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Henry Vernon (Harry) Howell
NHL, the National Hockey League is a premier professional North American Sports League played in indoor stadiums. It is divided into two conferences, each comprising of three divisions of ice hockey teams. Henry Vernon Howell, born on December 28, 1932 in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian professional hockey player and a longtime star for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. He is nicknamed as Harry. He played around 25 professional seasons from 1951 to 1976.
He had played more games than any defenseman in major-league hockey history by the time he retired, though he never won the Stanley Cup. He had played in a total of 1,581 contests, 1,411 in the NHL and 170 in the WHA, World Hockey Association. He had started playing junior hockey for the Guelph Biltmores and his professional career began in 1952 with the New York Rangers. He quickly gained a reputation as a durable, dependable iron man and amazingly, missed only 17 games in his first sixteen seasons as a Ranger.
His best season was from 1966 to 1967 when he won the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenseman. In 1969, he was sold to the Oakland Seals for his defense, but he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings in February of 1971 and played there until the end of the 1973 season. He then moved over to the WHA to play for the San Diego, New Jersey and Calgary franchises and in 1975 he retired from hockey in 1975 after playing a final thirty-one games.
Henry Vernon Howell was known as a dedicated, dependable player on the ice and a classy guy off it. After his retirement, he moved on to a front office position as assistant general manager with the Cleveland Barons in 1976. He later moved up to become a full-fledged general manager with Cleveland until they merged with the Minnesota North Stars in 1978. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the year 1979.
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