One of the NHL's smallest players and biggest scorers, Blackhawks legend Stan Mikita died at 78 years old on Tuesday.

STAN MIKITA He gave hockey the curved stick blade — not that his shot needed a new layer of trickery — and gave Chicago a hockey team that would win its first championship in more than 20 years and ...

Stan Mikita’s family announced on Tuesday that the Chicago Blackhawks’ all-time leading scorer had died, aged 78. Blackhawks chairman Rocky Wirtz issued the following statement: "There are no words to ...

Stan Mikita, the Chicago Blackhawks’ undersized but smooth-skating and feisty center who teamed with his fellow Hall of Famer Bobby Hull in the 1960s in reviving a long-floundering franchise while ...

Stan Mikita, the hockey great who helped the Chicago Blackhawks to the 1961 Stanley Cup title while becoming one of the franchise’s most revered figures, died Tuesday. He was 78. Mikita’s family ...

They were touchstones of sports in the 1960s, and sports lost three of the best in 2018: big-hitting Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants; Jim Taylor, the punishing Green Bay Packers fullback; ...

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 1965, file photo, Chicago Blackhawks' Stan Mikita, left, pulls away from Detroit Red Wings' Ted Lindsay during an NHL hockey game in Chicago. Mikita, who played for the ...