When you have a lot of people passionate about hockey, and not about 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.

Retired Red Wings tough guy Jimmy Orlando had spotted thefan heading toward Campbell and bounded from his seat inpursuit. 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.

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Garbage and various fruit rained down on the NHL boss, one man raced up and smeared a tomato on Campbell, and less than a minute later a homemade tear gas bomb went off.

The president really worked for the six owners, five of whom wanted the book thrown at Richard for the Boston incident.

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.

although Father de Brebceuf was overwhelmed under the weight of these blows, he did not cease continually to speak of God, and to encourage all the new Christians who were captives like himself to suffer well, that they might die well, in order to go in company with him to Paradise.

he begins to make the sign of the Cross, and to pray to God in a loud voice

From all this may be easily gathered the present state of the young Christianity of this country, and the hope for the future.