A piece of this team’s history passed away.

Posted by “Whaler” on thescoreboards.com’s Hurricanes board this morning:

The author of my most-used reference books about the Whalers has died.
Jack Lautier, 53, died of lung cancer. He was a non-smoker.
He wrote books about the history of the WHA, and recently published a book about a year with the Hartford Wolf Pack. But mostly, he’ll be remembered for his original “15 Years of Whalers Hockey”, and for perhaps his best reference work, “Forever Whalers”. These last two are never absent from my desk.

*doffs cap for a respectful moment of silence*