"Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country… To discover why people are so passionate about it, it's like, 'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,' " he said.
I would have to agree with this statement but not fully. Yes I agree sports are apart of culture, but I don't think that it should be the number one thing.
Melançon said he's pleased that Bauer is bringing attention to the topic.
If one person is glad about the topic, a lot of others must be too.
They are the fans of the Montreal Canadiens.
I feel a lot of people around the area will argue that it is.
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.
Imagine how big this sport is for this statement to be made.
"If that was the start of the Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet."
Still don't understand how it was called the Quiet Revolution, when it wasn't quiet at all.
Theriot was a harbinger of the 1960 election of Quebec premier JeanLesage, which gave Francophiles a greater sense of empowerment,and the so-called Quiet Revolution, in which French Quebecoisbegan asserting greater control over their lives
What if the fight honestly had nothing to do with the tear gas explosion, but more with someone not liking how the election may have been going?
The gray weather on that St. Patrick's Day mirrored Montreal'smood.
This really stood out to me because even though the weather is a color, I could really get the feeling of the mood as being described as gray.
No athlete has embodied the soul of a city and the spirit of itspeople as Richard did in the 1940s and '50s in Montreal,
Is this statement implying that no athlete has ever embodied the soul of a city regardless of sport and time period?
when sports and thereal world collide at some intersection
I feel that this statement could be a double entendre because for many people, sports is their real world, it is the only thing that they know.
The men overwhelmed law and order. They pulled down road signs. They smashed windows of the congested streetcars. They toppled telephone booths and lit newspaper kiosks on fire. They heaved bricks from a nearby construction site through the Forum windows.
When I read this, I thought of every riot scene I've seen in movies ever.
Forty-five, maybe 60 seconds later — at 9:11 p.m. — the bomb exploded. Twenty-five feet to Campbell’s left, a canister of tear gas detonated
The timing is impeccable right after the situation happened. A situation like that is frightening, no matter the circumstances.
A television reporter says, “The police seem to have things well in hand.”
To me this sounds very sarcastic because things were out of control.
By 1955, Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL — 98 more than the next guy on the list. He had become the only player to score 50 goals in the 50-game season. He held the record for most goals in a playoff game, with five. Not only did he score often, he scored meaningful goals, when his team needed them the most, the game-winners in a record eight playoff games and more than 60 regular-season games.
Not only could he score for the heck of it, but also when his team needed him. This man had ice in his veins!
Then Richard snatches a stick from the ice and swings it wildly at Laycoe. He cuts him below the eye.
He could have been charged for assault honestly.
The tension between the two rivals in the six-team NHL has been building inside the Boston Garden all night
With that many teams, it feels like every team are rivals.
the world’s greatest hockey player to that time
There's only around 100 players back then playing, so that's a great feat to accomplish.
though it would take another 25 years for the changes to take effect
Slowly but surely the change happened and it was necessary for the continuation of the sport.
only quelled when Richard went on radio and TV, asking for calm. He would reluctantly take his punishment.
How does someone that only plays hockey have this much power?
Ted Lindsay had been dispatched for four games after punching a Toronto fan.
This reminds me of the brawl at the palace in Michigan in the NBA with Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, and the fans.
Richard smacked the official.
Do players get fined or even kicked out of the league for this?
At the Boston Garden on March 13, 1955, bespectacled Bruins defender Hal Laycoe had another of his endless run-ins with Richard, leaving the Habs' star cut on the head after a high stick. A brawl ensued, and the Rocket broke his CCM stick over Laycoe's back.
This makes me think, where there any suspensions for things like this?
"hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope."
A statement like this is very controversial, especially to the church. Imagine a church/religion being second to a sports team.
It's also crucial to accept that you cannot really comprehend the Richard Riot unless you lived through and knew
I feel that in today's age a lot of things can be taken this way. You don't know really know what things were really like in the past because you didn't live in it and nothing can be truly compared to it now.
Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice,
I am not much of a hockey fan but I even know that things like this don't really make it fun to watch. It can be too gory.