Over the years, SI followed the Great Career with its words and photos. Here, excerpts of E.M. Swift's 40th Anniversary Issue tribute to No. 99 accompany the photos.
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Paul Bereswill
He came into the league as an outsider, a skinny teenager with a weird number on his back, who had been playing in the upstart -- and disdained -- World Hockey Association.
