Posts About "Howie Morenz"
The Montreal Forum 1908-1996
January 9th, 2020 The Old Forum in Montreal -- Opening night, November 9, 1908, was a sensation and all 3,000 pairs of roller skates available for rental saw extensive use as thousands of Montrealers came to wander through, gawk at or try out the facilities at what was hyped in the press as “the largest, finest and most hygienic roller rink,” a decent...
Those Marauding Montreal Maroons
July 17th, 2017 The City of Montreal was home to two NHL teams during a good chunk of the league’s formative years in the 1920’s and ‘30’s - The Montreal Maroons and the Canadiens. At the time, Montreal was the financial center of Canada and its biggest city. It was the undisputed center of the hockey universe. Montreal Maroons Were One of the...
NHL Summer Meetings - Not Just For Drafting
June 19th, 2015 Off-season meetings of National Hockey League brass have been held since the league began operation in 1917. Today, the meetings are mainly focused on the annual drafting of players who are reaching the age of 18, the main process by which NHL clubs re-stock the player cupboard. Fans get so wrapped up in the draft that other...Book Review: Hamilton's Hockey Tigers
Hamilton’s Hockey Tigers. By Sam Wesley with David Wesley. (2005, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 96. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-55028-887-2.) Published during the last NHL lockout, who knew one short statement in a book about a team that left Canada in 1925 would twice ring true in the span of almost a...
Book Review: Maurice Richard
January 7th, 2012 Maurice Richard: The Most Amazing Hockey Player Ever. By Chris Robinson. (2011, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 128. $9.95. ISBN 978-1-55277-900-2.) “Don’t let anyone say that it’s just a game…” Eddie Vedder wrote those lyrics a few years ago for the song “All the Way,” his ode to being...
