e had become the only player to score 50 goals in the 50-game season.
I know how hard it must be to live up to that expectation every time you take to the ice. Knowing that if you don't score your goal, you are letting down not only yourself, but thousands of others.
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.
This is the only part of hockey I do not understand, how does slugging each other with wooden sticks while standing on razors make sense? Other sports, violence is few and far between and is immediately broken up, for hockey it seems like less sport, more bloodshed.
Three days later Campbell suspendedRichard for the Canadiens' three remaining regular-season gamesand the entire playoffs. Montreal was aghast.
For fans whom had been waiting all year for their favorite player to finally win his Stanley Cup, I understand the frustration they felt with Richards suspension. It is okay to feel passionate about something, but it is quite another thing to destroy property because of it.
An instant after the slap, Orlando spun the fan aroundand socked him in the jaw, scattering teeth like jujubes. Therewere shouts, invective, a rumbling in the Forum. The tear gascame 30 seconds later.
It amazes me that something as simple as a sports game can erupt into such complete and total madness. There are very few things in this world that would make me physically assault a stranger, and this would not be one of them.
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.
I guess if it isn't broke, don't fix it? I don't agree with the violence, but even as a person whom has never seen a hockey game, I know the fighting is what sells tickets.
I have often seen Rocket Richard fill the Forum," said Dick Irvin, Jr., later the legendary Montreal play-by-play and colour man, and at that time the son of the team's coach. "But that's the first time I've ever seen him empty it."
I like this statement because it shows how someone like Rocket was the reason for the filled seats at the games, but as easily as he fills them, he can also empty them when it comes to supporting him and his agenda.
We really want to see what everyone wants to say.… When you have a lot of people passionate about hockey, and not about religion, it's interesting to see people's reactions to the question," she said. "If they can make connections between religion and sport, it helps get people involved; there will be a lot of diversity."
Everyone has their right to believe in what or whom they want, God, a King, or a Guru...this class allows those whom may not believe in one God, but gives them another religion to believe in. I personally think the concept is genius.
The alders formed a thick and unbroken hedge along the river Peribonka; but the leafless stems did not shut away the steeply sloping bank, the levels of the frozen river, the dark hem of the woods crowding to the farther edge-leaving between the solitude of the great trees, thick-set and erect, and the bare desolateness of the ice only room for a few narrow fields, still for the most part uncouth with stumps, so narrow indeed that they seemed to be constrained in the grasp of an unkindly land.
This description is incredibly vivid, it really paints a clear picture of the scenery of the land.
that is to say, the 19,000 livres appropriated by the king for the affairs of the country.
The Livre was the currency of the Kingdom of France.
And, if parents give the soul to their children, why do they not impart to all of them great minds, a retentive memory, and all sorts of noble and praiseworthy qualities, seeing that there is no one who would not desire to have such children if this were in his power?"
As parents we all desire that we will instill all the best things in our children, is it considered a power to do so? I say no, it is our privilege, our duty to instill these wonderful things.