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When I think of Clark Gillies, it is not necessarily about what he did on the hockey rink, which was significant enough to earn him a plaque in the Hockey Hall of Fame, but about the great company ...
From the moment he arrived as a 20-year-old from tiny Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Clark Gillies considered Long Island a great place. So much so that, 40 years later as the Islanders honored him ...
By Richard Goldstein Clark Gillies, the rugged Hall of Fame left wing who helped take the Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s, died on Friday at his home in ...
Clark Gillies, a Hockey Hall of Fame power forward and four-time Stanley Cup winner with the New York Islanders, died Friday, according to the National Hockey League. He was 67. No cause of death ...
Clark Gillies' No. 9 jersey was retired from the New York Islanders in 1996, and his banner now hangs in the newly-opened UBS Arena on Long Island, New York Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for ...
He could barely keep up with all the calls. That’s the kind of effect Clark Gillies had on people. “This guy wasn’t liked, he was loved,” Nystrom told The Post of Gillies, his Islanders ...
And no one established, enforced and embodied those standards like Clark Gillies, whose death Friday at age 67 shocked and shook Islanders and islanders alike. “I think he epitomizes everything ...
Those were older mentors. It gets much tougher when it’s one of your own. Clark Gillies was more than just a core member of the Islanders’ decade of excellence from 1975 to ’85, more than ...
The following are excerpts from a story he wrote that was published in Newsday on Oct.12, 1986, a few days after Clark Gillies was left unprotected in the NHL waiver draft and claimed by the ...
The Islanders and the Clark Gillies Foundation have teamed up with Ronald McDonald House to open a media room filled with team apparel, sticks and video games for children at the New Hyde Park ...