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Long Weekend Hockey Coins

You’re partying, opening up the cottage, slacking off, laying on the couch, picking your toenails, practicing yoga, drinking beer, while I’m giving my usual 140% at work, making sure travelers get on the ferry boat in fine fashion. Naturally I’m exhausted, and because of this, I’ll just take some pictures of my 1961-62 hockey coins [...]

May 19, 2013 in Bernard Geoffrion, Bobby Hull, Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Dickie Moore, Doug Harvey, Gordie Howe, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Ralph Backstrom, Toe Blake, Toronto Maple Leafs
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An Old Molson Photo Shows Up

It’s the beauty of the internet. I think about a year ago, Don, a fellow I knew back in Orillia when I was young, found me through my blog and we’ve had some nice chats. He lives in Houston, Texas now, and over the past several weeks has sent me several hockey books, including a [...]

May 16, 2013 in Bernard Geoffrion, Bobby Orr, Dickie Moore, Frank Selke, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, Ralph Backstrom, Toe Blake
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The Book’s Cover

I’ve mentioned a few times over the years about the time I got a book for Christmas when I was kid, called Let’s Play Hockey, which my father sent away to Montreal and got signed by pretty well every Montreal Canadien player from the 1958-59 season, with just Doug Harvey’s signature missing. Not long after, [...]

April 10, 2013 in Bernard Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Ralph Backstrom, Toe Blake, Toronto Maple Leafs
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And The Answer Is (Was)….

Not long ago a couple of folks here wondered how teams are able to keep track of all the players’ ice-time during a game. I wasn’t clear either, so I began looking around my stacks of magazines and through old boxes, and I came up with an answer. Of course, the answer comes from 1959 [...]

March 24, 2013 in Montreal Canadiens, Toe Blake, Toronto Maple Leafs
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Scenes From His Tavern (And More)

This is the kind of thing I really love. It’s not mine, just a photo online, but imagine how great it would look on a shelf in your house. A Rocket Richard ashtray from the tavern he owned in the late ’50s and early ’60s, Taverne 544/9   Below, a 66 minute National Film Board [...]

March 14, 2013 in Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Toe Blake
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Goodbye Dad

My dad and I went to see our Habs in Toronto when I was little, we got to Maple Leaf Gardens early, and as we stood in the corridor, much of team, maybe all of the team, walked by us – The Rocket, Beliveau, Plante, Geoffrion, Moore – everybody. Shortly after, we went down by [...]

December 16, 2012 in Bernard Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, Doug Harvey, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Toe Blake, Toronto Maple Leafs
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Toenail Clipping

I find myself thinking more and more about the lockout and how it’s affecting me, and I have to say it’s not affecting me a great deal at all, other than having to dig deep to keep posting here every day. I’m just sick of the whole mess, one created through greed, distrust and lies, [...]

November 2, 2012 in Andrei Markov, Columbus Blue Jackets, Doug Harvey, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Josh Gorges, Kontinental Hockey League, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, NHL lockout, Pittsburgh Penguins, PK Subban, Toe Blake, Toronto Maple Leafs
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More From Kouli

Kouli in Vancouver always has such great photos for sale on his site at Kouli the Greek and I very much appreciate him letting me show some of his stuff, which I do from time to time. Below, Mr. Beliveau; the 1912 edition of the Habs; Charlie Hodge; Pete and Frank Mahovlich with Pocket Rocket; [...]

October 13, 2012 in Henri Richard, Jean Beliveau, Ken Dryden, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Toe Blake
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Dick And Gomez

Long before he was a legendary coach of the Canadiens, Leafs, and Blackhawks, and long before he got frisky with the missus and made little Dick Jr., Dick Irvin Sr. was one of the world’s greatest players, which you can read all about right here - Dick’s Biography, and which also includes how he became coach of the [...]

August 29, 2012 in Chicago Blackhawks, Dick Irvin, Frank Selke, Montreal Canadiens, Toe Blake, Toronto Maple Leafs
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Even Further Down The Path

More of my old scrapbook. You can see the entire thing by clicking on “The Old Scrapbook” over in Categories on the lower right-hand side. I know you’re sick of hearing this but just click on the photos to make ‘em bigger.     .

August 19, 2012 in Bernard Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, Doug Harvey, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, THE OLD SCRAPBOOK, Toe Blake
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