Howie Young

He had a high level of natural skill and was one of the most fearsome bodycheckers in the game, but was tremendously undisciplined both on and off the ice, and a constant headache to the Detroit organization.In the playoffs, he appeared in all eleven games and scored two goals to help the Red Wings reach the Stanley Cup Finals.However, his drinking had by this point reached full-blown alcoholism, and despite his popularity in Detroit the team shipped him to the Chicago Black Hawks in the summer of 1963.Impressed with his sobriety and improved play, the Red Wings traded three players to Los Angeles to reacquire him.Now 37 and playing top-level pro hockey for the first time in five years, he recorded 15 points in 30 games before being sold mid-season to the Winnipeg Jets.He made yet another comeback in 1985–86 with the Flint Spirits of the IHL, picking up an assist in 4 games, an impressive feat at the age of nearly 50 in a league just a notch below the NHL.
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