By Bruce Berlet
Mark Howe was making the one-hour drive from his beach house in Beach Haven, N.J., to his home in Jackson, N.J., on Tuesday afternoon when his cell phone rang.
Howe said reception in the area isn’t always good, but the connection lasted long enough for him to hear the news that he wasn’t sure would ever come.
In his lucky 13th year of eligibility, Howe was one of four new members of the Hockey Hall of Fame, joining father Gordie and former teammate Ron Francis as the only Hartford Whalers to earn the honor.
“Oh, wow, that’s great,” Howe told Jim Gregory, co-chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee, in an interview shown on the NHL Network. “I’m just back from a fishing trip so this is great.”
Howe later twittered, “I know what this means to my dad, so there’s a tear in my eye.”
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