Abel to Yzerman
The Most Courageous #19 ever?
by IwoCPO on 11/10/06 at 04:11 PM ET
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Even the most ardent of Yzerman fans will find this hard to argue with. The Captain was perhaps the second gutsiest Wing to ever wear that number.
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He is now sitting in the living room of his bungalow, looking lean and fit and far younger than his years, he “Gus” Giesebrecht, the only one of his five hockey-playing brothers—Jack, Bert, Bruce who played in the AHL, Fred who played senior, Dick who played locally—to make the big time, the only boy then, before, and since to do so from the town of Petawawa.
Petawawa has had an army base since 1905, and at its zenith in 1943, 20,000 soldiers were trained for World War II at Camp Petawawa, as it was then called, and one of them was No. 19 for the Detroit Red Wings.
Great story and another reminder of the role Canadian young men played in World War II…and the role they continue to play in the Global War on Terror.
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