'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,'

You know, you have to suffer if you want to win. Jesus had to die and resurrect. That's the kind of thing we expect from our players. You must be ready to suffer in order to win or earn us some victory.

Bauer said he might demonstrate his neutrality on the subject by lecturing in a referee jersey.

"If they can make connections between religion and sport, it helps get people involved; there will be a lot of diversity."

The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours

Mayor Jean Drapeau telephoned Campbell at the NHL officein town and begged him not to attend the game that night.

The Rocket's triumphswere the people's triumphs

The Rocket was the preeminent presence,if not player, of his era

Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets,

In late December 1954, just two and a half months before Richard broke his stick over Laycoe and decked linesman Cliff Thompson, he slapped another linesman

“He is God,” Frank Selke Sr. once said bluntly.

When Laycoe throws a bloody towel at him,

but cannot restrain his anger

the world’s greatest hockey player to that time

but what’s about to happen is even more personal.

The tension between the two rivals in the six-team NHL has been building inside the Boston Garden all night.

though it would take another 25 years for the changes to take effect with the institution of the third-man-in rule.

Detroit's Jack Adams

Richard smacked the official.

Richard's coal-black eyes glowed with defiance, danger and pure disgust for losing

the first to score 50 goals in a season (in 50 games, no less)

"hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope."

the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.

it was crucial to know how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.

He took the little girl on his knees and began to swing her back and forth

smoking pipes innumerable while the women-folk are busy with the evening meal

One of the Belgians took a fever and nearly died

The ice is going out," she announced to those within. "You can hear the falls

Five times since boyhood had he taken up wild land, built a house

It is not our fault," sighed Maria, "we are too far away.

She has had plenty of gaiety at St. Prime; singing and games almost every night

His look passed once more from Samuel Chapdelaine to Maria, and her eyes fell.

Some moved over in his direction; others, indifferent, met his announcement with a laugh.

SAVAGES are not Savages

That they have these gifts from God

In explaining to Louys's relatives the commandment not to steal, and mentioning that in France thieves [page 65] were put to death, his father asked him if, when he became Captain, he would also put them to death

Nothing was growing, everything was dying, so that we apprehended a serious famine, and rightly

"Teach me, I pray thee;"

In the afternoon I propose to them some little question from the Catechism, and make them give account of what they have learned during the week, giving to each some little prize according to his merit.

To all this the Hurons, full of wonder, make no reply

most minds, even those formerly most fierce, becoming so docile, and submissive to the preaching of the Gospel

wishing to die in his Church

he would not take even a day of rest

becoming all things to all men, in order to win them to Jesus Christ,—that he had ravished their hearts, and was singularly loved there

whose children not only, but almost all their kindred, have been either outrageously killed, or taken captive, and then [101] inhumanly burned, cooked, torn, and devoured by the enemy

Never were we more filled with content, and never have we had cause for keener sorrow.

we set fire to our house at Sainte Marie