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The Newsy Lalonde Arena - It Has A Great Ring To It

A Hundred Year Flashback: The Story, And Unprecedented Excitement That Lead To The First Ever Montreal Canadiens Game On January 5, 1910

Canadiens Legend Newsy Lalonde Finally Set To Receive Hometown Honour

Who Wore The First Number 99 In Hockey?

Baker's Dozen of Strange and Amazing Hockey Records and Distinct Achievements

"Mr. Lefebvre, I have a 60 page Newsy Lalonde scrapbook, containing newspaper articles, memorabilia, pins, old photos, lacrosse cards, Hall Of Fame momentos handed down from his mother and family through my great, great aunt, who was Newsy's sister. I wondering about the timeline of the contents, and thought you may be able to help."

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.

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Here's some past and present Habs tidbits to amuse and titilate you until the game five puck drops.Not bad, for a whole four games into a playoff career!Of all the goaltenders who have started at...

Robert L Note: Research and photos for this piece come from "La Glorieuse Histoire Des Canadiens", the Backcheck section of Collections Canada, Wikipedia, Hockey Online and NHL.com.The Canadiens...