Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Les Canadiens were tied with the New York Rangers, 0-0. During a melee around the Ranger cage, in slid the puck. But the goal was disallowed; the referee had blown his siffleur (whistle). "Sacré maudit!" (damn it all) groaned the fans, holding their heads in agony. Cried one to the referee: "Gros jambon, tu pues!" (you big ham, you stink...
...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...
Between periods, the organ lustily pumped out a chorus or two of 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...
...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...
Ouvrez la Porte. Maurice Richard is the left-handed right wing of Montreal's league-leading Les Canadiens. He has made a runaway of this season's scoring race (with 36 goals, 22 assists), though for a while one rival club assigned two men to guard him - as frank a tribute as baseball's right-side shift against Batsman Ted Williams. They gave up that strategy when Rocket-Richard decoyed his defenders out of the play to give his mates a better shot at the cage...