EDMONTON — The line was 20 years long for Kevin Lowe, winding through six Hockey Hall of Fame teammates and a HHOF builder in Glen Sather.
“Although I know there are players of my ilk in the Hall of Fame…I understood you had to put up more points, win awards. My dream was always to win Stanley Cups — the Hall of Fame was something I never dreamed about. Today, when I saw it was Lanny McDonald phoning me, I thought to myself, ‘Surely he’s not calling to tell me I didn’t get in.Kevin Hugh Lowe, of Lachute, Que., was the ultimate old-school defenceman. He played 1,254 games between 1979 and 1998, and will no doubt finally have his No.
“The Edmonton Oilers are not what they became without Kevin Lowe. He was the adult in the room,” Mark Messier emailed on Wednesday. “One of the most competitive players I have every played with and demanded players give more through his own sheer determination. Lowe was the measuring stick against which teammates gauged their willingness to play through pain; the guy who wasn’t always on the ice when the Oilers scored their five goals a night, but who was routinely deployed on a late penalty kill, or when the opponent had an empty net, in those final moments when ’80s hockey became particularly dangerous.
Spec EdmontonOilers Congrats
EdmontonOilers Spec Hall of Fame for o ly guy in the league with plastic skates.
EdmontonOilers Spec Reliable is not HOF worthy. Sorry.
Spec EdmontonOilers So he played a low skilled game. Great.
EdmontonOilers Spec Brutal selection. So many more deserving players.
EdmontonOilers Spec Oil_Wes About time.
EdmontonOilers Spec may as well induct claude provost at this rate....
EdmontonOilers Spec Pffff.... was he ever even the best defenseman on the team? oldboysclub
EdmontonOilers Spec 🙌🏼
EdmontonOilers Spec Did they add an Old Boy Category to squeeze him in? Not officially I guess.
EdmontonOilers Spec So now 4 goes to the rafters
EdmontonOilers Spec Barrasso Hossa