“Kevin was a player who made teams win.” On a team full of high-end Heinekens, Kevin Lowe was an ice-cold Canadian — honest, dependable, and when you really needed him, he was awfully good. (SportsnetSpec)
“With Kevin,” began Wayne Gretzky, “it was, ‘Tell me what you want me to do to contribute to the hockey club, and that’s what I’m going to do.’ And he never swayed from that.”
“Whatever the game needed, and whether I could do it or not, I would be thinking about it. And when the ship was in cruise, you kept everything in balance. Take care of the guys who were up from the minors, get out in the community and do good things for the organization. Everything to keep things as good around here as possible.”
“I asked an old GM years ago, why he had paid a checker that much money,” Tippett recalled. “And the GM, he said to me, ‘Because guys like that, they make you win.’ You’ve got to have good players, but you’ve got to have players who play in the trenches, who allow you to win.If you were trailing 3-2 late in a game, perhaps you could find a defencemen to play ahead of Lowe.
“They had closed the gap and we needed to be even more disciplined than we ever had been, and we weren’t in that series. We buckled down in ’87 and ’88 again.” “Kids grow up, and you have this vision of the Crosbys, Lemieuxs, Messiers and Gordie Howes. But those are few and far between,” Gretzky said. “But when people who weren’t super overly talented get in there because of winning and hard work, it motivates young kids to say that they want to play in the NHL someday, and make the Hall of Fame too.
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