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Oldest living NHLer Steve Wochy just missed Red Wings' dynasty in 1950s

The NHL's oldest living player doesn't complain about missing the Detroit Red Wings' dynasty during the Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay years in the 1950s.

Now 97 and a former teammate of 19-year-old Lindsay with the 1944-1945 Red Wings and then replaced by 18-year-old Howe the following season, Steve Wochy (born Steve Wojciechowski on Christmas Day, 1922) says "hockey has been very good to me," and doesn't dwell on missing Detroit's dominating stretch when they finished in first place for seven straight years and won four Stanley Cups (1950, 1952, 1954, 1955) in six years.