"I hope [people] will be moved by what I teach them," he said.

In addition to the class, Bauer has launched an essay contest asking the question, "Are the Montreal Canadiens a 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.

Therewere shouts, invective, a rumbling in the Forum. The tear gascame 30 seconds later.

No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal, my homefor the past 21 years.

There are moments when life gets in the way, when sports and thereal world collide at some intersection--which, almost 45 yearsago, happened to be the corner of Atwater and Ste. Catherinestreets in Montreal.

He broke his ankle and was able to play in only 16 games. The critics thought he was fragile. The following season, 1943-44, he answered them with 32 goals and 22 assists.

Their teammates swarm about, clutching and shoving one another.

the crowd senses something bad about to happen — but it has no way of knowing how bad it is going to get.

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He would reluctantly take his punishment.

I gave notice on Easter Day that the benediction would take place at evening about 7 o'clock and, on the following Days, the benediction at the religious houses at the end of vespers at the parish church.

Toward the end of the year, and at the beginning of the new one, the cold was excessive .

The river St. Charles became open on the 27th and 28th, and sowing was begun."