Topics will change each week. Students will find themselves examining religious metaphors, behaviours and ethics, and drawing links between them and the Habs.

In Bauer's class, students will compare and contrast the Montreal Canadiens and other religions.

When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion,

In Prof. Olivier Bauer's class at the Université de Montréal, worshippers can argue that their team is their religion.

The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.

"If that was the start of the Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet."

During the first-period intermission a fan marched up thesteps and extended his hand for what Campbell assumed would be ahandshake. Campbell stuck out his hand. He got a slap in theface.

Three days later Campbell suspendedRichard for the Canadiens' three remaining regular-season gamesand the entire playoffs. Montreal was aghast.

On the night of Thursday, March 17, 1955, the haze was aghostly yellowish white. Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage

He is heavier, older, his eyes softer, but still intense. Maurice Richard stands before them where he had performed so many of his amazing feats

Pockets chanted, “Kill Campbell!”

The barrage continued. Peanuts, tomatoes, galoshes, crumpled newspapers, programs. A hardboiled egg bounced off Campbell’s hat. An orange nailed him in the back. A rubber overshoe jostled Ms. King’s headwear. Missiles thrown by those with inferior aim struck patrons seated near the couple. They asked Campbell to move. Others chanted loudly, “Shoo Campbell … Va-t’en, Va-t’en.” He remained steadfast in his seat, even smiled

The suspension seemed especially harsh

According to Irvin’s son, his father insisted until his death that the officials altered the facts in their account to please Campbell.

The Babe Ruth of hockey,

He broke his ankle and was able to play in only 16 games.

In 1939, when war broke out in Europe, the 18-year-old Richard tried to enlist for active duty, but military doctors determined his wrists and ankle — already broken during hockey games­ — had not healed properly. He tried to enlist again the following year, but was again turned away.

The punishment is worse for Richard. Udvari kicks him out of the game.

Incensed, Richard swings his stick with two-fisted fury at Laycoe. He hits him with such force across the shoulders that his stick splinters. Laycoe sheds his gloves and rushes at Richard, who drops his gloves. The two thrash at one another with their fists.

Maurice Richard­-le Rocket, Montreal’s homegrown French-Canadian star from the city’s blue-collar Nouveau-Bordeaux neighborhood, the world’s greatest hockey player to that time

And the Rocket, who always refused to align himself with a political party

137 arrests

Ted Lindsay had been dispatched for four games after punching a Toronto fan.

ichard's story had linesman Cliff Thompson holding him back, arms pinned, while Laycoe was allowed to smack away. Rocket said he warned the linesman three times to let him go before he finally clocked the official. 

The NHL was a provincial, parochial six-team affair in 1955, featuring barely over 100 players. Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand,

"hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope."

Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.

Maurice Richard said many times that, in order to understand the events leading up to the riot of March 17, 1955 that forever bears his name, it was crucial to know how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.

"Three hundred years ago we came, and we have remained ...

"It cannot make her worse?" Maria asked, some doubt lingering. "It is not a poison, or anything of that sort?" With one voice, in an indignant tone, the three men protested: "Do harm? Tiny pills no bigger than that!" "My brother took nearly a box of them, and according to his account it was only good they did him."

Maria was thinking of the priest's words: "If there was affection between you it is very proper that you should know regret. But you were not pledged to one another, because neither you nor he had spoken to your parents; therefore it is not befitting or right that you should sorrow thus, nor feel so deep a grief for a young man who, after all is said, was nothing to you..."

"Yes, and then?

NEW YEAR'S DAY

frosty and rainy days came alternately

A squirrel ran down the bole of a dead birch tree and watched the pair with his sharp eyes for some moments before venturing to earth. The strident flight of heavy grasshoppers rose above the intoxicated clamour of the flies; a wandering air brought the fall's dull thunder through the alders.

The Canadian soil rid itself of the last traces of winter with a semblance of mad haste, as though in dread of another winter already on the way.

"You cannot shoot devils with a gun," objected his mother. "But when you feel the temptation coming, seize your rosary and say your prayers."

They took the road almost as soon as the meal was over. The snow, thawed on top by the early rains, and frozen anew during the cold nights, gave an icy surface that slipped away easily beneath the runners. The high blue hills on the other side of Lake St. John which closed the horizon behind them were gradually lost to view as they returned up the long bend of the river.

"Who wants to buy a fine young pig of my breeding?" he asked, indicating with his finger something shapeless that struggled in a bag at his feet. A great burst of laughter greeted him. They knew them well, these pigs of Hormidas' raising. No bigger than rats, and quick as squirrels to jump the fences.

"I tell you that we shall have a lean year," asserted one old fellow, "the frost got in before the last snows fell."

among the plague-stricken in Old France

" Do upon me that which God permits you;

seeing himself surrounded with Christians whom he had instructed, and who were in captivity with him, he said to them: " My children, let us lift our eyes to Heaven at the height of our afflictions; let us remember that God is the witness of our sufferings, and will soon be our exceeding great reward. Let us die in this faith; and let us hope from his goodness the fulfillment of his promises. I have more pity for you than for myself; but sustain with courage the few remaining torments. They will end with our lives; the glory which follows them will never have an end."

But, no doubt, the Providence of God had led him to this death in a special manner

We left 3 rivers on the 26th, and returned hither on the 27th. On arriving, we learned that a poor sailor had been drowned, and that there had been but little fishing

This fire made us very uneasy; we did not know whether it were enemies, or if the fire had caught in some of the huts of the village.

At the departure of the vessels, this year, begins ''an exaction of 20 sols on each passenger ticket, to be paid to the Governor's secretary; and money was [page 11] taken from the fines, for salary or perquisites to the same secretary, and to other officers."

HE feast of the Dead is the most renowned ceremony among the Hurons;

When he goes fishing, he mixes his ashes with a little water, and, having rubbed his nets with them, he feels confident that the fish will enter them in abundance; in fact, he has acquired fame from this.

Likewise if it is a poor person, his dreams are held in very little consideration. It must be a person in fairly good circumstances, and one whose dreams have been found several times true.

They lack all the labial letters. This is probably the reason why they all open their lips so awkwardly, and why we can scarcely understand them [80] when they whistle or when they speak low.

On the twenty-first of March, a woman, who had been about twenty-four hours in travail, brought forth a child happily, as soon as we had applied to her a Relic of Our Blessed Father St. Ignatius. Her child lived only long enough to enable us to send it to Heaven by Baptism.

To God be forever the glory of the whole; he permits the drought of the soil, to bedew all hearts with his blessings.

The missionaries are compiling a grammar and dictionary of the Huron dialect

An embassy of Island savages (from the Allumettes) visits the Hurons, attempting, but in vain, to incite them to an attack on the Iroquois. Brébeuf takes this opportunity to win, for himself and his brethren, the friendship of these Islanders,—giving them a canoe and other presents