Willie Huber, a Hamilton resident who spent 10 seasons in the National Hockey League, passed away suddenly from a suspected heart attack yesterday morning. He was 52.The full obit is here; thanks to Brad Kurtzberg of Inside Hockey for the heads up.
First Walt Poddubny last year and now Willie. Huber was a massive, lumbering defenseman who, frankly, wasn't particularly good. But he worked hard, had a thunderous slap shot and played 266 games with the Rangers (including playoffs). More on his career here. Condolences to his family.
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Unfortunately the thing I remember most about Willie Huber was when I was sitting in the blue seats in the 86 Conference Finals and he skated backwards, collided with the linesman, and freakin Claude Lemieux skates down on a breakaway in OT and scores past Beezer to take a 3 games to 0 lead. Kinda like a "Bill Buckner" moment in Ranger history
Didnt the Rangers win the first game in that series?
Nope, Rangers only won Game 4 before being bounced in game 5 3-1. Damn that Roy kid, too bad he didn't turn out to be any good ... oh, wait ...
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