The season’s about to kick off and once again I dig this out in the off-chance the decision makers finally have a change of heart. Why stop now? Hey Habs management, I’m not able to be at the Bell Centre for the free hot dog, chips, and pop, so can I be stick boy instead?

You’d have to think it’s quite odd for a GM to answer some punk’s question about getting tickets. Somehow I can’t see Pierre Gauthier or Brian Burke doing this, or any GM for that matter. It’s one last letter from the bunch I’d lost years ago and then found recently, and surprisingly, it came from Irving Grundman, who [...]

On February 16, 1985, I watched on TV as the Montreal Canadiens honoured Guy Lafleur. But it wasn’t just the on-ice ceremony that my eyes were focused on. One couldn’t help but notice that fans in the building were wearing special Guy Lafleur caps, which were given out that night. They were just cheap painters caps, but they [...]

A slight difference in ticket prices from 1984 until now. As you can see, back then prices ranged from 8 bucks to 22. What is it now – $80 to $400? Blame it on greedy owners, greedy players, greedy agents, lockouts, the union, Glen Sather, Scott Gomez, and the overall state of hockey as we [...]

In honour of the big Habs-Leafs game Saturday night in Toronto, I’ve decided to dip once again into the cache of letters I found recently, and show a couple of replies from Maple Leaf  Gardens, turning me down for the ever-elusive great seats which I had made it my mission to someday achieve. I was a just a regular guy with [...]

As some of you know, I came across a pile of my old letters recently, a pile I thought was long gone, and lately I’ve shown those from Red Fisher, Gerard Pelletier, and Jean Beliveau. (If you click on “Letters” over in the Category list, they’re stored there). Today it’s two from Claude Mouton. I [...]

Okay, I’m a bit embarrassed by this. I mean, who asks Jean Beliveau for tickets? I guess I did, although until I found this letter the other day, I had no idea I’d even done this. In fact, I still don’t remember, and when I looked at it, all I could do was scratch my head. [...]

I decided, when I was 13, that I needed an 8×10 glossy of the Rocket shaking hands with Sugar Jim Henry, so I went right to the top. I wrote a letter to La Presse and it ended up on the desk of editor-in chief Gerard Pelletier. And who is Gerard Pelletier, you ask? Well, aside from being [...]

It’s unbelievable. I was going through a box yesterday and found some letters from the Montreal Forum and Maple Leaf Gardens, which were mostly replies to me about tickets. I thought they were long gone, and in fact it was only recently that I was thinking that I wished I still had some of these. I’ll [...]