Remembering Howie Meeker, a famed hockey player, coach, broadcaster, and Telestrator pioneer Meeker played in the NHL from 1946-53, and served as a NHL broadcaster from 1968-97.

Howie Meeker's legacy includes a two-year stint as a Progressive Conservative member of Parliament while playing for the Leafs. In 2010, he was named a member of the Order of Canada and inducted ...

Howie Meeker, who won four Stanley Cups with the Toronto Maple Leafs, served in Parliament during his playing days, and went on to become a Canadian icon as a respected and colorful television ...

Howie Meeker was bound to make the most of his 97-year life. An early brush with death, before he spent a single day in the National Hockey League, sparked Meeker to take nothing for granted.

A weekly intermission feature, Howie Meeker’s Hockey School, ran from 1973-77 on CBC, 15-minute clips of kids from his camp in Newfoundland working various drills.

For years, Howie Meeker’s sporting goods store was also a fixture in St. John’s at the corner of Freshwater Road and Harvey Road. Article content. The Canadian Encyclopedia adds: ...

Howie Meeker was a square-jawed and craggy-faced former player whose squeaky-voiced enthusiasms entertained – or annoyed – generations of hockey fans. Mr. Meeker, who has died a few days after ...

Howie Meeker was bound to make the most of his 97-year life. An early brush with death, before he spent a single day in the National Hockey League, sparked Meeker to take nothing for granted.