Two years ago, shortly after the minister moved to Montreal, he and one of his students decided the university should offer the opportunity to study whether the Canadiens are, in fact, a faith.
I can see why people have faith in Canadiens, but I don't see how they can be considered "faith"
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.
This sentence truly shows how important hockey it to these people. It uses an analogy comparing hockey to religion.
Three days later Campbell suspendedRichard for the Canadiens' three remaining regular-season gamesand the entire playoffs.
I feel as though this punishment was reasonable for what he had done compared to what he could have gotten, and Montreal was still mad about it.
Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests.
This sets the scene of how bad this really was.
Laycoe, the Bruins forward had nailed Richard in the first period. He served two minutes for charging. But the hit lit the fuse of Richard’s infamous temper.
This sentence really lays the road down for what this entire article is going to be about. Especially, when it says, "but the hit lit the fuse of Richard's infamous temper."
“No one can know when the anger of men, whipped indefinitely, becomes sculpted into political revenge
What about hockey has to do with anything political?
137 arrests
137 arrests of both french and english people is crazy. But it makes since there was a lot because of it being a St. Patrick's say game and people were probably drinking alcohol, and not making good decisions, which led to their arrest.
A violent end of an era for the NHL and Quebec
An interesting choice of title since hockey is already a violent sport
"And who will be foreman at three dollars a day?
Shows how much currency has changed to this day
The snow lay deep upon road and fields, for the April sun
It first mentions snow but then talks about how the month is April and the sun is out
Another ship had, in March, left France for Canada; but, as it has not arrived, it is accounted lost; the Jesuits thus incur a loss of 4,000 livres.
Was it ever said as to what happened to this ship? It seems as though when it says "the Jesuits thus incur a loss of 4,000 livres" that they lost something other than people lives.
the father general
I'm curious as to who and what father general means
As the women and children caused us much trouble,
How were the women and children causing trouble? The men were in charge of making all the decisions and the women and children would just follow them. Were they tired of following men's orders? did they want to start making decisions of their own?
HAPPY DEATH OF SOME HURONS
I'm curious as to why they would think death of some hurons would be happy? are they happy that they died or are they into hearing and seeing about hurons dying?