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The Rocket and me: The stuff of dreams
Maurice Richard's last NHL season began the year I was born.
He was a legend I had only read about, sometimes heard about from first-person fan accounts and seen snippets of in grainy black and white newsreels.
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Passing of a Legend
Maurice Richard stood in this hockey cathedral, tears streaming down his face as the noise grew and grew…minute after minute for 10…11 minutes …until there was no longer just noise in the Forum, but thunder engulfing it. Now and then, he would raise an arm… often both arms… pleading to the people…his people:
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Rocket remembered as a giant
Rocket Richard was remembered as a larger-than-life figure, a hockey icon whose legend was interwoven in the fabric of Canada.
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Legends Live Up To Billing
Ben Featherstone has donned his hockey equipment more times than he can remember, but as he bent over to tighten his skates Sunday afternoon it was all he could do to keep his hands from shaking uncontrollably.
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Old Pros Still a Smash Hit
Chris Fitzsimmons stood out like a sore thumb Friday evening for several reasons. In the NHL All-Star Legends — RCMP Crimestoppers fundraiser at the Coliseum, Fitzsimmons wore a helmet during warm-up. Except for goaltender Richard Sevigney, no other ex-pro did, choosing to feel the rush of cool wind in their grey-streaked manes — or what little hair some had — as they did laps.
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Class Act
This past Wednesday evening I had the good fortune (and press passes) to go to Estevan to watch the "Legends of Hockey" take on the Estevan "Old Timers" Allstar hockey club.
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Legendary Hall of Famer Don Jackson to Perform
In 1962 in Prague. Don Jackson wowed 9 judges, 18,000 specators and 250,000,000 television viewers when he performed the first triple lutz jump in competition, scoring 7 perfect marks to become the first Canadian male ever to win the World Championships.
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