"Tributes immediately began to pour in from all over. Newspapers in New York, Boston, and Detroit, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and from Quebec to Vancouver expressed their shock and mourned his passing."

"If I am a good goalie, then it’s because I am fairly proficient at baseball, for one thing, and then again, I am Scottish and will give nothing up, not even a single goal, without a fight."

"The National Hockey League will miss its finest goalkeeper and it’s most colourful. Chicago may never rally from the loss of its captain. It all seems so untimely and so mysterious, that a fine young man, a loving husband and father should be carried off at the peak of his career. Some things seem too difficult to comprehend….. Nevertheless, Charlie Gardiner, much to the regret of many thousands of admirers, has gone to the land where there will be no flying pucks, no piercing skates, and no furious fans. Surely he will find his reward, and surely within the Pearly Gates of Paradise there will be a warm welcome and well-earned happiness for the late-lamented product of Edinburgh and Winnipeg – smiling Charlie Gardiner, the greatest goalkeeper that hockey has ever known."