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Gordon Eugene "Gordy" Christian (November 21, 1927 – June 2, 2017) was an American
ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
player. He played with the
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from 1947 to 1950, tying for scoring leader on the team in both the 1947–48 and 1948–49 seasons. He was a member of the silver medal winning 1956 United States Olympic ice hockey team. He was born in
Warroad, Minnesota Warroad is a city in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States, at the southwest corner of Lake of the Woods, south of Canada. The population was 1,781 at the 2010 census. Warroad had its own newspaper before it was incorporated in 1901. Minne ...
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Personal life

Christian comes from a hockey playing family. His brothers were 1960 hockey gold medalists
Bill Christian William David Christian (born January 29, 1938) is an American former ice hockey player. He led the United States to a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Intern ...
and Roger Christian and his nephew was 1980 gold medalist
Dave Christian David William Christian (born May 12, 1959) is an American former professional ice hockey forward. He played on the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that won the gold medal during the 1980 Winter Olympics. Christian went on to play for five Natio ...
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See also

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* 1927 births 2017 deaths American men's ice hockey players Ice hockey players from Minnesota Ice hockey players at the 1956 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics North Dakota Fighting Hawks men's ice hockey players Olympic silver medalists for the United States in ice hockey People from Warroad, Minnesota 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub