Larry Brooks (l) and Mollie Walker (r) at a hockey rink. Mollie Walker

I thought we had more time.

It’s a rare thing it is, when you find someone who is a mentor and a best friend wrapped into one person. That was Larry Brooks for me.

Having to use the verb “was” still doesn’t feel real. Because if it were up to us, Larry and I would’ve been the New York Post’s Rangers beat duo for as long as the company would let us. He had no intentions of slowing down before he succumbed to this unfair illness at the age of 75 early Thursday .

We were having too much fun together. There were so many stories left to be written, and so many more memories for us to make. I had so much more to learn from him.

It’s a lightning in a bottle type of thing it is, when one of the most respected people in

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