Get the popcorn out and enjoy parts one, two, and three of the Montreal Canadiens all-time dream team which included Toe Blake, Jacques Plante, Doug Harvey, Larry Robinson, Dickie Moore, Jean Beliveau, and the Rocket. And as a special bonus that’ll make you laugh and touch your heart, 83 year old Aurele Joliat comes out in [...]

It turns out that the old poem I ran here about a year ago was only a portion of it with seven verses.Thanks to a fellow who wrote in named Phil Allan, this is the complete version, eighteen verses, of the delightful old school poem about Aurele Joliat. Like I said about the earlier version, prepare to smile.
Monsieur [...]

This came out in the Edmonton Journal, written by John MacKinnon, and it’s quite amazing. Somehow, some place, the TSN gang must have got together and dropped some acid. MacKinnon’s story is entitled…
“Habs’ Dream Team Falls Flat With Imagination Shackled”  
So, in honour of the Montreal Canadiens centenary, TSN has assembled the “Ultimate Canadiens Team,” and [...]

1929 was a 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, Ottawa, the Montreal Maroons, and the NY Americans in the Canadian Division, and Boston, the Rangers, the Detroit Cougars, Chicago, and [...]

A while back, a reader name Doug wrote and asked if I’d ever heard of an old school poem from years ago about Aurele Joliat. I hadn’t, but lo and behold, a fellow named Gordon saw my Joliat story (Jan. 14, 2008) and Doug’s comment, and indeed, he remembers the poem. He even remembers most of the words. 
Here it [...]

 
I drank beer with Aurele Joliat in Ottawa at the old Prescott Hotel, sometime in the mid-1980’s, and drove him home afterwards. I had brought my book, ‘The Montreal Canadiens” by Claude Mouton with me, and Aurele was more than happy to sign it and mention my broken arm.
 

Ken Dryden signed his book ‘The Game’ for [...]

For some reason, Jean Beliveau has always got it. He understands his fans. Maybe Jean had his own heroes, and maybe he met them and they treated him right, and he learned from them. Or maybe he met his heroes and they treated him wrong, and he learned from them also. 
 
Most NHL players, or for that matter, [...]

It was a tremendous 3-0 shutout win tonight for the Montreal Canadiens over the unbelievably struggling Ottawa Senators, and it could have been ninety years ago in Ottawa, at the old Auditorium, when Aurele Joliat, Howie Morenz, and Pit Lepine came to town to battle it out with Cy Denneny, Frank Finnigan, and Punch Broadbent. [...]

Johnny ‘Black Cat’ Gagnon played for the Montreal Canadiens, (and also the NY Americans and Boston Bruins) from 1930 to 1940. He wasn’t a big star (120 goals, 141 assists in 451 games) but enjoyed success playing alongside Howie Morenz and Aurele Joliat.
Just a few days ago, Classic Auctions in Montreal, which is the foremost [...]

I lived in Ottawa for 15 years. I passed out from tequila at my bachelor stag there, I was married there, my kids were born there, I drank beer with Aurele Joliat there, I got thrown down the Club Chaudiere stairs by world famous bouncer Gerry Barber near there.
And all the time I was there, [...]