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Milt Schmidt, the Bruins Hall of Fame center who helped lead the team to two Stanley Cup championships as a player, and as general manager during the late 1960s set the stage for two more, died Wednesday. He was 98.
“There’s two guys over there in Boston that I played against and respected,” Hall of Famer Gordie Howe once said, “guys that I really admired as well: Bobby Orr and Uncle Miltie. He was a hard-nosed player, a great skater, a great playmaker, a great competitor.”
Mr. Schmidt was the linchpin of the famed “Kraut Line,” whose other members were his boyhood friends Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer. The trio’s shared German ancestry inspired the nickname. They finished 1-2-3 in scoring in the National Hockey League in 1940, with Mr. Schmidt coming in first. Bruins legend Milt Schmidt dies at 98 - The Boston Globe
“There’s two guys over there in Boston that I played against and respected,” Hall of Famer Gordie Howe once said, “guys that I really admired as well: Bobby Orr and Uncle Miltie. He was a hard-nosed player, a great skater, a great playmaker, a great competitor.”
Mr. Schmidt was the linchpin of the famed “Kraut Line,” whose other members were his boyhood friends Woody Dumart and Bobby Bauer. The trio’s shared German ancestry inspired the nickname. They finished 1-2-3 in scoring in the National Hockey League in 1940, with Mr. Schmidt coming in first. Bruins legend Milt Schmidt dies at 98 - The Boston Globe