Remembering Tony Dorn (1927-2021)
Dorn was the first player from Thief River Falls, Minnesota, to sign a professional hockey contract after making it to final cuts of the NHL's Chicago Black Hawks training camp in 1944-45.
Over the past year or so, I’ve interviewed many old hockey players in their eighties and nineties for my upcoming biography on Bill Mosienko. Some have since passed away since I spoke to them, such as Howie Meeker and Johnny Peirson.
A name I’m sure none of you will be familiar with, but nonetheless ha…
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