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Posts Tagged ‘Jacques Plante’

The Other Scrapbook

Over the years I’ve shown my old Montreal Canadiens scrapbook many times, and can be found under “The Old Scrapbook” in the “Categories’ section. But I haven’t mentioned often that there is another scrapbook, an older one, that my dad and I made just before we started the big one. And like the bigger scrapbook, [...]

April 19, 2013 in Boston Bruins, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Ralph Backstrom, THE OLD SCRAPBOOK, Toronto Maple Leafs
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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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Keeping Habs Fans Warm

Some people are knitters. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I’m not, but I used to hold the wool for my mother. If you need a new Habs sweater but are boycotting NHL products to show your displeasure with the lockout, then this is for you. Don’t fork out the two-hundred bucks, make one [...]

March 29, 2013 in Jacques Plante, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks
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Ulf And Jacques, In The News

I noticed these on the back of a newspaper clipping I have from when I was a smallish-yet-shifty second baseman on my championship-winning Orillia peewee baseball team. It’s the beginning of the 1963-64 NHL season and it states that Ulf Sterner was set to play his first NHL game, but he actually didn’t suit up [...]

March 18, 2013 in International Hockey, Jacques Plante, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Olympics
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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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The Art Of Brandy Saturley

Below, examples of the wonderful work of Canadian artist Brandy Saturley. Canuck Days Desaturated Cherry Goalie’s Mask: Red, White, and Dryden. This piece is displayed, along side one of Ken Dryden’s masks, in Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, with prints available at Goalie’s Mask. Proceeds go to The Hall. Death of a Rookie (Rise of [...]

November 18, 2012 in Don Cherry, Edmonton Oilers, Jacques Plante, Ken Dryden, Montreal Canadiens
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Jake The Snake

Jacques Plante once said, “I never make friends, not in hockey, not elsewhere, not since I was a teenager. If you are close to someone you must be scheduling yourself to please them.” Photos via Kouli

November 16, 2012 in Jacques Plante, Montreal Canadiens
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Name Tags

I’ve always liked this picture, which is in my old scrapbook, even though it’s a little worse for wear. Two fine Habs fans showing off their favourite players the best way they knew how. Good thing their favourite player wasn’t named George Stroumboulopoulos or Ronaldo Konabopopolopolis. It would have to carry on down their legs. [...]

November 4, 2012 in Bernard Geoffrion, Doug Harvey, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, THE OLD SCRAPBOOK
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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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Continuing Along That Path…….

It began again yesterday - Battered and Bruised - after a two year absence, and it continues today. My Habs scrapbook, put together by my dad and I when I was young. And again, the photos enlarge when clicked on.   RSS 2.0

August 12, 2012 in Bernard Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, Doug Harvey, Henri Richard, Jacques Plante, Jean Beliveau, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Ralph Backstrom, THE OLD SCRAPBOOK, Toe Blake
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