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August 10, 2011 in Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens Tags: CHC crest, Frank Selke Junior, Habs crest, National Grocers, Orillia, Rocket Richard, Roy Foubert
In my scrapbook which I had put together as a kid, there’s a picture of the Rocket wearing a sharp-looking sports jacket with a nice crest attached that reads “CHC” (Canadiens Hockey Club, Club de Hockey Canadien). So I wrote the Canadiens and asked them if I could have one. They said no.
The strangest thing happened, though. Sometime around then I was coming out of church with my folks and there was a man in the crowd, believe it or not, wearing the same jacket as the Rocket’s. Of course I went up to this man and asked him if he was a member of the Montreal Canadiens and it turned out he was a Habs scout named Roy Foubert who had recently moved to Orillia to become manager of National Grocers. We sort of became friends, even with the age difference, and he took me and my buddy Ron Clarke to Huntsville once while on a scouting trip.
Years later, when I was working for National Grocers in Ottawa, our hockey team, of which I was a smallish-yet-shifty right winger, went to Toronto for a NG tournament, and an older fellow was playing for Orillia. You bet – it was Roy Foubert.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Dennis, there are some crests like the one the Rocket is wearing out there for sale, but they are rare and expensive.
But like the song by the late, great Desmond Dekker says – You can get it if you really want…
http://www.classicauctions.net/Default.aspx?tabid=263&auctionid=35&lotid=51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VGkmPF1CNo&feature=related
I love that Regggae!
August 10th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Thanks, Danno. I didn’t know they were that much but I’m not surprised. The other one’s neat too. I think it’s from a Beehive giveaway and from time to time they appear on ther market. I love this old stuff. I don’t know if this is good or bad.
August 10th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
did roy recognize the (smallish yet shifty right winger thinking about getting laid), as he zoomed by?
August 10th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I talked to him sometime that weekend, Hobo, and he remembered me for sure. I remember there were a couple of younger guys on our NG beer league team and when I told them there was a Habs scout playing for the other team, they played their hearts out. You could see they were trying to impress him and it was a neat moment.
August 10th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
First Selke and then Pollock with the rejection letters. A lessor fan might have become disgruntled with the team.
August 11th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
There was never an option, Christopher. All the other teams sucked.