It was quite a life for Johnny Bower, the kid from Prince Albert

Johnny Bower’s old hockey photos look so iconic – lumpy brown pads, battered face, leg flung this way, arm that.
He looked like a man born to the game. He played like it, too.
As scars mounted and teeth dwindled, as saves and Stanley Cups and red lamps came and went, there arrived one night when Gordie Howe stopped by his crease for a little chat.
Bower — who died Tuesday night at age 93 — told me about it in the summer of 2016, after Howe’s passing.
“He skate