Norm Ullman

IT'S NO LEAP OF FAITH TO SAY THAT DETROIT'S MOST NOTABLE PLAYERS ARE ALSO SOME OF HOCKEY'S BEST EVER

Ice hockey can be a harsh and demanding mistress. It often treats its men badly, rewards them less than most big-time sports, exacts from them an enormous nightly expenditure of effort and, in the end, leaves them as...

Long a mainstay and now the star of the driving Detroit Red Wings, conscientious Norm Ullman used to be so modest that nobody, not even Norm Ullman himself, realized how good a hockey player he actually is

A middle-aged forward named Ullman scored most of Detroit's goals and a youngster named Crozier stopped the other team's, but it was the hoariest old men in hockey who really put the Red Wings over the top