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Even in a game's quiet moments the din at the Forum is incessant. But the normal noise level increases to a rafter-raising roar when an aging, sharp-featured wingman with deep-set flashing jet-black eyes and a mop of black hair cuddles the puck to his stick, nurses it past enemy defenders, skillfully fakes the goalie out of position and flicks the rubber disk into the cage. Shouts of "Rocket, Rocket" fill the air in delirious tribute to Joseph Henri Maurice Richard, the greatest player in modern hockey history...
...league is close to his career marks for goals (603); only Detroit's Gordie Howe can approach his mark for total points (Richard 1,047, Howe 942). The Rocket still holds the record for most goals in one season (50 in an abbreviated 50-game season, 1944-45). He is also one of the game's great clutch players, has scored the winning goal in 98 games. Says New York Rangers Defenseman Lou Fontinato, who tangles often with the Rocket: "I don't like to see him out on the ice with the score tied, because then...
...celebrated incident three years ago, Richard attacked an official who was interfering with his assault on a Boston player. League President Clarence Campbell suspended him, thus banishing him from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Montreal fans retaliated by attacking Campbell when he showed up to watch the next game, then surged out into downtown streets, breaking store windows and thumping bystanders to show their displeasure. Maurice insists he has calmed down ("I'm too old to fight"). But just last week his Gallic temper burst out, and he whacked Detroit Forward Norm Ullman with his stick, opened...
Richard's own brand of hockey contains not so much finesse, as it does sheer drive and, occasionally, just brute force. Canadiens fans still recall fondly the game in the 1945-46 season when the Rocket charged on the Detroit goal in a solo dash. Barring his way was Earl Seibert, a rugged, 225-lb. defenseman. Richard bent low, collided with Seibert, kept his feet, made the goal one-handed, with Seibert still spraddled atop his shoulders...
Timbering Up. In Houghton, Mich., Iris Ann Johnson explained that she had killed her lumberjack husband during a "game we played when we were drinking. He would run around the yard while I shot at him with a .22-caliber rifle...