Gordie Howe, the National Hockey League’s longest tenured player and a member of the sport’s Mt. Rushmore, died Friday at age 88.

The skilled and feared winger who wristed the puck as ably as he threw his industrial-strength elbows is regarded to this day as perhaps hockey’s most well-rounded competitor. He played professionally into his fifties and spent the majority of his 32 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, with whom he won four Stanley Cups and helped popularize the game in the United States.