Following his playing career, Gare was briefly an assistant coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning, and served on the Buffalo Sabres broadcast team on Empire Sports Network.
Imlach, who had already drafted several players that would go on to great success with the team (Derek Smith in the previous round and All-Stars Lee Fogolin and Danny Gare in the first two rounds) earlier in the draft, decided to have some fun at the expense of the league and Clarence Campbell, the NHL president for the last 28 years.
Danny Glover | Danny DeVito | Danny Kaye | Danny Boyle | Danny Thompson | Danny Boy | Danny Elfman | Danny Dyer | Danny Bonaduce | Gare du Nord | Danny Phantom | Gare Saint-Lazare | Danny Way | Danny John-Jules | Danny Aiello | Gare Montparnasse | Danny Trejo | Danny MacAskill | Danny Tenaglia | Danny Rivera | Danny O'Donoghue | Danny Mills | Gare d'Amiens | Danny Welbeck | Danny Sheridan | Danny Howells | Danny Brocklehurst | Gare d'Estrées-Saint-Denis | Gare de Creil | Danny Wuerffel |
Fans loved Howatt for his scrappy, energetic style of play and, most of all, his willingness to stand up to the giant enforcers of his generation such as Dave Schultz, Paul Holmgren, Barry Beck, Dave Semenko, Behn Wilson, Bob Kelly, Danny Gare, Willi Plett, Terry O'Reilly, Stan Jonathan, Wayne Cashman, Bryan Maxwell, Jay Wells, Tiger Williams, Dave Hoyda, Jim Korn, and many more.