This is the NHL’s unsolved mystery.
It was Oct. 9, 1955, and the Rangers were in Detroit for the second game of the season two nights after taking the opener in Chicago.
That was the team of No. 3, Harry Howell. And of No. 4, Bill Gadsby. And of No. 12, Andy Hebenton, and No. 19, Larry Popein.
But not that night. Not for that one and only night.
Because that night at the Olympia, Howell wore No. 4. Gadsby wore No. 2. Hebenton wore No. 14 and Popein, No. 11. Leapin’ Louie Fontinato, No.