world-war-ii Stories - Habs Eyes On The Prize
I'm Saving Hockey: A BTN January 30th Recap
Well, I'm disappointed in all of you, to say the least. I ask you "Who can you trust less?" and you came up with the wrong answer. No fault of yours, I didn't realize how far gone you all were. The answer was "Swedes." I was held for a couple of years in the 70s in a Swedish prison (with a...
Examining A Wartime Habs Myth On RememberanceDay
"He's (Maurice Richard) just a wartime hockey player".This quote came from the mouth of Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Frank Selke in the mid 1940's, when Richard scored 50 goals in 50 games while World War II raged overseas. While the assumption went more or less undisputed at the time, the...
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