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A Century of Montreal Canadiens
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№ 57
The Fifty-seventh Season 1965-66 TOP STORY Henri Richard scored in overtime of Game 6 to give Montreal the Stanley Cup over Detroit; it was Richard’s seventh Cup in 11 seasons. The Habs lost the first two games of the final before storming back with four straight wins to claim their second consecutive Cup. Jean Beliveau led all Habs with three goals in the Cup final, but was denied a second consecutive Conn Smythe Trophy when the playoff MVP award went to Roger Crozier, the losing goalie for the Red Wings. Twelve different Canadiens players scored a goal in the final and 16 Habs picked up at least one point. Beliveau also finished fourth in the league in regular season scoring, one point behind teammate Bobby Rousseau, who tied for second with Chicago’s Stan…
№ 12 YVAN Cournoyer
WHEN YVAN Cournoyer was 14, his father bought a machine shop in Lachine and moved his family from Drummondville to the Montreal suburb. It was there Cournoyer thought he was carving his own path as a machinist, but it turned out he was forging his future in the NHL. It was while working part time in that shop Cournoyer made 10 steel pucks ranging in weight from 16 to 18 ounces. (A standard puck weighs 5.5 to six ounces.) “I would go to the garage every day and I would shoot 10 left, 10 right, 10 backhand…10 left, 10 right, 10 backhand…I would just keep doing that. When I used a real puck, it felt like nothing to me.” As a young man, Cournoyer had to have his pants tailor-made because his legs…
№ 79
The Seventy-ninth Season 1987-88 TOP STORY Nothing stokes the traditional fires in Montreal like a Flying Frenchman and in the absence of Guy Lafleur in the late 1980s, a new offensive spark was needed. Bobby Smith and Mats Naslund certainly put up great numbers, but it was the offense of homegrown hero Stephane Richer that proved to be the big story during the regular season and an even bigger story during the playoffs. Richer became the first Hab to score 50 goals in a season since Guy Lafleur and Pierre Larouche pulled the trick in 1979-80, but it almost didn’t happen: Stuck at 45 goals through 70 games, the right winger bruised his hand in a fight with Hartford’s Kevin Dineen, but came back in time to reach the mark, scoring five times…
№ 44
The Forty-fourth Season 1952-53 TOP STORY Montreal fans got confirmation of what they always thought early in 1952-53 when Maurice Richard officially became the greatest goal-scorer in NHL history. The Rocket tallied his 325th goal to surpass Nels Stewart for top honors among snipers. And while the Canadiens also ended a six-year Stanley Cup drought that spring, the most significant event for the organization moving forward came in the off-season. After trying unsuccessfully for two years to make Jean Beliveau a full-time team member, the Habs actually purchased the entire Quebec Senior League, which housed Beliveau’s Quebec City Aces and turned the circuit professional. Prior to that point, Beliveau’s status was technically that of an amateur and Montreal could not force him to become an NHLer. We say ‘technically’ because Beliveau, according…
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