A hundred years of heroes and dreams. A hundred years of men donning the sweater and taking to the ice.  A hundred years of kids watching and reading about, dreaming and becoming. From the time Didier Pitre took a pass from Jack Laviolette and slid it over to Newsy Lalonde, little boys donned the sweater, the bleu, blanc, [...]

Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion is well-remembered for many things – His slaphot he worked on when he was nine years old at a time when slapshots weren’t invented yet; His nickname “Boom Boom”, which came about when a Montreal Star sportswriter named Charlie Boire asked Geoffrion if he could call him that after hearing the puck leave his stick and then [...]

 
Who is Miss Lee Dillon? And how did she come to cover the Canadiens during the 1956-57 season?
 
Was she there a few years earlier in March of 1955 when the Richard Riot happened?
 
Did she interview Henri Richard when he broke in with the Habs a year earlier?
 
Did she share knitting tips with Jacques Plante?
 
Did Boom Boom sing to [...]

Bernie Geoffrion loved being in front of the camera. He was a born ham, and I remember him singing on The Juliette Show one time.
Henri Richard has always been sort of quiet and shy. Someone once asked Toe Blake if Henri spoke English. Blake said he didn’t even know if he spoke French.
 In this 1985 [...]

When I was seven or eight years old, my father and mother bought me a book for Christmas called “Let’s Play Hockey” by Lynn Patrick. Normally this wouldn’t be news. Normally it would’ve been just another hockey book.
 
But my father got the bright idea to send it to the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal, asking if [...]

Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion with his wife Marlene and kids. That little gaffer is Danny, who went on to play for the Habs in the late ’70’s, early ’80’s. Marlene is the daughter of Howie Morenz, so she’s a hockey gal through and through. She looks beautiful, especially the picture of her in the white blouse.
 
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