Newsy Lalonde was a natural choice to replace Hart, who found the expanding season schedule to be too grueling to encompass his growing outside interests. As Lalonde had left the Canadiens in the trade for Aurel Joliat eleven seasons earlier, there were no present Canadiens players acquainted with his temperment from that era. They would soon learn the demanding Lalonde was a difficult to please taskmaster.
I came up with a neat idea. Well, maybe it wasn't exactly MY idea, but what the heck....Over my years of following the Canadiens ( 38 to be exact! ), I have stockpiled a great deal of anecdotes on...
When the defending Stanley Cup champion Canadiens took to the ice for the 1924-25 season, both the NHL and the Montreal hockey landscape had a very different look.To suggest the business of hockey...
The sudden illness and passing of Georges Vezina in March of 1926 was a shock that threw the Montreal Canadiens for a loop. Despite very strong elements remaining on the team, a search was...
