Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost like the old days when Howie Morenz roamed the ice, and the loyal hockey fans, who called themselves les millionaires, sat in the Montreal Forum's cheap seats, wearing white woolen caps, drinking whiskey blanc and chanting piously, "Les Canadiens sont là" (The Canadiens are right in there). Now the cheap seats had gone and with them les millionaires, but Montreal showed last week that it still knew how to encourage its heroes...
...Alouette. That seemed to inspire Les Canadiens. With two minutes to go, Forward Buddy O'Connor lashed in the winning goal. In Manhattan next night, Les Canadiens brought their local color along. While winning again and clinching first place, they engaged in Madison Square Garden's liveliest hockey riot in many a year (partial score: three misconduct penalties, an obstreperous fan's bald pate creased...
With one week of play left, the teams in the National Hockey League ranked, roughly, in the order of their distance from the North Pole: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, New York, Chicago. Next week the top four will meet in the profitable (up to $2,000 bonus per player) but anticlimactic Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether or not they keep the Cup, Les Canadiens are the icemen of the year. By clinching the regular-season top spot for four consecutive years, they have won a position comparable to that of baseball's New York Yankees of the 1930s...
Tribute from Toronto. Silver-haired Dick Irvin, le coach of Les Canadiens for the past six years, is not modest about them. He calls them "the greatest ice hockey team the world has ever seen." From Conn Smythe, rough-&-tumble manager of the rival Toronto Maple Leafs, recently came a less biased tribute: his all-star sextet had five of Les Canadiens on it. Most of their players were homegrown kids who learned the game on Montreal's frozen ponds...
...Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin' stinkin'. We was losin' money, but fast. I gotta do somethin' to goose da place up. Now I'm a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin' to hockey games or fights, an' I say, why not bring hockey or fights here, so guys can see sports and drink atta same time. So I buy dese gadgets. Slump in business stopped...