According to Shore biographer C. Michael Hiam (Eddie Shore And That Old-Time Hockey), the farmer hitched up his sleigh and took the embattled pair to a railroad station where they caught a train ...
But Lester had no choice so he sent Ross the proposed Myles Lane for Eddie Shore exchange. The telegram that Ross sent back to Patrick remains an all-time hockey classic: YOU ARE SO MANY MYLES ...
The league's first true superstar, Eddie Shore remains the only defenseman ... and was among the first group of inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945. Even a partial list of his ...