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- one year later. Then, in
- 1973, he came out of
- retirement to play along-
- side his sons Mark and
- Marty for the Houston
- Aeros, in a new league called the World
- Hockey Association (WHA). Amazingly,
- Gordie scored within one minute of the start
- of his first game back.
-
- Gordie stayed with the Aeros until the
- beginning of the 1977-78 season, when he
- went to the New England Whalers. The WHA
- merged with the NHL in 1979, and the New
- England Whalers became the Hartford
- Whalers. Once again, Gordie was playing in
- the NHL. In the 1979-80 season, Gordie
- played in all 80 regular-season games
- and then called it quits -- for good.
-