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Morenz And Joliat Probably Weren’t Invited. (But Maybe They Were)
We’re in Santa Maria, population 90,000 and home of Robin Williams and Kathy Bates, because we didn’t make it to Santa Barbara, another hour down the road. And the reason we didn’t make it to Santa...
View ArticleMe And Methuselah
I became 60 years old today. I know, it’s ridiculous. It’s way too old. If this keeps up, I’ll catch Methuselah, who apparently lived until he was 969. When I was born, on Oct. 4th, 1950, the Rocket...
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Sink Your Teeth Into This One
Classic Auctions is in full swing http://www.classicauctions.net/ and as usual, my drool is soaking the keyboard as there’s just way too many things that I’d like to have but won’t because it seems...
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Stuff To Read If You’re Not At The Office Party
A few small things to rattle on about during this Friday evening while you’re probably out at the office party or buying widgets for the stocking or simply getting pissed at the local watering hole....
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Must Have Been Tough To Be Both A Habs Fan And Revolutionist
Vladimir Lenin was not only a Russian revolutionist and often ruthless tyrant, but he was also a huge Habs fan as discovered recently when workers found artifacts hidden behind the walls of Lenin’s...
View ArticleOld-Time Hockey – And I Mean Old
1929 was the time of Howie Morenz, Eddie Shore, Ace Bailey, Aurele Joliat, Dit Clapper, Lester Patrick, and so many greats of the game. It was a ten-team league at this time – Montreal, Toronto,...
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Hockey Inside/Out Makes My Day
Hockey Inside/Out has a fantastic eight minute clip of a 1932 Montreal-Toronto game, with Foster Hewitt doing the play-by-play and Howie Morenz showing why he was called the Babe Ruth of Hockey. Big...
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Bringing Back The Ode To Aurele
I don’t think it’s cheating, or laziness, to post something I’d put up several years ago if it’s special. Because not everyone who is reading my blog now was reading then. And it really is special....
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Conacher, Joliat, And The Kid
I’m a sucker for vintage photos of kids and their hockey heroes, like this one of Lionel Conacher and Aurele Joliat with a young fellow who doesn’t seem too happy about his eye injury. I hope he was...
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Drinking Beer With Aurele Joliat
It’s not the first time I’ve posted this. And it might not be the last. Ottawa’s Prescott Hotel, in the mid 1980′s, was one of those classic old beverage room with a Ladies and Escort door, and a...
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The Bell Tour, Habs HOF, And Jerry
Walked 11 kilometers today through the streets of downtown Montreal, the third time I’ve done this. Although my beer gut doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and I’d like to know why. Excuse me while I go to...
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The Morenz Memorial Program
Howie Morenz passed away on March 8, 1937, and that fall, on November 2, the NHL All-Stars featuring Eddie Shore, Charlie Conacher, Busher Jackson and the gang played a Montreal Canadiens/Maroons...
View ArticleFriday’s Washington Game
Couldn’t see all of the Friday night Habs-Washington tilt, I’m in Ottawa at a family reunion,, and all I know from glancing back and forth from time to time was that Alex Galchenyuk looked good playing...
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Stars Of The World’s Fastest Game
Maybe if newspapers started doing this again, they might sell more papers. Peter Hab mentioned the other day about old Star Weekly hockey pictures the newspaper would publish back in the 1960s, great...
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Programming
No need to write anything. I just love old programs, that’s all. The front and back cover of a cool one, with Morenz and Joliat and the gang in the inside lineup.
View ArticleHabs And Rangers Back A Bit
Mike Wyman posted the clip below on his Facebook page yesterday, which is a minute from a 1932 playoff game between the Canadiens and Rangers. The title reads – The Lightning Game – Canada beats...
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More Of The Book
From time to time lately I’ve been showing pages from my old Habs scrapbook. Here’s more. And at the risk of sounding like a broken record MP3, just click on the photos to make ‘em bigger.
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Stevie L
From that fine part-time Orillia boy Stephen Leacock. “In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter…we are...
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Drinking Beer With Aurele Joliat
Ottawa’s Prescott Hotel in the mid-1980s was still a classic old beverage room with a Ladies and Escorts door and a regular entrance. It was like a lot of bars back then, smelling of stale beer and...
View ArticleThose Wild And Crazy Early Years
It’s listed as being 1929 and the Chicago Black Hawks on YouTube but I think it’s off by a year or two and it’s more likely 1930 or ’31. And it’s not the Chicago Black Hawks. Howie Morenz, Eddie...
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