with no hesitation saying it was the Rangers because of all the shots he had to face!
God I miss the game so much!!! at the end when he talks about when you’re playing you think you’re gonna play forever, until you realize at some point it’s all over! I never played in the show but I played in the minors and i can say the game and all my experiences literally shaped or at least greatly helped shape my life today! What a beautiful sport hockey is!
Can I ask, where you played in the minors?
This is Awesome! I grew up on Da Range and remembering listening to the North Stars on the radio and perhaps catching them on TV. Gump was always the best!
Wonderful story. Thank you.🥶
In a playoff game against the Blues in St. Louis, I saw Gump get knocked out by a shot in warm-ups. About a minute after he got up, he got hit with a second shot and was down on the ice again. Just after he got up, they lined up and started the game. Gump could barely stand but he stayed in goal. I thought he was nuts.
Damn, now I know I'm old Lol. My Father was a big sports fan and Hockey he loved just after Baseball, so the games where always on TV local and national and I was 8 yrs old when Gump played his last 2 yrs with the Canadians and then his years in Minnesota I became a really big Hockey fan and was playing it in school. Gump really stood out then being the only guy left not wearing a mask along with Andy Brown of the Penguins. Gump was solid in net even as an old timer, but with guys like Dryden the Net-minders would never be the same ! The last 25 yrs or so it's silly with the massive oversized Pads, Glove & Blocker, it's just not the same !!
I learned goal tending from Gump. He was the best. :)
This was wonderful to see! What a legend and great man Gump Wosley!
that's a tough man.....
I played goal for years. I greatly admired many of the goaltenders of that era. Along with Gump I loved Glenn Hall, Terry Sawchuck, and of course, being from New York, my favorite was Ed Giacomin. But no way would I play without a mask. In those days it wasn't easy to get a goalie mask, so I wore my catchers mask. Better than nothing.
Jacques Plante #1 All-Time!
@@davidhetting4007 I forgot all about him. Certainly one of the all time greats!
@@davidhetting4007 Bernie Parent was my boyhood hero as a young goaltender in the mid-late 1970's. I had the pleasure of meeting him in 2014 and chatting with him for almost five minutes at a meet and greet. He autographed my Jacques Plante "Goaltending" book for me without having to ask him.
@@gynandroidhead That's awesome, NHL players are the best athletes with the fans.
Fortunate to see Patrick Roy with Avs, and Grant Fuhr with Blues in late 1990s battle to a 0-0 game!
A legend!
Memories. Playing in the street with our own version of "The Gumpah".......We used a whiffle ball with a sock stuffed inside it to weigh it down. It wouldnt bounce was great for stick handling and hurt like a mother when someone hit you with a blast. Memories.
Who doesn't love Gump!
I saw Gump play with the North Stars without a mask. Hard to quantify the balls it takes to stand in an NHL net with your bare face staring at pucks flying at you.
I was only 8 but i remeber it vividly. The rangers were at home vsing the north stars. Gump was taking shots left right center and high right on the honker. I dont remeber who won but i do remeber gumps performance with the north stars
Still my favorite goaltender
I was so happy to see him traded to Montreal so he could win a Stanley Cup. I was at the Forum the night Gordie Howe scored his 600th goal against him.
How many did he win
My dad's favourite goalie is Gump, so it shall be mine.
The NHL had a golden age in the late 60s and 70s.
Grew up in Northern Virginia, with the Capitals, and went to a lot of games at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md.
Saw the great goalies of the time.
Bernie Parent, Tony Esposito, Ken Dryden and Mike Palmateer was outstanding for a time.
Went to college at Mankato, Minnesota from 1979-81, when the North Stars had their shot at the CUP.
Don Beaupre & Gilles Meloche!!
As a Leaf fan, I sure admire and respect one of our great adversaries Lorne Gump Worsley!
Gump saw more rubber then a dead cat on the highway.
I have stick of his! I’ll never let it go!
Playing the way Gumper did and with that equipment takes more athleticism then a 6’4 kid whose Mommy and Daddy have spent 300 k on camps, clinics and private coaching.
Gump you were my coach at Sir James Dunn Area I brought my high school team to win the league!
Played with the Bruins twice in fund raising games!
Thanks Gump. Jeffrey Ventola
Melrose, Ma.
1.40 goals against average!
Beautiful piece.
As quick and agile as a cat
The Gumper!!!!!
When he says we moved “down there,” it was less than a degree of latitude
"I spoke with the wife..." Now, that's an old timer!
Gump didn’t get much credit as a netminder for the Rangers. But Montreal wisely acquired him, helping them win a Stanley Cup championship.
got a story for you.......i was just a little guy and in our cereal boxes, they were giving away little balls in them that had the hockey stars of the day on them. i wanted a Gump Worsley one so bad.......so i got all the money I could find in the house and went the the grocery store. I stood in the cereal isle and looked over the different boxes of cereal and had to decide which box had Gump in it. So I decided on the Alpha-Bits and bought it and took it home. As soon as I got home, I dug into the box of Alpha-Bits, wishing it was Gump. I felt it in my hand and pulled it out and guess who it was? GUMP was looking back at me, I was so happy.
As a kid you like players for different reasons. Gump was one of my favorites because of his nickname Gump, how he played in the 70s without a mask and that he played with the expansion North Stars after being part of the original Six for so long. RIP Gump, you were a real character (and heck of a netminder).
When I was a kid growing up Gump was my favorite goalie. And I go down to the park at 12 years old. And play with all the big kids any age. And I never wear a mask. And I actually more glasses the athletic glasses lol and they all used to call me little gumper. Went on to play and win a state championship in my teens. He was the best man for me he was the best of all time
So humble. Every pro should learn from Mr. Worsley.
Goalies in that time always took time to mature. The same as many skaters
They did that in Montreal a lot. I remember Backstrum, Cournoyer and others sitting on the bench their first year, just playing on power plays, only gradually getting to play full time, even though they had loads of talent.
It wasn't exactly 21 straight losses for the North Stars; it was a 20-game winless streak that included 5 ties from Jan. 15 - Feb. 28.
Gump is a legend. Simple as that.
Apparently Gump Worsely would come into the locker room after practice and be covered in ugly painful bruises from taking rifle shots from a young Bobby Hull... How could you not be just petrified every day before practice? Lucky he wasn't killed. A true legend of the game. Both of them actually...
How could he get killed it just a puck he could end his career
There's a real man for you.
What a contradiction in phobias! He didn’t like wearing a mask yet was scared to death of flying.
The Gumper. Used to see him play at The Old Montreal Forum. They were famous for their, Hotdog Steamies.
Great video
What a gift!!
Do you got the full film? Either way, you have to love the Gumper.
Compared to "modern NHL goaltending", it's amazing that during the 1950s/1960s/1970s the style & mindset of those goalies was to give up rebounds and keep scoring chances alive for the opposition.
I like that he looks around 60 years old.
The stones on the guys who played in goal without a mask…I want them with me in the foxhole.
We dont have any more hockey legends playing.
Always liked him
"Nobody quits the Canadiens!"
Take a few pucks to the face and then say that
The Gumper was a cool.guy
Imagine getting hit in the head by a Bobby Hull slapshot!
....No, i would rather not.The hardest shot in the NHL, him and Jacques Lemaire.
That was real hockey, hockey for men, played by men.
I was in middle school in the mid 70's playing organized hockey. At a summer camp I got nailed in the head with an 80 mph slap shot through a screen wearing a fiberglass-composite Jacques Plante mask, and that was brutal, so a Bobby Hull slapshot is in another world. The reason why I wanted to be a goaltender was I got to wear more equipment, a face mask being one of them!
How can you leave out his early years with the Rangers?
I was just getting ready to write the same thing.
As a kid growing up in NYC during the 50s Gump along with Andy Bathgate were my heroes. Oh the end balcony at the Garden.
I watched the Gumper play for Montreal, he was better as the back-up goalie than some of the starters the Canadiens had.
i played road hockey once
Another all time Canuck player Gump Worsley in the PCHL / WHL
How could you not love The Gumper???
Goalies had big ones taking on Hull slapshots without masks and equipment they have today.
Doesn't say anything about his time with the rangers. When asked in an interview which team gave him the most trouble, he replied "The Rangers!"
The Gumper !
The story about Bobby Hull hitting Gump in the head with a slap shot hilights two things for me:
1) players and fans had a lot of personal respect and as Dick Irvine pointed out, the players had character that the fans could get close to.
2) how incredibly stupid it was for anyone to think goalies should be playing without a mask for as long as they did.
He was 1,70m but a real giant.
He lived in East York, Toronto.
Had his jersey and played goalie w/the N Star's colors in pee-wees..
Wore a plastic mask though..
Gump Worsley = NHL Hall of Famer, eh? (a Boston Bruins fan)
Shouldn’t be
Gumper spent about 10 years with some rather mediocre NY Rangers teams. Had he spent that time on a winning club, his career record would have been a lot better. Great player and character who added so much to the great game of NHL hockey.
Losing record
@@charleynewman4783
Bro'
Had you been goalie for the pathetic Rangers during that era you would have a losing record as well. Despite all, his career GAA of 2.8, with four Stanley Cups, and two Vezina trophies, and one All Star appearance make him Hall of Fame material. Besides that, he was honest enough to admit he was ugly as f___k. Gotta give him credit for that, right?
Those pork chops could of saved a few goals on their own
My face is my mask
gump in ny priceless
I remember being old enough to see Gump Worsley and Andy Brown without masks . I know could never happen now but hockey would be better without helmets and goalie masks .
How you could die
People dont name people gump anymore
The Dominic Hasek of his day. No one was faster from vertical to horizontal. With the Rangers, he regularly stoned Todd Sloan on breakaways. North Stars? Who were they? Hockey players in Minnesota are called "Rangers", for the Iron Ranges where the top players came from because the alternative was to be a miner like your dad. But New York stole the name, just like today.
Did he say hockey doesn't have this type of players wtf
Why did you stop all those pucks Gump? Cuz you told me to drill sergeant
There might have been better goalies, but there was ONLY one Gumper
Quit a job without GAF about severance claws. When men were men
Last goalie to not wear a mask
Really
Andy brown was the last
He was the last full time NHL goalie to not wear a mask.
Ok so why did they not come back as the North Stars? Like the Cleveland Browns did for their fans they made sure if they ever did they would be just as they left.
It should have happened here as well for their fans.
Because the Dallas Stars are obviously the old North Stars, even the logo didn't change that much. The Browns became the Ravens, so there's no conflict in bringing them back.
looks are deceiving, Gump was an excellent soccer player.