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100 Years Of Heroes And Dreams
A hundred years of heroes and dreams. A hundred years of men donning the sweater and taking to the ice. A hundred years of kids watching and reading about, dreaming and becoming. From the time Didier...
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Hey Scrapbookin, Whatcha Got Cookin?
This episode begins with a reply from Sam Pollock after I’d asked the team when I was a kid if I could be stick boy for one game. Good old Sam said if they did it for me they have to do it for others...
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Whistle While You Work
Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore, Jacques Plante, and Bernie Geoffrion looking like they’re on the set of “Mad Men.” They’re all smiles, which could mean a variety of things. They’ve just...
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Who’s The Guy In The Suit?
Who’s the dapper fellow chatting with Boom Boom Geoffrion? Why, it’s none other than good old Red Fisher. Bottom photo compliments of Kouli the Greek
View ArticleBoomer And The Boys Sing Da Doo Ron Ron
At the bottom of this story, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Marcel Dionne, and Rogie Vachon sing up a storm on the Rene Simard Show. Simard was sort of Canada’s answer to Donny Osmond. I have no other words to...
View ArticleGill Goes To Music City
Hal Gill has been dealt to the Nashville Predators. Gill, along with a 2013 5th round draft pick, leaves the Habs who now welcome aboard forwards Robert Slaney, a 2nd round pick in 2012, and Blake...
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A Habs’ Loss, And No Storm Squad
I looked for them during the game and couldn't find them. It was a night of great saves by both Cam Ward and Peter Budaj, and in the end, it was another Habs unwanted point in a 2-1 Hurricanes shootout...
View ArticleA Motivating Factor
Talk about motivation to play well. Blake Geoffrion today signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Habs which will give him $803,250 if he plays for the big club, but just $62,500 if he’s sent to...
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Nice Old Set
The title sounds like I’m talking about Sophia Loren. I have the majority of the 1954-55 Parkhurst set in various conditions ranging from good to excellent, which is a ways down from near mint and...
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Name Tags
I’ve always liked this picture, which is in my old scrapbook, even though it’s a little worse for wear. Two fine Habs fans showing off their favourite players the best way they knew how. Good thing...
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We’ll Take Fifty Please
I was reading Le Journal de Montreal the other day, or trying to read it. It helps me learn a bit of French. I find the cartoons work well. In Saturday’s paper was this drawing which I like, and which...
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More Big And Beautiful
Continuing on from yesterday if you don’t mind, more of my Habs scrapbook, put together by my dad and I when I was young. And again, the photos enlarge when clicked on.
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Finally Lapointe
The news that Guy Lapointe’s number 5 will join Bernie Geoffrion’s in the rafters is terrific and overdue. Guy Lapointe was one of the greatest defencemen to ever wear the CH. He was part of the “The...
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Missed Habs/Sens Game
Couldn’t see the game, I’ve been incapacitated. I know that the Canadiens lost 4-3 in overtime but Lucy and I are in Kingston with my brother and his wife Kelly, painting the town red. Maybe not...
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Habs Cancel Canucks
After the incredibly emotional pregame ceremony that focused often on Elise Beliveau in the stands, I didn’t really care what happened during the game that followed. That’s not true. I did care. And...
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Bergevin Jersey Update
On Monday I mentioned that Marc Bergevin’s 1994 Team Canada jersey was on the block at Classic Auctions and at that point had reached $324.00 US. The hammer came down late Tuesday night, with a winning...
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Rocket’s Apology
Maurice Richard, in a 1954 ghostwritten column for a Montreal weekly, had called NHL president Clarence Campbell a dictator for the way he had penalized his brother Henri and Boom Boom Geoffrion for...
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Hi Bert
HOFer Bert Olmstead played for the Habs from 1950 to 1958, and hoisted four Stanley Cups along the way. He’d also pick up another in 1962 when he was with the Leafs. Bert was a solid, feisty, and...
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Batter Up!
Baseball’s on its way and I’m happy about that. Below, Jacques Plante at bat, sizing up the pitcher; Boom Boom Geoffrion pounds his glove; Andre Pronovost, Phil Goyette, and Claude Provost share an...
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