Looking back on the first meeting between the Habs and Jets
With the NHL returning to Winnipeg, here's a look back at the first meeting between the Montreal Canadiens and Manitoba's first NHL franchise.
With the NHL returning to Winnipeg, here's a look back at the first meeting between the Montreal Canadiens and Manitoba's first NHL franchise.
Fifty years ago today, the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks played in what has been described by Red Fisher as one the greatest game he ever witnessed.
Fifty years ago today, Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens, became just the second player to score 50 goals in a season.
Few players epitomized the Montreal Canadiens work ethic and sense of personal sacrifice better than Terry Harper in the 1960's. Conversely, no player received less respect from the Forum fans, who have been overrated as hockey connoisseurs at times.
(Note - This is a posting for my Dad, who might not realize what a tremendous appreciation for hockey's history and origins he's passed along to me. He did this without a single item of hockey...
Terry Haper was the first player that I ever heard get booed by his own fans! Little did I know then - as a Habs fan who started watching games at age 7 in 1969 - that he's hardly be the last. P...